WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from March 23, 2020

Listener comments!
	6:00pm melinda: Hi techtons!
	6:00pm listener james from westwood: How do, Mark and all! (And Board Op Olivia!)
	6:00pm ultradamno: Hello Mark! Techccines!
	6:00pm Dancasey1: Evenin’
	6:01pm Phillippe Bastille: Hey Mark! Hey Star Tecks!
	6:01pm John from Florham park: Hello fellow technoids
	🤖 6:01pm Handy Haversack: Hi, Mark and all Techyon particles! I gotta go pour that Tech Gin and get ready to mix it up with all of you!
	6:02pm johnzo: aloha all
	6:02pm Richard from Brooklyn: hello, all
	🤖 6:02pm chresti: Hi Mark & Techtoniques!
	6:02pm John from Florham park: Hey handy
	6:02pm Dave Miss: Howdy all lock-tonics!
	6:03pm Mark Hurst: Hi all, thanks for joining!
	🤖 6:03pm herb.nyc: Too interviews! We can't wait two listen. Go wfmu. Go mark.
	6:03pm andrewb: yay tech-ton
	6:03pm Mark Hurst: Olivia, thanks for board-op'ing!
	6:03pm Listener Robert: Good news -- www.cdc.gov... . Just look thru March 14, the last date CDC doesn't expect to add to the numbers of. This thing peaked long BEFORE these extreme control measures!
	6:03pm JakeGould: Going to create an app for washing hands: It‘s going to be called “WSHHNDS.”
	🤖 6:03pm Handy Haversack: Hey, John!
	6:03pm Mark Hurst: Dan Casey here on the chat board - hello sir!
	🤖 6:04pm Ken From Hyde Park: A shot of Techtomycin will alleviate the symptoms!
	6:04pm Dancasey1: Ayo!
	6:04pm Mark Hurst: No snake oil here on Techtonic :)
	6:04pm JakeGould: @ListenerRobert: “Illnesses that began during this time may not yet be reported.” Sorry but I’m not comforted by incomplete data.
	6:05pm olivia: no prob, Mark, hey all!
	🤖 6:08pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! And thanks Olivia! Hi all!
	6:08pm Dancasey1: Hey Olivia, thanks for holding down le fort (as the French say)
	6:08pm Mark Hurst: hi Bas!
	6:08pm coelacanth∅: hey Mark and all
	6:08pm Mark Hurst: hi coel!
	🤖 6:09pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Mark! Everyone's online now!
	6:09pm Listener Robert: @JakeGould, look at where that caveat starts: March 15. That's why you should look only thru March 14, and it shows a downward trend to that date. Tomorrow you should look thru March 15, etc. The data ARE complete thru March 14.
	6:09pm olivia: haha hey dan!
	6:09pm Mark Hurst: @Webham I keep hearing about this "internet" - I guess it's for real?
	6:09pm Albert FOx Cahn: Hey Folks!
	🤖 6:10pm Webhamster Henry: It's like CI$, but you don't have to pay as much!
	6:10pm Mark Hurst: Albert Fox Cahn, welcome to the chat board!
	6:10pm queems: my sister sent me an article from back in july about how zoom was being used for surveillance purposes. apparently the issue was addressed, but i deleted it off of my computer anyway
	6:10pm Albert Fox Cahn: Thanks Mark, excited to hear the ep!
	6:11pm Mark Hurst: @queems there are recent reports (like in the past week or two) about continued surveillance on Zoom.
	6:12pm queems: @mark there goes my virtual happy hour
	6:12pm coelacanth∅: (never heard of "tick tock" before)
	6:12pm JakeGould: Mark, are you going to discuss how working from home has not changed some workplace privacy issues?
	6:13pm listener james from westwood: They never shoulda killed Vine.
	6:13pm chris: how do privacy concerns change in the face of a pandemic and real-world consequences? south korea phone tracking - www.washingtonpost.com...
	6:13pm Mark Hurst: @coel see the article on TikTok listed in the "To Discuss" section.
	🤖 6:13pm Webhamster Henry: TikTok shows me sheetrocking videos.
	6:13pm chris: oh, and hi, Mark and folks.
	6:14pm coelacanth∅: you better do something about those nails
	6:14pm JakeGould: @ListenerRobert: Fair. But personally I would feel better when a vaccine and detection for anti-bodies test exists. For example, I am quote certain I had this Coronavirus on February 15th. But without a way to test at this point… Who knows?
	🤖 6:14pm Handy Haversack: @queems, in response to what you posted about the NASTY habits of Zoom, and knowing what we all know about Google Hangouts, a friend who deals with cyber freedom issues had this to say: " I've just been using meet.jit.si with either Chromium or Chrome or Firefox web browsers for webconferencing with people who dont' have a lot of capacity for technical nerdery. I see it's linked in that article, too. There's another instance of the same software over at meet.mayfirst.org if you don't want your data going through the jitsi organization's servers for a group meeting." (Repeat post from Olivia's show in case you didn't see it there.)
	6:15pm queems: thanks @handy! i missed it on the last playlist!
	6:15pm chris: ah, we will talk about my question above. cool.
	6:15pm Greg from ZONE 5: Evening, Mark & all!
	6:16pm Mark Hurst: @chris on the same wavelength!
	6:16pm ultradamno: Does instagram's algorithm filter out less expensive food pictures?
	6:16pm liz o'sullivan: hi, this is liz!
	🤖 6:16pm Handy Haversack: The rhetoric at meet.mayfirst.org looks very reassuring, @queems. Hi, @Greg!
	6:16pm Mark Hurst: Welcome, Liz! Thanks for joining in!
	🤖 6:16pm Ken From Hyde Park: Look at Saturday! Toilet paper for ants!
	6:16pm Mark Hurst: @Greg good to see you here, sir!
	6:17pm Mark Hurst: @Ken that's just the seedling - it grows to full size
	6:17pm Phillippe Bastille: Saw some stock market news today that Zoom stock is up 50% the past 5 days...
	🤖 6:18pm Handy Haversack: Don't cough by the LINKNYC spy towers!
	6:20pm gfunkhairpiece: Worried about anonymity in recovery meetings here. Zoom has been a major tool for many of the recovery people I know; discussion has been occurring but it's hard to challenge given the circumstances.
	6:20pm John from Florham park: @Handy I have just joined that group you told me about
	6:21pm Listener Robert: @JakeGould, a good vaccine will probably take years. Meanwhile as this strain lapses into the background, interest will be lost for developing a vaccine for this strain; there'll always be new ones! There's unlikely to be developed a routine as for influenza where they can crank out a new vaccine in months.
	🤖 6:21pm Ken From Hyde Park: --> Toilet Paper Image --> My Head (I get it now.)
	6:23pm JakeGould: @ListenerRobert: What about just anti-body detection to see how many people might have had it but didn’t get the worst of it? I think real numbers of infection versus acute symptoms versus death has value.
	🤖 6:25pm Handy Haversack: Which one is that, @John?
	6:25pm Mark Hurst: See links to STOP in the "Tonight's guests" section on this page. Also, Liz and Albert are both here on the comment board, if you have questions!
	6:26pm fred: I got into trouble by bringing home my work computer (MAC/IP address mismatch, I guess). Paypal account blocked, but I never used my work computer for that. There's some data sharing going on behind the scenes
	6:26pm liz o'sullivan: :waves:
	🤖 6:26pm Webhamster Henry: So how does the 4th amendment get involved with this? Where's the cyber warrant?
	6:27pm John from Florham park: @Handy meet jit si on your recommendation
	6:27pm chris: there's a new technique for vaccines being tried now, as i understand it. rather than imprinting the full virus dna on the immune system, the newer technique implants the viral reproduction component RNA on the immune system. if this works, exposure to the virus will be countered by the body's ability to shut off the viruses ability to reproduce. also, if this works, then vaccines can be quickly developed for new viruses. like very quickly. i'm not an expert, though, so don't quote me. but as i understand it, this is very promising new technology.
	6:27pm Listener Robert: @JakeGould, of course a serologic test would be valuable.
	🤖 6:28pm Bas NL: Time for a face-blocker in Photoshop?
	6:28pm Albert Fox Cahn: Webhamster: Currently, there is no requirement to obtain a warrant or even an subpoena to run facial recognition searches.
	🤖 6:28pm Handy Haversack: Very cool, John! I'm hoping to use it for the games I run.
	6:29pm Mark Hurst: @Handy what games?
	6:29pm John from Florham park: Handy how about using for a vid chat among regular chatters
	🤖 6:31pm Webhamster Henry: tech is neutral and doesn't have a signature.
	6:31pm JakeGould: @John: Never.
	6:31pm Listener Robert: @chris, we know one attempt at such a nucleic acid vaccine against the previously identified SARS-associated coronavirus flopped, but it's not clear that the method can't succeed in the future.
	6:32pm chris: ok, cool. thanks, Robert.
	🤖 6:32pm Handy Haversack: @Mark Hurst, I have been running an old-school (1981-ish) D&D game or clones that of for like 17 years now with some very close friends. We had our first online session over Zoom yesterday -- glad to have found a better platform!
	6:32pm John from Florham park: @Jakegould another idea shot to hell:)
	🤖 6:33pm Handy Haversack: *clones thereof ^^
	🤖 6:33pm Ken From Hyde Park: Seven Second Delay had a G**gle Hangouts video chat episode once ... once.
	🤖 6:33pm Handy Haversack: Once, Johnny!
	6:33pm JakeGould: @Ken: Cause of much PTSD.
	6:34pm Carmichael: So when I get my annual "flu" shot, what am I really getting?
	6:34pm Dancasey1: @liz “Shazam for people” is perfect
	6:34pm John from Florham park: @KFHP did not end well right?
	6:34pm Carmichael: Or Face Hound.
	6:35pm liz o'sullivan: thanks! i was working in computer vision when it became commercially viable. we used to joke about "shazam for X" all the time.
	6:35pm chris: Carm, in layman's terms, you're getting a dead version of the virus, so that if your immune system sees the virus later, it can quickly kill it.
	6:36pm Phillippe Bastille: At least Zoom has entertainment value: www.reddit.com...
	6:36pm Dancasey1: Looking forward (or maybe not) to “Shazam for smells”
	6:37pm Dancasey1: Smellzam
	🤖 6:37pm Handy Haversack: @liz: Do you know whether there's any sort of trend among arrangements between NYC developers and either Big Tech or law enforcement? I see the new bldgs. in my neighborhood, and there are a lot of them, absolutely FESTOONED with cameras. Far more than are needed for any legit security concern.
	🤖 6:37pm Handy Haversack: *"legit"^^ Ahem.
	6:38pm liz o'sullivan: good question Handy! it's probably small tech, which i've often said is worse than big tech. tons of shady startups selling snakeoil to unsuspecting civillians
	6:38pm JakeGould: @Carmichael: What you are gettin are flu antibodies that are determined by scientific best guesses of what flu strains might be coming around that year. It’s a gamble. If you get a flu shot but then get the flu, it means you got a strain that was not factored into the model used to determine things.
	🤖 6:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: @John - I'd say it was on par with other 7SD episodes.
	🤖 6:38pm Webhamster Henry: Now imagine the Clearview database feeding into Deep Fakes.
	6:38pm Carmichael: But which virus, Chris? All of them, the most recent one, the next one?
	6:38pm Megaroni: Thank you Techtonic for continuing to call big tech especially in times like this!
	6:38pm liz o'sullivan: startups often have the worst ethics abuses when they're competing with big tech, and just get desperate.
	6:39pm chris: Carm, what Jake said. its a best guess.
	6:39pm Mark Hurst: @Megaroni thanks! And let's thank Liz and Albert for joining in live, too! (And special reporter Dan Casey here on the board as well)
	6:39pm John from Florham park: @KFHP gotcha
	6:39pm JakeGould: Also, startups are hyper motivated to cooperate with people in power. Their whole business model is to build something so someone else uses it.
	🤖 6:39pm Webhamster Henry: haha @liz said "startup" and "ethics" inthe same sentence!
	6:40pm JakeGould: Starups are like a Three Stooges film where Shemp becomes a millionaire.
	6:40pm Mark Hurst: @Webham careful, don't bring those two words too close together!
	🤖 6:40pm Webhamster Henry: @jakeGould the model is work well enough to get acquired!
	🤖 6:40pm Handy Haversack: @liz: that makes sense. And if the data are sellable, I can't imagine Two Trees or other big developers in NYC would hesitate much over monetizing them.
	6:40pm chris: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
	6:42pm Mark Hurst: @Albert's point about the Census "lockbox" is so important. Worth more discussion (any journalists listening in: TIP!)
	6:43pm JakeGould: @WebmasgterHenry: You mean Shemp would not win?
	🤖 6:43pm Webhamster Henry: @JakeGould Shemp wins big!
	🤖 6:44pm Handy Haversack: I tried filling out my census form the other night. The govt. website assures me that it will be ready to receive my data by March 12. So take confidence!
	6:44pm Mark Hurst: @Liz it's interesting (and I agree) that "compete with Big Tech" almost inevitably means "engage in unethical behavior"
	🤖 6:44pm chresti: My son just got a job with a new start up, not sure what it is, something that helps people manage their finances.
	6:45pm liz o'sullivan: it's almost like we have to think about antitrust and ethics in the same breath... hmmm...
	6:45pm Mark Hurst: @Liz let's BREAK THEM UP
	🤖 6:45pm Handy Haversack: Heh, Mark: that's always my reaction as someone without a phone: so I can't even go in? (It applies to Yankee games: only options are smart phone or paper tix from the box office.)
	6:46pm Mark Hurst: (but that's a whole 'nother show)
	6:46pm liz o'sullivan: hear hear!!
	6:46pm JakeGould: I filled out my census form no issue last week. Maybe they are overloaded?
	6:46pm Mark Hurst: @Handy at least they still accept paper. Probably not for long...
	🤖 6:48pm Webhamster Henry: I did the census too, but for some reason they didn't list "Vulcan" as ethnicity though.
	🤖 6:48pm Handy Haversack: Yeah: I think the point is the team wants to completely control the secondary market. Better than, e.g, the Rays, who have gone "cashless": i.e., fired 2/3 of the concession employees.
	6:49pm melinda: @Ken I remember that. There were funny sound effects and Ken asked someone to draw a Hitler mustache on Andy.
	6:51pm listener james from westwood: Well said on things going on pause!
	6:51pm Mark Hurst: Go, STOP, go! www.stopspying.org and www.postact.org
	6:52pm Carmichael: @Henry, I normally check the "other" box and write in "Irish".
	6:52pm liz o'sullivan: wooooo!!!
	6:53pm Mark Hurst: @James I agree
	6:53pm JakeGould: I saw lots of cops headed to the subway around 7:00pm last night. My understanding is they are charged with enforcing the 6 foot separation stuff. But I fear the homeless are geeing targeted as well. It was happening before, makes (sad) sense it would be happening again now.
	🤖 6:54pm Bas NL: In The Netherlands there have been three court cases at late against government for their use of algorithms in detecting possible fraud. They were all won and government had to stop using the methods.
	6:54pm geezerette: It's erie how well this virus works for the human malefactors. Feels so much like a dress rehearsal.
	6:54pm Mark Hurst: @Bas thanks - hadn't heard about that.
	🤖 6:55pm Handy Haversack: I often fear greatly how letters to senators, congresspeople, even local officials might one day be used as criminal evidence.
	🤖 6:55pm Webhamster Henry: Fascism and autocracy go hand and hand with disaster capitalism.
	6:56pm Dancasey1: @bas I meant to forward that story to Mark, but lost it in a blizzard of other tabs! Similar legal tangles about algortihmically-enforced rights in India as well
	🤖 6:56pm Bas NL: Yes, in child support, tax and welfare.
	6:56pm Dave Miss: Thanks for the 2 with links.
	6:56pm chris: thanks, Albert and Liz. signed. thanks, Mark. great show, dammit! :)
	6:56pm melinda: Thanks Mark!
	6:56pm johnzo: thanks mark&fmu!
	6:56pm Mark Hurst: @chris thanks! @Dave thanks!
	6:56pm John from Florham park: @Geezerette if I did not know any better I would think that it was on purpose and I am not wearing tinfoil
	6:56pm P-90: Thanks Mark and friends.
	6:56pm listener james from westwood: Excellent interviews; thanks, Mark and guests, and thanks, Olivia-in-the-shadows!
	🤖 6:56pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark, Dan, Fox and Liz!
	🤖 6:56pm Ken From Hyde Park: "Toss Tik Tok"
	6:57pm Phillippe Bastille: @Handy 6:45 Taking your laptop to the game isn't an option?
	🤖 6:57pm Webhamster Henry: Yeesh! Thanks Mark & Guests!
	🤖 6:57pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark and guests! Good being not anywhere near paranoid enough with all you good folx!
	6:57pm Mark Hurst: @P-90 @James thank you both
	🤖 6:57pm Bas NL: (And Olivia of course!!)
	6:57pm johnzo: wfmu wfmu we’re number 1 we’re number 1
	6:57pm Phillippe Bastille: Thanks Mark, Olivia, interviewees
	🤖 6:57pm Webhamster Henry: as if there will be any games anymore.
	6:57pm Dancasey1: Great interview @liz/Albert!
	6:57pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Mark! Thanks Albert & Liz & Dan!
	6:57pm Dancasey1: And of course the gracious @Mark as well
	6:57pm Mark Hurst: @KenFHP that would be a good addition. ... also Uninstall Uber, Lose Lyft, Something Something Snapchat
	6:58pm Mark Hurst: Yes thanks to Olivia for being board op once again! The WFMU staff are STARS
	🤖 6:58pm Handy Haversack: Skeleton Stars FTW!
	6:58pm Dancasey1: Dropkick Dropbox, stuff Snapchat, if I start I’m not going to be able to stop doing this
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: @coel, @Dan, @Philippe, @Bas, everyone - thanks! (Dan, keep it going - Stuff Snapchat is a good one)
	6:59pm Dancasey1: Props to @olivia & fellow skeletons in the crew!
	🤖 7:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark and guests and board op and friends.
	7:00pm Mark Hurst: You've never met better skeletons.
	7:01pm Mark Hurst: We will get through this! Thanks, everyone, for tuning in. Be well.
	🤖 7:21pm chresti: Thanks Mark and Olivia!

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from March 23, 2020

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March 23, 2020: Albert Fox Cahn and Liz O'Sullivan from Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

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Tonight: Albert Fox Cahn and Liz O'Sullivan from Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

Tonight's guests:

• STOP - Surveillance Technology Oversight Project: stopspying.org, postact.org, and on Twitter: @STOPSpyingNY

• Albert Fox Cahn, cofounder of STOP: @FoxCahn

• Liz O'Sullivan, cofounder of STOP: @lizjosullivan (past guest from Nov 18, 2019 show)

• Thanks also to special reporter Dan Casey: @casimal

To discuss:

• Dan Casey's pointers: Facebook fumbles its response to coronavirus (Noah Kulwin in the Outline); TikTok unfurls its secret digital velvet rope, and no uglies or poors need apply (Sam Biddle, Paulo Victor Ribeiro, Tatiana Dias in The Intercept)

• Google, other companies get your data if you use Verily's coronavirus site (Alfred Ng in CNet, March 17). Albert Fox Cahn quoted: "If profit driven companies are going to play a central role in our response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we must take steps to ensure that they are serving the public, not just their bottom line."

• Coronavirus pandemic changes how your privacy is protected (Alfred Ng in CNet, March 21). As Sidney Fussell points out, "privacy enforcement is already being shirked because of the pandemic. It's all starting!"

• As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets (today, March 23, in the NYT). Albert Fox Cahn is quoted: "We could so easily end up in a situation where we empower local, state or federal government to take measures in response to this pandemic that fundamentally change the scope of American civil rights." (See also the quote from past guest Chris Gilliard: "That could extend to anyone, to suddenly have the status of your health blasted out to thousands or potentially millions of people . . . It’s a very strange thing to do because, in the alleged interest of public health, you are actually endangering people.")

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Albert Fox Cahn and Liz O'Sullivan from Surveillance Technology Oversight Project - and special reporter Dan Casey.
Tomaš Dvořák	Game Boy Tune "Game Boy Tune" by "Tomaš Dvořák"
	Mark's intro "Mark's intro"
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	Interview w/Albert Fox Cahn & Liz O'Sullivan		0:13:53 (Pop-up)
The Raffeys	Big Brother "Big Brother" by "The Raffeys"	Eep Snörpsh Now	0:55:19 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:00pm melinda: Hi techtons!
	6:00pm listener james from westwood: How do, Mark and all! (And Board Op Olivia!)
	6:00pm ultradamno: Hello Mark! Techccines!
	6:00pm Dancasey1: Evenin’
	6:01pm Phillippe Bastille: Hey Mark! Hey Star Tecks!
	6:01pm John from Florham park: Hello fellow technoids
	🤖 6:01pm Handy Haversack: Hi, Mark and all Techyon particles! I gotta go pour that Tech Gin and get ready to mix it up with all of you!
	6:02pm johnzo: aloha all
	6:02pm Richard from Brooklyn: hello, all
	🤖 6:02pm chresti: Hi Mark & Techtoniques!
	6:02pm John from Florham park: Hey handy
	6:02pm Dave Miss: Howdy all lock-tonics!
	6:03pm Mark Hurst: Hi all, thanks for joining!
	🤖 6:03pm herb.nyc: Too interviews! We can't wait two listen. Go wfmu. Go mark.
	6:03pm andrewb: yay tech-ton
	6:03pm Mark Hurst: Olivia, thanks for board-op'ing!
	6:03pm Listener Robert: Good news -- www.cdc.gov... . Just look thru March 14, the last date CDC doesn't expect to add to the numbers of. This thing peaked long BEFORE these extreme control measures!
	6:03pm JakeGould: Going to create an app for washing hands: It‘s going to be called “WSHHNDS.”
	🤖 6:03pm Handy Haversack: Hey, John!
	6:03pm Mark Hurst: Dan Casey here on the chat board - hello sir!
	🤖 6:04pm Ken From Hyde Park: A shot of Techtomycin will alleviate the symptoms!
	6:04pm Dancasey1: Ayo!
	6:04pm Mark Hurst: No snake oil here on Techtonic :)
	6:04pm JakeGould: @ListenerRobert: “Illnesses that began during this time may not yet be reported.” Sorry but I’m not comforted by incomplete data.
	6:05pm olivia: no prob, Mark, hey all!
	🤖 6:08pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! And thanks Olivia! Hi all!
	6:08pm Dancasey1: Hey Olivia, thanks for holding down le fort (as the French say)
	6:08pm Mark Hurst: hi Bas!
	6:08pm coelacanth∅: hey Mark and all
	6:08pm Mark Hurst: hi coel!
	🤖 6:09pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Mark! Everyone's online now!
	6:09pm Listener Robert: @JakeGould, look at where that caveat starts: March 15. That's why you should look only thru March 14, and it shows a downward trend to that date. Tomorrow you should look thru March 15, etc. The data ARE complete thru March 14.
	6:09pm olivia: haha hey dan!
	6:09pm Mark Hurst: @Webham I keep hearing about this "internet" - I guess it's for real?
	6:09pm Albert FOx Cahn: Hey Folks!
	🤖 6:10pm Webhamster Henry: It's like CI$, but you don't have to pay as much!
	6:10pm Mark Hurst: Albert Fox Cahn, welcome to the chat board!
	6:10pm queems: my sister sent me an article from back in july about how zoom was being used for surveillance purposes. apparently the issue was addressed, but i deleted it off of my computer anyway
	6:10pm Albert Fox Cahn: Thanks Mark, excited to hear the ep!
	6:11pm Mark Hurst: @queems there are recent reports (like in the past week or two) about continued surveillance on Zoom.
	6:12pm queems: @mark there goes my virtual happy hour
	6:12pm coelacanth∅: (never heard of "tick tock" before)
	6:12pm JakeGould: Mark, are you going to discuss how working from home has not changed some workplace privacy issues?
	6:13pm listener james from westwood: They never shoulda killed Vine.
	6:13pm chris: how do privacy concerns change in the face of a pandemic and real-world consequences? south korea phone tracking - www.washingtonpost.com...
	6:13pm Mark Hurst: @coel see the article on TikTok listed in the "To Discuss" section.
	🤖 6:13pm Webhamster Henry: TikTok shows me sheetrocking videos.
	6:13pm chris: oh, and hi, Mark and folks.
	6:14pm coelacanth∅: you better do something about those nails
	6:14pm JakeGould: @ListenerRobert: Fair. But personally I would feel better when a vaccine and detection for anti-bodies test exists. For example, I am quote certain I had this Coronavirus on February 15th. But without a way to test at this point… Who knows?
	🤖 6:14pm Handy Haversack: @queems, in response to what you posted about the NASTY habits of Zoom, and knowing what we all know about Google Hangouts, a friend who deals with cyber freedom issues had this to say: " I've just been using meet.jit.si with either Chromium or Chrome or Firefox web browsers for webconferencing with people who dont' have a lot of capacity for technical nerdery. I see it's linked in that article, too. There's another instance of the same software over at meet.mayfirst.org if you don't want your data going through the jitsi organization's servers for a group meeting." (Repeat post from Olivia's show in case you didn't see it there.)
	6:15pm queems: thanks @handy! i missed it on the last playlist!
	6:15pm chris: ah, we will talk about my question above. cool.
	6:15pm Greg from ZONE 5: Evening, Mark & all!
	6:16pm Mark Hurst: @chris on the same wavelength!
	6:16pm ultradamno: Does instagram's algorithm filter out less expensive food pictures?
	6:16pm liz o'sullivan: hi, this is liz!
	🤖 6:16pm Handy Haversack: The rhetoric at meet.mayfirst.org looks very reassuring, @queems. Hi, @Greg!
	6:16pm Mark Hurst: Welcome, Liz! Thanks for joining in!
	🤖 6:16pm Ken From Hyde Park: Look at Saturday! Toilet paper for ants!
	6:16pm Mark Hurst: @Greg good to see you here, sir!
	6:17pm Mark Hurst: @Ken that's just the seedling - it grows to full size
	6:17pm Phillippe Bastille: Saw some stock market news today that Zoom stock is up 50% the past 5 days...
	🤖 6:18pm Handy Haversack: Don't cough by the LINKNYC spy towers!
	6:20pm gfunkhairpiece: Worried about anonymity in recovery meetings here. Zoom has been a major tool for many of the recovery people I know; discussion has been occurring but it's hard to challenge given the circumstances.
	6:20pm John from Florham park: @Handy I have just joined that group you told me about
	6:21pm Listener Robert: @JakeGould, a good vaccine will probably take years. Meanwhile as this strain lapses into the background, interest will be lost for developing a vaccine for this strain; there'll always be new ones! There's unlikely to be developed a routine as for influenza where they can crank out a new vaccine in months.
	🤖 6:21pm Ken From Hyde Park: --> Toilet Paper Image --> My Head (I get it now.)
	6:23pm JakeGould: @ListenerRobert: What about just anti-body detection to see how many people might have had it but didn’t get the worst of it? I think real numbers of infection versus acute symptoms versus death has value.
	🤖 6:25pm Handy Haversack: Which one is that, @John?
	6:25pm Mark Hurst: See links to STOP in the "Tonight's guests" section on this page. Also, Liz and Albert are both here on the comment board, if you have questions!
	6:26pm fred: I got into trouble by bringing home my work computer (MAC/IP address mismatch, I guess). Paypal account blocked, but I never used my work computer for that. There's some data sharing going on behind the scenes
	6:26pm liz o'sullivan: :waves:
	🤖 6:26pm Webhamster Henry: So how does the 4th amendment get involved with this? Where's the cyber warrant?
	6:27pm John from Florham park: @Handy meet jit si on your recommendation
	6:27pm chris: there's a new technique for vaccines being tried now, as i understand it. rather than imprinting the full virus dna on the immune system, the newer technique implants the viral reproduction component RNA on the immune system. if this works, exposure to the virus will be countered by the body's ability to shut off the viruses ability to reproduce. also, if this works, then vaccines can be quickly developed for new viruses. like very quickly. i'm not an expert, though, so don't quote me. but as i understand it, this is very promising new technology.
	6:27pm Listener Robert: @JakeGould, of course a serologic test would be valuable.
	🤖 6:28pm Bas NL: Time for a face-blocker in Photoshop?
	6:28pm Albert Fox Cahn: Webhamster: Currently, there is no requirement to obtain a warrant or even an subpoena to run facial recognition searches.
	🤖 6:28pm Handy Haversack: Very cool, John! I'm hoping to use it for the games I run.
	6:29pm Mark Hurst: @Handy what games?
	6:29pm John from Florham park: Handy how about using for a vid chat among regular chatters
	🤖 6:31pm Webhamster Henry: tech is neutral and doesn't have a signature.
	6:31pm JakeGould: @John: Never.
	6:31pm Listener Robert: @chris, we know one attempt at such a nucleic acid vaccine against the previously identified SARS-associated coronavirus flopped, but it's not clear that the method can't succeed in the future.
	6:32pm chris: ok, cool. thanks, Robert.
	🤖 6:32pm Handy Haversack: @Mark Hurst, I have been running an old-school (1981-ish) D&D game or clones that of for like 17 years now with some very close friends. We had our first online session over Zoom yesterday -- glad to have found a better platform!
	6:32pm John from Florham park: @Jakegould another idea shot to hell:)
	🤖 6:33pm Handy Haversack: *clones thereof ^^
	🤖 6:33pm Ken From Hyde Park: Seven Second Delay had a G**gle Hangouts video chat episode once ... once.
	🤖 6:33pm Handy Haversack: Once, Johnny!
	6:33pm JakeGould: @Ken: Cause of much PTSD.
	6:34pm Carmichael: So when I get my annual "flu" shot, what am I really getting?
	6:34pm Dancasey1: @liz “Shazam for people” is perfect
	6:34pm John from Florham park: @KFHP did not end well right?
	6:34pm Carmichael: Or Face Hound.
	6:35pm liz o'sullivan: thanks! i was working in computer vision when it became commercially viable. we used to joke about "shazam for X" all the time.
	6:35pm chris: Carm, in layman's terms, you're getting a dead version of the virus, so that if your immune system sees the virus later, it can quickly kill it.
	6:36pm Phillippe Bastille: At least Zoom has entertainment value: www.reddit.com...
	6:36pm Dancasey1: Looking forward (or maybe not) to “Shazam for smells”
	6:37pm Dancasey1: Smellzam
	🤖 6:37pm Handy Haversack: @liz: Do you know whether there's any sort of trend among arrangements between NYC developers and either Big Tech or law enforcement? I see the new bldgs. in my neighborhood, and there are a lot of them, absolutely FESTOONED with cameras. Far more than are needed for any legit security concern.
	🤖 6:37pm Handy Haversack: *"legit"^^ Ahem.
	6:38pm liz o'sullivan: good question Handy! it's probably small tech, which i've often said is worse than big tech. tons of shady startups selling snakeoil to unsuspecting civillians
	6:38pm JakeGould: @Carmichael: What you are gettin are flu antibodies that are determined by scientific best guesses of what flu strains might be coming around that year. It’s a gamble. If you get a flu shot but then get the flu, it means you got a strain that was not factored into the model used to determine things.
	🤖 6:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: @John - I'd say it was on par with other 7SD episodes.
	🤖 6:38pm Webhamster Henry: Now imagine the Clearview database feeding into Deep Fakes.
	6:38pm Carmichael: But which virus, Chris? All of them, the most recent one, the next one?
	6:38pm Megaroni: Thank you Techtonic for continuing to call big tech especially in times like this!
	6:38pm liz o'sullivan: startups often have the worst ethics abuses when they're competing with big tech, and just get desperate.
	6:39pm chris: Carm, what Jake said. its a best guess.
	6:39pm Mark Hurst: @Megaroni thanks! And let's thank Liz and Albert for joining in live, too! (And special reporter Dan Casey here on the board as well)
	6:39pm John from Florham park: @KFHP gotcha
	6:39pm JakeGould: Also, startups are hyper motivated to cooperate with people in power. Their whole business model is to build something so someone else uses it.
	🤖 6:39pm Webhamster Henry: haha @liz said "startup" and "ethics" inthe same sentence!
	6:40pm JakeGould: Starups are like a Three Stooges film where Shemp becomes a millionaire.
	6:40pm Mark Hurst: @Webham careful, don't bring those two words too close together!
	🤖 6:40pm Webhamster Henry: @jakeGould the model is work well enough to get acquired!
	🤖 6:40pm Handy Haversack: @liz: that makes sense. And if the data are sellable, I can't imagine Two Trees or other big developers in NYC would hesitate much over monetizing them.
	6:40pm chris: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
	6:42pm Mark Hurst: @Albert's point about the Census "lockbox" is so important. Worth more discussion (any journalists listening in: TIP!)
	6:43pm JakeGould: @WebmasgterHenry: You mean Shemp would not win?
	🤖 6:43pm Webhamster Henry: @JakeGould Shemp wins big!
	🤖 6:44pm Handy Haversack: I tried filling out my census form the other night. The govt. website assures me that it will be ready to receive my data by March 12. So take confidence!
	6:44pm Mark Hurst: @Liz it's interesting (and I agree) that "compete with Big Tech" almost inevitably means "engage in unethical behavior"
	🤖 6:44pm chresti: My son just got a job with a new start up, not sure what it is, something that helps people manage their finances.
	6:45pm liz o'sullivan: it's almost like we have to think about antitrust and ethics in the same breath... hmmm...
	6:45pm Mark Hurst: @Liz let's BREAK THEM UP
	🤖 6:45pm Handy Haversack: Heh, Mark: that's always my reaction as someone without a phone: so I can't even go in? (It applies to Yankee games: only options are smart phone or paper tix from the box office.)
	6:46pm Mark Hurst: (but that's a whole 'nother show)
	6:46pm liz o'sullivan: hear hear!!
	6:46pm JakeGould: I filled out my census form no issue last week. Maybe they are overloaded?
	6:46pm Mark Hurst: @Handy at least they still accept paper. Probably not for long...
	🤖 6:48pm Webhamster Henry: I did the census too, but for some reason they didn't list "Vulcan" as ethnicity though.
	🤖 6:48pm Handy Haversack: Yeah: I think the point is the team wants to completely control the secondary market. Better than, e.g, the Rays, who have gone "cashless": i.e., fired 2/3 of the concession employees.
	6:49pm melinda: @Ken I remember that. There were funny sound effects and Ken asked someone to draw a Hitler mustache on Andy.
	6:51pm listener james from westwood: Well said on things going on pause!
	6:51pm Mark Hurst: Go, STOP, go! www.stopspying.org and www.postact.org
	6:52pm Carmichael: @Henry, I normally check the "other" box and write in "Irish".
	6:52pm liz o'sullivan: wooooo!!!
	6:53pm Mark Hurst: @James I agree
	6:53pm JakeGould: I saw lots of cops headed to the subway around 7:00pm last night. My understanding is they are charged with enforcing the 6 foot separation stuff. But I fear the homeless are geeing targeted as well. It was happening before, makes (sad) sense it would be happening again now.
	🤖 6:54pm Bas NL: In The Netherlands there have been three court cases at late against government for their use of algorithms in detecting possible fraud. They were all won and government had to stop using the methods.
	6:54pm geezerette: It's erie how well this virus works for the human malefactors. Feels so much like a dress rehearsal.
	6:54pm Mark Hurst: @Bas thanks - hadn't heard about that.
	🤖 6:55pm Handy Haversack: I often fear greatly how letters to senators, congresspeople, even local officials might one day be used as criminal evidence.
	🤖 6:55pm Webhamster Henry: Fascism and autocracy go hand and hand with disaster capitalism.
	6:56pm Dancasey1: @bas I meant to forward that story to Mark, but lost it in a blizzard of other tabs! Similar legal tangles about algortihmically-enforced rights in India as well
	🤖 6:56pm Bas NL: Yes, in child support, tax and welfare.
	6:56pm Dave Miss: Thanks for the 2 with links.
	6:56pm chris: thanks, Albert and Liz. signed. thanks, Mark. great show, dammit! :)
	6:56pm melinda: Thanks Mark!
	6:56pm johnzo: thanks mark&fmu!
	6:56pm Mark Hurst: @chris thanks! @Dave thanks!
	6:56pm John from Florham park: @Geezerette if I did not know any better I would think that it was on purpose and I am not wearing tinfoil
	6:56pm P-90: Thanks Mark and friends.
	6:56pm listener james from westwood: Excellent interviews; thanks, Mark and guests, and thanks, Olivia-in-the-shadows!
	🤖 6:56pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark, Dan, Fox and Liz!
	🤖 6:56pm Ken From Hyde Park: "Toss Tik Tok"
	6:57pm Phillippe Bastille: @Handy 6:45 Taking your laptop to the game isn't an option?
	🤖 6:57pm Webhamster Henry: Yeesh! Thanks Mark & Guests!
	🤖 6:57pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark and guests! Good being not anywhere near paranoid enough with all you good folx!
	6:57pm Mark Hurst: @P-90 @James thank you both
	🤖 6:57pm Bas NL: (And Olivia of course!!)
	6:57pm johnzo: wfmu wfmu we’re number 1 we’re number 1
	6:57pm Phillippe Bastille: Thanks Mark, Olivia, interviewees
	🤖 6:57pm Webhamster Henry: as if there will be any games anymore.
	6:57pm Dancasey1: Great interview @liz/Albert!
	6:57pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Mark! Thanks Albert & Liz & Dan!
	6:57pm Dancasey1: And of course the gracious @Mark as well
	6:57pm Mark Hurst: @KenFHP that would be a good addition. ... also Uninstall Uber, Lose Lyft, Something Something Snapchat
	6:58pm Mark Hurst: Yes thanks to Olivia for being board op once again! The WFMU staff are STARS
	🤖 6:58pm Handy Haversack: Skeleton Stars FTW!
	6:58pm Dancasey1: Dropkick Dropbox, stuff Snapchat, if I start I’m not going to be able to stop doing this
	6:59pm Mark Hurst: @coel, @Dan, @Philippe, @Bas, everyone - thanks! (Dan, keep it going - Stuff Snapchat is a good one)
	6:59pm Dancasey1: Props to @olivia & fellow skeletons in the crew!
	🤖 7:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark and guests and board op and friends.
	7:00pm Mark Hurst: You've never met better skeletons.
	7:01pm Mark Hurst: We will get through this! Thanks, everyone, for tuning in. Be well.
	🤖 7:21pm chresti: Thanks Mark and Olivia!

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