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- 05 / 06 / 2026 -
Tonight is a special WBAI call-in show, there will be no "Overtime" tonight, an age verification law takes effect today in Utah, how VPN use is being targeted, instructions on how to use a VPN to bypass age checks, why keeping anonymity is crucial in preserving the Internet, analyzing the law itself, a large number of dead people are on the voter polls in North Carolina, why this is totally normal and shows no voter fraud, why musician Ashley MacIsaac is suing Google after their A.I. summary of his career states that he was a sex offender, Gila triggers a personal assistant, a new Christian-based phone provider launches, how LGBTQ content is blocked, opening up the phone lines, a pointed message for Rebel, more on why dead people can't vote, encouraging the Signal people to participate, Rob recommends the "Joybubbles" documentary, a state politician in Virginia has her office raided by the FBI after playing a major part in the district remapping that recently passed in that state, how the funding source of the ballroom changed immediately after the White House Correspondents' Dinner incident, Kyle explains how people become demoralized when their ability to vote is tampered with, how determination will lead to victory, a listener has Google recommend deleting some naughty files, what happens with listener mail, Alex is unaware of the latest Supreme Court ruling on voting rights due to his travels, Rob's suggestion on how to keep naughty files, a listener notices that the show ends earlier than it used to, Rob describes how the "Joybubbles" film was presented to people with hearing and vision impairments, "Overtime" will return next week.
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May 6
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- 05 / 13 / 2026 -
Alex is out at the last minute, Emmanuel gets to see the Nikola Tesla rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, a story involving the so-called smart glasses, what is wrong with this scenario, Gila explains why this creepy story really isn't anything new, why the response to this sort of thing is what will decide how it's dealt with in the future, a 30 million gallon water grab in a drought area by a data center in Georgia, the water toll of A.I., Gila explains what Canvas is, Emmanuel wonders why such a system is needed, why the whole idea behind centralizing school data is an incredibly bad one, the outsourcing mindset, Kyle explains the allure of convenience, wondering why all of the districts needed to be connected, how this guaranteed millions of people would be affected by a data breach, how some students in New Zealand were able to avoid this because their institutions used an open source system instead that kept its data close, advice to the ShinyHunters hackers, questioning why local copies of data didn't exist, why you can never trust anyone who engages in ransomware, the idea of proving that data has been destroyed, why there are many lessons of what not to do in this story, why any school that uses Canvas deserves what it gets, "Overtime" will follow, encouraging listeners to support WBAI, a callback to last week's outro.
Overtime: Issues with sound and video on YouTube, Emmanuel continues to feel upset about the whole Canvas situation, something seems to be burning in Rob and Gila's neighborhood, the ability to distinguish a fire truck from an ambulance, some HOPE updates, there is a huge amount of talk submissions that have come in, a recent visit to the New Yorker Hotel proved inspirational, how Manhattan has more appeal than Queens, ticket sales need to improve for this to work, there will be a limit on tickets which hopefully will be reached, Kyle outlines ways people can help with the event, the magic of radio, the importance of hanging on to radio, thinking back to the early days of hacker conferences, how HOPE came to be, the impossibility of finding a space in Manhattan in 1994, repeating that challenge in 2026, Kyle explains what the goals of HOPE are, some of the possibilities that can happen with this space, the need for people with social media skills, rooms are selling out, the kinds of talk submissions that have been coming in, the wide variety of speakers that give presentations at HOPE, clearing things up with Rebel, finding out that Rebel no longer has a landline, how people can help spread the word about the conference, a question about press releases, Emmanuel's experience with press releases last year concerning Canada Day on American radio, how only Canadian media responded, talk of various bars around the New Yorker Hotel, a discussion of bagels, why the Citizen app sucks, how streaming services can add up, Kyle describes how over-the-air TV works, memories of "The Personal Computer Show," where it can be found today, news about HOPE speakers will be coming out in the next couple of weeks.
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May 13
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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:
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- 05 / 20 / 2026 -
It's a steamy evening in New York City, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt gives an unpopular graduation speech praising A.I., an excerpt from the speech, Gila reports on another speech that got the same reception, why A.I. is such a tough sell, Alex's theory that A.I. was used to write this speech, trying to figure out where Schmidt's address was given, the sound of thunder in Queens, more thoughts on the Canvas hack, wondering why nobody will reveal the amount of the ransom paid, the negative side effects of paying a ransom, why Emmanuel doesn't consider these companies to be victims of ransomware if they didn't do enough to protect their data, how companies should be protecting their data, how an A.I. app called Tassel screwed up graduation day at Glendale Community College, Trump's shady $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS is settled for $1.8 billion, the settlement asserts that Trump is forever barred from prosecution, the parallels to the corruption of Nicolae Ceausescu, parallels to an operating system in trouble.
Overtime: It's now raining, Rob and Gila have popsicles and a broken air conditioner, Alex is on London time, how something equivalent to mad cow disease can afflict large language models, Alex describes the possibility of humans becoming enslaved to A.I., how we have been warned of such a scenario for decades, there is a proposal to halt new data centers in New York State, there is an Alabama in New York, how data centers affect the environment, a project to feed nonsense poetry to A.I., Emmanuel's idea to send data center proponents to the moon, Rebel has questions about old operating systems, Alex explains the history of Tucows, initialisms versus acronyms, a New York Times article misrepresented how people pronounce LIRR, a debate over the best way to pronounce these letters, a parallel to the LIE, a protester was on top of a bridge in Washington DC for reasons that remain unexplained, the "Joybubbles" movie and remembering the interview he did on the show, how A.I. errors make the bad sides of the technology more clear, how it's become harder for service dogs to be approved due to "fake dogs," clarification on when the Joybubbles interview occurred, Howard discusses his dog, Emmanuel encounters a rude dog in a coffeeshop, Gila discusses 12 service dogs who were trained at a performance of "Billy Elliott" in Canada, the rain has stopped in Queens, the final deadline for HOPE speakers is coming up.
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May 20
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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:
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- 05 / 27 / 2026 -
Alex stalls the check-ins, Emmanuel tries unsuccessfully to get World Cup tickets, FIFA's corruption has ruined the whole thing, how FIFA took over all the parking spaces and forced people to take trains, how people who live in New Jersey will have a tough time getting back and forth from the city, how it's possible to visit countries that are playing in the World Cup for less than it costs to get a ticket to one of their games, what was unique about New Jersey that made train fares so high, why this summer will be a great display of how corruption works, Alex recalls using his TV-B-Gone before a World Cup game in the past, why bars can't use the words "world cup" in promotions, how there are neighborhoods in New York for nearly every World Cup team, Gila shares some facts about parking near MetLife Stadium, age verification laws are being introduced around the world, the idea of kids being restricted from installing certain operating systems, why this is a mistake, how tech companies have cozied up to Trump during his second term, how kids today have grown up in a surveillance state, questioning whether algorithms are necessary, memories of the early days of Facebook, how it's really hard to find old material on Facebook, the unhealthy idea of companies getting bigger and bigger, imagining if IRC were owned by Microsoft, there won't be an "Overtime" this week due to deadlines or next week because of the WBAI call-in show.
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May 27
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