WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from September 11, 2017

Listener comments!
	♥ 6:01pm Michael 98145: well, hello.
	6:01pm melinda: Howdy!
	♥ 6:03pm Greg from ZONE 5: Welcome aboard, Mark! Loved the first Skeptech and am looking forward to the show.
	♥ 6:04pm Bas NL: New show! Hello Mark!
	♥ 6:06pm Michael 98145: yes, we've been to meetup gatherings ...
	♥ 6:09pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, Greg. Hi Bas! Michael!
	6:13pm matt: NP: Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
	6:13pm steve: hey Mark, welcome. i am so onboard. paper + books ftw. also i recently bought a $12 Casio watch just so i can go out and leave my iPhone at home a few days a week.
	♥ 6:13pm Michael 98145: my Furby sometimes goes wonky
	♥ 6:14pm Mark Hurst: Steve, totally agree. I'm wearing a $40 Casio watch right now. 10-year battery life and never gets hacked!
	♥ 6:19pm -Ken: Hello all!
	♥ 6:25pm Ken From Hyde Park: The school district here is screening the Screenagers movie about kids growing up in the digital age. www.screenagersmovie.com
	♥ 6:28pm listener james from westwood: Diggin' the interview thus far!
	6:31pm JetsFan: GO Mark!!!
	♥ 6:32pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, James! And thx, Ken - hadn't heard of Screenagers - have you seen it?
	6:32pm JayC: Do you listen to your books on Alexa?
	♥ 6:33pm Mark Hurst: We're about to get to live call-in. Any questions from the comment board I can take on the air?
	♥ 6:35pm -Ken: Phone number to talk with Mark on the air about EVIL ROOMBAS is 201-209-9368
	♥ 6:38pm -Ken: JetsFan, I am sure you have opinions on this..
	♥ 6:39pm dale: i NEVER thought about the robotoid dirt suckers storing that type of data. do they have little cameras too? the robot lawn mower could also up rise against us.
	6:40pm wittsend: 23 n me
	6:41pm kimzilla: Sounds great Mark! Written by a DJ Bot
	♥ 6:41pm Ken From Hyde Park: Doesn't the Shut Up, Weido program own the copyright to Creep of the Week?
	6:41pm Paul: They are conditioning us not to think that these things are creepy. It's insane that we buy technology that spies on us, and are happy to do so.
	♥ 6:41pm listener james from westwood: Jerry Gergich was right to crush DJ Roomba in that Parks & Rec episode.
	♥ 6:42pm -Ken: Anybody else have evil home appliances?
	6:42pm Jeff: My watch is powered by a spring. It doesn't need any batteries, and its display doesn't get washed out in bright sunshine. I can't change the display style or wallpaper, and it can't tell me my heartrate, but I'm actually totally fine with all of that. My razor has a single blade which touches your face at a time. Available blades are way sharper than the blades in those multi-blade cartridges, while being way cheaper - as little as eleven cents per doublesided blade. Both of these forms of tech are considered obsolete by some people, but I find them both functional and pleasing.
	♥ 6:42pm dale: we have a nu wave oven, but it's pretty docile.
	♥ 6:42pm listener james from westwood: The secret to acceptance will be kawaii. If they make our machine overlords cute enough, we'll welcome them in.
	6:43pm Jeff: Did everybody see the hilarious story about the Roomba and the poop, complete with hand-drawn illustration?
	♥ 6:44pm listener james from westwood: I want to hear from someone with that Nest unit for their home heating/cooling. That seems like a gateway to Internet of Things nightmares.
	♥ 6:44pm Ken From Hyde Park: I've got a Nest thermostat.
	♥ 6:44pm dale: so who is stoopid enough to have one of those google home type things? or nest thermostats/alarms/
	♥ 6:45pm listener james from westwood: Oh, that Bose data-harvesting thing? No irony intended, but FUCK THAT NOISE.
	♥ 6:45pm dale: ken from hp - i didn't really mean 'stoopid.....'
	6:45pm kotrunga: That's my uncle!
	6:45pm Paul: It's not so much about wanting to be known, we want convenience. We're happy to give up privacy for convenience.
	6:47pm steve: only good use of roomba www.youtube.com...
	6:48pm Indi Young: I like to "decorate" my experience online with pretty images. I go shopping for things I don't need (flowers, antiques) and then see those things haunting me for weeks. It's nice.
	♥ 6:48pm melinda: @steve: haha. I agree it is best used as a cat vehicle.
	♥ 6:49pm Michael 98145: the more conflicting data about yourself in those databases, the better.
	6:49pm Indi Young: Recently, though, I was "decorating" with light sconces in fun shapes like gryphons, and my partner just started seeing these images in ads on the pages he was visiting at work. (buying equipment) Now he's seeing my "decorations."
	♥ 6:50pm melinda: Yeah, it's weird when items you look at online start following you around. But I've kind of gotten used to it.
	♥ 6:50pm dale: is he 'my girl, bill?'
	6:51pm JakeGould: All the AI for stuff like this now are basically “bias amplifiers.”
	♥ 6:51pm BennettCap: Mark, you have my attention. Great start. A welcome addition to the wfmu lineup.
	♥ 6:52pm dale: melinda - turn the voice recognition off on your pooter. it got creepy when stuff i was talking about over lunch showed up as amazon suggestions.
	♥ 6:52pm Michael 98145: yes, great start, Mark. thanks.
	6:52pm Journal Square, Jersey City: Oh I've got a really good one! Robot cheetahs!
	6:53pm Jeff: Found a decent posting of the Roomba poopocalypse story: www.apartmenttherapy.com...
	6:53pm geezerette: Just found this ten minutes ago. Great addition to lineup!
	6:54pm Thomas: awesome show, mark...! congratulations...!!!
	6:54pm Chris: Great show Mark!
	6:54pm Journal Square, Jersey City: Check you later man!!
	♥ 6:54pm BennettCap: Great start. A welcome addition to the lineup.
	♥ 6:54pm melinda: Great show concept, looking forward to more!
	♥ 6:54pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark!
	6:55pm steve: WFMU is way ahead of the game yet again with a new show like this.
	♥ 6:55pm melinda: Nice theme music too
	♥ 6:55pm melinda: agreed steve
	♥ 6:55pm Michael 98145: looking forward to programs on digital photography and the loss of a generation of photographs.
	♥ 6:56pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, Melinda! Thanks, Steve! Bennett! Great conversation tonight.
	♥ 6:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: I enjoy operating the AC from afar. I don't think the Nest has a microphone. There was a news story this weekend about Tesla sending an over the air (OTA) code update to Floridian's cars to give them extra range to flee the hurricane.
	♥ 6:58pm listener james from westwood: Thanks, Mark!
	♥ 6:59pm Mark Hurst: Great point, Ken. That would make a great creep-of-the-week next week. Shouldn't all the power in our tools be OURS to use (at all times)?
	♥ 6:59pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone - see you next week!
	7:00pm mr_mikeK: Data collection is creepy period. We're looking the other way on this nonsense
	7:03pm mr_mikeK: I am in the lost photographs generation. I just came across a hard drive with my honeymoon pics that were lost. But now we don't know what to do with them...buy $200 worth of frames from target and hang them up?
	♥ 7:54pm Ken From Hyde Park: @mr_mikeK - You might be able to get them onto Google Drive in the cloud. I've got a shelf full of photo albums from 35mm film. I haven't thought about digitizing them as yet.
	9:06pm Moreguinness: Evening you sexy sexy peoples
	9:10pm Amy: Hey Lilith!
	9:11pm Amy: Ok ... and Wade
	9:11pm Amy: Evening Ms Erma
	9:17pm Amy: Hello Dave!!
	9:17pm Amy: Hello DEZ!!
	9:46pm Amy: Is he using chooch the same way Sarah from Royal Liquors uses chooch??
	11:33pm Amy: @davehill Do you have your list of 50 things you want to do before you die?

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from September 11, 2017

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Tomas Dvorak	Game Boy Tune "Game Boy Tune" by "Tomas Dvorak"	Machinarium Soundtrack
Mark Hurst	Intro "Intro" by "Mark Hurst"		0:02:28 (Pop-up)
Scott Heiferman	The Techtonic Interview		0:06:41 (Pop-up)
Mark and You	Creep of the Week Call-In Segment		0:34:39 (Pop-up)
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Komischer Läufer	Morgenröte "Morgenröte" by "Komischer Läufer"	The Secret Cosmic Music of the East German Olympic Program 1972-83, Vol. 2	0:57:14 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 6:01pm Michael 98145: well, hello.
	6:01pm melinda: Howdy!
	♥ 6:03pm Greg from ZONE 5: Welcome aboard, Mark! Loved the first Skeptech and am looking forward to the show.
	♥ 6:04pm Bas NL: New show! Hello Mark!
	♥ 6:06pm Michael 98145: yes, we've been to meetup gatherings ...
	♥ 6:09pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, Greg. Hi Bas! Michael!
	6:13pm matt: NP: Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
	6:13pm steve: hey Mark, welcome. i am so onboard. paper + books ftw. also i recently bought a $12 Casio watch just so i can go out and leave my iPhone at home a few days a week.
	♥ 6:13pm Michael 98145: my Furby sometimes goes wonky
	♥ 6:14pm Mark Hurst: Steve, totally agree. I'm wearing a $40 Casio watch right now. 10-year battery life and never gets hacked!
	♥ 6:19pm -Ken: Hello all!
	♥ 6:25pm Ken From Hyde Park: The school district here is screening the Screenagers movie about kids growing up in the digital age. www.screenagersmovie.com
	♥ 6:28pm listener james from westwood: Diggin' the interview thus far!
	6:31pm JetsFan: GO Mark!!!
	♥ 6:32pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, James! And thx, Ken - hadn't heard of Screenagers - have you seen it?
	6:32pm JayC: Do you listen to your books on Alexa?
	♥ 6:33pm Mark Hurst: We're about to get to live call-in. Any questions from the comment board I can take on the air?
	♥ 6:35pm -Ken: Phone number to talk with Mark on the air about EVIL ROOMBAS is 201-209-9368
	♥ 6:38pm -Ken: JetsFan, I am sure you have opinions on this..
	♥ 6:39pm dale: i NEVER thought about the robotoid dirt suckers storing that type of data. do they have little cameras too? the robot lawn mower could also up rise against us.
	6:40pm wittsend: 23 n me
	6:41pm kimzilla: Sounds great Mark! Written by a DJ Bot
	♥ 6:41pm Ken From Hyde Park: Doesn't the Shut Up, Weido program own the copyright to Creep of the Week?
	6:41pm Paul: They are conditioning us not to think that these things are creepy. It's insane that we buy technology that spies on us, and are happy to do so.
	♥ 6:41pm listener james from westwood: Jerry Gergich was right to crush DJ Roomba in that Parks & Rec episode.
	♥ 6:42pm -Ken: Anybody else have evil home appliances?
	6:42pm Jeff: My watch is powered by a spring. It doesn't need any batteries, and its display doesn't get washed out in bright sunshine. I can't change the display style or wallpaper, and it can't tell me my heartrate, but I'm actually totally fine with all of that. My razor has a single blade which touches your face at a time. Available blades are way sharper than the blades in those multi-blade cartridges, while being way cheaper - as little as eleven cents per doublesided blade. Both of these forms of tech are considered obsolete by some people, but I find them both functional and pleasing.
	♥ 6:42pm dale: we have a nu wave oven, but it's pretty docile.
	♥ 6:42pm listener james from westwood: The secret to acceptance will be kawaii. If they make our machine overlords cute enough, we'll welcome them in.
	6:43pm Jeff: Did everybody see the hilarious story about the Roomba and the poop, complete with hand-drawn illustration?
	♥ 6:44pm listener james from westwood: I want to hear from someone with that Nest unit for their home heating/cooling. That seems like a gateway to Internet of Things nightmares.
	♥ 6:44pm Ken From Hyde Park: I've got a Nest thermostat.
	♥ 6:44pm dale: so who is stoopid enough to have one of those google home type things? or nest thermostats/alarms/
	♥ 6:45pm listener james from westwood: Oh, that Bose data-harvesting thing? No irony intended, but FUCK THAT NOISE.
	♥ 6:45pm dale: ken from hp - i didn't really mean 'stoopid.....'
	6:45pm kotrunga: That's my uncle!
	6:45pm Paul: It's not so much about wanting to be known, we want convenience. We're happy to give up privacy for convenience.
	6:47pm steve: only good use of roomba www.youtube.com...
	6:48pm Indi Young: I like to "decorate" my experience online with pretty images. I go shopping for things I don't need (flowers, antiques) and then see those things haunting me for weeks. It's nice.
	♥ 6:48pm melinda: @steve: haha. I agree it is best used as a cat vehicle.
	♥ 6:49pm Michael 98145: the more conflicting data about yourself in those databases, the better.
	6:49pm Indi Young: Recently, though, I was "decorating" with light sconces in fun shapes like gryphons, and my partner just started seeing these images in ads on the pages he was visiting at work. (buying equipment) Now he's seeing my "decorations."
	♥ 6:50pm melinda: Yeah, it's weird when items you look at online start following you around. But I've kind of gotten used to it.
	♥ 6:50pm dale: is he 'my girl, bill?'
	6:51pm JakeGould: All the AI for stuff like this now are basically “bias amplifiers.”
	♥ 6:51pm BennettCap: Mark, you have my attention. Great start. A welcome addition to the wfmu lineup.
	♥ 6:52pm dale: melinda - turn the voice recognition off on your pooter. it got creepy when stuff i was talking about over lunch showed up as amazon suggestions.
	♥ 6:52pm Michael 98145: yes, great start, Mark. thanks.
	6:52pm Journal Square, Jersey City: Oh I've got a really good one! Robot cheetahs!
	6:53pm Jeff: Found a decent posting of the Roomba poopocalypse story: www.apartmenttherapy.com...
	6:53pm geezerette: Just found this ten minutes ago. Great addition to lineup!
	6:54pm Thomas: awesome show, mark...! congratulations...!!!
	6:54pm Chris: Great show Mark!
	6:54pm Journal Square, Jersey City: Check you later man!!
	♥ 6:54pm BennettCap: Great start. A welcome addition to the lineup.
	♥ 6:54pm melinda: Great show concept, looking forward to more!
	♥ 6:54pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark!
	6:55pm steve: WFMU is way ahead of the game yet again with a new show like this.
	♥ 6:55pm melinda: Nice theme music too
	♥ 6:55pm melinda: agreed steve
	♥ 6:55pm Michael 98145: looking forward to programs on digital photography and the loss of a generation of photographs.
	♥ 6:56pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, Melinda! Thanks, Steve! Bennett! Great conversation tonight.
	♥ 6:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: I enjoy operating the AC from afar. I don't think the Nest has a microphone. There was a news story this weekend about Tesla sending an over the air (OTA) code update to Floridian's cars to give them extra range to flee the hurricane.
	♥ 6:58pm listener james from westwood: Thanks, Mark!
	♥ 6:59pm Mark Hurst: Great point, Ken. That would make a great creep-of-the-week next week. Shouldn't all the power in our tools be OURS to use (at all times)?
	♥ 6:59pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone - see you next week!
	7:00pm mr_mikeK: Data collection is creepy period. We're looking the other way on this nonsense
	7:03pm mr_mikeK: I am in the lost photographs generation. I just came across a hard drive with my honeymoon pics that were lost. But now we don't know what to do with them...buy $200 worth of frames from target and hang them up?
	♥ 7:54pm Ken From Hyde Park: @mr_mikeK - You might be able to get them onto Google Drive in the cloud. I've got a shelf full of photo albums from 35mm film. I haven't thought about digitizing them as yet.
	9:06pm Moreguinness: Evening you sexy sexy peoples
	9:10pm Amy: Hey Lilith!
	9:11pm Amy: Ok ... and Wade
	9:11pm Amy: Evening Ms Erma
	9:17pm Amy: Hello Dave!!
	9:17pm Amy: Hello DEZ!!
	9:46pm Amy: Is he using chooch the same way Sarah from Royal Liquors uses chooch??
	11:33pm Amy: @davehill Do you have your list of 50 things you want to do before you die?

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from September 11, 2017

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