Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 10:57am
: currently reading Nerd Reich. Thanks Mark!   5:40pm
Andrew in Toronto: Hi Mark! 🤖 ♥ 5:45pm
ultradamno: Mark! Techtonistas!   5:56pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ ultradamno @5:45

Hi ultra! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Handy Haversack: Mark! Techyons! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
ultradamno: Hiya Andrew! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi all! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
chresti: Hi Mark and markers!   6:03pm
Bea: Hi Mark and Tech crew!   6:04pm
Kevin: Oh hi Ben! (Waving from blocks away in Urbana IL) ♥ 6:04pm
Ironside: Hey Mark and Tonicked! 🤖 ♥ 6:05pm
Deano de los Muertos: Oh, hi Mark   6:06pm
ElMonteSlim: Hi Mark, all   6:06pm
Kevin: Ben balances out the bad of Andreesen having both served as faculty at University of Illinois ⚖️😇😈 🤖 ♥ 6:06pm
Deano de los Muertos: Ya know, like the Epstein files ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ 🤖 ♥ 6:07pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Mark. Welcome to tonight's Techtofesto. 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
Webhamster Henry: Hi it's me, superintelligence.
-- signed,
subintelligence   ♥ 6:10pm
3logan: lol 6:10pm
El Gato Blanco: How nice to hear the Redaction poetry. After last weeks Nerd Reich heaviness (but very important nevertheless). It’s good to hear some comedy from Herr Zuckerberg! 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
Webhamster Henry: In the WFMU tradition of the Language Removal Service.   6:11pm
Neo Girl: Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity ♥ 6:11pm
Mark Hurst: Hi Quinn, Andrew, ultra, Handy, Bas, chresti, Bea, Kevin, Ironside, Deano, ElMonteSlim, Kevin, webham, 3logan, El Gato Blanco - welcome! ♥ 6:11pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Neo Girl @6:11

True   6:11pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:11

Thanks!   6:11pm
Cooh John: Hello Mark and tech(g)neeks. ♥ 6:12pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Cooh John @6:11

Hi Cooh John, hi Neo Girl 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
Webhamster Henry: How many "Growths" are in there? 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
regina j:

↳ Neo Girl @6:11

Hahahahaha!   6:12pm
queems: this is what happens when you don’t bully loser ass college kids who make websites to scam on girls   6:12pm
Bay Ridge Danny: Oh brother... this should be replayed on 'The Music of Mind Control'. I'm sure Micah would love this. ♥ 6:13pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ queems @6:12

Hi queems, hi B.R.Danny ♥ 6:13pm
crateslinger: is this a Burroughs cut-up?   6:13pm
Neo Girl:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:12

Growths in his bank accounts are all it's about $$$ ♥ 6:13pm
Mark Hurst: And regina! 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
Bas NL: I sense a hint of Joe Frank.. ♥ 6:13pm
Count d'Al Dente: Well, besides the anxiety that can be triggered by this show...

You can't fool me. Ben Grosser is one of *rumps speech writers.

♥ 6:14pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Count d'Al Dente @6:13

Heh! Unmasked!   6:15pm
tup: hello Mark & all,
harderrr, fasterrr, deeperrr   6:16pm
Neo Girl:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:12

Heya Mark. Nice evening ♥ 6:16pm
Count d'Al Dente: Apropo of nothing, I cashed in my two piggy banks this afternoon, which yielded $371, which will go towards my trips to the State Fair this year.   6:17pm
Cooh John: I'm sure the unredacted version is "kinder, gentler." 🤖 ♥ 6:18pm
joe mulligan: We got so much power now
Do you know how many time zones there are in the Soviet Union?
We got so much power now, that's ridiculous
D'you kn— do you know how many time zones there are in the Soviet Union?
Power, and all that, that's power, we got so much power, that's
Ridiculous
We have—
Power, power, power, power, power, power now, it's ridiculous, we got so much power now
Do you know how many time zones there are in the Soviet Union? 🤖 ♥ 6:18pm
DjLorraine:

↳ Cooh John @6:11

Hi there ♥ 6:18pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ tup @6:15

hi tup 🤖 ♥ 6:19pm
joe mulligan:

↳ joe mulligan @6:18

(that's the lyrics for a famous Negativland song "time zones")   6:20pm
Neo Girl:

↳ Count d'Al Dente @6:13

Did he write the one about no new wars? 🤖 ♥ 6:20pm
Ken From Hyde Park: I think the next step is to run the redacted manifesto through a word sorter and laugh at the strings of AI AI AI AI & more more more more more we wind up with. ♥ 6:20pm
crateslinger:

↳ joe mulligan @6:19

I believe the answer is,

Eleven

🤖 ♥ 6:20pm
chresti:

↳ Count d'Al Dente @6:16

That's about how much was in one of the cans filled with coins that were collected from the floor   6:21pm
tup:

↳ joe mulligan @6:18

didn't know its still there (the soviet union) ♥ 6:21pm
Count d'Al Dente:

↳ Neo Girl @6:20

It's wonderful. We won. We are winners. There is no success with stopping. So while we are winners, there is our great future.   6:24pm
tup:

↳ joe mulligan @6:19

thanks for the update ♥ 6:24pm
Count d'Al Dente:

↳ chresti @6:20

I'll buy one corn dog in honor of this chat group. 6:24pm
El Gato Blanco:

↳ joe mulligan @6:19

The Letter ▪️ and the numeral ▪️ 🤖 ♥ 6:25pm
joe mulligan:

↳ crateslinger @6:20

1, 2, 3, yessir
Mm hm, eleven   6:25pm
Neo Girl: How about we maximize getting everyone affordable Healthcare 🤖 ♥ 6:26pm
joe mulligan:

↳ tup @6:21

That's how big they are   6:26pm
Neo Girl: Put the Ai shit in the toilet ♥ 6:26pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good evening Mark and fellow travelers. 🤖 ♥ 6:26pm
joe mulligan:

↳ El Gato Blanco @6:24

you too! ♥ 6:26pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @6:26

hi Peter   6:28pm
Neo Girl: Free cringes reading his Ai slop   6:28pm
tup:

↳ Neo Girl @6:26

already there, a smart toilet 6:29pm
El Gato Blanco: Corporate gAIn
Environmental strAIn
Financial pAIn
Historical refrAIn 🤖 ♥ 6:29pm
joe mulligan: it used to be the old fashioned oligarchs could get shamed into philanthropy. not these guys ♥ 6:29pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ El Gato Blanco @6:29

I like this AI poetry!   6:29pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ joe mulligan @6:26

Hi joe!   6:29pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ tup @6:28

Hi tup! 🤖 ♥ 6:30pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @6:29

Andrew!   6:30pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @6:26

Hi there, Peter!   6:31pm
Neo Girl:

↳ tup @6:28

If it doesn't wipe your butt for you, it's not smart 6:32pm
El Gato Blanco:

↳ joe mulligan @6:29

That ship has sailed. None of them sail any more unless it’s to their private well guarded island.   6:36pm
Neo Girl: Elon Musk https://www.npr.org/2026/07/09/nx-s1-5885052/spacexai-stabilityai-deepfake-csam-class-action 🤖 ♥ 6:36pm
joe mulligan:

↳ El Gato Blanco @6:32

lame, right!?!   6:36pm
Marie de Chicago: Hi Mark, hi All! ♥ 6:37pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Marie de Chicago @6:36

hi Marie   6:37pm
tup:

↳ Neo Girl @6:31

all kind of options depending on the needs,
scanning for the new login tech ? 6:37pm
El Gato Blanco: That Zuckerberg/ Lovecraft pic and quote made me laugh.⭐️ ♥ 6:37pm
Count d'Al Dente: The lust for power is rooted in low self-esteem and, fear of the unknown, not having control over your destiny. 🤖 ♥ 6:38pm
Webhamster Henry: I think their philosophy is "Hey, there are bigger numbers, let's go for it!" It's independent from actual thought. 🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
Deano de los Muertos: “Grab em, and hold em” as Tony Baker says   6:40pm
Neo Girl:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:38

It's all about enriching themselves, at the expense of everyone else 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Marie de Chicago @6:36

Hey Marie 6:43pm
El Gato Blanco: Let’s hear it for the power of Art and Artists, especially when exposing truth to power.   6:43pm
Neo Girl: Saltines, cornbread & chili 🤖 ♥ 6:44pm
Webhamster Henry: haha his new bot sounds just like my good old Yes Session app, which at least has no intelligence at all! wfmu.org... ♥ 6:45pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:44

I liked Yes Session! ♥ 6:45pm
New Dave: "Designed engagement" is the perfect term!
Let's all stay indoors forever- you might meet a skunk in your backyard some night... 🤖 ♥ 6:45pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:45

It's still available!   6:46pm
Neo Girl:

↳ El Gato Blanco @6:43

Definitely...& Techtonic too. Also check Benn Jordan on YouTube 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
chresti: Manipulated engagement 🤖 ♥ 6:49pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Manicured engagement   6:49pm
Marie de Chicago: Hello, Mark, hello Deano!   6:50pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:45

Excellent show!
Mark, thanks!   6:50pm
Marie de Chicago: Maybe if Chump got hooked up with a sycophantic bot, he’d lay off the world... 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
chresti: Manured engagement   6:52pm
Neo Girl: Lol at these insecure dweeblings needing a "manifesto".. Didn't the Unibomber already capture that market? 🤖 ♥ 6:52pm
ultradamno:

↳ Marie de Chicago @6:50

Is that not what Natalie Harp is?   6:53pm
tup:

↳ chresti @6:48

application
registration
submission
great show thanks Mark fot the updates, sy 🤖 ♥ 6:53pm
Bas NL: Wow! ♥ 6:53pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: A great show, Mark. Thank you.   6:53pm
Marie de Chicago:

↳ ultradamno @6:52

yeah, maybe she’s a rpbot... 🤖 ♥ 6:53pm
herb.nyc: Good level headed conversation, thx, mark. Magnificent, deserves applause. Get these two a medal…   6:54pm
Marie de Chicago: and they encourage social isolation   6:54pm
Bay Ridge Danny: Thank you, Mark and Ben, a particularly great segment. There's nothing more intoxicating than Distilled Silicon Valley B.S.!👍 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
chresti: Thanks Mark and Ben! 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks Ben! (And i mean it) 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark! 6:56pm
El Gato Blanco: Thanks for yet another great and timely show!   6:57pm
Neo Girl: Way to go Clarissa! ♥ 6:57pm
bleubombersune: Thanks Ben and Mark all stray safe and be well   6:57pm
ElMonteSlim: Thanks Mark for sharing Ben's artistic POV and humor on a very important topic   6:58pm
Marie de Chicago: wow, sharp words, good news 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Webhamster Henry: Acquisitions and failures: well, that's our business plan!   6:58pm
Neo Girl: Mark those comments give hope for humanity   6:58pm
Marie de Chicago: Thank you, Mark and Ben! 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark & Ben. I ⬛⬛⬛⬛ the show tonight! 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
ultradamno: Makes you miss the days of robber barons who amassed ridiculous wealth and manipulated politics behind the scenes. ♥ 6:59pm
Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone!   7:00pm
Neo Girl: Thanks Mark. Look forward to the next one. Have a good week