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Favoriting November 13, 2017: Should We Cheer Big Tech For "Helping" In Puerto Rico? feat. Prof. Zaire Dinzey-Flores

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This week, discussing Big Tech in Puerto Rico with Rutgers professor Zaire Dinzey-Flores. (Above: Zuck on his VR tour of Puerto Rico. See the GQ story for details.)

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  Is Big Tech good for Puerto Rico? Mark interviews Rutgers sociology professor Zaire Dinzey-Flores about her friends' and families' experience in Puerto Rico during and after Hurricane Maria. Also, Sean Parker takes Facebook to task.
Tomaš Dvořák  Game Boy Tune   Favoriting none  Tomaš Dvořák    0:01:56 (Pop-up)
  Mark's intro          
  Interview with Prof. Zaire Dinzey-Flores      
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0:18:04 (Pop-up)
  Your calls and comments         0:40:09 (Pop-up)
  Scam Roundup from Station Manager Ken      
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0:51:10 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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geezerette:

Hello, Mark and other tonics.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:05pm
Bas NL:

Hi Mark! Hi geezerette!
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geezerette:

Hey Bas!
  6:06pm
melinda:

Hi people
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geezerette:

Howdy Melinda!
  6:08pm
melinda:

What a clueless response.
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geezerette:

Big Tech is a secular religion. There's a lot of magical thinking.
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Number Six:

Greetings, Mark & All!
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geezerette:

I read that article. Was not surprised at all.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:14pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hurricanes should not be measured by a death rate.
  6:15pm
Timpanogos Slim:

Facebook wasn't hardly the first social media site. It was preceded by many. Also, Silicon Valley is a sitcom - it's not about technology.
  Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:16pm
caver_mike:

Who will protect children's brains? I thought that was the jiob of the parents.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:17pm
Webhamster Henry:

The USVI was also pretty wiped out. newsofstjohn.com
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northguineahills:

Isn't still close to 2/3rds of PR are w/o electricity?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:21pm
Webhamster Henry:

The electricity news from PR: fortune.com...
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Timpoanotos Slim:

geezerette, i don't think it's so much that Big Tech is a religion as many who are in big tech leadership have religious views of technology. It may be because they see technology from the executive vantage point, and not the nuts-and-bolts point. They have a mystical perception because they have removed themselves from reality.
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geezerette:

www.theguardian.com...
Guardian U.K. article on smartphone addiction

Puerto Rico is Katrina redux.
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northguineahills:

I'm actually mapping hurricane disturbance to vegetation in the Everglades right now from Hurricane Irma.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:28pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

I've not heard anything yet on the status of former WFMU DJ HotRod (aka Atabey). I believe she relocated to PR.
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geezerette:

TS, we actually agree. There's a cult like aspect. I know some long time Los Altos thinkers, people who were coding in the '70s. Not one of them myself.
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Timpoanotos Slim:

Beliefs like technological singularity, simulationism, and to some extent "Moore's law" are just religion for nerds.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:34pm
Webhamster Henry:

69% Hotels
61% Casinos
Last update: 04/nov/2017
Source: Compañía de Turismo
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:34pm
Webhamster Henry:

That's probably where the electricity is!
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northguineahills:

Thanks for the website!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:35pm
Webhamster Henry:

I can just imagine Project Loon during a Cat 4 hurricane.
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geezerette:

ngh, interesting! What a great job, seeing real world things the news is made of.

TS, that industry consists of nerds, even the sales force.
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Timpoanotos Slim:

I've been in the tech industry for 20 years. The sales force might skew nerdy but there's a difference between being into tech and knowing how to build it
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Timpoanotos Slim:

in the same way that there's a big difference between watching football and playing it
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geezerette:

It's the culture that interests me.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:41pm
philthescreener:

Call at 201-209-9368!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:42pm
Webhamster Henry:

Well, P.R. recovery stories are great P.R.!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:46pm
Mark Hurst:

Casa Pueblo: casapueblo.org
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:51pm
melinda:

I like the scam music
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:51pm
Webhamster Henry:

Here's your hi tech mosquito solution: www.fastcompany.com...
  6:54pm
herb.nyc:

There's a bitcoin ATM at a grocery shop near Film Forum; friendly staff and cat as well.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:54pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

I wonder how many Puerto Ricans will be unable so sign up for healthcare because they're without electricity.
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Number Six:

Ha! I just got one saying that 3 people had just unfriended me on FB and telling me to install a new app to find out who did this. Only prob, I'm not even on FB!
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glenn:

ya know... anybody dumb enough to think the i.r.s. or the c.r.a. will take bitcoin or itunes gift cards in lieu of cash kinda deserves to be scammed.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:56pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

I've gotten several letters asking me to join a class action lawsuit about a transmission problem with my car. The problem affects automatics, but mine is a manual.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:59pm
Bas NL:

Thanks Mark, Ken!
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northguineahills:

Thanks Mark!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:00pm
Webhamster Henry:

Nobody Knows in Amer-i-ca, Puerto Rico's in America! -- from the same show
Hear ya next week!
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