WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from December 7, 2020

Listener comments!
	6:01pm David in London: Evening Technoids. Howdy Mr Hurst.
	♥ 6:01pm ultradamno: Mark! Tectonickerdoodles!
	♥ 6:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Mark and techto-geeks & techto-freaks!
	♥ 6:01pm listener james from westwood: Those users should be careful; they are likely to be eaten by a grue.
	6:01pm Daybreak & the Hybrid Life: Hi!
	6:02pm Daybreak & the Hybrid Life: I never get to listen live, so glad to be here!
	♥ 6:02pm Handy Haversack: Mark and the Techyon Drives! Listening but cooking. If the broccoli is spying on me, I just give up. David, ultradamno, James, Daybreak(!), hi!
	♥ 6:03pm tim from champaign (now washington): Hey Mark and folks!
	♥ 6:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hello surveillees!
	♥ 6:03pm melinda: hi Mark and techtons
	♥ 6:04pm ultradamno: Hiya Handy!
	6:04pm David in London: Handy, ultradamno, webhamster, greetings all.
	♥ 6:04pm Ken From Hyde Park: An elf for every shelf, I say!
	♥ 6:05pm melinda: I like the bigfoot w/tinfoil structure
	6:05pm David in London: Tim, Melinda.
	♥ 6:05pm ultradamno: DiL!
	♥ 6:05pm Webhamster Henry: He's making a list. He's checking it twice. He's gonna find out who's "Naughty" or "Nice". #bigsanta
	♥ 6:05pm DjLorraine: Hi techies
	♥ 6:06pm ultradamno: It's not a monolith, it's a global piercing
	♥ 6:06pm listener james from westwood: Absolutely have Sheila on. Her social footprint was huge and her cleansing was exemplary.
	6:08pm David in London: Somewhere Jean Baudrillard is nodding sagely.
	♥ 6:08pm Cp304: good evening peoples
	6:09pm ian: I get the point here but as artists we fundamentally want an audience
	6:10pm Otto: YES!!!!
	6:11pm kpx: Yes, commonly known as The boob tube.
	6:11pm ian: this is the same debate as they had when they invented clay tablets. wonder where it will end.
	6:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thing is - TV be watching YOU now.
	♥ 6:12pm Handy Haversack: Oh, Baudrillard is always nodding one way or another!
	6:13pm Daybreak & the Hybrid Life: Enjoy the cooking Handy! You posted about the karaoke on Wake this morn, gotta look into that.
	6:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: We all have Cameras - we all Broadcast - we ARE TV now. We went all the way into the screen.
	6:13pm David in London: Handy, yes, he did one bong too many.
	6:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Videodrome
	♥ 6:14pm Buffalo's Tom: Hello Mark and everyone!
	♥ 6:14pm tim from champaign (now washington): Hey David! A bit of cross talk here but what's Sheila's email address for joining her weekly email?
	♥ 6:14pm ultradamno: The fictional social media platform on Middleman was Your Face In A Tube, seems more clever now than it did then.
	6:15pm James: chatting now, excited for the gift guide
	6:15pm alan the painter: ...cultural gaming...(!)
	6:16pm Ochre Ogre: Mark- Something to ponder indeed!! Thank you for exposing that Sheila bit. Use FB on the computer only never accessed on my phone, moderation-moderation.
	♥ 6:16pm Webhamster Henry: A Gift Guide: paywall.
	6:17pm kpx: We all just might as well change our names to Truman.
	♥ 6:17pm Ken From Hyde Park: Sheila's recent communiqué here: mailchi.mp... It has a link to subscribe.
	6:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Who I am on WFMU chatboards is not me. There's great overlap...
	6:17pm David in London: Hey! Those two puppets are being operated by the same guy!
	♥ 6:18pm Cp304: for those FF users, type about:ion in bar to see their newest "technology"
	♥ 6:18pm Handy Haversack: We have given back Fitbits, Ipads. Kate's folks don't quite get the argument, it seems.
	♥ 6:19pm tim from champaign (now washington): Thanks Ken from HP!
	♥ 6:19pm ultradamno: This years most explosive gift!
	6:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I believe the Electronic Frontier Foundation has its own podcast now...
	6:20pm Danny San: I always thought that Google was such a stupid name that only the CIA could have come up with it.
	6:21pm David in London: I feel a remake of classic Japanese horror ‘Ring’ coming on...
	♥ 6:21pm ultradamno: Google sounds like the name of one of Brett Kavanaugh's fratboy drinking buddies.
	♥ 6:22pm ultradamno: @DiL Wait a whole week? That's looooooooonnnng.
	♥ 6:22pm Fuzzy: ALL YOUR DATA ARE BELONG TO US
	♥ 6:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: They're trying to become a Googleplex.
	6:24pm Ochre Ogre: Thanks Ken From Hyde Park. kxp- For reals.
	♥ 6:25pm Michael 98145: Videodrome on your wrist
	♥ 6:25pm DjLorraine: OOgle
	6:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: While I often find Search on faceborg to be insufficient ...the comedian jokes that to order online they just say out loud what they want when faceborg is up & wait for the corresponding ad...
	♥ 6:26pm tim from champaign (now washington): @David in London - Totally! I was a doorstep with a Ring the other day and thought "hmmmm, there's potential here for a new horror movie."
	♥ 6:26pm melinda: holy crap, why would anyone want that in their house?
	♥ 6:27pm Cp304: Huxley "... their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
	♥ 6:27pm ultradamno: There's an episode of the show Superstore in which the Wal-Mart like chain requires all employees to sign on to an inhouse social media app. One of them brings up some points one might hear on this show about surveillance and is shut down for being paranoid, until they realize the app is monitoring their break times.
	♥ 6:27pm tim from champaign (now washington): @melinda - that was my question too.
	6:28pm David in London: Tim, tagline reads: ‘Nest. Someone’s watching...’ Certificate XX.
	6:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Huxley on Technocrats in the early 1960s (died same day as JFK).
	6:28pm alan the painter: ...consider this, with a nod to nano tec., are you a nature enthusiast? You've seen those beautiful moths, the big ones and small ones? look at their eyes, how small can a camera bee?
	♥ 6:29pm Webhamster Henry: Ever go to my Resume page? I put up this popup after 30 seconds: This website does not use cookies. I do this to give you the best experience: the knowledge that I'm not tracking you with cookies. I'm not serving you ads, and I'm not selling anyone's contact information.
	♥ 6:29pm melinda: Mark you are funny
	♥ 6:30pm Michael 98145: P K Dick was indeed a prophet
	♥ 6:30pm Fuzzy: Cookie Autodelete is your friend.
	6:31pm David in London: points at screen Honey, look at this. Is that an armed burglar in the living room?
	♥ 6:31pm Ken From Hyde Park: The new SMRT BidetCam®, yay or nay?
	♥ 6:32pm melinda: @Ken haha
	6:32pm David in London: Ken, pOOpr?
	6:32pm Daybreak & the Hybrid Life: Oh, the cameras inside are frightful! The Fitbits are not delightful, Nest caught my neighbors illegal drone, Addictive phone, addictive phone, addiction phone!
	♥ 6:33pm Fuzzy: Yer preaching to the choir, Mark -- most of the consumer drones aren't bothered by any of this stuff.
	6:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The obscene wealth of the SuperRichest - Bezzo, Zuckerbird - has like tripled in the pandemic. While people die & the economy collapses. Where do their real interests lie I wonder...
	♥ 6:33pm iiibeat: Now I'm PISD off!
	♥ 6:35pm listener james from westwood: Video game Mark types iddqd and begins kicking ass.
	6:36pm Old Dave: Can I offer my copy of the Joel Kotkin book "Neo Feudalism" to someone here for a free holiday gift? I read it twice, still in good shape. Great stuff... Not sure how to ship or leave it on a park bench without technology. Up to you!
	♥ 6:37pm listener james from westwood: Yay for the Wendy Carlos soundtrack!
	6:37pm James: Vicki Bennett's site is amazing!
	♥ 6:38pm Mark Hurst: Hi everyone, thanks for joining in!
	♥ 6:38pm Motobro: CRAZY scary stuff tonight.
	♥ 6:39pm Ken From Hyde Park: Did anyone see the movie Tron? youtu.be...
	♥ 6:40pm tim from champaign (now washington): Mark - I think we're the same age.
	♥ 6:40pm tim from champaign (now washington): Nicely written, Mark!
	♥ 6:40pm listener james from westwood: The Daft Punk Tron: Legacy score is killer, too!
	♥ 6:40pm Mark Hurst: @Tim cheers for GenX!
	6:40pm ian: hollywood movies are predictive programming. it is known.
	6:41pm Ed Flynn: As a Flynn, I approve this message.
	♥ 6:41pm Mark Hurst: @Flynn thanks for joining in!
	6:41pm David in London: We got all the surveillance disbenefits without the glowing suits or light bikes. Sigh.
	♥ 6:41pm listener james from westwood: I am living right down the street from the '80s arcade where I used to play in the day, and they indeed had a Tron console that pulled my quarters. (And fuck yeah for the start tune!!)
	♥ 6:41pm PaulRobeson1920: Evening ya’ll
	♥ 6:42pm Megaroni: Hanging out at the arcade was fab indeed, thanks Techtonic
	♥ 6:43pm Mark Hurst: @Paul welcome
	6:43pm David in London: The tank battle game was called Battle Zone here in the UK, and I felt as excited by it as you describe Mark.
	♥ 6:43pm Webhamster Henry: WFMU goes Twitch.
	6:44pm Ed Flynn: That Tron game stole more quarters from me than Missile Command and Galaga by far.
	♥ 6:44pm Fuzzy: I wanna blow up dragons with my bicycle pump!
	6:44pm P-90: That was fun.
	♥ 6:44pm Handy Haversack: Tron. Life. Whatsa matter with our world?! Lovely piece, Mark!
	6:45pm ignatatus666: Mark I loved the game Tron at the video arcade there was another game not really similar but it was monochrome it was called Omega Man just wondering if you remember that or have any knowledge of that game
	6:45pm Dave Miss: Tron was a great game.
	6:45pm cosmic matrix: Great tron piece
	♥ 6:45pm ultradamno: I liked Frogger.
	6:45pm ian: we did it lol
	6:45pm Old Dave: Oh dear, Mark is right. We forgot to go outside and face reality.
	♥ 6:45pm Handy Haversack: The original movie TRON holds up remarkably well!
	♥ 6:45pm melinda: that's right, we're peppy!
	♥ 6:46pm Fuzzy: Tempest, Frogger, Joust.
	♥ 6:46pm Handy Haversack: I always picked the bike minigame. I was not very good.
	♥ 6:46pm melinda: @ultradamno me too
	♥ 6:46pm listener james from westwood: Battle Zone smeggin' ruled!
	♥ 6:46pm Handy Haversack: Wasn't it COMBAT on the Atari 2600, too?
	♥ 6:46pm tim from champaign (now washington): Oh yeah - Battlezone was cool.
	♥ 6:47pm Webhamster Henry: Shout out to the WFMU Asteroids console.
	♥ 6:47pm listener james from westwood: Yes indeed, Handy! Came with the system IIRC.
	♥ 6:47pm Wendy del Formaggio: Gen Xers represent! I spent a lot of time and many quarters in the arcade near the Ledgewood Circle in northern NJ, and in various arcades down the shore. Oh, and I played the race-car game, Pole Position, at the Rockaway Roller Rink. All that said, I prefer pinball.
	6:47pm Dean: Never got into arcade games, but I do remember playing an elaborate board game involving interstellar travel and colonization. The rules prescribed a multi-dimensional play space with a bunch of chits. Roughly contemporary with Dungeons & Dragons. Anybody have an idea what this would have been called? We're talking '70s here.
	♥ 6:47pm mecha maiko: Greetings, folks! Mark, great bit on Tron. Pinball PA is one of the best arcades I've ever been to in the states and unfortunately they are closing down/selling off a bunch of their machines. If any of you are in the market for some vintage cabinet games... check em out.
	6:47pm SeanG: Gyruss
	6:47pm Chud: Discs of TRON was my jam
	♥ 6:47pm Fuzzy: Outrun
	6:48pm cosmic matrix: No, besides being entertaining, this program does fulfill a noble public service. A lot of truth here
	♥ 6:48pm mecha maiko: Oh wait. Maybe they aren't closing after all! Still worth a visit.
	♥ 6:49pm Handy Haversack: Dean: Traveller? That was the main SF RPG of the nerdier ends of RPG life. Or maybe the first edition of Twilight Imperium if it was more boardgamey?
	♥ 6:49pm listener james from westwood: The Willowbrook Mall had the Aladdin's Castle arcade into the 2000s. I'd go to a nearby Tex-Mex joint for lunch, play a bunch of rounds of Galaga (they had the souped-up quick-laser setting, so rock and roll!), then hit Borders for books. Best triad of geekery since the Tower Records–Newbury Comics–Compleat Strategist triangle I'd run through in Boston back in the Reagan–H.W. era at college.
	♥ 6:49pm ultradamno: Was there ever a Lawnmower Man video game?
	♥ 6:49pm Handy Haversack: Or maybe the greatest boardgame of all time, Cosmic Encounter?
	6:49pm Ed Flynn: BTW don't bother watching the sequel. It disappointed a little.
	♥ 6:50pm listener james from westwood: "This is Free Trader Beowulf, calling anyone..."
	♥ 6:50pm listener james from westwood: @Dean, @Handy: Either Cosmic Encounter or Triplanetary?
	♥ 6:50pm mecha maiko: Can we get a de-gifitng guide? How to convince our loved ones to get rid of their existing surveillance devices?
	♥ 6:51pm Wendy del Formaggio: The flying indoor drones thing makes me especially nervous for women and Queer youth living in abusive households.
	♥ 6:51pm Fuzzy: You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
	6:51pm Dean: None of them ring a bell, Handy and ljw, but this was definitely nerdy. Cosmic Encounter seems very similar to what I remember. I remember the board and pieces were die-cut.
	♥ 6:51pm Handy Haversack: James, Cosmic Encounter just came out with a two-player version, Cosmic Encounter: Duel! I picked it up. Hoping to play it this week!
	♥ 6:51pm PaulRobeson1920: @KPX 6:11 The radio was 1st known as the “Boob Tube” before the Television set... T.V wound up in most American homes by 1954...... Talk About that Arch
	♥ 6:52pm Tome: ,,trying to get decent tomatos today, someone saying ,"why do they sell these tasteless hothouse produce",, simple answer "people buy then"
	♥ 6:52pm PaulRobeson1920: “Time is value neutral”
	♥ 6:52pm ultradamno: Given the facial ID recognition issues with race and the drone's connection to law enforcement, I'm as worried for black families with that thing in their house.
	6:52pm Old Dave: Preach it, Rev Hurst!
	6:53pm ignatatus666: UltraDamno and Fuzzy Did we grow up together??!!! :) I also loved up periscope. Pole position was my favorite though. Here we are 40 years later and I still rush to be first at a red light
	♥ 6:54pm Handy Haversack: You would not know it from how I was frozen out by the "Innovation" strategic committee at work when I pointed out that there was no mention of ethics in the 7-page document for tech change we had drawn up. We are ... not yet the majority.
	♥ 6:54pm PaulRobeson1920: “The moral arch of history bends towards justice” but the not enough time here to explain
	6:54pm Sam: I’ve been thinking about joining Facebook so I can see more extended family photos and keep in touch with people I care about. But I just can’t get myself to do it, it’s just too icky and unsettling to me.
	♥ 6:54pm ultradamno: You can bet Santa has those drones in the workshop. Poor elves.
	♥ 6:54pm CLAMS!: The uncanny pole.
	6:55pm ?: Mark, Listen to the new Negativland album asap, if you haven't already!!
	6:55pm Ed Flynn: Santa is just an anagram of Satan!
	♥ 6:55pm Carmichael: Favorite arcade game: Defender. Close 2nd: Death Race 2000.
	♥ 6:55pm PaulRobeson1920: The internet is like magic!
	6:55pm Sam: I can’t wait for live Monty hall events again!
	♥ 6:55pm Handy Haversack: Kate and I are karaokeing!
	♥ 6:55pm Webhamster Henry: I recommend WFMU Karaoke. Karaoke is therapy.
	♥ 6:55pm ultradamno: @? Mark played some of that Negativland last week or so.
	♥ 6:56pm Cp304: good listening Mark
	♥ 6:56pm Fuzzy: @ignatatus666: it was the 80's, baby!
	♥ 6:56pm Motobro: Thank you Mark.
	6:56pm Eric: My old friend David W. played multiple roles in the original version of Tron. My friend, the late great Frank Serafine did many of the sound effects and sound design. Wendy Carlos did the score. Fun to hear you talk about this!
	6:56pm Dean: Anagram is an anagram of raga man.
	♥ 6:56pm Wendy del Formaggio: Thank you, Mark! What you do is a mitzvah.
	♥ 6:56pm PaulRobeson1920: Gotta be passionate about somthing! Gotta loVe WFMU!
	6:56pm David in London: Thanks Mark, terrific show tonight. Hey groovers, see you later, saved your data....
	♥ 6:56pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark! Be well, all. You know. As one can.
	♥ 6:56pm melinda: thanks Mark!
	6:56pm Ed Flynn: @dean LOL
	♥ 6:56pm listener james from westwood: Thanks, Mark, and don't get derezzed!
	♥ 6:56pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone! Great chat this evening.
	♥ 6:56pm Handy Haversack: (We should talk about e-waste in the river at some point, Mark!)
	6:57pm P-90: Thanks Mark. And always looking forward to more “frankly horrifying news”.
	♥ 6:57pm ultradamno: You can hear a lot of that new Negativland on recent Cratedigger's Lung eps in the archives
	♥ 6:57pm Fuzzy: Thanks Mark!
	6:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: PsychoSocial effects of devices & applications & social media are one thing to consider - the Monopolies over them are another - which determines how they're used. Some hope that more people & politicians have begun to understand these truths. Many serious consequences of it not happening fast enuff - like say QAnon & Fascism being enabled to consolidate & expand.
	♥ 6:57pm Mark Hurst: @Handy oh it's a purely metaphorical river
	♥ 6:59pm Handy Haversack: Can I still paddle on it?
	♥ 6:59pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks for tonight's content, Mark!
	♥ 6:59pm mecha maiko: this baaaaangs. lol @ ken
	♥ 6:59pm ultradamno: I think it's more like rafting in Deliverance
	♥ 6:59pm tim from champaign (now washington): Thanks, Mark!
	♥ 6:59pm DjLorraine: 🧬🔭🔬
	♥ 6:59pm Mark Hurst: @Ken it's the VORTEX
	7:00pm P-90: [paddling metaphorically into the sunset]
	♥ 7:00pm PaulRobeson1920: Hey, read my book! Or not thats ok
	7:00pm Dean: I don't mind being con-TENT, less so incontinent.
	♥ 7:02pm ultradamno: Contentious
	♥ 7:02pm Mark Hurst: @Tim thanks
	♥ 7:04pm PaulRobeson1920: Good Stuff! Thanks Mark and Skelton crew! Peace and love ya’ll <3

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from December 7, 2020

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December 7, 2020: Tron Life and the surveillance gift guide

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by Tom Chitty, for the New Yorker

Tonight: Tron Life, and the surveillance gift guide

Links:

• First Person, Fourth Wall, a project organized by People Like Us (Vicki Bennett)

• A Gift Guide to This Holiday Season's Creepiest Surveillance Gadgets, by Thomas Smith (Nov 24, 2020)

• Santa is saying hello (deepfake by Synesthesia.io).

• How Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism, by Charles Duhigg in the New Yorker (Nov 30, 2020). See also my comment, Venture capital and the WeWork con job (Dec 3).

• What's in Your Wallet? A Credit Card that Profits from the Rape of Children? (by Pam Martens in Wall Street on Parade, Dec 7, 2020), which references Nicholas Kristof's The Children of Pornhub (Dec 4) - note that the article contains descriptions of sexual assault.

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Mark reflects on "Tron Life" and reviews a surveillance gift guide.
Tomaš Dvořák	Game Boy Tune	Machinarium Soundtrack
	Mark's intro
Mark Hurst	Tron Life	First Person, Fourth Wall	0:31:14 (MP3 \| Pop‑up)
	Mark's comments		0:42:02 (MP3 \| Pop‑up)
Negativland	Content	The World Will Decide	0:54:25 (MP3 \| Pop‑up)

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Listener comments!
	6:01pm David in London: Evening Technoids. Howdy Mr Hurst.
	♥ 6:01pm ultradamno: Mark! Tectonickerdoodles!
	♥ 6:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Mark and techto-geeks & techto-freaks!
	♥ 6:01pm listener james from westwood: Those users should be careful; they are likely to be eaten by a grue.
	6:01pm Daybreak & the Hybrid Life: Hi!
	6:02pm Daybreak & the Hybrid Life: I never get to listen live, so glad to be here!
	♥ 6:02pm Handy Haversack: Mark and the Techyon Drives! Listening but cooking. If the broccoli is spying on me, I just give up. David, ultradamno, James, Daybreak(!), hi!
	♥ 6:03pm tim from champaign (now washington): Hey Mark and folks!
	♥ 6:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hello surveillees!
	♥ 6:03pm melinda: hi Mark and techtons
	♥ 6:04pm ultradamno: Hiya Handy!
	6:04pm David in London: Handy, ultradamno, webhamster, greetings all.
	♥ 6:04pm Ken From Hyde Park: An elf for every shelf, I say!
	♥ 6:05pm melinda: I like the bigfoot w/tinfoil structure
	6:05pm David in London: Tim, Melinda.
	♥ 6:05pm ultradamno: DiL!
	♥ 6:05pm Webhamster Henry: He's making a list. He's checking it twice. He's gonna find out who's "Naughty" or "Nice". #bigsanta
	♥ 6:05pm DjLorraine: Hi techies
	♥ 6:06pm ultradamno: It's not a monolith, it's a global piercing
	♥ 6:06pm listener james from westwood: Absolutely have Sheila on. Her social footprint was huge and her cleansing was exemplary.
	6:08pm David in London: Somewhere Jean Baudrillard is nodding sagely.
	♥ 6:08pm Cp304: good evening peoples
	6:09pm ian: I get the point here but as artists we fundamentally want an audience
	6:10pm Otto: YES!!!!
	6:11pm kpx: Yes, commonly known as The boob tube.
	6:11pm ian: this is the same debate as they had when they invented clay tablets. wonder where it will end.
	6:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thing is - TV be watching YOU now.
	♥ 6:12pm Handy Haversack: Oh, Baudrillard is always nodding one way or another!
	6:13pm Daybreak & the Hybrid Life: Enjoy the cooking Handy! You posted about the karaoke on Wake this morn, gotta look into that.
	6:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: We all have Cameras - we all Broadcast - we ARE TV now. We went all the way into the screen.
	6:13pm David in London: Handy, yes, he did one bong too many.
	6:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Videodrome
	♥ 6:14pm Buffalo's Tom: Hello Mark and everyone!
	♥ 6:14pm tim from champaign (now washington): Hey David! A bit of cross talk here but what's Sheila's email address for joining her weekly email?
	♥ 6:14pm ultradamno: The fictional social media platform on Middleman was Your Face In A Tube, seems more clever now than it did then.
	6:15pm James: chatting now, excited for the gift guide
	6:15pm alan the painter: ...cultural gaming...(!)
	6:16pm Ochre Ogre: Mark- Something to ponder indeed!! Thank you for exposing that Sheila bit. Use FB on the computer only never accessed on my phone, moderation-moderation.
	♥ 6:16pm Webhamster Henry: A Gift Guide: paywall.
	6:17pm kpx: We all just might as well change our names to Truman.
	♥ 6:17pm Ken From Hyde Park: Sheila's recent communiqué here: mailchi.mp... It has a link to subscribe.
	6:17pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Who I am on WFMU chatboards is not me. There's great overlap...
	6:17pm David in London: Hey! Those two puppets are being operated by the same guy!
	♥ 6:18pm Cp304: for those FF users, type about:ion in bar to see their newest "technology"
	♥ 6:18pm Handy Haversack: We have given back Fitbits, Ipads. Kate's folks don't quite get the argument, it seems.
	♥ 6:19pm tim from champaign (now washington): Thanks Ken from HP!
	♥ 6:19pm ultradamno: This years most explosive gift!
	6:19pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I believe the Electronic Frontier Foundation has its own podcast now...
	6:20pm Danny San: I always thought that Google was such a stupid name that only the CIA could have come up with it.
	6:21pm David in London: I feel a remake of classic Japanese horror ‘Ring’ coming on...
	♥ 6:21pm ultradamno: Google sounds like the name of one of Brett Kavanaugh's fratboy drinking buddies.
	♥ 6:22pm ultradamno: @DiL Wait a whole week? That's looooooooonnnng.
	♥ 6:22pm Fuzzy: ALL YOUR DATA ARE BELONG TO US
	♥ 6:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: They're trying to become a Googleplex.
	6:24pm Ochre Ogre: Thanks Ken From Hyde Park. kxp- For reals.
	♥ 6:25pm Michael 98145: Videodrome on your wrist
	♥ 6:25pm DjLorraine: OOgle
	6:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: While I often find Search on faceborg to be insufficient ...the comedian jokes that to order online they just say out loud what they want when faceborg is up & wait for the corresponding ad...
	♥ 6:26pm tim from champaign (now washington): @David in London - Totally! I was a doorstep with a Ring the other day and thought "hmmmm, there's potential here for a new horror movie."
	♥ 6:26pm melinda: holy crap, why would anyone want that in their house?
	♥ 6:27pm Cp304: Huxley "... their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
	♥ 6:27pm ultradamno: There's an episode of the show Superstore in which the Wal-Mart like chain requires all employees to sign on to an inhouse social media app. One of them brings up some points one might hear on this show about surveillance and is shut down for being paranoid, until they realize the app is monitoring their break times.
	♥ 6:27pm tim from champaign (now washington): @melinda - that was my question too.
	6:28pm David in London: Tim, tagline reads: ‘Nest. Someone’s watching...’ Certificate XX.
	6:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Huxley on Technocrats in the early 1960s (died same day as JFK).
	6:28pm alan the painter: ...consider this, with a nod to nano tec., are you a nature enthusiast? You've seen those beautiful moths, the big ones and small ones? look at their eyes, how small can a camera bee?
	♥ 6:29pm Webhamster Henry: Ever go to my Resume page? I put up this popup after 30 seconds: This website does not use cookies. I do this to give you the best experience: the knowledge that I'm not tracking you with cookies. I'm not serving you ads, and I'm not selling anyone's contact information.
	♥ 6:29pm melinda: Mark you are funny
	♥ 6:30pm Michael 98145: P K Dick was indeed a prophet
	♥ 6:30pm Fuzzy: Cookie Autodelete is your friend.
	6:31pm David in London: points at screen Honey, look at this. Is that an armed burglar in the living room?
	♥ 6:31pm Ken From Hyde Park: The new SMRT BidetCam®, yay or nay?
	♥ 6:32pm melinda: @Ken haha
	6:32pm David in London: Ken, pOOpr?
	6:32pm Daybreak & the Hybrid Life: Oh, the cameras inside are frightful! The Fitbits are not delightful, Nest caught my neighbors illegal drone, Addictive phone, addictive phone, addiction phone!
	♥ 6:33pm Fuzzy: Yer preaching to the choir, Mark -- most of the consumer drones aren't bothered by any of this stuff.
	6:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The obscene wealth of the SuperRichest - Bezzo, Zuckerbird - has like tripled in the pandemic. While people die & the economy collapses. Where do their real interests lie I wonder...
	♥ 6:33pm iiibeat: Now I'm PISD off!
	♥ 6:35pm listener james from westwood: Video game Mark types iddqd and begins kicking ass.
	6:36pm Old Dave: Can I offer my copy of the Joel Kotkin book "Neo Feudalism" to someone here for a free holiday gift? I read it twice, still in good shape. Great stuff... Not sure how to ship or leave it on a park bench without technology. Up to you!
	♥ 6:37pm listener james from westwood: Yay for the Wendy Carlos soundtrack!
	6:37pm James: Vicki Bennett's site is amazing!
	♥ 6:38pm Mark Hurst: Hi everyone, thanks for joining in!
	♥ 6:38pm Motobro: CRAZY scary stuff tonight.
	♥ 6:39pm Ken From Hyde Park: Did anyone see the movie Tron? youtu.be...
	♥ 6:40pm tim from champaign (now washington): Mark - I think we're the same age.
	♥ 6:40pm tim from champaign (now washington): Nicely written, Mark!
	♥ 6:40pm listener james from westwood: The Daft Punk Tron: Legacy score is killer, too!
	♥ 6:40pm Mark Hurst: @Tim cheers for GenX!
	6:40pm ian: hollywood movies are predictive programming. it is known.
	6:41pm Ed Flynn: As a Flynn, I approve this message.
	♥ 6:41pm Mark Hurst: @Flynn thanks for joining in!
	6:41pm David in London: We got all the surveillance disbenefits without the glowing suits or light bikes. Sigh.
	♥ 6:41pm listener james from westwood: I am living right down the street from the '80s arcade where I used to play in the day, and they indeed had a Tron console that pulled my quarters. (And fuck yeah for the start tune!!)
	♥ 6:41pm PaulRobeson1920: Evening ya’ll
	♥ 6:42pm Megaroni: Hanging out at the arcade was fab indeed, thanks Techtonic
	♥ 6:43pm Mark Hurst: @Paul welcome
	6:43pm David in London: The tank battle game was called Battle Zone here in the UK, and I felt as excited by it as you describe Mark.
	♥ 6:43pm Webhamster Henry: WFMU goes Twitch.
	6:44pm Ed Flynn: That Tron game stole more quarters from me than Missile Command and Galaga by far.
	♥ 6:44pm Fuzzy: I wanna blow up dragons with my bicycle pump!
	6:44pm P-90: That was fun.
	♥ 6:44pm Handy Haversack: Tron. Life. Whatsa matter with our world?! Lovely piece, Mark!
	6:45pm ignatatus666: Mark I loved the game Tron at the video arcade there was another game not really similar but it was monochrome it was called Omega Man just wondering if you remember that or have any knowledge of that game
	6:45pm Dave Miss: Tron was a great game.
	6:45pm cosmic matrix: Great tron piece
	♥ 6:45pm ultradamno: I liked Frogger.
	6:45pm ian: we did it lol
	6:45pm Old Dave: Oh dear, Mark is right. We forgot to go outside and face reality.
	♥ 6:45pm Handy Haversack: The original movie TRON holds up remarkably well!
	♥ 6:45pm melinda: that's right, we're peppy!
	♥ 6:46pm Fuzzy: Tempest, Frogger, Joust.
	♥ 6:46pm Handy Haversack: I always picked the bike minigame. I was not very good.
	♥ 6:46pm melinda: @ultradamno me too
	♥ 6:46pm listener james from westwood: Battle Zone smeggin' ruled!
	♥ 6:46pm Handy Haversack: Wasn't it COMBAT on the Atari 2600, too?
	♥ 6:46pm tim from champaign (now washington): Oh yeah - Battlezone was cool.
	♥ 6:47pm Webhamster Henry: Shout out to the WFMU Asteroids console.
	♥ 6:47pm listener james from westwood: Yes indeed, Handy! Came with the system IIRC.
	♥ 6:47pm Wendy del Formaggio: Gen Xers represent! I spent a lot of time and many quarters in the arcade near the Ledgewood Circle in northern NJ, and in various arcades down the shore. Oh, and I played the race-car game, Pole Position, at the Rockaway Roller Rink. All that said, I prefer pinball.
	6:47pm Dean: Never got into arcade games, but I do remember playing an elaborate board game involving interstellar travel and colonization. The rules prescribed a multi-dimensional play space with a bunch of chits. Roughly contemporary with Dungeons & Dragons. Anybody have an idea what this would have been called? We're talking '70s here.
	♥ 6:47pm mecha maiko: Greetings, folks! Mark, great bit on Tron. Pinball PA is one of the best arcades I've ever been to in the states and unfortunately they are closing down/selling off a bunch of their machines. If any of you are in the market for some vintage cabinet games... check em out.
	6:47pm SeanG: Gyruss
	6:47pm Chud: Discs of TRON was my jam
	♥ 6:47pm Fuzzy: Outrun
	6:48pm cosmic matrix: No, besides being entertaining, this program does fulfill a noble public service. A lot of truth here
	♥ 6:48pm mecha maiko: Oh wait. Maybe they aren't closing after all! Still worth a visit.
	♥ 6:49pm Handy Haversack: Dean: Traveller? That was the main SF RPG of the nerdier ends of RPG life. Or maybe the first edition of Twilight Imperium if it was more boardgamey?
	♥ 6:49pm listener james from westwood: The Willowbrook Mall had the Aladdin's Castle arcade into the 2000s. I'd go to a nearby Tex-Mex joint for lunch, play a bunch of rounds of Galaga (they had the souped-up quick-laser setting, so rock and roll!), then hit Borders for books. Best triad of geekery since the Tower Records–Newbury Comics–Compleat Strategist triangle I'd run through in Boston back in the Reagan–H.W. era at college.
	♥ 6:49pm ultradamno: Was there ever a Lawnmower Man video game?
	♥ 6:49pm Handy Haversack: Or maybe the greatest boardgame of all time, Cosmic Encounter?
	6:49pm Ed Flynn: BTW don't bother watching the sequel. It disappointed a little.
	♥ 6:50pm listener james from westwood: "This is Free Trader Beowulf, calling anyone..."
	♥ 6:50pm listener james from westwood: @Dean, @Handy: Either Cosmic Encounter or Triplanetary?
	♥ 6:50pm mecha maiko: Can we get a de-gifitng guide? How to convince our loved ones to get rid of their existing surveillance devices?
	♥ 6:51pm Wendy del Formaggio: The flying indoor drones thing makes me especially nervous for women and Queer youth living in abusive households.
	♥ 6:51pm Fuzzy: You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
	6:51pm Dean: None of them ring a bell, Handy and ljw, but this was definitely nerdy. Cosmic Encounter seems very similar to what I remember. I remember the board and pieces were die-cut.
	♥ 6:51pm Handy Haversack: James, Cosmic Encounter just came out with a two-player version, Cosmic Encounter: Duel! I picked it up. Hoping to play it this week!
	♥ 6:51pm PaulRobeson1920: @KPX 6:11 The radio was 1st known as the “Boob Tube” before the Television set... T.V wound up in most American homes by 1954...... Talk About that Arch
	♥ 6:52pm Tome: ,,trying to get decent tomatos today, someone saying ,"why do they sell these tasteless hothouse produce",, simple answer "people buy then"
	♥ 6:52pm PaulRobeson1920: “Time is value neutral”
	♥ 6:52pm ultradamno: Given the facial ID recognition issues with race and the drone's connection to law enforcement, I'm as worried for black families with that thing in their house.
	6:52pm Old Dave: Preach it, Rev Hurst!
	6:53pm ignatatus666: UltraDamno and Fuzzy Did we grow up together??!!! :) I also loved up periscope. Pole position was my favorite though. Here we are 40 years later and I still rush to be first at a red light
	♥ 6:54pm Handy Haversack: You would not know it from how I was frozen out by the "Innovation" strategic committee at work when I pointed out that there was no mention of ethics in the 7-page document for tech change we had drawn up. We are ... not yet the majority.
	♥ 6:54pm PaulRobeson1920: “The moral arch of history bends towards justice” but the not enough time here to explain
	6:54pm Sam: I’ve been thinking about joining Facebook so I can see more extended family photos and keep in touch with people I care about. But I just can’t get myself to do it, it’s just too icky and unsettling to me.
	♥ 6:54pm ultradamno: You can bet Santa has those drones in the workshop. Poor elves.
	♥ 6:54pm CLAMS!: The uncanny pole.
	6:55pm ?: Mark, Listen to the new Negativland album asap, if you haven't already!!
	6:55pm Ed Flynn: Santa is just an anagram of Satan!
	♥ 6:55pm Carmichael: Favorite arcade game: Defender. Close 2nd: Death Race 2000.
	♥ 6:55pm PaulRobeson1920: The internet is like magic!
	6:55pm Sam: I can’t wait for live Monty hall events again!
	♥ 6:55pm Handy Haversack: Kate and I are karaokeing!
	♥ 6:55pm Webhamster Henry: I recommend WFMU Karaoke. Karaoke is therapy.
	♥ 6:55pm ultradamno: @? Mark played some of that Negativland last week or so.
	♥ 6:56pm Cp304: good listening Mark
	♥ 6:56pm Fuzzy: @ignatatus666: it was the 80's, baby!
	♥ 6:56pm Motobro: Thank you Mark.
	6:56pm Eric: My old friend David W. played multiple roles in the original version of Tron. My friend, the late great Frank Serafine did many of the sound effects and sound design. Wendy Carlos did the score. Fun to hear you talk about this!
	6:56pm Dean: Anagram is an anagram of raga man.
	♥ 6:56pm Wendy del Formaggio: Thank you, Mark! What you do is a mitzvah.
	♥ 6:56pm PaulRobeson1920: Gotta be passionate about somthing! Gotta loVe WFMU!
	6:56pm David in London: Thanks Mark, terrific show tonight. Hey groovers, see you later, saved your data....
	♥ 6:56pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark! Be well, all. You know. As one can.
	♥ 6:56pm melinda: thanks Mark!
	6:56pm Ed Flynn: @dean LOL
	♥ 6:56pm listener james from westwood: Thanks, Mark, and don't get derezzed!
	♥ 6:56pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone! Great chat this evening.
	♥ 6:56pm Handy Haversack: (We should talk about e-waste in the river at some point, Mark!)
	6:57pm P-90: Thanks Mark. And always looking forward to more “frankly horrifying news”.
	♥ 6:57pm ultradamno: You can hear a lot of that new Negativland on recent Cratedigger's Lung eps in the archives
	♥ 6:57pm Fuzzy: Thanks Mark!
	6:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: PsychoSocial effects of devices & applications & social media are one thing to consider - the Monopolies over them are another - which determines how they're used. Some hope that more people & politicians have begun to understand these truths. Many serious consequences of it not happening fast enuff - like say QAnon & Fascism being enabled to consolidate & expand.
	♥ 6:57pm Mark Hurst: @Handy oh it's a purely metaphorical river
	♥ 6:59pm Handy Haversack: Can I still paddle on it?
	♥ 6:59pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks for tonight's content, Mark!
	♥ 6:59pm mecha maiko: this baaaaangs. lol @ ken
	♥ 6:59pm ultradamno: I think it's more like rafting in Deliverance
	♥ 6:59pm tim from champaign (now washington): Thanks, Mark!
	♥ 6:59pm DjLorraine: 🧬🔭🔬
	♥ 6:59pm Mark Hurst: @Ken it's the VORTEX
	7:00pm P-90: [paddling metaphorically into the sunset]
	♥ 7:00pm PaulRobeson1920: Hey, read my book! Or not thats ok
	7:00pm Dean: I don't mind being con-TENT, less so incontinent.
	♥ 7:02pm ultradamno: Contentious
	♥ 7:02pm Mark Hurst: @Tim thanks
	♥ 7:04pm PaulRobeson1920: Good Stuff! Thanks Mark and Skelton crew! Peace and love ya’ll <3

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