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Favoriting December 16, 2019: Matt Klinman and Sam West, creators of "Smartr" podcast series

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Tonight: Matt Klinman and Sam West, creators of "Smartr" - a 10-episode podcast series.

• Smartr podcast, from Luminary Media and Team Coco.

• @mattklinman and @SWestKing on Twitter

• Matt Klinman on Techtonic - Feb 19, 2018 on "how Facebook is killing comedy"

In tech news:

• Ring says it will introduce new security features after hackers broke into a camera in an 8-year-old's bedroom, where they could watch and talk to the child (Business Insider, Dec 13)

• Somebody’s Watching: Hackers Breach Ring Home Security Cameras (New York Times, Dec 15): "Unnerved owners of the devices reported recent hacks in four states. [Amazon] reminded customers not to recycle passwords and user names. ... In Waterbury, Conn., Ed Slaughter told NBC Connecticut last week that he felt “violated” after a hacker started yelling obscenities and woke up his mother-in-law, who had been sleeping in the basement where he had installed a Ring camera."

To review...

1. Parents put Amazon Ring surveillance camera in child's bedroom

2. Ring device is hacked, child terrorized in her bedroom

3. Amazon reassures parents: don't worry, just choose a better password next time

Better solution: DON'T BUY AMAZON RING.

• How do local Md. governments spend money from speed cameras? Here’s what AAA found out. (Washington Post, Dec 12): Fines from surveillance speed cameras "helps to pay for fingerprint scanners, law enforcement dogs, fees for data storage of body-worn camera video, and license plate reader equipment." Surveillance funds more surveillance.

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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:00pm
ultradamno:

Hello Mark! Tchtntrs!
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Phillippe Bastille:

Hey Mark and Techtonicals
  6:01pm
kevlicki:

Yellow rechnophoids!
  6:01pm
China_Defender&mouseoftodayPledger_is_back:

hi mark! hi fmu!
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Bas NL:

Mark! Techtonicpeople!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
Fuzzy:

High there!
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Carmichael:

Aloha Amigos.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
Webhamster Henry:

H, Mrk nd th vwlfr tchtncs!
Avatar 🤖 6:03pm
herb.nyc:

smarter - he who or that which smarts!
Avatar 🤖 6:04pm
herb.nyc:

oops, smartr.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

My swimming pool sharing company may or may not be called Airpnp. Still thinking of a good name for it.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Oops ... the bodily fluids sharing company (ewww!) has already claimed that name.
Avatar 🤖 6:06pm
herb.nyc:

Ken Hyde Park mentions swimming pools - I learned of SWIMPLY. a pool sharing app. ha ha.
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Carmichael:

I had to search for BirchBox.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:07pm
ultradamno:

Spy on a shelf?

Yep.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Bas NL:

I get positively influenced scrolling down this comments board...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
Phillippe Bastille:

The model is flawed, I believe. Toys R Us needs to also capture audio so they know why the parent drags the screaming kid away from the shelf. "Come on, honey, that costs too much" "You're not old enough for that" "Santa will bring it to you" "DON'T YOU TALK BACK TO ME!!! WE'RE LEAVING!!"
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

OK, Swimply stole my pool idea. Don't tell me someone's already thought up a way for people to share their electric car-charging hardware in their garages.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
ultradamno:

Yeah, that is not something you want to hear.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:17pm
Megaroni:

Yes, thank you for continuing to call out this horrible corporation!
Avatar 🤖 6:17pm
herb.nyc:

hmm, for those who don't like their mothers-in-law, buy them a SURVEILLANCE device! I recommend AMAZON.
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Fredericks:

Blame the victim, as usual.
Avatar 🤖 6:19pm
herb.nyc:

so funny, it's xmas season and we're told to buy things, but mark is stressing NOT TO BUY something.
  6:20pm
RustyTiki:

I’ve seen a lot about the Ring story. In the future, can you look into Wyze.com cams. Greatly appreciated
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TDK60:

Hi Mark. Haven't been here in a while.
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chresti:

Throw it away responsibly
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herb.nyc:

10 episodes? why not do like Spinal Tap, with ELEVEN episodes!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
chresti:

Hi Mark, listening at a distance, not near the "dumb" terminal.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
Mark Hurst:

Hi everyone! TDK, welcome back!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:23pm
Mark Hurst:

@chresti good point. herb.nyc can advise us as to the LES e-waste disposal calendar!
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Fredericks:

This guy says "yeah/no" frequently.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Homer Simpson is Smartr, too. youtu.be...
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herb.nyc:

(pause - there's a cute French bulldog here at soho apple store)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
Mark Hurst:

@herb get them to put Techtonic on the fancy store-wide audio system
  6:26pm
spodiodi:

Castlevania lol
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
melinda:

hi everyone
Avatar 🤖 6:27pm
herb.nyc:

"...how ideas form...", haha. just go into a shower, many ideas will ideate! / Techtonic audio, yeah. then get sued by Technics!
Avatar 🤖 6:28pm
herb.nyc:

e-waste, at a real site. or at pop-ups. www.lesecologycenter.org...
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herb.nyc:

"how Facebook is killing comedy". I thought Carrot Top is doing that. (drum roll)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:30pm
Phillippe Bastille:

@herb.nyc hey, here's an idea: we should develop a bluetooth showerhead mic so we can record those great thoughts and send them over our home network
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melinda:

I thought Ring was designed for outdoor surveillance (which is bad enough) but people are surveilling their own families in their bedrooms?!
Avatar 🤖 6:33pm
herb.nyc:

re blueteeth showerhead mic, let's give it a morality. like, any morality.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:34pm
Webhamster Henry:

Welcome to my job interview life! upshot: still unemployed
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
Phillippe Bastille:

The Ring story makes me think there's a need to update The Ring horror movie. Samara doesn't crawl out of the tv, it crawls out of the Ring camera. Product placement directly in the movie title.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
Phillippe Bastille:

*she not it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
Mark Hurst:

@WebHen hope it turns around soon.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
Bas NL:

Cameras and AI could detect emergent criminal tendencies in young children... hmmm.. good business model?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:38pm
ultradamno:

So did anyone, as a result of being a listener of this show, find the finale of HBO Silicon Valley (the creators kill Pied Piper because of it's inevitable catastrophic consequences) to be naive?
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TDK60:

Sorry to be negative, Bas; bad freedom model.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
Phillippe Bastille:

@Bas we kind of already have that in the U.S. All kinds of profiling going on.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
Webhamster Henry:

Is the podcast available on Cassette? #hipstr
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herb.nyc:

mark: "...dont leave me hanging, what are you working on next?". them: "well, I wanted to paint the 2nd bedroom, and..."
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Bas NL:

He, he... it would need some further study to add positive corrective technology.. Sub-dermal Bluetooth cattle prod? That could easily go to other markets..
  6:45pm
P-90:

Now I’ll have to check out their podcast...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
ultradamno:

The Hallmark Christmas movie plot generator forgot elf sent by Santa to reignite someone's faith in the season.
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herb.nyc:

I see the podcasts here - luminarypodcasts.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:47pm
ultradamno:

Oh, and that elf is either Bailee Madison, Amy Acker or Summer Glau.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:48pm
ultradamno:

...possibly Alicia Witt, though she usually gets the disillusioned career woman roles.
  6:48pm
spodiodi:

anxiety snakes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:49pm
coelacanth∅:

hahaha "calming heroin of television"!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:49pm
Granny Spicy Tuna (they/them):

i love this program, thank you, Mark!!!
  6:50pm
disastrogirl:

Is yelling man based on Henry Rollins?
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Michael 98145:

love that crèche
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:51pm
coelacanth∅:

hit it with a sledgehammer first, so it can't be recycled by being sold again in tact.
  6:52pm
JakeGould:

Would machine learning decide to kill baby Hitler? Or kill baby Yoda?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
Webhamster Henry:

cf. Minority Report...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:53pm
ultradamno:

I could see a Ring update where Sadako comes out of the screen when you go through the Amazon Prime free trial and try not to up to pay status.
  6:53pm
spodiodi:

JakeGould, yes.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
tim from champaign (now washington):

Surveillence in the home for "safety" is sick.
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Fredericks:

I only became "aware' of Ring when we got new neighbors a couple of weeks ago. They put a big sign out front advertising it. Otherwise I won't have known.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
Bas NL:

Thanks Mark!
  6:55pm
JakeGould:

Machine learning would see Hitler as a human baby and let it live. Baby Yoda would be euthanized on the spot. THERE YOU GO!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
Michael 98145:

Philip K. Dick was a prophet.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
melinda:

@tim I agree. People seem to be suckers for surveillance.
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northguineahills:

safety? I don't even lock my house or car doors....
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
sbw:

Many of my family roll their eyes when I worry about surveillance. They understand the issue, but they "don't have anything to hide." I should just shut up, I guess.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Phillippe Bastille:

Andy Breckman needs to do a fill-in
  6:56pm
spodiodi:

funny stuff -- thanks Matt & Sam! thanks, Mark Hurst!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Michael 98145:

"Alexa, why am i paranoid" ...?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
ultradamno:

It's like muppet babies and baby groot never existed. Selfish infant space buddhists.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
Webhamster Henry:

Andy spent half of last week's show shilling for tips.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
coelacanth∅:

Fredericks don't wait for a self-driving car to take out that sign.
  6:57pm
spodiodi:

lol Michael
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
Phillippe Bastille:

Thanks Mark. Bye everyone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
melinda:

Thanks Mark!
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chresti:

Thanks Mark!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
Mark Hurst:

Thanks, everyone!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
Webhamster Henry:

I'll add Smartr fro my podcast list!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Mark
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
tim from champaign (now washington):

Thanks Mark!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
listener 126464:

Thanks Mark
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
Fuzzy:

Thanks, Mark!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Send that Amazon stuff back to their headquarters, or maybe Jeff Bezos' compound?
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