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Favoriting August 28, 2023: Tamara Kneese, author of "Death Glitch"

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Today: Tamara Kneese, author, "Death Glitch"

Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond, by Tamara Kneese

Megan Yip, digital estate planning attorney recommended by Tamara

Your Digital Estate Consumer Guide (see “Download File” link on this page)

August 17, 2020 Techtonic with Elaine Kasket, author, “All the Ghosts in the Machine” - on the afterlife of data

Death: A Literary Guide (by Ted Gioia, June 6, 2023) recommends several books as a “literary reading list for death.” I’d add War and Peace.




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Listener comments!

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Handy Haversack:

Mark! Techyon Particles!
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ultradamno:

Mark! Techtonadavers!
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Bas NL:

Hi Mark! Hi all!
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chresti:

Hi Mark and techtonicians!
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Good evening Mark Hurst and all!!!
  6:02pm
David in London:

Evening Mark and all Technoids.
  6:04pm
Gregory Lopez:

Hello Mark.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi Friends! Welcome to 𝕎𝔽𝕄𝕌 .
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
Ike:

Compulsively using tech like me? Can't reduce your screen time? Consider: internetaddictsanonymous.org
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
Franco Twinkie:

This is so true! A very important part of life, is realizing you are going to die.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
Mark Hurst:

Hi everyone, thanks for joining!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:07pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:05
cool text style!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Webhamster Henry:

Someone is going to have to figure out my 2,000 passwords.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Mark Hurst:

@Handy @ultra @Bas @chresti @Will @DiL @Gregory @Webham @Ike @Franco appreciate you being here for the start of the show.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:07
The program known as "𝕋", formerly known as "Techtonic".
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
Handy Haversack:

Mark, with your indulgence, I just wanted to repost this, which I had put on other boards earlier:

Listener friends, in case you haven't seen it, I wanted to share a GoFundMe for listener HyperDose, who's had some really terrible luck -- after a long run of health issues, he also had the townhouse he was moving into in Denver blow up, with his phone, wallet, keys all inside it. He doesn't have much of a support network except for the friends he made through WFMU, so sharing this campaign widely is his best shot for getting back on his feet:

www.gofundme.com...

Give if you can, but especially please share with your friends and networks and in any context where you think it might help.

Thanks, Mark!

I know, GFM puts a LOT of cookies on there. But Cookie Auto-Delete: Don't browse the web without it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
ultradamno:

I'll believe in death as soon as Charlie Daniels stops tweeting
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
chresti:

In aging denial
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
Bas NL:

Just say it.. AI will have to prolong your life on social media..
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
chresti:

Freeze yourself, like Walt
  6:11pm
P-90:

Charlie Daniels tweets?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
Folsom:

You can be like the nutball Bryan Johnson trying to live forever.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
ultradamno:

↳ P-90 @6:11
Benghazi...never forget!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
Franco Twinkie:

By and for young people. You have to be old to realize how repulsive that is.(spoken by a former young person who was as heedless and callow as the next self-obsessed fool)
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herb.nyc:

I wonder. Do the young tech guys hire OLDER MEN in the exec or admin roles? Like, who was the old guy who helped google at the start?

Ugh, sorry to hear about Hyperdose.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
chresti:

Ghost face book?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
ultradamno:

The Steve Jobs hologram will fix it all www.vibe.com...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, Mark and forever chemicals. Once you're dead and your credit card expires, they'll delete your accounts.
  6:21pm
Reagan NY ZEN RN:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:15
that is great news
  6:23pm
Reagan NY ZEN RN:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:09
Ditto Handy Haversack
  6:27pm
morphe':

Thanks Mark and all ...
first time listening live with time differences, etc..
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:27pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Reagan NY ZEN RN @6:23
Hey, Reagan! Nice to see you after nine AM!
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Mark Hurst:

↳ morphe' @6:27
thanks for listening live!
  6:29pm
Reagan NY ZEN RN:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:27
Yeah. past my b time. worth every minute. amazing the family that FMU is. I love this show
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Mark Hurst:

↳ Reagan NY ZEN RN @6:29
thanks for staying up late for Techtonic :)
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ultradamno:

Both Diamond And Silk still post too....raising the question of a shared account where one of them is dead.
  6:31pm
Reagan NY ZEN RN:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:09
the events of the life of HYPERDOSE need our attention. thanks for bringing it
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chresti:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:15
Then the deceased's creditors hunt down their next of kin?
  6:32pm
morphe':

ps

Old school take on death:
Fond Farewells
Jessica Mitford’s An American Way of Death took down an industry few people knew about, but that everyone would one day need."

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/death/fond-farewells
Avatar 🤖 6:32pm
MarciB:

I'm especially interested in what Tamara has to say re: digital photo albums (being a photo manager myself). There's a company called Forever that says it will preserve your photos for 100 years...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:33pm
chresti:

Cutsy death angle!😺
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:33pm
tim:

Hi Mark and everyone! Fascinating interview tonight!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:35pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ morphe' @6:32
Great pointer, morphe', thanks. I see now that the entire Fall 2013 issue of Lapham's Quarterly had a theme of death. Stories here:
www.laphamsquarterly.org...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:35pm
Webhamster Henry:

Someone is going to have to unsusbscribe my ghost from a zillion lists and autopays.
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Mark Hurst:

↳ MarciB @6:32
Good question. I'd ask whether Forever can prove that they have 100 years of expenses (inflation-adjusted) in escrow already today. That would be the first requirement, I think, to begin to believe their claim.
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Mark Hurst:

↳ tim @6:33
Thanks, Tim
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
ultradamno:

YIKES! Dead grandmother voice telling bedtime stories is the most perfect springboard for a horror movie I've ever heard
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chresti:

ew creepy!
Avatar 🤖 6:37pm
MarciB:

@Mark they have a foundation, apparently. I don't like their business model (it's a MLM). Permanent.org is interesting to me, am sitting in on a call with them this week.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

We can set up ChatGPT bots that can make social media or comments board messages after we're gone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:38pm
Franco Twinkie:

A normal part of life use to be transitioning out of your parents house into a group living situation - college dormitory or communal living in a spacious old house. Sooner or later that ends and people find themselves living on their own. That's when the dull thump of adulthood makes you realize that you are potentially alone. Then people die and you have to step up to the plate and sort out the junk pile of someone else's life. At that point you start thinking about death in a serious way.
  6:38pm
Reagan NY ZEN RN:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:37
eeek gaaads
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MarciB:

↳ Franco Twinkie @6:38
Yes indeed - hence the rise of Swedish Death Cleaning
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ MarciB @6:39
Good one. Story on Swedish death cleaning, from 2017: www.nbcnews.com...
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ultradamno:

"While AI can't eliminate that pain of loss, it can definitely make their memories last"

www.vibe.com...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:45pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

I would guess a person could specify in their will a list of accounts that they want their executor to shut down.
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MarciB:

I'll be reading this and recommending it!
  6:46pm
wind:

Great death interview
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
Handy Haversack:

"Techtonic: As fun as death can be"!
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MarciB:

I'll be reading this and recommending it to my colleagues.
  6:46pm
morphe':

Tamara sounds like the best carpenters ...
they do amazing work in other folks' houses and yet their own house is a disaster ***.... me too .. I help others and live in hovels... Thanks
Tamara and Mark...
*** Think such a syndrome is in the DSM
  6:46pm
markoliner:

Here's one : getyourshittogether.org
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
Bas NL:

Great interview. Stuff to give thought to.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:48pm
chresti:

Thanks Mark and Tamara!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:48pm
ultradamno:

Could you use the Amazon sound tube with grandma's voice as a ouija board pointer?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:50pm
coelacanth∅:

it doesn't matter what's legal. just make a list of your sites/accounts, including passwords, answers to verification answers etc. hide it in a fire/flood proof place in your dwelling. write the hiding place down in a sealed envelope and give that to your designated executor of estate.
  6:52pm
wind:

Nothing is forever
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coelacanth∅:

oh, i just looked...i thought you said "Tamar Anise"!
  6:53pm
Jackie G:

↳ coelacanth∅ @6:50
like a will?
  6:53pm
Jackie G:

↳ wind @6:52
and vice versa
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coelacanth∅:

preferably *along* with a will.
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chris in the redwoods:

mrs. citr and i have been talking about estate planning and digital estate planning recently. adding this to the to do list. thanks, Mark and Dr. Kneese! (also not to self to curate hilarious porn collection for everyone to chuckle about.)
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
Handy Haversack:

We know paper can have a 100 percent information retention over 500 years if treated well.

What we don't seem to be good at knowing is what the point of preserving photos is. I guess we haven't had them very long, but the task of sorting the "save forever and keep" compared to the "I take a million photos all the time because the device lets me do it" seems like a lot more than most folks will ever make time for.

I think it's a good thing to let all this go.

But then, I have neither kids nor social media.

Thanks, Mark! Thanks, Tamara! Thanks, kindly death!
  6:55pm
morphe':

↳ wind @6:52
Mutability by Percy Bysshe Shelley
"... Nought may endure but Mutability."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54563/mutability-we-are-as-clouds-that-veil-the-midnight-moon
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joe_rosevear:

OK, so don't put your precious memories on a network somewhere. Put them on a flashdrive!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Jackie G @6:53
most people i've known who've died supposedly made a will but it was never found.
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chris in the redwoods:

*note to self ;)
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
Webhamster Henry:

You could get digital records to last 100 years if you turn them into modem chirps and press the audio on 78s - the only medium proven to last 100 yers.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ chris in the redwoods @6:55
"Not to Self: My Hilarious Porn Collection": there's your folder name!
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Jeff Moore:

There are a few services you can use to make paper books of your photos.

I've seen a few decent ones produced using Blurb:

www.blurb.com
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
Mennlinn Rebarts:

This Lorn video is a banger, and quite germane to the topic.
www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
ultradamno:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:56
I think the AVN awards have a comedy category
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:56
done and done.
  6:57pm
Jackie G:

↳ coelacanth∅ @6:55
Supposed to make a copy for your mate, son, daughter ... keep your loved ones in the loop
  Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
SeaCreature:

Yet another “uplifting” yet useful episode.well done
  6:57pm
P-90:

Thanks, Mark
  6:57pm
morphe':

A Wanker's Photos of 2 tacos from a chain Rest must be saved for more than 100 years...
  6:58pm
wind:

Whatever happened to passing in memories through oral history?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
Bas NL:

Thanks Mark! Thanks all!
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Jeff Moore:

For better digital-photo reproduction, print them on good digital photo paper (cotton rag based or at least acid-free) with a photo printer using pigments at least likely to be archival.
  6:58pm
morphe':

Thanks Mark and all !!!
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Niall:

↳ Song: "Feelings on a Screen" by "Bochum Welt"
Hello, old friend.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

What I think I need is a web crawler that can collect my comments and print out books that will be handed out at my funeral. Thanks, Mark & Tamara!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
ultradamno:

↳ Song: "Feelings on a Screen" by "Bochum Welt"
Reminds me of the Chucky line "you think you can scare me? I'M FROM JERSEY"
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Niall:

↳ morphe' @6:57
Ha!
  6:59pm
morphe':

↳ Niall @6:58
Niall - Brandon 7 Sept ...
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Niall:

↳ morphe' @6:59
See you then!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
coelacanth∅:

i'm okay with my photos disappearing with me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @6:59
..."you think I'm scared OF HELL, I'm from Jersey" rather
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Mark Hurst:

Thanks, everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Mark!
Thanks Tamara (who i only heard 5 minutes of)!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
Franco Twinkie:

Jolly time had by al!

Thanks Mark.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Will thee Sound Guy:

Thank you Mark and Tamara!!!
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