Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker

cj little and Jeff Parker
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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

  1. 5D AGO · BONUS

    A Nonsensical Hiatus

    I know you.  And I know you are expecting an episode of Nonsense right now.  Probably one about really exciting new battery technology for EVs.  Or maybe one about the history of Beef Jerky.  One can never know what kind of random walk this show is going to take you on. But see, the thing is, reading calendars is hard, what with all the numbers and grids.  It’s virtually impossible to know where the days are, let alone what’s happening on those days! What Jeff and I neglected to realize is that this weekend is a long, holiday weekend for us both - with events and travel already scheduled by our smarter, more beautiful significant others. So we felt it would be best to take a break for a week, and come back well rested next week with an exciting show on The End of the Charging Wait: How New Tech Promises 10-to-80% in Minutes, So until then, enjoy the peace and quiet.  We’ll see you back here after the Presidents’ Day Break.   Au revoir!

    1 min

  2. 6D AGO

    HEADLINES: Olympic GPT, Border Scans, & The Ad-Free AI War

    This week, we’re diving into the high-tech (and slightly terrifying) future of 2026. First, the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics are getting a facelift with FPV drones and AI-driven curling stats - because why only watch sports when you can experience them in 360-degree virtual reality while chasing a luger at 80mph? And while that tech makes things more fun, things take a darker turn as we discuss Mobile Fortify, the facial recognition app turning every street corner into a potential ICE checkpoint.  Finally, we break down the Super Bowl AI drama: OpenAI and Anthropic are throwing public shade over whether your chatbot should try to sell you height-boosting insoles and target-rich dating sites. ⁠Which colleges have produced Super Bowl starting QBs? - ESPN⁠ The Technologies Changing How You’ll Watch the 2026 Winter Olympic Games | WIRED ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are | WIRED OpenAI is hoppin' mad about Anthropic's new Super Bowl TV ads - Ars Technica Castle Wolfenstein - RUN Magazine (Oct 1984) Castle Wolfenstein - Wikipedia Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

    28 min

  3. FEB 5

    MoltBot Unleashed: The Dangerous Rise of Agentic AI in The Church of The Space Lobster

    (0:00) Open (2:23) AI That Actually Does Things (7:33) The Autonomous Bug Fix (13:05) When The Bots Just Figured It Out (15:55) The Church of Molt (23:11) Maybe You Shouldn’t Run OpenClaw … Yet (29:20) cj’s recommendation: Paul’s Bots on YouTube (32:18) Jeff’s Recommendation: Secret Mall Apartment on Netflix AI has officially left the sandbox. This week, we track the transformation of OpenClaw from a viral coding tool into a local daemon with its own agenda. From agents social-engineering each other on Moltbook to the "Handsome Molty" redesign, we ask: is it autonomy, or just highly efficient chaos? OpenClaw - Wikipedia Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now The Claude Bliss Attractor - by Scott Alexander Best Of Moltbook - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten From Clawdbot to Moltbot: How a C&D, Crypto Scammers, and 10 Seconds of Chaos Took Down the Internet's Hottest AI Project - DEV Community Introducing OpenClaw The Lobster Grew a Face Tailwind Lost 80% of Revenue. AI Didn't Replace the Developers. Clawdbot to Moltbot to OpenClaw: The 72 Hours That Broke Everything (The Full Breakdown) Paul's Bots - YouTube Paul’s Bots - Robot Assistant Playlist - YouTube ⁠ Festool These Artists Lived in a Secret Mall Apartment for Four Years (No, Really) Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

    36 min

  4. FEB 3

    HEADLINES: Orbital Overlords and the Placebo Peak

    (0:00) Pre-Show (0:58) Open (2:16) cj's week: Getting Gliders Out of Trees! (4:55) Jeff's Week: Flitz FTW! (6:41) Westminster Dog Show's 150th Anniversary (7:33) Headline: As Predicted by Nearly Everyone: Musk Merges SpaceX and xAI (23:49) Headline: The ‘Benefit’ of Microdosing Psychedelics is All in Your Head (31:22) Headline: Artemis II Megarocket Braves Florida Cold for Final Rehearsal (33:24) Headline: Fiber and Wireless Are Eating Comcast’s Lunch (37:05) The Casio C-80 Calculator Watch Elon Musk merges SpaceX and xAI to build a $1.25 trillion "innovation engine" in the stars - but can the profits survive?  Trick question - what profits?! Meanwhile, science deals a blow to the "shroom boom," proving your microdose might no better than a very expensive cup of coffee. Plus, NASA braves the Florida cold for the Moon while Comcast loses the broadband war, slowly but surely. Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquires xAI, merging his two most ambitious companies | CNN Business Microdosing for Depression Appears to Work About as Well as Drinking Coffee | WIRED NASA gears up for one more key test before launching Artemis II to the Moon - Ars Technica Comcast keeps losing customers despite price guarantee and unlimited data - Ars Technica Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

    39 min

  5. JAN 29

    Beyond the Chatbot: AI Finally Gets a Job

    (0:00) Open (1:24) Beyond Generative AI (3:25) The Technology of Action (10:31) The Economic Tug-of-War (18:05) The New Human Operating Model (26:05) cj’s recommendation: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI (27:35) Jeff’s Recommendation: 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) Welcome to 2026, where AI has grown from poet to overachieving concierge. In this episode, the boys explore the Agentic Era, a world where your new robotic coworkers can book flights and manage supply chains while you’re still just trying to find your lost luggage. Between debating the death of SaaS and dodging Meta’s "human firewalls," the guys explain why you should think of yourself as a Project Lead managing a team that never sleeps, but instead occasionally hallucinates with total confidence. Whether you’re studying the "jagged frontier" or dodging a HAL 9000 scenario, it's clear the era of just "asking questions" is over. But don't let your AI see your bank statement - it’s seen Sam Altman’s, and it’s officially disappointed in your lifestyle choices. Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

    31 min

  6. JAN 27

    HEADLINES: Surveillance for Sale - Border Cops, Deleting Data Brokers, and AI Crossing the Line

    (0:00) Pre-Show (1:04) Open (1:40) International Holocaust Remembrance Day (2:44) cj's week: Painful Mental Gymnastics (3:54) Jeff's Week: Barkley Turns 63 & We Are All Cold States (5:15) Headline: ICE Eyes Ad Tech: Turning Smartphones into Surveillance Beacons (10:03) Headline: Californians Hit Delete: The End of Shadow Tracking (15:33) Headline: Grok Under Fire: The EU Takes on Musk’s AI (21:17) Xircom’s Rex 6000 This week, we expose the hidden economy where your data becomes a weapon used against you. From ICE’s quiet shopping spree in the digital ad marketplace - turning smartphones into warrant-free tracking devices - to California’s new DROP tool that lets residents claw their personal data back from shadowy brokers, we unpack how (some) surveillance is working in 2026. Then we cross the Atlantic as the EU takes aim at Elon Musk’s spicy AI chatbot Grok, igniting a global reckoning over deepfakes, consent, and whether tech platforms can still hide behind “innovation” when real people are harmed. It’s a story about power, profit, and what happens when privacy becomes optional - but enforcement doesn’t. International Holocaust Remembrance Day  ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations | WIRED One Tech Tip: Californians have a new privacy tool for deleting their data | AP News European Union opens investigation into Musk's AI chatbot Grok over sexual deepfakes Xircom’s Rex 6000 Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

    26 min

  7. JAN 22

    Vaporware: Products That Will Change Your Life … Maybe!

    Vaporware is the tech industry’s ultimate ghost story: a product that is announced with world-changing fanfare, marketed with slick trailers, and often funded by millions, yet never actually exists. It lives in the purgatory between a founder’s ambition and a developer's nightmare. Sometimes vaporware is born from "feature creep"—the obsessive need to add one more bell or whistle until the project collapses under its own weight. Other times, it’s a calculated smokescreen designed to freeze the market, scaring customers away from competitors while a company scrambles to build what they’ve already promised. From $700 million "forever games" to revolutionary blood-testers, vaporware represents the dark side of "fake it 'til you make it." It is the graveyard of broken promises, where visionaries become villains and the only thing that truly ships is the hype. Trump Mobile & T1 (2025) Apple’s AirPower (2017) Rabbit R1 (2023) Bella Ramsey - iPhone 16 Pro Apple Intelligence  (2024)    'Zac' Google Nexus Q (2012) Blizzard’s Titan (2007) Star Citizen (2012) Intellivision Amico (2018) Apple’s Copland OS NeXT Sega Neptune (1995) Magic Leap Google’s Glass (2012) Sony Digital Walkman Apple’s Newton (1993-1998) Microsoft’s Zune (2006-2012) Duke Nukem Forever Google’s Knol (2007) Google’s Plus (2011) BeOS Ovation (1982) Phantom Console (2003) Theranos (2003) FTX (2019) Nikola Motors (2014) Fyre Festival Charlie Javice Killed by Google Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

    29 min

  8. JAN 20

    HEADLINES: Wikipedia Sends The Bill, RAMaggedon, and Grandma’s Gold Phone Only Exists in Spirit

    (0:00) Pre-Show (1:46) Open (2:39) cj's week: Sunny With a Chance of RC Gliders (5:36) Jeff's Week: Indiana & LA Football?! (11:37) Headline: Wikipedia Enlists Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon to Fund the Future of Knowledge (15:49) Headline: How the AI Hunger for RAM is Starving the Rest of the PC Market (22:00) Headline: Lawmakers Demand FTC Action on Trump’s No-Show Phones (31:34) The BG Microsystems EP-1 EPROM Programmer (Feb 1987) This week, Wikipedia finally tells Big AI to cough up some cash, turning decades of free human-curated knowledge into a paid buffet for models that won’t stop scraping.  Meanwhile, the AI boom detonates the hardware market, where RAM, GPUs, and even hard drives now cost like luxury goods thanks to silicon hoarding and profit-maximizing chip math. Mid-range PC parts are becoming an endangered species, and gamers are learning what the “AI tax” really feels like.  And from the Grift Garage, Trump Mobile’s gold-plated dream phone still hasn’t shipped a single unit, despite tens of millions in prepaid deposits.  Does anyone care? The Swedish Chef Wiki Gets Paid, AI Gets Smarter, Everyone Forgets to Celebrate 25 Years of Typos RAMageddon: When Silicon Ghosts Drive Up Prices Surprise, after six months and numerous delivery date extensions, Trump Mobile has yet to deliver one preordered phone List of vaporware - Wikipedia The BG Microsystems EP-1 EPROM Programmer (Feb 1987) Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

    34 min
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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

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