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(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!

(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!

(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!

(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!

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!

(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!

(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 about what AI is actually doing to jobs and wealth: hollowing out junior roles, wiping out B-and-below performers, and rewarding AI-fluent “super users” and capital owners. We dig into why averages don’t matter as much as medians, why judgment and real creativity still look stubbornly human, and why the smart move is to become either a deep specialist or a wide “orchestrator” - but not stuck in the middle. We also cover open source as the new apprenticeship, failing fast as a competitive advantage, and the rise of the AI-powered solopreneur. Piketty was wrong about the past. He’s probably right about the future. Capital in the 22nd Century Taxation in a strong AI world - Marginal REVOLUTION Imagine 130,000,000 washing machines - by Scott Sumner Gartner: Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Fail by 2027 The State of AI in 2025: From Pilots to Production Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

(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 International Space Station (27:13) Headline: The Race to 15,000: FCC Greenlights 7,500 More Starlink Satellites (30:16) The Internet: Get Connected Today! From a courtroom in Arizona to the edge of orbit, the systems we rely on are being stress-tested. Uber faces a bellwether sexual-assault trial that could reshape platform liability and cost billions. Walmart bets that drone delivery - powered by Alphabet’s Wing - can redefine last-mile convenience at national scale. NASA orders an early ISS evacuation after a medical scare, highlighting how risk is managed when failure isn’t an option. And the Federal Communications Commission clears SpaceX to double its next-gen Starlink fleet, accelerating the race for space-based mobile internet. Accountability, logistics, safety, and scale - this week, the platforms are under pressure. Uber faces sexual assault trial in Arizona that puts its safety record under scrutiny | Reuters Wing’s drone delivery is coming to 150 more Walmarts | The Verge NASA orders “controlled medical evacuation” from the International Space Station - Ars Technica The FCC is letting SpaceX launch 7,500 more Starlink satellites | The Verge Connecting to the Net Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

(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 half a decade, the Russian space station segment stopped leaking (24:27) The Morrison Electric Carriage This week’s show tracks a single global pattern: when systems break down, the response is relocation and in some cases, epoxy. In northern Sweden, Kiruna is being moved three kilometers east as mining by LKAB causes the ground to collapse beneath it. The $2 billion project is meant to secure iron ore and rare earths critical to Europe’s green transition - but it comes at the cost of uprooted families and erased history.  Oopsie. In the Baltic Sea, Finland seizes a ship suspected of sabotaging undersea telecom cables, highlighting how infrastructure has become a new frontline amid rising fears of hybrid warfare. Above the planet, SpaceX begins lowering more than 4,000 Starlink satellites to reduce debris risk and improve performance—bringing order to an increasingly crowded orbit. And on the International Space Station, Roscosmos finally seals a long-leaking module, restoring full operations after years of a quiet and deadly danger. From cities to cables to satellites, this episode is about what happens when staying put is no longer an option. Kiruna: Swedish city is moving as Europe ramps up its minerals push Sweden Moves Entire Church for Arctic Mine Expansion | EU’s Push to Cut China Rare Earth Reliance Finland seizes ship sailing from Russia after suspected cable sabotage in Baltic Sea | Reuters SpaceX begins “significant reconfiguration” of Starlink satellite constellation - Ars Technica After half a decade, the Russian space station segment stopped leaking - Ars Technica 72-year-old Buzz Aldrin punches a moon landing conspiracy theorist in the face | September 9, 2002 | HISTORY Buzz Aldrin punches moon landing conspiracy theorist Bart Sibrel - Wikipedia Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

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 episodes this year, primarily because of listeners like you that come back week over week to join us.  Thank you and see you in 2026! Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is ‘slop’ | The Verge Car Talk - My Government Vehicle Shakes at 17,500 MPH Another NASA story - Threads from Green Pocket Protector Blog Post | Tom Magliozzi 1937-2014 | Car Talk  Watch Nobody Wants This | Netflix Official Site Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

(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 (19:55) Headline: Google's Interpreter in Your Earbuds Is Here (23:41) DynaTech PowerHouse This week’s show dives into Tesla’s bold, and big surprise, controversial move to remove all human safety monitors from its Austin robotaxi tests, despite at least seven reported crashes among heavy redactions that continue to raise regulatory eyebrows. Texas’ lighter rules make it ground zero for autonomy, even though Tesla’s fleet ambitions have shrunk dramatically. Heading north next to Indiana, a DoorDash driver faces felony charges after allegedly spraying a customer’s meal with a mystery substance, prompting illness and a permanent platform ban.  Meanwhile in space, a nerve-wracking near-collision between a Starlink satellite and a Chinese spacecraft highlights the growing risks of orbital congestion and finger-pointing between operators. Fortunately, back on Earth, Google Translate is encouraging inter-cultural communication by  rolling out real-time audio translation through headphones, whispering 70+ languages directly into users’ ears. All that and more in this episode of Nonsense.  Pretty cool! Dylan's Christmas Lights: A Scholarly Treatise Let’s Go Lions! - ibcjl on Instagram Tesla starts testing robotaxis in Austin with no safety driver | TechCrunch DoorDash driver faces felony charges after allegedly spraying customers’ food | TechCrunch Starlink and Chinese satellites nearly collided last week | The Verge Not a Big Reader? Google Translate Rolls Out Real-Time Audio Translation for Headphone Users | PCMag DynaTech PowerHouse - BYTE Magazine September 1985 Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

(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 growing electricity demands has created, among other things, a food-versus-energy conflict from the deployment of large solar farms that replace farmland. Fortunately one of California’s numerous superpowers is their public University system.  Innovations from the UC system have shaped the modern world, from the Internet and RISC chips to CRISPR, PET scans, blue LEDs, and reverse osmosis desalination.  And now the UC system has brought us a promising solution in Project Nexus, which installs solar panels over water canals to generate clean energy while saving billions of gallons of water. Inspired by similar efforts in India, California’s first solar-covered canal is now online, offering a potential path to statewide deployment.  Fortunately the UC system remains central to solving many of the state’s biggest challenges. Solar-panel-covered canals have their day in the sun in California Using solar panels like THIS is a no-brainer! California’s doing it Project Nexus | Water & Energy Integration for the Future The ‘solar canals’ making smart use of India’s space Canal Solar Power Project - Wikipedia Gujarat’s solar panels over canals project is a great idea for sustainable energy production | YourStory there it is—take it! Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

(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 Major Test (22:46) Headline: China's $1 Trillion Trade Shock: Global Exports Surge Amid U.S. Dive (25:31) Mr. Clean Hates Dirt! This week, the world’s institutions are… not okay. The EU slaps Twitter with a €120 million fine - the first ever under the Digital Services Act, prompting Elon Musk to respond with the maturity of a man yelling at a cloud. Meanwhile, 12 former FDA commissioners unite to condemn a rogue internal memo that rewrites vaccine policy based on feelings and vibes. The boys also dive into the first human trial of a fentanyl vaccine that could reshape overdose prevention. And finally, China detonates the global economic leaderboard with a historic $1 trillion trade surplus, redefining global manufacturing power while hollowing out domestic demand. It’s regulatory chaos, medical whiplash, biotech moonshots, and seismic geopolitical math - all wrapped into one delightfully unhinged episode of Nonsense. Elon Musk’s X hit with $140 million EU fine for breaching content rules  X cuts off the European Commission’s ad account after being fined €120 million | The Verge 12 former FDA chiefs unite to say agency memo on vaccines is deeply stupid - Ars Technica A Fentanyl Vaccine Is About to Get Its First Major Test | WIRED China's trade surplus tops $1 trillion as its exports surge Vintage Mr. Clean Commercial from the 1960s | TikTok Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

(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 Thirst (34:20) Headline: OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race (42:23) The Black & Decker Air Sweep This week on the show: Google drops Gemini 3 Pro—a shockwave of a model that leapfrogs the field with unified multimodality, record-breaking reasoning benchmarks, and a “Deep Think” mode that pushes us closer to AGI territory. This isn’t just an upgrade—it’s a whole new architecture that changes what AI agents can actually do. Over the break Airbus grounded 6,000 planes worldwide in an urgent aerospace crisis - only for Airbus to reveal the emergency fix was essentially a software rollback after a (supposed) cosmic-ray-induced bit flip. Yes, the Sun caused an airplane to nose-dive. Yes, the previous version of the software didn’t do that.  Sure, that’s all that happened.  Rounding out our headlines, U.S. solar deployment is exploding, nearly offsetting the entire country’s rising electricity demand - an underreported energy milestone hiding in plain sight.  And OpenAI declares a “code red” internally as Google’s AI surge closes the gap. We’ve moved on from turkey to Japanese Nyquil - let’s go! Google Gemini 3 Benchmarks Airbus Emergency Work For Airbus A320 Aircraft Was Actually a Software Rollback Airbus Stock Nosedives As Planemaker Shares Update On Major A320 Glitch r/aviation on Reddit: A320 pilot explains what features were rolled back with the update Solar’s growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use - Ars Technica Chart: Solar and wind are meeting — and exceeding — new power demand OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race | The Verge OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

(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: The Sting Jeff and cj take a wild ride through the world of card-game “edges” on this pre-Thanksgiving break extra length episode! Starting with the respectable stuff: game theory, probability, and reading opponents before things escalate as they tour the many shady, creative, and outright illegal ways people try to tilt the odds: sleight-of-hand, marked cards, secret signals, corrupt dealers, mechanical holdouts, and the modern wave of smartphone-powered scams. A quick detour through the staggering mathematics behind a 52-card deck, then arriving at the crown jewel: the DeckMate 2 shuffler and the real-world cheating scandals surrounding its hackability. From live-streamed poker controversy in 2022 to last month’s massive DoJ indictment involving mobsters, NBA figures, and rigged shufflers, the guys explore how high-tech tampering has changed the cheating landscape. OpenDEALT - Official Trailer [HD] Segment Bringing Down the House (book) - Wikipedia Card counting - Wikipedia The Incomprehensible Scale of 52! Ben Joffe |Ice Code Decks Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating | WIRED How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA | WIRED Close⁠Ocean's Eleven (2001) Official Trailer⁠ The Sting Official Trailer #1 - Paul Newman, Robert Redford Movie (1973) HD Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!