On the new Techtonic I speak w/Noah McCormack from The Baffler about his essay "We used to read things in this country."

In the clip below Noah reveals one possible outcome of the AI bubble.

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Amateur radio, aka ham radio, is like a superpower - especially during a disaster.

From the newest Techtonic, my interview with @qrper (K4SWL, or Thomas Witherspoon) and how he survived Hurricane Helene. Fascinating.

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New Techtonic: Citizens are being forced to pay for Big Tech data centers.

Full episode:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2025-11-24-citizens-are-being-forced-to-pay-for-big-tech-data-centers-feat-pat-garofalo/

Below: my comments on Techtonic about Tesla and its Grok chatbot that, as reported by the CBC, made sexual comments to a 12-year-old boy.

Episode page with links to the story:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2025-11-17-how-low-can-the-tech-oligarchs-go/

Really enjoyed speaking with @paulmozur, global tech correspondent for the NYT, about the water & power draw of data centers worldwide.

Full episode:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2025-11-10-paul-mozur-on-the-spread-of-data-centers/

From my interview with @aram - a bit of good news in the techno-surveillance state.

Full episode: https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2025-11-03-aram-sinnreich-co-author-the-secret-life-of-data

NEW Techtonic episode: widening inequality, due in part to the use of Big Tech surveillance (and pricing). We discuss how Disney World designs for inequality.

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New Techtonic: Amanda Hanna-McLeer is making a film about the Luddite Club.

Full episode as a podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/techtonic-with-mark-hurst-wfmu/id1285537944?i=1000732729480

Episode page:
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157354

Excited to share this field recording of the techno-Luddite "SHITPHONE" protest in Manhattan, which I aired on Techtonic.

Full episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/techtonic-with-mark-hurst-wfmu/id1285537944?i=1000731720285

Thanks to @brianmerchant for tipping me off to the event.

New https://techtonic.fm episode: AI and surveillance infrastructure keeps spreading. Stories about data centers, chatbots having dumb conversations, and the "Friend" surveillance device.

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I interviewed Megan Greenwell on the new https://techtonic.fm about her book "Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream."

"Private equity is everybody's problem now," Green writes.

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New techtonic.fm interview with Glenn Adamson, author of “A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present.”

Good reminder that the future didn't always look so depressing.

To listen, click "Pop-up player":
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156259

Excited to share my interview w/ @faineg on Techtonic - discussing AI chatbots, Joseph Weizenbaum's warning from 50 years ago, and why you can't trust Apple.

Full episode:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/techtonic-with-mark-hurst-wfmu/id1285537944?i=1000726976744

On the horrible Google antitrust ruling.

During the new techtonic.fm episode I read an excerpt by @pluralistic (Cory Doctorow) about the decision. See below.

Listen to the whole show (click pop-up player):
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155884

Below, an excerpt from my https://techtonic.fm interview with Cory Doctorow - aka @pluralistic - about his upcoming book "Enshittification."

Full interview here (click "pop-up player"):
https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=155658&archive=275677