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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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00:49:07

Four Things Your Undertaker Won’t Tell You

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/07/11

(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 Recommendation: Clipped (aka Losing Time) You’ve made it through over seventy-five Nonsense episodes, you deserve

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00:46:37

A Very British Thanksgiving

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/07/04

(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: Vivobook S15 (16:50) Missed Headline: Intel’s Lunar Lake (20:28) Missed Headline: Dell’s return to office

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00:47:09

The Stories We Thought You Thought We Missed

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2024/06/27

(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 (28:43) iMessage: Colorized Tapback, Send Later, Font Formatting, Satellite Sending, & RCS (35:00)

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00:45:42

WWDC24: Nonsense Inside Apple Park

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2024/06/13

(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: Understanding, Creating, and Summerizing Language (30:24) WWDC: Keynote Video Production & Bokeh (36:40)

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00:45:52

Underrated, Overlooked, & Sometimes Forgotten

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2024/06/06

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:51) Open (1:11) Special Day: D-Day (2:04) cj's week: Photography (4:48) Jeff's Week: Home Repair (6:11) Headline: China Lands on the Moon Again (7:16) Headline: London hospitals declare emergency following ransomware attack (8:41) Headline: Google changes repair policy after criticism of parts ban (9:52) Headline: Chinese EV makers targeted by new House bill (11:28) Headline: Elon Musk mocked China’s BYD. Now it’s running circles around Tesla (13:01) Segment: Underrated,

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00:45:41

Rock You Like a Hurricane

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/05/30

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:35) Open (0:54) Special Day: World Multiple Sclerosis Day (2:00) cj's week: End of The School Year, Palm Springs & Belly Flops (2:58) Jeff's Week: Home Demolition & WNBA’s LA Sparks (3:38) Headline: Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search (4:04) Headline: Family stricken with rare brain worms after eating undercooked bear (5:36) Headline: Second human case of bird flu linked to cows found—via text messages (6:30) Headline: WTF Is With the

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00:46:23

How to Get 11,196 Years in Prison

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/05/23

Listener, you have all spoken and we have listened: more scams on Nonsense! In this episode, the boys talk about generalities around crypto scams and specifics around rug pulls. While there are plenty of scams floated your way on the daily -- from “crypto investment opportunities” to “FREE CRYPTO GIVEAWAYS” -- we have found the class of scams known as ”rug pulls” to be some of the absolute worst.From the Cryptoqueen’s $4 billion walkoff to Thodex’s $2 billion USB key that (supposedly) lives at

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00:45:55

A Trillion Bugs

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2024/05/16

(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 Idea? (14:30) Headline: Senate committee passes three bills to safeguard elections from AI (15:49)

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00:47:35

Lies, Damned Lies, and Siri

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/05/09

(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 social media platform (15:39) Segment: The Siri is a Liar (43:06) cj’s recommendation: Stanley Cup Hockey

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00:46:05

One Phish, Two Phish, DON'T CLICK ANYTHING!

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2024/05/02

(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 Phish, DON'T CLICK ANYTHING! (42:53) cj’s recommendation: Siskel & Ebert on Johnny Carson dissing

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00:48:21

College: Separating You From Your Money for Decades

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2024/04/25

(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.com” links with “x.com” (15:55) Segment: College: Separating You From Your Money for Decades (43:20)

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00:45:04

Say No to Drugs (That Don’t Work)

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2024/04/18

(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 reportedly halts Cybertruck deliveries (11:05) Headline: Justice Department to File Antitrust Suit Against Live Nation (13:27) Headline: iPhone sales are 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 is Starting to Break We know you’ve been sick with a cold

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00:48:47

Waxing Your Slide (Not a Euphemism)

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2024/04/11

(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 caught up with their eclipse antics in the first 15 minutes of today’s episode! Somehow they do find

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00:46:01

The Headlines That Got Away

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/04/04

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 story of MIT’s infamous “Magic/More-Magic Switch,” in this episode we’ve decided instead to dust off some

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00:53:16

A Total Eclipse of the … Heart?

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/03/28

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 spectacular event in some form.And speaking of large, immovable objects crossing paths - we touch

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00:45:26

My AI Forgeries Bring All the Boys to the Yard

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/03/21

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 into the world of AI forgeries, from generated nudes of classmates to AI-generated books being sold on

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00:56:00

It’s Concorde, Not The Concord

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/03/14

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, sexiest commercial jet of all time - Concorde. For the uninitiated, while Def Leppard and Journey were blaring

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00:49:08

The Analog Episode

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/03/07

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 nuanced EV-related tech like LiDAR, autonomous driving, charging options, and general electrified

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00:45:27

February 24th: The Original Daily Double

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/02/29

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 leap year, how it’s evolved over the centuries, and some interesting nuances from the calendars that

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00:46:17

Headlines: Russia’s Anti-Satellite, Apple’s Fine, &...

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker ·

2024/02/22

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 smartphones in public. It’s a 46-minute wild ride through the news you’ve likely not heard of yet.

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