Ian and Jay Space Out

Jay and Ian talk about international travel, neverending war, the failings of Twitter Search, Musk's ineptitude, Frank Chu's 12 Galaxies, and the No Kings protests.

Jay and Ian talk about Twitter, which caught fire and halted last week. We dig a little bit into Twitter's infrastructure budget back in the day, and talk about MC Paul Barman and Stereolab. Also, ffmpeg is awesome and so is the Internet Archive.

Grok would like to talk to you about "white genocide". Ian and Jay would like to talk to you about BART, Qatari jets, and our kickstarter to buy some, uh, "facetime" with the President of the United States. Also, we review the CNN's docuseries "Breaking the Bird", giving it a solid 3 out of 5 "Larry Birds". Whoop! Whoop!

In today's show, Jay "Unit" Holler and Ian Brown talk about software testing and sponsoring open source software, updates to Mastodon's team (and Andy Piper taking over Tooting comms!), a darkhorse candidate for the papacy emerges, POTUS is losing his mind, we pour one out for "Around the Horn", Marc Andreessen hallucinates, and we review "Careless People".

Jay and Ian celebrate a few anniversaries. Another OPSEC fail by Pete Hegseth. Faiz Siddiqi's new book on Elon's descent into madness. Gottlob Frege's been dead for a 100 years. Weird vibes and vendor lock-in with LLMs.

Rise again! Wake and bake! Join Jay and Ian they celebrate Easter or 4/20 or whatever. On this episode: RFK Jr. is an uniformed fool. Slopsquatting is a thing. Fuck ICE. Ian made another Emacs thing. ffmpeg is nigh unstoppable. Has Sub-Pop sold out? We are all Jay Holler.

Cybertrucks are too big. People are getting disappeared. Hating Tesla is a crime. Jack Dorsey is a sad sack of a simp.

Run your own Mastodon instance, they said. It will be fun, they said. In this episode Ian and Jay discuss the perils of provisioning, Linux system administration, Elon Musk's neverending meltdown, Cybertruck parking, and the growing use of facial recognition technology by billionaires against the public. Oh, right, and that time the Secretary of Defense accidentally texted America's war plans to a...

Welp. DOGE is full of irredeemable, racist idiots. Our VP thinks racism is OK. America shuts of aid & support to everyone on the planet except white South Africans. Oh, and Lilly Allen and David Harbour broke up. Sigh.

Elon musk is a Nazi: Jack Dorsey's "singular solution" does a bunch of "seig heil" salutes at a Trump inauguration event. Brandolini's law rules everything around us. Jay and Ian talk about Acetone.

Jay and Ian try to bring a little masculine energy to the show. Jack Dorsey pisses off FOSS nerds. Twitter is racist AF. Elon Musk is bad at computers and even worse at computer jokes.

Jay and Ian talk about the the JOY of Dark MAGA, @'murica, a16z's attempt to walk back a really bad bet, the convergence of Dan Scavino & David Sacks (Sackvino?), and why VCs like Mike Maples Jr. are just lucky and rich and are not to be taken seriously.

Jay and Ian prove that even a couple of morons can host a show. OpenAI gets freaky in a jacuzzi as it burns a ton of cash. We review the latest Twitter book by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac.

Twitter moves out of San Francisco. Bob Chapek was maybe not a very good CEO and Bob Iger seems like a sociopath. Ian finally gets into NFTs. Jay is not the Twoffice shitter. Harris destroys Vance^H^H^H^H^H Trump in a debate. Taylor Swift enters the discussion. Elon Musk gets even creepier. Another Twitter book is coming!

Turns out LLMs are actually good at generating unhinged chartjunk using D3js. Jay's college buddy's band comes to town. Gavin Newsom is a self-serving opportunistic douchebag who hates homeless poeple. Garry Tan doesn't understand innovation.

Jay gets robbed! The last !!Con was amazing. Elon pulls of a 'reverse Orkut'. Twitter exits the scene. Amtrak is pretty cool.

David Sacks says the quiet part out loud. A red-tailed hawk appears. Ben Horowitz has a meltdown. Elon and X DDOS^H^H^H^H tell on themselves.

Ian and Jay acheive the dream of a unified scene. Harris picks a punk-rock VP. Musk is not a fan of free speech or free markets. Lina Yaccarino is being held hostage. Intel is not doing well. Nerds of a feather flock together at JVMLS. JRuby could use some money.

BSOD all the things! U can't spell 'assassination attempt' without ASS. Republicans blame everything on immigrants. Kurt Gödel was right. The PayPal Mafia shows up at the RNC. Venture capitialists are gonna get us all killed.

What a difference halfway-decent WiFi makes. Jay and Ian talk about 'digital workers', cronjobs, LGBTQ+ vs. Threads, the Fediverse makes an appearance, and we close on...wait for it...'AI' again. Oh, and Jay's super talented kid Lila is in a Rolling Stone contest for new stars in the music scene.

The gang comes up with a brilliant business idea that can't possibly fail. Ian spends, like, 5 minutes on mute without realizing it.

This one starts off pretty slow. We (Jay, actually) accidentally bans friend-of-the-show Matt Silver. We then talk about Twitter trolls for a bit. At the end, after a beer or two, we get a bit philosophical about corporate vs. corporeal existence.

Amal and Pipes save the show from crashing and burning by bringing real content to the Space^H^H^H^H^H podcast.

Another re-org will fix it.

log4j, amirite?