Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 5:56pm
: Mark! Techtonubmerged! 🤖 ♥ 6:00pm
Handy Haversack: Mark and the Techyons! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Deano de los Muertos: Howdy Mark and Techtachyons 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi Atlantonians!   6:01pm
David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids here gathered.   6:02pm
malĥerbo (nl): Evening 🤗 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
Spikey BXL: Hello Mark, luddites 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
Webhamster Henry: The new-ish theme is fun! 🤖 ♥ 6:04pm
chresti: Hi Mark and techtonicians! 🤖 ♥ 6:05pm
Bas NL: Hello 'live' Ed!   6:06pm
Bea: Good evening, Mark and Ed! Can’t wait to read Ed’s new book!!! 🤖 ♥ 6:06pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Mark and live guest stars! 🤖 ♥ 6:07pm
Spikey BXL: Does Patrick Duffy have enough oxygen down there?   6:09pm
A2B: Good evening Mark and Tech Talkniks!

Speaking of "tectonic" (without an "h"), did anyone in the Hackensack/East Rutherford area feel a jolt or any ground movement yesterday? I checked the USGS website early this morning and, according to their live earthquake map, it turns out a 3-pointer (as they call them in Cali) struck there. The epicenter was pinpointed at Hasbrouck Heights, pretty close to Teterboro Airport.

♥ 6:17pm
Patrick S.: I know about THE TIN DRUM.   6:21pm
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↳ A2B @6:09

yeh, it was an earthquake. yesterdays news 6:25pm
joe_rosevear: Hey, Mark and Techies. Sorry I'm late!   6:27pm
Old Dave:

↳ Patrick S. @6:17

The Good Soldier Schweik as well?   6:33pm
A2B:

↳ @6:21

Funny thing is, what got me checking the USGS website was what felt like a mini-earthquake. The floor in my second-story bedroom shook a bit. And when I went downstairs to the living room, I noticed the ceiling fan was swaying a bit, but the fan wasn't on. ♥ 6:35pm
Patrick S.:

↳ Old Dave @6:27

No I don't remember that 🤖 ♥ 6:36pm
ultradamno: The future I was promised i.pinimg.com...   6:36pm
dano59: anyone here see The Beast, with Lea Seydoux? talk about choose your illusion…   6:38pm
Fredericks: Memory Hole it all and rewrite it as you wish.   6:38pm
wadjet37: There’s no reason to change primary sources when GenAI can hallucinate imaginary sources at the drop of a hat. We’ve already been seeing that for ages. The concept of “source” becomes meaningless when GenAI can create endless fake citations   6:39pm
A2B:

↳ ultradamno @6:36

Did Berni Wrightson illustrate that cover?   6:39pm
dano59: >> the fake names of the “writers” on those clickbait AI sites are hilariously bad - the pen-name equivalent of having 11 fingers 🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
ultradamno: I've seen the one by Walerian Borowczyk 🤖 ♥ 6:40pm
Deano de los Muertos: All the memes of Vin Diesel, Keanu Reeves, or Sam Elliot with quotes they did not say 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
sensisio: I thought technology was supposed to give us SOO MUCH more time to example READ A BOOK??? 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
sensisio:

↳ Spikey BXL @6:02

HI ♥ 6:42pm
slugluv1313: greetings, Mark! Ed! Techtonistas!

loving this! gotta check out "An Oral History of Atlantis" -- The Rings of Saturn too

i am 66, so i remember when rotary phones were the "latest" technology 😹😹 . . . growing up, my family had ONE phone, in the kitchen -- some kids were lucky enough to have an extension phone in their bedrooms -- and the REALLY lucky kids had their own phones, with their own phone numbers, haha!

so in the Autumn of 1977, starting college -- i was positively thrilled to share a phone (yup a rotary!) with my dorm roommate 😹😹

🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
ultradamno:

↳ A2B @6:39

He would have been four, so...   6:43pm
A2B:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:40

How about the pop-up news link about Barbara Streisand's "devastating news"? True or fake? 🤖 ♥ 6:44pm
Stu Horvath: The hard part of the writing is how you get the good writing. 6:44pm
joe_rosevear: AI is not human, but it is *human-like*. If you expect it to be completely human, yes it will let you down. But don't be blind to its power and usefulness! ♥ 6:45pm
PaulRobeson1925: True sailing is dead 🤖 ♥ 6:46pm
chresti: OMG   6:47pm
A2B: Funny, I would've taken him to have been an experienced artist who'd been around the comics biz for a long time (i.e., much older than I would've thought). 🤖 ♥ 6:49pm
chresti: Is there a way to detect the use of chatgpt? 🤖 ♥ 6:49pm
Handy Haversack: From what I can tell, accessing the punctuation screen on a phone is part of what's killing punctuation. It's relegated, occluded. 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
chresti: Ha "take it for a ride"   6:50pm
dano59: even an experienced editor would be hard-pressed to tell genuine bad writing from AI-generated dreck   6:50pm
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↳ Handy Haversack @6:49

its important to know where to put the commas and shit ♥ 6:55pm
FoolishBandit: BUFFALO REPRESENT!! 716 BABY 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Stu Horvath: Well done Ed! ♥ 6:56pm
bleubombersune: Mark and Ed thanks 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark, Ed, all! 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Deano de los Muertos: Thanks Mark and Ed 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
chresti:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:49

Your comments aid me on proper comma application. ♥ 6:56pm
slugluv1313: thanks so much, Mark and Ed! 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks Ed! 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
chresti: Thanks Mark and Ed! 6:58pm
joe_rosevear: Thanks Mark and Ed!   6:58pm
A2B:

↳ chresti @6:49

It makes itself known in at least a few ways: occasional misspelling, misconstrued wording, frequent incoherent gibberish.

Thanks, Mark!

  6:58pm
Bea: Thanks, Ed and Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Stu Horvath: Thanks Mark! ♥ 7:00pm
slugluv1313:

↳ Song: "Atlantis" by "Donovan"

💚💙💚
i wrote a paper about Atlantis for one of my high school classes . . . using books! from the library! for my research

and typed up these lyrics for the opening page -- with a typewriter! 😸😸

🤖 ♥ 7:01pm
chresti:

↳ A2B @6:58

My phone often tries to force me to say gibberish 🤖 ♥ 7:01pm
DjLorraine: I called a radio station as a child and requested this 🤖 ♥ 7:02pm
chresti:

↳ chresti @7:01

If I don't disable auto correct.