Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker
Nonsense desperately tries to make sense of today’s business, technology, and (sometimes) entertainment headlines. Not too serious and occasionally funny, join technologist cj little and leggy blonde Jeff Parker for their unique take on the past week. While we can’t promise you’ll laugh every week, we can promise you’ll learn something new (and maybe even interesting). New episodes drop every Tuesday & Thursday mornings (UTC). Produced by an orangutan; art thanks to artificial intelligence. https://nonsense.productions Twitter: @nnsnspdcst Instagram: @nnsnspdcst Gmail: nnsnspdcst@gmail.com
Episodes
(0:00) Pre-Show
(1:13) Open
(2:36) cj's week: You’re Not THAT Big or Rush?
(3:51) Jeff's Week: Tucker Carney, Polymath
(5:20) Headline: Fair Use or Foul Play? AI Copyright Ruling Divides Industry
(13:23) Headline: Android 16 Has a New Feature: Detecting Government Spy Tools
(17:20) Headline: Canada Drops Tech Tax to Resume Trade Talks
(18:48) Headline: Beyond Published Posts: Meta Seeks Access to Your Private, Unpublished Photos
(21:57) He...
(0:00) Open
(1:05) Point Nemo: The Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility
(4:53) The Space Graveyard
(9:30) I’m Burnin’ I’m Burnin’ For You
(13:01) What Makes It Back
(16:45) The Goldmine of the Future
(20:44) cj’s recommendation: Star Wars: Andor
(22:08) Jeff’s Recommendation: My Name Is Nobody
Humans throw out over two billion tons of garbage every day. Mostly it’s stuff we no longer need and truly don’t want to keep - good ol’ trash. Some...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(0:57) Open
(1:37) cj's week: Old Friend Lunch!
(2:28) Jeff's Week: Hands-Free & Iran
(5:52) Headline: Pill Power: Eli Lilly's New Drug Rivals Injectables for Weight Loss, Diabetes
(10:02) Headline: Not So Autonomous Yet: 10 Tesla Robotaxi Roll Out in Austin
(16:13) Headline: Beyond Misdials: How AI Could Expose Your Private Phone Number
(21:04) Headline: Sanctions? What Sanctions? Huawei's AI Chip Defi...
(0:00) Open
(2:30) People Keep The Strangest Things
(3:45) The Museums You Don’t Know About
(9:00) The OG Tupperware
(12:42) Knowledge & “Modern” Preservation
(19:50) Oddities: Airplanes, Wedding Cakes, & Einstein’s Brain Jerky
(23:10) The Catacombs
(25:01) cj’s recommendation: Acquired: The Complete History & Strategy of Rolex
(26:02) Jeff’s Recommendation: Moneyball (the talkie, not the book)
From ancient salts curing fish to the ...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(1:20) Open
(2:02) cj's week: Hot, In-n-Out, & Oppression
(4:04) Jeff's Week: Shohei Pitching & Barkley’s QR Code
(8:07) Headline: Aging International Space Station Faces "Top-Level Risk" as Air Leak Accelerates
(12:26) Headline: Pirelli's Cyber Tire: Transforming Roads with Real-Time Data
(18:32) Headline: Errors and Exaggerations: Decoding the Trump Mobile T1 Phone
(25:29) Recommendation: Se...
(0:00) Open
(1:19) Geothermal Energy Intro & Global Energy Footprint
(6:24) Geothermal Electricity Generation
(9:26) Down in The Deep
(15:08) Vaporizing Rock (!!!)
(17:12) Making Coal Plants Green
(24:35) cj’s recommendation: Rock Candy & WWDC 25
(29:15) Jeff’s Recommendation: Inside the Mind of a Dog
Geothermal energy is a triple threat - a sustainable source for heating, cooling, and generating electricity. Up until recently, we...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(1:14) Open
(2:04) National Iced Tea Day
(2:54) cj's week: Summer is Lit!
(6:03) Jeff's Week: LA is Lit!
(9:58) Headline: Ukrainian drones hit Russian electronic warfare facility
(15:38) Headline: Unpacking Apple's AI and OS Overhaul at WWDC
(24:45) Headline: Charge Your EV in Five Minutes! BYD’s Megawatt Monster
(28:01) MAS Computing Systems
Ukrainian drones are far from done - still attacking key targets d...
(0:00) Open: Graduating High School @ KSMF
(2:47) Funding: A Strong, Positive Correlation
(8:21) Private vs. Independent Schools
(12:01) Independent & Charter School Origins
(18:45) The Thousand Person Desereted Island
(22:30) cj’s recommendation: School Games
(24:40) Jeff’s Recommendation: The Four Seasons
The notion that school funding has no bearing on student performance is a pervasive, yet deeply flawed, talking point. Decades of...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(0:43) Open
(1:27) Pride Month!
(2:18) cj's week: Banana Ball!
(5:01) Jeff's Week: Dr. James Robert “Bobba” Parker, 90.
(6:21) Headline: Operation Spiderweb: Drones Hammer Russian Airbases
(10:20) Headline: Mars or Bust: Why Starship Keeps Blowing Up
(16:11) Headline: Trade Chaos Mounts as Court Blocks Trump Tariffs
(20:38) Headline: Broadband Giants Push Trump to Kill Low-Cost Plans
(24:24) Mirart Saver II
18-months in the...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(0:58) Open
(1:57) Bee Week: Scripps Spelling Bee
(2:41) cj's week: Viruses & Sonic Booms
(5:14) Jeff's Week: Terrible Booms
(6:39) Jeff’s Week Part 2: Chocolate Cake
(8:08) Headline: From Prevention to Peril: CDC's Lead Program Has Been Dismantled
(11:24) Headline: Paying Top Dollar for Disaster: In Its Transition to Digital, the College Board Is Getting Failing Grades
(16:42) Headline: Bar Exam Blunders: C...
(0:00) Open
(2:45) When Good Memories Go Bad: The Distorting Power of Nostalgia
(4:44) The Allure and Deception of Nostalgia
(9:33) How Nostalgia Works
(15:31) The Consequences and Implications of Distorted Nostalgic Memories
(19:50) How to Navigate Nostalgia with Awareness
(30:34) cj’s recommendation: The Handshake From Game 6 of the Dallas-Winnipeg Series
(34:06) Jeff’s Recommendation: Hannah Gadsby’s Douglas
Memory is a tricky, fuzz...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(0:53) Open
(1:30) National Rescue Dog Day
(2:08) cj's week: My Wife Can’t Stand Nonsense
(3:33) Jeff's Week:
(4:45) Headline: Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft's layoffs as AI writes up to 30% of its code
(9:51) Headline: Laser-powered fusion experiment more than doubles its power output
(14:12) Headline: Google is about to unleash Gemini Nano's power for third-party Android apps
(17:22) Headline: RF...
(0:00) Open
(0:37) The Lure of the Lie: Exploring Our Susceptibility to Falsehoods
(2:53) Quantifying Bullshit: Pseudo-Profound Bullshit
(6:28) Why Do People Still Believe in Falsehoods?
(29:55) Fighting The Untruth
(34:24) cj’s recommendation: ChatGPT Likes Me!
(35:40) Jeff’s Recommendation: Poker Face
Why do humans, with our big fancy brains, keep falling for obvious falsehoods? The short answer is because it’s comforting, convenien...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(0:58) Open
(1:47) cj's week: Smokin’ Beef!
(2:43) Jeff's Week: Dodgers & Ecobees!
(3:19) Headline: Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US
(8:50) Headline: California overtakes Japan as fourth largest global economy
(11:34) Headline: Mexico is suing Google over how it’s labeling the Gulf of Mexico
(15:49) Headline: Soviet Spacecraft Crash Lands on Earth After a Journey of Half a Century
(20...
When the cost of importing goods goes up significantly with little notice, manufacturing orders get paused. Without orders to ship to the customers that normally make the orders, shippers reduce the number of boats that sail. When fewer boats sail, less stuff gets imported. When less stuff gets imported, there’s less stuff to buy at the stores.
We are currently in “Chapter 3: The Sinking of the Supply Chain” of this story on tari...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(1:11) Open
(1:58) National Supply Chain Day
(4:55) cj's week: Nintendo Switch
(6:03) Jeff's Week: Aliexpress Purchasing Party End
(8:00) Headline: The Trade War's Wave of Retail Shortages Will Hit U.S. Consumers in Stages
(11:59) Headline: Chinese freight ship traffic to busiest U.S. ports sees steep drop
(13:36) Headline: Some Amazon sellers are pulling out of Prime Day amid Trump tariffs
(16:49) Headline: App...
Getting the Internet from space - it’s a thing. But how does Starlink get fast internet access streamed to the ground? And are they the only ones?
Well, in this episode the guys chat about satellite internet constellations - who needs them, how they work, who is operating them, and what the benefits and drawbacks are. As a people, we are on track to more than triple the number of satellites zipping around the earth in just the ne...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(0:33) Open
(1:02) Earth Day
(1:53) cj's week: Here Comes The Sun!
(2:18) Jeff's Week: Filling The Papal Vacancy
(2:50) Headline: A lot of Logitech products cost more now than two months ago
(7:24) Headline: Trump’s tariffs trigger price hikes at large online retailers
(13:30) Headline: Is the GSA using a backdoor to siphon off government data?
(17:00) Headline: Meta is ramping up its AI-driven age detection
(23:53) ...
Retail has come a long way from the days of trading bits of precious metals for chickens and grain. In this episode, the boys discuss how technology has propelled retail shopping forward over the past century-plus.
The printing press, physical mail delivery, cable television, the internet, and now search terms and product viewing stats have all worked to transform how consumers discover, assess, and consume products over the years:...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(1:04) Open
(1:35) Tax Day
(1:41) cj's week: Earthquakes & Dodgers History
(3:30) Jeff's Week: Pre-Tariff Ordering
(6:08) Headline: Actually, Semiconductors Still Face a 'Special' Type of Tariff
(15:34) Headline: Nvidia says it will build AI supercomputers in America for the first time ever
(18:20) Headline: China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies
(21:26) Close
(22:08) Recommendation: GeePS.com
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