Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 5:59pm
: Hey Mark and crew! Happy Memorial Day. 🤖 ♥ 5:59pm
ultradamno: Mark! Techtoneorologists! 🤖 ♥ 6:00pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi online friends! ♥ 6:01pm
Fuzzy: Hola!   6:02pm
Hugo (NL): Hello! 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
Deano de los Muertos: Hey Mark and techtachyons 🤖 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
Handy Haversack: Mark! Techyons!

Gonna bring you out to the yard, one sec ...

♥ 6:04pm
tom tom the pipers son: hello mark…everyone... 🤖 ♥ 6:05pm
tim: I'm intrigued! ♥ 6:06pm
Mark Hurst: tim, ultra, Bas, Fuzzy, Hugo, Deano, Handy, tom tom - welcome and thanks for joining! 🤖 ♥ 6:06pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Song: "Gameboy Tune" by "Tomaš Dvořák"

Hello, Mark and two-flushers! www.getflushd.com... 🚽 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
Webhamster Henry: Hi non-AI powered Techtonic listeners! ♥ 6:10pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:10

Greetings, sir 🤖 ♥ 6:11pm
chresti: Hi Mark and techtonians! 🤖 ♥ 6:11pm
ultradamno: pm1.aminoapps.com... ♥ 6:12pm
tom tom the pipers son: i think there needs to be an update of larry cohen’s “the stuff” but having it’s subject in a.i. ♥ 6:12pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ chresti @6:11

Hi chresti! 🤖 ♥ 6:15pm
Handy Haversack: Mark, have you read Exordia, by Seth Dickinson? It's not totally Techtonic related, but it's really got it going on. Was just thinking you'd dig it as I was reading it today. ♥ 6:16pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:15

Haven't heard of it, will look it up, thanks! ♥ 6:17pm
PaulRobeson1925: Church and Times SQ all a-lot of nothing. 🤖 ♥ 6:19pm
tim: My local library has The Cloud Intern on order. I'm first in line! ♥ 6:21pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ tim @6:19

Nice! 🤖 ♥ 6:22pm
tim: In fiction, I really do enjoy when heels become sympathetic. I like that challenge. ♥ 6:22pm
egould: Floating Yacht Rock: an amalgam of Space Rock and Yacht Rock. 🤖 ♥ 6:23pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ tim @6:19

Huh. Mine doesn't! ♥ 6:23pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ egould @6:22

Sky Yacht Rock would be an interesting genre ♥ 6:23pm
Mark T: Hello 🤖 ♥ 6:24pm
ultradamno: As long as the sky yacht wasn't a gift from a dictator... ♥ 6:24pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Mark T @6:23

Hello, fellow Mark 🤖 ♥ 6:25pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:23

Trivia question for another day; What music does E. Musk listen to on his sky yacht? ♥ 6:26pm
tom tom the pipers son: if the tech character is portrayed as a nice guy…seems his self is unexamined and he’s oblivious and irresponsible for his actions… i mean does the book deal with tech/a.i.’s downside at all….how is the nice guy character reconciled with that reality 🤖 ♥ 6:27pm
ultradamno: marvel.fandom.com... 🤖 ♥ 6:31pm
Handy Haversack: Wodehouse is good inspiration. 🤖 ♥ 6:32pm
ultradamno:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:25

The Savoy Havana Band - "Masculine Women! Feminine Men!" 🤖 ♥ 6:32pm
tim: What? The sleepy library out in the soy and cornfield is a step ahead of NYPL?   6:32pm
Fredericks:

↳ egould @6:22

Steely Gong? ♥ 6:33pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:26

of course there are complexities to any profession that distance you from the results of your labor, but it seems that any contemporary novelist would want the character to get their comeuppance ♥ 6:33pm
egould:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:25

I read on the internet that Musk was a huge fan of New York Dolls, and Johnny Thunders/Heartbreakers. 🤖 ♥ 6:34pm
ultradamno: Musk's daughter (or dead son, to hear him tell it...over and over and over) is a pistol www.teenvogue.com... ♥ 6:35pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ ultradamno @6:34

thanks ♥ 6:35pm
egould:

↳ Fredericks @6:32

Heh. Good one. 🤖 ♥ 6:36pm
tim:

↳ egould @6:33

A-holes like Musck don't like music. 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
Webhamster Henry: Apple maybe announcing AI glasses at the WWDC in two weeks. 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
ultradamno: There's a bunch of playlists that come up from a search...how credible any of them are, I don't know...but Bowie and Elton seem to be staples 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
Bas NL: David is drifting towards the Cloud now.. 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
Handy Haversack: Oooo, he has pissed K8 off. Not sure his books are going to be popular with teachers ... ♥ 6:37pm
tom tom the pipers son: i do not like this guest ♥ 6:38pm
PaulRobeson1925: Please direct David to Neil Postman’s End of Education ♥ 6:38pm
egould:

↳ ultradamno @6:37

Yeah. But it's all Space X propaganda. Like Elon likes "Rocket Man" and "Starman". He's not rockin' out to "Bitch is back" or "Queen Bitch". ♥ 6:39pm
PaulRobeson1925: All this new Technology is simply an improved means to an unimproved end… 🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
Webhamster Henry: The upcoming deducing AIs will be very different from transformers. ♥ 6:40pm
Aitch:

↳ egould @6:38

bibbety bobbity maga hat 🤖 ♥ 6:40pm
chresti: Yeah whats the rush with the AI? ♥ 6:41pm
PaulRobeson1925: What is an education for? 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
tim: I doubt many nursing homes could afford the luxury of AI friends for their residents. ♥ 6:42pm
egould:

↳ chresti @6:40

Ha! I'm learning to play/sing 'Queen Bitch' on guitar and I listened to the song probably 80 times over the weekend. It's a good song. 6:42pm
joe_rosevear:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:39

Right! I think, respectfully, that Mark is failing to see what AIs are and can become. 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
tim: Good interview, Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:43pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Random thought: Can AI be harnessed to translate what dogs or birds or whales are saying? 🤖 ♥ 6:45pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:43

probably thinking “not again..” 6:46pm
joe_rosevear:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:43

Right on! Try this link:

news.uchicago.edu...

🤖 ♥ 6:47pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ joe_rosevear @6:46

Neat! The future of tomorrow, today! ♥ 6:48pm
PaulRobeson1925: Neil Postman’s Technoploy: The most obvious question to be asked about any new technology for example, interactive television, virtual reality, the Internet, or, for that matter, doorknobs and toasters that "under-stand" human speech—is, What is the problem to which this technology is the solution?

This question needs to be asked because there are technologies that are employed-indeed, invented-to solve problems that no normal person would regard as significant. Of course, any technology can be marketed to create an illusion of significance, but an intelligent, aware person need not believe it. There are those in high places and with easy access to our collective ear who, in speaking of the information superhighway, stress that it will make possible five hundred or a thousand television stations.
Are we not, then, obliged to ask, Is this a problem that most of us yearn to have solved; indeed, need to have solved?

🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
ultradamno: The devices hand people an illusion of being the weirdos by following Joe Rogen's example 6:49pm
joe_rosevear:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:47

And what if this technology allowed us to talk back to animals? ♥ 6:50pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ joe_rosevear @6:49

ah doctor doolittle has arrived 6:51pm
joe_rosevear:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:50

I know! Scary isn't it? 🤖 ♥ 6:51pm
Webhamster Henry: “My beta Google Glass / plays a Vine of Beyoncés ass” - somewhat outdated lines from a song I wrote. 🤖 ♥ 6:52pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:51

😂 ♥ 6:53pm
tom tom the pipers son: this whale communication tech is just an example of the return on much of a.i. is just regurgitated worn cultural tropes like dr doolittle… it takes humans to innovate 🤖 ♥ 6:53pm
Webhamster Henry: Me, I want those infra-red seeing glasses. (Not the contacts) www.nature.com... 🤖 ♥ 6:53pm
Bas NL:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:51

:) ♥ 6:54pm
PaulRobeson1925: Do Tesla cars record everything in earshot? 🤖 ♥ 6:54pm
tim:

↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:54

Good question. 🤖 ♥ 6:54pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ joe_rosevear @6:46

what was the name of the movie where giant squids arrive and draw in circles, and much of the plot is trying to breech communication..🦑 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:54

Sixteen cameras per, I think? 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
ultradamno: You'd think they'd want to partner with Pit Viper sunglasses, that seems more in line with the bro target audience ♥ 6:56pm
egould:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:54

"Circle Drawing Squids 2: Still Drawing" 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Bas NL: You tell 'em Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark! I also disagree with your guest on some STUFF. But good episode. 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ tim @6:54

Still waiting for your anti-heel-turn moment! 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ egould @6:56

😂 The Arrival..it was pretty good ♥ 6:57pm
egould: Thanks Mark! Thanks David! 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
tim:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:56

Haha! 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks David! 6:58pm
joe_rosevear: Thanks Mark! ♥ 6:58pm
egould:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:57

I'll check it out tonight. Thanks for the heads up. 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
tim: Thanks, Mark! ♥ 6:58pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:56

STUFF…? did you see my early post 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
ultradamno: Stereolab is offering ice cube trays now   6:59pm
chresti: Perfectly pertinent
Thanks Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
Ken From Hyde Park: To fight those spy glasses, my invention will be a set of voice scramblers worn be my dining partners and me. When we speak, the scrambler sends gibberish out of our mouths and only others in my party have descrambling technology and we can understand each other, while the spyglass people just hear the gibberish. ♥ 7:00pm
Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone! Good chat tonight. 🤖 ♥ 7:01pm
Deano de los Muertos: Thanks Mark