WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from October 17, 2022

Listener comments!
	🤖 5:59pm Handy Haversack: Mark and the Techyon Drives! Techgin: Poured! Ready for some Techtonic.
	6:00pm ultradamno: Mark! Techtonscriptionists!
	6:00pm Baja Joe: Greetings Mark and everyone listening
	6:00pm DanFA: I'm hoping that this interview was recorded on a 45 in keeping with singles going steady.
	🤖 6:01pm herb.nyc: Hola. Yay. The world is safe. Mark is here!
	6:02pm David in London: Evening Mark and all Technoids.
	6:02pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Good afternoon, Mark and Technistas.
	6:02pm Deano de los Muertos: Hey Mark!
	6:03pm wendy del formaggio: Hooray! Hello Mark & friends.
	🤖 6:03pm Folsom: I wonder if Angela is solving murders remotely in Cabot Cove
	🤖 6:03pm chresti: Hi Mark and techtoniacs!
	🤖 6:04pm Will thee Sound Guy: Hello Mark and all!!!
	6:04pm wendy del formaggio: Oh my goodness, I LOOOOVE The Internet Archive. It’s where I archive my radio shows. So psyched for this!
	6:05pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Mark!
	6:05pm Franco Twinkie: Hi Mark. I love the internet archive.
	6:05pm DanFA: Mark bought a robot
	6:05pm disco_nap_: Good evening, all! Very excited for tonight's episode.
	6:06pm listener james from westwood: I was all over the Wayback Machine today while vetting URLs in the reference section of a new-edition book I was editing. Amazing how much bit rot transpired in 4 years.
	6:06pm disco_nap_: Patron saint of found footage films!
	6:06pm Alex G: Ohhh....great guest!!
	6:07pm Mr. Pumpy: I love the Internet Archive, and I'm here for the snacks.
	6:07pm Mark Hurst: Hi all, thanks for joining! Glad to see fellow fans of Internet Archive/Wayback Machine here on the comment board.
	6:07pm Rolando: Present and listening from the land of Oz
	6:08pm Deano de los Muertos: I know nothing about the Wayback, outside of Peabody & Sherman, been looking forward to this show
	6:08pm -жеи: I wish I had a Petabyte
	6:08pm P-90: Coincidentally, I just used the Wayback Machine yesterday, reminded of its inestimable value as a resource.
	6:09pm Franco Twinkie: That's a pretty good price.
	6:09pm Ochre Ogre: Hi Mark!
	🤖 6:09pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi all!
	6:09pm Mark Hurst: @-жеи skip the petabyte and just go for an exabyte!
	6:10pm Mark Hurst: @Bas @Ochre Ogre @Rolando hello, good to see you all here
	🤖 6:10pm herb.nyc: The good people at The Archive of Contemporary Music work w L’Internet Archive.
	6:11pm Ciggy: My professional work is archived at Tuxedo Park, NY Near the New York Renaissance Faire One of the loveliest Renaissance faires in the country!
	6:11pm P-90: жеи’s a peta-phile. Welcome to the club!
	6:11pm Ochre Ogre: @ Ken- Wish my pet didn't bite.
	6:11pm disco_nap_: Where did my little robot guy go? :( Do I have to re-pledge to get him back? I didn't cancel my donation, it's still being withdrawn...
	6:12pm Baja Joe: Just signed up. Wow. Of course this exists.
	🤖 6:13pm Webhamster Henry: A whole lotta stuff is in the archive that you wouldn't think is in the archive.
	🤖 6:13pm Handy Haversack: Exabyte's a bit of an overbite.
	6:13pm Kat in Chicago: Internet Archive is beyond awesome and I need to remember to throw them some money again soon (next month after the Hellraiser, haha). Been spending a lot of time with the Over The Edge Radio (Don Joyce/Negativland) archives in recent months.
	6:14pm P-90: I’d like to know: who first thought of borrowing the name “Wayback Machine” for the archive of webpages past?
	6:14pm queems: this comes at a good time because i recently realized i was bored/tired of the internet in its current state
	🤖 6:15pm Ken From Hyde Park: If a person were to print out those 100 petabytes, how far past the moon would it reach?
	🤖 6:15pm Webhamster Henry: Nov 15, 1996: web.archive.org...
	6:15pm mndave: web.archive.org... This is precious.
	🤖 6:15pm Handy Haversack: Word, queems.
	🤖 6:15pm Will thee Sound Guy: I archive my recordings of shows that I've done the sound for... since about 2007
	6:15pm Mark Hurst: @disco_nap_ the monthly donation (Swag For Life) gets the radio-icon - which you have, thanks! ... the robot-icon is (now) displayed for donations to Techtonic during this particular October fundraiser.
	6:17pm disco_nap_: Thank you for explaining that to me, Mark! And for all you do!
	6:17pm Franco Twinkie: This is true. I worked in mainstream media for years and was a high paid nobody. Now I'm an internet nobody and make zero money.
	6:17pm Mark Hurst: @disco_nap_ likewise, thanks for all your support!
	6:19pm paddy in matawan: I've tried to use the Internet Archive but just haven't really been able to use it like I use other sites. I know it has a ton of stuff but it's a little difficult to navigate and is somewhat sluggish. I am all ears.
	6:20pm Ochre Ogre: Publishers, sounds like what banks have been doin for decades.
	6:22pm Old Dave: whew, sorry - late to the show... too much steppin and fetchin fo' de massa today.
	6:24pm melinda: hi everyone
	6:24pm Rich in Washington: Bob bless the Internet Archive and all who sail with it.
	6:24pm The Butterman: They have the ENTIRE Grateful Dead inventory. As a youngster I used to fantasize about having one device that had every dead show ever. What an amazing reality!
	6:25pm listener james from westwood: The Internet Archive's actual physical HQ is deliciously archive-y, if you care to search on your favorite non-snoopy web search site.
	🤖 6:25pm Webhamster Henry: Our library - probably yours too - does not keep a list of what we've checked out so that it can't get subpoenaed.
	🤖 6:26pm Bas NL: Is there a link between archive.org and arxiv.org?
	🤖 6:26pm Webhamster Henry: I am a super fan of the Old Time Radio programs on the archive. The Librivox material is very uneven, but - it's free!
	6:27pm Rolando: I like this chap, he’s a natural rebel !!!
	6:28pm P-90: Raiding my glass to Brewster for: “so we SUED the United States and WON”
	6:28pm Mark Hurst: @Bas arxiv.org is run by Cornell University - another good open-access project (for scholarly articles, in this case) but not, as far as I know, any connection with archive.org.
	🤖 6:28pm Webhamster Henry: Librarians are the most radical.
	🤖 6:29pm Bas NL: @Mark Thanks.
	6:30pm Ochre Ogre: Im not familiar with the Internet Archives, is it similar to the National Archives?
	6:31pm Mr. Pumpy: The Internet Archive is possibly the greatest thing about the internet. I recently watched Shuji Terayama's short film Emperor Tomato Ketchup on the site before going to see Stereolab on their current tour. The film is weird and somewhat problematic, but it was amazing that I could watch it for free on the archive. As a result, I finally had additional insight into what is possibly the bands most famous album, being they named it after the film. I have read, watched, listened to so much on the Internet Archive over the past two decades. It is an amazing resource. I thank you, Brewster!
	6:31pm Franco Twinkie: There is a brand new brick and mortar Amazon store in Pasadena. I am curious about how they have transformed the footprint of a building I use to go into all the time. However, I'm scared of some kind of electro-voodoo that will steal my sole if I walk thru this thinly veiled portal to hell.
	6:31pm Jackie G: I like this guy's enthusiasm
	6:32pm TDK60: Hi Mark, archivers.
	6:32pm Mark Hurst: @TDK60 welcome
	6:32pm Jackie G: watch your shoes if you care about your soles.
	6:33pm Franco Twinkie: We are.
	6:33pm Mr. Pumpy: Had trouble posting. I didn't mean to double post.
	6:33pm William Swan, Jr.: Wikipedia is bullshit.
	6:33pm Sam: The charity system in this country was set up in the service of capitalism, so that private individuals have to volunteer their time and money to accomplish things the government should be doing, and does do in other countries. Our government is happy to give tax write offs so they can shirk their social responsibilities and push them on to others. It disgusts me to see us relying on charities to solve real problems.
	6:33pm Old Dave: THERE is the great thing to tell us Mark. I helped take Chester Springs Library and an historic building in Gladwyne PA to 501c3 status.. and they got stronger afterwards because real estate vultures went away.
	6:33pm Dano59: I've used the Internet Archive / Wayback Machine a lot in the past year or so. -- e.g. radio aicrhecks (incl. National Lampoon Radio Hour); books ('Slut', after Sheila B. recommended it); music: Dead shows, Dan Bern shows, etc. ... and movies like The ('62) Manchurian Candidate with Angela Lansbury. The servers - well, large portions of them - figure into research at my old university.
	6:34pm Franco Twinkie: It's all lost!
	6:34pm Jackie G: So funny they call those church benches "pews"
	🤖 6:35pm Webhamster Henry: This data redundancy ensures "business continuity".
	6:35pm Dano59: I also found vital details for my radio show on on old, long-gone music blog I once visited. (swedesplease).
	6:35pm P-90: The Great Alexandrian Library rises again
	6:36pm Ochre Ogre: Mr Pumpy- That's awesome, and Stereolab!!
	6:36pm Dano59: excellent analogy, P-90. It's a modern Wonder of the World.
	6:36pm paddy in matawan: Nice to see the film Caligula represented there.
	6:37pm disco_nap_: Stereolab!! x2
	🤖 6:37pm Will thee Sound Guy: diggin this chat
	6:37pm iiibeat: Ark-Hive. Yes yes. Isn't librivox associated somehow?
	6:37pm Rich in Washington: Inter-library loan is awesome. I've ILL'd rare audio and video recordings and ripped them.
	🤖 6:38pm Handy Haversack: Maybe it's from having to work through a browser all day, but, honestly, the last thing I want when I come home is more internet. I like that this exists, but I don't think I'm the ideal user. At least as I'm currently constituted. And I view even the nonevil parts of the internet pretty circumspectly. I just am not sure it has proved its use yet.
	6:39pm Franco Twinkie: Handy, I hate reading the screen. But what am I suppose to do?
	6:39pm Mr. Pumpy: Handy, I haven't proved my use yet, either (neither?)! I just don't want to be stricken off some list...so I'm putting that out there.
	6:39pm wendy del formaggio: Brewster is right about interlibrary loan. I use it about twice a month for books and DVDs. Who needs (shudder) amazon prime etc to watch movies? I have gotten TONS of odd and indy movies through ILL. FOR FREE. Also, know this: every time you borrow materials from your public library, you legitimize it to whoever controls its budget. THIS many people are borrowing THIS many items. In a data-driven culture, this is crucial. GO TO THE LIBRARY!
	6:39pm disco_nap_: Big same...reading words on a physical page or just looking at the world around me is such a relief to my poor, screen-strained eyes at the end of the day.
	6:40pm castor: You should turn the sites of the servers into shrines that confer special benefits to their supplicants, and you can have festivals and rituals at them that enable deep community bonding.
	6:40pm disco_nap_: I miss when NYPL had the Kanopy hookup :'(
	6:40pm Mr. Pumpy: @Ochre, were you there? Handy was there, and we saw the stereo goodness.
	🤖 6:41pm Webhamster Henry: I like archive.orgs book borrowing feature too.
	6:41pm disco_nap_: @castor I cackled out loud at that!
	🤖 6:42pm Handy Haversack: Books, Franco? Small, nonprofit publishers are really as captured by the Big Tech nightmare as all the rest of us. It's really hard. Amazon sets the terms for so much of the market. The licensing deals for e-books are determined by the huge companies and not by the small publishers because they have no other way of getting books to the libraries. Or at least, no way that there are personnel to handle at any kind of scale. Even just delivering e-book files is so hard. The capital investment required means that it tends to be done only by the massive companies, and then small publishers have to use their infrastructure.
	6:42pm Lil Nasty: I'm a librarian, and Brewster has been a hero of mine for some time. So happy to hear him bringing attention to these issues
	6:43pm disco_nap_: I never realized there were e-books on the Internet Archive...is there a way to download them to devices too? Like a phone, boko, etc.
	🤖 6:43pm Webhamster Henry: A few like Cory Doctorow can crowdsource their book publishing, but that's tough for everyone else.
	🤖 6:43pm Webhamster Henry: There's an archive.org app in case you want to read a borrowed book on a device.
	6:44pm disco_nap_: Thank you, Webhamster!
	6:44pm WR: Brewster just used the "surveilled" word.
	🤖 6:44pm chresti: get out of my chair?
	6:44pm DanFA: I usually use Hoopla for ebooks if the book in question is too expensive or I'm not sure I really want to commit to buying a physical copy. If I am going to buy a physical book, I'll mostly use a small bookstore. Or Barnes and Noble if they already have something in stock.
	6:44pm Ochre Ogre: Mr Pumpy- Unfortunately no, I was a late comer to Stereolab.
	6:45pm DanFA: @Chresti, upload Addams Family series. They don't have it.
	6:45pm Franco Twinkie: In L.A. literate people have these little bird houses in their front yards full of books they don't want. Today I got a book on the history of Bollywood movies written by a professor of Anthorpology at New York University. It's a book goddamnit, and it was free!
	🤖 6:46pm Handy Haversack: (Not to mention the personnel hours small publishers waste on social media ...) Ochre Ogre, it's not too late! Not sure where you are, but the tour is ongoing.
	6:46pm chris in the redwoods: this has to be one of my fav interviews, Mark. kudos!
	6:46pm Vanessa bikes: Awesome interview and awesome guest! thanks!
	6:46pm Mr. Pumpy: @Wendy, I agree. However, as a film fanatic, I have come to appreciate some streaming services as they have titles I've been looking for which I can not find at the library. I do a bit of both. There is a great streaming site called Kanopy which bridges the two worlds. they are tied into the public library network and as long as you have a library card from one of the participating libraries you can search for and watch a good grip of content that comes from the system and watch 6 a month for free. Kanopy.com...it's amazing. Also, Metrograph does something similar based on their theater's content in NYC and their curated film festivals and lecture series.
	6:46pm Andres: Great interview, Mark!!
	6:47pm spodiodi: thanks, Brewster Kahle! thanks, Mark Hurst!
	6:47pm Kat in Chicago: @Franco those Little Free Libraries are big in Chicago too, several of my neighbors have them.
	6:47pm chris in the redwoods: had to toss a few coins in the tip jar.
	🤖 6:47pm Handy Haversack: Calvin's only half right. We don't understand the value of oil, timber, or minerals at all well. We both over- and undervalue them wildly. Still, for a six-year-old, he's pretty much nailing it. <---
	6:47pm Rolando: Marks books are in the Open Library 😃
	6:48pm ultradamno: Did someone do some dusting? Why did that show have to go?
	6:48pm -жеи: Say it Mark: PROG!
	🤖 6:48pm Bas NL: A very happy and positive concept the Internet Archive. I've lost so much work by website changes and take-overs.
	6:48pm wendy del formaggio: I’m sad Dave Mandl’s not on tonight. I’m psyched Scott is filling in. I guess it’s complicated.
	🤖 6:48pm chresti: Ok DanFA, after I download it?
	6:48pm ultradamno: (no slight on the complications to be inferred)
	🤖 6:48pm Handy Haversack: Also, contractually obligated to say: It's go time! MANDLPROG! MANDLPROG! MANDLPROG!
	🤖 6:48pm Webhamster Henry: I'm a big fan of Kanopy , they have lots of documentaries and tv series and foreign stuff and last year had a massive number of Giallo films highlighted for Halloween.
	6:49pm eme: incredible show, thanks mark
	6:49pm chris in the redwoods: ultrad, "live intervened" as the DJ said. his folks are ailing, iirc.
	6:49pm -жеи: @ultradamno, Derek was not able to continue doing the show due to medical issues in his family
	6:49pm chris in the redwoods: *life
	6:50pm Dhario: Did someone catch the name of the library (founded by Ben Franklin) that Brewster Kahle recommended in Midtown?
	6:50pm Mr. Pumpy: Webhamster - yes! It's a very well handled streaming service.
	🤖 6:50pm PaulRobeson1922: Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi
	6:51pm WR: True. The software that the NYC Library uses has an option for keeping a list of books you have checked out in the past but it is not and cannot be enabled.
	6:51pm Ochre Ogre: Handy- Thanks, will keep track! Sadly without Mary Hansen, but still, never saw them.
	🤖 6:51pm Handy Haversack: Mr. P, I might be wrong, but I think the reason the NYPL dropped Kanopy was over privacy concerns.
	6:52pm DanFA: @Chresti, do you have physical copies?
	6:52pm Lil Nasty: Gov docs go directly into the public domain.
	6:52pm Sam: Or to Mar-a-Lago
	🤖 6:53pm PaulRobeson1922: Hi, WR!
	🤖 6:53pm Webhamster Henry: Library of Congress is also great. www.loc.gov
	6:53pm Franco Twinkie: Support used bookstores. Where I go, they keep a log at the cash register of what they sell written in ballpoint pen. WITHOUT YOUR NAME!
	🤖 6:53pm Ken From Hyde Park: I think archive.org lets you access some news articles that were behind a paywall site, so that's an advantage.
	6:53pm Old Dave: Really too bad that public libraries became a place for housing-challenged individuals to sleep and poop and get high and occasionally get stabby.
	6:53pm WR: There are interests who have monetized public documents. Hi PaulR1922
	6:54pm Tom in Topanga: @Sam; Only if they compromise US security.
	6:54pm Mr. Pumpy: Handy, I didn't know they dropped them. Interesting, and disheartening.
	6:54pm DanFA: Yes! More positive stories, please.
	6:55pm Ochre Ogre: "A president can declassify documents by thinking it," I never knew that!
	🤖 6:55pm Webhamster Henry: Oh, and old pal Clive Thompson has a webapp that pulls up random weird books from archive.org.uxdesign.cc...
	6:55pm Mr. Pumpy: @Ochre, I hear you about Mary Hansen. Her magic will not be replaced, but the new bass player, Xavier Muñoz Guimera, surprised me with a lot of backing vocals I thought would go unsung. Great show, all things considered.
	6:56pm Jackie G: Stay tuned for prog show, coming up next.
	6:57pm Seanarchx: GREAT SHOW! I love Internet archive, wikipedia, WFMU obviously, KOOP, etc
	6:57pm P-90: Outstanding interview, even by Techtonic’s stratospheric standards. Bravo Mark.
	6:57pm ultradamno: Robot icon in the shop for repairs
	6:57pm Sam: The old robot icon became sentient and ran off to Tijuana.
	6:57pm Deano de los Muertos: Icon should stay if you’re Swag for Life
	6:57pm Ochre Ogre: Hells yeah, $10 here $10 there!
	6:57pm Feldy: Thanks, Mark!
	6:57pm Mr. Pumpy: MNDLPRG!
	🤖 6:58pm chresti: Thanks Mark!
	6:58pm Ochre Ogre: Thanks Mark!
	6:58pm paddy in matawan: Thanks Mark!
	6:58pm Franco Twinkie: I think I need a robot head. Just a minute, Mark.
	🤖 6:58pm Webhamster Henry: The radios are Swag For Lifers.
	🤖 6:58pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks Brewster!
	6:58pm Mr. Pumpy: @Sam, can you blame him?!
	🤖 6:58pm Webhamster Henry: My line would be cluttered with icons if they stuck around.
	6:58pm Sam: I certainly can not!
	🤖 6:58pm Deano de los Muertos: Thanks Mark!
	🤖 6:59pm chresti: Thanks Brewster!
	6:59pm Sam: I’m with Ken, I love the rants!
	🤖 6:59pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark! As always!
	6:59pm Jeff Moore: Oh, that is a robot head! With my crappy eyes, I thought it was a little cupcake until I looked really closely!
	🤖 6:59pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Mark and Brewster!! be well everyone!!!
	6:59pm ultradamno: By the way, the This Band Isn't Real uses AI to make up metal album covers and band names twitter.com...
	🤖 6:59pm Dean of the Dead: wish it showed my icons, photo, ect when you’re chatting via the app
	6:59pm wendy del formaggio: Thanks Mark!
	7:00pm listener 126464: that's funny
	7:00pm Sam: No, it’s a cupcake.
	🤖 7:00pm Handy Haversack: All hail our new robot cupcake overlords.

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from October 17, 2022

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Listener comments!
	🤖 5:59pm Handy Haversack: Mark and the Techyon Drives! Techgin: Poured! Ready for some Techtonic.
	6:00pm ultradamno: Mark! Techtonscriptionists!
	6:00pm Baja Joe: Greetings Mark and everyone listening
	6:00pm DanFA: I'm hoping that this interview was recorded on a 45 in keeping with singles going steady.
	🤖 6:01pm herb.nyc: Hola. Yay. The world is safe. Mark is here!
	6:02pm David in London: Evening Mark and all Technoids.
	6:02pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Good afternoon, Mark and Technistas.
	6:02pm Deano de los Muertos: Hey Mark!
	6:03pm wendy del formaggio: Hooray! Hello Mark & friends.
	🤖 6:03pm Folsom: I wonder if Angela is solving murders remotely in Cabot Cove
	🤖 6:03pm chresti: Hi Mark and techtoniacs!
	🤖 6:04pm Will thee Sound Guy: Hello Mark and all!!!
	6:04pm wendy del formaggio: Oh my goodness, I LOOOOVE The Internet Archive. It’s where I archive my radio shows. So psyched for this!
	6:05pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Mark!
	6:05pm Franco Twinkie: Hi Mark. I love the internet archive.
	6:05pm DanFA: Mark bought a robot
	6:05pm disco_nap_: Good evening, all! Very excited for tonight's episode.
	6:06pm listener james from westwood: I was all over the Wayback Machine today while vetting URLs in the reference section of a new-edition book I was editing. Amazing how much bit rot transpired in 4 years.
	6:06pm disco_nap_: Patron saint of found footage films!
	6:06pm Alex G: Ohhh....great guest!!
	6:07pm Mr. Pumpy: I love the Internet Archive, and I'm here for the snacks.
	6:07pm Mark Hurst: Hi all, thanks for joining! Glad to see fellow fans of Internet Archive/Wayback Machine here on the comment board.
	6:07pm Rolando: Present and listening from the land of Oz
	6:08pm Deano de los Muertos: I know nothing about the Wayback, outside of Peabody & Sherman, been looking forward to this show
	6:08pm -жеи: I wish I had a Petabyte
	6:08pm P-90: Coincidentally, I just used the Wayback Machine yesterday, reminded of its inestimable value as a resource.
	6:09pm Franco Twinkie: That's a pretty good price.
	6:09pm Ochre Ogre: Hi Mark!
	🤖 6:09pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi all!
	6:09pm Mark Hurst: @-жеи skip the petabyte and just go for an exabyte!
	6:10pm Mark Hurst: @Bas @Ochre Ogre @Rolando hello, good to see you all here
	🤖 6:10pm herb.nyc: The good people at The Archive of Contemporary Music work w L’Internet Archive.
	6:11pm Ciggy: My professional work is archived at Tuxedo Park, NY Near the New York Renaissance Faire One of the loveliest Renaissance faires in the country!
	6:11pm P-90: жеи’s a peta-phile. Welcome to the club!
	6:11pm Ochre Ogre: @ Ken- Wish my pet didn't bite.
	6:11pm disco_nap_: Where did my little robot guy go? :( Do I have to re-pledge to get him back? I didn't cancel my donation, it's still being withdrawn...
	6:12pm Baja Joe: Just signed up. Wow. Of course this exists.
	🤖 6:13pm Webhamster Henry: A whole lotta stuff is in the archive that you wouldn't think is in the archive.
	🤖 6:13pm Handy Haversack: Exabyte's a bit of an overbite.
	6:13pm Kat in Chicago: Internet Archive is beyond awesome and I need to remember to throw them some money again soon (next month after the Hellraiser, haha). Been spending a lot of time with the Over The Edge Radio (Don Joyce/Negativland) archives in recent months.
	6:14pm P-90: I’d like to know: who first thought of borrowing the name “Wayback Machine” for the archive of webpages past?
	6:14pm queems: this comes at a good time because i recently realized i was bored/tired of the internet in its current state
	🤖 6:15pm Ken From Hyde Park: If a person were to print out those 100 petabytes, how far past the moon would it reach?
	🤖 6:15pm Webhamster Henry: Nov 15, 1996: web.archive.org...
	6:15pm mndave: web.archive.org... This is precious.
	🤖 6:15pm Handy Haversack: Word, queems.
	🤖 6:15pm Will thee Sound Guy: I archive my recordings of shows that I've done the sound for... since about 2007
	6:15pm Mark Hurst: @disco_nap_ the monthly donation (Swag For Life) gets the radio-icon - which you have, thanks! ... the robot-icon is (now) displayed for donations to Techtonic during this particular October fundraiser.
	6:17pm disco_nap_: Thank you for explaining that to me, Mark! And for all you do!
	6:17pm Franco Twinkie: This is true. I worked in mainstream media for years and was a high paid nobody. Now I'm an internet nobody and make zero money.
	6:17pm Mark Hurst: @disco_nap_ likewise, thanks for all your support!
	6:19pm paddy in matawan: I've tried to use the Internet Archive but just haven't really been able to use it like I use other sites. I know it has a ton of stuff but it's a little difficult to navigate and is somewhat sluggish. I am all ears.
	6:20pm Ochre Ogre: Publishers, sounds like what banks have been doin for decades.
	6:22pm Old Dave: whew, sorry - late to the show... too much steppin and fetchin fo' de massa today.
	6:24pm melinda: hi everyone
	6:24pm Rich in Washington: Bob bless the Internet Archive and all who sail with it.
	6:24pm The Butterman: They have the ENTIRE Grateful Dead inventory. As a youngster I used to fantasize about having one device that had every dead show ever. What an amazing reality!
	6:25pm listener james from westwood: The Internet Archive's actual physical HQ is deliciously archive-y, if you care to search on your favorite non-snoopy web search site.
	🤖 6:25pm Webhamster Henry: Our library - probably yours too - does not keep a list of what we've checked out so that it can't get subpoenaed.
	🤖 6:26pm Bas NL: Is there a link between archive.org and arxiv.org?
	🤖 6:26pm Webhamster Henry: I am a super fan of the Old Time Radio programs on the archive. The Librivox material is very uneven, but - it's free!
	6:27pm Rolando: I like this chap, he’s a natural rebel !!!
	6:28pm P-90: Raiding my glass to Brewster for: “so we SUED the United States and WON”
	6:28pm Mark Hurst: @Bas arxiv.org is run by Cornell University - another good open-access project (for scholarly articles, in this case) but not, as far as I know, any connection with archive.org.
	🤖 6:28pm Webhamster Henry: Librarians are the most radical.
	🤖 6:29pm Bas NL: @Mark Thanks.
	6:30pm Ochre Ogre: Im not familiar with the Internet Archives, is it similar to the National Archives?
	6:31pm Mr. Pumpy: The Internet Archive is possibly the greatest thing about the internet. I recently watched Shuji Terayama's short film Emperor Tomato Ketchup on the site before going to see Stereolab on their current tour. The film is weird and somewhat problematic, but it was amazing that I could watch it for free on the archive. As a result, I finally had additional insight into what is possibly the bands most famous album, being they named it after the film. I have read, watched, listened to so much on the Internet Archive over the past two decades. It is an amazing resource. I thank you, Brewster!
	6:31pm Franco Twinkie: There is a brand new brick and mortar Amazon store in Pasadena. I am curious about how they have transformed the footprint of a building I use to go into all the time. However, I'm scared of some kind of electro-voodoo that will steal my sole if I walk thru this thinly veiled portal to hell.
	6:31pm Jackie G: I like this guy's enthusiasm
	6:32pm TDK60: Hi Mark, archivers.
	6:32pm Mark Hurst: @TDK60 welcome
	6:32pm Jackie G: watch your shoes if you care about your soles.
	6:33pm Franco Twinkie: We are.
	6:33pm Mr. Pumpy: Had trouble posting. I didn't mean to double post.
	6:33pm William Swan, Jr.: Wikipedia is bullshit.
	6:33pm Sam: The charity system in this country was set up in the service of capitalism, so that private individuals have to volunteer their time and money to accomplish things the government should be doing, and does do in other countries. Our government is happy to give tax write offs so they can shirk their social responsibilities and push them on to others. It disgusts me to see us relying on charities to solve real problems.
	6:33pm Old Dave: THERE is the great thing to tell us Mark. I helped take Chester Springs Library and an historic building in Gladwyne PA to 501c3 status.. and they got stronger afterwards because real estate vultures went away.
	6:33pm Dano59: I've used the Internet Archive / Wayback Machine a lot in the past year or so. -- e.g. radio aicrhecks (incl. National Lampoon Radio Hour); books ('Slut', after Sheila B. recommended it); music: Dead shows, Dan Bern shows, etc. ... and movies like The ('62) Manchurian Candidate with Angela Lansbury. The servers - well, large portions of them - figure into research at my old university.
	6:34pm Franco Twinkie: It's all lost!
	6:34pm Jackie G: So funny they call those church benches "pews"
	🤖 6:35pm Webhamster Henry: This data redundancy ensures "business continuity".
	6:35pm Dano59: I also found vital details for my radio show on on old, long-gone music blog I once visited. (swedesplease).
	6:35pm P-90: The Great Alexandrian Library rises again
	6:36pm Ochre Ogre: Mr Pumpy- That's awesome, and Stereolab!!
	6:36pm Dano59: excellent analogy, P-90. It's a modern Wonder of the World.
	6:36pm paddy in matawan: Nice to see the film Caligula represented there.
	6:37pm disco_nap_: Stereolab!! x2
	🤖 6:37pm Will thee Sound Guy: diggin this chat
	6:37pm iiibeat: Ark-Hive. Yes yes. Isn't librivox associated somehow?
	6:37pm Rich in Washington: Inter-library loan is awesome. I've ILL'd rare audio and video recordings and ripped them.
	🤖 6:38pm Handy Haversack: Maybe it's from having to work through a browser all day, but, honestly, the last thing I want when I come home is more internet. I like that this exists, but I don't think I'm the ideal user. At least as I'm currently constituted. And I view even the nonevil parts of the internet pretty circumspectly. I just am not sure it has proved its use yet.
	6:39pm Franco Twinkie: Handy, I hate reading the screen. But what am I suppose to do?
	6:39pm Mr. Pumpy: Handy, I haven't proved my use yet, either (neither?)! I just don't want to be stricken off some list...so I'm putting that out there.
	6:39pm wendy del formaggio: Brewster is right about interlibrary loan. I use it about twice a month for books and DVDs. Who needs (shudder) amazon prime etc to watch movies? I have gotten TONS of odd and indy movies through ILL. FOR FREE. Also, know this: every time you borrow materials from your public library, you legitimize it to whoever controls its budget. THIS many people are borrowing THIS many items. In a data-driven culture, this is crucial. GO TO THE LIBRARY!
	6:39pm disco_nap_: Big same...reading words on a physical page or just looking at the world around me is such a relief to my poor, screen-strained eyes at the end of the day.
	6:40pm castor: You should turn the sites of the servers into shrines that confer special benefits to their supplicants, and you can have festivals and rituals at them that enable deep community bonding.
	6:40pm disco_nap_: I miss when NYPL had the Kanopy hookup :'(
	6:40pm Mr. Pumpy: @Ochre, were you there? Handy was there, and we saw the stereo goodness.
	🤖 6:41pm Webhamster Henry: I like archive.orgs book borrowing feature too.
	6:41pm disco_nap_: @castor I cackled out loud at that!
	🤖 6:42pm Handy Haversack: Books, Franco? Small, nonprofit publishers are really as captured by the Big Tech nightmare as all the rest of us. It's really hard. Amazon sets the terms for so much of the market. The licensing deals for e-books are determined by the huge companies and not by the small publishers because they have no other way of getting books to the libraries. Or at least, no way that there are personnel to handle at any kind of scale. Even just delivering e-book files is so hard. The capital investment required means that it tends to be done only by the massive companies, and then small publishers have to use their infrastructure.
	6:42pm Lil Nasty: I'm a librarian, and Brewster has been a hero of mine for some time. So happy to hear him bringing attention to these issues
	6:43pm disco_nap_: I never realized there were e-books on the Internet Archive...is there a way to download them to devices too? Like a phone, boko, etc.
	🤖 6:43pm Webhamster Henry: A few like Cory Doctorow can crowdsource their book publishing, but that's tough for everyone else.
	🤖 6:43pm Webhamster Henry: There's an archive.org app in case you want to read a borrowed book on a device.
	6:44pm disco_nap_: Thank you, Webhamster!
	6:44pm WR: Brewster just used the "surveilled" word.
	🤖 6:44pm chresti: get out of my chair?
	6:44pm DanFA: I usually use Hoopla for ebooks if the book in question is too expensive or I'm not sure I really want to commit to buying a physical copy. If I am going to buy a physical book, I'll mostly use a small bookstore. Or Barnes and Noble if they already have something in stock.
	6:44pm Ochre Ogre: Mr Pumpy- Unfortunately no, I was a late comer to Stereolab.
	6:45pm DanFA: @Chresti, upload Addams Family series. They don't have it.
	6:45pm Franco Twinkie: In L.A. literate people have these little bird houses in their front yards full of books they don't want. Today I got a book on the history of Bollywood movies written by a professor of Anthorpology at New York University. It's a book goddamnit, and it was free!
	🤖 6:46pm Handy Haversack: (Not to mention the personnel hours small publishers waste on social media ...) Ochre Ogre, it's not too late! Not sure where you are, but the tour is ongoing.
	6:46pm chris in the redwoods: this has to be one of my fav interviews, Mark. kudos!
	6:46pm Vanessa bikes: Awesome interview and awesome guest! thanks!
	6:46pm Mr. Pumpy: @Wendy, I agree. However, as a film fanatic, I have come to appreciate some streaming services as they have titles I've been looking for which I can not find at the library. I do a bit of both. There is a great streaming site called Kanopy which bridges the two worlds. they are tied into the public library network and as long as you have a library card from one of the participating libraries you can search for and watch a good grip of content that comes from the system and watch 6 a month for free. Kanopy.com...it's amazing. Also, Metrograph does something similar based on their theater's content in NYC and their curated film festivals and lecture series.
	6:46pm Andres: Great interview, Mark!!
	6:47pm spodiodi: thanks, Brewster Kahle! thanks, Mark Hurst!
	6:47pm Kat in Chicago: @Franco those Little Free Libraries are big in Chicago too, several of my neighbors have them.
	6:47pm chris in the redwoods: had to toss a few coins in the tip jar.
	🤖 6:47pm Handy Haversack: Calvin's only half right. We don't understand the value of oil, timber, or minerals at all well. We both over- and undervalue them wildly. Still, for a six-year-old, he's pretty much nailing it. <---
	6:47pm Rolando: Marks books are in the Open Library 😃
	6:48pm ultradamno: Did someone do some dusting? Why did that show have to go?
	6:48pm -жеи: Say it Mark: PROG!
	🤖 6:48pm Bas NL: A very happy and positive concept the Internet Archive. I've lost so much work by website changes and take-overs.
	6:48pm wendy del formaggio: I’m sad Dave Mandl’s not on tonight. I’m psyched Scott is filling in. I guess it’s complicated.
	🤖 6:48pm chresti: Ok DanFA, after I download it?
	6:48pm ultradamno: (no slight on the complications to be inferred)
	🤖 6:48pm Handy Haversack: Also, contractually obligated to say: It's go time! MANDLPROG! MANDLPROG! MANDLPROG!
	🤖 6:48pm Webhamster Henry: I'm a big fan of Kanopy , they have lots of documentaries and tv series and foreign stuff and last year had a massive number of Giallo films highlighted for Halloween.
	6:49pm eme: incredible show, thanks mark
	6:49pm chris in the redwoods: ultrad, "live intervened" as the DJ said. his folks are ailing, iirc.
	6:49pm -жеи: @ultradamno, Derek was not able to continue doing the show due to medical issues in his family
	6:49pm chris in the redwoods: *life
	6:50pm Dhario: Did someone catch the name of the library (founded by Ben Franklin) that Brewster Kahle recommended in Midtown?
	6:50pm Mr. Pumpy: Webhamster - yes! It's a very well handled streaming service.
	🤖 6:50pm PaulRobeson1922: Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi
	6:51pm WR: True. The software that the NYC Library uses has an option for keeping a list of books you have checked out in the past but it is not and cannot be enabled.
	6:51pm Ochre Ogre: Handy- Thanks, will keep track! Sadly without Mary Hansen, but still, never saw them.
	🤖 6:51pm Handy Haversack: Mr. P, I might be wrong, but I think the reason the NYPL dropped Kanopy was over privacy concerns.
	6:52pm DanFA: @Chresti, do you have physical copies?
	6:52pm Lil Nasty: Gov docs go directly into the public domain.
	6:52pm Sam: Or to Mar-a-Lago
	🤖 6:53pm PaulRobeson1922: Hi, WR!
	🤖 6:53pm Webhamster Henry: Library of Congress is also great. www.loc.gov
	6:53pm Franco Twinkie: Support used bookstores. Where I go, they keep a log at the cash register of what they sell written in ballpoint pen. WITHOUT YOUR NAME!
	🤖 6:53pm Ken From Hyde Park: I think archive.org lets you access some news articles that were behind a paywall site, so that's an advantage.
	6:53pm Old Dave: Really too bad that public libraries became a place for housing-challenged individuals to sleep and poop and get high and occasionally get stabby.
	6:53pm WR: There are interests who have monetized public documents. Hi PaulR1922
	6:54pm Tom in Topanga: @Sam; Only if they compromise US security.
	6:54pm Mr. Pumpy: Handy, I didn't know they dropped them. Interesting, and disheartening.
	6:54pm DanFA: Yes! More positive stories, please.
	6:55pm Ochre Ogre: "A president can declassify documents by thinking it," I never knew that!
	🤖 6:55pm Webhamster Henry: Oh, and old pal Clive Thompson has a webapp that pulls up random weird books from archive.org.uxdesign.cc...
	6:55pm Mr. Pumpy: @Ochre, I hear you about Mary Hansen. Her magic will not be replaced, but the new bass player, Xavier Muñoz Guimera, surprised me with a lot of backing vocals I thought would go unsung. Great show, all things considered.
	6:56pm Jackie G: Stay tuned for prog show, coming up next.
	6:57pm Seanarchx: GREAT SHOW! I love Internet archive, wikipedia, WFMU obviously, KOOP, etc
	6:57pm P-90: Outstanding interview, even by Techtonic’s stratospheric standards. Bravo Mark.
	6:57pm ultradamno: Robot icon in the shop for repairs
	6:57pm Sam: The old robot icon became sentient and ran off to Tijuana.
	6:57pm Deano de los Muertos: Icon should stay if you’re Swag for Life
	6:57pm Ochre Ogre: Hells yeah, $10 here $10 there!
	6:57pm Feldy: Thanks, Mark!
	6:57pm Mr. Pumpy: MNDLPRG!
	🤖 6:58pm chresti: Thanks Mark!
	6:58pm Ochre Ogre: Thanks Mark!
	6:58pm paddy in matawan: Thanks Mark!
	6:58pm Franco Twinkie: I think I need a robot head. Just a minute, Mark.
	🤖 6:58pm Webhamster Henry: The radios are Swag For Lifers.
	🤖 6:58pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks Brewster!
	6:58pm Mr. Pumpy: @Sam, can you blame him?!
	🤖 6:58pm Webhamster Henry: My line would be cluttered with icons if they stuck around.
	6:58pm Sam: I certainly can not!
	🤖 6:58pm Deano de los Muertos: Thanks Mark!
	🤖 6:59pm chresti: Thanks Brewster!
	6:59pm Sam: I’m with Ken, I love the rants!
	🤖 6:59pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark! As always!
	6:59pm Jeff Moore: Oh, that is a robot head! With my crappy eyes, I thought it was a little cupcake until I looked really closely!
	🤖 6:59pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Mark and Brewster!! be well everyone!!!
	6:59pm ultradamno: By the way, the This Band Isn't Real uses AI to make up metal album covers and band names twitter.com...
	🤖 6:59pm Dean of the Dead: wish it showed my icons, photo, ect when you’re chatting via the app
	6:59pm wendy del formaggio: Thanks Mark!
	7:00pm listener 126464: that's funny
	7:00pm Sam: No, it’s a cupcake.
	🤖 7:00pm Handy Haversack: All hail our new robot cupcake overlords.

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