Nonsense with cj little & 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) 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
So...
(0:00) Open
(1:38) The Flu
(4:12) Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Bird Flu
(12:36) Case Fatality Rates
(16:55) Mammal-to-Mammal Transmission
(19:54) Is H5N1 the Next Pandemic?
(23:39) How Can You Protect Yourself?
(27:59) What’s the Impact?
(32:48) Egg Prices
(41:42) cj’s recommendation: 8-Piece Buckets from KSC!
(43:24) Jeff’s Recommendation: Black Bag
Over the past two decades bird flu has effectively killed over half a billion birds, and seems ...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(1:12) Open
(1:38) cj's week: Back on Land, Water Parks, KSC!
(3:26) Jeff's Week: Buying All The Amazon, I Love Big Bats
(5:36) Headline: EU may “make an example of X” by issuing $1 billion fine to Musk’s social network
(10:33) Headline: Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
(17:39) Headline: We just declared a trade war with the world
(29:45) Recommendation: DayStar's Fast Cache ll...
(0:19) DiskWorld!
(4:15) Barney’s Beanery
(13:35) Early Smoking Bans Staring The Catholic Church
(20:00) First Call For National U.S. Flight Smoking Ban
(24:57) Why Airplanes Still Have Lavatory Ashtrays
(27:32) Smoking in The 51st State
(32:47) Free In-Flight Smokes!
(36:16) cj’s week: Canada’s Elbows Up, Never 51!
(37:52) Jeff’s week: Dodgers in Japan!
In this episode, our first-ever dedicated big story episode of Nonsense, we wanted ...
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(1:01) Open
(1:20) Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day
(2:55) cj's week: IoT Bonanza!
(4:38) Jeff's Week: Japan!
(8:14) Headline: 23andMe is filing for bankruptcy
(11:38) Headline: Trump's War-Planning Signal Group Accidentally Added a Journalist
(12:57) Headline: Boston Dynamics and Nvidia Each Show New Humanoid Robots
(15:48) Headline: Apple Struggling with AI
(19:43) Headline: You Can Now Show Google’s Gemini AI Things w...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(1:47) Open
(2:44) National Science and Engineering Week
(3:42) cj's week: The Great Train Show
(5:13) Jeff's Week: The Curse of Pool Automation
(6:39) Headline: Despite everything, US EV sales are up 28% this year
(8:03) Headline: Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive
(31:50) Headline: What’s behind the recent string of failures and delays at SpaceX?
(40:48) Headline: VW is testing its robotaxis ...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(0:44) Open
(0:56) Slam the Scam Day
(1:49) The Oscar’s: Conan, Culkin, Hulu & More
(6:15) Headline: Trump Calls for End to $52 Billion Chips Act Subsidy Program
(9:20) Recommendation: The For Truemouse
(10:05) The Sinking of The Clipper Chip
(41:47) cj’s recommendation: NOVA
(43:33) Jeff’s Recommendation: The Dog’s Were Good Again This Week
We here at Nonsense certainly choose to remember many aspects of the 90’s fo...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(1:43) Open
(1:57) International Polar Bear Day
(2:54) cj's week: Name Things Not Older Than Grandpa
(5:33) Jeff's Week: The Pink Dot of My Parts
(7:57) Headline: Apple has ceased offering Advanced Data Protection in the UK
(11:14) Recommendation: The Nokia 9290 Communicator
(12:48) Segment: Planes That Will Never Go Boom
(42:45) cj’s recommendation: White Boy Privilege by Royce Mann
(43:47) Jeff’s Recommendation: Ba...
Between CJ's travel schedule and Jeff's work schedule, is wasn't possible to record this week. But the guys will be back next week for more Nonsense.
(0:00) Pre-Show
(0:52) Open
(1:11) National Break Up with Your Carrier Day
(1:45) cj's week: Trusted Travelers & DNS Compilation
(3:03) Jeff's Week: Rain & Hard Rain
(4:00) Headline: Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age
(9:28) Recommendation: ONYX HiRez VGA Monitor
(10:25) Segment: 2025’s Tech Predictions - Part II
(14:21) Prediction: AI Into AI Feedback Loop Increases
(19:35) Prediction: AI Hearing Aids
(25:40) ...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(0:39) Open
(1:00) Pay a Compliment Day
(1:20) cj's week: Plywood & Paint
(2:50) Jeff's Week: Happy Rain, Dad’s Dip, Superbowl
(4:53) Headline: Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People & Women from Its Websites
(6:17) Headline: Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany
(7:55) Headline: DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to a Re...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(0:53) Open
(1:06) National Escape Day
(1:19) cj's week: Cameras, Cables, & AI
(2:45) Jeff's Week: Oh, Mary, Eureka Day, & Concert for America
(3:32) Headline: Why everyone is freaking out about DeepSeek
(12:16) Protectionism: Tariffs, Quotas and Subsidies
(41:35) cj’s recommendation: The Vergecast - How The Future of Sports Streaming Died
(43:35) Jeff’s Recommendation: A Real Pain
You’ve likely...
(0:00) Pre-Show
(0:47) Open
(1:01) National Fig Newton Day
(2:32) cj's week: Fire Dodging & Evacuation
(3:50) Jeff's Week: Watch Duty & Wind Forecasting
(6:35) Headline: TikTok reportedly plans ‘immediate’ Sunday shutdown in the US
(8:48) Headline: Meta says it will end fact checking as Silicon Valley prepares for Trump
(10:37) Recommendation: Artisoft’s LANtastic
(11:30) The Fires of Los Angeles
(46:23) cj’s recomm...
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