Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker

(0:00) Open (1:00) Chips & Power (5:42) Data Lakes (7:56) N+1 Sovereign Redundancy? (13:17) Cultural Homogenization (17:17) The Concorde Fallacy (21:11) Quorums  (24:44) What About The Humans? (27:35) cj’s recommendation: Martin Molin’s Wintergatan (30:03) Jeff’s Recommendation: I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not (2025) Sovereign AI, now a $100 billion global necessity, is viewed as the 21st-centu...

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:55) Open (1:53) cj's week: Mac King, Swimming & Dig This! (4:41) Jeff's Week: Rain & Gott’s (7:58) Headline: Privacy schmivacy:  The Leaked Emails Ring Didn’t Want You to See (12:29) Headline: Tesla’s California Ultimatum: Rename ‘Autopilot’ or Stop Selling Cars (21:16) Headline: The Hallucination Hearing: DA Sanctioned for AI-Generated Lies (24:56) Headline: Sci...

(0:00) Open (1:36) The End of the Charging Wait: New Tech Promises 10-to-80% in Minutes (8:36) Donut Labs’ Solid State Battery? (10:46) The Evolution of Today’s Batteries (19:25) The Range Delay (21:11) cj’s recommendation: Ivan Miranda (23:42) Jeff’s Recommendation: Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) Stop worrying about range and start worrying about where you’re going to spend those extra ten...

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 t...

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...

(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 fro...

(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 Rehear...

(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...

(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’...

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 unt...

(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...

(0:00) Open (1:49) AI Today (3:20) AI FUD & Magic Box with Lights (12:25) Specialists vs. Generalists (17:18) Now Fail Even Faster (24:26) Adapt & Thrive (26:36) cj’s recommendation: The Terminator (1984) (27:49) Jeff’s Recommendation: Her (2013) Is AI a meteor headed for impact—or just a distant sun that hasn’t warmed things up yet? This week we cut through the doomsday noise to talk abou...

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:19) Open (2:12) Public Radio Broadcasting Day (3:05) cj's week: Birthday Dinner of Meat & Mold (7:30) Jeff's Week: IU Football! (12:35) Headline: Growth at Any Cost? Uber’s Safety Record Faces Federal Scrutiny (20:28) Headline: 30 Minutes or Less: The WalMart Drone Revolution Hits L.A., Miami, and Beyond (23:55) Headline: Controlled Medical Evacuation ordered for the...

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:18) Open (1:58) cj's week: Holidays & Rain (5:52) Jeff's Week: Pastrami & Football (9:58) Headline: House by House, Brick by Brick: How an Entire Swedish City Is Shifting Two Miles East (15:05) Headline: Ship Caught With Anchor Down After Finnish-Estonian Cable Severed (18:12) Headline: SpaceX Moves Half Its Constellation to Dodge Debris (20:33) Headline: After h...

As we close out our 3rd season, we are excited to share some obvious, and not-so-obvious, predictions for 2026 (and beyond!) with you all.  We felt it was only appropriate to prognosticate around our most typical themes: Business, Technology/Science/Innovation, and a smidge of Entertainment. We appreciate you joining us for another season of Nonsense.  We enjoyed producing every one of our 68 epis...

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:48) Open (1:53) cj's week: Decorations & Lions v. Rams (8:08) Jeff's Week: IKEA + Thread (9:34) Headline: Tesla Ditches Human Safety Monitors in Austin Robotaxi Test (14:30) Headline: DoorDash Driver Arrested for Allegedly 'Seasoning' Arby’s Delivery with Pepper Spray (17:06) Headline: A Close Call 350 Miles Up: Starlink and Chinese Satellite Nearly Collide (...

(0:00) Open (0:56) The University of California System (6:27) But California Has Problems, Yo! (10:47) Project Nexus: Solar FTW! (22:05) cj’s recommendation: There It Is, Take It! (25:26) Jeff’s Recommendation: Chinatown California has serious challenges, including a worsening water crisis and the threat it poses to the state that grows most of America’s fruits, vegetables, and nuts. The state’s g...

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:59) Open (2:09) Computer Science Education Week (2:51) cj's week: KFC: Kids, Football, and Cookies (6:38) Jeff's Week: Hoosiers! (10:33) Headline: Europe cracks down: Twitter fined $140M for Breaking Digital Services Act Rules (15:35) Headline: More Troubling Changes Come to The Food & Drug Administration (18:37) Headline: A Fentanyl Vaccine is About to Get Its First...

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:05) Open (1:46) World Wildlife Conservation Day (2:13) cj's week: Formula 1, Friendsgiving, & Salt Lake City (8:03) Jeff's Week: Japanese Nyquil to College Football (19:07) Headline: Gemini Leapfrogs, Well, Everybody (23:25) Headline: Software Glitch Grounds 6,000 Planes Worldwide (32:15) Headline: How Solar is Working to Keep Pace with America's Growing Energy T...

(0:00) Open (2:44) Not Cheating at Cards (17:50) Really Cheating at Cards (23:51) High Tech Cheating (24:57) How Many Orders of a 52-Card Deck Exist? (29:25) Magic Decks & A Cutable Deck Where You Always Win (31:40) Introducing the DeckMate (34:08) A Big Surprise at Hustler (36:25) Hacking the Unhackable Shuffling Machine (46:01) cj’s recommendation: Oceans Eleven (47:15) Jeff’s Recommendation...

In this episode of Nonsense, we dive into a wild set of headlines: China’s Tiangong space station faces a genuine space-junk emergency as three astronauts are left without a safe ride home. Meanwhile, SpaceX-built spy satellites are quietly beaming signals in frequencies they’re not supposed to, raising international eyebrows. Back on Earth, a newly mutated H3N2 flu strain is hitting the Northern...

(0:00) Open (3:18) No Certainty  (5:20) The Ultimate Cosmic Lottery (6:27) Meatware Brain-slop (7:23) Presenting 3I/ATLAS (13:57) How Can We See It? (17:54) Fast & Hyperbolic (20:51) Its Perihelion (21:20) Enter Controversy! (24:45) Billions of Billions of Stars (26:33) So, What Ultimately is 3I/ATLAS? (31:26) cj’s recommendation: Operation Space Station: High-Risk (32:44) Jeff’s Recommendatio...

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:06) Open (1:47) Veterans Day (2:01) cj's week: Summer in November, Hanging Photos (3:24) Jeff's Week: Vertigo Gone-igo, USC Football (Not) Cheating! (5:38) Headline: iRobot has sucked up all their cash, now what? (15:45) Headline: IKEA’s new smart home, no assembly required (22:04) Headline: TikTok Shop Is the New King of Impulse Buying (27:02) Alka-Seltzer iRobot, the o...

(0:00) Open (1:34) Cochlear Implants: A Sound Revolution (10:50) Expectations of "Restored" Hearing (15:57) Candidacy Expansion and Device Longevity (19:24) The Rehabilitation Journey and Bimodal Hearing (22:47) Lifestyle Integration and Practical Challenges (25:39) Technological Frontiers and Future Innovations (28:59) cj’s recommendation: 2025 World Series (G2,3,6&7), The Natural,...

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:23) Open (2:02) Election Day! (2:51) cj's week: Nonsense Oopsie, Arch FTW!, All Hallows’ Eve, & The Japanese National Baseball Team (9:49) Jeff's Week: Dodgers & Vertigo (14:28) Headline: Vaccine Skepticism and Outright Defiance Fuels Measles Outbreak in Utah and Arizona (19:03) Headline: Some 60,000 Kids Have Avoided Peanut Allergies Due to Landmark 2015 Advice...