WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from March 15, 2021

Listener comments!
	🤖 6:00pm Handy Haversack: Mark, Ken, and all the Techyon Drives! The Techgin is poured (in the form of Techrum), but I'm definitely ready for your mixer! Let's pledge for the speaking of truth to power!
	🤖 6:01pm David (in London): Evening weirdly hour-early Technoids. Hello Mark.
	6:01pm Buffalo's Tom: Hello, all!
	🤖 6:01pm Bas NL: Vorsprung durch Techtonic.
	6:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Mark, Ken, and all!
	6:01pm kevlicki: Hi Mark Ken skeleton crew!
	🤖 6:02pm Webhamster Henry: OK! time to get off of Facebook and listen to Mark & Ken!
	🤖 6:02pm DjLorraine: Staying connected, checkin in
	🤖 6:02pm Ken From Hyde Park: "I pledged to Techtonic and 'all' I got was this awesome T-shirt"
	6:03pm melinda: Hiya Mark and Staysh!
	6:03pm GC in Baltimore: Good evening Mark and Ken and everyone! This show is a treasure!
	6:04pm -Ken: Hi everybody!
	🤖 6:04pm tim from champaign (now washington): Mark and Staysh!
	6:04pm Mark Hurst: Hi everyone! Thanks for joining!
	🤖 6:05pm Handy Haversack: Techtonic reading list: lombardoc4.github.io... Hey, David, Bas, James, WHH, DjLorraine, Ken, melinda, tim!
	6:05pm melinda: I missed the state of the station address, is it archived?
	🤖 6:06pm Webhamster Henry: We don't want no rooty-poots down here. -- signed, A Human Radio Station.
	🤖 6:06pm Bas NL: It's ON FIRE!
	🤖 6:06pm PaulRobeson1920: Good evening ya’ll! Hooray for non-commercial WFMU! Hooray!
	6:06pm chris in the redwoods: hi, Mark and Ken and techtons.
	🤖 6:06pm Handy Haversack: Me too, Melinda. It's here: www.wfmu.org... Hard to find an hour to listen to the Archives on a WFMU Monday!
	6:07pm Cabbage: hi all
	6:07pm melinda: thanks Handy!
	6:08pm J*Boogie: There truly is no other station like WFMU and Techtonic could not exist anywhere else. Pledge!
	6:08pm Doug in JC: Alright, crisis resolved
	6:08pm chris in the redwoods: i haven't listened to Ken's state of the station, either. the link can also be found on Ken's playlist page, if that's easier to find later.
	6:09pm Rolandoz: Hello Everyone - So how sad was I to discover that I missed DJ SheilaB last week. You do great work Mark and Station Manager Ken.
	🤖 6:09pm Handy Haversack: Whew, glad to hear it, Doug! I tried to signal Michele from the comments page for you.
	🤖 6:11pm tim from champaign (now washington): Staysh - sounds like Matt needs to be let out.
	6:11pm Hopey Sockmonkey: 2020's State of the Station was extremely interesting. I really appreciate the transparency.
	6:11pm chris in the redwoods: dog captioning is being provided my Bruce, it sounds.
	6:11pm Michael 98145: The State: www.wfmu.org...
	🤖 6:11pm PaulRobeson1920: that dog barking sound is a nice cozy feeling
	6:11pm Miss G: Hi all! Maybe I should say this? In months past, if I missed a song on someone's show and thought of it later, I would do a quick G(urgle) search with "wfmu + ["Mel Tormé"]" for instance. And then say "in the past month." And I would quickly get the answer. But in the past week, it does not work like it used to. Are Gurgle playing hardball? Or change in software?
	6:12pm melinda: No Dancing Around The Point at Techtonic
	🤖 6:12pm herb.nyc: Mark Hurst and his brain are essential. Since he’s not been vaccinated yet and I got my 1st shot today, I donate my 2nd shot to him! Plz keep April 12, 11.30 open.
	🤖 6:13pm Handy Haversack: Miss G, with that much info, I usually just use wfmu.org... and then sort by date.
	6:13pm melinda: i just designated Techtonic as one of my SFL shows.
	6:14pm listener james from westwood: DEAD TREE FTW
	🤖 6:14pm Handy Haversack: Paper: known to have 100 percent information retention over 500 years if you treat it right.
	6:14pm Marci: Damn I donated my $ already - will catch you in October!
	🤖 6:14pm Webhamster Henry: The movie of A SCANNER DARKLY is pretty good! All Rotoshop animated.
	6:14pm Miss G: Handy, thank you. . .DOH! And WOW "Through a Scanner Darkly is fabu!"
	6:14pm Listener Robert: I think it's also important no vaccine be wasted on those who've already had a confirmed case of the disease. No vaccine will ever be better than natural immunity.
	6:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: To say that being Anti-Corporate (...maybe more to the point here - Anti Giant Tech Monopoly) - has no relation to the entire long history of Left - Right Politics seems inaccurate (I won't say disingenuous). To say Techtonic is ahead the curve - & an invaluable source of keeping the focus specifically on Tech (& - without being beholden to ANY Corporation!!!) - 1000% ! Robert Reich addresses the Monopolies from an Economic Justice motivation... Harry Shearer touches on it occasionally... On The Media on NPR sometimes does... There's the EFF...
	🤖 6:15pm tim from champaign (now washington): I love A Scanner Darkly. It's a really great combination of PKD science fiction and bummer reality.
	6:15pm Doug in JC: Appreciate it Handy! And you were correct
	🤖 6:16pm tim from champaign (now washington): @Melinda - I did too!
	6:16pm Carmichael: I get my 1st shot tomorrow.
	🤖 6:17pm Handy Haversack: Fantastic, Carmichael! You deserve three or four of 'em after the work you did!
	🤖 6:17pm tim from champaign (now washington): ERASE ELON MUSK!
	6:17pm Listener Robert: Aw, too bad it can't be something like "Fuck off, Facebook!", which is how I often feel about it, because it's going to be a sign-off of the radio show -- but you COULD incorporate it into the T-shirt!
	🤖 6:18pm Webhamster Henry: Mark, the show, and the playlist/chat can be adopted for a year by a deep-pocketed sponsor.
	6:18pm Sam: Fire Firefox! Cremate Chome!
	6:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Mark Hurst is a Shaman alleviating my FutureShock.
	6:18pm Jim the Poet: Leave your phone at home
	6:18pm HyperDose: Let's get Technical! Technical!
	6:18pm Daybreak & The Post Pledge Glow: I selected the “Sign off Shirt” as part of my Swag for Life Mouse of Today! Got Tech Tips last year. Thanks to Greg from Zone 5 apparently, I never knew!
	🤖 6:18pm tim from champaign (now washington): UP YOURS AOL.COM!
	🤖 6:19pm PaulRobeson1920: Investing in Livingry is a good thing. Nudge nudge instead of erase
	6:19pm chris in the redwoods: agree with Handy yet again, Carm. i got my 1st last Thursday.
	🤖 6:19pm tim from champaign (now washington): EAT IT, ENRON!
	6:19pm queems: @tim LOLLL
	🤖 6:19pm Webhamster Henry: I thought Techtonic was going to be an 8-bit music hour.
	6:20pm Carmichael: Thanks 👍
	🤖 6:20pm Handy Haversack: NAVIGATE THIS, NETSCAPE! Wait, I might be doing it wrong.
	6:20pm Daybreak & The Post Pledge Glow: Where can I find the “State of the Station” on the archives?
	🤖 6:20pm Handy Haversack: Daybreak: www.wfmu.org...
	6:20pm Sam: I can’t believe the DJ Premium isn’t a Techtonic plate!!
	🤖 6:21pm tim from champaign (now washington): TAKE DOWN, TECHTONIC! Sorry, Mark. I just got a huge cryptocurrency payment from sources unknown.
	6:22pm Danny in Poughkeepsie: Thanks Mark and Ken.
	🤖 6:23pm Webhamster Henry: Hey! I own $58 worth of Ethers! Anyone want to buy one of my NFTs?
	6:24pm Dano59: Dear Techtonic ... I am one of those people guilty of not reading user agreements and two more sins compounded today - flipping right past and unable to retrieve an antivirus notice when I opened my phone and a notification before a Paypal login that my password showed up in a leak (dump?) list. Ouch! Anyway, I appreciate your advice and advocacy.
	6:24pm Sam: Wow, New Orleans, cool, never would’ve guessed!
	6:24pm McGroovey: My wife grew up in New Orleans in the '70s and '80s. I did not know that Mark did.
	6:25pm listener james from westwood: The dog just said, "GET OFF GOOGLE!"
	🤖 6:25pm Bas NL: Moo! Moo! Moo!
	6:26pm Sam: Just say Nyet to Nyetflix!
	🤖 6:26pm Webhamster Henry: Ken is telling the truth! He was a Super Netscaper!
	🤖 6:26pm tim from champaign (now washington): I got off social media in 2015 too.
	6:27pm G: Wat was that New Orleans 1980s reference? Eat Schnorps now???
	6:27pm Hopey Sockmonkey: PREACH, KEN.
	6:27pm ARB: Swear off of Swiping
	🤖 6:27pm Handy Haversack: Nice, Sam. FLICK OFF NETFLIX might work, too. I was never on social media except WFMU and, briefly, Google Plus to talk about D&D.
	6:27pm chris in the redwoods: the only thing i miss since foregoing fb: wishing people happy birthday. it was a great birthday reminder tool. that said, the other mark can zuck it.
	🤖 6:28pm Ken From Hyde Park: Their main purpose is to bring eyeballs to their websites.
	6:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Some Tech Spies on you - some Walls You In ...some Spies on you & Walls You In.
	6:29pm Sam: Today is my kitty cats’ birthday!
	🤖 6:29pm Bas NL: Ohhwww.. ye of little likes.
	6:29pm Doug in JC: Whoa! Happy birthday C & L!
	🤖 6:29pm tim from champaign (now washington): Despite my yucks on the board but I truly appreciate Techtonic. Mark is such a reliable, consistent and valuable source of for tech information in the ways tech effects society.
	6:29pm chris in the redwoods: happy birthday, Sam's kitty!
	6:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Connects us & absolutely does not connect us...
	6:29pm Sam: Thanks Doug!!
	6:29pm Doug in JC: “Link in bio” - I hate how normalized that is
	🤖 6:30pm Wendy del Formaggio: Hi Mark, Ken, friends. I closed my F@#$book account in October 2018. The comments page, Slack (which I mostly ignore), and Front Porch Forum (the Vermont "neighbor" listserv sorta site Mark and Ken discussed a few weeks ago), are the closest things I have to social media. My life is exponentially better without (anti)social media.
	6:30pm melinda: @tim I agree, I know of no other equivalent source
	6:31pm tom in Glasgow: someone needs to suggest that NFT garbage
	6:32pm J*Boogie: All social media is necessary garbage for some but Instagram is the absolute worst
	🤖 6:32pm Webhamster Henry: Anyone on Clubhouse?
	🤖 6:32pm Handy Haversack: Mark Hurst has provided me with the much more articulate version of my howling in the wilderness. It's like he combed the locusts out of my beard, dusted me off, reaimed me at my peers and friends and family and colleagues and said "You were not the only one." I appreciate this show more than I can say, and that's in the context of how right Mark is: This is the greatest radio station in the world. Good call, Larry!
	6:32pm Miss G: Larry, I would really like to hear "Your Car is a Snitch!"
	6:33pm Old Dave: This is about the closest I've come to being on social media over the last 2 decades. Radio at its finest! Long live WFMU.
	6:33pm Dano59: Trash Twitter Repent, Tik-Tok Harlots! (with apologies to Harlan Ellison) Ring this, Amazofficers!
	6:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Nice Handy.
	🤖 6:33pm Folsom: I work with a guy that got a dongle plugged into his OBD port for lower insurance, he also has a ton of alexa stuff
	6:33pm nathan: flush twitter down the shaving-creamer!
	🤖 6:33pm herb.nyc: Yay to Hearty. He once said, something like, “I’ll be your tour guide. You tell me something and I’ll repeat it back to you”.
	6:33pm Listener Robert: It's like with the various online discussion or commenting fora whose hosts either get bugged by or forbid you to link to other places. They're not so much interested in the subject themselves as they're interested in promoting attention to their own discussion of whatever it is -- whether they're selling clicks or ad views, or just hoping to do so in the future, or even (when they're not a platform) just have a big ego.
	🤖 6:33pm PaulRobeson1920: The Greatest Radio Station in the Whole Stinkinnnn World!
	6:33pm J*Boogie: I’m activating my Light Phone next week. Ditching the iPhone for good I hope
	6:34pm J*Boogie: Just get a Tom Tom
	🤖 6:34pm Webhamster Henry: Mark should get those AAA special trip maps!
	6:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: In previous decades this surveillance would've made our hair stand on end. Its the frog in water boiling very slowly...
	6:35pm Miss G: Paper Maps RULE! I hate the stupid directions those internet things give.
	6:35pm Sam: Paper maps are so much better. No zooming and panning and reloading. And they’re beautiful to look at.
	6:35pm Listener Robert: You still need light to read the paper map.
	6:35pm melinda: I'm addicted to google street view. But I love using paper maps.
	6:35pm J*Boogie: I learned my way around LA using a Thomas Guide. I know that city like the back of my hand as a result. Google or Apple maps will not do this for you.
	🤖 6:36pm David (in London): The more the world has become dependent on mapping apps, the more I've come to appreciate how London cabbies doing 'The Knowledge' is such an awesome feat of human mental agility.
	🤖 6:36pm Handy Haversack: Miss G, we collect super-detailed road atlases. We have a U.S. one, sure, but the states we spend time in all get a Garmin atlas: NY, Michigan, Maine, NH and Vermont. More to be added as needed. They show public boat launches!
	🤖 6:36pm Webhamster Henry: You could use www.openstreetmap.org...
	6:38pm Dano59: OMG Netscape. Internet Exploder. and I was using Firefox for a while. Safari has some problems but I dunno about privacy. I'm noticing more and more cookies prompts these days. I'm trying to use DuckDuckGo for searches and only in a non-Chrome browser. Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness, as the saying goes.
	6:38pm northguineahills: I've never used GPS for navigation. I always memorized the locale beforehand (although I got burnt once due to construction, but the GPS wouldn't help in said circumstance).
	🤖 6:38pm David (in London): Nice work Melvin.
	6:38pm chris in the redwoods: nice one, Melvin.
	6:38pm Listener Robert: I've even wiki-ed some contributions to openstreetmap.
	🤖 6:38pm PaulRobeson1920: did not know anything about Waze... Interesting
	6:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yay Melvin !
	6:38pm Miss G: HH, see, there ya go. Public boat launches! Needs must!
	6:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: William Gibson used a typewriter !
	🤖 6:39pm tim from champaign (now washington): Philip K Dick also warns you not to get too schizzed out on mind altering substances.
	🤖 6:39pm PaulRobeson1920: Kissinger is still waiting to be tried... Monopolists gotta wait in line
	🤖 6:39pm Wendy del Formaggio: I admit I do use online maps to get directions. But, I do it from home on my laptop, and I write the directions on a piece of ACTUAL PAPER. I can glance at it without having to fidget with any device.
	6:40pm Cabbage: Wendy, same.
	🤖 6:40pm Handy Haversack: Yay, Wendy! Mark, we also decided today that in the WFMU movie, turnabout being fair play, David Byrne plays you!
	🤖 6:40pm herb.nyc: For the sign off, slagging companies is cool. But is there a tech company that can be praised?
	🤖 6:41pm Wendy del Formaggio: I love the new sign-off! I'm excited to hear what other friends add in the next 20 minutes. Come on, you can do it!
	6:41pm Old Dave: If that was me who won, I thank you very sincerely. PKD was a friend's fave back in the 1980's and I'll think of her as I read.
	6:41pm Hopey Sockmonkey: I'm so glad someone named twitter.
	6:41pm neil quarantino: William Gibson is considered the founder of Cyberpunk
	🤖 6:42pm Wendy del Formaggio: Handy! Big hugs to you, Kate, and Bagpipe.
	6:42pm -Ken: Here is the Mark Hurst NFT to bid on: mintable.app...
	6:43pm watchpocket: David, chris RR, Thank you! Meanwhile, Tar & Feather Flickr!
	🤖 6:43pm Handy Haversack: Wendy! Kate says she owes you a letter and something nice! I will also e-mail you the pix of the card she made for WFMU when we dropped some foodstuffs off over the weekend! How about F NFTs!
	🤖 6:44pm Wendy del Formaggio: Handy: Yay!
	🤖 6:45pm herb.nyc: Yep, that is a weird email. I got a weird email too, yesterday, from joe McGasko. It thanked me for my $665 pledge. I immediately emailed joe. (No joke)
	🤖 6:46pm Wendy del Formaggio: Also, I want the record to show that Handy, Kate, and Bagpipe are my actual friends IRL, and we met through the playlist comments board! THIS is REAL social media.
	🤖 6:46pm herb.nyc: That pixelated portrait can inspire a LEGO figure.
	6:46pm queems: if i need more proof my phone is spying on me, i just searched “ehat is an n” and it brought up “what is an nft”
	6:47pm queems: luckily that is actually what i was looking for
	🤖 6:47pm Ken From Hyde Park: @Mark & @Ken - I processed my S4L email this morning. Do you see my pledge here? I haven't heard my name read yet.
	6:47pm bukowski.: fun fact: William Gibson's article, Disneyland with the Death Penalty, got him and the entire Wired publication banned indefinitely in Singapore.
	🤖 6:48pm tim from champaign (now washington): See you all later! Keep pledging to Mark!
	6:48pm chris in the redwoods: Gibson's "Agency" is my next read.
	🤖 6:48pm David (in London): TTFN Tim.
	6:48pm HyperDose: I admit nothing!
	6:48pm Miss G: The archives is how I have delved into this show in the past months, thank you WFMU
	🤖 6:50pm Wendy del Formaggio: Heyyyy...watch what you say about cheese.
	6:50pm Dean: Even cheese has value.
	6:50pm common: mmm. cheese
	🤖 6:53pm PaulRobeson1920: Nice sky right now in NYC
	🤖 6:53pm Wendy del Formaggio: Ooh! I have to listen to the archives for the Jeremiah Moss interview. I LOVED LOVED LOVED his book.
	🤖 6:53pm PaulRobeson1920: Pink/orange blue
	🤖 6:54pm David (in London): Kneecap Netflix.
	6:55pm chris in the redwoods: how about a positive suggestion: Defect to DuckDuckGo
	6:55pm J*Boogie: Fuck Zuck
	6:55pm J*Boogie: Sorry haha
	6:55pm Dano59: Woke up to a replay of a Senate hearing from before Jan. with R's complaining about how bad these companies are to conservatives and good God-fearing Americans. Louie Gomert, et al.
	🤖 6:56pm Handy Haversack: Wendy (@6:46): FOR REAL. And, for the historical record, I have made other friends though these boards, and many of them joined together to send a bunch of food to the station this weekend, and I know this is a tech show and I'm supposed to be world weary and jaded as an NYC poseur, but I'm just gonna say it: WFMU is magic. It's magic. And you don't even have to believe in it. The spell is cast.
	🤖 6:56pm David (in London): Second that Handy.
	6:56pm Michael 98145: Third that
	6:57pm chris in the redwoods: yup, true true, Handy. can't wait to meet IRL, friend.
	6:57pm WR: Techtonic is uplifting just to know someone is noting what is happening and actually pushing back !
	🤖 6:57pm Bas NL: Word Handy!
	6:57pm melinda: I enjoyed the episode with Ken about smashing robots, that was uplifting.
	🤖 6:57pm Handy Haversack: Cheers, David. I'm drinking a Greenpoint right now. We'll invent a Stoke Newington and toast each other with them one day. Word, Chris! Word, Bas! Man, I am all teary. Thanks a lot, Mark and Ken and your cold robot logic!
	🤖 6:57pm Wendy del Formaggio: Handy: WORD. I've lost count of the benefits WFMU has given me. That's why I'm a Swag4Lifer.
	🤖 6:59pm David (in London): Big Tech - Unsafe at Any Speed.
	6:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: About listening more than once: Earlier on - I found the Program often too dense to keep up - Technically. I think Mark has gotten better as a Presenter this way. Einstein is quoted as saying things shouldn't be explained as more complex then they need to be - but no simpler than they really are... But a major issue is the Dehumanization of all Values - Economically & with BigTech. So to the extent this Program bridges this chasm it succeeds for me personally anyhow...
	6:59pm Dean: Well, wow! Thank you!
	🤖 7:00pm Handy Haversack: Though now I want Mark to play Google at 66 baud, David.
	7:00pm chris in the redwoods: Dean, today's your day, man. go buy a lotto. :)
	7:00pm Dean: You got that right, chris in the redwoods!
	🤖 7:00pm Webhamster Henry: How many listeners are reduced to wearing WFMU swag for their clothing.<hand waving>
	🤖 7:01pm Handy Haversack: Great show, you two!
	7:01pm Old Dave: Joel Kotkin was great, more of that please.
	🤖 7:01pm David (in London): Thanks Mark and Staysh.
	🤖 7:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: WM Henry: whaddaya mean, reduced? I wear my shirts with pride!
	7:01pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Thanks, Mark and Ken!
	🤖 7:01pm PaulRobeson1920: Thank you!
	7:01pm Rolandoz: Love the show - Thanks.
	7:01pm HyperDose: DAMN that was hot!!!
	7:01pm chris in the redwoods: woo!
	🤖 7:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Yay, good. Thank you!
	🤖 7:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: Hooray! Thanks, Mark and Ken!
	🤖 7:01pm Handy Haversack: Fabulous!
	7:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yay !
	🤖 7:03pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark & Ken!
	🤖 7:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: That Pi Day event yesterday was just the big math companies trying to get people to buy more from Big Math.
	🤖 7:25pm Ken From Hyde Park: If my S4L pledge appears, may I submit "Drop Disney+"?

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from March 15, 2021

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Listener comments!
	🤖 6:00pm Handy Haversack: Mark, Ken, and all the Techyon Drives! The Techgin is poured (in the form of Techrum), but I'm definitely ready for your mixer! Let's pledge for the speaking of truth to power!
	🤖 6:01pm David (in London): Evening weirdly hour-early Technoids. Hello Mark.
	6:01pm Buffalo's Tom: Hello, all!
	🤖 6:01pm Bas NL: Vorsprung durch Techtonic.
	6:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Mark, Ken, and all!
	6:01pm kevlicki: Hi Mark Ken skeleton crew!
	🤖 6:02pm Webhamster Henry: OK! time to get off of Facebook and listen to Mark & Ken!
	🤖 6:02pm DjLorraine: Staying connected, checkin in
	🤖 6:02pm Ken From Hyde Park: "I pledged to Techtonic and 'all' I got was this awesome T-shirt"
	6:03pm melinda: Hiya Mark and Staysh!
	6:03pm GC in Baltimore: Good evening Mark and Ken and everyone! This show is a treasure!
	6:04pm -Ken: Hi everybody!
	🤖 6:04pm tim from champaign (now washington): Mark and Staysh!
	6:04pm Mark Hurst: Hi everyone! Thanks for joining!
	🤖 6:05pm Handy Haversack: Techtonic reading list: lombardoc4.github.io... Hey, David, Bas, James, WHH, DjLorraine, Ken, melinda, tim!
	6:05pm melinda: I missed the state of the station address, is it archived?
	🤖 6:06pm Webhamster Henry: We don't want no rooty-poots down here. -- signed, A Human Radio Station.
	🤖 6:06pm Bas NL: It's ON FIRE!
	🤖 6:06pm PaulRobeson1920: Good evening ya’ll! Hooray for non-commercial WFMU! Hooray!
	6:06pm chris in the redwoods: hi, Mark and Ken and techtons.
	🤖 6:06pm Handy Haversack: Me too, Melinda. It's here: www.wfmu.org... Hard to find an hour to listen to the Archives on a WFMU Monday!
	6:07pm Cabbage: hi all
	6:07pm melinda: thanks Handy!
	6:08pm J*Boogie: There truly is no other station like WFMU and Techtonic could not exist anywhere else. Pledge!
	6:08pm Doug in JC: Alright, crisis resolved
	6:08pm chris in the redwoods: i haven't listened to Ken's state of the station, either. the link can also be found on Ken's playlist page, if that's easier to find later.
	6:09pm Rolandoz: Hello Everyone - So how sad was I to discover that I missed DJ SheilaB last week. You do great work Mark and Station Manager Ken.
	🤖 6:09pm Handy Haversack: Whew, glad to hear it, Doug! I tried to signal Michele from the comments page for you.
	🤖 6:11pm tim from champaign (now washington): Staysh - sounds like Matt needs to be let out.
	6:11pm Hopey Sockmonkey: 2020's State of the Station was extremely interesting. I really appreciate the transparency.
	6:11pm chris in the redwoods: dog captioning is being provided my Bruce, it sounds.
	6:11pm Michael 98145: The State: www.wfmu.org...
	🤖 6:11pm PaulRobeson1920: that dog barking sound is a nice cozy feeling
	6:11pm Miss G: Hi all! Maybe I should say this? In months past, if I missed a song on someone's show and thought of it later, I would do a quick G(urgle) search with "wfmu + ["Mel Tormé"]" for instance. And then say "in the past month." And I would quickly get the answer. But in the past week, it does not work like it used to. Are Gurgle playing hardball? Or change in software?
	6:12pm melinda: No Dancing Around The Point at Techtonic
	🤖 6:12pm herb.nyc: Mark Hurst and his brain are essential. Since he’s not been vaccinated yet and I got my 1st shot today, I donate my 2nd shot to him! Plz keep April 12, 11.30 open.
	🤖 6:13pm Handy Haversack: Miss G, with that much info, I usually just use wfmu.org... and then sort by date.
	6:13pm melinda: i just designated Techtonic as one of my SFL shows.
	6:14pm listener james from westwood: DEAD TREE FTW
	🤖 6:14pm Handy Haversack: Paper: known to have 100 percent information retention over 500 years if you treat it right.
	6:14pm Marci: Damn I donated my $ already - will catch you in October!
	🤖 6:14pm Webhamster Henry: The movie of A SCANNER DARKLY is pretty good! All Rotoshop animated.
	6:14pm Miss G: Handy, thank you. . .DOH! And WOW "Through a Scanner Darkly is fabu!"
	6:14pm Listener Robert: I think it's also important no vaccine be wasted on those who've already had a confirmed case of the disease. No vaccine will ever be better than natural immunity.
	6:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: To say that being Anti-Corporate (...maybe more to the point here - Anti Giant Tech Monopoly) - has no relation to the entire long history of Left - Right Politics seems inaccurate (I won't say disingenuous). To say Techtonic is ahead the curve - & an invaluable source of keeping the focus specifically on Tech (& - without being beholden to ANY Corporation!!!) - 1000% ! Robert Reich addresses the Monopolies from an Economic Justice motivation... Harry Shearer touches on it occasionally... On The Media on NPR sometimes does... There's the EFF...
	🤖 6:15pm tim from champaign (now washington): I love A Scanner Darkly. It's a really great combination of PKD science fiction and bummer reality.
	6:15pm Doug in JC: Appreciate it Handy! And you were correct
	🤖 6:16pm tim from champaign (now washington): @Melinda - I did too!
	6:16pm Carmichael: I get my 1st shot tomorrow.
	🤖 6:17pm Handy Haversack: Fantastic, Carmichael! You deserve three or four of 'em after the work you did!
	🤖 6:17pm tim from champaign (now washington): ERASE ELON MUSK!
	6:17pm Listener Robert: Aw, too bad it can't be something like "Fuck off, Facebook!", which is how I often feel about it, because it's going to be a sign-off of the radio show -- but you COULD incorporate it into the T-shirt!
	🤖 6:18pm Webhamster Henry: Mark, the show, and the playlist/chat can be adopted for a year by a deep-pocketed sponsor.
	6:18pm Sam: Fire Firefox! Cremate Chome!
	6:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Mark Hurst is a Shaman alleviating my FutureShock.
	6:18pm Jim the Poet: Leave your phone at home
	6:18pm HyperDose: Let's get Technical! Technical!
	6:18pm Daybreak & The Post Pledge Glow: I selected the “Sign off Shirt” as part of my Swag for Life Mouse of Today! Got Tech Tips last year. Thanks to Greg from Zone 5 apparently, I never knew!
	🤖 6:18pm tim from champaign (now washington): UP YOURS AOL.COM!
	🤖 6:19pm PaulRobeson1920: Investing in Livingry is a good thing. Nudge nudge instead of erase
	6:19pm chris in the redwoods: agree with Handy yet again, Carm. i got my 1st last Thursday.
	🤖 6:19pm tim from champaign (now washington): EAT IT, ENRON!
	6:19pm queems: @tim LOLLL
	🤖 6:19pm Webhamster Henry: I thought Techtonic was going to be an 8-bit music hour.
	6:20pm Carmichael: Thanks 👍
	🤖 6:20pm Handy Haversack: NAVIGATE THIS, NETSCAPE! Wait, I might be doing it wrong.
	6:20pm Daybreak & The Post Pledge Glow: Where can I find the “State of the Station” on the archives?
	🤖 6:20pm Handy Haversack: Daybreak: www.wfmu.org...
	6:20pm Sam: I can’t believe the DJ Premium isn’t a Techtonic plate!!
	🤖 6:21pm tim from champaign (now washington): TAKE DOWN, TECHTONIC! Sorry, Mark. I just got a huge cryptocurrency payment from sources unknown.
	6:22pm Danny in Poughkeepsie: Thanks Mark and Ken.
	🤖 6:23pm Webhamster Henry: Hey! I own $58 worth of Ethers! Anyone want to buy one of my NFTs?
	6:24pm Dano59: Dear Techtonic ... I am one of those people guilty of not reading user agreements and two more sins compounded today - flipping right past and unable to retrieve an antivirus notice when I opened my phone and a notification before a Paypal login that my password showed up in a leak (dump?) list. Ouch! Anyway, I appreciate your advice and advocacy.
	6:24pm Sam: Wow, New Orleans, cool, never would’ve guessed!
	6:24pm McGroovey: My wife grew up in New Orleans in the '70s and '80s. I did not know that Mark did.
	6:25pm listener james from westwood: The dog just said, "GET OFF GOOGLE!"
	🤖 6:25pm Bas NL: Moo! Moo! Moo!
	6:26pm Sam: Just say Nyet to Nyetflix!
	🤖 6:26pm Webhamster Henry: Ken is telling the truth! He was a Super Netscaper!
	🤖 6:26pm tim from champaign (now washington): I got off social media in 2015 too.
	6:27pm G: Wat was that New Orleans 1980s reference? Eat Schnorps now???
	6:27pm Hopey Sockmonkey: PREACH, KEN.
	6:27pm ARB: Swear off of Swiping
	🤖 6:27pm Handy Haversack: Nice, Sam. FLICK OFF NETFLIX might work, too. I was never on social media except WFMU and, briefly, Google Plus to talk about D&D.
	6:27pm chris in the redwoods: the only thing i miss since foregoing fb: wishing people happy birthday. it was a great birthday reminder tool. that said, the other mark can zuck it.
	🤖 6:28pm Ken From Hyde Park: Their main purpose is to bring eyeballs to their websites.
	6:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Some Tech Spies on you - some Walls You In ...some Spies on you & Walls You In.
	6:29pm Sam: Today is my kitty cats’ birthday!
	🤖 6:29pm Bas NL: Ohhwww.. ye of little likes.
	6:29pm Doug in JC: Whoa! Happy birthday C & L!
	🤖 6:29pm tim from champaign (now washington): Despite my yucks on the board but I truly appreciate Techtonic. Mark is such a reliable, consistent and valuable source of for tech information in the ways tech effects society.
	6:29pm chris in the redwoods: happy birthday, Sam's kitty!
	6:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Connects us & absolutely does not connect us...
	6:29pm Sam: Thanks Doug!!
	6:29pm Doug in JC: “Link in bio” - I hate how normalized that is
	🤖 6:30pm Wendy del Formaggio: Hi Mark, Ken, friends. I closed my F@#$book account in October 2018. The comments page, Slack (which I mostly ignore), and Front Porch Forum (the Vermont "neighbor" listserv sorta site Mark and Ken discussed a few weeks ago), are the closest things I have to social media. My life is exponentially better without (anti)social media.
	6:30pm melinda: @tim I agree, I know of no other equivalent source
	6:31pm tom in Glasgow: someone needs to suggest that NFT garbage
	6:32pm J*Boogie: All social media is necessary garbage for some but Instagram is the absolute worst
	🤖 6:32pm Webhamster Henry: Anyone on Clubhouse?
	🤖 6:32pm Handy Haversack: Mark Hurst has provided me with the much more articulate version of my howling in the wilderness. It's like he combed the locusts out of my beard, dusted me off, reaimed me at my peers and friends and family and colleagues and said "You were not the only one." I appreciate this show more than I can say, and that's in the context of how right Mark is: This is the greatest radio station in the world. Good call, Larry!
	6:32pm Miss G: Larry, I would really like to hear "Your Car is a Snitch!"
	6:33pm Old Dave: This is about the closest I've come to being on social media over the last 2 decades. Radio at its finest! Long live WFMU.
	6:33pm Dano59: Trash Twitter Repent, Tik-Tok Harlots! (with apologies to Harlan Ellison) Ring this, Amazofficers!
	6:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Nice Handy.
	🤖 6:33pm Folsom: I work with a guy that got a dongle plugged into his OBD port for lower insurance, he also has a ton of alexa stuff
	6:33pm nathan: flush twitter down the shaving-creamer!
	🤖 6:33pm herb.nyc: Yay to Hearty. He once said, something like, “I’ll be your tour guide. You tell me something and I’ll repeat it back to you”.
	6:33pm Listener Robert: It's like with the various online discussion or commenting fora whose hosts either get bugged by or forbid you to link to other places. They're not so much interested in the subject themselves as they're interested in promoting attention to their own discussion of whatever it is -- whether they're selling clicks or ad views, or just hoping to do so in the future, or even (when they're not a platform) just have a big ego.
	🤖 6:33pm PaulRobeson1920: The Greatest Radio Station in the Whole Stinkinnnn World!
	6:33pm J*Boogie: I’m activating my Light Phone next week. Ditching the iPhone for good I hope
	6:34pm J*Boogie: Just get a Tom Tom
	🤖 6:34pm Webhamster Henry: Mark should get those AAA special trip maps!
	6:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: In previous decades this surveillance would've made our hair stand on end. Its the frog in water boiling very slowly...
	6:35pm Miss G: Paper Maps RULE! I hate the stupid directions those internet things give.
	6:35pm Sam: Paper maps are so much better. No zooming and panning and reloading. And they’re beautiful to look at.
	6:35pm Listener Robert: You still need light to read the paper map.
	6:35pm melinda: I'm addicted to google street view. But I love using paper maps.
	6:35pm J*Boogie: I learned my way around LA using a Thomas Guide. I know that city like the back of my hand as a result. Google or Apple maps will not do this for you.
	🤖 6:36pm David (in London): The more the world has become dependent on mapping apps, the more I've come to appreciate how London cabbies doing 'The Knowledge' is such an awesome feat of human mental agility.
	🤖 6:36pm Handy Haversack: Miss G, we collect super-detailed road atlases. We have a U.S. one, sure, but the states we spend time in all get a Garmin atlas: NY, Michigan, Maine, NH and Vermont. More to be added as needed. They show public boat launches!
	🤖 6:36pm Webhamster Henry: You could use www.openstreetmap.org...
	6:38pm Dano59: OMG Netscape. Internet Exploder. and I was using Firefox for a while. Safari has some problems but I dunno about privacy. I'm noticing more and more cookies prompts these days. I'm trying to use DuckDuckGo for searches and only in a non-Chrome browser. Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness, as the saying goes.
	6:38pm northguineahills: I've never used GPS for navigation. I always memorized the locale beforehand (although I got burnt once due to construction, but the GPS wouldn't help in said circumstance).
	🤖 6:38pm David (in London): Nice work Melvin.
	6:38pm chris in the redwoods: nice one, Melvin.
	6:38pm Listener Robert: I've even wiki-ed some contributions to openstreetmap.
	🤖 6:38pm PaulRobeson1920: did not know anything about Waze... Interesting
	6:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yay Melvin !
	6:38pm Miss G: HH, see, there ya go. Public boat launches! Needs must!
	6:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: William Gibson used a typewriter !
	🤖 6:39pm tim from champaign (now washington): Philip K Dick also warns you not to get too schizzed out on mind altering substances.
	🤖 6:39pm PaulRobeson1920: Kissinger is still waiting to be tried... Monopolists gotta wait in line
	🤖 6:39pm Wendy del Formaggio: I admit I do use online maps to get directions. But, I do it from home on my laptop, and I write the directions on a piece of ACTUAL PAPER. I can glance at it without having to fidget with any device.
	6:40pm Cabbage: Wendy, same.
	🤖 6:40pm Handy Haversack: Yay, Wendy! Mark, we also decided today that in the WFMU movie, turnabout being fair play, David Byrne plays you!
	🤖 6:40pm herb.nyc: For the sign off, slagging companies is cool. But is there a tech company that can be praised?
	🤖 6:41pm Wendy del Formaggio: I love the new sign-off! I'm excited to hear what other friends add in the next 20 minutes. Come on, you can do it!
	6:41pm Old Dave: If that was me who won, I thank you very sincerely. PKD was a friend's fave back in the 1980's and I'll think of her as I read.
	6:41pm Hopey Sockmonkey: I'm so glad someone named twitter.
	6:41pm neil quarantino: William Gibson is considered the founder of Cyberpunk
	🤖 6:42pm Wendy del Formaggio: Handy! Big hugs to you, Kate, and Bagpipe.
	6:42pm -Ken: Here is the Mark Hurst NFT to bid on: mintable.app...
	6:43pm watchpocket: David, chris RR, Thank you! Meanwhile, Tar & Feather Flickr!
	🤖 6:43pm Handy Haversack: Wendy! Kate says she owes you a letter and something nice! I will also e-mail you the pix of the card she made for WFMU when we dropped some foodstuffs off over the weekend! How about F NFTs!
	🤖 6:44pm Wendy del Formaggio: Handy: Yay!
	🤖 6:45pm herb.nyc: Yep, that is a weird email. I got a weird email too, yesterday, from joe McGasko. It thanked me for my $665 pledge. I immediately emailed joe. (No joke)
	🤖 6:46pm Wendy del Formaggio: Also, I want the record to show that Handy, Kate, and Bagpipe are my actual friends IRL, and we met through the playlist comments board! THIS is REAL social media.
	🤖 6:46pm herb.nyc: That pixelated portrait can inspire a LEGO figure.
	6:46pm queems: if i need more proof my phone is spying on me, i just searched “ehat is an n” and it brought up “what is an nft”
	6:47pm queems: luckily that is actually what i was looking for
	🤖 6:47pm Ken From Hyde Park: @Mark & @Ken - I processed my S4L email this morning. Do you see my pledge here? I haven't heard my name read yet.
	6:47pm bukowski.: fun fact: William Gibson's article, Disneyland with the Death Penalty, got him and the entire Wired publication banned indefinitely in Singapore.
	🤖 6:48pm tim from champaign (now washington): See you all later! Keep pledging to Mark!
	6:48pm chris in the redwoods: Gibson's "Agency" is my next read.
	🤖 6:48pm David (in London): TTFN Tim.
	6:48pm HyperDose: I admit nothing!
	6:48pm Miss G: The archives is how I have delved into this show in the past months, thank you WFMU
	🤖 6:50pm Wendy del Formaggio: Heyyyy...watch what you say about cheese.
	6:50pm Dean: Even cheese has value.
	6:50pm common: mmm. cheese
	🤖 6:53pm PaulRobeson1920: Nice sky right now in NYC
	🤖 6:53pm Wendy del Formaggio: Ooh! I have to listen to the archives for the Jeremiah Moss interview. I LOVED LOVED LOVED his book.
	🤖 6:53pm PaulRobeson1920: Pink/orange blue
	🤖 6:54pm David (in London): Kneecap Netflix.
	6:55pm chris in the redwoods: how about a positive suggestion: Defect to DuckDuckGo
	6:55pm J*Boogie: Fuck Zuck
	6:55pm J*Boogie: Sorry haha
	6:55pm Dano59: Woke up to a replay of a Senate hearing from before Jan. with R's complaining about how bad these companies are to conservatives and good God-fearing Americans. Louie Gomert, et al.
	🤖 6:56pm Handy Haversack: Wendy (@6:46): FOR REAL. And, for the historical record, I have made other friends though these boards, and many of them joined together to send a bunch of food to the station this weekend, and I know this is a tech show and I'm supposed to be world weary and jaded as an NYC poseur, but I'm just gonna say it: WFMU is magic. It's magic. And you don't even have to believe in it. The spell is cast.
	🤖 6:56pm David (in London): Second that Handy.
	6:56pm Michael 98145: Third that
	6:57pm chris in the redwoods: yup, true true, Handy. can't wait to meet IRL, friend.
	6:57pm WR: Techtonic is uplifting just to know someone is noting what is happening and actually pushing back !
	🤖 6:57pm Bas NL: Word Handy!
	6:57pm melinda: I enjoyed the episode with Ken about smashing robots, that was uplifting.
	🤖 6:57pm Handy Haversack: Cheers, David. I'm drinking a Greenpoint right now. We'll invent a Stoke Newington and toast each other with them one day. Word, Chris! Word, Bas! Man, I am all teary. Thanks a lot, Mark and Ken and your cold robot logic!
	🤖 6:57pm Wendy del Formaggio: Handy: WORD. I've lost count of the benefits WFMU has given me. That's why I'm a Swag4Lifer.
	🤖 6:59pm David (in London): Big Tech - Unsafe at Any Speed.
	6:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: About listening more than once: Earlier on - I found the Program often too dense to keep up - Technically. I think Mark has gotten better as a Presenter this way. Einstein is quoted as saying things shouldn't be explained as more complex then they need to be - but no simpler than they really are... But a major issue is the Dehumanization of all Values - Economically & with BigTech. So to the extent this Program bridges this chasm it succeeds for me personally anyhow...
	6:59pm Dean: Well, wow! Thank you!
	🤖 7:00pm Handy Haversack: Though now I want Mark to play Google at 66 baud, David.
	7:00pm chris in the redwoods: Dean, today's your day, man. go buy a lotto. :)
	7:00pm Dean: You got that right, chris in the redwoods!
	🤖 7:00pm Webhamster Henry: How many listeners are reduced to wearing WFMU swag for their clothing.<hand waving>
	🤖 7:01pm Handy Haversack: Great show, you two!
	7:01pm Old Dave: Joel Kotkin was great, more of that please.
	🤖 7:01pm David (in London): Thanks Mark and Staysh.
	🤖 7:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: WM Henry: whaddaya mean, reduced? I wear my shirts with pride!
	7:01pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Thanks, Mark and Ken!
	🤖 7:01pm PaulRobeson1920: Thank you!
	7:01pm Rolandoz: Love the show - Thanks.
	7:01pm HyperDose: DAMN that was hot!!!
	7:01pm chris in the redwoods: woo!
	🤖 7:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Yay, good. Thank you!
	🤖 7:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: Hooray! Thanks, Mark and Ken!
	🤖 7:01pm Handy Haversack: Fabulous!
	7:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yay !
	🤖 7:03pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark & Ken!
	🤖 7:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: That Pi Day event yesterday was just the big math companies trying to get people to buy more from Big Math.
	🤖 7:25pm Ken From Hyde Park: If my S4L pledge appears, may I submit "Drop Disney+"?

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