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Thomas Dvorak  Game Boy Tune   Favoriting     0:00:00 (Pop-up)
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Courtney Maum  The Techtonic Interview   Favoriting An interview with novelist Courtney Maum, author of the recent novel "Touch." And Mark reflects on what tech is FOR. 
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Kosmischer Läufer  Morgenröte   Favoriting     0:53:24 (Pop-up)
Mark and Ken  Scam Roundup   Favoriting  
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Listener comments!

  6:00pm
melinda:

Hi all!
  6:01pm
zopa:

tech is for me!
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Mark Hurst:

Hello everyone!
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Uncle Michael:

Hello, Mark.
  6:05pm
zopa:

Jessamyn is also a contributor to MetaFilter.
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Webhamster Henry:

Has Richard Smith been doxxed?
Avatar 🤖 6:07pm
herb.nyc:

hi mark and all. wow, 1 day! great. can Jessamyn please sue the White House?
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Uncle Michael:

roombas phone home?
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geezerette:

Hey, Mark and folks.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

NASA photos showing PR's lights before & after the hurricane - www.theverge.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
WFMU listener WADE:

keep your Blood Glucose Level high
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
Fuzzy:

You're soaking in it.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
Folsom:

I just started watching over again the James Burke show Connections. Episode 8 talks about what happens when your privacy is gone with all the credit cards - he figured it out almost 40 years ago.
Avatar 🤖 6:14pm
herb.nyc:

my cat is asking me to pour Gatorade into her water bowl.
  6:15pm
queems:

it's what plants crave
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beast:

har har brawndo
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:16pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Those Powerwall batteries run about $7k each, installed. Their latest model, anyway. I wonder if these are the previous models that they weren't able to sell.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
dale:

first trend forecaster i recall is faith popcorn. but i don't know if that title existed before the 80s.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
Fuzzy:

Alvin Toffler before her with Future Shock.
Avatar 🤖 6:24pm
herb.nyc:

is non-car ownership a trend? due to rise of uber & lyft & others. now we have cat parlors, for the cat-challenged. maybe children parlors?
  6:26pm
JakeGould:

Another trend: Suburban disconnection maladies happening since urban environments are so kept and taken care of nowadays… You never have to leave home… You can mail order everything. So why live in a city? And what casual interactions does one have nowadays that everything gets delivered.
  6:27pm
JakeGould:

Like my tech work? I can do it utterly anywhere. Why again am I still in NYC for now? Job requirements that I be in meetings. Past that? No real reason. And I know I am not the only one in a situation like this.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:29pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Downward trend: selling Avon products door to door. Just buy the stuff online, or not.
Avatar 🤖 6:30pm
herb.nyc:

skintight seamless bodysuit? a onesie for adults! ie, a suitsie (google it)
  6:33pm
Dean:

For me, fatigue set in with the advent of the Web.
  6:34pm
Dean:

It's not a lemming situation. It's the very compelling draw of the network effect.
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melinda:

Is facial recognition going to become a standard feature? That would be creepy.
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geezerette:

The tech we all use is making a lot of people cripplingly self-conscious and isolated. Intuition and imagination are absolutely vulnerable.
  6:35pm
JakeGould:

@melinda: I don’t like the lack of choice in the realm of biometrics.
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melinda:

@Jake it's pretty fucked up.
  6:37pm
Dean:

A hammer is a tool. I can own a hammer, use it when I need it, lend it to a friend or neighbor. A phone is not merely a tool. It only works well if many other people agree to use one, too.
Avatar 🤖 6:38pm
herb.nyc:

nice passage that was just read. right, why should we think. it made me think of KODAK photo signs. here: en.wikipedia.org...
  6:39pm
JakeGould:

@herb.nyc: Oooo! Thanks for reminding me about that stuff. Gives me an idea.
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melinda:

@Dean good point.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

I would bet highly that the FBI and/or CIA has research underway to correlate the look of a face with the likelihood that that person is a criminal. Here's the image of a face, what's the chances that this person is a criminal?
Avatar 🤖 6:43pm
herb.nyc:

@jakegould, now go outside and play, with that idea.
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Webhamster Henry:

@Ken/Hyde Park read "The Mismeasure of Man", by Stephen J. Gould, a large section is on 19th and 20th century theories about criminal faces (and racial ranking... intelligence testing, sterilization and so much more)
  6:46pm
JakeGould:

My great grandpa wrote “The Mismeasure of Man”… Based it off of his opinion of my grandma’s face!
  6:47pm
Tom from Maplewood:

We were at a concert on Sunday night. A person near us wasn’t actually there - they watched the concert on their device’s screen as they made a video of the show. Poor guy.
Avatar 🤖 6:49pm
herb.nyc:

Todd Barry has a joke, of a person in front row of his comedy show. he looks at person's screen, and he's being googled. person hits some youtubes and then gives todd a thumbs up, mouths "you're funny". something like that; sorry for ruining todd's joke.
Avatar 🤖 6:51pm
herb.nyc:

(aside - the editor of STAY FREE! magazine, carrie mclaren, recommended this novel "the savage girl", back in 2002. i read it but i don't think i fully understood it. fyi. description: What is the next trend -- the next "killer app"? This question is very much on the mind of Ursula Van Urden, a burned-out art student who, after her supermodel sister Ivy's widely publicized suicide attempt, has found work as a trendspotter for Tomorrow, Ltd., in the volcano-shadowed metropolis of Middle City....)
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Fox:

Hi Gio!
  6:54pm
JakeGould:

Smishing!!!
Avatar 🤖 6:56pm
herb.nyc:

i never heard of smishing. made me think of smushing.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Webhamster Henry:

They are leveraging similarity to messages that real banks and institutions send when their AI spots an anomaly!
  6:56pm
JakeGould:

Snishing is what happens when your Jewish uncle pinches your cheek.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
Webhamster Henry:

Jut like the thousands of malware installers claiming to be a Flash Upgrade.
  6:58pm
JakeGould:

Social Networking + Phishing = SNishing.
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melinda:

I hate crappy portmanteaus.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Just watch ... smishing.com is probably some scam website.
Avatar 🤖 6:58pm
herb.nyc:

smartphone and phish = smishing
Avatar 6:59pm
Jeff:

What, Ken, that'd mean you're against recursive acronyms!

like of course... GNU's Not UNIX.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
Rob (Jerzcity):

Oh! An improportmanteau!
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chris:

thanks, gents! great stuff.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

smishing = SMS phishing
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Webhamster Henry:

Wutishing: phishing via Western Union Telegram.
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