Listener comments!

  5:52pm
: Hi Mark! 🤖 ♥ 5:54pm
ultradamno: Mark! Techtobserved!   5:59pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ ultradamno @5:54

Hi ultra! 🤖 ♥ 6:00pm
ultradamno: Hiya Andrew! 🤖 ♥ 6:00pm
Spikey BXL: Get the flock out.

Hi Mark, luddites

🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Deano de los Muertos: Oh, Hi Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
tim: Hey Mark and gang! 6:01pm
tup: hello Mark, Ait, Ultradamno, Deano, tim 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
joe mulligan: Mark! I heard your voice live on the radio KALW 91.7 SF Bay Area and said to myself, I know that dude! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi all surveilled!   6:02pm
David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids here gathered. 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
Handy Haversack: Greetings, Mark and all the surveilled.   6:02pm
?: although I love the show, I hate this opening music :/ 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @5:52

Hi Andrew! 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
ultradamno: Hey tup! 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
Webhamster Henry: Hi Mark! What fresh hell is this? 6:03pm
El Gato Blanco: Hi Mark!
Happy to have a gin and Techtonic with everyone!   6:03pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ joe mulligan @6:02

Hi Joe! 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
Hugo (NL): Hi Mark! Techies 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
Deano de los Muertos: Congrats on 9 years, Mark! 🥳 🤖 ♥ 6:04pm
Hugo (NL): Congrats 🥰 ♥ 6:04pm
Ironside: Hi Mark! Congrats on 9 years! Looking forward to 9 more!   6:04pm
P-90: it’s been NINE years…? 6:04pm
El Gato Blanco: 🎉🎂 Congratulations Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:04pm
Spikey BXL: Nein! 🤖 ♥ 6:04pm
chresti: Hi Mark and markers!
I hate "workday"   6:05pm
Curt in WV: congrats on 9 years, Mark! Randomly tuning in one afternoon that first year was a big wake-up call for me, and I've enjoyed and learned so much from this show ever since. ♥ 6:06pm
Capt. Moonlight: Happy 9 yrs, and it's wife's second time listening in on the show. 🤖 ♥ 6:06pm
chresti: Happy 9, Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:06pm
Deano de los Muertos: I remember back when Mark was telling us to “get off America Online” 🤖 ♥ 6:07pm
chresti:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:06

Ha 🤖 ♥ 6:07pm
Spikey BXL: I remember Mark warning us about Gutenberg 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Spikey BXL @6:07

Was he wrong?! 6:08pm
El Gato Blanco: Thank you for sticking it out and forging ahead with important information to keep us abreast of the tech and surveillance s**t show we currently live in. 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
Spikey BXL:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:08

it was de-pressing 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Spikey BXL @6:07

Steve? 🤖 ♥ 6:09pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:08

WAS HE WRONG?! 🤖 ♥ 6:11pm
ultradamno: Oh, let the clergy get their grind on 🤖 ♥ 6:11pm
Spikey BXL: The Church has no time for priests who are into adults. ♥ 6:11pm
Mark Hurst: Hi Andrew, ultra, Spikey, Deano, tim, tup, joe, Bas, DiL, Handy, ?, webham, El Gato Blanco, Hugo, Ironside, P-90, chresti, Curt in WV, Capt. Moonlight - welcome! And thanks for all your well-wishes. Appreciate you all being with me! 🤖 ♥ 6:11pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ ultradamno @6:11

That's from 2 Timothy, right? ♥ 6:12pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Curt in WV @6:05

Thanks, Curt, impressed that you stuck with the show starting in that 1st (crunchy) year! 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
ultradamno: Or Time For Timothy bsky.app... ♥ 6:12pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Capt. Moonlight @6:06

Thanks and hello to Ms. Moonlight 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
joe mulligan: does anyone know if Garmin (watches and bike computers) and Strava (fitness app) are using our data for bad? 6:13pm
tup:

↳ Song: "Interview with Byron Tau from June 24, 2024"

did installin' them 15 years ago, got sick of it (see pic) specially how the people turned into street awerness voluntary cops   6:15pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:12

Hi Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:19pm
chresti:

↳ Song: "Interview with Byron Tau"

Playlist pic needs to be on a t-shirt 🤖 ♥ 6:21pm
herb.nyc: Happy 9th, mark. We need you more than want you, and we want you all the time 🎶   6:22pm
Neo Girl: I wonder if Epstein culprits are being surveilled, tracked and monitored..as ordinary taxpayers are 🤖 ♥ 6:22pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ joe mulligan @6:13

Unless they have a policy that baldly states they will never sell any customer data under any circumstance, you may as well assume that they are selling you out to anyone who will pay. ♥ 6:22pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ herb.nyc @6:21

Thanks, Herb! I went by the LES Ecology Center dropoff in East Harlem yesterday - looked for you there :) ♥ 6:23pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:22

Exactly. 🤖 ♥ 6:23pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Mark and marks. ♥ 6:23pm
egould:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:22

Good advice. ♥ 6:23pm
Mark Hurst: Hi Neo Girl, KfHP, egould - welcome! 6:24pm
El Gato Blanco: I wonder if we can learn anything from the UK since they've had a jump on us in setting up their surveillance state?   6:24pm
David (in London): We have a group called the Blade Runners here in the UK who specialise in after dark taking down of surveillance cameras. 6:24pm
MarciB: If you drive, check out haveibeenflocked.com to see if your plates show up (it's free). I checked ours and thankfully not yet - but they also claim the info isn't 100% accurate at this point. ♥ 6:24pm
egould:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:23

Hi Mark! Thanks for another interesting interview. And for 9 years of interesting interviews. 6:24pm
MarciB:

↳ David (in London) @6:24

Good on you!! Keep going! ♥ 6:25pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ El Gato Blanco @6:24

Yes - re UK surveillance, highly recommend the interview with Silkie Carlo from Big Brother Watch: www.wfmu.org... 6:25pm
MarciB:

↳ Neo Girl @6:22

I wish they were! 🤖 ♥ 6:25pm
Spikey BXL:

↳ David (in London) @6:24

They've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 🤖 ♥ 6:25pm
chresti: Hi Mark and magic markers!   6:27pm
Neo Girl: Could be why there's so much rampant out of control identity theft. The unsecured sale of people's private personal data across multiple platforms and corporations   6:28pm
Bob Tankenstein: Is flock selling the data to advertisers? 🤖 ♥ 6:29pm
Handy Haversack: Border Patrol also has almost unchecked power to kill within 100 miles of the border, which is a HUGE area:

thebaffler.com...

🤖 ♥ 6:29pm
tim: Are the patters of pedestrians and bike riders tracked? ♥ 6:29pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Bob Tankenstein @6:28

Flock has data-sharing agreements with law enforcement - that's the focus. I don't think advertisers are part of it, or even needed for their model. 6:30pm
tup:

↳ tim @6:29

always when havin' smart stuff ♥ 6:30pm
egould:

↳ tim @6:29

Are you carrying a "smart" phone? Then yes. ♥ 6:30pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ tim @6:29

Yes - someone (maybe 404 Media) reported on how Flock can identify pedestrians - though they claim not to be interested in that 🤖 ♥ 6:30pm
chresti: "nextdoor" is the worst   6:30pm
Neo Girl:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:23

Hey Mark! Thanks 🤖 ♥ 6:32pm
chresti: From now on I'm wearing a mask and a wig 🤖 ♥ 6:32pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ chresti @6:30

I had a hunch. I got a few unsolicited emails from them and I totally ignored them. 🤖 ♥ 6:32pm
Handy Haversack: A very Techtonic essay from Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com... 🤖 ♥ 6:33pm
tim:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:30

Good to know. 🤖 ♥ 6:34pm
chresti:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:32

"a suspicious man looking in the garbage can, etc" 6:35pm
El Gato Blanco:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:25

Thanks, I’ll check that out!   6:35pm
Skeets: The big issue is that driving is considered a privilege and not a right so that could be a way they are able to do so ? ♥ 6:36pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Skeets @6:35

Could be... 6:38pm
tup: apply, regis, submit is needed as consent for every contract or smart buy 🤖 ♥ 6:38pm
herb.nyc: herb.nyc:
Yay, everybody wants us. But NOT for good reasons
(Aside, reminds me of my old boss would go to meetings w Al P but he would tell me “herbee, hold my wallet. I’m afraid Al is gonna take it”)   6:39pm
Neo Girl:

↳ MarciB @6:24

A project mapping ALPRs across the country. Over 140,700 as of today: https://deflock.org/ 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
chresti:

↳ herb.nyc @6:38

AI with x-ray vision 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ tim @6:29

Next marathon premium from Bucci could be a Bucci mask. Then, when everyone is Bucci, no one is Bucci. 🥸 🤖 ♥ 6:43pm
tim:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:41

Right! Masterful thinking! 6:44pm
El Gato Blanco: I remember when people were thinking about this years ago, when RFID tags were put on everything.   6:45pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:36

Fantastic show!
Mark, thanks! 🤖 ♥ 6:47pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ El Gato Blanco @6:44

and i know i wasn't even thinking then about the exponentially more horrible deployment of AI-powered, privately-owned cameras throughout the country/world.   6:48pm
Neo Girl: Great interview Mark! ♥ 6:49pm
Count d'Al Dente: I think Flock will go where the money is, so they'll certainly end up selling data to brokers for any companies use. 6:51pm
El Gato Blanco:

↳ Count d'Al Dente @6:49

As always…it’s “follow the money”. ♥ 6:52pm
Sean Bikes: We crossed the Canadian border near lubeck last year, and then drove up to some island nearby in Canada, and when we came back to the US later that afternoon we came through a different border crossing. Oh man, this did not sit well with the US border guards at all, they kept us for almost an hour in the building and tossed the car. Kept asking why we used to border crossings over and over. 6:52pm
El Gato Blanco: Great interview Mark. Thank you once again! 🤖 ♥ 6:53pm
sensisio: Thanks Mark and friends. Hello.   6:53pm
GC in Chico CA: Mark, Wonderful to find that you are on my new local community radio station KZFR. Here’s to the spreading of these great shows through Syndication! Onward and Upward. ♥ 6:55pm
egould: Thanks Mark and Byron. 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
Deano de los Muertos: Thank ya, Mark ♥ 6:56pm
Count d'Al Dente: Good show again. Thanks Mark. 6:56pm
tup: as the pope said: kiss my ring ♥ 6:56pm
bleubombersune: Thanks Mark all stray safe and be well 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
joe mulligan: i love this "criti-hype" phrase. thanks for naming it ♥ 6:57pm
Count d'Al Dente: This is worth checking out:

pluralistic.net...

6:57pm
El Gato Blanco: For many people, living with the Faustian bargain is worthwhile.
Why?
I don’t know.
Limited freedom, but greater access. Unregulated capitalism is at the root of this. Lessons learned through and because of the internet. Observation works both ways! 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark. Needed as always. 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Bas NL: Thanks Mark! ♥ 6:59pm
egould:

↳ El Gato Blanco @6:57

We traded our liberty for a sense of safety. 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark. We'll find their weakness at some point and exploit it thoroughly!   6:59pm
Neo Girl: Thank you for the informative presentation Mark! ♥ 6:59pm
Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone!