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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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00:28:33

Aliens Part 1: A $300k Bet & Math Behind The Great...

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2026/03/19

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:05) The Real Reason the Government is Hiding Their UFO Data(6:29) Protect The Sensors(11:23) How Many Civilizations Are There?(22:12) Extraterrestrial Geology(24:34) cj’s recommendation: Mars Attacks!(26:07) Jeff’s Recommendation: AliensWhy did a mysterious trader or two just bet six figures that the U.S. government will confirm the existence of ETs by the end of the year? This week, the guys dive into the xenological deep end to find out if someone knows something we don’t, or if

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00:31:44

HEADLINES: From $50B Drone Superpowers to Poisoned...

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2026/03/17

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:02) Open(2:01) St. Patrick’s Day(2:56) cj's week: Pools & BBQs!(4:30) Jeff's Week: The Oscars(7:10) Headline: The $50 Billion Ukrainian Drone Disruptor(12:40) Headline: Meta Cuts Human Staff to Fund $135B AI Infrastructure(20:44) Headline: Poison in Your Playlist: Why Your Headphones Are Leaking Toxins(23:40) Headline: Why Everyone is Panicking Over Trump’s New $100,000 Visa Levy(26:31) Davong Systems' DSI-501Ukraine is flipping the script on modern warfare, moving

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00:29:04

The Silicon Takeover: Will Your Next Boss Be a Toaster?

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2026/03/12

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:25) The AI Revolution Doesn’t Have To Be A Pink Slip(3:36) Developers, Developers, Developers!(10:58) The Roles Going Away(12:08) Be The Orchestrator(19:13) What About The Doctors?(22:58) And The Humans(25:09) cj’s recommendation: A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator(26:44) Jeff’s Recommendation: Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed SullivanIn this episode, the guys are staring directly into the glowing red eye of the future to ask the big question: Is AI coming for your

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00:31:24

HEADLINES: The Global Chip Choke, Trump’s Secret...

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2026/03/10

The AI Revolution just hit a 21-mile brick wall. The Strait of Hormuz is closed, and Taiwan’s chip foundries are running on fumes. From the "Iron Maiden" ship trying to identify as Chinese to avoid a blockade, to the "Global AI Winter" threatening your next GPU, we break down why the tech world is currently gasping for air.Is the Trump Trust the world’s luckiest investor? While the DOJ was judging the Paramount merger, the Trump family was quietly loading up on Netflix and Warner

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00:27:36

Plastics: The Alchemy of Our Own Undoing

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2026/03/05

(0:00) Open(1:05) Plastic Purgatory: Past, Present, & Future(7:20) Methane is the Problem(10:40) Curbing Use: An Attempt(15:09) And What About Recycling?(20:08) The Nanoplastics Are Inside You(23:23) cj’s recommendation: Kelly Boesch(25:04) Jeff’s Recommendation: The Plastic Detox (2026)In 1955, we were told that "Throwaway Living" was the ultimate liberation. Plastic was the 20th century’s greatest engineering triumph: a synthetic miracle that saved the elephants, democratized luxury,

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00:31:01

HEADLINES: The Pentagon’s AI Side-Piece, the Great...

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2026/03/03

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:52) Open(1:43) World Wildlife Day(2:03) cj's week: A Carnival-Themed Birthday(6:32) Jeff's Week: Deferred Maintenance(8:35) Headline: The Claude Paradox: U.S. Missiles Fly Using AI the President Just Banned(16:33) Headline: Paramount/Warner Discovery Deal Eyes $6 Billion in "Synergy" Savings(23:02) Headline: Cable’s New King: Charter Buys Cox Surpassing Comcast(29:05) LaCie Joule Modular StorageThe Pentagon is currently using an AI that it officially banned, which

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00:32:17

Sovereign AI: The Quest For Independence and The...

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2026/02/26

(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-century power grid. Nations are rapidly shifting from "AI takers" to "AI makers" to protect their

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00:31:13

HEADLINES: Ring’s Peeping Tom, Tesla’s Name-Change, a...

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2026/02/24

(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: Scientific Sabotage? Inside the Failed Attempt to Kill the mRNA Flu Shot(28:18) Wellbee Says: Be Well! Take The

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00:27:03

Bottling Lightning: The Fast-Charge & Solid-State...

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2026/02/19

(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 minutes at the charging station.In this episode, the boys break down the "80% Rule," the

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00:00:49

A Nonsensical Hiatus

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2026/02/12

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 the days are, let alone what’s happening on those days!What Jeff and I neglected to realize is that this

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00:27:32

HEADLINES: Olympic GPT, Border Scans, & The Ad-Free...

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2026/02/10

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 Mobile Fortify, the facial recognition app turning every street corner into a potential ICE

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00:35:49

MoltBot Unleashed: The Dangerous Rise of Agentic AI...

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2026/02/05

(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 NetflixAI 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

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00:39:17

HEADLINES: Orbital Overlords and the Placebo Peak

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2026/02/03

(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 WatchElon

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00:30:52

Beyond the Chatbot: AI Finally Gets a Job

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2026/01/29

(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

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00:25:44

HEADLINES: Surveillance for Sale - Border Cops,...

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2026/01/27

(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 6000This week, we expose the hidden economy where your data becomes a weapon used

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00:29:26

Vaporware: Products That Will Change Your Life … Maybe!

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2026/01/22

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

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00:34:03

HEADLINES: Wikipedia Sends The Bill, RAMaggedon, and...

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2026/01/20

(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,

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00:30:50

AI's Impact on Employment and Wealth

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2026/01/15

(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,

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00:32:58

HEADLINES: Uber’s Trial, Wing’s Delivery, NASA’s...

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2026/01/13

(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

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00:28:11

HEADLINES: Relocating, Severing, Lowering, and Sealing

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2026/01/07

(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 CarriageThis

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