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- 07 / 05 / 2023 -
An appeal for WBAI, Alex is back in the country, Kyle and Emmanuel are away this week, The Gibson of the hackers.town Mastodon instance joins the discussion, Gila explains the advantage of the BAI Buddy program, how people are being taken advantage of in social media, Gibson explains what the fediverse is, disturbing developments at Reddit, Gila describes the current scene at Twitter, an increase in porn on Twitter, how Mastodon distribution works, how hackers.town was formed, the differences in community between Twitter and Mastodon, Gibson's thoughts on Threads, a potential netsplit in the fediverse and how Facebook is involved, Google plans to scrape the entire public Internet for its AI projects, how Valve is handling AI-generated material, thoughts on the Writers Guild of America strike, memories of Gopher servers, Gibson's project with Cult of the Dead Cow.
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July 5
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- 07 / 26 / 2023 -
An extremely sad show as everyone mourns the loss of Kevin Mitnick, an excerpt from Kevin's historic keynote address at The Fifth HOPE in 2004, sharing the tragic news, a little bit of the history, how the "Free Kevin" movement came into being, what Emmanuel and his crew were trying to find out when filming "Freedom Downtime," how Kevin managed to remain gracious throughout his ordeal, Rob describes Kevin's metallic business cards which were also lockpicks, the vital importance of WBAI in getting the story out, how the prospect of a major motion picture that demonized Kevin was what inspired the community to fight back, how every revision of the film managed to be obtained by hackers, the importance of being in the right place at the right time, Alex remembers the day of the Free Kevin demonstrations in New York City, some listener response to the news, a fairly thorough obituary in The New York Times, Greg Newby's letter to the Times urging them to cover their own role in Kevin's story, how people found out Kevin was on the run back in 1994, how a botched FBI raid at a conference in Chicago revealed the story, how this was all documented on the radio, an excerpt from the radio show in 1995 on the day that Kevin was captured, understanding why Kevin ran back in those days, final words.
Overtime: Kyle puts the microphone down gently, Alex is in a suit, thoughts on losing Kevin, memories of his first talk at HOPE in 2004, what Kevin excelled at since his release, Rob remembers the first showing of "Freedom Downtime" at HOPE, Rebel explains his frustration getting a package, calling a voice-activated FedEx number, how Kevin was able to attend the March 2000 2600 meeting, the idea of making the equivalent of "Freedom Downtime" today, Kyle discusses the challenge of recycling VHS tapes, how Kevin somehow helped fix a system today, the idea to name machines after Kevin, 2600 has had a machine named after Kevin's grandmother for years, trying to figure out if someone is on the phone despite Alex's antics, Zap's memories of the Free Kevin movement, thoughts on Kevin's future child, memories of the book called "Cyberpunk," the planet has been hotter than ever before in human history, Alex remembers when he met Zap, digital subscriptions have been introduced at 2600, an Amsterdam connection to Kevin, remembering the show when Kevin was apprehended, how voices and attitudes change over the years, wondering why UFOs have been renamed.
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July 26
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Off The Hook Overtime
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Off The Hook Overtime is also available on the Channel2600 YouTube channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs2Zax4qsK4