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Favoriting December 11, 2017: Documentary filmmaker Kirby Ferguson on his new series, "This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory"

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This week: conspiracy theories, free will, and whether creators online can get paid in a landscape dominated by Big Tech. A conversation with Kirby Ferguson, creator of "This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory" and "Everything Is A Remix."

Links to Kirby's work:

Episode 1 of This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory (watch previews of other episodes on the series website)
Everything Is A Remix, Kirby's breakout hit documentary from 2010-2012 (see also the special followup episode, on remixing in "The Force Awakens")
Copy This, Kirby's podcast on copyright and creativity
Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting (Kirby recommended this essay by Every Frame A Painting video creators - great read)

Other links:

Video of Skeptech 2 conference held in Monty Hall on October 26 (feat. Jon Ronson, Nancy Lublin, and Mark Hurst)

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  Documentary filmmaker Kirby Ferguson talks to Mark about his video series "This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory." Also, tech news, Uncanny Valley, and listener calls.
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  Interview with Kirby Ferguson, "This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory"    
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  Mark's comments &] Uncanny Valley    
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  Your calls and comments    
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Listener comments!

  6:02pm
melinda:

Hi Mark and techtons
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listener james from westwood:

Howdy, Mark and all! That combo on the playlist anticipates the treadmill desk by decades!
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TehBadDr:

Love me some blips and bleeps, you should do a full on music program!
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northguineahills:

Laser Tour, is that Major Lazer's later tour?
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TehBadDr:

Is 23A the shorts. the console, or the whole darn thing!
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listener james from westwood:

"This is Apple we're talking about."
[emits Miss Krabappel–esque "Ha!"]
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TehBadDr:

Well that certainly sounds secure!
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glenn:

convenience like when my local bank, 2 blocks away, closes up and moves 10 blocks away? that convenience?
  6:07pm
melinda:

Holy shit
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Good evening, Mark and Techto sapiens!
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Fuzzy:

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
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ultradamno:

Hello technocrats. I so the facial recognition aspect of Apple X something one can opt not to do?
  6:14pm
Listener Robert:

Lots of things people these days call "conspiracy theories" don't even involve conspiracies. Jesse Walker's written a lot about the abuse of the term.
  6:15pm
melinda:

@Robert good point. The term gets thrown around a lot.
  6:22pm
david m colangelo:

know a guy was on USS Maddox when she was "attacked", he says damn sure it was faked.
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djsheilab:

Just wanted to chime in and say how much I enjoy your show. Thanks for always bringing us these fantastic, thought-provoking interviews.
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Mark Hurst:

Hi all! And thanks so much, Sheila! Mutual admiration here - I love Sophisticated Boom Boom.
  6:27pm
debt collector:

Have you folks seen world on a wire parts 1&2 by Rainer fassbinder?
  6:29pm
debt collector:

It’s on filmstruck and it’s about a corporation hat has built a computer model of the future and it’s replicants are hard to detect from its progenitors
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northguineahills:

Gotta look for that, debt collector.
  6:35pm
Dean:

Luddites. That's how I want to be known. It's not a bad thing.
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northguineahills:

@Dean, I didn't know you were in the UK in 1812-1816 and knew Ned Ludd ;)

Thanks Mark, actually leaving work and a sane hour. Cheers, and thanks for the good work!
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Folsom:

BBC world service just had a program about the 170 million cameras in China. The reporter got his face scanned then started walking around a city, took 7 minutes for the cameras to ID him.
  6:41pm
Dean:

I did not know personally the "Leicestershire imbecile," but if you hum a few bars I'll fake it, @ngh.
  6:41pm
queems:

send n00dz
  6:41pm
knowitall@aol:

send nudes.
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northguineahills:

Sounds good to me, Dean!
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listener james from westwood:

Well that FB initiative sounds completely above board and will surely never be misused by company insiders or contractors.
  6:44pm
Dean:

Here's my face, Facebook: http://www.dreamideamachine.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/06/004.jpg
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Fuzzy:

The sheep will gladly comply.
  6:44pm
queems:

disabling facebook was the best thing i have ever done
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Phil with the phone:

system = debugged
call at 201-209-9368
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Carmichael:

A few friends of mine couldn't wait to submit their DNA to ancestry. They think it's the best thing ever.
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Tommy in Neversink:

Seems appropriate that FACEbook would scan your face
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Smokestack:

Yeah, I dumped Facebook five years ago. Never looked back
  6:50pm
Gnat:

Say you were a multi millionaire and wanted to start up some kind of initiative to combat the big data creepiness and fighting against its impending normalization in state services etc. What can be done to help???
  6:51pm
Marie:

So happy to be off FB. Hated it. the idea of looking at a co.s track record seems like common sense to me. Look around. Why should you trust any corps?
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melinda:

I submitted my DNA to 23andme in hopes of getting some information that might help me with chronic illness, but I wouldn't have done it solely for ancestry info.
  6:52pm
queems:

if nothing else, now i never have to read about my family’s shitty political opinions
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TedfromOakland:

to read about the Luddites: 'The Making of the English Working Class' by E.P. Thompson. Definitive work of the history of the period.
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YesthatMattHall:

Not to freak everyone out, but here's an off-the-shelf, totally-possible-right-now use of face-recognition tech and drones for targeted assassination.
Bummer.
www.youtube.com...
  6:53pm
Dean:

Absolutely, @TedfromOakland. For a more brief account, Kevin Robins & Frank Webster, Times of the Technoculture.
  6:54pm
oogoo:

The modern state is designed to become the ideal form of government to protect the rights of the individual. When those rights are not protected any longer, the institutions of the state Are most definately Conspiring against the individual freedom they are entrusted to guarantee.
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Fuzzy:

If you go to the airport to catch your flight, they'll scan your face -- it's only a couple of airports now, but you know that eventually it will be the norm.
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ultradamno:

Seems like a gift to law enforcement. Instead of having to try and compel a password out of Apple they just hold your head still.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

I wonder how this plays into the impending demise of net neutrality? "For an additional $9.99 per month, we'll keep your personal data out of government's hands."
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Folsom:

link to bbc article : www.bbc.com...
  6:56pm
Marie:

FB is amoral
  6:56pm
Gio the Engineer:

Mark is definitely holding up the radar gun
  6:57pm
arrow apple:

NY plates in NJ and the first question from the cop is - Have you ever had a NJ license. Yep. Every traffic light. Look up.
  6:58pm
queems:

@ultradamno that is precisely why i only have a passcode. as long as it isn’t mandatory to set these features up, there’s no way that i will use them
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Carmichael:

That happened to me on the Bay Bridge.
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Fuzzy:

Encrypted phone with 6-digit pin. Need PIN to boot phone also.
  6:59pm
fredfromfrance:

@gnat : since the states are having more and more difficulties to govern and companies power are increasing in governing potential, the gathering of both since more than credible. If i had money, i would help philosophers and artists that are engaged in new ways of thinking that can pervert the use of technologies and act as some kind of popular lobby, a natural lobby like could have been underground music scenes or things like that.
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Bas NL:

Thanks Mark!
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Fuzzy:

8 digits, actually.
  6:59pm
Marie:

Can someone please hack the videos of Trump in the Moscow hotel>
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Phil with the phone:

see you next week technocletians
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listener james from westwood:

Thanks, Mark!
  7:00pm
bill:

please be careful, rentals have and should be able to identify owner. I lovethis show, power to the people.
  7:00pm
Dean:

Glenn Greenwald's perennial lament: that people roll over and take it because "I have nothing to hide," never considering that might have plenty to secure and protect.
  7:00pm
Gnat:

looks like it's "Surveillance Camera Man"
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