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Favoriting October 4, 2021: What just happened to Facebook and Instagram?

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Today: What just happened to Facebook and Instagram?

What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp? by Brian Krebs, today, October 4: "Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other Internet-enabled devices how to find these destinations online."

"... The outages come just hours after CBS’s 60 Minutes aired a much-anticipated interview with Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower who recently leaked a number of internal Facebook investigations showing the company knew its products were causing mass harm, and that it prioritized profits over taking bolder steps to curtail abuse on its platform — including disinformation and hate speech."

Facebook and all of its apps go down simultaneously (Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel at the NYT, Oct 4, 2021): "Facebook has dispatched a small team to one of its California data centers to try and manually reset its servers in an attempt to fix the problem."

• Ed Snowden posts: "Facebook and Instagram go mysteriously offline and, for one shining day, the world becomes a healthier place."

Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes Interview (excerpted on toxic YouTube, Oct 3, 2021)

Transcript of 60 Minutes interview

• As I just posted: Now is an excellent time to email your local authorities, school, camp, church, soccer league, whatever - and tell them: "Please stop posting your updates on Facebook and Instagram, which are liable to disappear. Instead, use a website on the open web, and email updates."

Voice surveillance must die (by Mark Hurst, Sept 30, 2021): more thoughts based on the book featured in last week's show.

• Also to discuss:
    - DNS and why facebook.com is for sale
    - your calls

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Listener comments!

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listener james from westwood:

So! Slow news day, huh?
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Birdman:

Got reminded of the show from the WFMU insta! Ready to go!
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DanFA:

Mark, what did you do?
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Handy Haversack:

Wish we could be here for the calls, Mark and Techyon Drives. But we gotta run out. The Techtonic T-shirt did yeoman's work today!
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adampsyche:

hey what's the good news
  6:00pm
ShelbyG:

I’m STOKED for this show!!!
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Nelson Muntz:

Ha ha!
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steveo:

cool; timeliness, agility
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admiral crisp:

we've been training for this day
  6:01pm
ShelbyG:

DanFA: hahaha 🤣
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Webhamster Henry:

Let us not gloat too much.
  6:01pm
Glistener MW:

Boo, servers seem to be coming back online! I was hoping the downage would last through the evening, or at least through TechTonic
  6:01pm
Andres:

A golden goose has just walked into the studio!!
  6:01pm
David in London:

Evening Technoids. Hi Mark, and assembled groovers.
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ultradamno:

MarK! Techquanimous!
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Franco Twinkie:

Howdee Mark!
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DjLorraine:

Greetings all
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bukowski.:

🥂
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pgalub:

This is like the FMU equivalent of "We interrupt this program to bring you a special report!" and I'm psyched to be here.
  6:02pm
hugo (NL):

so peace is restored?
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DanFA:

@ShelbyG, I listened to that Bauhaus track you told me about. Good song, but not my thing.
  6:02pm
ShelbyG:

Twinkie 😘
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coelacanth∅:

greetings Mark and all
  6:02pm
cArl from providence:

Hey I can’t log on to fb. Does anyone know why?
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Bas NL:

Hi Mark! Techtonies!
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Franco Twinkie:

Shelbynaut!
  6:02pm
ShelbyG:

Glistener: me too
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DanFA:

This is all your fault Mark. Thank you. God bless.
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Neels:

psyched for todays show. Hii eveyrone! :)
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Little Danny:

hi Mark, great job smacking down you-know-who today! hi all!
  6:02pm
Roland from Australia:

Hello everyone
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PaulRobeson1920:

Hello friends! Hello music lovers!! Hi Mark!
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Baja Joe:

Hi Mark!
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Will the Sound Guy:

Hi Mark and all!!
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adampsyche:

as someone who works on large distributed systems, they are fragile as all hell and yes gloating is at someone's expense. at the same time, yeah, you need disaster exercises.
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DanFA:

I'm so pumped.
  6:03pm
Firebottle:

Funny that the Youtube 60 minutes video is 13:37 in length or "leet" in hackerspeak.
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Webhamster Henry:

Remember FaceBook 🕯🪦🧨
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tim from washington:

Hey Mark and everyone!
  6:03pm
ShelbyG:

DanFA: cool that you checked it out 👍🏼
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Dave the Spazz:

Hi Mark
What’s new?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Do like this Theme Musics.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, Mark & Tech-gremlins. Today, FB. Tomorrow, Google! Whaddaya say?
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Jeff Moore:

Happy Schadenfreude Day!

"Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors."

twitter.com...
  6:04pm
ohme:

FB has been down all day. I get the feeling Mark will be happy about this! Here is the message: Facebook Will Be Back Soon
Facebook is down for required maintenance right now, but you should be able to get back on within a few minutes. In the meantime, read more about why you're seeing this message. Thanks for your patience as we improve the site.
  6:04pm
ShelbyG:

Ken: YES!
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Glistener MW:

I think it would actually be quite peaceful and different and expectation-defying if this entire hour of TechTonic were JUST the Tomáš Dvořák theme tune on a loop.
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Webhamster Henry:

If AWS goes down, though, that's really the end of civilization as we pretend to know it.
  6:05pm
ShelbyG:

schadenfreude is so apt
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DanFA:

First Emergency Episode of Techtonic?
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Little Danny:

lol @ "Happy Schadenfreude Day!"
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

It's back.
  6:05pm
queems:

i didn’t know what to do without instagram so i started posting photos on my tumblr lollllll
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Jeff Moore:

@Webhamster Henry: including this very page we're on right now.
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ultradamno:

Huh. I hadn't noticed. I guess there's an upside of never having cracked a facebook.
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Webhamster Henry:

Also: tomorrow is Steve Jobs' 10 year yahrzeit.
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JW MCCORMACK:

Oh no, it's back.
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Blobs:

Mark comin in HOT
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Neels:

nooOoOoOoooOooO!
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listener james from westwood:

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp . . . all the heads of the Five Families.
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adampsyche:

back for me too
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Webhamster Henry:

Nothing to see here, move along....
  6:06pm
ShelbyG:

I’m very glad you are covering this! Really really really.
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Mike From Brooklyn:

Congratulations Mark H for taking Facebook down today.
  6:07pm
Marci:

It’s baaaack (boo)
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Jeff Moore:

@Mark: any commentary on fragilities / risks related to BGP in general?
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Webhamster Henry:

Pledge to WFMU to get Facebook to break again.
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Glistener MW:

Postponing the interview is a great idea! Workfriends and I have been hoping all afternoon that you would devote the entire show to today's events. <3
  6:07pm
ShelbyG:

listener james: nicely done
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Baja Joe:

Sorry to report, FB is apparently back.
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luca:

it's back...frances haugen, vk & qq still chuckling though
  6:08pm
murph:

I guess that they ran out of "move fast"
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coelacanth∅:

but it wont straighten out the government; it wont take down the pharmaceutical/insurance industry; it wont derail the war machine; it wont rectify the imminent water and food shortages. . .
  6:08pm
ShelbyG:

ABSOLUTELY NO ACCIDENT
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dale:

was visiting elderly relatives last week (age 70's to 97) and they use facebook to keep in touch with family. facebook shouldn't be banned into the cornfield. if you wanna retool it i say go for it.
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Baja Joe:

My Tuna Melt Group just let out a sigh of relief
  6:09pm
Erin in TO:

While I don't really do much with facebook, today has been an interesting lesson in how much of my messaging with other people is through Facebook-owned programs
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Mike From Brooklyn:

I used to work in IT infrastructure support. I find the explanation of a faulty DNS update to be quite plausible.
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Aaron in Minneapolis:

Here is a little technical explanation: blog.cloudflare.com...
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Otis Fodder:

Evening Mark and Folks.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

@queems - Good day to start a scrapbook? (Idea: scrapbook.com!)
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dale:

coelacanth - buzzkill.
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Feldy:

Hey Otis!
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Carmichael:

Heya Aaron! Heya Otis!
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LCBD:

This is going to be a great show!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Thot maybe Suck was aching his chips
...& then hearing the USPS had also been down, I got that 2nd tower being hit feeling...
The NYT just had an op-ed about the whistle blower
...the Pandora leak just exposed world leader corruption - 12 million documents. & the largest conduit of communication went down.
Look squirrel ! (?)
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Otis Fodder:

Regular reader of Krebs. Subreddits have been busy today.
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Otis Fodder:

Carm & Feld, hey pals.
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Webhamster Henry:

There were follow on effects because people use Fb IDs as single sign on in other apps.
  6:11pm
Tom on Swans Island Maine:

It’s up for me now
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Carmichael:

Hello, am I on the air? Hello? Turn my radio down?
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Franco Twinkie:

Otis! The disaster of the minute got you out of your tree!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

* Zuck was cahsing...
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LCBD:

queems, you made me laugh! Will have to look up your Tumblr!
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coelacanth∅:

dale, yeah -those who face reality never get elected.
wahhhh
  6:11pm
?:

...and they're back!
Facebook & Instagram are back up & running.
  6:12pm
queems:

@lcbd i’ll text you the link!!
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tayne:

Here's a link to the Krebs post on the Facebook outage: krebsonsecurity.com...
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Otis Fodder:

Now where's that Friendster login at? har har.
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Bas NL:

Denied by DNS.. has it become conscious?
  6:14pm
Carolyn Pittis:

We need to discuss tonight the 60 minutes whistleblower segment last night as a potential catalyst here, as well as any upcoming congressional testimony.
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Erin in TO:

Thanks for this overview of the problem Mark, I didn't know what exactly was happening
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Otis Fodder:

Around 6 hours, a wonderful day.
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Fredericks:

This sounds like a good thing just happened. Am I wrong?
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Otis Fodder:

Following the 60 Minutes report last night too.
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adampsyche:

been reported around as well that remote site reliability engineers couldn't log in to fix anything, and that the door security had a circular dependency on the login, so no one could just go "turn it off and on again" quickly
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

So - it was Internal. Right ?
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Birdman:

It was the guy who made Friendster. Revenge served cold.
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joe mulligan:

does the FB/IG/WA outage have anything to do with the Frances Haugen whistleblower incident? just spiracy thinking!
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Fredericks:

I suspect I know who did it. It's creative and it is GOOD.
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Erin in TO:

Facebook still isn't running for me, nor is Whatsapp, but Messenger seems to be working again
  6:15pm
The Butterman:

They’ll be back running and full of pointless garbage in a couple of hours.
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Otis Fodder:

Buy it and forward to WFMU
  6:16pm
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OMG HAHAHA
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dale:

i got a lot of laundry and vacuuming done. made a pot of bean soup. it was a productive day.
  6:16pm
queems:

who wants to pool together some money and buy facebook. com
  6:16pm
Elle Tor's Husband:

I'm doing the Happy Dance now!
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ultradamno:

Are there coupons?
  6:16pm
Horse Puckey:

https://www.whois.com/whois/facebook.com
  6:16pm
Torbjørn:

Facebook is back up again, no ?
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Otis Fodder:

Today was massive.
  6:16pm
Firebottle:

This whole thing must be some sort of new P.R. crisis-handling strategy.
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DanFA:

How much was it going for? $666
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Webhamster Henry:

I wrote a fun little DNS server that redirected every request to localhost (and logged the real requested address) so that my email server would not accidentally spam my not particularly obfuscated test addresses with messages.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Love the twitter CEO quipped 'How Much' ?
Not that he's a hero...
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Fredericks:

Hey, DanFA, just saw that we are on the same wavelength.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:17pm
Baja Joe:

Oh Mark, you just did your version of an "Evil Laugh." Hilarious.
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dale:

snakes on a plane?
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Bas NL:

I'm in, @queems.
  6:17pm
Elle Tor's Husband:

Elizabeth Salander strikes again!
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coelacanth∅:

Firebottle, like classic coke?
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DanFA:

@Fredericks, you love to see it.
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Jeff Moore:

Um.

It sounds less like the DNS records were deleted than that the underlying routing providing connections to the DNS (and other!) servers for Facebook went awry. Their DNS servers probably have all the necessary information in them ready to serve, but they got disconnected!
  6:17pm
Carolyn Pittis:

Is this a way to distract people from what Frances Haugen said on 60 minutes last night?
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Rich in Washington:

I had no internet all saturday and it made me clean, organize, sort, purge. It felt good.
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Birdman:

For real, what are the chances this was just pedal error by some employee?
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Mike From Brooklyn:

Large organizations have a network team or teams that manage their DNS records. Their work includes updating those records. We can speculate whether or not a planned update just went wrong (mistakes do actually happen and yes, there are coincidences) or if it was a hack or intentional outage.
  6:18pm
Marci:

I’m thinking it was intended internal sabotage
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ShelbyG:

just too many things to be a coincidence
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Neels:

Had to have been internal sabotage. The timing with the 60 minutes interview is too eerie.
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Franco Twinkie:

I would not cry if Starbucks vanished.
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Glistener MW:

@Carolyn: That was my initial thought too; this downage then becomes the news story, rather than the 60 Minutes interview
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tim from washington:

Does 60 Mintues have a fb account?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Joke is they were purging the hatespeech & antivaxx poison bullish*t &tc.
...but this is hardly inconspicuous.
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ShelbyG:

twinkie: me either..terrible coffee
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Fredericks:

I had over 100 musical pieces I had created vanish in a hard drive crash. Digital stuff is ephemeral.
  6:20pm
Torbjørn:

I wouldn't put all that much meaning on the DNS records being pulled. If they had some internal networking cascading error, typically from some config push, their internal BGP stuff might loose all routes to their backends. Wouldn't be surprised if their systems are such that if no route can found to the backend, DNS records are pulled automatically. Certainly stops the load balancers from having to answer the barrage of retry request.
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DanFA:

@ShelbyG, Starbucks needs to go
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ShelbyG:

mmm hmm Glistener, yup
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Jeff Moore:

I still think that in this case Occam's Razor redirects to Hanlon's Razor:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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Fredericks:

I've never heard Mark so excited! This is great.
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Webhamster Henry:

Snopes tries to figure out how much money Fb is losing with this outage.www.snopes.com...
  6:21pm
Carolyn Pittis:

If an internal job - FB trying to remind people "what they'll lose" if FB is taken offline?
  6:22pm
Tom on Swans Island Maine:

Jeff is right. Mark is going to be very disappointed if some tech just screwed up.
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ShelbyG:

Carolyn: I really would love it if FB went alway...it's just too shady to be good for anybody
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Carolyn interesting angle.
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Little Danny:

hope the outage will drive more people to this 60 Minutes interview
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Switchblade Batman:

so about that statement, gonna finish it mArk?
  6:22pm
Marci:

@RevRabbit- Precisely!
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Rich in Washington:

I need to watch the 60 min interview online. Otherwise, all those pharma commercials.
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Fredericks:

Is the Wayback Machine going to undo this wonderful occurrence?
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HyperDose:

Dude sounds like Rex's intro haha
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Webhamster Henry:

I'm with Jeff... the fact that any software works is more of a miracle than you think.
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Jeff Moore:

Torbjørn! I hope you're well!
  6:23pm
Carolyn Pittis:

Frances Haugen is validating everything Mark has been saying since this show started.
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Franco Twinkie:

This is how the dissolution of FB would make me toot a party horn: Where we dwell in San Francisco, would overnight be free of a noxious presence.
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DanFA:

Get rid of them all. Facebook, Twitter, The Gram, snugchat, bumblebee, wuzzle. All the social media apps.
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Rich in Washington:

We're living through a surrealistic Porest album
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dale:

hyperdose - ed bradley has a fur-lined fallout shelter.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Is this Dave Emory?
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ultradamno:

...and it's skipping
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coelacanth∅:

that's the same model as youboob
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Webhamster Henry:

The ol' "reform it from within" thing that kind of doesn't work too well.
  6:25pm
Torbjørn:

Hey, Jeff. I'm well, hope you are too. Good to see that WFMU is running well while the Zuckerberg empire is fritzing out.
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ShelbyG:

Mark. Preach.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

To be utterly candid - I'm always on fb (no others - not twitter ...like Mark is)
- & I love what it does for me.
I know it's evil, opaque, profits from contention & social discord - &tc.
That is - I'd like to be a Reformist.
But - it's pretty clear Reform & Incrementalism are *impossible*. Seems to me.
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Mike From Brooklyn:

To be clear, I'm not defending Facebook, or suggesting that they would not be capable of doing this intentionally, but I have seen major outages occur as a result of simple, honest mistakes, even if there are systems in place to avoid them.
@Carolyn Pittis - you are not wrong about this outage helping Facebook highlight the benefits of their platform. I recall a few years ago when there was a global Blackberry outage (back when Blackberries were essential for business communication) and their stock price when up immediately after, as investors realized how essential they were.
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Switchblade Batman:

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, it's still alive gizmodo.com...
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ShelbyG:

Rev: I have friends all over the world & FB was really instrumental for me to keep in touch with them. There's gotta be a better way. There's no reform here.
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Fredericks:

Emoryesque, Ken of H.P..
  6:28pm
Carolyn Pittis:

@mike - ah ha - a stock price boosting strategy as hypothesis
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Laurie H:

Ok, so I'd love to delete my personal FB, but I have to run my business FB page, and as far as I can tell, you have to keep a personal in order to have the business account. :( Any tips on how to do that?
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adampsyche:

what brooklyn mike said; i've seen a global outage for a 1.5 million user-facing QPS service go down due to a missing comma. once you start adding automation to the picture, even more software bugs happen.
  6:29pm
The Butterman:

Maybe someone did an internal coal rolling of the server.
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PaulRobeson1920:

Routine, has a strange allure
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ultradamno:

Priorities twitter.com...
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coelacanth∅:

Mike, or like when wikipedia (which deserves to be donated to, as i do) takes itself offline for a day to demonstrate how much people use it
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ShelbyG:

SHUT IT DOWN
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HyperDose:

@dale So that's who has been buying the 20yr shelf-life MRE's from the TV commercials. Case closed!
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Webhamster Henry:

Once automated software thinks a misconfiguration is valid, it starts propagating those changes at internet speeds.
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bnowb:

FB is back online.
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LCBD:

queems, wouldn’t it be nice if we could buy it and clean it all up??
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Fredericks:

Let's chuck Zuck!
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ShelbyG:

Fredericks: I'm with you, brother
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Erin in TO:

@bnowb doesn't seem to be up for everyone. Still down for me and some of my friends. Maybe up in US but not Canada?
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dale:

hyperdose- patriots! along with their tac flashlight and tac glasses and gold coins that will just get them killed when people get wind of it.
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murldurlington:

Perlandia
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Otis Fodder:

Fartbook is indeed back up here.
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ShelbyG:

Mark, do you have an email list? I wanna know what you know.
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Switchblade Batman:

So much for the call in parts too hunh?
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Jeff Moore:

@Mark: really, it doesn't seem like DNS records at all – it seems like BGP records.

And maybe you're diving a little too enthusiastically into conspiracy thinking (not about the evils of Facebook, but about the origins of this outage).
  6:33pm
Jackie G:

when do the phone calls start?
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DanFA:

@ShelbyG he has a newsletter
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Webhamster Henry:

"Something went wrong. We're working on getting it fixed as soon as we can."
  6:34pm
Jackie G:

DNS - Do Not Susitate
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slugluv1313:

greetings, Mark! Techtonics!
SO loving this -- thanks so much!
and yes indeed -- upchuck Zuck! :)
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Glistener MW:

@ShelbyG: he does! it's here -- creativegood.com...
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ShelbyG:

DanFA: how do I get on it?
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Little Danny:

Mark is on fire today, go Mark!
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ultradamno:

"Move fast and break things" is a great slogan for The Haters, but had to end bad for anyone else.
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Carolyn Pittis:

Prediction - having a woman be the most public whistleblower on a site that started as a way for men to rate college women is going to embolden the incels and others - this is going to be a part of the story in the following days
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

He / they should be prosecuted. How do you do that to one of the five richest men ever, tho' ? You just don't.
Also - end the Monopolies. Restore Tech & Internet Competition.
No plan for that either.
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DanFA:

Shelby- creativegood.com...
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Franco Twinkie:

It has a pull cord like a lawnmower, right?
  6:36pm
dave d:

fakebook is back online in parts of the U.S.
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Jackie G:

breakimg news - Mark not like FB. and stuff like that.
Mark hope FB never comes back
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queems:

i just feel bad for my friends who use instagram/facebook for their small businesses
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disco_nap_:

Whoa coming to this conversation halfway-through…just now learning this was the work of hackers…
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Rich in Washington:

Let's just go back to Mail Art and printed zines.
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ShelbyG:

FB & all were out in the UK as well. My husband said it was out most of the day.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

JackieG: It did occur to me Zuck is past it. What's in it for him by now ?
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Franco Twinkie:

Rich, my feelings exactly!
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Jesse G:

You’re on fire!!! I love this
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ShelbyG:

God love you, Mark.
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ARB:

quit quit quit quit
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LCBD:

Mark, tell us again how to delete FB and IG!
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DanFA:

Mark is the Howard Beale of tech.
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Blobs:

Preach!
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Birdman:

I don't even work at Facebook but I'm thinking about quitting my job anyway after this plea
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PaulRobeson1920:

Why! why Oh why!!
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WR:

Burt Lancaster will play Mark Hurst in the movie version.
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Marci:

Preach!
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Webhamster Henry:

ARB are you doing a facebook show too?
  6:39pm
Roland from Australia:

Preach it Mark!
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DanFA:

@WR, Burt Lancaster can't play Mark. He dead.
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ARB:

Not this evening at least, also I've never used it
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disco_nap_:

I feel obligated to use FB and IG as a freelancer/small business owner. Really wish I didn’t need that “free” marketing :(
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moontana:

I'm looking forward to ARB so I can calm down a bit. Mark is getting a bit shrill.
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bnowb:

hate for profit model
Enough said, Delete it!
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Otis Fodder:

Facebook is so dumb. Keeping my own domains to post stuff always.
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Kat:

is this going to be a rant the whole show?
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LCBD:

Mark, I applaud your sarcasm and enthusiasm! This show is FANTASTIC!
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Webhamster Henry:

Mark doesn't have to shut down Google Plus because it died years ago.
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Otis Fodder:

Ditto there. Rant on Mark.
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dale:

what's happening with the underwater microphone sound lately over the mount hope signal?
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Otis Fodder:

Ha, Google+
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Ken From Hyde Park:

There is this site: www.deletefacebook.com
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admiral crisp:

@dale, idk but I kinda dig it
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adampsyche:

i miss google reader
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Glistener MW:

@JakeGould & all: There actually has been an awesome and independently-owned/maintained Geocities(-esque) revival for the past few years, via "Neocities"! :) Check it out here! - neocities.org
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Franco Twinkie:

Poster renaissancne coming right up!
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DjLorraine:

Kusher met with Zuck
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Carolyn Pittis:

The lead here is Frances, not the DNS suspected issue. Even though she came from Google and joined FB, she still did what no one else managed to do -- she got the evidence and then she got out and talked about it. Change happens by changing norms and continual nudges, and the cold turkey quit is only one method of combating the bad algorithms -- how about a campaign to encourage people to join mewe? so they can have alternatives.
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Otis Fodder:

Following FB and IG.. Twitter after.
  6:42pm
Listener Robert:

So I'm not imagining it, huh, dale? Nor is it local interference as I'd thought.
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miss kitty Catskill:

Hallelujah praise be
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

It started with User Groups to connect on the Internet
- & now it all has to be thru three of five Monoplies.
Man have they ever stolen ice from eskimos & sold it back to them.
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Webhamster Henry:

You can actually download your entire Facebook content, which is kind of enlightening.
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queems:

oh god here we go
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slugluv1313:

@disco_nap_ -- agreed, i was thinking of those i know who have small businesses -- there has GOT to be a better way
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carrots:

spitting fire ! yeah boy!!
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miss kitty Catskill:

I just saw a golems eagle fly low overhead reminding me of the presence of god in our TRUE selves
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carrots:

Know it All!! spittin fire too!!
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bnowb:

imagine that.
I LOVE PETER!
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Franco Twinkie:

That is so great Peter!
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Jackie G:

ZuckerSludge is the worst. No amount of soaking and scrubbing will get that sludge out.
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LCBD:

Peter, thank you!!!
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Ignore Function:

Didn't hear about the outage until just now.
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Rich in Washington:

I work For TDSCorp™️.
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miss kitty Catskill:

PA not catholic but am a true believer in humans
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coelacanth∅:

right on Peter!
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ShelbyG:

wow
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Glistener MW:

"If you can see, why would you spend it looking at Facebook" -- SO well said. Thank you for that, Peter!!
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carrots:

bnowb ! Peter is a cool dude!
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Roland from Australia:

Apparently their swap cars aren’t working either, so they can’t even get into some of their own server buildings?
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alexapharm:

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but ZuckBook is back online
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miss kitty Catskill:

I tried to delete my account on fartbook 6 years ago they won’t remove it prolly bc I’m lower class
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DjLorraine:

Kushner ^
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miss kitty Catskill:

And yes about godgle it’s a disaster to truth telling
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Roland from Australia:

Swipe Cards / Access cards
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Fredericks:

How does Peter in Tampa listen to WFMU without a computer? I want his radio.
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Franco Twinkie:

Floats stuff to the top, like a toilet?
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Carolyn Pittis:

@fredericks true that
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Seriously - for being one of the wealthiest Co.s in History & the Largest Publisher Ever
...they sure do a user-unfriendly job for a Platform.
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Jackie G:

Berkeley Heights!
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joe mulligan:

I could go without FB or IG except for the way I use facebook as a "white pages" meaning it's the only way I contact people who's phone number I don't know. I hate FB and want to quit but I can't get the number of an acquaintance I need to reconnect. suggestions?
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queems:

true for instagram- once i got stuck in a loop of looking at rhinoplasty accounts because the algorithm kept showing me more and i kept clicking on them
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Webhamster Henry:

Some people only message me through Fb Messenger, which is super annoying.
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Erin in TO:

Mark - thanks for your rant, I needed that. I've listened a long time but have been lazy about staying in my comfort zone. Now I'm asking myself what is wrong with me that I can't bother to make changes to my online life, and I'm going to take some action on that now
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DanFA:

If you call in does it just keep ringing?
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Jackie G:

Madison, NJ ! Hurray!
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slugluv1313:

initially i LOVED FB -- as an activist, it was really useful for doing outreach, etc. -- and of course, keeping in touch with friends who live really far away . . . but again, there has GOT to be a better way! (and i am old enough to remember what it was like to write actual letters! that you would put in the mail! and people would write back to you!)
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bnowb:

Does anyone know of a FB alternative?
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Little Danny:

LOL queems we've all gotten stuck in a plasty loop at some point, every one of us
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efd:

@Fredericks I don't know if this is what Peter in Tampa has, but there are standalone internet radios like this one: www.crutchfield.com... (my Mom has one)
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Listener Robert:

Oh, yeah, Webhamster, it's a real PITA. More steps and less reliable than e-mail.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I reckon Humanity - Homo sapiens - has a serious Quantity vs. Quality problem in the broadest terms.
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efd:

A+ work on the phones, Mark!
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Old Dave:

Our kids wouldn't be caught dead using FB, pointed out its flaws to us years ago.
There's hope, Mark!
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Neels:

I hate Facebook, but its a free way to gain marketing. Alternatives are tough to come by at that price.
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joe mulligan:

@bnowb some people are using LinkedIn more socially but LI might not be good either
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listener james from westwood:

Huh, there's a listener james from west orange, too! We differ on FB, tho'.
  6:51pm
Jackie G:

NJ !!! Now West Orange !
  6:51pm
queems:

@little danny THANK YOU so glad to know it’s not just me
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JeremyB:

Get the rest of WFMU off facebook!
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coelacanth∅:

that's a fairly absurd analogy.
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Carolyn Pittis:

For those of you still on FB - if you need to be on the platform for business reasons -- be aware that there is one-day logout campaign scheduled for 11/10/21 - check out the website here: https://thefacebooklogout.com/about/
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bnowb:

Thanks Joe.. I was wondering what alternatives there must be.
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Little Danny:

we should probably form a support group queems
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Franco Twinkie:

Stock up on spray paint, the writings on the wall.
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Webhamster Henry:

If you must use Fb do nottttt use their apps, use a web browser and clear that cache as much as possible. And do not use your real name, fer heaven's sake.
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joe mulligan:

years ago I thought that private and niche-based social networks would become more popular, i.e. telling everyone your status and where you are will become more and more dangerous in a surveillance society.
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DjLorraine:

Birdman 6:15 haha
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Neels:

@Carolyn thanks for sharing!
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Carolyn Pittis:

@neels read "How Change Happens" by Cass Sunstein - the change is happening in front of us
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listener james from westwood:

Oh, FFS, NPR is Koch funded.
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ARB:

Mark recommends Mastodon for social media on his website goodreports.com I've never used it, I spend too much time here on WFMU for anything else
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ardalala:

Does anyone know an alternative to Google classroom? My kids elementary school has been using it since Covid
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joe mulligan:

so people would be willing to leave the public social media platforms and focus more on ones like the wfmu comments board.
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adampsyche:

BB EDIT
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

There are Laws against cold calling & harassing people. Prank calls are not what the Phone Co. profits from.
But Zuck does profit from destabilizing & toxifying Society - whatever else it does (which I use constantly). & this one man is unassailable from business Competition - or from Litigation. Because money rules.
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coelacanth∅:

does wfmu still monetarily support amazon by linking with it?
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ShelbyG:

NPR also gets money from FB
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Glistener MW:

I'm really hoping Mastodon the social media platform was started / is maintained by Mastodon the band.
  6:54pm
Jackie G:

NPR really sucks; aka WNYC.
  6:55pm
Jesse G:

I’ve been a casual listener before, but now I AM CONVERT. Mark you are ripping it up! I feel like I’m watching. Tesoro.
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Vanessa bikes:

great show Mark! I'm so glad you are there waving this flag. I haven't used FB in 2021, I blocked everything on it, and I had a plan to delete it for 2022, but maybe I will go ahead and delete it when it's available. Plus just want to say I preach to every young and old mind I can, most agree, but few are ready to make the cut.. I'll keep preaching. this is so important!
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Webhamster Henry:

WAMC is even worse than WNYC.
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joe mulligan:

I kind of like Slack - I am part of a bicycle group that's very chatty and friendly.
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Asheville Jon:

TAYLOR HAM!
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Glistener MW:

I pledged $10! Thanks for this past hour, Mark
  6:55pm
Carolyn Pittis:

@mark - we need to do another show on alternatives - all the solutions people can use to do tasks, connect that are outside the FB and Google ecosystem - we need to help people with alternatives - we need "the patch' for people that can't quit cold turkey!
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Otis Fodder:

Thanks Mark for capping off the afternoon today with this show on the outages. Hat tip sir.
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Neels:

Thank you Mark!! ^^
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DjLorraine:

Nice to see 60 minutes come thru like the ole days
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joe mulligan:

Way to go Mark, great preach tonight and don't ever change!
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Stillwell Coney Islander:

Thank you Mark!
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Webhamster Henry:

Mark! You don't have a pledge badge?
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admiral crisp:

i need that green shirt
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LCBD:

Mark, thank you for putting the final nail in my IG account. I’m deleting it. I appreciate Peter’s call in too. I had a better day today without IG!
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Franco Twinkie:

Top shelf radio Mark!
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Bas NL:

Thanks Mark!
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slugluv1313:

excellent show, Mark -- thanks so much!
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ShelbyG:

Mark! Wonderful show...thank you!
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Rich in Washington:

What are all these 'like' endorphine junkies going to do today?
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Glistener MW:

@Carolyn: I agree, that's a great idea. I believe it's a topic he's covered a while ago, but I'd love to see an updated episode entirely devoted to just opensource online alternatives for specific kinds of social interactions / planning / etc (such as the aforementioned retro-style opensource website platform, Neocities!)
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Rich in Washington:

Thanks Mark!
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yippie:

http://thebookofface.com/
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Little Danny:

thank you Mark, you were in incredible form this evening!
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DjLorraine:

But maybe they are activating their unbalanced followers
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HyperDose:

Thanks Mark, this was a fantastic hour.
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Fredericks:

IgFunc!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks, Mark. Maybe this is the beginning of the end.
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tim from washington:

Thanks Mark! You're tilting the scale!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always MH. Necessary Medicine tonight. ~
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PaulRobeson1920:

Confederate flag represents the “Corner Stone Speech”- March 1961
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dale:

people my like wheelbarrows full of cash - you don't know...
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ARB:

Loved this entirely present episode thank you Mark!
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PaulRobeson1920:

March 1861*
  6:58pm
Andres:

Bravo, Mark!!
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herb.nyc:

Nicely done, mark. Thank you!
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listener james from westwood:

Many thanks, Mark!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Mark!
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Ignore Function:

FONPR!
  6:59pm
yippie:

lets get the voodoo clubhouse off the book of face
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PaulRobeson1920:

Thank you Mark
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ARB:

www.wfmu.org... music to write resignation emails by over here
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Carolyn Pittis:

Glass half full Mark - Frances came forward! It is more than tens of thousands of other people have done over well more than a decadie. We need to give people specific alternatives to help them quit!
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Mike From Brooklyn:

Thanks Mark!
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TheRealMattClarke:

GREAT SHOW MARK
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chresti:

Thanks Mark!
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Erin in TO:

Thank you so much for this show Mark, you're doing important work
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chresti:

Maybe Peter has a satellite?
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coelacanth∅:

"leaking" such information in a situation such as this should be 100% legal and protected by law.
  7:02pm
ohme:

Fun fact: The founder of Signal app (a non-profit) is the founder of WhatsApp, and he considers this his penance for selling out to Zuck.
  7:08pm
WFMU Best in the world:

Great show
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Ciggy:

It's ironic that I found today's episode from a WFMU facebook post. Great show!
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