WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from October 5, 2020

Listener comments!
	🤖 6:00pm Handy Haversack: Mark and all the Techyon Drives! I feel like it's been far too long! How long have you been Live from the Upper West Side, Mark?!
	6:00pm ultradamno: Mark! Techtonbliophiles!
	6:00pm David in London: Technoids, hello! Evening Mark. Handy, ultradamno!
	🤖 6:00pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Technical friends!
	🤖 6:01pm Handy Haversack: David, ultradamno!
	6:01pm ultradamno: Hiya DiL!
	6:01pm ultradamno: Hiya Handy!
	6:01pm TDK60: Hey Mark, been a while.
	6:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Mark and all!
	6:01pm David in London: TDK, Webhamster.
	6:01pm P-90: Welcome home @Mark
	6:02pm David in London: That was quite a good impression of Staysh.
	🤖 6:03pm Handy Haversack: Always a chance Ken was already radicalized. Just couldn't tell more had happened.
	🤖 6:03pm chresti: Hi Mark and techtone company!
	6:03pm ultradamno: If you play Ken's episode backwards it said "remember facebook, get with google, appreciate apple!"
	6:03pm -Ken: Good evening Tonickers. I am up to further experiments on the youtube radicalization theory. I guess I would have to create a new account to truly test it.
	🤖 6:04pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! Techtonicooklets! (Love the Techtonic Tips booklet)
	6:05pm melinda: hello techtons
	6:07pm melinda: @ultradamno haha
	🤖 6:08pm Handy Haversack: dkg! My good good friend! And there are commercials on during NFL games for Apple watches as "the future of health."
	🤖 6:09pm Webhamster Henry: The NY Covid app is basically supposed to give you an alert if you are Bluetoothedly near the phone of someone who has been identified as a carrier.
	🤖 6:10pm Webhamster Henry: I don't know if I (as a developer) can get to that side of the phone. Probably not. After all, the "phone" side of the phone is walled off to apps.
	6:11pm melinda: There was a good article by Zeynep Tufekci (sp?) about how the countries who have handled the pandemic more successfully use backward contact tracing rather than forward tracing.
	🤖 6:12pm Webhamster Henry: I can see good old Link NYC booths displaying animated cops (or vegetables as in "We're All Bozos On This Bus") if a Covid identified phone passes by them.
	🤖 6:13pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Mark and the tectho-positive and techto-negative.
	6:14pm P-90: Gotta love those NPR-ish musical intros
	6:15pm Mark Hurst: Hi @Handy @ultra @DiL @Webham @TDK60 @James @chresti @Bas @melinda @KfHP @P-90! Thanks for joining!
	🤖 6:18pm Handy Haversack: Reading old books ... being offended ... I am two for two so far!
	6:19pm ultradamno: I don't know why anyone would want to read something that doesn't make them uncomfortable, challenged, even uncomfortable. I may as well read my own journal if I'm looking for what I already think.
	6:20pm Mark Hurst: @Handy you're so close to a hat trick (not sure what the third item would be, tho)
	6:20pm ultradamno: Not that my own thoughts are above offending me.
	6:21pm Mark Hurst: @ultra agreed all around
	🤖 6:22pm Handy Haversack: Well, I do often think about what today or tomorrow's children will think of our failures to stop extractive capitalism when they are soldiers in the last Drinking Water Wars ... does that count?
	6:24pm ignatatus666: Future generations will not have control of their own thoughts,hence no ability to reason. They will have the installed information that is not stopping this technology was a revolution for the future.
	🤖 6:24pm Handy Haversack: Also: WORD, ultradamno. I mean, I went to all this effort to learn to read. Why waste it?
	🤖 6:25pm Bas NL: They killed plants for food?
	6:25pm Sam: Eating meat already is horrific for many of us. For us life is like being stuck living in the dark ages, day after day.
	🤖 6:26pm Webhamster Henry: There are many aisles in the supermarket that I never enter.
	6:27pm ultradamno: Are there no amoebatarians?
	🤖 6:28pm Webhamster Henry: I filter krill through my baleen.
	🤖 6:28pm Handy Haversack: Shoot, Mark, I owe you a Berry book. Dang it. I'm sorry. Things have been a little jagged lately.
	🤖 6:29pm herb.nyc: "Wha? You ate meat?" Reminds me of essay that chuck klosterman wrote, that while punk is seen as big influence now, in future, historians may see disco as a bigger influence. Chuck is well reasoned.
	6:30pm Sam: Our president has a lot of personal density
	🤖 6:31pm Bas NL: Disco dancing will become a religious practice in a couple of millennia.. a must-happen.
	🤖 6:32pm Webhamster Henry: The FOMO-hose!
	🤖 6:32pm Ken From Hyde Park: I understand that on The Tweeter, you can't wish death upon other users anymore. Progress, right?
	6:32pm -Ken: Hooboy- the frenetic standstill says it all...
	6:33pm Sam: Disco is coming back. Its the only thing that will fill the empty emotional hole we’re all going to have when this is over.
	🤖 6:33pm Handy Haversack: "I'm more of a well wisher. In that I miss him no specific ill."
	🤖 6:33pm Handy Haversack: *^wish Sheesh.
	🤖 6:35pm Handy Haversack: Mars trilogy! Such a reasonable, fascinating ride!
	6:35pm -Ken: I’m with Sam. When this whole pandemic is finally more or less over, we are due for a roaring 20s- disco seventies sex fueled Molly era.
	🤖 6:37pm Webhamster Henry: Retro disco with those Blade Runner techno-40s fashions we're supposed to have by now.
	🤖 6:37pm Bas NL: My walkman's up at Christies.. i hope i can finance this teleport cruise around the United States of Google.
	6:39pm ultradamno: If he doesn't post on his blog for awhile does that make him the master of his domain?
	6:39pm TDK60: I know a zine that argues for reading literature & history. to know our Now better. / Handy- I read that Mars trio.
	6:40pm Mark Hurst: @TDK60 what's the name of the zine? sounds interesting.
	🤖 6:41pm tim from champaign (now washington): Serious question - how do you create your own domain and what does that mean?
	6:41pm David in London: It’s important not to fall into the trap of seeing all tech through doom-coloured glasses. Tech allows me to listen to FMU in England and develop friendships with all you lot. And that’s not nothing.
	🤖 6:41pm Bas NL: Host thy self and thy content will thunder.
	6:41pm TDK60: Communicating Vessels, Portland, Or. Possibly hard to find, no email, site, etc.
	6:41pm ultradamno: @DiL Same here in Indiana.
	6:42pm Mark Hurst: @DiL totally agree. i think that's much to Alan's point - using your own tools, learning the craft etc., can make tech actually good (and WFMU certainly is a leader in that sense)
	🤖 6:42pm Webhamster Henry: Tech allows for WFMU Zoom Karaoke. #refuationsrus
	🤖 6:42pm Handy Haversack: All the more precious for its rarity, David, in asking nothing more from us than what we think we can give.
	6:42pm Mark Hurst: @TDK thanks
	6:43pm -Ken: Gopher reference ! Ding! Ding! Ding! (HI Henry)
	6:43pm melinda: I still have a blog, feels like a relic of another era but I don't want to let it go. @tim I think it's just buying and maintaining a name for a website.
	6:44pm Mark Hurst: @Tim lots of ways to do it, with a range of commercial-but-easy vs less commercial but less easy ways...
	🤖 6:45pm Webhamster Henry: Website building is easy-peasy these days, says the Web Hamster.
	6:45pm David in London: Handy, and stocking our T-shirt drawers so fulsomely...
	6:46pm melinda: I bought the domain name and mapped it to a blog hosted by Typepad, even easier than building a site for scratch.
	🤖 6:46pm tim from champaign (now washington): Ah, I see. Thanks Melinda and Mark.
	🤖 6:46pm Webhamster Henry: Gopher is REALLY easy, but not very exciting. Gopher had (has?) full text indexing, though. Compared with FTP, which is kind of replaced, that was a miracle!
	6:47pm ultradamno: I think it's odd baking bread has become THE cliche lockdown activity, I thought everyone was kicking bread.
	🤖 6:47pm Handy Haversack: W-FMU You do me right, To stock my drawers So fulsome-ly
	6:48pm a5vzener: I'm an IT pro but I struggle every day with technology run amok. Its even worse when you peek under the covers!
	🤖 6:49pm Webhamster Henry: As a programmer for 50 years, I'm surprised when people expect stuff to work.
	🤖 6:49pm Handy Haversack: This is huge, taking the slow view on news. I do the same. The only thing I check daily is protest schedules. This is both sane making and keeps you focused on the larger, longer, more hidden emergencies that are designedly hidden by the news churn.
	🤖 6:50pm tim from champaign (now washington): This year I've gone back print only news. I get a newspaper several times a week.I've gone on an electronic news moratorium. It's been good for me.
	6:50pm P-90: Ivan Illich! Essential indeed!
	6:51pm markinbrooklyn: I will second weekly news reading- Economist and Weekend FT!
	🤖 6:51pm Webhamster Henry: There are some new local news services in my town that only publish news when there is some.
	6:51pm TDK60: I reduced my exposure to TV/video images of news and read about it more. Almost every day tho. Every third day might be good. But every day is like a week right now......
	6:51pm -Ken: Henry, that’s whiskey talk
	🤖 6:52pm Webhamster Henry: I don't know EMACS but I know its predecessor TECO.
	🤖 6:53pm Handy Haversack: I had to switch from Nota Bene (well, XyWrite, really) to Word, but I stay with Word 2003, which was a solid program.
	6:53pm a5vzener: XyWrite III forever!
	6:53pm slugluv1313: greetings, Mark! Skeletons! Everyone! have had WFMU on all day, but have been bogged down with other stuff :( however, i MUST thank you for introducing us to Alan Jacobs -- had to stop dead in my tracks when he was speaking of Frederick Douglass -- and my (goofy, vegan, abolitionist) tired old geezer heart and soul just soared when he was speaking of how future generations will view the consumption of dead decomposing flesh as abhorrent :) my activism became reignited and intensified about 20 years ago -- C. R. Greek, M.D. was speaking about vivisection (something i thought had died with the 60s and 70s!) at an animal rights conference -- he also remarked how we "activists" were at the forefront, and how in the future, people will wonder how humanity would have used/abused animals for "research" so again, THANK YOU Alan Jacobs for writing this book and THANK YOU Mark for this incredible interview!
	6:53pm djsheilab: So glad I caught most of this interview. So much wisdom. Thank you!
	🤖 6:54pm Ken From Hyde Park: "Don't be afraid of tech" — White House Tweeter account, probably.
	6:54pm Sonderangebot: Thank you Mark for another thoughtful interview.
	🤖 6:54pm Handy Haversack: This was a really good talk, Mark. So enjoyable. Hey, slugluv!
	6:55pm Carmichael: Two words I never want to hear again: "sourdough starter".
	6:55pm P-90: Catch Disco Fever!
	6:55pm Lisa Hirschfield: Fun Fact: Emacs had Tetris!
	🤖 6:55pm Handy Haversack: Oh, dang -- it's almost over? Thanks, Mark. Thanks again and always. So valuable. And not in a financialized way.
	6:55pm melinda: thanks Mark!
	6:56pm David in London: Thanks for a terrific show tonight Mark. And as someone born in a Shire, it’s worthy fighting for.
	🤖 6:56pm Webhamster Henry: I think I allocated part of my Hellraiser pumpkin pie to Techtonic. I'd invite others to do the same
	6:56pm a5vzener: <b>Thanks for another great show, Mark!</b>
	6:57pm mary: And thanks for the attention to Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Alan Jacobs. Hadn't focused on the personal density thing.I'm in the last quarter and it's wonderful (an inadequate adjective) Challenging, totally worth it. Talk about WW2 and it's aftermaths. brilliantly comic. mindsfucker about mind fucking. Few people read it now.
	6:57pm TDK60: Thanks y gracias, Mark.
	🤖 6:58pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks Alan!
	🤖 6:59pm chresti: Thanks Mark!
	6:59pm slugluv1313: hiya Handy!!! big ups for READING!!! :)
	🤖 6:59pm Handy Haversack: mary, if ever thirteen living people have read that AND Finnegans Wake, the sun will explode. So be careful!

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from October 5, 2020

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Mon. Nov 4th, 6pm - 7pm: Dystopia update (More info...)
Chatbots are now running rampant - appearing in new-model cars - as we're being told to "be nice to chatbots." Stores are using "digital price tags," which rely on surveillance to set the price to the company's liking. Meantime, Google's AI is giving wrong answers, in some cases, almost half the time. All these and more in Mark's dystopia update.
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October 5, 2020: Alan Jacobs, author, "Breaking Bread with the Dead"

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Tonight: Alan Jacobs, author, "Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind"

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Pointers:

• Alan's microblog

• Alan's blog

• Alan's homepage

• Alan's new book, Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

• After Technopoly (Alan Jacobs in the New Atlantis, spring 2019)

• Against Projection for Promise (Alan Jacobs in the Hedgehog Review, May 20, 2020)

• Handmind in Covidtide (Alan's piece about the shears, July 9, 2020)

• The Age of Anxiety Critical Edition, edited by Alan Jacobs

• The Convivial Society, LM Sacasas's newsletter

• Text editors as Lord of the Rings locations (Kieran Healy, July 2011)

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Listener comments!
	🤖 6:00pm Handy Haversack: Mark and all the Techyon Drives! I feel like it's been far too long! How long have you been Live from the Upper West Side, Mark?!
	6:00pm ultradamno: Mark! Techtonbliophiles!
	6:00pm David in London: Technoids, hello! Evening Mark. Handy, ultradamno!
	🤖 6:00pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Technical friends!
	🤖 6:01pm Handy Haversack: David, ultradamno!
	6:01pm ultradamno: Hiya DiL!
	6:01pm ultradamno: Hiya Handy!
	6:01pm TDK60: Hey Mark, been a while.
	6:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Mark and all!
	6:01pm David in London: TDK, Webhamster.
	6:01pm P-90: Welcome home @Mark
	6:02pm David in London: That was quite a good impression of Staysh.
	🤖 6:03pm Handy Haversack: Always a chance Ken was already radicalized. Just couldn't tell more had happened.
	🤖 6:03pm chresti: Hi Mark and techtone company!
	6:03pm ultradamno: If you play Ken's episode backwards it said "remember facebook, get with google, appreciate apple!"
	6:03pm -Ken: Good evening Tonickers. I am up to further experiments on the youtube radicalization theory. I guess I would have to create a new account to truly test it.
	🤖 6:04pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! Techtonicooklets! (Love the Techtonic Tips booklet)
	6:05pm melinda: hello techtons
	6:07pm melinda: @ultradamno haha
	🤖 6:08pm Handy Haversack: dkg! My good good friend! And there are commercials on during NFL games for Apple watches as "the future of health."
	🤖 6:09pm Webhamster Henry: The NY Covid app is basically supposed to give you an alert if you are Bluetoothedly near the phone of someone who has been identified as a carrier.
	🤖 6:10pm Webhamster Henry: I don't know if I (as a developer) can get to that side of the phone. Probably not. After all, the "phone" side of the phone is walled off to apps.
	6:11pm melinda: There was a good article by Zeynep Tufekci (sp?) about how the countries who have handled the pandemic more successfully use backward contact tracing rather than forward tracing.
	🤖 6:12pm Webhamster Henry: I can see good old Link NYC booths displaying animated cops (or vegetables as in "We're All Bozos On This Bus") if a Covid identified phone passes by them.
	🤖 6:13pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Mark and the tectho-positive and techto-negative.
	6:14pm P-90: Gotta love those NPR-ish musical intros
	6:15pm Mark Hurst: Hi @Handy @ultra @DiL @Webham @TDK60 @James @chresti @Bas @melinda @KfHP @P-90! Thanks for joining!
	🤖 6:18pm Handy Haversack: Reading old books ... being offended ... I am two for two so far!
	6:19pm ultradamno: I don't know why anyone would want to read something that doesn't make them uncomfortable, challenged, even uncomfortable. I may as well read my own journal if I'm looking for what I already think.
	6:20pm Mark Hurst: @Handy you're so close to a hat trick (not sure what the third item would be, tho)
	6:20pm ultradamno: Not that my own thoughts are above offending me.
	6:21pm Mark Hurst: @ultra agreed all around
	🤖 6:22pm Handy Haversack: Well, I do often think about what today or tomorrow's children will think of our failures to stop extractive capitalism when they are soldiers in the last Drinking Water Wars ... does that count?
	6:24pm ignatatus666: Future generations will not have control of their own thoughts,hence no ability to reason. They will have the installed information that is not stopping this technology was a revolution for the future.
	🤖 6:24pm Handy Haversack: Also: WORD, ultradamno. I mean, I went to all this effort to learn to read. Why waste it?
	🤖 6:25pm Bas NL: They killed plants for food?
	6:25pm Sam: Eating meat already is horrific for many of us. For us life is like being stuck living in the dark ages, day after day.
	🤖 6:26pm Webhamster Henry: There are many aisles in the supermarket that I never enter.
	6:27pm ultradamno: Are there no amoebatarians?
	🤖 6:28pm Webhamster Henry: I filter krill through my baleen.
	🤖 6:28pm Handy Haversack: Shoot, Mark, I owe you a Berry book. Dang it. I'm sorry. Things have been a little jagged lately.
	🤖 6:29pm herb.nyc: "Wha? You ate meat?" Reminds me of essay that chuck klosterman wrote, that while punk is seen as big influence now, in future, historians may see disco as a bigger influence. Chuck is well reasoned.
	6:30pm Sam: Our president has a lot of personal density
	🤖 6:31pm Bas NL: Disco dancing will become a religious practice in a couple of millennia.. a must-happen.
	🤖 6:32pm Webhamster Henry: The FOMO-hose!
	🤖 6:32pm Ken From Hyde Park: I understand that on The Tweeter, you can't wish death upon other users anymore. Progress, right?
	6:32pm -Ken: Hooboy- the frenetic standstill says it all...
	6:33pm Sam: Disco is coming back. Its the only thing that will fill the empty emotional hole we’re all going to have when this is over.
	🤖 6:33pm Handy Haversack: "I'm more of a well wisher. In that I miss him no specific ill."
	🤖 6:33pm Handy Haversack: *^wish Sheesh.
	🤖 6:35pm Handy Haversack: Mars trilogy! Such a reasonable, fascinating ride!
	6:35pm -Ken: I’m with Sam. When this whole pandemic is finally more or less over, we are due for a roaring 20s- disco seventies sex fueled Molly era.
	🤖 6:37pm Webhamster Henry: Retro disco with those Blade Runner techno-40s fashions we're supposed to have by now.
	🤖 6:37pm Bas NL: My walkman's up at Christies.. i hope i can finance this teleport cruise around the United States of Google.
	6:39pm ultradamno: If he doesn't post on his blog for awhile does that make him the master of his domain?
	6:39pm TDK60: I know a zine that argues for reading literature & history. to know our Now better. / Handy- I read that Mars trio.
	6:40pm Mark Hurst: @TDK60 what's the name of the zine? sounds interesting.
	🤖 6:41pm tim from champaign (now washington): Serious question - how do you create your own domain and what does that mean?
	6:41pm David in London: It’s important not to fall into the trap of seeing all tech through doom-coloured glasses. Tech allows me to listen to FMU in England and develop friendships with all you lot. And that’s not nothing.
	🤖 6:41pm Bas NL: Host thy self and thy content will thunder.
	6:41pm TDK60: Communicating Vessels, Portland, Or. Possibly hard to find, no email, site, etc.
	6:41pm ultradamno: @DiL Same here in Indiana.
	6:42pm Mark Hurst: @DiL totally agree. i think that's much to Alan's point - using your own tools, learning the craft etc., can make tech actually good (and WFMU certainly is a leader in that sense)
	🤖 6:42pm Webhamster Henry: Tech allows for WFMU Zoom Karaoke. #refuationsrus
	🤖 6:42pm Handy Haversack: All the more precious for its rarity, David, in asking nothing more from us than what we think we can give.
	6:42pm Mark Hurst: @TDK thanks
	6:43pm -Ken: Gopher reference ! Ding! Ding! Ding! (HI Henry)
	6:43pm melinda: I still have a blog, feels like a relic of another era but I don't want to let it go. @tim I think it's just buying and maintaining a name for a website.
	6:44pm Mark Hurst: @Tim lots of ways to do it, with a range of commercial-but-easy vs less commercial but less easy ways...
	🤖 6:45pm Webhamster Henry: Website building is easy-peasy these days, says the Web Hamster.
	6:45pm David in London: Handy, and stocking our T-shirt drawers so fulsomely...
	6:46pm melinda: I bought the domain name and mapped it to a blog hosted by Typepad, even easier than building a site for scratch.
	🤖 6:46pm tim from champaign (now washington): Ah, I see. Thanks Melinda and Mark.
	🤖 6:46pm Webhamster Henry: Gopher is REALLY easy, but not very exciting. Gopher had (has?) full text indexing, though. Compared with FTP, which is kind of replaced, that was a miracle!
	6:47pm ultradamno: I think it's odd baking bread has become THE cliche lockdown activity, I thought everyone was kicking bread.
	🤖 6:47pm Handy Haversack: W-FMU You do me right, To stock my drawers So fulsome-ly
	6:48pm a5vzener: I'm an IT pro but I struggle every day with technology run amok. Its even worse when you peek under the covers!
	🤖 6:49pm Webhamster Henry: As a programmer for 50 years, I'm surprised when people expect stuff to work.
	🤖 6:49pm Handy Haversack: This is huge, taking the slow view on news. I do the same. The only thing I check daily is protest schedules. This is both sane making and keeps you focused on the larger, longer, more hidden emergencies that are designedly hidden by the news churn.
	🤖 6:50pm tim from champaign (now washington): This year I've gone back print only news. I get a newspaper several times a week.I've gone on an electronic news moratorium. It's been good for me.
	6:50pm P-90: Ivan Illich! Essential indeed!
	6:51pm markinbrooklyn: I will second weekly news reading- Economist and Weekend FT!
	🤖 6:51pm Webhamster Henry: There are some new local news services in my town that only publish news when there is some.
	6:51pm TDK60: I reduced my exposure to TV/video images of news and read about it more. Almost every day tho. Every third day might be good. But every day is like a week right now......
	6:51pm -Ken: Henry, that’s whiskey talk
	🤖 6:52pm Webhamster Henry: I don't know EMACS but I know its predecessor TECO.
	🤖 6:53pm Handy Haversack: I had to switch from Nota Bene (well, XyWrite, really) to Word, but I stay with Word 2003, which was a solid program.
	6:53pm a5vzener: XyWrite III forever!
	6:53pm slugluv1313: greetings, Mark! Skeletons! Everyone! have had WFMU on all day, but have been bogged down with other stuff :( however, i MUST thank you for introducing us to Alan Jacobs -- had to stop dead in my tracks when he was speaking of Frederick Douglass -- and my (goofy, vegan, abolitionist) tired old geezer heart and soul just soared when he was speaking of how future generations will view the consumption of dead decomposing flesh as abhorrent :) my activism became reignited and intensified about 20 years ago -- C. R. Greek, M.D. was speaking about vivisection (something i thought had died with the 60s and 70s!) at an animal rights conference -- he also remarked how we "activists" were at the forefront, and how in the future, people will wonder how humanity would have used/abused animals for "research" so again, THANK YOU Alan Jacobs for writing this book and THANK YOU Mark for this incredible interview!
	6:53pm djsheilab: So glad I caught most of this interview. So much wisdom. Thank you!
	🤖 6:54pm Ken From Hyde Park: "Don't be afraid of tech" — White House Tweeter account, probably.
	6:54pm Sonderangebot: Thank you Mark for another thoughtful interview.
	🤖 6:54pm Handy Haversack: This was a really good talk, Mark. So enjoyable. Hey, slugluv!
	6:55pm Carmichael: Two words I never want to hear again: "sourdough starter".
	6:55pm P-90: Catch Disco Fever!
	6:55pm Lisa Hirschfield: Fun Fact: Emacs had Tetris!
	🤖 6:55pm Handy Haversack: Oh, dang -- it's almost over? Thanks, Mark. Thanks again and always. So valuable. And not in a financialized way.
	6:55pm melinda: thanks Mark!
	6:56pm David in London: Thanks for a terrific show tonight Mark. And as someone born in a Shire, it’s worthy fighting for.
	🤖 6:56pm Webhamster Henry: I think I allocated part of my Hellraiser pumpkin pie to Techtonic. I'd invite others to do the same
	6:56pm a5vzener: <b>Thanks for another great show, Mark!</b>
	6:57pm mary: And thanks for the attention to Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Alan Jacobs. Hadn't focused on the personal density thing.I'm in the last quarter and it's wonderful (an inadequate adjective) Challenging, totally worth it. Talk about WW2 and it's aftermaths. brilliantly comic. mindsfucker about mind fucking. Few people read it now.
	6:57pm TDK60: Thanks y gracias, Mark.
	🤖 6:58pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks Alan!
	🤖 6:59pm chresti: Thanks Mark!
	6:59pm slugluv1313: hiya Handy!!! big ups for READING!!! :)
	🤖 6:59pm Handy Haversack: mary, if ever thirteen living people have read that AND Finnegans Wake, the sun will explode. So be careful!

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from October 5, 2020

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