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Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker

cj little and Jeff Parker

Nonsense desperately tries to make sense of today’s business, technology, and (sometimes) entertainment headlines. Not too serious and occasionally funny, join technologist cj little and leggy blonde Jeff Parker for their unique take on the past week. While we can’t promise you’ll laugh every week, we can promise you’ll learn something new (and maybe even interesting). New episodes drop every Tuesday & Thursday mornings (UTC). Produced by an orangutan; art thanks to artificial

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00:27:13

HEADLINES: Fair Use or Foul Play?, Detecting...

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2025/07/01

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:13) Open(2:36) cj's week: You’re Not THAT Big or Rush?(3:51) Jeff's Week: Tucker Carney, Polymath(5:20) Headline: Fair Use or Foul Play? AI Copyright Ruling Divides Industry(13:23) Headline: Android 16 Has a New Feature: Detecting Government Spy Tools(17:20) Headline: Canada Drops Tech Tax to Resume Trade Talks(18:48) Headline: Beyond Published Posts: Meta Seeks Access to Your Private, Unpublished Photos(21:57) Headline: Trump Phone's "Made in USA" Claim Disappears(28:13)

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00:24:19

Where Do Heroic Spacecraft Go to Die?

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2025/06/26

(0:00) Open(1:05) Point Nemo: The Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility(4:53) The Space Graveyard(9:30) I’m Burnin’ I’m Burnin’ For You(13:01) What Makes It Back(16:45) The Goldmine of the Future(20:44) cj’s recommendation: Star Wars: Andor(22:08) Jeff’s Recommendation: My Name Is NobodyHumans throw out over two billion tons of garbage every day. Mostly it’s stuff we no longer need and truly don’t want to keep - good ol’ trash. Sometimes though you just can’t keep the thing any longer, even if it is

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00:25:46

HEADLINES: Finally, a Fat Pill; Tesla’s Not So...

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2025/06/24

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:57) Open(1:37) cj's week: Old Friend Lunch!(2:28) Jeff's Week: Hands-Free & Iran(5:52) Headline: Pill Power: Eli Lilly's New Drug Rivals Injectables for Weight Loss, Diabetes(10:02) Headline: Not So Autonomous Yet: 10 Tesla Robotaxi Roll Out in Austin(16:13) Headline: Beyond Misdials: How AI Could Expose Your Private Phone Number(21:04) Headline: Sanctions? What Sanctions? Huawei's AI Chip Defies Expectations(23:22) The Microtek ScanMaker IIHRPharmaceutical

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00:28:02

Defying Decay: Humanity's Quest for Eternal Everything

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2025/06/19

(0:00) Open(2:30) People Keep The Strangest Things(3:45) The Museums You Don’t Know About(9:00) The OG Tupperware(12:42) Knowledge & “Modern” Preservation(19:50) Oddities: Airplanes, Wedding Cakes, & Einstein’s Brain Jerky(23:10) The Catacombs(25:01) cj’s recommendation: Acquired: The Complete History & Strategy of Rolex(26:02) Jeff’s Recommendation: Moneyball (the talkie, not the book)From ancient salts curing fish to the audacious freezing of human heads, our fight against decay is more than just

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00:28:46

HEADLINES: More Leaks in Space, Pirelli’s Cyber Tire,...

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2025/06/17

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:20) Open(2:02) cj's week: Hot, In-n-Out, & Oppression(4:04) Jeff's Week: Shohei Pitching & Barkley’s QR Code(8:07) Headline: Aging International Space Station Faces "Top-Level Risk" as Air Leak Accelerates(12:26) Headline: Pirelli's Cyber Tire: Transforming Roads with Real-Time Data(18:32) Headline: Errors and Exaggerations: Decoding the Trump Mobile T1 Phone(25:29) Recommendation: Seville-XTurboWe had a leak in the ISS; it has been there for half a

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00:31:34

The Earth's Hidden Secret: Infinite Power Right Under...

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2025/06/12

(0:00) Open(1:19) Geothermal Energy Intro & Global Energy Footprint(6:24) Geothermal Electricity Generation(9:26) Down in The Deep(15:08) Vaporizing Rock (!!!)(17:12) Making Coal Plants Green(24:35) cj’s recommendation: Rock Candy & WWDC 25(29:15) Jeff’s Recommendation: Inside the Mind of a DogGeothermal energy is a triple threat - a sustainable source for heating, cooling, and generating electricity. Up until recently, we thought geothermal could meet up to 15% of our global electricity

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00:30:36

HEADLINES: Ukrainian Drones Hits, Apple’s New...

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2025/06/10

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:14) Open(2:04) National Iced Tea Day(2:54) cj's week: Summer is Lit!(6:03) Jeff's Week: LA is Lit!(9:58) Headline: Ukrainian drones hit Russian electronic warfare facility(15:38) Headline: Unpacking Apple's AI and OS Overhaul at WWDC(24:45) Headline: Charge Your EV in Five Minutes! BYD’s Megawatt Monster(28:01) MAS Computing SystemsUkrainian drones are far from done - still attacking key targets deep inside Russian territory, causing explosions and fires. And to help

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00:27:28

The Unseen Costs of Public School Decline

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2025/06/06

(0:00) Open: Graduating High School @ KSMF(2:47) Funding: A Strong, Positive Correlation(8:21) Private vs. Independent Schools(12:01) Independent & Charter School Origins(18:45) The Thousand Person Desereted Island(22:30) cj’s recommendation: School Games(24:40) Jeff’s Recommendation: The Four SeasonsThe notion that school funding has no bearing on student performance is a pervasive, yet deeply flawed, talking point. Decades of robust research consistently demonstrate a strong, positive

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00:26:49

HEADLINES: Russia’s Walking Into Spider Webs,...

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2025/06/03

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:43) Open(1:27) Pride Month!(2:18) cj's week: Banana Ball!(5:01) Jeff's Week: Dr. James Robert “Bobba” Parker, 90.(6:21) Headline: Operation Spiderweb: Drones Hammer Russian Airbases(10:20) Headline: Mars or Bust: Why Starship Keeps Blowing Up(16:11) Headline: Trade Chaos Mounts as Court Blocks Trump Tariffs(20:38) Headline: Broadband Giants Push Trump to Kill Low-Cost Plans(24:24) Mirart Saver II18-months in the making, a hundred low-cost, AI-fueled, FPV drones launched remotely

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00:01:13

No Nonsense: Off This Week, Back Next Week!

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2025/05/29

Well folks, I’m not feeling well and Jeff had to make a trip out of town last minute, but we are planning to be back next week with more episodes of the Nonsense that you come here looking for.We’ll be back next week with more headlines and our big story: Budget Cuts & Broken Dreams: The Unseen Costs of Public School Decline.

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00:25:29

HEADLINES: The CDC Has Been Unleaded & Digital Tests...

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2025/05/27

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:58) Open(1:57) Bee Week: Scripps Spelling Bee(2:41) cj's week: Viruses & Sonic Booms(5:14) Jeff's Week: Terrible Booms(6:39) Jeff’s Week Part 2: Chocolate Cake(8:08) Headline: From Prevention to Peril: CDC's Lead Program Has Been Dismantled(11:24) Headline: Paying Top Dollar for Disaster: In Its Transition to Digital, the College Board Is Getting Failing Grades(16:42) Headline: Bar Exam Blunders: California’s Legal Test Continues to Discover Mis-Scores(22:40) Micro

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00:35:50

When Good Memories Go Bad: The Distorting Power of...

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2025/05/22

(0:00) Open(2:45) When Good Memories Go Bad: The Distorting Power of Nostalgia(4:44) The Allure and Deception of Nostalgia(9:33) How Nostalgia Works(15:31) The Consequences and Implications of Distorted Nostalgic Memories(19:50) How to Navigate Nostalgia with Awareness(30:34) cj’s recommendation: The Handshake From Game 6 of the Dallas-Winnipeg Series(34:06) Jeff’s Recommendation: Hannah Gadsby’s DouglasMemory is a tricky, fuzzy thing; your recollection of past experiences may be funny, clever, and

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00:30:07

HEADLINES: AI Writes 30% of Microsoft’s Code, Fusion...

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2025/05/20

Guess which role was hit hardest in Microsoft’s recent layoffs? The answer might surprise you if you didn’t already know that AI writes up to 30% of their code these days.Did you know that turning diamond-encrusted, gold-encased fuel into plasma might be the secret to generating a whole pile of energy? Well, a laser-powered fusion experiment is doing just that - more than doubling its previous power output.And a local, personal AI continues to inch closer for Android users as Google gives app

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00:38:02

The Mind's Mischief: Why We Fall for What Isn't Real

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2025/05/15

(0:00) Open(0:37) The Lure of the Lie: Exploring Our Susceptibility to Falsehoods(2:53) Quantifying Bullshit: Pseudo-Profound Bullshit(6:28) Why Do People Still Believe in Falsehoods?(29:55) Fighting The Untruth(34:24) cj’s recommendation: ChatGPT Likes Me!(35:40) Jeff’s Recommendation: Poker FaceWhy do humans, with our big fancy brains, keep falling for obvious falsehoods? The short answer is because it’s comforting, convenient, and often way more fun than the truth.Thinking critically is hard

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00:22:04

HEADLINES: Europe lures American nerds, California...

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2025/05/13

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:58) Open(1:47) cj's week: Smokin’ Beef!(2:43) Jeff's Week: Dodgers & Ecobees!(3:19) Headline: Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US(8:50) Headline: California overtakes Japan as fourth largest global economy(11:34) Headline: Mexico is suing Google over how it’s labeling the Gulf of Mexico(15:49) Headline: Soviet Spacecraft Crash Lands on Earth After a Journey of Half a Century (20:11) Recommendation: The JFD Universal Print BufferEurope has been

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00:31:00

The Sinking of the Supply Chain: The Great Wall of...

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2025/05/01

When the cost of importing goods goes up significantly with little notice, manufacturing orders get paused. Without orders to ship to the customers that normally make the orders, shippers reduce the number of boats that sail. When fewer boats sail, less stuff gets imported. When less stuff gets imported, there’s less stuff to buy at the stores.We are currently in “Chapter 3: The Sinking of the Supply Chain” of this story on tariffs. We are going to see work pauses, layoffs, stockpiles of empty

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00:29:07

HEADLINES: Tariff Woes, The Upcoming Manufacturing...

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2025/04/29

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:11) Open(1:58) National Supply Chain Day(4:55) cj's week: Nintendo Switch(6:03) Jeff's Week: Aliexpress Purchasing Party End(8:00) Headline: The Trade War's Wave of Retail Shortages Will Hit U.S. Consumers in Stages(11:59) Headline: Chinese freight ship traffic to busiest U.S. ports sees steep drop(13:36) Headline: Some Amazon sellers are pulling out of Prime Day amid Trump tariffs(16:49) Headline: Apple Could Move All US iPhone Assembly to India in 2026(21:44)

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00:31:20

Defying Gravity (and Latency): The Low Earth Orbit...

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2025/04/24

Getting the Internet from space - it’s a thing. But how does Starlink get fast internet access streamed to the ground? And are they the only ones?Well, in this episode the guys chat about satellite internet constellations - who needs them, how they work, who is operating them, and what the benefits and drawbacks are. As a people, we are on track to more than triple the number of satellites zipping around the earth in just the next couple of years, most of them for the sole purpose of bringing

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00:31:46

HEADLINES: Price Hikes, Janky Government Roof...

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2025/04/22

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:33) Open(1:02) Earth Day(1:53) cj's week: Here Comes The Sun!(2:18) Jeff's Week: Filling The Papal Vacancy(2:50) Headline: A lot of Logitech products cost more now than two months ago(7:24) Headline: Trump’s tariffs trigger price hikes at large online retailers(13:30) Headline: Is the GSA using a backdoor to siphon off government data?(17:00) Headline: Meta is ramping up its AI-driven age detection(23:53) Headline: Sam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and

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00:33:27

Coins, Commerce, and Carts: the History of Shopping

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2025/04/17

Retail has come a long way from the days of trading bits of precious metals for chickens and grain. In this episode, the boys discuss how technology has propelled retail shopping forward over the past century-plus.The printing press, physical mail delivery, cable television, the internet, and now search terms and product viewing stats have all worked to transform how consumers discover, assess, and consume products over the years: Sears, Service Merchandise, K-Mart, QVC, The Home Shopping Network,

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