Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 5:47pm
: Mark! Techtonxious!   6:00pm
David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids here gathered. 🤖 ♥ 6:00pm
Deano de los Muertos: Greetings Mark and all 🤖 ♥ 6:00pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark and all! 🤖 ♥ 6:00pm
Spikey BXL: Mark, luddites ♥ 6:01pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Greetings from the Adirondacks, Mark and everyone. 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Webhamster Henry: Looks like a good subject - more on the weird side effects of our digitally mediated feeds - sometimes they should be called troughs full of AI slop. 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
ultradamno: Big law enforcement surveillance tech piece on Last Week Tonight last night   6:03pm
Noel: Coolness. A music show. May I suggest “Deeper Understanding” by Kate Bush?   6:03pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ ultradamno @6:02

Hi ultra! ♥ 6:03pm
PaulRobeson1926: Ok 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
ultradamno: Hiya Andrew!   6:03pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @6:01

Hi Peter. 🤖 ♥ 6:04pm
herb.nyc: Hola to mark and youz, I didn’t listen to last wk’s. Am I gonna understand this show? I’m a little slow. Oh, storytelling now. Nice ♥ 6:06pm
Mark Hurst: Hi ultra, DiL, Deano, Bas, Spikey, Peter, webham, Noel, Andrew, PaulR, herb - welcome! 🤖 ♥ 6:07pm
tim: Hi Mark and everybody! Looking forward to this episode. ♥ 6:07pm
StringOFperils: Hello Mark and co-conspirators! 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
Jeff Moore: Do I really know what gnostic means?

Oh, thanks.

♥ 6:09pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ ultradamno @6:02

John Oliver was talking about the book "Your Data Will Be Used Against You," which I covered in my interview with author Andrew Ferguson: www.wfmu.org... ♥ 6:09pm
Mark Hurst: Hi tim, StringOFperils, and Jeff Moore! 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:09

i think Olver's writers just binged a bunch of Tectonic episodes for last night's show. teehee.
hiya, Mark and friends. ♥ 6:10pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ chris in the redwoods @6:10

Hi Chris! 🤖 ♥ 6:11pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ chris in the redwoods @6:10

also, where's my editor? :D 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
erik: Funny I stumbled upon Book Club Bar on Friday night. it is a bar where nearly everyone is reading while drinking.   6:15pm
Matt from OK: I’m frequently reminded of the cyber punk writers of the 80’s, 90’s, early 2000’s who predicted so much of what we’re seeing today so accurately. Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Rudy Rucker saw it all coming..   6:16pm
yippie: people use memes instead of pheromones ♥ 6:17pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ yippie @6:16

Yes... and conversely, ants use pheromones instead of memes! 🤖 ♥ 6:25pm
ultradamno: factually.co... 🤖 ♥ 6:27pm
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @6:25

(it's kind of a shame Musk and his 'woke mind virus' he coined to attack his daughter is how most people associate with the idea these days) ♥ 6:28pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ ultradamno @6:27

True. And that phrase - "woke mind virus" - has a particular etymology, as Musk picked it up from other sources. The book "Muskism" has a full rundown. We didn't cover this exact point in the interview, but I interviewed the authors here: www.wfmu.org... 🤖 ♥ 6:30pm
ultradamno: I should have assumed he didn't even create that. 🤖 ♥ 6:31pm
sensisio: I like to call unprecedented as unpresidented and on another note...Kathy Griffin likes to call Twitter =Shitter....funfacts! Hi Mark and friends 🧡 ♥ 6:31pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ ultradamno @6:30

Yep... see also the image next to "Mark's intro" ♥ 6:32pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ sensisio @6:31

Hi sensisio! ♥ 6:33pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @6:03

Hello Andrew! 🤖 ♥ 6:33pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Hi. New Jersey question: With a gas car, the gas station attendant puts the nozzle into the tank. With an electric car, do they send out an attendant to put the charging cord into place? 🤔 🤖 ♥ 6:35pm
ultradamno: OK, Veruza,...I thought you guys were saying Fairuza and was imagining Ms. Balk in the movie adaptation. 🤖 ♥ 6:36pm
sensisio:

↳ erik @6:14

@erik thanks! Thats cool! ♥ 6:39pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ ultradamno @6:35

Heh yes the disappeared researcher is Dr. Rala Veruza.   6:39pm
Fredericks: Much of this conversation brings to mind Erich Fromm's Sane Society. For example, things like War reporting followed by a mouthwash commercial featuring a smiling woman changes the impact of the preceding information. (My remembrance not a quote.) ♥ 6:39pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Fredericks @6:39

good point 🤖 ♥ 6:43pm
ultradamno: I can remember the zine Kooks and the Amok catalog were the places to get familiar with the conspiracies of the day 🤖 ♥ 6:46pm
ultradamno: ...and sometimes you'd get pinned down by crackpots at parties and punk shows. 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
Bas NL: Great interview! And great public show, Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:53pm
Ken From Hyde Park: The overload can also drive people to "do their own research." 🤖 ♥ 6:53pm
ultradamno: If we were living under a dome, you'd think the weather would be more stable   6:55pm
Bob Tankenstein: Thanks, Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
Deano de los Muertos: Thanks, Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
tim: Thanks, Mark! I'm looking forward to your fill in! ♥ 6:56pm
PaulRobeson1926:

↳ Fredericks @6:39

Neil Postman’s “& now this”
Amusing ourselves to death. Public discourse in the age of show business 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks Judson! ♥ 6:56pm
bleubombersune: Thanks Mark and Judson all stray safe and be well 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
chris in the redwoods: thanks, Mark! another great interview and show.   6:58pm
i hear you telephone thing: On the same subject, Quit IPhone and Facebook Troll are funny The Fall songs about modern technology...
Thanks Mark, the speaker was interesting, as always! 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
ultradamno: Eat Y'self Fitter:

Analytics have got
My type worked out
Analytics on me
The poison render

🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark & Judson. ♥ 6:59pm
Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone!