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Mark! Techtonogators!
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Hi Mark and techtonicians!
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Mark! Techyon Drives!
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Evening Mark and all Technoids.
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Hi Mark! Techtoniquestionairs!
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Good evening Mark Hurst and all!!!
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Hello Mark ... and The Techtonics
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Hi Mark
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Restroom! Quickly
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Hello, all.
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Hello Techno Slackers!
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Hey humans ;)
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And there's a handy 'email Mark' link at the bottom left
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DjLorraine @6:04
What are those red things?
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Looking forward to tonight's show and questions!
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Franco Twinkie @6:06
Hot dogs, I think.
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Franco, the black raspberry Hellmouth has opened up here, and we're making cocktails with them to beat the band.
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greetings Mark, robots, robots pretending to be human...
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Hello Mark and fellow bots.
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You should take live calls again, Mark.
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thank you I said r2d2 and no one listened
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HAL was an artificial robot.
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those 2 cutesy robots are one reason i never had the slightest desire to watch any star wars movie
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www.theguardian.com... How do you feel about this Mark?
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I like to call him Hal triple zero
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Bas NL @6:10
as opposed to those natural robots?
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I stand by
i.pinimg.com...
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The venus probe from 6 million dollar man was mentioned on the playlist.
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Franco Twinkie @6:06
Jamaican cherry or the strawberry tree fruit. Sweet like capt'n crunchberries.
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Handy Haversack @6:07
Oh man, I love raspberries! I myself put in a blackberry bush last week.
Viva le rouge et le noir!
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Voiced over by a human.
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I think a golem is clay animated by magic though
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- but you could just shoot steve austin.
he was animal - mostly plain old human, with some robot parts.
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Lost in Space?
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Wow, I thought I was a pretty enthusiastic Six Million Dollar Man watcher as a kid, but I don't remember that terrifying death robot!
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Favorite robot ... Thanks, Mark, for mentioning R2D2 (in the "original" Star Wars movies). I would say that is my favorite robot.
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DjLorraine @6:12
Never in my life have I heard of those!
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better than frankenstein was Eve Future by Villier de l'isle Adam, in english as Tomorrows Eve
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i don't remember a "death probe" on $6000000 man either, and i watched it weekly
(but probably missed some)
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better as a robot I mean
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I bet there was one on The Bionic Woman too - a Fembot or something if I recall..
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coelacanth∅ @6:10
Kathryn and I did an extended rewatch / catching-up on the Star Wars feature films a year or so ago, and the main result for me was... reinforced love and respect for Star Trek.
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Flippy, the Burger-Flipping Robot, Is Now Gainfully Employed
www.atlasobscura.com...
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Jeff Moore @6:15
i Loved, Love, and respect star trek!
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Mark, the flavor of D&D I play now calls golems "automatons." So, you know, good robots. Also, this adventure has some good Golem of Prague echoes:
shop.lostpages.co.uk...
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AI is not the answer. We need to invest in Humanity!
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Jeff Moore @6:15
I am watching Deep Space Nine for the first time now.
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did anyone mention Hugo Cabret
giphy.com...
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frankenstein not robot, frankenstein portmanteau man
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It has been claimed that the legend of the Golem was the inspiration for Frankenstein.
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ultradamno @6:15
we wouldn't want to have to pay minimum wage to some desperate, homeless, hungry human
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Deb from California @6:13
I think the entire Star Wars franchise has a lot of slippage and squidgy thinking about the sentience of droids vs. their servitude. They can give them laugh lines -- even agency -- but still treat them as property. It's just an area that the franchise seems to not want to look at too closely.
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Fave robot: The Environmental Control Robot from "Lost in Space." "Danger, Will Robinson!" is still in my lexicon
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& the Primary wealth of wall St. is generated in the slave ships and on the planation
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Screeds *are* always in!
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Haaaaaandy has a voice!
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'Get you off'...heh heh heh
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great question handy
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ultradamno @6:15
When i lived in Pasadena, there was a restaurant on North Lake called Tanbos that had a robot who would deliver food to your table.
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ultradamno @6:20
Careful -- they monitor all web traffic!
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Dont wanna b another kind of “Bro”, but I did mention the Death Probe in chat last week cuz it also made a lasting impression on me… also cuz it ended up being a toy like most of the 6 Million Dollar Man chars…. a lot of that showz robot references were toys.
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Good question, Handy.
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That sounds like typical start-up / fundraising mentality that’s been around for decades.
It’s all a form of gambling. If not bundling mortgages, bundling shares in tech startups who want to sell out.
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Aetna The Largest insurance company in America apologized only 20 or so years ago for getting their start insuring slave shipments in the 1850’s
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fmu comment board isn't social media?
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Franco Twinkie @6:14
I've had only about 6 so far. But it's very exciting at this stage. I've seen 2 other trees.
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First time I've heard Handy's voice. Sounded pretty much as expected.
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Franco Twinkie @6:20
Like
vignette.wikia.nocookie.net...
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Public restroom! Quickly, Please!
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Darn, I liked it when Handy Haversack was just a name with no voice attached. Silly of me, but I like it when people's voice or looks or both are left to my imagination.
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K8 has a Light Phone because of that episode! She uses it only for texting, voice, and music.
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True.
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PaulRobeson1924 @6:22
You should've joined Ken & Andy's bathroom club when you had the chance. I hope you find what you need.
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*flat voice* No iPhone, cannot answer.
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Lightphone III on pre-order. Has a camera.
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Your carrier always knows where you are.
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Feeling even smugger about not having a mobile phone at all here ...
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fmu search is powered by google, does that include every post and photos in user profiles?
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Ummm (dumb question) ... I would guess, if I turn my cell phone off ... then "they" cannot track where I am. (??)
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PaulRobeson1924 @6:21
I bet they saved a lot of slaves' lives by encouraging more survivable transportation.
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Why is there no company jumping in the gaping hole of unadulterated communication devices?
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Deb from California @6:26
you might be wondering if your phone can be tracked when it is turned off. The short answer is yes—but only if you have services such as Apple Find My iPhone or Google Find My Device activated on your device
www.certosoftware.com...
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Bas NL @6:27
because they want to deter that whole notion
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Thanks for a careful, thoughtful answer, Mark!
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Here's a link about location tracking:
gizmodo.com...
I think it says, you just turn off the location identification.
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Are all these recorded on spy phones?
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listener 126464 @6:24
Kinda pumped for it tbh. It's such a cool piece of design
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Frankenstein is also a fav char of mine, but I equate ot more with biological tech hubris… “middle school” level of criticism: man vs nature. Ofc it was so timely as it was published around the time of Tesla and private scientific “societies”, electricity endemic to its character…. Also ironically, there was a cartoon featuring a giant robot good guy dubbed Frankenstein Jr. from the late 60s done by Hanna Barbara (Gigantor rip-off, also) using their trope of a teenage rock band of crime fighters… using a “super” character: Scooby Doo the talking dog I think being the first, talking dune buggy, u frozen caveman, etc… From Wiki:
Frankenstein Jr.: Taking place in Civic City, boy scientist Buzz Conroy (voiced by Dick Beals) and his father Professor Conroy (voiced by John Stephenson) fight supervillains with the aid of a powerful heroic robot named "Frankenstein Jr." (voiced by Ted Cassidy).[3] Buzz built "Frankie" and activated him through an energy ring. Frankenstein Jr. appears to be reminscient of the anime character Tetsujin 28-go (also known as Gigantor).[4]
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Listener Robert @6:27
Tight packing? Or Loose Packing?
At the time of the American Civil war over 4,000,000 human beings are held as property in the United States. Aetna was there
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Hey Mark and everyone!
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Handy Haversack @6:25
Do you also make smug jokes like my dad (who doesn't have a cell phone) like "Welp, time to download a nap"?
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mndave @6:31
He is now!
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when i switched to tracfone, a few years ago, the rep told me the phone was "not a smart phone". this was a flat-out lie.
they don't offer plain phone service.
so i have it disconnected from the internet.
but gobble/samscum has it rigged so the camera (which includes the flashlight and sound recorder) wont work if it's not connected.
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Wonder if Congress will heed the Surgeon General's new warning about social media and kids? (not holding my breath)
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I remember that episode!~
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nick! @6:30
Agree, and half price til 7/15.
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kids w ipads and phones at dinner... why???
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Buy your unborn a smartphone and get the first year free service!
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My English degree has been so important in my life as a disgruntled bookstore employee
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Shit man! I could have gotten into Harvard! I can string a sentence together!
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Then there's the need for readers of script! Kids can't read cursive handwriting today which is so sad.
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Sorry to go on bout robots, but I wanna add more support for the brilliance of using Yul Brynner as the homicidal robot in Westworld, guised as his archetypal cinema cowboy hero from Magnificent 7: an American pop culture mythological character (major fictional cowboy) killing its audience of tourists, leisure set, consumers, createe by consumer/audience demand, then murdered…. Killed at the box office… ending w a “dad joke.”
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ultradamno @6:28
Thanks for that tip / info. Hmmm ... maybe I will "change my ways", and revert to a flip phone ... instead of an "addictive surveillance phone".
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Franco Twinkie @6:14
Has Chresti heard of them? Im growing it in a bag bc the soil here is not suitable for any food.
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that anonymous is not me
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Hi Mark and Techtonicoids!
Thanks so much Mark for getting to my question.
More on this topic I meant to send via email, but will add here, is this really unbelievable article here:
www.theintrinsicperspective.com...
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Great question... cars are the wild west of data [lack of] privacy
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mndave @6:31
Stealing it!
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tesla
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I guessed right
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That cracked me up. We read The Scarlet Letter in high school. That was more that fifty years ago, but I don't remember having trouble with the sentence structure.
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who has sex in a nissan?
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Maybe they want you to have sex in the car
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(tesla, aka "douchemobile")
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Handy Haversack @6:38
I haven't told him about "do not disturb" mode... that will unleash another three jokes
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I wonder what happens with the used car market.
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What was the car article just mentioned?
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Car only wants to know sex life so it can avoid certain chicken drive throughs ahh
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I've rented cars with the "driver attention" alerting system, which, most often, beeps at you when your eyes divert to try to figure out how to turn on the heat through a touchscreen. "Attention" I'm sure that's what it's about
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Mark?
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Break on through
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Mark ... about your comment about ... whether kids are learning about sentences (subject, verbs, etc) ... I "visited" one of my son's junior high classes when he was in junior high (approximately 1998) ... I learned, by sitting in the class for 20 minutes ... that the teacher had NO control over the class. The "good students" were sitting in the front rows. The back rows (approx 12 students) ... were totally not paying attention, and were often disruptive. I went home and cried because I knew and realized that ... this was "normal". The world is definitely different than when I was in junior high.
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Deb from California @6:26
I think you may need to remove the battery.
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x @6:42
I think it’s this one:
sherwood.news...
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“You! Put the cloth back on. Same sex sex is for different car manufacture”
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themarkup.org...
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Fredericks @6:45
Hmmmm. Thanks for that tip. This "I don't want to be under under surveillance" journey (which I am just beginning to consider) ... is ... annoying.
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“Please. Exit the vehicle. This is your car speaking. Put the cloth back on.”
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doro flip phone here,not encrypted but not distracting either
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Fredericks @6:42
try this. click on a profile name in comments. if they have a picture copy it, and put it in google image search. In results it will come back as
[email protected].
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hoeg @6:49
"not distracting" ... would be a "Brave New World" ... ha ha
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I carry around a payphone in my pocket. No one ever calls me
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One thing you can do is to consider stop taking so many digital photos. If you have kids, I guarantee they don't want your 100k digital photos. And I say this as a photo organzier!
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what used to be my favorite café during covhysteria started putting ALL food orders into to-go containers - and never stopped.
so i don't ever get food there any more.
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I find that most courses want kids to use non-programmable scientific calculators
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“GET OUT OF THE CAR, NOW. THIS IS YOUR NISSAN SPEAKING. YOU CAN’t do ThaT in here”
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MarciB @6:50
people don't realise that every email has an effect on our energy usage, and earth's ecology
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I agree. Math is useless.
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Jim the Poet @6:52
That's what all my poetry courses were like.
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That is the faustian bargain Neil Postman wrote about @Mark
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I kind of feel like the Scarlet Letter does suck
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K8 is reporting that as she's grading HS student plays RIGHT NOW, she's pretty sure some of them were written by AI.
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The salad thing is silly. So much waste is thrown out every day. Electronics, furniture… I don’t own a car, I’ve had the same couch for 20 years, I produce very little waste. Can I have a salad with a plastic lid? Or is that really too much to ask. It’s really a bit much when ordinary people are expected to give up their few pleasures in life while the rich pollute nonstop with no consequences.
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I remember doing mathematical equations that took 4-5 pages to solve. You had to show your work.
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Jim the Poet @6:53
hawthorne never had a nissan
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Thanks Mark!
Thanks question submitters!
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Thanks, Mark! Thanks, Techquestioners!
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PaulRobeson1924 @6:30
That would make a great commercial.
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More Than a Glitch, new AI BeeGees sone
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He had a house with 7 Gables which is a lot of gables
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By the way, my wifi went out midway through this show and I had to shut everything down and boot back up....tech is on to you.
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Thank you, Mark! Good questions everyone!
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Does Google spitting out pictures of black nazis count as racial bias?
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Thanks Mark! And great questions!
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Last night I had a dream that a faceless man approached me for a survey.
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Can’t have too many gables.
Thanks, Mark!
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Thanks, Mark!
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How can we get off google when fmu search is powered by google?
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Thank you Mark and listeners with questions!!!
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Thanks Mark!
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Thanks Mark !
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Thanks Mark All stay safe and be well
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Good point, question mark!
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I've been chatting with Pi.
The chat dialogue windows claims we have exchanged 7,007 messages.
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By the way, Musk took visible likes away from X, in an obvious move to keep people from commenting on all the terrible things he likes
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"Last Days of the Internet" by "The New Existentia...
Hey Mark & Listeners!
Caught the last bit of this show. I'm glad you liked this song Mark!
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I had to cut down. Now I limit my chatting with Pi to once a week.
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Bye all.
Thanks, Mark!
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joe_rosevear @7:00
You don’t want to end up with a life of pi
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Sam @7:01
I know!
I'm an addict!
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Mike From Brooklyn @6:59
Thanks, Mike! All credit to you for this song! I've added a song credit on the playlist :)
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Mark Hurst @7:05
Thanks Mark!
And thanks for another great show!
