WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from June 8, 2020

Listener comments!
	6:00pm David in London: Evening Mark and fellow Technoids.
	6:01pm ultradamno: Hello Mark! Low Flying Techtonilicopters!
	6:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Mark and all!
	🤖 6:01pm Webhamster Henry: Sheesh! I just spent an hour and a half waiting for a tech consultant from Spectrum who was super clueless.
	6:01pm ultradamno: I've noticed the phrase 'you tube star' is never attached to anything good.
	6:01pm TDK60: Hi Mark, haven't been here in a while..
	🤖 6:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Greetings, Mark and Techtogons.
	🤖 6:02pm Handy Haversack: They are selling Tech-savvy wigs in Woolworth's, mates! Hey, Mark, hey everyone.
	🤖 6:02pm Webhamster Henry: TikTok Killed the YouTube Star.
	6:03pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! Techtonicwalkies! Listening whilst on the move.
	6:03pm ultradamno: No one write a parody song called that! It would never go away! :)
	🤖 6:04pm Handy Haversack: Helicopter, helicopter, paying your bills. A bit of a side issue, but does anyone know who enabled/authorized the Google LinkNYC spy towers to display the names of those murdered by cops lately? A pacifying maneuver from the city? A hack?
	6:05pm queems: hello mark & all
	6:05pm mariano: Wouldn't it be grand if everyone who participated in the demonstrations boycotted FB till Suckerberg took his lips off of Trump's ass?
	6:06pm Tookie Wuthry Guffy: i’m ending to much :.......odds induced by ends.... Loose plan to end up tied for 2nd... No guarantee
	6:06pm ultradamno: I'm not 100% I'm awake right now.
	6:06pm Mark Hurst: Hi all! David, ultra, James, Webham, TDK good to see you again, KfHP, Handy, Bas on walkies, queems, mariano!
	🤖 6:07pm Handy Haversack: Hey, queems. Mariano, wouldn't it be a thing?
	🤖 6:07pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, queems. How did your work day go? Minimal stress, I hope.
	6:08pm ultradamno: Kind of like the major sports teams I heard posted black squares.
	6:08pm Mark Hurst: (actually April was his most recent appearance, sorry, not Feb)
	6:08pm Megaroni: All talk and no action from big tech, who cares that they claim to say BLM? What have they done to show it? Thanks Techtonic!
	6:08pm craplivion: hey mark.allways loved your shows.i had to stop watching the cops show back in the day.i looked at it as a profiteering show on class and racial wars.i started thinking of how much money the cops show made on the advertising chemercials must have made.must have been crazy
	6:09pm queems: @handy howdy! @kfhp it was uneventful! thanks for asking! i will say that even though we're all wearing masks, social distancing of 6 feet is pretty much impossible
	6:09pm Corey: Hello Mark and everybody! Glad to be able to tune in today.
	6:09pm Mark Hurst: Hi Megaroni, craplivion, Corey!
	🤖 6:11pm Handy Haversack: queems, if you need a respite at any point, we have a back yard in Greenpoint where you can be 7+' away, sit in the sun (or shade), have a beverage, and recoup before the drive back to NJ. Just say the word, and hospitality is yours! Hey, Corey!
	🤖 6:11pm Webhamster Henry: You say "All Things Considered", I say "Weakened Edition".
	6:11pm Mark Hurst: @craplivion good point - I believe the Cops TV show is discussed in "Thin Blue Lie" by Matt Stroud, see July 2019 episode www.wfmu.org...
	🤖 6:11pm sbw: Hi from Venice, California!
	6:11pm Mark Hurst: Hi sbw, thanks for joining
	6:12pm queems: @handy that's so nice of you!!! thank you! i'll definitely let you know.
	🤖 6:13pm Handy Haversack: "Black-power washing": hell yeah. Tell it. So sick of vague statements of solidarity.
	6:14pm WR: Great that Fast Company is shining some light on duplicity of big tech.
	6:14pm Mark Hurst: @Handy see the statement from [BRAND] in the playlist (image)
	6:14pm melinda: Hi friends!
	6:15pm Mark Hurst: Hi melinda, welcome!
	6:15pm ultradamno: I'm a little surprised one of these companies haven't come up with something called Antifinder to help the white house track down 'terrorists'.
	6:15pm TDK60: They insulted him.
	6:15pm Mark Hurst: @WR agree
	6:15pm Corey: Hey Handy!
	🤖 6:15pm Handy Haversack: I think I've seen it a hundred times, Mark -- and I don't even use social media!
	6:15pm queems: oh i read an article on gothamist about this gentleman!!
	6:16pm Mark Hurst: @Handy me too - I really appreciate those sentiments from [BRAND]
	6:17pm WR: Oh yeah, equal opportunity smearing...
	6:17pm melinda: Just say no to Ring.
	🤖 6:17pm Handy Haversack: I have redoubled my commitment to the [BRAND] lifestyle. In these ongoing troubled times, we all need it more than ever.
	6:18pm Mark Hurst: ...because we care.
	6:19pm ultradamno: I don't want any technology named after a movie/novel about a vengeful ghost using technology as a conduit to commit murder.
	6:19pm melinda: Next Door is good for home repair recommendations.
	6:19pm melinda: @ultra-d me neither
	🤖 6:20pm Handy Haversack: "Sure, you know, you could have a regular doorbell. I'm sure some people have them without being murdered by people from outside the neighborhood. But I'm a cop, and I have seen a lot of stuff ..."
	6:20pm Mark Hurst: @Handy "be a real shame if you weren't cooperative with your local PD"
	🤖 6:20pm Webhamster Henry: How about that creepy Facebook Portal that has motors to look around in a room .. or wherever else it's mounted.
	6:22pm P-90: “porch pirates” what a playful, Disney-fied nickname for package thieves... apparently we’re all living in Amazon’s theme park of the mind, it’s all just a big computer game
	🤖 6:22pm Handy Haversack: "It's just, you know, we have to prioritize resources, what with these budget cuts, so you just never know ... But it's your family!"
	6:22pm queems: next door is a really good place to write racist shit about people in your neighborhood
	6:22pm Sam: Does the algorithm actually call the police on dark skinned people? I find that hard to believe.
	6:23pm queems: source: every next door post i've ever seen
	🤖 6:23pm Webhamster Henry: This kind of even harks back the the phrase "Untouched by Human Hands" referring to manufacturing white bread. slate.com...
	🤖 6:23pm Handy Haversack: "Some of them are using free internet to deal drugs!" -- Nextdoor.
	6:24pm David in London: I’m promoting KnockR, my new front door innovation. A large metal ring with a brass knocker on it. All venture capital welcome...
	6:24pm listener james from westwood: Mark, this is still in production, but you might want to put "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing" by Sarah Brayne (Oxford Univ Press) on your radar. She studied the LAPD's and other forces' adoption of technology like Palantir and other predictive, surveillance, and data-harvesting tools, including interviewing cops and civilian LAPD workers, and went on ride-alongs. Scary stuff that all seems Techtonic adjacent. (Due disclosure: I'm proofreading it at the moment.)
	🤖 6:24pm Handy Haversack: David, do you accept spork money?
	6:25pm melinda: @queems that sucks. My Next Door group is pretty good, the biggest controversies are about unleashed dogs (with no racial overtones).
	6:25pm Mark Hurst: @James great idea, would be happy to take a look - hit me off-list with an agent/publisher if you know them
	6:26pm craplivion: sam.im having alot of trouble believing in what im whitnessing in the past few years.and it so relates to 1981 orwell and alexhuxley brave new world combinned inro a one
	6:26pm David in London: Handy, yes indeed. Your business nous and early investment are both very welcome.
	6:26pm GC in South Slope: Awesome conversation. So extremely important! I suggest you distill the key points into some memes or sentences, then start sharing on Tw and FB.....guaranteed they will be shared widely and virally. Now is a fertile time for folks to be making the connections between racism and exploitation and inequality and complicity of the tech monopolies etcetera.
	🤖 6:26pm Handy Haversack: @james: One UP worker to another: nice one!
	6:26pm Mark Hurst: @melinda I think it's akin to the conversation about Facebook. there do exist some benign groups, but the underlying business model (in ND's case, to become the mediator w/local gov't) is toxic and dangerous to civil society.
	6:27pm Dave Miss: Howdy all
	6:27pm Mark Hurst: Hi Dave, hi GC in SS
	6:27pm WR: I think Dr Gilliard just coined a phrase, Avoid Amazon. LOL. Guess the alliteration is too tempting.
	🤖 6:27pm Webhamster Henry: Can you hack the Ring's DNS so it goes to your own server ?
	6:29pm melinda: @Mark I get it. It feels less manipulative than social media platforms to me.
	🤖 6:29pm Webhamster Henry: One way you can Avoid Amazon, Get offa Google, etc, it to stick their domain names in your host file to route to 127.0.0.1
	6:30pm craplivion: 1984 .sorryfor the the misstype.im typing in the dark.and im typing challenged with typing with one finger.im no trained typer
	6:31pm WR: There are many alternatives to Ring. They are not tech innovators, just implementors and marketers and opportunists. The electronics are available widely and can be set up to call you etc without being in their cloud and community control.
	6:31pm JJ NY-SC: I'm on NextDoor for my neighborhood because I WANT to know what my neighbors and the police are saying/doing, thinking.
	🤖 6:31pm Ken From Hyde Park: I like that idea, WHH. Is there a Wikihow or other website that shows the method to do that?
	6:32pm Mr. Palchepo.: There’s also an element of hyper competitiveness in regards to the Central Park woman. She needed to win the confrontation so badly she was willing to use racism to get her way.
	6:34pm WR: I too find it of interest to be in NextDoor, but I am in a predominantly brown neighborhood.
	6:34pm listener james from westwood: @Mark: Email sent via the FMU email contact form!
	6:34pm Mark Hurst: @James thanks!
	6:34pm ultradamno: Like boycotting oil companies?
	6:35pm Sam: It’s easy to boycott Amazon. I haven’t bought anything from them in many years. Google is tougher I guess.
	6:36pm melinda: So true, we are encouraged to think of ourselves as consumers rather than citizens
	6:37pm brainiac: @melinda: word.
	6:37pm olivia: Dark matters is a great book. Highly recommend.
	6:38pm coelacanth∅: right. there's almost never a reason to support scamazon. they're generally more expensive than ebay so saving money isn't an excuse... convenience? i don't think there's any reason.
	6:38pm Mark Hurst: @olivia thanks!
	6:38pm Mark Hurst: @coel agree. for books, go to bookshop.org
	6:39pm coelacanth∅: yes, or thriftbooks
	6:39pm Mark Hurst: @coel good pointer
	🤖 6:40pm Handy Haversack: Or order direct from the publisher, who often give discounts for direct orders. If you don't have a local bookstore that will order for you.
	6:40pm Mark Hurst: @Handy yes!
	🤖 6:42pm Handy Haversack: LOVED this interview, Mark. Thanks. Thanks. This is so important.
	6:42pm Mark Hurst: @Handy thanks, sir
	6:42pm listener 126464: Thanks Mark. Thanks Chris. Delete Facebook. Boycott Amazon.
	6:42pm P-90: Primo interview as always, Mark.
	6:43pm Mark Hurst: @listener126464 @P-90 thank you both
	6:43pm ignatatus666: I find it difficult to believe that FB promotes White groups. Mark Zs filters are ludicrous. I called Honey Boo Boos mother straight white trash when she was busted with crack,heroin and drug paraphernalia. I was banned for 30 days.
	6:44pm Mark Hurst: @igna please read any of the sources I mentioned in the intro
	6:44pm queems: handy & kate!!!
	6:44pm northguineahills: Got interrupted, but I'm here for the end!
	6:44pm mariano: Handy and Kate, alright!
	6:45pm Mark Hurst: @ngh catch the first 40 mins in the archives!
	6:45pm WR: Kate & Handy!
	6:45pm brainiac: They make a great on-air duo!
	6:46pm ultradamno: Better Things...white people problems in extremis.
	🤖 6:47pm Handy Haversack: I am just clinging to wonderful coattails. It's all Kate.
	🤖 6:48pm Handy Haversack: @ultradamno: L.A.!
	6:48pm brainiac: @Handy & Kate: I would subscribe to your podcast.
	6:48pm P-90: Catch up on silent films: GREAT recommendation
	6:49pm northguineahills: I wish I could prove my NYC residency again, so, I could stream movies from the New York Public Library (but alas, I don't want to pay New York State taxes anymore [part of the reason I'm getting an economic divorce])
	6:49pm Mark Hurst: @ngh unfortunately I think NYPL ended its partnership with Kanopy
	6:50pm ultradamno: What We Do In The Shadows is the one big one I look forward to now. Staten Island vampires!
	6:51pm chris: great interview, great recommendations. thanks to all!
	🤖 6:51pm Handy Haversack: (I thought it was at least partly because Kanopy wasn't up to library privacy standards.) Kate also says: Atlanta! Watch Atlanta! And no worries, Mark. ultradamno: yeah!! Us, too.
	6:51pm Mark Hurst: @chris thanks!
	6:52pm dale: hello. we enjoy 'doc martin' from the bbc here.
	🤖 6:52pm Webhamster Henry: See Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer (Criterion). The actors spent six months living on set in character. 1928.
	6:52pm tom from Glasgow: Bake Off is the proper name but Pillsbury owns the term “bake off” in the US so it’s changed for you guys
	🤖 6:52pm Handy Haversack: "Which we'll get to later ..." It tolls for thee!
	6:53pm Mark Hurst: @Tom ahh! never knew that!
	6:53pm ultradamno: You might like the Girl Scout Cookie Championship www.foodnetwork.com...
	🤖 6:53pm Folsom: I think Tim Harford on BBC debunked the carbon footprint for streaming netflix, they had used old data for data centers
	6:53pm Mark Hurst: @dale thanks
	6:53pm P-90: That British Baking Thing is what my family has been watching together lately. Good choice, Mark.
	6:53pm Mark Hurst: @Folsom he's a past guest on the show! I should invite him back to discuss.
	6:54pm listener 126464: TV Party!
	🤖 6:54pm Folsom: I have to find it, I can send it to you, he basically said it was about the same or less then driving to a red box kiosk.
	6:54pm David in London: Not much great about the British baking going on in this house, I can tell you...
	6:54pm dale: joan of arc is really gorgeous henry.
	🤖 6:55pm Handy Haversack: @David: use more whisky.
	🤖 6:55pm Webhamster Henry: @dale yea, Criterion's print was found in a closet in a Norwegian asylum.
	6:55pm ultradamno: What I liked on the girl scout cookie one is they would always have a public sale challenge and all the judges would try the offerings at the table in front of the cook and say really complementary things and then immediately sidebar and start tearing the treats down.
	6:55pm Ike: There's a peculiar, expensive-looking Korean historical thriller on Netflix called Kingdom. It's about the royal line of succession (with amazing costumes), starvation, and a pandemic... that turns people into zombies. So I guess it's a mash-up?
	6:56pm David in London: Handy, right, gotcha.
	6:56pm dale: pandora's box with louise brooks is mind blowing.
	6:56pm P-90: I’d be very interested to hear more, I’m a little skeptical that a single user streaming a single item on Netflix (or whatever) actually has a disturbingly huge carbon footprint...
	🤖 6:56pm Folsom: @mark found the show www.bbc.co.uk...
	🤖 6:56pm Handy Haversack: @Mark: See the profile of listener Yeti Bob, who has a list that MANY listeners contributed to Trouble's show of books, what, 7 weeks ago?
	6:56pm Mark Hurst: @Folsom thanks!
	6:56pm Mark Hurst: @Ike interesting, thanks
	6:56pm northguineahills: @IKe; Kingdom is amazing, I highly recommend it as well!
	6:57pm Mark Hurst: @Handy cool
	6:57pm mariano: Thanks Mark and crew, take care everyone.
	6:58pm mariano: David: Bake up some runzas!
	🤖 6:58pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks Mark - keep up with the just transition!
	6:58pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Mark! Thanks Chris! Thanks home crew!
	6:58pm Corey: Thanks Mark for the great show. As usual, walk out of this show better informed and more motivated to affect what I can.
	🤖 6:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: How about a WFMU community-sourced novel? Various listeners contribute passages. Maybe a book of poetry or something on those lines? Thanks, Mark. Fight on!
	6:58pm mariano: Oh and thanks to the callers for their recommendations!
	🤖 6:58pm Handy Haversack: Pls. also se Black Visions Collective and Women for Political Change in Mpls. Thanks, Mark! This one was a great good in the world -- like you tend to, friend. Up the Runzas!
	6:59pm P-90: Thanks!
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: @Corey appreciate it
	6:59pm WR: Thank you Mark.
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: @Handy thank you, and thanks for your & Kate's contribution!
	6:59pm yes: :) thank you
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: @KfHP good idea - and will do!
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: @WR thanks for tuning in
	7:00pm Mark Hurst: @yes yes
	7:00pm ultradamno: Oh, and Hannibal is on Netflix now!
	🤖 7:13pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Just got back home..

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from June 8, 2020

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Chris Gilliard, on Big Tech companies expressing support for the black community (which is exploited by Big Tech)
Tomaš Dvořák	Game Boy Tune "Game Boy Tune" by "Tomaš Dvořák"
	Mark's intro "Mark's intro"
	Interview with Chris Gilliard "Interview with Chris Gilliard"	0:06:40 (Pop-up)
	Mark's comments after the interview "Mark's comments after the interview"	0:39:17 (Pop-up)
Andy Rehfeldt	Can't Touch This / Tiny Dancer (Andy Rehfeldt mashup)	0:56:14 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:00pm David in London: Evening Mark and fellow Technoids.
	6:01pm ultradamno: Hello Mark! Low Flying Techtonilicopters!
	6:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Mark and all!
	🤖 6:01pm Webhamster Henry: Sheesh! I just spent an hour and a half waiting for a tech consultant from Spectrum who was super clueless.
	6:01pm ultradamno: I've noticed the phrase 'you tube star' is never attached to anything good.
	6:01pm TDK60: Hi Mark, haven't been here in a while..
	🤖 6:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Greetings, Mark and Techtogons.
	🤖 6:02pm Handy Haversack: They are selling Tech-savvy wigs in Woolworth's, mates! Hey, Mark, hey everyone.
	🤖 6:02pm Webhamster Henry: TikTok Killed the YouTube Star.
	6:03pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! Techtonicwalkies! Listening whilst on the move.
	6:03pm ultradamno: No one write a parody song called that! It would never go away! :)
	🤖 6:04pm Handy Haversack: Helicopter, helicopter, paying your bills. A bit of a side issue, but does anyone know who enabled/authorized the Google LinkNYC spy towers to display the names of those murdered by cops lately? A pacifying maneuver from the city? A hack?
	6:05pm queems: hello mark & all
	6:05pm mariano: Wouldn't it be grand if everyone who participated in the demonstrations boycotted FB till Suckerberg took his lips off of Trump's ass?
	6:06pm Tookie Wuthry Guffy: i’m ending to much :.......odds induced by ends.... Loose plan to end up tied for 2nd... No guarantee
	6:06pm ultradamno: I'm not 100% I'm awake right now.
	6:06pm Mark Hurst: Hi all! David, ultra, James, Webham, TDK good to see you again, KfHP, Handy, Bas on walkies, queems, mariano!
	🤖 6:07pm Handy Haversack: Hey, queems. Mariano, wouldn't it be a thing?
	🤖 6:07pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, queems. How did your work day go? Minimal stress, I hope.
	6:08pm ultradamno: Kind of like the major sports teams I heard posted black squares.
	6:08pm Mark Hurst: (actually April was his most recent appearance, sorry, not Feb)
	6:08pm Megaroni: All talk and no action from big tech, who cares that they claim to say BLM? What have they done to show it? Thanks Techtonic!
	6:08pm craplivion: hey mark.allways loved your shows.i had to stop watching the cops show back in the day.i looked at it as a profiteering show on class and racial wars.i started thinking of how much money the cops show made on the advertising chemercials must have made.must have been crazy
	6:09pm queems: @handy howdy! @kfhp it was uneventful! thanks for asking! i will say that even though we're all wearing masks, social distancing of 6 feet is pretty much impossible
	6:09pm Corey: Hello Mark and everybody! Glad to be able to tune in today.
	6:09pm Mark Hurst: Hi Megaroni, craplivion, Corey!
	🤖 6:11pm Handy Haversack: queems, if you need a respite at any point, we have a back yard in Greenpoint where you can be 7+' away, sit in the sun (or shade), have a beverage, and recoup before the drive back to NJ. Just say the word, and hospitality is yours! Hey, Corey!
	🤖 6:11pm Webhamster Henry: You say "All Things Considered", I say "Weakened Edition".
	6:11pm Mark Hurst: @craplivion good point - I believe the Cops TV show is discussed in "Thin Blue Lie" by Matt Stroud, see July 2019 episode www.wfmu.org...
	🤖 6:11pm sbw: Hi from Venice, California!
	6:11pm Mark Hurst: Hi sbw, thanks for joining
	6:12pm queems: @handy that's so nice of you!!! thank you! i'll definitely let you know.
	🤖 6:13pm Handy Haversack: "Black-power washing": hell yeah. Tell it. So sick of vague statements of solidarity.
	6:14pm WR: Great that Fast Company is shining some light on duplicity of big tech.
	6:14pm Mark Hurst: @Handy see the statement from [BRAND] in the playlist (image)
	6:14pm melinda: Hi friends!
	6:15pm Mark Hurst: Hi melinda, welcome!
	6:15pm ultradamno: I'm a little surprised one of these companies haven't come up with something called Antifinder to help the white house track down 'terrorists'.
	6:15pm TDK60: They insulted him.
	6:15pm Mark Hurst: @WR agree
	6:15pm Corey: Hey Handy!
	🤖 6:15pm Handy Haversack: I think I've seen it a hundred times, Mark -- and I don't even use social media!
	6:15pm queems: oh i read an article on gothamist about this gentleman!!
	6:16pm Mark Hurst: @Handy me too - I really appreciate those sentiments from [BRAND]
	6:17pm WR: Oh yeah, equal opportunity smearing...
	6:17pm melinda: Just say no to Ring.
	🤖 6:17pm Handy Haversack: I have redoubled my commitment to the [BRAND] lifestyle. In these ongoing troubled times, we all need it more than ever.
	6:18pm Mark Hurst: ...because we care.
	6:19pm ultradamno: I don't want any technology named after a movie/novel about a vengeful ghost using technology as a conduit to commit murder.
	6:19pm melinda: Next Door is good for home repair recommendations.
	6:19pm melinda: @ultra-d me neither
	🤖 6:20pm Handy Haversack: "Sure, you know, you could have a regular doorbell. I'm sure some people have them without being murdered by people from outside the neighborhood. But I'm a cop, and I have seen a lot of stuff ..."
	6:20pm Mark Hurst: @Handy "be a real shame if you weren't cooperative with your local PD"
	🤖 6:20pm Webhamster Henry: How about that creepy Facebook Portal that has motors to look around in a room .. or wherever else it's mounted.
	6:22pm P-90: “porch pirates” what a playful, Disney-fied nickname for package thieves... apparently we’re all living in Amazon’s theme park of the mind, it’s all just a big computer game
	🤖 6:22pm Handy Haversack: "It's just, you know, we have to prioritize resources, what with these budget cuts, so you just never know ... But it's your family!"
	6:22pm queems: next door is a really good place to write racist shit about people in your neighborhood
	6:22pm Sam: Does the algorithm actually call the police on dark skinned people? I find that hard to believe.
	6:23pm queems: source: every next door post i've ever seen
	🤖 6:23pm Webhamster Henry: This kind of even harks back the the phrase "Untouched by Human Hands" referring to manufacturing white bread. slate.com...
	🤖 6:23pm Handy Haversack: "Some of them are using free internet to deal drugs!" -- Nextdoor.
	6:24pm David in London: I’m promoting KnockR, my new front door innovation. A large metal ring with a brass knocker on it. All venture capital welcome...
	6:24pm listener james from westwood: Mark, this is still in production, but you might want to put "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing" by Sarah Brayne (Oxford Univ Press) on your radar. She studied the LAPD's and other forces' adoption of technology like Palantir and other predictive, surveillance, and data-harvesting tools, including interviewing cops and civilian LAPD workers, and went on ride-alongs. Scary stuff that all seems Techtonic adjacent. (Due disclosure: I'm proofreading it at the moment.)
	🤖 6:24pm Handy Haversack: David, do you accept spork money?
	6:25pm melinda: @queems that sucks. My Next Door group is pretty good, the biggest controversies are about unleashed dogs (with no racial overtones).
	6:25pm Mark Hurst: @James great idea, would be happy to take a look - hit me off-list with an agent/publisher if you know them
	6:26pm craplivion: sam.im having alot of trouble believing in what im whitnessing in the past few years.and it so relates to 1981 orwell and alexhuxley brave new world combinned inro a one
	6:26pm David in London: Handy, yes indeed. Your business nous and early investment are both very welcome.
	6:26pm GC in South Slope: Awesome conversation. So extremely important! I suggest you distill the key points into some memes or sentences, then start sharing on Tw and FB.....guaranteed they will be shared widely and virally. Now is a fertile time for folks to be making the connections between racism and exploitation and inequality and complicity of the tech monopolies etcetera.
	🤖 6:26pm Handy Haversack: @james: One UP worker to another: nice one!
	6:26pm Mark Hurst: @melinda I think it's akin to the conversation about Facebook. there do exist some benign groups, but the underlying business model (in ND's case, to become the mediator w/local gov't) is toxic and dangerous to civil society.
	6:27pm Dave Miss: Howdy all
	6:27pm Mark Hurst: Hi Dave, hi GC in SS
	6:27pm WR: I think Dr Gilliard just coined a phrase, Avoid Amazon. LOL. Guess the alliteration is too tempting.
	🤖 6:27pm Webhamster Henry: Can you hack the Ring's DNS so it goes to your own server ?
	6:29pm melinda: @Mark I get it. It feels less manipulative than social media platforms to me.
	🤖 6:29pm Webhamster Henry: One way you can Avoid Amazon, Get offa Google, etc, it to stick their domain names in your host file to route to 127.0.0.1
	6:30pm craplivion: 1984 .sorryfor the the misstype.im typing in the dark.and im typing challenged with typing with one finger.im no trained typer
	6:31pm WR: There are many alternatives to Ring. They are not tech innovators, just implementors and marketers and opportunists. The electronics are available widely and can be set up to call you etc without being in their cloud and community control.
	6:31pm JJ NY-SC: I'm on NextDoor for my neighborhood because I WANT to know what my neighbors and the police are saying/doing, thinking.
	🤖 6:31pm Ken From Hyde Park: I like that idea, WHH. Is there a Wikihow or other website that shows the method to do that?
	6:32pm Mr. Palchepo.: There’s also an element of hyper competitiveness in regards to the Central Park woman. She needed to win the confrontation so badly she was willing to use racism to get her way.
	6:34pm WR: I too find it of interest to be in NextDoor, but I am in a predominantly brown neighborhood.
	6:34pm listener james from westwood: @Mark: Email sent via the FMU email contact form!
	6:34pm Mark Hurst: @James thanks!
	6:34pm ultradamno: Like boycotting oil companies?
	6:35pm Sam: It’s easy to boycott Amazon. I haven’t bought anything from them in many years. Google is tougher I guess.
	6:36pm melinda: So true, we are encouraged to think of ourselves as consumers rather than citizens
	6:37pm brainiac: @melinda: word.
	6:37pm olivia: Dark matters is a great book. Highly recommend.
	6:38pm coelacanth∅: right. there's almost never a reason to support scamazon. they're generally more expensive than ebay so saving money isn't an excuse... convenience? i don't think there's any reason.
	6:38pm Mark Hurst: @olivia thanks!
	6:38pm Mark Hurst: @coel agree. for books, go to bookshop.org
	6:39pm coelacanth∅: yes, or thriftbooks
	6:39pm Mark Hurst: @coel good pointer
	🤖 6:40pm Handy Haversack: Or order direct from the publisher, who often give discounts for direct orders. If you don't have a local bookstore that will order for you.
	6:40pm Mark Hurst: @Handy yes!
	🤖 6:42pm Handy Haversack: LOVED this interview, Mark. Thanks. Thanks. This is so important.
	6:42pm Mark Hurst: @Handy thanks, sir
	6:42pm listener 126464: Thanks Mark. Thanks Chris. Delete Facebook. Boycott Amazon.
	6:42pm P-90: Primo interview as always, Mark.
	6:43pm Mark Hurst: @listener126464 @P-90 thank you both
	6:43pm ignatatus666: I find it difficult to believe that FB promotes White groups. Mark Zs filters are ludicrous. I called Honey Boo Boos mother straight white trash when she was busted with crack,heroin and drug paraphernalia. I was banned for 30 days.
	6:44pm Mark Hurst: @igna please read any of the sources I mentioned in the intro
	6:44pm queems: handy & kate!!!
	6:44pm northguineahills: Got interrupted, but I'm here for the end!
	6:44pm mariano: Handy and Kate, alright!
	6:45pm Mark Hurst: @ngh catch the first 40 mins in the archives!
	6:45pm WR: Kate & Handy!
	6:45pm brainiac: They make a great on-air duo!
	6:46pm ultradamno: Better Things...white people problems in extremis.
	🤖 6:47pm Handy Haversack: I am just clinging to wonderful coattails. It's all Kate.
	🤖 6:48pm Handy Haversack: @ultradamno: L.A.!
	6:48pm brainiac: @Handy & Kate: I would subscribe to your podcast.
	6:48pm P-90: Catch up on silent films: GREAT recommendation
	6:49pm northguineahills: I wish I could prove my NYC residency again, so, I could stream movies from the New York Public Library (but alas, I don't want to pay New York State taxes anymore [part of the reason I'm getting an economic divorce])
	6:49pm Mark Hurst: @ngh unfortunately I think NYPL ended its partnership with Kanopy
	6:50pm ultradamno: What We Do In The Shadows is the one big one I look forward to now. Staten Island vampires!
	6:51pm chris: great interview, great recommendations. thanks to all!
	🤖 6:51pm Handy Haversack: (I thought it was at least partly because Kanopy wasn't up to library privacy standards.) Kate also says: Atlanta! Watch Atlanta! And no worries, Mark. ultradamno: yeah!! Us, too.
	6:51pm Mark Hurst: @chris thanks!
	6:52pm dale: hello. we enjoy 'doc martin' from the bbc here.
	🤖 6:52pm Webhamster Henry: See Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer (Criterion). The actors spent six months living on set in character. 1928.
	6:52pm tom from Glasgow: Bake Off is the proper name but Pillsbury owns the term “bake off” in the US so it’s changed for you guys
	🤖 6:52pm Handy Haversack: "Which we'll get to later ..." It tolls for thee!
	6:53pm Mark Hurst: @Tom ahh! never knew that!
	6:53pm ultradamno: You might like the Girl Scout Cookie Championship www.foodnetwork.com...
	🤖 6:53pm Folsom: I think Tim Harford on BBC debunked the carbon footprint for streaming netflix, they had used old data for data centers
	6:53pm Mark Hurst: @dale thanks
	6:53pm P-90: That British Baking Thing is what my family has been watching together lately. Good choice, Mark.
	6:53pm Mark Hurst: @Folsom he's a past guest on the show! I should invite him back to discuss.
	6:54pm listener 126464: TV Party!
	🤖 6:54pm Folsom: I have to find it, I can send it to you, he basically said it was about the same or less then driving to a red box kiosk.
	6:54pm David in London: Not much great about the British baking going on in this house, I can tell you...
	6:54pm dale: joan of arc is really gorgeous henry.
	🤖 6:55pm Handy Haversack: @David: use more whisky.
	🤖 6:55pm Webhamster Henry: @dale yea, Criterion's print was found in a closet in a Norwegian asylum.
	6:55pm ultradamno: What I liked on the girl scout cookie one is they would always have a public sale challenge and all the judges would try the offerings at the table in front of the cook and say really complementary things and then immediately sidebar and start tearing the treats down.
	6:55pm Ike: There's a peculiar, expensive-looking Korean historical thriller on Netflix called Kingdom. It's about the royal line of succession (with amazing costumes), starvation, and a pandemic... that turns people into zombies. So I guess it's a mash-up?
	6:56pm David in London: Handy, right, gotcha.
	6:56pm dale: pandora's box with louise brooks is mind blowing.
	6:56pm P-90: I’d be very interested to hear more, I’m a little skeptical that a single user streaming a single item on Netflix (or whatever) actually has a disturbingly huge carbon footprint...
	🤖 6:56pm Folsom: @mark found the show www.bbc.co.uk...
	🤖 6:56pm Handy Haversack: @Mark: See the profile of listener Yeti Bob, who has a list that MANY listeners contributed to Trouble's show of books, what, 7 weeks ago?
	6:56pm Mark Hurst: @Folsom thanks!
	6:56pm Mark Hurst: @Ike interesting, thanks
	6:56pm northguineahills: @IKe; Kingdom is amazing, I highly recommend it as well!
	6:57pm Mark Hurst: @Handy cool
	6:57pm mariano: Thanks Mark and crew, take care everyone.
	6:58pm mariano: David: Bake up some runzas!
	🤖 6:58pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks Mark - keep up with the just transition!
	6:58pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Mark! Thanks Chris! Thanks home crew!
	6:58pm Corey: Thanks Mark for the great show. As usual, walk out of this show better informed and more motivated to affect what I can.
	🤖 6:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: How about a WFMU community-sourced novel? Various listeners contribute passages. Maybe a book of poetry or something on those lines? Thanks, Mark. Fight on!
	6:58pm mariano: Oh and thanks to the callers for their recommendations!
	🤖 6:58pm Handy Haversack: Pls. also se Black Visions Collective and Women for Political Change in Mpls. Thanks, Mark! This one was a great good in the world -- like you tend to, friend. Up the Runzas!
	6:59pm P-90: Thanks!
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: @Corey appreciate it
	6:59pm WR: Thank you Mark.
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: @Handy thank you, and thanks for your & Kate's contribution!
	6:59pm yes: :) thank you
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: @KfHP good idea - and will do!
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: @WR thanks for tuning in
	7:00pm Mark Hurst: @yes yes
	7:00pm ultradamno: Oh, and Hannibal is on Netflix now!
	🤖 7:13pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Just got back home..

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