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Favoriting August 17, 2020: Elaine Kasket, author, "All the Ghosts in the Machine" - on the afterlife of data

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Tonight: Elaine Kasket, author, "All the Ghosts in the Machine"



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All the Ghosts in the Machine: The Digital Afterlife of your Personal Data, by Elaine Kasket

Elaine Kasket's website

@elainekasket (Twitter)

Google's Selfish Ledger video (leaked in 2018 by The Verge)

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  Elaine Kasket, author, "All the Ghosts in the Machine," on the digital afterlife of data.
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  Interview with Elaine Kasket  
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  Mark's comments on Google's selfish ledger  
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Listener comments!

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ultradamno:

Mark! Techtoltergeists!
  6:00pm
queems:

hello mark hurst and all, greetings from my vacation
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lukavino:

i got a paid protonmail account this weekend, please clap.
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Bas NL:

Hi Mark! Techtonicgins!
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Mark Hurst:

Hi ultra, hi queems, hi lukavino (clap clap)
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Handy Haversack:

Mark! Techyon Drives! Hello!

queems! Congrats on vacationeering!

Hey, ultradamno!
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Mark Hurst:

queems, thx for making this part of your vacay
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Handy Haversack:

Much clapping, lukavino!
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dave miss:

Huzzah!
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Mark Hurst:

Hi Bas, hi Handy!
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ultradamno:

Hiya Handy!
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Webhamster Henry:

Thee are bots listening to your show too!
  6:02pm
Roland, from the Sunshine Coast, Australia:

Good Morning from a sunny morning in Austalia. Roly
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Carmichael:

Just back from vacation, 80 degree Portland to this 112 degree hellhole. Stay where you are.
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listener james from westwood:

Evening, Mark and all!
  6:03pm
queems:

thanks @handy! i already threatened my mom that i would leave twice and i’ve only been here 24 hours so we’re off to a good start!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
Mark Hurst:

@webham, @roland, @carmichael, @james hello & thx for joining
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
Handy Haversack:

Attaway, queems! Stick to your guns!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Webhamster Henry:

I have a number of dead Facebook friends.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
melinda:

@lukavino congrats! I'm thinking about it.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
Franco Twinkie:

Mark, that reveal brings a funny image to mind: A family sitting around a computer screen - dad smoking a pipe, mom knitting and the kids on playing on the floor, but everyone completely captivated by the show.
  6:10pm
malĥerbo (nl):

Wow! Damn! Thanks Mark.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
Webhamster Henry:

When my friend Nik died in 1999, I had access to his email account. It didn't help figure out why he killed himself though.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
Bas NL:

Have a Zoom-off?
  6:11pm
Sam:

People should quit Facebook just before they die. That would solve it.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
Handy Haversack:

The uncanny valley in the room being that early Black Mirror ep. where they give you an android programmed based on your dead loved one's public social media presence.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
Webhamster Henry:

My aunt died last month and we had a zoomified gravesite service.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
ultradamno:

So this isn't going to be about Ben Carson tweeting from beyond the grave?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
Mark Hurst:

@Handy that specific episode gets a whole chunk of a chapter in Kasket's book
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
ultradamno:

Ben Carson...I meant Herman Cain. Ben only seems dead.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Wow - World's Biggest Cemetery...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
Franco Twinkie:

A secure back up system to protect your legacy is boxes full of paper all over your house. Works for me!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
Webhamster Henry:

It's hard enough dealing with real and intellectual property - what about your Adobe licenses!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
Handy Haversack:

Franco, I add oily rags and cat hair for maximal security.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:16pm
Webhamster Henry:

Data retention laws differ by jurisdiction.
  6:16pm
moish:

is this live?
  6:17pm
jumana:

digital asset planning *shudder*. all we'll have to plan for are our agreement to t&cs we never read
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:17pm
Franco Twinkie:

Handy, you are ahead of most people in this regard. Relax and have some ice cream.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:17pm
Handy Haversack:

@Mark, that episode tears Kate up. Those early Black Mirror eps. cut *close* to the bone. We think she cried for a solid half hour the first time we watched it.

@moish, no recorded within the last day or so.
  6:17pm
Sam:

Death and Facebook don’t mix. In fact anything meaningful and Facebook don’t mix. Facebook is for trivial nonsense. When stuff gets real, it’s got to be real for real.
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coelacanth∅:

i keep my personal artifacts in an old volvo rotting out in the yard
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:18pm
Mark Hurst:

@coel good secure storage. Volvos *are* known for safety...
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Handy Haversack:

Pro move, coela!
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Franco Twinkie:

Coel, great minds think alike.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:19pm
Mark Hurst:

@Handy I thought that was one of the most accurate and profound examples of any movie/TV/video about digital tech.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:19pm
ultradamno:

Speaking of Black Mirror, the Adult Swim show Robot Chicken did a pretty funny send-up of Bandersnatch in what I think was their most recent new show.

Dvořák getting impatient.
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Franco Twinkie:

Love letters? We varnish them onto the living room wall!
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Ike:

@ultradamno@6:12, that was ultra-weird, right? Whoever was running his account tried to make it less weird by changing the name on the account from "Herman Cain" to "The Cain Gang", but... still weird.
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Bas NL:

Mmm.. I'd better start ditching some old letters..
  6:21pm
northguineahills:

Holas Mark and friends. At work, checking in.
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Webhamster Henry:

It's the old "burn my novel after I die!" problem.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, Mark and Techulators. Years ago, the problem was trying to get dead peoples' magazine subscriptions to stop.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
ultradamno:

Maybe they thought they could make Covid seem like less of a big deal if you can still tweet after dying of it.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
Handy Haversack:

Hey, ngh, Ken.

Mark, yes, agreed. That Black Mirror ep. is a high-water mark in the massive-warning-signs industry!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Just saw that Zuck is worth $100Billion. He's a billionaire - 100 times. No one can touch him. In any way.
Imagine if Competition were possible...
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Webhamster Henry:

I have a problem in general about the dead controlling the possessions and disposition possibilities for lives of the survivors forever after they die.
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Fredericks:

Where are you, Carmichael?
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Franco Twinkie:

Lawyer up while you still can.
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Handy Haversack:

I would want any inheritance tax to be at least 90 percent ... but I assume the govt. already owns all of our digital legacy here in the USA. They don't need 190 percent of it.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Like this Author ~ Speaker very much. The background in psychotherapy is refreshing - as the divide between Tech & Humanity is emerging as a real crux of the biscuit. She seems well equipped to address it.
Intersection with Monopoly...
  6:32pm
Sam:

You can’t blame Facebook for this. You have to blame people for buying into this nonsense that Facebook matters more than anything else. The whole idea of a Facebook memorial is ridiculous. You might as well have your funeral at a Chuckie Cheese. You have to separate the sacred from the profane.
  6:33pm
P-90:

She’s spot on re: Twitter and “memorialization”
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Handy Haversack:

Let us package and sell your grief back to you.
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Franco Twinkie:

It's funny how dead idiots can ruin your day. It takes time and a lot of uncomfortable questions to make sure snipers don't take you out from beyond the grave.
  6:34pm
Roland, from the Sunshine Coast, Australia:

Outsourcing the protection of hens to foxes.
  6:34pm
northguineahills:

Oh, and a belated buenas tardes a Elaine

Oh, and Kenzo, please do a different spellcheck so non-English words are impossible to spell so I don’t get an aneurysm.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...like last week about Feudalism was surprisingly much about real estate
- this week about online real estate Feudalism: What are people *for* ??? (A good follow-up.)
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coelacanth∅:

Right On Sam
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Bill of Digital Rights
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Franco Twinkie:

Don't store photos on the Icloud, store them in the ice box.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:39pm
Bas NL:

Maybe social media can have a mechanism where passwords are sent to next of kin if the account owner has not logged in for some time..
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
Webhamster Henry:

Many years ago, I transferred a bunch of floppies from one format to another of bbs posts from a man who died for his girlfriend.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Digital Will as a Feature.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...which is a Post Antitrust dream - as we're product while alive already...
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chris:

hi, Mark and folks. Mark, this show is a public service. thank you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
Mark Hurst:

thanks, chris
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coelacanth∅:

my passwords are all on each of 2 pieces of paper, which i've told one person where to find. (2 locations) i'm not worried; it doesn't really matter.
...and no one else's security is at risk by someone else having access to all my accounts.
  6:44pm
JJ NY-SC:

I have a friend who was on the original Compassion team at Facebook. I told her that it no longer exists.
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chris:

omg, is that a vi reference in that photo?
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Cp304:

Hey Mark, I’ll have to catch archive I got carried away shopping while having the jungle room in my ear
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
Mark Hurst:

indeed it is
  6:46pm
Roland, from the Sunshine Coast, Australia:

As always - Wow. Thanks Elaine.
  6:46pm
sufferwords:

Mark don’t usually chime in during the show - cuz i’m actually listening - just know your efforts are so appreciated and have really helped shape my view of the digisphere
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chris:

<dons propeller beanie>
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Mark Hurst:

@sufferwords thanks!
  6:49pm
P-90:

“... a Lamarckism epigenome” what a load of CRAP
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Franco Twinkie:

All my passwords are only in my brain, and I forgotten all of them, so I guess I'm safe.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:50pm
Handy Haversack:

Wow, syllogism 101!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:51pm
Handy Haversack:

Behavior modification can be fun!
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Carmichael:

I log into Facebook annually.
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chris:

instead of simply stalking you, we're going to make you come to us.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Much like - from sort of the opposie direction - what Terence McKenna said about Information being beyond biological evolution.
Indeed - biologists sometimes say evolution is not about individual survival - it's survival of the genome...
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melinda:

@coel that's roughly my method too. I'd rather my family have direct access to my accounts rather than having to ask companies for access. Grieving people don't need extra hoops to jump through.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:53pm
Webhamster Henry:

This Google document is super creepy!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
Bas NL:

One day surveillance cameras will only see other surveillance cameras.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
Webhamster Henry:

"The Ledger" how it's thought up and implemented can already be a Black Mirror episode.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
ultradamno:

I've noticed You Tube throwing items calculated to inflame me into engaging in a flame war in my front page recommendations
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
Handy Haversack:

Since they've already metaphorically confused genes with parasites, I assume they don't know that "Lamarckian" just means "wrong and dumb"?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
chris:

this is truly black-mirror-level creepiness, Henry. you're spot on.
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melinda:

The background music is so soothing, indicating that they only have our best interests in mind.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I have thot that A.I. Composers (now) will eventually have A.I. Listeners...
OK so CyberVampires...
  6:56pm
P-90:

ALL of these metaphors and models appropriated from evolutionary theory are total bullshit in this context.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Mark! Another necessary thing. Man, some poet out there could make a mint as a metaphor consultant to Big Tech. Those people are lost without a nap.
  6:56pm
two tigers:

Scary future
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Bas NL:

Thanks Mark! Time flies!
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Franco Twinkie:

Thanks Mark. Top shelve, always.
  6:57pm
Old Dave:

Thanks for scaring the hell out of me once again, Mark.
One needs that reminder... as if things weren't bad enough.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
Mark Hurst:

Thanks for joining, everyone!
  6:58pm
P-90:

Another good one. Thanks, Mark!
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Franco Twinkie:

Just when I was about to digitize my favorite coffee cup...
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chris:

wow, i'm totally creeped out now. thanks, Mark. lots to think about here.
  6:58pm
two tigers:

Reminds me of KGB when i was growing up
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coelacanth∅:

ultra d i've noticed that too, and i don't even use youboob much... and gobble almost not at all.
... they calculate how to create a flame war in the comments but still haven't figured out if i'm a democrat or a republican (which of course are the only 2 options)
...so i'm doing something right.
  6:59pm
Sam:

Surveil Google mercilessly! And one day we shall dance on their grave!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Mark!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Elaine! Thanks skeleton crew!
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Carmichael:

I'm neither, coel.
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