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Favoriting February 28, 2022: Ukraine, NFTs, Wordle tracking, Starlink junk, IRS facerec...

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Today: Ukraine comments and a roundup of tech news before the marathon

In addition to Ukraine comments, time available: explaining NFTs, Elon Musk taking over the skies with Starlink, facial recognition at the IRS, Big Tech collusion in home surveillance devices, why the Ottawa truckers have crypto-bros shouting about Bitcoin, and how Wordle is tracking you.

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Breaking surveillance news: Here Comes the Full Amazonification of Whole Foods (by Cecilia Kang today in NYT, Feb 28, 2022): “Would you like to sign in with your palm?”

SpaceX’s Plans to Send Thousands More Satellites Into Orbit Worry NASA (WSJ, Feb 15, 2022): “SpaceX has been ramping up satellite deployments to power Starlink, the high-speed internet service the company has been rolling out in markets around the world. In January, SpaceX asked the Federal Communications Commission to authorize the company to use a particular setup for 30,000 additional satellites it would send up over time. Those satellites represent the bulk of the 42,000-satellite fleet that SpaceX hopes to ultimately deploy for Starlink. NASA said in an early February letter to the FCC that the 30,000 devices, if deployed, would significantly boost the number of tracked objects in space—by a factor of more than five in certain lower orbits.”

SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Are Photobombing Astronomy Images, Study Says (WSJ, Feb 5, 2022): “As the armada of satellites circling Earth grows, a new study shows that astronomy images are being marred by streaks of reflected sunlight left by the fast-moving objects. ... Between November 2019 and September 2021, [researchers] noted a 35-fold increase in the number of corrupted images.”

Dramatic video shows SpaceX starlink satellites burning up in the sky (Futurism, Feb 10): “A geomagnetic storm last week caused 40 of SpaceX’s broadband-beaming Starlink satellites to fall out of orbit shortly after being deployed from one of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets.” And from the NYT: “As a consequence of a geomagnetic storm triggered by a recent outburst of the sun, up to 40 of 49 newly launched Starlink satellites have been knocked out of commission.”

IRS abandons facial recognition plan after firestorm of criticism (by Drew Harwell, Washington Post, Feb 7, 2022): “The agency had planned to require taxpayers send video scans of their face to a private company starting this summer”

Identity verification service ID.me has a lucrative contract with the VA. Veterans and their families say it’s locked them out of disability payments and emergency assistance. (Business Insider, Feb 22, 2022): “Identity verification service ID.me has a lucrative contract with the VA. Veterans and their families say it’s locked them out of disability payments and emergency assistance.”

DumpID.me: “Demand all government agencies drop ID.me. With news that the IRS is ending plans to use ID.me and facial recognition for verification, we must ensure that all government agencies using this tool cancel their contracts and reject facial recognition for identity verification.”

Wordle Is Watching You (by Shoshana Wodinsky, Gizmodo, Feb 17, 2022): “Gizmodo found that some of the trackers were from the New York Times proper, but most were used to send data to third-party players like Google.” See Bill Fitzgerald's video.

The restart of history (Feb 24, 2022): My thoughts on Ukraine and the Ottawa trucker protests. As Doomberg put it, “The answer to government weaponization of the financial system isn’t a new financial system. It’s a new government.”

• My own NFT explainer: Pumping up the worthless with NFTs (March 12, 2021)

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Listener comments!

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ultradamno:

Mark! Techthands!
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Handy Haversack:

Mark the Techyon Drives! The Techgin is Techrye this week, but there's always room for Techtonic.

Hey, ultradamno!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:01pm
ultradamno:

Hiya Handy!

No matter how many times it's explained to me, NFTs will always be digital pogs in my mind's eye.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
Handy Haversack:

Did you hear about Alf? He's back -- in pog from!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
ultradamno:

I have never wordled either.

I do play video mahjong on occasion
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
DjLorraine:

Importamt times to have Techtonic with Mark Hurst available, hello all
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
tim from washington:

Hi Mark and everyone! I'm ready for my pre-marathon edumacating.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
DanFA:

Hello future listeners.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
Handy Haversack:

Neither a Wordler nor an NFTer be, I always say.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
melinda:

hi Mark and everyone
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
DanFA:

No Sleep Til Techtonic!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
chresti:

Hi Mark and techtonians!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
DanFA:

All the DJs get drunk and prank call IHeartRadio
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
Ken From Hyde Park 🇺🇦:

Good evening, Mark and Terdles! Here's some good hacking: www.jalopnik.com... "Russian Company Outsourced The Main Components In EV Chargers To A Ukrainian Company, Hilarity Ensues"
  6:06pm
David in London:

Evening Mark and all Technoids.
  6:07pm
Marie:

Hey Mark, I just wanted to say that I really like your show. I look to to hear important new developments
  6:07pm
Robm:

@DanFA or WFUV:)
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arb:

But it's MENSA tracking us on wordle right? and NASA? waiting for them to recruit me
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
spacecadet:

salutations team. The real question is...is quordle watching us?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
ultradamno:

Former Residents singer on NFTs twitter.com...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Handy Haversack:

My building is constantly surrounded by MENSA drones, arb.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
tim from washington:

I was hoping that Starlink was Elon Musk's new plant based breakfast sausage.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
G:

Wordle is free. If a service is free, you're the product.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
Handy Haversack:

Soylentlink, tim? For some reason, it's free. And green.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

@tim - For Musk's people who reach Mars, maybe it will be.
  6:10pm
Marie:

Just starting to watch a documentary series on WWII on Netflix--it brings together a lot of "new"(?) footage and some interesting experts. It's really about military strategy. Very interesting
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
tim from washington:

I looked for wordle in the print NYT last week but didn't find it. Is in on-line only?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
ultradamno:

I don't think a degree is necessary to see Putin is the evil villain here...all he needs a Persian cat on his lap to complete the tableau.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
DjLorraine:

Telegram (community support for chronic illnesses ) could disappear tho
  6:10pm
JR:

@G: WFMU is kind of free, too ;)
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
Handy Haversack:

JR: [Looks upthread at radio icon after radio icon after radio icon ...]
Avatar 6:13pm
arb:

lol Handy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
StringOFperils:

The Empire Strikes Forward
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
DjLorraine:

Russia is building a gas pipeline to China
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
Franco Twinkie:

The other day Chresti said Vladimir Putrid, so that's his name around here from this point forward.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
StringOFperils:

Vlad the Ukrainian Inhaler
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:16pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

I wonder how much Russia will lean into cryptocurrency to dodge monetary sanctions.
Avatar 6:17pm
Rolando:

Sorry I'm late, -I think this is going to be one of those shows that are jam-packed, so I shall listen and learn.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:18pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Example of a Starlink photobomb: apod.nasa.gov...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:18pm
Franco Twinkie:

Some of us aren't generalists, but know nothings. We're all playing catch up right now. Create a special drawer in your brain for this new nightmare.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:19pm
chresti:

Whoa falling out of orbit!
  6:19pm
sim_mobile:

Re: Starlink. Not WiFi from space, but Internet from space. And faster ping times than fiber optic lines
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:19pm
Handy Haversack:

Solar Storm: the hero we need!
  6:19pm
sim_mobile:

Starlink has 2k says up now.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:19pm
Chicken Little:

The sky is falling
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:20pm
chresti:

They need to check the solar storm forecast.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:20pm
tim from washington:

Falling out of orbit into earth?
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ultradamno:

Putin has moves, I know that much twitter.com...
  6:20pm
Marie:

That is space crime, seriously. WTF
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:20pm
tim from washington:

Oh ma, today's musical outro should be Devo's Space Junk.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
StringOFperils:

A shipment of Starlink user terminals — small antennas that allow customers to access SpaceX's satellite-based internet service — arrived in Ukraine Monday, providing a back stop for Ukrainians who may see their traditional service interrupted amid the Russian invasion. Once again, ELON will make another quick fortune, on the back of this geo-political disaster.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

As a casual Astronomy Enthusiast - have indeed heard for some time *already* how ticked off Skywatchers of all kinds are against the Starlink program obscuring the Heavens
...yerknow - the rest of us just live on this Planet...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
Handy Haversack:

Anything over than 6" they try to track since they're a hazard to spaceflight and to telescopy.
  6:21pm
swivs:

I can Photoshop those out for them.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
chresti:

www.spaceweather.com
  6:22pm
Susan See:

A poem I wrote in August, 2019:

Twinkle twinkle little light
How I wonder if I’m right
When I see you in the sky at dusk
To assume you came from Elon Musk
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:23pm
DjLorraine:

International Judo Federation suspended Putrid from being the President and Ambassador
  6:23pm
sim_mobile:

Astrophotography stacking solves the issue of satellite "photobombing"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
StringOFperils:

An uptick of 35% corrupted astronomical images reported already.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
Handy Haversack:

Don't worry, SOp, according to recent comments here, it's all for our own good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
DanFA:

Is it cancer?
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Ken From Hyde Park:

I suspect his Plan B is to buy up the world's supply of helium and put up 800,000 balloons to relay internet signals.
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StringOFperils:

What, me worry?
  6:25pm
Jackie G:

Mark getting worked-up about these space satellites. Good
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Webhamster Henry:

Each is the size of a shoebox.
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DanFA:

Space Junk by Devo
  6:26pm
sim_mobile:

Starlink provides out-of-band internet connectivity which is especially useful in circumventing state-controlled internet.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
Franco Twinkie:

SPF 50 sunscreen AND a steel helmet.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
ultradamno:

A tech guy free internet promise has been an active plot point on this season of Billions
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
Webhamster Henry:

Gravity, at 72 minutes, could easily have cut all the George Clooney scenes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:27pm
solo mon:

The billionaires will need internet for their remote mountain lairs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:27pm
StringOFperils:

Most of the rare metals needed to produce those satellites are probably in China, Russia or Africa. Pick one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:27pm
ultradamno:

Re Gravity twitter.com...
  6:27pm
sim_mobile:

Starlink is intended to fund SpaceX's Mars ambitions
  6:27pm
Jackie G:

SpaceX reminds me of Space Force. Both a waste of time. Both should be nixed.
  6:28pm
Imgur:

@Webmaster Henry, especially when he fell out of space! Worst physics
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solo mon:

(Sigh) I wish it were Sissy SpaceX
  6:28pm
Jackie G:

Spaceballs was a good movie too. Funny
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StringOFperils:

WE need more surveillance-tech so we can be more tactically suspicious of each other.
  6:29pm
Marie:

They just want to make sure there'll be internet on Mars
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chresti:

Right solo mon, and their space mansions
  6:29pm
sim_mobile:

This is NIMBYism applied to sky.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:29pm
Webhamster Henry:

He just wants Amazon in the Amazon.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

These celebrated & hugely rewarded Captains of Crapitalism always have this myopic lack of any wholictic or environmental perspective on situations. They have a Goal they see in their interests - & end of story...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:29pm
DjLorraine:

Space Force...it's too hard to say.
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Tome:

means I'll be able to get free wifi - in my van down by the river and not have to rely on ie,,, *7/11, or Mc'D's* anymore !<>!WoW!<>!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...remember - Musk is the same guy who said nuking Mars would be a good start...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:30pm
tim from washington:

That means the next time Station Manager Ken does the balloon fundraising stunt he'll have internet access when he gets really high in the atmosphere.
  6:30pm
seedfriend:

Who regulates the universe?
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Richard S:

Not just the night sky, but there could easily be so much junk in orbit that manned space travel becomes impossibly dangerous.
Avatar 6:30pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

*wholistic
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:30pm
Will the Sound Guy:

hi Mark and all! I've been listening
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:30pm
LCBD:

Super sad to see the wordle tracking story. I shouldn’t be surprised
  6:31pm
GC in Baltimore:

Speaking of S X and night sky, their south TX facility has wreaked ecological havoc and caused problems for migratory birds due to 24/7 bright lights etc.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:32pm
Will the Sound Guy:

i agree, nix the face-id
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:32pm
JohnEBGood:

Science fiction becomes reality.
  6:32pm
Marie:

@GC--that is something that should be regulated, fer sher
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People Like Us:

We had to use Verifly to fly abroad yesterday - they seem to be third party and nothing to do with the airlines, and we got told we had to use it but on the other hand the airline said we didm't have to. They collect all sorts of data - have you said anything about them in the past?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:33pm
StringOFperils:

IRS wants everyone's dick-picks.
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arb:

Unemployment benefits also now require ID.me face scan.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:34pm
Vanessa bikes:

^ What Arb, says NJ unemployment is doing ID.me too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:34pm
LCBD:

I read that awful story about the “amazonification of Whole Foods”. Super freaky.
www.nytimes.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:34pm
ultradamno:

I was watching MSNBC earlier and there were like three commercials in a row for nail fungus medicine and conditioning from years of targeted surveillance ads made me assume I should check my feet.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:34pm
ultradamno:

...fungus free...phew!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:35pm
Webhamster Henry:

Facial Rec is just an invitation for identity abuse.
  6:35pm
Marie:

We need a global animal (non-human) advocacy/safety organization--like a UN for animals (non human)
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:35pm
Will the Sound Guy:

Boo... ID.m* is garbage 🗑 enough is enough no more forced facial recognition
  6:36pm
sim_mobile:

Facial recognition will be part of mulifactor identification.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
Vanessa bikes:

done... www.dumpid.me
  6:37pm
sim_mobile:

Your faces can be culled from public and social media.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:38pm
Will the Sound Guy:

I can't bring up dumpid.me... is anyone else having issues getting to it?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:38pm
ultradamno:

Facial rec gets used in the Korean Netflix zombie show All Of Us Are Dead to open a recently turned girl's phone.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:38pm
Webhamster Henry:

The Id.me faces are absolutely culled from social media.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:38pm
DanFA:

I'm beginning to think that the internet was a mistake.
Avatar 6:38pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Hacked - ?! But - that never happens ...when has that ever happened...
Oh - are we @ War w/ Russia & China ? That'll never factor into that either...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:38pm
chresti:

IDme's pitch might be that it prevents id theft?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:39pm
JohnEBGood:

I did it. My computer does not have a camera so I hooked up my web cam. But I finished the process on my Motorola phone. Well, we will all be on file at the law office of Wolram and Hart.
  6:39pm
Imgur:

@Will, same
  6:39pm
Marie:

Plastic surgery, Mark. We'll all have to have facial hacks
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Fox:

As someone on Disability, I can say, I am already frustrated at the necessity for me to use my phone to access basic needs, and the incompetence with which the administration continually exhibits.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:39pm
Webhamster Henry:

Mark may have to go into overtime! ARB could remix him.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
chresti:

Ha WebHam!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
ultradamno:

Does Whole Foods offer Farm to Drone to Table service?
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Fox:

oh yeah! Fucking fuck! I made an effort to buy a book from an indie seller, but I'd not known that AbeBooks is owned by Amazon. Goddamnit.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
Tome:

place not to meet , organic wholesome people is the ie ( Whole Foods Stores ) usually <>
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
DanFA:

@Webmaster Henry- we need a sick DJ mix that mixes Mark's broadcasts into the music
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
Webhamster Henry:

Right after the Whole Foods acquisitions, a lot of stories came out about management changes basically adopting the Amazon Warehouse culture.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:41pm
_Ike_:

Whole Paycheck sucked even before Amazon bought it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:41pm
dale:

i just got a 'modern' cell phone with a fingerprint recognition button. i'm sure that goes into a data base.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:41pm
tim from washington:

Like your literal palm on your hand?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:41pm
Franco Twinkie:

Yes, but Whole Foods has vegan potato hash on the steam table. All good things have a hidden cost.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:42pm
Megaroni:

This is insane!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:42pm
DanFA:

No way that could backfire.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:42pm
LCBD:

No more shoplifting at WF!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:42pm
Webhamster Henry:

It reads your palm! It'll tell your fortune - as far as predicting the ads you'll see online.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:42pm
StringOFperils:

Facial-recognition AI algorithms will make it not only possible to 'disappear' people, it will make it possible to 'appear' people: manufactured replacements for the non-compliant, in a world where everything is data
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:42pm
Polly.:

ewr terminal c has 'just walk out' at one of the vendors.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:42pm
tim from washington:

Whoa, Webmaster.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
tim from washington:

Talk to the hand, Bezos! (sorry sorry)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
Megaroni:

They should be called Greedazon
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
Webhamster Henry:

The finger readers are on-device, at least for Apple devices.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
chresti:

Goddammit, I'm gonna go chat in wholefoods!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
DanFA:

Oh god!!!! Not this!!!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
DjLorraine:

Anyone want to watch Ultraviolet with me?
  6:43pm
morphe':

going to whole foods tomorrow and get wheelbarrows of stuff ..
hands in mittens
and walk out ..
Avatar 6:43pm
Fredericks:

Mark's description of this Amazon store is bringing to mind the movie Brazil.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
JohnEBGood:

Go Mark Go!!!
Avatar 6:44pm
Fox:

Have the colors used in the check out lines of Whole Foods changed yet? I've been waiting. They are all the same sorts of colors used in 70s era Sesame Street, psychologically triggering our need to follow direction. Very warm oranges and avocado greens.

But Now that kids that grew up in the 90's are coming of age, the colors should start to change to a more magenta based color scheme (ick).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
DanFA:

@Fredericks- great movie
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
ultradamno:

Paris Hilton and Fascinating Conversation don't come up in the same sentence with regularity
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
DanFA:

I fucking hate Jimmy Fallon.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
tim from washington:

How can I make NFTs? I'd love to sell some magic beans to rich buttholes.
  6:44pm
Jackie G:

It's not fair at Whole Foods, not fair at all. Whole Foods is weird enough without the palm cameras.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
Little Danny:

brutal
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People Like Us:

bleeeughhhhhhh
  6:45pm
Imgur:

Moxie Marlinspike had a great take on the problems of NFTs:

https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:45pm
StringOFperils:

Jimmy Fallon is fellating the known universe
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:45pm
_Ike_:

Jimmy Fallon and Fascinating Conversation don't come up in the same sentence with regularity either. Because he's a stone-cold moron.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:45pm
Webhamster Henry:

Whole Foods is trying to be moved toward full Amazon Go.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:45pm
melinda:

@Fox I think there is still a lot of green at WF
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solo mon:

🤮
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Tome:

why go to wholefoods all the pseudo intellectual crack heads and hipsters and arms length away now .
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:45pm
Webhamster Henry:

Soon you'll be able to get NFTs at Whole Foods. #thesingularity
  6:46pm
mr 6:

Whole Foods was never a friendly place to shop. It’s a large gourmet market for upper class shoppers. They never accepted ebt/food stamps to keep the lower class out. I’ve only shopped on occasion for a treat because I couldn’t afford to on a regular. I’m not surprised at the new surveillance and the majority of their clients are the type that don’t care about 5g surveillance.
  6:46pm
Marie:

It all seems so stupid to me, the whole NFT thing
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Fox:

@melinda - Well, keep a look out, I am sure that the next aesthetic revamp will include a lot of magenta and teal.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
tim from washington:

Does Dave The Spazz have one of these?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
Webhamster Henry:

I have all the People Like Us NFTs, all none of them.
  6:46pm
dano59:

Mark we knew you’d get to this / on Twitter everyone was citing this as a dystopian WTF moment tailor-made for Adam Curtis
  6:46pm
Imgur:

@tim from washington, It's easy, just swallow your humanity and pay ~$300 to a terrible cause
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
DanFA:

@_ike_ you know he's gotta be an abusive boss behind the scenes. People who try to portray themselves as nice all the time are usually the opposite
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:47pm
ultradamno:

Remember when Elijah Wood got in trouble for promoting digital pogs by a cartoonist that turned out to have a vast number of white supremacist cartoons for sale?
  6:47pm
sim_mobile:

They're pumping up NFT perceived value.
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Rich in Washington:

listening to Fallon and Paris Hilton was the aural equivalent of huffing glue. Me stupider now.
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Webhamster Henry:

You can enjoy WFMU Marathon Pledge badges for lots less than an NFT!
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bleubombersune:

Do the cameras analyze the number of strokes it takes to wipe your ass, and remind you that you have used to many sheets of toilet paper and your debit or credit card will be charged appropiately
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DanFA:

@Rich in Washington- it's more like a frontal lobotomy
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Fox:

mr. 6 - What are you talking about? Whole Foods all take Food Stamps / EBT! They always have. It's just too expensive to justify, but there's no chain food store that doesn't take EBT. IT's one of the frustrations of being on EBT. I'd rather shop at smaller stores, but they are less likely to acdept EBT because the government makes it a hassle.
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ultradamno:

(in fairness the ones Wood bought and was posting about were not racist)
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tim from washington:

Fuckin' A, Rich in Washington!
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morphe':

ponzi
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ultradamno:

As with crypto, does this end with "money laundering"?
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Tome:

certain supermarket chain , won't take EBT on self checkout they got that rigged only regular cashier ,,, things that make you go "hmmm"
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dale:

didn't they sell moon plots at one point?
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Webhamster Henry:

www.starregistry.com Visit the Techtonic star!
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sim_mobile:

NFT's are speculative assets.
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DanFA:

Is Mark offering a NFT of him as his DJ premium this year?
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tim from washington:

NFTs are where Techtonic and Music For Mind Control overlap.
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dano59:

Can we go to Whole Foods and talk shit about them to our friends or into our phones, and leave unscathed? Like, will someone throw avocados at us?
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Webhamster Henry:

"I claim this pile of dirt in the name of Earth! So - off you go!" -- Duck DOdgers
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Imgur:

@Mark, Lol, it's totally a star registry. Instead of 'Admin Fees', it's whatever cost the market can bear
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DanFA:

@Tim- Yes!
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JohnEBGood:

I want Zatox!!
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solo mon:

Please don’t say Beetlejuice three times in a row.
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Kevlicki:

The energy needed to generate this crap of blockchain/NFT/cryptos will be the end of the climate.
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Webhamster Henry:

You can own - or at least adopt for a year - WFMU fixtures though!
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Rich in Washington:

HA!
a job I had as in in-house graphic designer I had a boss ask me to make a fake star registry certificate because they didn't want to pay when their son wanted to buy one for his girlfriend. I told them that that would be dishonest and probably - while a dumb thing - was a sweet gesture.
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coelacanth∅:

Kev -it certainly does more than it's fair share of harm
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joe mulligan:

haha you didnt buy anything you actually paid for your data to be bought. the ultimate in scammy leadgen. so shady!!!
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Webhamster Henry:

And DJs and shows.
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Mick from Montclair:

https://www.starregistry.com/
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tim from washington:

Fuck, this is depressing. Can we talk about Ukraine instead?
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DanFA:

Excuse me, sir. You look like a total chump, wanna buy my ape? No, it's not yours to own, but you get bragging rights with the kids at the malt shop.
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mr 6:

Fox in the State of NY I have never been to a Whole Foods that accept ebt. When markets in NY are registered as Gourmet they don’t have to take them.
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morphe':

I WROTE
PONZI
15 MINUTES AGO...
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_Ike_:

Great comparison. NFTs are basically just another new way to part wealthy idiots from their money, like Goop.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...@ least in the great historical Tulip Bubble ...there were actual Tulips...
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mr 6:

Buying a star is equivalent to buying a submarine from the back of a comic book back in our youth
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g00berz:

Those apes are created by white supremacists
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JohnEBGood:

I just hope that Earth is a channel I can change when I watch the reruns.
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chresti:

Shopping channel?
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g00berz:

So basically celebrities are funding white supremacists. Good job idiots
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Folsom:

@Ike I had to look up Goop, I thought it was a pumice soap like Gojo, and I was wondering what was wrong with that
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Franco Twinkie:

In a show full of the most incomprehensible nonsense, this one really takes the cake. Who, why...
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DanFA:

Congratulations, you just played yourself.
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bleubombersune:

star gazers bidding on The Starry Night
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DanFA:

Isn't your DJ premium this year an NFT?
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shiloh in spirit:

(i am not financial advice)
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StringOFperils:

I think I have non-fungible tokens of other peoples' esteem.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Soo - NFTS absolutely definitely NOT going to give Distribution Control back to Artists (for example) - in any way - in the Digital epoch ?
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Ken From Hyde Park:

I'll just stick with newts, frogs and toads, TYVM.
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The Butterman:

Go funge yourself.
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ultradamno:

It makes me think of Gil Scott-Heron's Whitey On The Moon, except the moon visit at least yielded scientific worth.
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dale:

it wasn't created by a web engineer - it was a game show in england 20 years ago. it's all over youtube.
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g00berz:

What about artists cashing in on NFTs? Sorta tempting if the idea wasn’t so ridiculous
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DanFA:

New York Times could've used that money to fund better journalism, but then again, we live in a society.
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dale:

look for 'lingo' on youtube.
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tim from washington:

Oooof. This show was not easy to listen to but I needed to hear it. Thanks Mark! Give 'em hell during the Marathon!
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Wenzo Toad:

this bored ape is keeping all it’s $ in the banana fund
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Vanessa bikes:

oh no! I love Wordle! I'm so sad!
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StringOFperils:

www.artnews.com...
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Handy Haversack:

Many thanks, Mark!

Just to stress one point you made -- that the Whole Foods debacle is part-and-parcel of Amazon's long history of antilabor and, indeed, antihuman behavior *as business model*.

Great show.

See youse later, Techyons!
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melinda:

thanks Mark!
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JohnEBGood:

We got you and WFMU. Whoo hooo!
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shiloh in spirit:

as soon as i saw wordle was bought by NYT i haven't visited the site again, shit's ruined. thank you mark
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Stillwell Coney Islander:

Thank you Mark!
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chresti:

Thanks Mark!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...maybe more like an AfricanAmerican comedian's joke about a News story of an old lady leaving Millions to her poodle ..& saying - you know that was a White lady...
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Will the Sound Guy:

Thank you Mark!!!! be well everyone
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Franco Twinkie:

That begs the question: Is a hard copy of the New York Times worth six dollars? I DON'T KNOW!!!
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dano59:

OK I don’t get all the accept cookies/no other choices pop ups that happen all the time now. How to block? (future topic)
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Mark
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JohnEBGood:

Fat Tuesday!!!
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StringOFperils:

Thanks Mark. Be sure to wear your rubber Drump mask when you shop at Whole Foods
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WR:

Many photographers and artists are finding that their images are being sold as NFTs. Some entrepreneurs started scraping everything they could from Deviant Art to create NFTs. Total whack a mole effort to take them down.
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coelacanth∅:

i missed most of the program...
whole foods is scumbags? what a shocker.
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Fox:

mr 6, I like in NY. I have used EBT in Whole Foods for years.
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Dave the Spazz:

Epic show!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

@WR: Thx. Of course...
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chresti:

Oh man!
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Franco Twinkie:

Thanks, I think.
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Wenzo Toad:

thanks mark
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Rich in Washington:

thanks Mark!
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DjLorraine:

Dano59 open and choose to block all possible choices.
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Mark Hurst:

Thanks, everyone! Looking forward to reading the comments.
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