Getting Sloppy

Marty & Rollo
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Two highly-online hosts slopping it up daily in a cynical comedy podcast about tech, markets, and terminal brain rot, etc...

  1. 1d ago

    The Stabbing That Counts

    A viral post highlights a New York Times article covering two stabbings: one dismissed in six words, the other used to implicate the mayor. Host A argues this reveals media bias. Host B counters that the real story is the absurdity of selective outrage and political theater. A cynical, grounded dissection of how violence is weaponized in public discourse.

  2. Jun 19

    There Are No Instances in ATProto: Decentralization Theater and the Architecture of Hype

    Hacker News is losing its collective mind over a post titled 'There are no instances in ATProto' — a technical critique of the AT Protocol that powers Bluesky. Host A and Host B break down what the hell that actually means, why the fediverse vs. ATProto civil war is the most boring important debate in tech, and whether anyone actually wants a decentralized internet or just wants to feel morally superior to Elon Musk. Also: the economics of VC-backed protocols, why 'your own server' is a chore not a freedom, and the eternal return of the same damn arguments from 2018.

  3. Jun 19

    Poe's Law: When the Internet Can't Tell If You're Joking (Or Just Evil)

    In this episode, we break down Poe's Law — the internet adage that without a clear indicator, parodic extremism is indistinguishable from sincere extremism. We trace its 2005 origins on Christian Creationism forums, explore why modern algorithmic feeds have made the problem exponentially worse, and ask the real question: if everyone is performing irony, does sincerity even exist anymore? Plus: Elon Musk's Twitter as a Poe's Law experiment, the death of /s, and why your uncle sharing "satire" on Facebook is now a national security concern.

  4. Jun 19

    Go To Hell: How a Two-Page Letter from a Dutch Pedant Ruined Programming Forever

    Edsger Dijkstra's 1968 letter "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" is often cited as the founding document of structured programming. But was it really about code? Hosts A and B dissect the letter, the software crisis of the late 60s, and how one grumpy Dutch academic's aesthetic preferences became the orthodoxy that still haunts every codebase you've ever touched. Featuring NATO conference horror stories, IBM programmer polling data, and the eternal question: did the go-to ban actually fix anything, or did it just make us feel better about chaos?

  5. Jun 19

    The Knuth Delusion: How the 'Bible of Algorithms' Became the Most Successful Vanity Project in Tech History

    Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, TAOCP, algorithms, computer science history, tech vanity projects, software engineering, Knuth's check, coding culture, beautiful code myth, Stanford computer science, TeX, literate programming, algorithmic aesthetics, tech sacred cows

  6. Jun 19

    Lamport's Ghost: Why Your Slack Message is a Lie

    In 1978, Leslie Lamport published a paper that should have broken our brains. Instead, we built the entire internet on top of a lie we all agree to believe. Hosts A and B tear into Lamport's "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events" — why causality is a dumpster fire in distributed systems, why your "seen" status means nothing, and how the entire modern economy runs on a 45-year-old intellectual shrug. Featuring: what happens when you try to timestamp a stock trade, the horror of logical clocks, and why "happens-before" is the most depressing relationship status.

  7. Jun 19

    Blood and Nootropics: The Wellness-to-Fascism Pipeline

    Bio-hacking, nootropics, longevity science, and the tech-bro quest for immortality—what sounds like a wellness trend is actually a billionaire-funded project to create a biological underclass. Host A and Host B break down the grift from Bryan Johnson's blood boy to Peter Thiel's young blood transfusions, the fascist intellectual history lurking behind "body optimization," and why rich men are so terrified of dying they'd rather build a caste system. Plus: does Modafinil even work, or is it just expensive Adderall for people who went to Stanford?

  8. Jun 19

    Spreadsheet Lives: The Datafied Existential Crisis of Choosing Where To Live

    In this episode, we break down the cultural war over using spreadsheets to make life decisions — specifically where to live. We explore the backlash against "optimization culture," the quantified self movement, and why the people telling you to "just follow your heart" are usually the ones with a trust fund. Host A brings the dirtbag economics perspective from his years of manual labor and oil work; Host B brings the wonky data lens from his DC consulting and upwardly mobile Midwestern upbringing. Together they ask: Is it really that bad to use data to decide where to live, or are we just mad that some people have better data than others?

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Two highly-online hosts slopping it up daily in a cynical comedy podcast about tech, markets, and terminal brain rot, etc...

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    Marty & Rollo
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    Explicit
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