WFMU: Too Much Information with Benjamen Walker: Playlist from October 14, 2013

Too Much Information with Benjamen Walker: Playlist from October 14, 2013

Too Much Information is the sober hangover after the digital party has run out of memes, apps and schemes. Host Benjamen Walker finds out that, in a world where everyone overshares the truth 140 characters at a time, telling tales might be the most honest thing to do.

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October 14, 2013: Peter Maass on Spying, and Radiovision 2013

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Artist	Track	Approx. start time
Peter Maass	Surveillance "Surveillance" by "Peter Maass"	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Starlee Kine	Native Advertising "Native Advertising" by "Starlee Kine"	0:27:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Starlee Kine	Dr. Phil "Dr. Phil" by "Starlee Kine"	0:36:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jonathan Goldstein	Why Travel: A journey to Bali	0:48:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	6:09pm the glowing one: TMI's intro song - make some coffee, be done, come back, song still playing, missed nothing
	6:12pm the glowing one: exactly. stay away from the net because metadata is not encryptable most of the time, but it's enough to track you and your network of people.
	6:17pm Eric: but how does this meta data set off alarms? we should look at this person because they bought a couple of gas grills on amazon?
	6:19pm the glowing one: algorithms. they find correlations that connect search cirteria to individuals. it's all done by machines. in real-time 24/7.
	6:22pm the glowing one: and the sad thing, it doesn't even work to prevent terror attacks. there's blatant lack of evidence it does. yet the reaction to such attacks which those mechanisms failed to prevent is to call for more bogus surveillance. it's kafkaesk.
	6:24pm the glowing one: hah! there's a new old expression for the relationship between the government and the citizens: cold war.
	6:29pm Eric: yeah I suppose they could try some kind of AI, check patterns of known criminals and use those to generate algorithms to try to identify prospective criminals, sounds ok in theory, though I certainly don't advocate it
	6:39pm the glowing one: Native advertising is harder to block with ad blockers. Huge advantage. But readers get put off by native advertising just the same... once they've spotted it. So in the end it might be even more damaging than regular ads.
	6:45pm the glowing one: Listening to Phil Collins equals pain. I can concur with that.
	6:52pm Hã?: That sound's like all 60's "post" artists in the world. If it's not from the 60's then that's a problem...
	6:56pm dale: why does this fellow sound so much like david sedaris?
	6:57pm Hã?: http://www.vdrome.org/wolf.html
	2:17pm Al: What was the song played in the outro?

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Artist	Track	Approx. start time
Peter Maass	Surveillance "Surveillance" by "Peter Maass"	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Starlee Kine	Native Advertising "Native Advertising" by "Starlee Kine"	0:27:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Starlee Kine	Dr. Phil "Dr. Phil" by "Starlee Kine"	0:36:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jonathan Goldstein	Why Travel: A journey to Bali	0:48:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:09pm the glowing one: TMI's intro song - make some coffee, be done, come back, song still playing, missed nothing
	6:12pm the glowing one: exactly. stay away from the net because metadata is not encryptable most of the time, but it's enough to track you and your network of people.
	6:17pm Eric: but how does this meta data set off alarms? we should look at this person because they bought a couple of gas grills on amazon?
	6:19pm the glowing one: algorithms. they find correlations that connect search cirteria to individuals. it's all done by machines. in real-time 24/7.
	6:22pm the glowing one: and the sad thing, it doesn't even work to prevent terror attacks. there's blatant lack of evidence it does. yet the reaction to such attacks which those mechanisms failed to prevent is to call for more bogus surveillance. it's kafkaesk.
	6:24pm the glowing one: hah! there's a new old expression for the relationship between the government and the citizens: cold war.
	6:29pm Eric: yeah I suppose they could try some kind of AI, check patterns of known criminals and use those to generate algorithms to try to identify prospective criminals, sounds ok in theory, though I certainly don't advocate it
	6:39pm the glowing one: Native advertising is harder to block with ad blockers. Huge advantage. But readers get put off by native advertising just the same... once they've spotted it. So in the end it might be even more damaging than regular ads.
	6:45pm the glowing one: Listening to Phil Collins equals pain. I can concur with that.
	6:52pm Hã?: That sound's like all 60's "post" artists in the world. If it's not from the 60's then that's a problem...
	6:56pm dale: why does this fellow sound so much like david sedaris?
	6:57pm Hã?: http://www.vdrome.org/wolf.html
	2:17pm Al: What was the song played in the outro?

Too Much Information with Benjamen Walker: Playlist from October 14, 2013

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