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Favoriting July 4, 2022: The July 4th montage show

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Today: the July 4th montage

On today's show, a selection of clips from favorite interviews in Techtonic's third long season - from fall 2019 to spring 2020 - including the nightmarish sound of an AI trying to imitate Elvis Presley.

Shows featured:

• August 26, 2019 with Jeremiah Moss, author, "Vanishing New York"

• December 16, 2019 Matt Klinman and Sam West, creators of the Smartr podcast

• December 30, 2019 with DJ Paradox on the Dvorak keyboard and flip phones

• February 24, 2020 with Rana Foroohar, author, "Don't Be Evil"

• June 1, 2020 with Ryan Walsh (from Hallelujah the Hills) on the OpenAI Jukebox

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Listener comments!

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PaulRobeson1922:

Hi!! Happy Ultimate Freedom Monday
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Mark Hurst:

@PaulR welcome! Happy 4th.
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Bas NL:

Hi Mark! Happy hang onners!
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PaulRobeson1922:

Same to you, Mark Hurst!
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Mark Hurst:

@Bas welcome, sir! Happy happy.
  6:04pm
P-90:

Classic book.
  6:05pm
Rolando:

Present and listening 🎧
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Webhamster Henry:

Ahh - to remember tech outrages of the past!
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Mark Hurst:

@P-90 yes a good read
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Mark Hurst:

@Rolando @Webham welcome!
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DjLorraine:

Loyal listener here too
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Mark Hurst:

@DjLorraine glad to see you here
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Bas NL:

This week Meta announced they won't proceed with building a new data center in Dutch Zeewolde. The plan was aborted after public protests and lobbying in Parliament backfiring.
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Mark Hurst:

@Bas excellent news, hadn't heard about it
  6:08pm
Braf:

yeAh who wAnts CleAnliNEss?
  6:11pm
DoberBoy:

The 20th century city used to be a place where the individual went to escape the yokels back on the farm and reinvent themselves in the city.
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listener 126464:

Hi Mark, everyone.
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HyperDose:

Mark :)
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, Mark. Rich, slave-owning white males revolting against paying taxes. Happened then and happening now.
  6:12pm
DoberBoy:

Now the city is a place where suburban pod people expect to maintain the materialistic lifestyle by which they were raised.
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Mark Hurst:

@HyperDose :) :)
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Bas NL:

*Queue "Cars" by Gary Numan*
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PaulRobeson1922:

Save our city, save our city, at night
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listener 126464:

I don't (when walking) yield to people staring at their phone.
  6:17pm
P-90:

“People who aren’t angry don’t fight…”
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coelacanth∅:

126464 nor do i. usually i stop within a foot or 2 of them and let them crash into me!
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tak:

I just yell LOOK FORWARD
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PaulRobeson1922:

“False hope can mean acquiescence to a lie”
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PaulRobeson1922:

One of the lessons born out of WWll
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Mark Hurst:

@coel same, I just stop and wait to see what they'll do
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listener 126464:

Going on 2 and a half years with only a Lightphone, love it.
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Mark Hurst:

@listener good to hear!
  6:22pm
wendy del formaggio:

Yikes, I’m late! But happy to sneak in for 40 minutes at least. Hi Mark! Hi everybody!
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listener 126464:

Thanks to you & Techtonic, Mark.
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HyperDose:

I loved the after school special feel of that bit
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Webhamster Henry:

Oh yeah, I remember Smartr - pretty good!
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arb:

oh nice! I didn't hear this the first time around!
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Mark Hurst:

@wendy @arb welcome, nice to see you both
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arb:

Hi Mark and DJ Paradox!
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HyperDose:

humble brag ❤️
  6:31pm
Paul:

Mark or anyone, do you recommend any “dumb phone” in particular? With 3g shutting down they have gotten harder to find decent ones
  6:31pm
WFMU:

White Fat Men United
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Bas NL:

I only think a couple of words a minute.. Good to hear DJ Paradox again!
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PaulRobeson1922:

On Long Island a few years ago, after drinking vodka @Golf a man drove his Mercedes off the road and struck a group of boy scouts
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HyperDose:

Thought Police will be a free plugin, don't worry.
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PaulRobeson1922:

www.nbcnewyork.com...
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PaulRobeson1922:

@HyperD: Let’s not worry
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DjLorraine:

I miss my startac
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coelacanth∅:

"flip phone" does not mean it's not a "smart phone"
  6:35pm
wendy del formaggio:

I always liked my Nokia “candybar” phones. They were sturdy and simple.
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WR:

Does DJ Paradox still have flip phone?
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coelacanth∅:

i'll trade phones with him. i loath my phone.
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arb:

don't dox paradox
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dale:

mt hope just crapped out. getting bleed from wkcr.
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coelacanth∅:

(jeez what's going on with my spelling today? and why am i not using autocorrect?!)
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dale:

...it's a louis armstrong song so must be a jazz show...
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Ciggy:

Is DJ Paradox a relative if Mark?
  6:43pm
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Freedumb..yeah freedumb : https://www.mediaite.com/tv/person-of-interest-identified-in-fourth-of-july-shooting/
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PaulRobeson1922:

Brokerage. Law. Real Estate. Drugs
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Webhamster Henry:

Well, this is nice, but I was expecting a Supercut of Markrants™
  6:54pm
Neebz:

Stetsasonic
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Mark Hurst:

@Webham maybe next time!
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PaulRobeson1922:

Neo-Liberalism- corporate power exceeds the power of the Nation State

So, nowadays is there hope to curtail the power of Facebook/Google?
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dale:

ooh i hear the station again over 90.1
  6:58pm
Dean:

Why does everybody say, "Billion with a B"?
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Pomme d'Or:

Hey Mark and DJ paradox
Thanks for the entertaining show!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks, Mark and recordings.
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WR:

Recent story about a tech who got a lawyer to represent the AI he was working with, reviewing this "AI" music story, I am reminded to look at the investment (not meaning $$ here) they have in the tech and the results.
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Mark Hurst:

@Pomme @KfHP thanks!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Mark!
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Bas NL:

Thanks Mark! Great selection!
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Mark Hurst:

@coel @Bas thanks!
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listener 126464:

Thanks Mark.
  7:00pm
P-90:

Thanks!
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PaulRobeson1922:

Thanks Mark!! Peace & love one&all!
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WR:

Thank you Mark, reminds me that I should go through the archive, much there to review and unfortunately all still very relevant.
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HyperDose:

Thanks Mark!
  7:18pm
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Is djparadox a relative of mark?
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