WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from May 2, 2022

Listener comments!
	🤖 5:57pm Handy Haversack: Evening, Mark and all the Techyon Drives! Glad to be here with youse! Gotta get the monsters fed, and while I'm up, I may as well pour a little Techgin since I'm ready for some Techtonic.
	6:00pm ultradamno: Mark! Techtweeps!
	🤖 6:01pm Will the Sound Guy: Good evening, Mark and all!!!
	🤖 6:01pm chresti: Hi Mark and techtonos!
	🤖 6:01pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Mark & Friends!
	6:01pm Rolando: Good morning Mark and Handy Haversack and everyone who enjoys this show.
	6:01pm chris in the redwoods: i'm ready. hi, everyone!
	🤖 6:02pm David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids.
	🤖 6:02pm tim from washington: Hey Mark! Hi everybody! Welcome back Paul Bradley Carr!
	🤖 6:03pm chresti: We love McSweeneys!
	🤖 6:03pm tim from washington: Nice graphic, DiL!
	🤖 6:03pm Webhamster Henry: Nice chart, @DiL!
	🤖 6:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Mark and tweeterbots and muskrats!
	6:04pm chris in the redwoods: i could say the same thing as Huxley. nice one, David!
	6:04pm Androu B.: Good Evening, Mark & Tech Titans! Had to join in today in light of the big buyout news concerning Elon & Twitter.
	🤖 6:04pm chresti: Nice work, Davidkins!
	6:04pm joe mulligan: Hi guys i'm having elon musk anxiety, could someone tell me don't worry this wont happen?
	6:05pm joe mulligan: i think Musk wants favor of politicians who will bring forth less regulation in manufacturing batteries in the US. Those are republicans who need a voice (Twitter) and will drop environmental restrictions for us growth Lots of batteries lots of jobs lots of us manufacturing Republicans in office and ruining the planet He doesn’t care he’ll say let’s go to mars
	🤖 6:05pm Webhamster Henry: Elon can literally tweet "I like Bitcoin" and make billions of dollars within an hour.
	6:05pm joe mulligan: i'm worried it will be desantis who alligns with musk
	🤖 6:05pm tim from washington: Webhamster - shhh! Don't give him any ideas!
	6:06pm Kathy: Good evening all! My husband & I love Techonic and have been waiting for tonight’s Twitter show! Is it OK to ask an off topic question here? My husband recently got locked out of his Yahoo email account and can’t get back in because he doesn’t have his cellphone anymore. (We both work from home in a rural area with spotty cell service at best so he had ditched his cell a few years ago.) But it’s getting to be that having a cellphone seems mandatory for things! Yahoo customer service has been a nightmare but we’re still hoping he can at least get back on to retrieve some important info. But can anyone here recommend a good (and free?) email service to start up again with? I know Google is out! What do you guys use?
	🤖 6:06pm Webhamster Henry: @tim he's already done it .. he HAD that idea!
	6:06pm TDK60: Hola upper westerner, Mark.
	🤖 6:07pm Handy Haversack: Well done, David!
	6:07pm disco_nap_: Oo also "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed!
	🤖 6:07pm Webhamster Henry: I actually use GoogleVoice for 2FA some of the time (I have to say the Techtonic outro mantra 10 time with every confirmation code)
	🤖 6:07pm tim from washington: @Webhamster Henry - ah shit! I was actually trying to steal your idea. Once again the fat cats got their first.,
	6:08pm Androu B.: @WH That just underlines how rife sicophancy is in the world of finance.
	🤖 6:08pm David (in London): Thank you Mark and all, very kind.
	6:08pm TDK60: (I want to mention one topic I think wasn't addressed last week: the human right to roam, and the refugee/migrant situations, and those borders.)
	6:08pm William Swan, Jr.: Google is counting your farts.
	6:09pm ultradamno: An impulse buy with a sales tax greater than all the money you'll ever have at once
	🤖 6:09pm Webhamster Henry: @Androu B. the fun thing about BitCoin is that they set themselves outside the "world of Finance" while somehow actually being in it.
	6:11pm moontana: Typo Alert! the author of A TIME OF GIFTS is Patrick Leigh Fermor.
	6:11pm dale: because they were getting rich?
	🤖 6:12pm herb.nyc: $44billion? Maybe in a Paul Salopek manner, let’s count that money dollar by dollar.
	6:13pm WR: I think you are on to something, Mark. They are getting their golden parachutes.
	🤖 6:13pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! All!
	6:13pm dreamyandseedy: (Late) addition to books about walking: The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
	🤖 6:14pm Webhamster Henry: America wants to know: When will Musk get back to making Catgirl robots? www.infobae.com...
	6:15pm Rolando: I wonder about the value of Twitter being inflated only because I recall when Google purchased YouTube. So many commentators made fun of them and look at YT now.
	🤖 6:15pm tim from washington: Hey Bas!
	🤖 6:15pm Handy Haversack: "Free speech" libertarians are always revealed as being just like all the other libertarians -- the important freedoms are the ones they have been handed that others' haven't. The freedom to be the loudest, most amplified by privilege must not be risked. Because WHO KNOWS what lesser people might say if given the chance.
	🤖 6:15pm Bas NL: Hi tim!
	🤖 6:15pm Ken From Hyde Park: The right to repair is generally good, but the ability of JD to disable stolen farm equipment is also occasionally good. www.techspot.com...
	🤖 6:15pm DjLorraine: It's a platform with already loyal followers. Do his employees have free speach? (No)
	🤖 6:16pm Folsom: This American Life has a good program on NFT that just went up.
	🤖 6:16pm Handy Haversack: Oh, hey, Bas! I noticed today that the Courettes are playing Utrecht -- with the dB's opening!
	6:16pm joe mulligan: who wants free speech? the hate-mongering "freedom people' who needs that base? republican 2024 candidates. who's got the best chance? desantis. what can he do for musk? let musk run amok with tesla, and less restrictions on building batteries
	6:16pm Fredericks: @6:14 Julian in LA: ProPublica isn't a major news source?
	6:16pm ultradamno: The weirdest take on this: ""I'd much rather have Elon Musk making the rules than a 23-year-old who can't take the joke" -Bill Maher What joke? I don't know. What 23 year old, probably one that talked back to Maher on Twitter once.
	🤖 6:17pm Handy Haversack: 8 July, Bas.
	🤖 6:18pm Folsom: Steve Mould on youtube also has a good NFT video
	🤖 6:18pm Bas NL: Hi Handy! Hey, i'll check it out! dB's a great little stage.
	6:19pm ultradamno: I get by on Twitter with very little friction whatsoever. Sorry.
	🤖 6:19pm PaulRobeson1922: Warm greetings WFMU Land!!!
	6:19pm G: I do scroll through twitter as a newsfeed and a sampler of people's thinking and agendas -- never post myself. It's the most antisocial of the major antisocial media sites. But reading it over time has told me a lot about the human traits that emerge strongly in antisocial media in the past two decades or so.
	🤖 6:19pm DjLorraine: Because Maher encourages free speach for reasonable discussion.
	6:19pm joe mulligan: i really was hoping twitter would fade out of relevance when it got toxic. not anymore
	6:20pm Franco Twinkie: Good on you Paul. Identify self-destruction and runaway as fast as you can.
	🤖 6:20pm Webhamster Henry: Stop following everyone on Twitter except twitter.com...
	🤖 6:20pm PaulRobeson1922: Alcohol is a strong drug
	6:20pm ultradamno: But then, if you don't like noise rock and horror movies, you're probably not paying attention to what I do there.
	6:20pm ed: Since switching to counter.social I've basically limited my use of twitter to practically none.
	6:20pm Dayffid: What's twitter?
	🤖 6:21pm Bas NL: Let's just buy Musk and be done with it.
	6:21pm G: @PaulRobeson: I picked a helluva week to stop doing cocaine.
	6:21pm Mark Hurst: Hi everyone, thanks for joining! I have added links to Paul's newsletter columns (and his previous Techtonic interview) in the links at left... or if you're listening in the future, the links above.
	🤖 6:21pm Handy Haversack: Dayffid: www.achewood.com...
	6:21pm ultradamno: Nah, follow this guy twitter.com... ...and Pettibon
	🤖 6:22pm Webhamster Henry: [swapping my avatar to my animated Paul Klee's "Twittering Machine"]
	6:22pm ed: Musk totally wants to push Twitter in to the same "verfied user" photo ID database Privacy invasion BS that FB uses. No thanks.
	6:23pm ultradamno: I post on Mastodon sometimes but never got a handle on how get anything going, so it's mostly my cat pictures.
	🤖 6:24pm Bas NL: Not free speech.. new speak.
	6:24pm ultradamno: Yeah, who cares about a little checkmark?
	🤖 6:24pm Webhamster Henry: I'm still on ECHO. echonyc.com
	6:24pm Androu B.: I'm still hesitant to open a virtual pay account for concern that it will somehow be used by a bot or a credit reporter to herd me into a class that in no particular way reflects my own personal image, such as I try to project.
	🤖 6:24pm Ken From Hyde Park: Bring back Vine!
	6:25pm Rolando: Hang on a minute, can the liberals honestly claim to have allowed their critics free speech?
	6:26pm Dean from Old Bridge: I don’t understand the weight given to Twitter. At all. It doesn’t have any impact on my. That doesn’t make me a Trump supporter
	🤖 6:26pm tim from washington: I lean pretty left and I agree with Julian. For example, left leaning campus activism seems to be pretty quick on shutting down free speech.
	🤖 6:26pm PaulRobeson1922: @G The drug Alcohol has a powerful reinforcement factor. The more someone consumes the drug the more you desire to use it
	6:26pm hoeg: in other news, odd little mini crash in euro markets today, 'it might have been caused by algorithm-based trades going haywire or by a big "fat finger" trade.'
	6:26pm ed: Personally I delete my tweets on a regular basis ....just in case. Besides are my tweets that important? no.
	6:27pm Mark Hurst: @tim that was what I was trying to get at... this is not one side vs. another - instead it's the new powercenter, tech oligarchs, vs. the rest of us (on both sides)
	6:28pm ed: Twitter is all fun and games ...until you live in an autocracy and they use social media info against you, like in China.
	6:28pm Rolando: The “right” don’t have a great track record either! Free speech should be completely independent of left and right policies.
	6:28pm Androu B.: Btw, @Mark, your gifs are a world of LOL, far better than the ones -жеи posts!
	6:29pm Jeff Moore: I love his American techbro accent impression.
	🤖 6:30pm David (in London): Androu, yeah, those alpacas are outstanding. Also: hello!
	6:30pm Franco Twinkie: If I had the opportunity I would tell Elon Musk to stick the moon up his ass. Do you think he listens to this show?...In secret of course.
	🤖 6:30pm Handy Haversack: 100 percent, Jeff Moore! Nailed it!
	🤖 6:31pm Webhamster Henry: That's it! Get Disney to sic Jiminy Cricket on Elon Musk!
	6:31pm P-90: Some day Mark and Techtonic fans will figure out what the solution to all these Twitter problems is. (And it’s NOT just “everybody gets off Twitter”…)
	6:31pm mndave: Paul greatly describes how declawed I (and anyone who I talk to about this inevitable hell world) feel
	6:32pm ultradamno: Speaking of Musk and free speech, recall his wife admitted to launching a criminal DDOS attack shutting down a website for posting a picture of her she didn't like.
	6:32pm Franco Twinkie: I've never used Twitter - what's it like?
	6:32pm Andres: This is great. It’s also brutal, so appreciating the laughs!
	6:32pm DanFA: I was listening to the most recent episode of On The Media and they interviewed the YouTuber Contrapoints about Twitter. In short, she compared the whole "let's make Twitter a place where we can do free speech unhibited" to an episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia www.wnycstudios.org...
	6:33pm ultradamno: @franco an ocean of short posts
	🤖 6:33pm Handy Haversack: I thought it was figured out, P-90. You make algorithmic amplification illegal, you enforce monopoly laws, and you force "platforms" to acknowledge their responsibility as publishers to not spread hate, falsehood, and lies for profit. Both bada and bing.
	6:33pm Jeff Moore: Milquetoast is an under-utilized word these days.
	6:33pm Mark Hurst: @Handy with the bada, the bing, the zing and the zoom to boot!
	🤖 6:33pm PaulRobeson1922: Happpy Belated Birthday to Adolph Sutro! A good S.F rich guy… who valued The public good over luxury goods
	🤖 6:35pm Bas NL: Fight the algorithm. Like YT Fran did this week. www.youtube.com...
	6:35pm mndave: @Franco Twinkle - seasoned users can enjoy it, as they see past lots of the noise and bot/automated trash, but whenever I show a post to a non-Online person, they start reading the replies aloud and I seize back the phone, so it's awful for those who aren't recognizing the noise
	6:35pm chris in the redwoods: what Handy and Mark bada binged and zing zoomed.
	6:35pm _Ike_: @Dean@6:26, one of the whole points of Techtonic is that it doesn't matter if you're on Twitter or other social media driven by algorithmic promotion of hate, conflict, and polarization for profit -- what matters is that society as a whole is participating in it and being driven by these algorithms.
	🤖 6:35pm Handy Haversack: My desire to apotheosis into comic book action words is becoming more and more immanent!
	6:35pm duck: one thing i hate about twitter is that it wants to show you a whole bunch more along the lines of what you follow, and you can't turn that off!
	🤖 6:35pm PaulRobeson1922: @Handy @6:33 Yes. These platforms have to be regulated as publishers!!!!
	6:36pm ed: This is why I like counter.social. No BS algorithm.
	🤖 6:36pm Webhamster Henry: I've got TikTok to more or less show me 100% Dr. Pimple popper.
	🤖 6:36pm tim from washington: @Handy - Jinkies, my man!
	6:36pm P-90: See? Critics like Carr start to veer close to the solution, than veer off again without getting it. He just did it, so did Mark. They always do.
	6:36pm YETI BOB: As much as we need to keep encouraging people to get off social media, there have to be regulatory changes as well. It's like plastic recycling - it's good that we do it, but we need to reduce the amount of plastic that is produced in the first place. The burden has to be shifted from end-users to producers, or we'll never see the necessary changes happen.
	6:36pm _Ike_: (Or at least that's my interpretation. Not that participating in it yourself can't make things worse for your own brain in particular, but refusing it won't save society as a whole.)
	6:37pm Rolando: As far as I know Mastodon has a linear timeline.
	🤖 6:37pm Handy Haversack: Word up, Yeti Bob.
	🤖 6:38pm Webhamster Henry: You can set Twitter to be chronological. They hate that because ... you can tell when to get off it!
	6:38pm ultradamno: Well, to harken back to the tracker talk, I've noticed that if post about say (as I recently did) about Elsa Lanchester on Twitter, I'll soon get an email from pinterest alerting me to Elsa Lanchester posts there.
	6:38pm Franco Twinkie: Ultra, since I don't know I can't make a value judgement. But to me, typing on a phone is about appealing as sticking my dick in the fan.
	6:39pm djsheilab: Woohoo! Go Mark Hurst!!
	6:39pm ultradamno: I don't use a phone a phone for anything like that, ever. So, I can see the point in that.
	🤖 6:39pm Handy Haversack: The takeaway, Franco, is that Musk wants to maintain his freedom to stick everyone else's dicks in the fan.
	6:39pm DanFA: @True Gems Sounds like a delicious sandwich
	6:39pm Mark Hurst: @djsheilab you've been an inspiration! thanks!
	🤖 6:39pm tim from washington: I read 1414º last year. It was a fun read. It's also a cathartic take down of fictional tech big boys.
	6:39pm Androu B.: Just let Trump dare run again (if he manages to wrangle out of "Insurrectiongate"). It'll give me, among others, a great opportunity to fire off a salvo of insulting memes that hit the bullseye on what his "agenda" is really all about!
	6:40pm ultradamno: @handy I'm pretty sure I've already seen a meme of that
	6:40pm Old Dave: Must admit this board is as social media as I get, like Franco... Refuse to review products or rate things. But I do love this station and Mark's show in particular. None of the friends I've recruited are the online chatter types but they are here. PS- don't do that Franco
	6:40pm _Ike_: @Franco, I don't use it outside of a laptop, and rarely even that way anymore. Also, ouch.
	6:40pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Preach...
	🤖 6:40pm PaulRobeson1922: @YETI BOB: What the individual can do, pales in comparison to what large scale industry can do- mcdonough.com...
	6:40pm P-90: No Mark, you’re not “on Twitter too much.” I will miss your contributions there if you stop posting.
	6:41pm DanFA: I was on Twitter for a couple of years, was only following less than 100 people, and found it exhausting trying to keep up with all the tweets in my timeline. Such a waste of time. Complete information overload. For me at least.
	6:41pm ed: twitter is as useful as driving at 100 MPH and tossing your business card out the window.
	6:41pm ultradamno: I miss Hearty on there...
	🤖 6:42pm Handy Haversack: I can't remember if I bragged yet, but: I GOT OFF GOOGLE! I was on Gmail since like 2007? 2008? I was a super early adopter (which I never am) because I had a friend working there back when it was invite only. And I finally pulled the cord. And it was so much easier than I had thought it could be. And it feels SO GOOD to have fucking NOTHING to do with that hellmouth of a company anymore. I mean, like, actual "I can not hate the internet sometimes" levels of joy going on. Listen to the sign-off, friends. Mark is trying to help us!
	6:42pm -жеи: Let’s not forget that musk does not own Twitter yet, and his deal could very easily collapse prior to closing
	🤖 6:42pm David (in London): Yeah, Bas might yet out-bid Musk.
	6:43pm DanFA: @ -жеи: I read somewhere that his tweeting about certain board members is a violation of the contract. He could've shot himself in the foot already.
	6:43pm RevErie: i deactivated my twitter account just now!
	🤖 6:43pm Handy Haversack: Way to go, RevErie!
	6:44pm joe mulligan: that's a very good point Ken although I wonder what would happen next..
	🤖 6:44pm Ken From Hyde Park: What happened to the poison pill the board was going to implement?
	6:44pm Dean: If Paul is correct that Twitter once was useful--I have my doubts, but I'll accept the premise--and if Twitter is now so unbearably exploitative, then why aren't people like Paul a least a smidgen hopeful that Musk could effect a change should he close the deal?
	6:44pm P-90: “Simply disengagement” is NOT the solution to the Twitter problem, or the other social media problems. The real answer is right in front of you guys and you’re missing it.
	6:44pm Franco Twinkie: I prefer to argue in person. Engaging in personal acrimony is SO un satisfying while typing.
	6:44pm RevErie: what about mastodon?
	6:45pm joe mulligan: twitter was pretty wonderful in 2006, it was a social media hug-fest till maybe 2009
	6:45pm DanFA: Has anyone on here used Discord? It's a chat room-based social media site like the comment section where you have to be invited to join it.
	🤖 6:46pm Webhamster Henry: Is someone going to unroll this chat after the show?
	6:46pm P-90: Did Carr mention “Twitter before Musk took over”? Who said he’s already “taken over”.
	6:46pm joe mulligan: DanFA I've used Dischord for chats during indoor virtual bike riding on Zwift. it's nice
	6:46pm ultradamno: I might quite twitter if I get called "sheeple" too many times in a week, that's my threshhold. I can usually ignore seeing Bill Maher, James Woods, Joe Rogan, Piers Morgan etc trending at all times. It's just a matter of not taking the bait too much.
	6:46pm Franco Twinkie: Checking my game stops at looking at my teeth in the mirror before I leave the house.
	🤖 6:47pm Handy Haversack: Discord is ... well, imbricate in the same Silicon Valley VC world as all the others, DanFA. It seems like a terrible method of communication, but then I think all social media seems like a mere pretense of communication. I use it just for in-game chat and record keeping for our D&D game since we went remote for the pandemic.
	6:48pm P-90: Sheila took the leap. She’s a pioneer.
	🤖 6:48pm Handy Haversack: SheilaB is a hero! Mad respect!
	6:48pm Rolando: Paul Bradley makes a lot of sense 👍 Thank you. Now we need to talk about alternatives to Twitter, and ways of approaching this problem in order to allow FreeSpeech.
	6:49pm ultradamno: So it could be a "dog catches car" situation...
	6:49pm joe mulligan: good points Handy! there's also Twitch which has been used for gamers but has been used by musicians and dj's for live stream concerts during pandemic lockdown
	🤖 6:49pm MarciB: Three cheers for @SheliaB! And this playlist is so full of gems - just signed up for PBC's newsletter.
	6:49pm Quinn02: I ditched Facebook. Don’t regret it.
	6:50pm DanFA: @Handy- some podcasts I listen to have Discord servers and I've been able interact with other fans and the people who run those shows. So far I've had a good experience.
	6:50pm ultradamno: Never having Facebooked, Instagrammed or What'sapped IS something I can brag...
	6:51pm P-90: You guys are talking about Twitter as if Elon has already had some influence on Twitter’s daily operations. I don’t think he has? Isn’t that just an anxious (and slightly silly) assumption?
	6:51pm solo mon: This CVS receipt length comment board.
	6:51pm Franco Twinkie: Alternatives ultimately create a new raft of problems. Talk to people in the park and go to parties. It's enough, believe me.
	6:51pm ultradamno: (not cause I'm above it, mind you, I just found Facebook's format ugly and dumb)
	6:51pm joe mulligan: I've stopped using twitter for years, logged in much less to facebook but cant quit so I have a "no post/no like/no comment" rule for myself but I can't quit instagram - yet
	6:51pm Dean: Glenn Greenwald has been hammering away at this fact, the routine ownership of social/news media by insanely wealthy people. I can only agree with him in this respect.
	🤖 6:52pm Handy Haversack: I tried for a while to participate in some maker communities there, DanFA, but eventually found it ... empty? Either empty or overloaded, I guess. And the channel format seemed just to make it impossible to organize conversations. But I have no real drive for communication outside pretty much what Franco just said. So I use it for some record keeping, and it's OK for that.
	6:53pm ultradamno: (and Insta just seemed like knockoff Flicker and I'm still not sure what What's App is)
	6:53pm DanFA: @Handy yeah, I pretty much agree with that. None of these social media platforms are perfect for social interaction.
	6:53pm joe mulligan: I've been using two main platforms instead of social media 1) Slack for my bike people (a work collaboration tool that can be used for a closed group in a social way) 2) wfmu comments board
	6:54pm P-90: Elon’s blind spot is that he really has no idea how rapidly Twitter will become obsolete. He thinks he’ll be able to “innovate” his way out of that obsolescence. He’s overly confident about that. Blinded by his narcissistic character.
	6:54pm DanFA: WFMU: Resisting Toxic Logic Since 1985
	🤖 6:54pm Handy Haversack: There's a WFMU comments board?! That sounds perfect! How do I sign up?!
	6:54pm ultradamno: I used to love My Deja for going through usenet groups...bring that back!
	🤖 6:55pm David (in London): I've just bid £44 for the WFMU comments board.
	6:55pm Franco Twinkie: I'm kidding of course Handy. But typing culture is like eating sugar - taste good, but empty is so many ways.
	6:55pm Jeff Moore: [checks over shoulder to see where Mark Hurst is looking] My absolute favorite social network was Google+. No, not joking (even though a bunch of jerks made fun of it throughout its all too brief existence). It was a beautiful place for long-form, nuanced conversations with remarkable belly-up-to-the-bar access to legendary tech figures.
	6:55pm Zinn The Mood: Hey folks. Great show, Mark. Have said this before, we don’t have democracy in this country. It’s Inverted Totalitarianism (www.truthdig.com...)
	6:55pm Dean: I also think our reception of toxic discourse these days is blinkered. I spent part of today poring over issues of a student newspaper from the early '80s. The vitriol was boundless. Technology or not, we haven't changed that much.
	6:55pm Dutch: Hear hear
	6:56pm DanFA: What are some audiobook alternatives to Audible?
	🤖 6:56pm Webhamster Henry: If Twitter went away, news programs would finally stop retweeting tweets in other media.
	6:56pm solo mon: 🗑 🐦
	6:56pm ultradamno: The worst was yahoo groups or whatever it was called. Unusable
	6:56pm joe mulligan: thank you everyone!! very good episode and comments
	6:56pm P-90: “Make algorithmic amplification obsolete” is a load of bunk, it will never happen. And shouldn’t. You guys are still missing the real solution….
	6:56pm Sonderangebot: Thanks for the great interview again. I can get audiobooks from the library here.
	🤖 6:56pm chresti: Maybe listener fleep will come back to the comments if Musk takes over twitter...
	🤖 6:56pm Will the Sound Guy: Thank you Mark Hurst, Paul Bradley Carr, and all the Commenters!!!!
	6:56pm <3: thnx mark!
	6:56pm Zinn The Mood: “Inverted totalitarianism is different from classical forms of totalitarianism. It does not find its expression in a demagogue or charismatic leader but in the faceless anonymity of the corporate state. Our inverted totalitarianism pays outward fealty to the facade of electoral politics, the Constitution, civil liberties, freedom of the press, the independence of the judiciary, and the iconography, traditions and language of American patriotism, but it has effectively seized all of the mechanisms of power to render the citizenry impotent.”
	🤖 6:56pm Handy Haversack: Mad respect, Mark Hurst. Mad respect. Word, Zinn! And Jeff Moore, that's where all the DIY D&D stuff was happening. It's the only SM platform I ever used, and I even kind of miss it. It was really useful for the maker community. But also: Google. Daona! The best! Yeah!
	🤖 6:57pm tim from washington: Thanks, Mark!
	6:57pm ultradamno: Hey! I have this CD!
	🤖 6:57pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark & Paul! David, you're on the radio again!
	🤖 6:57pm Handy Haversack: Dang, pre-clicky-starred. But I want to clicky-star it again!
	6:57pm P-90: Thanks Mark!
	🤖 6:57pm tim from washington: Daona! Woohoo!
	6:57pm joe mulligan: good stuff DiL!!
	🤖 6:57pm David (in London): Ha ha, thank you Mark, an honour to close this episode out.
	6:57pm _Ike_: @DanFA, most libraries "lend" out audiobooks online.
	6:57pm Chris: Another stellar episode. Thanks, Mark!
	🤖 6:58pm PaulRobeson1922: @Dean @6:55 openlibrary.org... HOW TO WATCH THE T.V NEWS
	🤖 6:58pm Webhamster Henry: Jeff Moore & I were the only non Google people using Google +.
	6:58pm Andres: Thanks, Mark! Thanks, Paul!
	🤖 6:58pm PaulRobeson1922: Thanks Mark & Paul!! Tellin it like it is!!!
	6:58pm Franco Twinkie: Tanks Mark. Get off your computer NOW, and go out side.
	🤖 6:58pm Handy Haversack: I was there, Henry. And a lot of DIY gamers. Well, "a lot."
	6:58pm Jeff Moore: @Webhamster Henry: Ha!
	🤖 6:59pm Webhamster Henry: I actually had my own Google Wave server (the open source version) running so I could Wave to myself.
	🤖 6:59pm chresti: Thanks Mark!
	6:59pm Jeff Moore: I never actually figured out was Wave... was.
	6:59pm ultradamno: No outside ever. If I could get plastic bubble boy disease I would!
	6:59pm Jeff Moore: was -> what
	6:59pm joe mulligan: hahaaaa @Henry and @Jeff Moore, I have so much public cycberjunk I posted from Google Plus and whatever that google twitter stuff was
	7:00pm Ciggy: Nice outro!
	7:00pm Androu B.: Thanx, Mark! @David (In London) OMG, this is a stunning piece of work! I'm going straight to your Bandcamp right now!
	7:00pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone, good chat this evening!
	7:00pm Rich in Washington: Thanks Mark!
	7:00pm joe mulligan: yes Jeff moore, google wave!
	🤖 7:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark. Am I a bad person for owning Solar City solar panels?
	🤖 7:01pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks Mark and chat boarders!

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Today: On Elon Musk's Twitter takeover – with Paul Bradley Carr, author, 1414º

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• Paul Bradley Carr on Techtonic (Nov 15, 2021) talking about his novel 1414º

• Twitter: to the loon! (by Paul Bradley Carr, April 7, 2022): “I’m out. I hard-deleted my verified account on Tuesday morning and also the 2FA so I can’t reactivate it during the grace period even if I wanted to. I’m a recovering addict, and I know when something is dangerously unhealthy. ... How was it? Well, it took me a full six hours to hear about the Will Smith Oscar slap vs six seconds for everyone else. I had to wait until 6am every morning to find out the latest covid rates or the death toll in Ukraine. For this terrible sacrifice of immediacy, I regained HOURS of my day.”

• Elon and on (by Paul Bradley Carr, April 13, 2022): “This is a man who has made a career out of promising the earth (/Mars/the hyperloop/cave rescue pods/robot trucks) and then not quite delivering.”

• From McSweeney's, I like free speech so much I decided to buy it (by Eli Grober, Apr 26, 2022): “Hi there, I’m Elon Musk. I’m mostly known for rockets and cars, but what I really care about is free speech. I can’t get enough of it. In fact, I like free speech so much I’ve decided to buy it. That’s right, it turns out free speech isn’t free—it costs exactly $44 billion. That might sound like too much money for one person to be allowed to spend, but that’s only because it is. And I’ve decided free speech is worth the cost. I’m going to make sure some board full of rich guys doesn’t get to define what counts as free speech. Instead, just one rich guy will get to decide what counts as free speech: me.”

• Jack Dorsey weighs in on Elon Musk: “I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.” (Dorsey also linked to a Radiohead song.)

• Why NYT Book Review editor Pamela Paul left Twitter (Apr 28, 2022): “I left because I was terrible on Twitter. I may not have been the only one, but Twitter Me was petty, insecure, desperate to please, angry, narcissistic and needy.”

• Robin Sloan describes getting off Twitter: “The speed with which Twitter recedes in your mind will shock you. Like a demon from a folktale, the kind that only gains power when you invite it into your home, the platform melts like mist when that invitation is rescinded.”

• Charles M. Blow on his Twitter experience (May 1, 2022): “There were clear positives. But the negatives were real and grinding. Social media is full of hate speech, bots, vitriol, attack armies, screamers and people who live for the opportunity to be angry.”

• Edward Ongweso Jr pointing out in Vice that billionaires already own all of the media and platforms: “The world’s richest man will soon own Twitter. The second-richest man (Jeff Bezos) owns the Washington Post. ... Two of the 10 richest men (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) own Google. Mark Zuckerberg, one of the richest 20 men in the world, owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. ... There are, of course, alternatives we should aspire to, and they don’t include billionaires. ... there are an abundance of proposed models (public utilities, cooperatives, protocols, etc.) but that our options, at the moment, are limited to ‘broaden[ing] our conversations about how platforms should be designed, financed, and governed.’”

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Listener comments!
	🤖 5:57pm Handy Haversack: Evening, Mark and all the Techyon Drives! Glad to be here with youse! Gotta get the monsters fed, and while I'm up, I may as well pour a little Techgin since I'm ready for some Techtonic.
	6:00pm ultradamno: Mark! Techtweeps!
	🤖 6:01pm Will the Sound Guy: Good evening, Mark and all!!!
	🤖 6:01pm chresti: Hi Mark and techtonos!
	🤖 6:01pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Mark & Friends!
	6:01pm Rolando: Good morning Mark and Handy Haversack and everyone who enjoys this show.
	6:01pm chris in the redwoods: i'm ready. hi, everyone!
	🤖 6:02pm David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids.
	🤖 6:02pm tim from washington: Hey Mark! Hi everybody! Welcome back Paul Bradley Carr!
	🤖 6:03pm chresti: We love McSweeneys!
	🤖 6:03pm tim from washington: Nice graphic, DiL!
	🤖 6:03pm Webhamster Henry: Nice chart, @DiL!
	🤖 6:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Mark and tweeterbots and muskrats!
	6:04pm chris in the redwoods: i could say the same thing as Huxley. nice one, David!
	6:04pm Androu B.: Good Evening, Mark & Tech Titans! Had to join in today in light of the big buyout news concerning Elon & Twitter.
	🤖 6:04pm chresti: Nice work, Davidkins!
	6:04pm joe mulligan: Hi guys i'm having elon musk anxiety, could someone tell me don't worry this wont happen?
	6:05pm joe mulligan: i think Musk wants favor of politicians who will bring forth less regulation in manufacturing batteries in the US. Those are republicans who need a voice (Twitter) and will drop environmental restrictions for us growth Lots of batteries lots of jobs lots of us manufacturing Republicans in office and ruining the planet He doesn’t care he’ll say let’s go to mars
	🤖 6:05pm Webhamster Henry: Elon can literally tweet "I like Bitcoin" and make billions of dollars within an hour.
	6:05pm joe mulligan: i'm worried it will be desantis who alligns with musk
	🤖 6:05pm tim from washington: Webhamster - shhh! Don't give him any ideas!
	6:06pm Kathy: Good evening all! My husband & I love Techonic and have been waiting for tonight’s Twitter show! Is it OK to ask an off topic question here? My husband recently got locked out of his Yahoo email account and can’t get back in because he doesn’t have his cellphone anymore. (We both work from home in a rural area with spotty cell service at best so he had ditched his cell a few years ago.) But it’s getting to be that having a cellphone seems mandatory for things! Yahoo customer service has been a nightmare but we’re still hoping he can at least get back on to retrieve some important info. But can anyone here recommend a good (and free?) email service to start up again with? I know Google is out! What do you guys use?
	🤖 6:06pm Webhamster Henry: @tim he's already done it .. he HAD that idea!
	6:06pm TDK60: Hola upper westerner, Mark.
	🤖 6:07pm Handy Haversack: Well done, David!
	6:07pm disco_nap_: Oo also "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed!
	🤖 6:07pm Webhamster Henry: I actually use GoogleVoice for 2FA some of the time (I have to say the Techtonic outro mantra 10 time with every confirmation code)
	🤖 6:07pm tim from washington: @Webhamster Henry - ah shit! I was actually trying to steal your idea. Once again the fat cats got their first.,
	6:08pm Androu B.: @WH That just underlines how rife sicophancy is in the world of finance.
	🤖 6:08pm David (in London): Thank you Mark and all, very kind.
	6:08pm TDK60: (I want to mention one topic I think wasn't addressed last week: the human right to roam, and the refugee/migrant situations, and those borders.)
	6:08pm William Swan, Jr.: Google is counting your farts.
	6:09pm ultradamno: An impulse buy with a sales tax greater than all the money you'll ever have at once
	🤖 6:09pm Webhamster Henry: @Androu B. the fun thing about BitCoin is that they set themselves outside the "world of Finance" while somehow actually being in it.
	6:11pm moontana: Typo Alert! the author of A TIME OF GIFTS is Patrick Leigh Fermor.
	6:11pm dale: because they were getting rich?
	🤖 6:12pm herb.nyc: $44billion? Maybe in a Paul Salopek manner, let’s count that money dollar by dollar.
	6:13pm WR: I think you are on to something, Mark. They are getting their golden parachutes.
	🤖 6:13pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! All!
	6:13pm dreamyandseedy: (Late) addition to books about walking: The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
	🤖 6:14pm Webhamster Henry: America wants to know: When will Musk get back to making Catgirl robots? www.infobae.com...
	6:15pm Rolando: I wonder about the value of Twitter being inflated only because I recall when Google purchased YouTube. So many commentators made fun of them and look at YT now.
	🤖 6:15pm tim from washington: Hey Bas!
	🤖 6:15pm Handy Haversack: "Free speech" libertarians are always revealed as being just like all the other libertarians -- the important freedoms are the ones they have been handed that others' haven't. The freedom to be the loudest, most amplified by privilege must not be risked. Because WHO KNOWS what lesser people might say if given the chance.
	🤖 6:15pm Bas NL: Hi tim!
	🤖 6:15pm Ken From Hyde Park: The right to repair is generally good, but the ability of JD to disable stolen farm equipment is also occasionally good. www.techspot.com...
	🤖 6:15pm DjLorraine: It's a platform with already loyal followers. Do his employees have free speach? (No)
	🤖 6:16pm Folsom: This American Life has a good program on NFT that just went up.
	🤖 6:16pm Handy Haversack: Oh, hey, Bas! I noticed today that the Courettes are playing Utrecht -- with the dB's opening!
	6:16pm joe mulligan: who wants free speech? the hate-mongering "freedom people' who needs that base? republican 2024 candidates. who's got the best chance? desantis. what can he do for musk? let musk run amok with tesla, and less restrictions on building batteries
	6:16pm Fredericks: @6:14 Julian in LA: ProPublica isn't a major news source?
	6:16pm ultradamno: The weirdest take on this: ""I'd much rather have Elon Musk making the rules than a 23-year-old who can't take the joke" -Bill Maher What joke? I don't know. What 23 year old, probably one that talked back to Maher on Twitter once.
	🤖 6:17pm Handy Haversack: 8 July, Bas.
	🤖 6:18pm Folsom: Steve Mould on youtube also has a good NFT video
	🤖 6:18pm Bas NL: Hi Handy! Hey, i'll check it out! dB's a great little stage.
	6:19pm ultradamno: I get by on Twitter with very little friction whatsoever. Sorry.
	🤖 6:19pm PaulRobeson1922: Warm greetings WFMU Land!!!
	6:19pm G: I do scroll through twitter as a newsfeed and a sampler of people's thinking and agendas -- never post myself. It's the most antisocial of the major antisocial media sites. But reading it over time has told me a lot about the human traits that emerge strongly in antisocial media in the past two decades or so.
	🤖 6:19pm DjLorraine: Because Maher encourages free speach for reasonable discussion.
	6:19pm joe mulligan: i really was hoping twitter would fade out of relevance when it got toxic. not anymore
	6:20pm Franco Twinkie: Good on you Paul. Identify self-destruction and runaway as fast as you can.
	🤖 6:20pm Webhamster Henry: Stop following everyone on Twitter except twitter.com...
	🤖 6:20pm PaulRobeson1922: Alcohol is a strong drug
	6:20pm ultradamno: But then, if you don't like noise rock and horror movies, you're probably not paying attention to what I do there.
	6:20pm ed: Since switching to counter.social I've basically limited my use of twitter to practically none.
	6:20pm Dayffid: What's twitter?
	🤖 6:21pm Bas NL: Let's just buy Musk and be done with it.
	6:21pm G: @PaulRobeson: I picked a helluva week to stop doing cocaine.
	6:21pm Mark Hurst: Hi everyone, thanks for joining! I have added links to Paul's newsletter columns (and his previous Techtonic interview) in the links at left... or if you're listening in the future, the links above.
	🤖 6:21pm Handy Haversack: Dayffid: www.achewood.com...
	6:21pm ultradamno: Nah, follow this guy twitter.com... ...and Pettibon
	🤖 6:22pm Webhamster Henry: [swapping my avatar to my animated Paul Klee's "Twittering Machine"]
	6:22pm ed: Musk totally wants to push Twitter in to the same "verfied user" photo ID database Privacy invasion BS that FB uses. No thanks.
	6:23pm ultradamno: I post on Mastodon sometimes but never got a handle on how get anything going, so it's mostly my cat pictures.
	🤖 6:24pm Bas NL: Not free speech.. new speak.
	6:24pm ultradamno: Yeah, who cares about a little checkmark?
	🤖 6:24pm Webhamster Henry: I'm still on ECHO. echonyc.com
	6:24pm Androu B.: I'm still hesitant to open a virtual pay account for concern that it will somehow be used by a bot or a credit reporter to herd me into a class that in no particular way reflects my own personal image, such as I try to project.
	🤖 6:24pm Ken From Hyde Park: Bring back Vine!
	6:25pm Rolando: Hang on a minute, can the liberals honestly claim to have allowed their critics free speech?
	6:26pm Dean from Old Bridge: I don’t understand the weight given to Twitter. At all. It doesn’t have any impact on my. That doesn’t make me a Trump supporter
	🤖 6:26pm tim from washington: I lean pretty left and I agree with Julian. For example, left leaning campus activism seems to be pretty quick on shutting down free speech.
	🤖 6:26pm PaulRobeson1922: @G The drug Alcohol has a powerful reinforcement factor. The more someone consumes the drug the more you desire to use it
	6:26pm hoeg: in other news, odd little mini crash in euro markets today, 'it might have been caused by algorithm-based trades going haywire or by a big "fat finger" trade.'
	6:26pm ed: Personally I delete my tweets on a regular basis ....just in case. Besides are my tweets that important? no.
	6:27pm Mark Hurst: @tim that was what I was trying to get at... this is not one side vs. another - instead it's the new powercenter, tech oligarchs, vs. the rest of us (on both sides)
	6:28pm ed: Twitter is all fun and games ...until you live in an autocracy and they use social media info against you, like in China.
	6:28pm Rolando: The “right” don’t have a great track record either! Free speech should be completely independent of left and right policies.
	6:28pm Androu B.: Btw, @Mark, your gifs are a world of LOL, far better than the ones -жеи posts!
	6:29pm Jeff Moore: I love his American techbro accent impression.
	🤖 6:30pm David (in London): Androu, yeah, those alpacas are outstanding. Also: hello!
	6:30pm Franco Twinkie: If I had the opportunity I would tell Elon Musk to stick the moon up his ass. Do you think he listens to this show?...In secret of course.
	🤖 6:30pm Handy Haversack: 100 percent, Jeff Moore! Nailed it!
	🤖 6:31pm Webhamster Henry: That's it! Get Disney to sic Jiminy Cricket on Elon Musk!
	6:31pm P-90: Some day Mark and Techtonic fans will figure out what the solution to all these Twitter problems is. (And it’s NOT just “everybody gets off Twitter”…)
	6:31pm mndave: Paul greatly describes how declawed I (and anyone who I talk to about this inevitable hell world) feel
	6:32pm ultradamno: Speaking of Musk and free speech, recall his wife admitted to launching a criminal DDOS attack shutting down a website for posting a picture of her she didn't like.
	6:32pm Franco Twinkie: I've never used Twitter - what's it like?
	6:32pm Andres: This is great. It’s also brutal, so appreciating the laughs!
	6:32pm DanFA: I was listening to the most recent episode of On The Media and they interviewed the YouTuber Contrapoints about Twitter. In short, she compared the whole "let's make Twitter a place where we can do free speech unhibited" to an episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia www.wnycstudios.org...
	6:33pm ultradamno: @franco an ocean of short posts
	🤖 6:33pm Handy Haversack: I thought it was figured out, P-90. You make algorithmic amplification illegal, you enforce monopoly laws, and you force "platforms" to acknowledge their responsibility as publishers to not spread hate, falsehood, and lies for profit. Both bada and bing.
	6:33pm Jeff Moore: Milquetoast is an under-utilized word these days.
	6:33pm Mark Hurst: @Handy with the bada, the bing, the zing and the zoom to boot!
	🤖 6:33pm PaulRobeson1922: Happpy Belated Birthday to Adolph Sutro! A good S.F rich guy… who valued The public good over luxury goods
	🤖 6:35pm Bas NL: Fight the algorithm. Like YT Fran did this week. www.youtube.com...
	6:35pm mndave: @Franco Twinkle - seasoned users can enjoy it, as they see past lots of the noise and bot/automated trash, but whenever I show a post to a non-Online person, they start reading the replies aloud and I seize back the phone, so it's awful for those who aren't recognizing the noise
	6:35pm chris in the redwoods: what Handy and Mark bada binged and zing zoomed.
	6:35pm _Ike_: @Dean@6:26, one of the whole points of Techtonic is that it doesn't matter if you're on Twitter or other social media driven by algorithmic promotion of hate, conflict, and polarization for profit -- what matters is that society as a whole is participating in it and being driven by these algorithms.
	🤖 6:35pm Handy Haversack: My desire to apotheosis into comic book action words is becoming more and more immanent!
	6:35pm duck: one thing i hate about twitter is that it wants to show you a whole bunch more along the lines of what you follow, and you can't turn that off!
	🤖 6:35pm PaulRobeson1922: @Handy @6:33 Yes. These platforms have to be regulated as publishers!!!!
	6:36pm ed: This is why I like counter.social. No BS algorithm.
	🤖 6:36pm Webhamster Henry: I've got TikTok to more or less show me 100% Dr. Pimple popper.
	🤖 6:36pm tim from washington: @Handy - Jinkies, my man!
	6:36pm P-90: See? Critics like Carr start to veer close to the solution, than veer off again without getting it. He just did it, so did Mark. They always do.
	6:36pm YETI BOB: As much as we need to keep encouraging people to get off social media, there have to be regulatory changes as well. It's like plastic recycling - it's good that we do it, but we need to reduce the amount of plastic that is produced in the first place. The burden has to be shifted from end-users to producers, or we'll never see the necessary changes happen.
	6:36pm _Ike_: (Or at least that's my interpretation. Not that participating in it yourself can't make things worse for your own brain in particular, but refusing it won't save society as a whole.)
	6:37pm Rolando: As far as I know Mastodon has a linear timeline.
	🤖 6:37pm Handy Haversack: Word up, Yeti Bob.
	🤖 6:38pm Webhamster Henry: You can set Twitter to be chronological. They hate that because ... you can tell when to get off it!
	6:38pm ultradamno: Well, to harken back to the tracker talk, I've noticed that if post about say (as I recently did) about Elsa Lanchester on Twitter, I'll soon get an email from pinterest alerting me to Elsa Lanchester posts there.
	6:38pm Franco Twinkie: Ultra, since I don't know I can't make a value judgement. But to me, typing on a phone is about appealing as sticking my dick in the fan.
	6:39pm djsheilab: Woohoo! Go Mark Hurst!!
	6:39pm ultradamno: I don't use a phone a phone for anything like that, ever. So, I can see the point in that.
	🤖 6:39pm Handy Haversack: The takeaway, Franco, is that Musk wants to maintain his freedom to stick everyone else's dicks in the fan.
	6:39pm DanFA: @True Gems Sounds like a delicious sandwich
	6:39pm Mark Hurst: @djsheilab you've been an inspiration! thanks!
	🤖 6:39pm tim from washington: I read 1414º last year. It was a fun read. It's also a cathartic take down of fictional tech big boys.
	6:39pm Androu B.: Just let Trump dare run again (if he manages to wrangle out of "Insurrectiongate"). It'll give me, among others, a great opportunity to fire off a salvo of insulting memes that hit the bullseye on what his "agenda" is really all about!
	6:40pm ultradamno: @handy I'm pretty sure I've already seen a meme of that
	6:40pm Old Dave: Must admit this board is as social media as I get, like Franco... Refuse to review products or rate things. But I do love this station and Mark's show in particular. None of the friends I've recruited are the online chatter types but they are here. PS- don't do that Franco
	6:40pm _Ike_: @Franco, I don't use it outside of a laptop, and rarely even that way anymore. Also, ouch.
	6:40pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Preach...
	🤖 6:40pm PaulRobeson1922: @YETI BOB: What the individual can do, pales in comparison to what large scale industry can do- mcdonough.com...
	6:40pm P-90: No Mark, you’re not “on Twitter too much.” I will miss your contributions there if you stop posting.
	6:41pm DanFA: I was on Twitter for a couple of years, was only following less than 100 people, and found it exhausting trying to keep up with all the tweets in my timeline. Such a waste of time. Complete information overload. For me at least.
	6:41pm ed: twitter is as useful as driving at 100 MPH and tossing your business card out the window.
	6:41pm ultradamno: I miss Hearty on there...
	🤖 6:42pm Handy Haversack: I can't remember if I bragged yet, but: I GOT OFF GOOGLE! I was on Gmail since like 2007? 2008? I was a super early adopter (which I never am) because I had a friend working there back when it was invite only. And I finally pulled the cord. And it was so much easier than I had thought it could be. And it feels SO GOOD to have fucking NOTHING to do with that hellmouth of a company anymore. I mean, like, actual "I can not hate the internet sometimes" levels of joy going on. Listen to the sign-off, friends. Mark is trying to help us!
	6:42pm -жеи: Let’s not forget that musk does not own Twitter yet, and his deal could very easily collapse prior to closing
	🤖 6:42pm David (in London): Yeah, Bas might yet out-bid Musk.
	6:43pm DanFA: @ -жеи: I read somewhere that his tweeting about certain board members is a violation of the contract. He could've shot himself in the foot already.
	6:43pm RevErie: i deactivated my twitter account just now!
	🤖 6:43pm Handy Haversack: Way to go, RevErie!
	6:44pm joe mulligan: that's a very good point Ken although I wonder what would happen next..
	🤖 6:44pm Ken From Hyde Park: What happened to the poison pill the board was going to implement?
	6:44pm Dean: If Paul is correct that Twitter once was useful--I have my doubts, but I'll accept the premise--and if Twitter is now so unbearably exploitative, then why aren't people like Paul a least a smidgen hopeful that Musk could effect a change should he close the deal?
	6:44pm P-90: “Simply disengagement” is NOT the solution to the Twitter problem, or the other social media problems. The real answer is right in front of you guys and you’re missing it.
	6:44pm Franco Twinkie: I prefer to argue in person. Engaging in personal acrimony is SO un satisfying while typing.
	6:44pm RevErie: what about mastodon?
	6:45pm joe mulligan: twitter was pretty wonderful in 2006, it was a social media hug-fest till maybe 2009
	6:45pm DanFA: Has anyone on here used Discord? It's a chat room-based social media site like the comment section where you have to be invited to join it.
	🤖 6:46pm Webhamster Henry: Is someone going to unroll this chat after the show?
	6:46pm P-90: Did Carr mention “Twitter before Musk took over”? Who said he’s already “taken over”.
	6:46pm joe mulligan: DanFA I've used Dischord for chats during indoor virtual bike riding on Zwift. it's nice
	6:46pm ultradamno: I might quite twitter if I get called "sheeple" too many times in a week, that's my threshhold. I can usually ignore seeing Bill Maher, James Woods, Joe Rogan, Piers Morgan etc trending at all times. It's just a matter of not taking the bait too much.
	6:46pm Franco Twinkie: Checking my game stops at looking at my teeth in the mirror before I leave the house.
	🤖 6:47pm Handy Haversack: Discord is ... well, imbricate in the same Silicon Valley VC world as all the others, DanFA. It seems like a terrible method of communication, but then I think all social media seems like a mere pretense of communication. I use it just for in-game chat and record keeping for our D&D game since we went remote for the pandemic.
	6:48pm P-90: Sheila took the leap. She’s a pioneer.
	🤖 6:48pm Handy Haversack: SheilaB is a hero! Mad respect!
	6:48pm Rolando: Paul Bradley makes a lot of sense 👍 Thank you. Now we need to talk about alternatives to Twitter, and ways of approaching this problem in order to allow FreeSpeech.
	6:49pm ultradamno: So it could be a "dog catches car" situation...
	6:49pm joe mulligan: good points Handy! there's also Twitch which has been used for gamers but has been used by musicians and dj's for live stream concerts during pandemic lockdown
	🤖 6:49pm MarciB: Three cheers for @SheliaB! And this playlist is so full of gems - just signed up for PBC's newsletter.
	6:49pm Quinn02: I ditched Facebook. Don’t regret it.
	6:50pm DanFA: @Handy- some podcasts I listen to have Discord servers and I've been able interact with other fans and the people who run those shows. So far I've had a good experience.
	6:50pm ultradamno: Never having Facebooked, Instagrammed or What'sapped IS something I can brag...
	6:51pm P-90: You guys are talking about Twitter as if Elon has already had some influence on Twitter’s daily operations. I don’t think he has? Isn’t that just an anxious (and slightly silly) assumption?
	6:51pm solo mon: This CVS receipt length comment board.
	6:51pm Franco Twinkie: Alternatives ultimately create a new raft of problems. Talk to people in the park and go to parties. It's enough, believe me.
	6:51pm ultradamno: (not cause I'm above it, mind you, I just found Facebook's format ugly and dumb)
	6:51pm joe mulligan: I've stopped using twitter for years, logged in much less to facebook but cant quit so I have a "no post/no like/no comment" rule for myself but I can't quit instagram - yet
	6:51pm Dean: Glenn Greenwald has been hammering away at this fact, the routine ownership of social/news media by insanely wealthy people. I can only agree with him in this respect.
	🤖 6:52pm Handy Haversack: I tried for a while to participate in some maker communities there, DanFA, but eventually found it ... empty? Either empty or overloaded, I guess. And the channel format seemed just to make it impossible to organize conversations. But I have no real drive for communication outside pretty much what Franco just said. So I use it for some record keeping, and it's OK for that.
	6:53pm ultradamno: (and Insta just seemed like knockoff Flicker and I'm still not sure what What's App is)
	6:53pm DanFA: @Handy yeah, I pretty much agree with that. None of these social media platforms are perfect for social interaction.
	6:53pm joe mulligan: I've been using two main platforms instead of social media 1) Slack for my bike people (a work collaboration tool that can be used for a closed group in a social way) 2) wfmu comments board
	6:54pm P-90: Elon’s blind spot is that he really has no idea how rapidly Twitter will become obsolete. He thinks he’ll be able to “innovate” his way out of that obsolescence. He’s overly confident about that. Blinded by his narcissistic character.
	6:54pm DanFA: WFMU: Resisting Toxic Logic Since 1985
	🤖 6:54pm Handy Haversack: There's a WFMU comments board?! That sounds perfect! How do I sign up?!
	6:54pm ultradamno: I used to love My Deja for going through usenet groups...bring that back!
	🤖 6:55pm David (in London): I've just bid £44 for the WFMU comments board.
	6:55pm Franco Twinkie: I'm kidding of course Handy. But typing culture is like eating sugar - taste good, but empty is so many ways.
	6:55pm Jeff Moore: [checks over shoulder to see where Mark Hurst is looking] My absolute favorite social network was Google+. No, not joking (even though a bunch of jerks made fun of it throughout its all too brief existence). It was a beautiful place for long-form, nuanced conversations with remarkable belly-up-to-the-bar access to legendary tech figures.
	6:55pm Zinn The Mood: Hey folks. Great show, Mark. Have said this before, we don’t have democracy in this country. It’s Inverted Totalitarianism (www.truthdig.com...)
	6:55pm Dean: I also think our reception of toxic discourse these days is blinkered. I spent part of today poring over issues of a student newspaper from the early '80s. The vitriol was boundless. Technology or not, we haven't changed that much.
	6:55pm Dutch: Hear hear
	6:56pm DanFA: What are some audiobook alternatives to Audible?
	🤖 6:56pm Webhamster Henry: If Twitter went away, news programs would finally stop retweeting tweets in other media.
	6:56pm solo mon: 🗑 🐦
	6:56pm ultradamno: The worst was yahoo groups or whatever it was called. Unusable
	6:56pm joe mulligan: thank you everyone!! very good episode and comments
	6:56pm P-90: “Make algorithmic amplification obsolete” is a load of bunk, it will never happen. And shouldn’t. You guys are still missing the real solution….
	6:56pm Sonderangebot: Thanks for the great interview again. I can get audiobooks from the library here.
	🤖 6:56pm chresti: Maybe listener fleep will come back to the comments if Musk takes over twitter...
	🤖 6:56pm Will the Sound Guy: Thank you Mark Hurst, Paul Bradley Carr, and all the Commenters!!!!
	6:56pm <3: thnx mark!
	6:56pm Zinn The Mood: “Inverted totalitarianism is different from classical forms of totalitarianism. It does not find its expression in a demagogue or charismatic leader but in the faceless anonymity of the corporate state. Our inverted totalitarianism pays outward fealty to the facade of electoral politics, the Constitution, civil liberties, freedom of the press, the independence of the judiciary, and the iconography, traditions and language of American patriotism, but it has effectively seized all of the mechanisms of power to render the citizenry impotent.”
	🤖 6:56pm Handy Haversack: Mad respect, Mark Hurst. Mad respect. Word, Zinn! And Jeff Moore, that's where all the DIY D&D stuff was happening. It's the only SM platform I ever used, and I even kind of miss it. It was really useful for the maker community. But also: Google. Daona! The best! Yeah!
	🤖 6:57pm tim from washington: Thanks, Mark!
	6:57pm ultradamno: Hey! I have this CD!
	🤖 6:57pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark & Paul! David, you're on the radio again!
	🤖 6:57pm Handy Haversack: Dang, pre-clicky-starred. But I want to clicky-star it again!
	6:57pm P-90: Thanks Mark!
	🤖 6:57pm tim from washington: Daona! Woohoo!
	6:57pm joe mulligan: good stuff DiL!!
	🤖 6:57pm David (in London): Ha ha, thank you Mark, an honour to close this episode out.
	6:57pm _Ike_: @DanFA, most libraries "lend" out audiobooks online.
	6:57pm Chris: Another stellar episode. Thanks, Mark!
	🤖 6:58pm PaulRobeson1922: @Dean @6:55 openlibrary.org... HOW TO WATCH THE T.V NEWS
	🤖 6:58pm Webhamster Henry: Jeff Moore & I were the only non Google people using Google +.
	6:58pm Andres: Thanks, Mark! Thanks, Paul!
	🤖 6:58pm PaulRobeson1922: Thanks Mark & Paul!! Tellin it like it is!!!
	6:58pm Franco Twinkie: Tanks Mark. Get off your computer NOW, and go out side.
	🤖 6:58pm Handy Haversack: I was there, Henry. And a lot of DIY gamers. Well, "a lot."
	6:58pm Jeff Moore: @Webhamster Henry: Ha!
	🤖 6:59pm Webhamster Henry: I actually had my own Google Wave server (the open source version) running so I could Wave to myself.
	🤖 6:59pm chresti: Thanks Mark!
	6:59pm Jeff Moore: I never actually figured out was Wave... was.
	6:59pm ultradamno: No outside ever. If I could get plastic bubble boy disease I would!
	6:59pm Jeff Moore: was -> what
	6:59pm joe mulligan: hahaaaa @Henry and @Jeff Moore, I have so much public cycberjunk I posted from Google Plus and whatever that google twitter stuff was
	7:00pm Ciggy: Nice outro!
	7:00pm Androu B.: Thanx, Mark! @David (In London) OMG, this is a stunning piece of work! I'm going straight to your Bandcamp right now!
	7:00pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone, good chat this evening!
	7:00pm Rich in Washington: Thanks Mark!
	7:00pm joe mulligan: yes Jeff moore, google wave!
	🤖 7:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark. Am I a bad person for owning Solar City solar panels?
	🤖 7:01pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks Mark and chat boarders!

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