Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 6:00pm
: Mark! Techtontelligencia!   6:01pm
David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids here gathered. 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Deano de los Muertos: Oh, Hi Mark 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Handy Haversack: I still haven't picked up 1414, but it remains on the list.

Mark and all.

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tim: Hey Mark and everyone!   6:01pm
Bea: Good evening, Mark and Techtonic friends! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi all! 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
chresti: Hi Mark and markers! 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
sensisio: Yo yo yo 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
Webhamster Henry: Hi Friends! 🤖 ♥ 6:05pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:01

*Frangry voice*
“You’re on the list!” ♥ 6:07pm
Mark Hurst: Hi ultra, DiL, Deano, Handy, tim, Bea, Bas, sensisio, webham - welcome! ♥ 6:08pm
S_P_G: Hello Mark and friends! ♥ 6:09pm
coelacanth∅: Greetings Mark, and Paul Bradley Carr ♥ 6:11pm
Mark Hurst: hi SPG, hi coel 🤖 ♥ 6:11pm
Webhamster Henry: Fiction is having a hard time staying fiction these days. 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:11

Mickey 17 felt like I was looking into the near future. 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
Handy Haversack: Not thrilled that the copy editors at S&S allowed "who to marry" get through in the promo copy for The Confessions. ♥ 6:13pm
S_P_G: AI contrite and regretful. ♥ 6:21pm
S_P_G: I can see the building, am looking at it right now. 🤖 ♥ 6:22pm
Handy Haversack: I recently read another Annalee Newitz book, The Terraformers, which I really enjoyed. And they were part of a very good roundtable on Strange Horizons recently:

strangehorizons.com...

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DjLorraine: Together with starlink what could possibly go wrong/s ♥ 6:24pm
S_P_G: I wish we could teach humans empathy.   6:28pm
Bea: Readers of the world, unite! ♥ 6:33pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Bea @6:28

well said, Bea :)   6:34pm
mason: when mike said a bunch of letters with secrets came piling in, i thought they were written by people. That people become so attached to opening up to LLMs, that when it shuts down they’ve lost that connection and need to just get secrets out by any means   6:42pm
Marie in Chicago: I think novels are the more “fun" read compared to other types of books…, nonfiction, how to, etc. Hi Mark, hi All! ♥ 6:42pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:42

hi Marie, welcome ♥ 6:42pm
coelacanth∅: i'm "old" and i've never read a book via screen, and likely never will.
i spend more than enough time reading stuff online that's not available as a book.   6:44pm
Marie in Chicago: George Simenon’s Maigret deteictive series is like that. They are amazing.   6:44pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:42

Thanks, Mark! ♥ 6:45pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ coelacanth∅ @6:42

One reason I strongly prefer print books is because I can write annotations in the margins. 🤖 ♥ 6:47pm
Deano de los Muertos: I can just picture Zuck feverishly taking notes under a single LED bulb while listening to Techtonic   6:47pm
Marie in Chicago: Mark, I filed an online complaint with the online IC3 a week or so ago and called in about Grok’s stripping capabilities. I also called the FCC. I was so mad about that. ♥ 6:48pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:47

Nice work. Yep - an outrage.   6:49pm
Marie in Chicago: A book lis like dipping your mind into a stream. It can be so calming and centering ♥ 6:49pm
evancuts: Read the whole Bascome trilogy. Independence Day is a masterpiece. ♥ 6:50pm
evancuts: Besides Richard Ford, also loved the Fred Exley Fan's Notes trilogy.   6:51pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ evancuts @6:49

Hey, I’m gonna have to check those out. Thanks! ♥ 6:51pm
S_P_G: Just down the street from me. 🤖 ♥ 6:52pm
Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark, Paul. 🤖 ♥ 6:52pm
tim: Great conversation! ♥ 6:52pm
S_P_G: Great interview. Thanks Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:53pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:53pm
Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks Paul! 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
Deano de los Muertos: Thanks Mark, sounds like some interesting titles. ♥ 6:55pm
evancuts:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:51

Independence Day takes place in a fictional town in New Jersey. I had a chance to ask him where exactly that was... sort of a fictional town that I would guess is sort of like Little Silver or perhaps somewhere in western Monmouth County horse country. Such a beautiful book. Can't recommend it enough.   6:55pm
Marie in Chicago: I see a articles that question whehter AI will hit a wall and all that investment will go down the drain   6:56pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ evancuts @6:55

wow, cool, sounds great! 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ evancuts @6:55

right around where I live now   6:56pm
chresti: Thanks Mark and Bradley 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Mark Hurst!!!   6:57pm
chresti: Thanks Paul ♥ 6:58pm
evancuts:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:56

You'll love it!   6:58pm
Marie in Chicago: I’m reading a novel by a Russian medieval scholar and the book is set in medieval Russia. It’s really good, serious, deep. It’s called Laurus ♥ 6:58pm
bleubombersune: Thanks Mark all stray safe and be well   6:58pm
chresti: Karl!   6:58pm
Marie in Chicago: Thanks, Mark and Paul! Ciao, all! ♥ 6:59pm
S_P_G: is this Karl Ward? ♥ 7:01pm
coelacanth∅: Thanks Mark! Thanks Paul! ♥ 7:01pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ S_P_G @6:59

yes ♥ 7:01pm
Mark Hurst: Yes karlward! Thanks, everyone