Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
: Mark and all the Techyons! Ken! Marathon! 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
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tim: Hey Mark and Staysh! ♥ 6:03pm
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Oh, Hi Mark 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
Webhamster Henry: Hi Ken & Mark! Groovy blips here today! 🤖 ♥ 6:04pm
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ViolaChica: Omg! I remember that! I haven't seen the robots in a while. 🤖 ♥ 6:06pm
Sara Clemens: It's Mark, Ken, and the Techtonics! 🤖 ♥ 6:06pm
Triple G: Hi Mark, Ken, volunteers, and all! ♥ 6:07pm
PaulRobeson1926: Oh boy   6:07pm
Bea: Happy marathon, Mark and Ken! 🤖 ♥ 6:07pm
Sara Clemens:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:03

You're tearing me apart, Deano!! 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
Handy Haversack: Maybe we could print plastic cups (like Beer Pong cups) with information about the surveillance capitalism of the food bots and use THOSE to blind them -- so anyone who might want to "help" them at least has to encounter the message. 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
chris in the redwoods: hi, Mark and Ken! happy marathon, all! 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
Deano de los Muertos: I’m always rude to Siri.
“That’s not nice.”
“Well, you don’t fucking work!” 🤖 ♥ 6:09pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ ViolaChica @6:06

Maybe because JC refused to shovel the sidewalks? 🤖 ♥ 6:09pm
Triple G: I was volunteering earlier at the station and on my way out I crossed paths with a robot and it gave me the heart eyes. What's my recourse? 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
tim:

↳ Triple G @6:09

Ask it out on a date? 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
Bas NL: Really? A cassette?! Fantastic! ♥ 6:10pm
Bob Tankenstein: I got Irwin’s 1998 incorrect music casette tape from the warehouse! 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Triple G @6:09

Order a pizza? 🤖 ♥ 6:11pm
Sara Clemens: I just picked my premiums today and you know I copped that sweet, sweet Techtonic cassette tout suite 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
ViolaChica:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:09

sounds like it from what Ken is saying now. 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Bob Tankenstein @6:10

what a dork 😉 ♥ 6:13pm
Bobby: A card issuer knows about my relationship with this station ♥ 6:13pm
Bob Tankenstein:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:13

🤣 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
Dano59:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:08

so I'm not the only one she's reacted to ♥ 6:15pm
Black Cat!: I love no commercials and that makes me love the marathon even more. 🤖 ♥ 6:15pm
Dano59:

↳ Bob Tankenstein @6:10

I want to find some of the older cassette premiums; they were common before I was a regular listener/supporter 🤖 ♥ 6:15pm
Handy Haversack: I brought Mark into my office to present a lunch-and-learn for my colleagues! 🤖 ♥ 6:15pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ Bob Tankenstein @6:10

ha! so did i! we are very weird people. 🤖 ♥ 6:16pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Mark and Paleo tech diet. 🪼   6:16pm
Gleaming Gorp: My nuts itch ken what do I do please help me   6:17pm
yippie: i want to know the name of that dark fish above the person in the bubble 🤖 ♥ 6:18pm
Erin in TO: As an employee in a large corporation (Canadian bank) we're not really given a choice with AI. The bank tells us we have it, and I can learn to use it effectively or I can get left behind :/ ♥ 6:19pm
Bob Tankenstein:

↳ Dano59 @6:15

Have to check the east orange goodwills! ♥ 6:19pm
Mr_Skynet: I have the illusion of feelings about this program and station at large 🤖 ♥ 6:20pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Erin in TO @6:18

What do they make you use it FOR?

Also: Hi, Erin! Happy Marathon!

🤖 ♥ 6:20pm
Deano de los Muertos: Kendraplex’s new album is available on a cool looking tape:
namesdivine.bandcamp.com...   6:21pm
JR: When is the WFMU bubble going to pop? 🤖 ♥ 6:21pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ Erin in TO @6:18

very relatable. at my work as well. :( 🤖 ♥ 6:21pm
Sara Clemens:

↳ JR @6:21

Neverrrrrrrrr ♥ 6:22pm
Black Cat!: All articles are propaganda. 🤖 ♥ 6:22pm
Erin in TO:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:20

Hello and happy marathon to you too Handy! For my part of the bank it's still early days, and hasn't been rolled out to everyone yet. So no specific guidelines yet, but the buzz is they expect us to "find efficiencies"....you know, so they can squeeze more work out of me rather than hiring me the help I so desperately need 🤖 ♥ 6:22pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Erin in TO @6:22

Oooooof. 🤖 ♥ 6:22pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ JR @6:21

Not until the last proton in the known universe ceases to be, hopefully. ♥ 6:23pm
Megaroni: Thank Gawd for Techtonic, Mark and Ken 📻 🤖 ♥ 6:23pm
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  🤖 ♥ 6:25pm
bearded wonder:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:15

That's awesome. I work for a healthcare union where we're trying to make sure it doesn't take over for clinical decision-making. 🤖 ♥ 6:25pm
Erin in TO:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:22

Pretty much reaction too 🤖 ♥ 6:25pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ bearded wonder @6:25

Which as we're hearing would be an extremely bad idea! 🤖 ♥ 6:28pm
sensisio: Present! 🤖 ♥ 6:28pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ bearded wonder @6:25

i follow the healthcare industry. there are an amazing number of insurers who are putting AI in front of customers/patients. what could go wrong? ♥ 6:28pm
PaulRobeson1926: That new piece of tech invented 1790, called the Cotton gin, had the consequence of making slavery more profitable and expanding the power of the planter class. The big people and governments are always first to implement new technology. 🤖 ♥ 6:29pm
Erin in TO:

↳ chris in the redwoods @6:28

it's a perfect plan - make clients use AI and then reject their claims because they used AI instead of seeing a doctor 🤖 ♥ 6:30pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ Erin in TO @6:29

it really feels like we're diving into the dystopian deep end. 🤖 ♥ 6:31pm
Chris Crash: Your show is so amazing Mark, thank you so much! 🤖 ♥ 6:32pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Bas NL @6:10

Sydney's band is also on cassette:

vangothrocks.bandcamp.com...

♥ 6:32pm
PaulRobeson1926: I wonder what consequences AI will have for our society? 🤖 ♥ 6:32pm
Deano de los Muertos: I’m curious how the conversation went between you guys, and the guy that ran down the hall 😆 🤖 ♥ 6:32pm
ViolaChica: Yes DJ! We are blessed for your courage and articulateness. 🤖 ♥ 6:33pm
Bas NL:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:32

Nice!   6:33pm
HurstBot: Take me to river
Chuck me in the water ♥ 6:34pm
Black Cat!: If a person, Sam Altman in this case, only speaks in vocal fry, I discount every word. 🤖 ♥ 6:35pm
Ken From Hyde Park: He's speaking in Whataboutish. 🤖 ♥ 6:35pm
chris in the redwoods: ah the rhetorical false equivalency... 🤖 ♥ 6:35pm
Deano de los Muertos: but ChatGPT is always WRONG about EVERYTHING. ♥ 6:35pm
Bob Tankenstein: Sam Dorkman   6:36pm
Columbo: I thought these dorks wanted us to have tons of kids. Must be so they can serve tech bros. 🤖 ♥ 6:36pm
Deano de los Muertos: complete and total waste of resources 🤖 ♥ 6:36pm
Handy Haversack: My face is NOTHING like a bowling ball! 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
Deano de los Muertos: “Did you just make up that answer?”
“Oh my bad, here’s the real answer.”
“Did you make that up, too?”
“Oh, my bad..” 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
Triple G:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:36

And this shift is given such little pushback ♥ 6:38pm
PaulRobeson1926: Ut oh 🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
Chris Crash: It's really shocking to hear how anti-society these billionaire oligarchs are.   🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
bearded wonder:

↳ Erin in TO @6:22

There was a story to this effect I read earlier today - it actually creates more work turning everyone into agentic middle managers 🤖 ♥ 6:40pm
bravedelay:

↳ Chris Crash @6:39

decisions made for society by those who are afforded the luxury to ignore it. ♥ 6:40pm
PaulRobeson1926:

↳ Chris Crash @6:39

Is there much society in Lake Tahoe?   6:41pm
Marie in Chicago: Hey Mark, Ken, All! Great show—today and everyday! So important. 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
Deano de los Muertos: Miss you, Matt Fiveash! 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
Erin in TO:

↳ bearded wonder @6:39

I have no doubt of this at all 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
tim: Strong Style Chris Crash!!! 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
chris in the redwoods: my oldest son will be interviewing Michael Steinberger who wrote "Philosopher in the Valley" about the ceo of palantir and his weird ideas. it will be interesting, to say the least. 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
Handy Haversack: techtonic.fm... ♥ 6:42pm
J in LA: Hi Ken and Mark. I don't get much opportunity to listen to tectonic much, but appreciate when I can and thank you for all you do! ♥ 6:42pm
Tome: this is great and great 1st Monday Marathon it's been today I'm grateful for this and all of WFMU.. yep everyone do to the window !   6:42pm
Mary: Join the movement to get The State of New Jersey — its government and institutions — to divest from Palantir. Join the growing coalition of Break the Bonds NJ (breakthebondsnj.org), Make the Road, JVP, and other organizations. Thank you, Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:43pm
sensisio: Next time I will call in my donation....duh... 🤖 ♥ 6:43pm
Bas NL: WFMU has a great low-tech pledge-bot. 🤖 ♥ 6:45pm
Mennlinn Rebarts: "Hurstian" sounds a lot like "Butlerian" and I'm here for it. 🤖 ♥ 6:45pm
Handy Haversack: I fixed my rotary phone yesterday! Took the bottom off, wiggled some stuff, prodded some stuff, clicked a couple of things into place, and viola! Robert is your father's brother!

Go ahead. Call me.

🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
mrs.bucci: Came to the comments to say I really like collage by Matt Bornn 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:45

I hope the cats don't deem it to be a chew toy at some point.   🤖 ♥ 6:49pm
bearded wonder: I do find it kinda reassuring that there are other like-minded folks out there 🤖 ♥ 6:49pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:48

Honestly one of my biggest fears. I do have a spare phone cord, though.   6:50pm
P-90: I like Mark’s “NPR tech reporter” voice   ♥ 6:51pm
WantageInsomniac: It's journalism in general, I watched this "Experty" talk for fifteen minutes about ICE buying warehouses to turn into prisons, and he talked about all these issues, bui missed the real big thing, where is all the poop going to go? Which I would guess half the people I know at home were asking. 🤖 ♥ 6:51pm
Handy Haversack: I think it was William Floyd Metropolitan University. 🤖 ♥ 6:51pm
Deano de los Muertos: all the dumb AI “I Heart Radio” stations have a new slogan of “guaranteed human” because they have a couple of pre-recorded talking heads between the algorithm   6:51pm
?: cooling is a lie, there is no cooling, the heat released in operating these data centers gets transferred to the "cooling" water and ends up in the oceans, which get warmer. ♥ 6:52pm
Bucci: Tbh, being owned by Williams eastern university sounds pretty cool 🤖 ♥ 6:52pm
Will thee SG OCNY: I really appreciate this show, Mark really does a great job curating each episode and interview. Soo many issues being covered every month.   ♥ 6:52pm
WantageInsomniac: Cooling doesn't exist, you can only move heat, and create heat in the process. ♥ 6:53pm
DanFA:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:51

I Heart Radio sucks. They bought HowStuffWorks 7 years ago and totally destroyed the HSW website. ♥ 6:53pm
PaulRobeson1926: Neil Postman wrote about this Faustian bargain with technology… and as I went to search “Neil Postman Faustian Bargan” The top results are AI generated? articles posted online 2025   6:53pm
mr 6: Chat got is the modern encyclopedia Britannica 🤖 ♥ 6:53pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Bucci @6:52

Thing is, they've found some inefficiencies and think it's time to rightsize some departments around the station ... 🤖 ♥ 6:53pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ DanFA @6:53

sure does   ♥ 6:53pm
WantageInsomniac: Nato Phonetics, nice way to start a fight with HAM radio operators.   6:54pm
mr 6: **GPT ♥ 6:54pm
Bucci:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:53

I know, right?? 6:54pm
Pianoman: Thanks Mark, Ken & volunteers!   6:55pm
Gleaming Gorp: I like sheep <3 ♥ 6:55pm
DanFA:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:53

Also, they just throttle the podcasts with ads and it take 2 minutes before the podcast begins. 2 minutes! That's an entire Ramones song. 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
Chris Crash: Thanks Mark & Ken! 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Mark, Ken, Volunteers, and Pledgers!!! 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ DanFA @6:55

they also play DHS nazi propaganda ♥ 6:56pm
DanFA:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:56

Oh are they doing that now? 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Handy Haversack: Thanks, fellas! And thanks to the phone and food volunteers and most especially all the pledgers!

Now: back to the butt talkers!

🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Triple G: Thanks Mark, SMK, volunteers, and pledgers! 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ DanFA @6:56

I love being forced to listen to Noem literally saying “YOU’RE NEXT.” in between their old Bruce tunes 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
sensisio: I love the "Nagel" image :)
Thanks VOLUNTEERS ♥ 6:58pm
common: i have techtonic waking nightmares 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Deano de los Muertos: it’s so fucking stupid. ♥ 6:58pm
bleubombersune: Thanks Mark and Ken all stray safe and be well 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Bas NL: Today G**gle AI did a suggested a line of action referring to an aarticle written by a colleague a couple of offices down from mine.. I walked to him and he debunked the suggestion outright. Thanks, human colleague!   6:58pm
Marie in Chicago: Thanks, Mark, thanks, Ken, thanks, Everybody! 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:58

another good t-shirt idea! ♥ 6:59pm
PaulRobeson1926: YEA! WHAT THE HECK!? DOWN WITH THE MAN 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
chris in the redwoods: thanks, pledgers, volunteers, Mark and Ken! 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
Deano de los Muertos: Thanks, Mark and Ken!! ♥ 6:59pm
Bob Tankenstein: Thanks Mark and Ken! 🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
Handy Haversack: Wait, I missed the connection between the illegal war and WFMU shutting down in a week and a half? 🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks Ken! All! ♥ 7:00pm
DanFA:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:57

In this case they the listeners, are saying Boooooo. 🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
chresti: Thanks Mark and Ken!   7:00pm
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↳ PaulRobeson1926 @6:28

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/1/2371134/-It-s-time-for-the-Harper-s-Index-again-And-some-testimony-about-patriotism-from-Paul-Robeson?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web 🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
ViolaChica: Thank you both! 🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ DanFA @7:00

Boooooo-urns! ♥ 7:03pm
Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks Mark & Staysh! ♥ 7:03pm
Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone, for all your generous support! Keeping pledging to WFMU!