Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:40) Open (1:16) Nelson Mandela International Day (2:09) cj's week: Summer of Fun, Now in Maui! (3:09) Jeff's Week: Termites & Pool Electrics (5:00) Headline: YouTube creators surprised to find Apple and others trained AI on their videos (7:58) cj’s solid, pro-AI stance! (8:41) Segment: Artificial General Intelligence (41:52) cj’s recommendation: Tim Urban’s The AI Re...

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:42) Open (1:00) Free Slurpee Day! (2:20) cj's week: Stuck at the Beach! (3:39) Jeff's Week: Friends are the Family You Choose. (4:22) Headline: AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' (5:37) Headline: Toyota is getting into the charging business (7:36) AGIs Helping Us Live Forever (44:54) cj’s recommendation: The Curse of Von Dutch (46:59) Jeff’s Recommendatio...

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:33) Open (0:46) Independance Day (aka British Thanksgiving) (2:35) cj's week: adding another outdoor cooking apparatus (4:04) Jeff's Week: shopping for laptops (5:27) Headline: CDK Cyberattack (9:10) Headline: Hurricane Beryl (10:19) Segment: Missed Headlines (11:10) Missed Headline: Windows on ARM (12:25) Missed Headline: Snapdragon X Elite (14:26) Missed Headline: Vivo...

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:31) Open (0:45) National Helen Keller Day (1:56) cj's week: Beach Camping! (3:33) Jeff's Week: Mr. Parker’s 90th! (4:54) Headline: Eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs? (7:35) Headline: Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms (10:46) Headlines Recap: WWDC Part Deux (12:26) Apple Intelligence (25:45) iPhone Customizations & Improvements...

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:52) Open (1:04) Special Day: National Sewing Machine Day (1:32) cj's week: WWDC24 in Cupertino! (4:15) Jeff's Week: Jeff gets an iPhone?! (8:17) WWDC: Siri & The Rabbit R1 (8:52) WWDC: Airpods & Sony Headphones (10:08) WWDC: Local AI & Genmojis (23:10) WWDC: VisionOS & Spatial Photo Creation (25:54) WWDC: Voice & Call Transcription (28:34) WWDC: Under...

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:28) Open (0:51) World Turtle Day (1:40) cj's week: Miniature Speed Golf (2:52) Jeff's Week: Water Pipe Breakage (3:28) Headlines: The Speed Round (5:26) Headline:  Google’s PWA Badge for Chromebooks (6:25) Headline: Google’s Unexpected Check (10:01) Segment: Crypto Scams / Rug Pulls (41:27) cj’s recommendation: ⁠Just Like Heaven (43:07) Jeff’s Recommendation: The Speedcu...

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:47) Open (1:08) Special Day: National Do Something Good for Your Neighbor Day (3:51) cj's week: Laser Tag! (5:56) Jeff's Week: Waymo (8:34) Headline: iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes (9:58) Headline: For self-driving cars, the free ride is over (11:17) Headline: Apple's New iPad Ad, "Crush": Who Thought This Was a Good Id...

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:10) Open (1:25) Special Day: Magnetic Letter Day! (2:50) cj's week: A Surprise Visit From Beck (4:17) Jeff's Week: I’m Not a Robot! (5:47) Headline: FCC fines wireless carriers millions for sharing user locations without consent  (10:26) Headline: Bluesky confirms Jack Dorsey is no longer on its board (11:27) Headline: TikTok sues US to block law that could ban the socia...

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:56) Open (1:17) World Password Day (2:03) cj's week: Max’s Birthday! (3:39) Jeff's Week: Lakers & Nuggets?  Um, Go Dodgers! (3:50) Headline: China’s Electric Cars Keep Improving (5:20) Headline: Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says (7:50) Headline: Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams (10:31) Segment: One Phish, Two Phis...

(0:00) Pre-Show (0:36) Open (0:53) World Penguin Day (2:10) cj's week: Costco Chicken Nuggets (4:08) Jeff's Week: Peg Yorkin (5:13) Headline: Apple Faces Accusations of Destroying Useable Devices (9:26) Headline: Russian GPS Jamming (11:43) Headline: Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law (13:25) Headline: Selling Costco Gold is Hard (13:47) Headline: X Botches Attempt to Replace “twitter....

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:52) Open (2:13) World Amateur Radio Day (3:01) cj's Week (4:00) Jeff's Week (5:50) Headline:  Tesla halts Cybertruck deliveries (11:05) Headline:  Antitrust Suit Against Live Nation (13:27) Headline:  iPhone sales plunging (15:54) Segment: Say No to Drugs (That Don’t Work) (42:12) cj’s Recommendation: SnL’s Beavis and Butt-Head (43:03) Jeff’s Recommendation: The Internet...

(0:00) Pre-Show (1:56) Open (2:23) Dog Therapy Appreciation Day (2:43) CJ's Week (23:32) Jeff's Week (29:14) Headline: Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner (31:46) Headline: Waymo in Los Angeles (35:49) Listener Call Wowzers, did you know there was a TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE this week?!  Well, if you are one of the three people in North America who DIDN’T know this happened on Monday, the guys will get you...

We know you love our coverage of current headlines, so do not fret, dear listener. On this week’s episode, we continue with that time-honored tradition with Amazon canceling Go (😢) and Apple nixing the FTC Chair from The Problem .  Fun times! Now, if you like our headlines coverage, then this episode is the one for you!  Where we would normally entertain you with a segment on canola oil or the st...

As you probably know, some folks will experience a total eclipse right here in North America on April 8th.  Seeing that both of our hosts are traveling toward the path of totality for this epic, lifelong-memory, bucket-list experience, we thought it timely to discuss some eclipse generalities and specifics in this episode.  The hope is to educate you on AND encourage you to witness this year's...

We get it, you’re freaked out about how AI can, and already is, affecting everything we have ever known.  It can be scary.  But look on the bright side, you can forget your keto diet - your AI forgery can take off 30 pounds instantly! As Arthur C. Clarke once said: “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” and as expected, AI has delivered.  In this episode, we dive i...

There are few days we love more at Nonsense than Pi Day; happy 3.14, everyone! Today we take a walk down memory lane of what you, as a business traveler with a significant travel budget, may have done between the late-70’s and the early 2000’s - fly supersonic (because your time is so freaking valuable, 80’s-yuppie-you). That’s right, listener, today we are talking about one of, if not the , sexie...

While some folks are talking about the State of The Union, in this episode we decided to quickly review the State of EVs.  What’s going on with EV sales, are EVs better, how come the hosts of your favorite podcast don’t drive EVs?  So many questions, so little episode. Of course, there’s a bit about Tesla & Rivian, but also BYD and other lesser-known EV options.  And a little talk of the more...

Sure, February is 3.5% longer this year being divisible by 4, but not by 100, but also isn’t divisible by 400.  Holy hell I need a smoke. The interesting part this year though is Wisconsin and Michigan deciding to insert a day of 70+ degree weather for their bonus day this year.  Why don’t they do that every year?! Since we don’t know the answer to that question, we instead discuss the origins of...

Listener, we know. We know we have been shorting you the appropriate news coverage you deserve.  We’re sorry.  This week we are reaffirming our commitment to delivering you more tech and business headlines that you may not have heard. This week we’ve got grumpiness over Russia developing an anti-satellite system, the EU fining Apple a cool half-a-bill, Zuck dunking on the Vision Pro, and a ban on...

After Jeff’s mouth-emergency sabbatical, he’s back with what we expected to be an absolute grilling of his co-host in a surprise quiz. But to all of our amazement, his segment this week is the softest of super-soft quizzes on computation that cj was, somehow, able to complete successfully.  To be honest, we are all still in shock. And just a couple of headlines we could not ignore, like the recent...

So one of my co-host Jeff's many teeth decided it needed attention, so the poor guy went under the drill for a root canal today. Now we aren't idiots, we have a contingency for this. We set up a live stream to do the show from Jeff's endodontist's chair today - but sadly with all the rain their wifi was down.  And Jeff’s heroic attempts to get the acoustic coupler to work were also...

Buckle up, listener, we are building up from our previous episodes on typos and weather to now trying to figure out where you are.  And where we are.  And where we were.  It’s complicated. See, the thing is, it has always been tough to know where we are and the best way to get where we want to go.  Fortunately, our good friend technology has been helping us solve this problem for centuries, and we...

We have wowed you most recently with talk of typos and conversations around credit reporting - you are welcome.  And before that, we brought you mafia-manipulated olive oil and last century’s coke. Today we are happy to announce we are taking it up a solid three notches on the excitement scale and digging into weather tech - the technology, not the popular car floor mats (even though that WeatherT...

If you’ve listened to this show, you know that talking is hard (at least for us); but it seems that typing is even harder.  Surely everyone who spends time at a keyboard has made mistakes, but some of those fat-fingered mistakes have had extremely expensive consequences.  In this episode, we look at a handful of fat-fingered mistakes that had a collective impact of nearly a billion dollars. Even w...

If you are not familiar with what Credit Reporting Agencies are, how they work, and the bare minimum of what you should be doing with them, then this is an episode you will want to listen to.  Typically, we try to save your ears and keep these episodes to around 45 minutes, but when you get us talking about something like Credit Reporting Agencies, look out listener - this episode clocks in at ove...