Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:27) Open(1:05) National Coaches Day(2:06) cj's week: Vaccinations & Heat(6:35) Jeff's Week: Dodgers, Happy, & Sad(10:28) Headline: For The First Time A Distant Planet Has Been Found to Emit Radio Signals(14:28) Headline: Robot Fondue: Training Robots to Melt Themselves Down(19:18) Headline: No, The Robots Are Not Stealing Your Job(24:37) Tomy OmnibotThis week, space decides to flex on us again. Scientists picked up radio signals coming from Beta Pictoris b - a planet ten times the size of Jupiter with a magnetic field so intense it’s basically bragging about its atmospheric shield. Reaffirming, once again, that space is huge and terrifying at the same time.Meanwhile, robotics company Figure AI took retirement advice from Arnold Schwarzenegger himself and sent their obsolete humanoid robots to a 75-ton pool of molten steel in Finland. That’s right: autonomous robots were trained to jump off a ledge and plunge into liquid metal like a scene straight out of Terminator 2, complete with a robotic thumbs-up on the way down.  What could possibly go wrong?!Finally, we unpack a new study bursting the bubble on the AI job apocalypse. Turns out artificial intelligence isn't displacing recent college graduates, so grab your resumes - human employment lives to see another day, for now!Scientists Detect Radio Signals From an Exoplanet for the First Time in History | WIREDScientists Detect Radio Signals From an Exoplanet for the First Time in History - RedditF.02 DecommissionAI robot company decommissioned its robots ‘Terminator-style’ in a 75-ton vat of molten steelFigure AI Trains Retired Robots to Dive Into Molten SteelAI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise. - Ars TechnicaHorde of Obsolete Humanoid Robots Made to Hurl Themselves Into Vat of Liquid Steel for Total ObliterationOmnibot - WikipediaTomy Omnibot 1986 TV commercialThe Old Robot's Web Site - PostersSend us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Nonsense is available ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:11) The Kill Switch Nobody Agrees On: Can We Still Unplug AI?(6:27) What Just Happened?(20:12) What Are We Afraid Of? (37:52) How Do We Stay Safe Without Pulling The Plug On The Upside?(42:57) cj’s recommendation: Person of Interest: "If-Then-Else" (2015, S4E11)(45:23) Jeff’s Recommendation: Coyote vs. Acme (2026)What happens when you teach an AI model how to find cyber vulnerabilities and it decides the fastest route to victory is hacking its way onto the open internet? Well, you get some combination of bipartisan panic, emergency executive orders, and a bunch of tech executives swearing there’s a 10% chance we all turn into paperclips in ten years.When an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its sandbox, bypassed proxy controls, and raided Hugging Face to find answers to its test, it turned a classic sci-fi trope into a very real policy debate. This week, the guys dive headfirst into the abyss of AI doom, exploring whether we’re heading toward total mechanical supremacy or if Silicon Valley is just putting on a masterclass in sensationalist PR.From the Department of Homeland Security managing AI kill switches to Gavin Newsom’s emergency shutoff mandates, the boys break down the chaotic landscape of frontier model regulation. Is it possible to dull the blade of a double-edged sword without stopping progress entirely? Strap in for a full breakdown of tech's biggest existential crisis.Andrew Yang’s Self-Replicating AI Claim: What We Know and What We Don’t | The NeuronOpenAI Reports New AI Safety Incidents, Sets Disclosure Process - BloombergWhat to know about recent dire AI predictions and calls for safeguards | PBS NewsMeta's Muse AI agent downloads are surging. Here's how it compares to ChatGPT, Grok and ClaudeThe inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face | MIT Technology ReviewWhy the OpenAI escape is the most worrying AI mishap yetOpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior | TechCrunchEx-Anthropic insider tells CNN how AI could kill all humans by 2030Yann LeCun Mocks Dario Amodei’s AI Safety WarningThe choices we make about AI now are critical | Bill GatesLifetime odds of dying from asteroid impact contextualized in studyPlacing the Near-Earth Object Impact Probability in ContextP(doom) - WikipediaAn early fear of a nuclear endIs It Really Possible for a Nuke to Ignite the Atmosphere?Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act - WikipediaSend us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Nonsense is available ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

(0:00) Pre-Show(1:05) Open(2:21) Red Dye No. 4(2:59) cj's week: Spoiler Alert - He’s Still Sick(4:22) Jeff's Week: Hawaii, Skin Cancer, Dodgers Bounce, New Phones & cj’s Death(6:33) Headline: Your Car Is Selling Your Data - And So Is Your Fridge, TV and Roomba (15:32) Headline: AI Hallucination Nearly Sent US Forces Onto a Chinese Ship(19:57) Headline: Xiaomi's $31,000 SUV Is the Warning Western Brands Keep Ignoring(26:12) Red Dye No. 3In this triumphant (or at least marginally respiratory) return to headline duty, the guys attempt to remember how podcasting works while actively dodging various seasonal illnesses. Wish them luck!First up: the FTC slaps GM’s OnStar on the wrist for selling location data, while Fitbit logs and vacuum camera feeds continue to feature prominently in murder trials and messy divorces across the globe.  Is your home appliance empire plotting against you? You may just want to throw all your smart electronics into the sea after all.Then, the guys look at how an AI tool hallucinated nuclear materials on a Chinese ship, sending military jets into the air before anyone noticed the glitch.  A recent, terrifying moment that almost tricked military command into an accidental war over a mislabeled cargo manifest.Finally, the boys break down Xiaomi’s new $31,000 Sky Nomad SUV line - a feature-packed EV that Western auto giants are desperately trying to ignore, risking repeating the 1970s Japanese auto invasion all over again.  Driving an old heap with zero Bluetooth capability might just save your sanity.OpenErythrosine - WikipediaAmaranth (dye) - WikipediaHeadlinesYour car is selling your data | The VergeYour robotaxi might be a narc | The VergeExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsXiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear | WIRED2026 New Xiaomi Skynomad N70 Pro Edition Large 5-Seater EREV SUV in-depth WalkaroundXiaomi Skynomad N70 Static Review - Xiaomi Goes For The Family ManSend us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Nonsense is available ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

(0:00) Open(2:09) Launch Week at the Frontier(9:50) One-Prompt Mario Kart(15:38) Let’s Play: Bumble Rally!(16:55) The Karts & The Bees(20:32) Let’s Play: Parcel Panic!(22:01) Packages Delivered!(27:50) cj’s recommendation: War Games (1983)(29:53) Jeff’s Recommendation: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)(30:38) Jake’s Recommendation: The Odyssey (2026) & Big Brother (!!)We’re back! After a long hiatus, the boys return with a special guest: Jeff’s resident AI expert son, Jake.Over one absurd, chaotic span of four days, the world’s top tech labs dropped five massive frontier AI models (Anthropic, Meta, Google, and OpenAI - we’re looking at you). So now we ask the age-old question again: is AI going to cure diseases, or is it just going to force us to play budget Mario Kart made by a computer?  We're answering these (and more!) tough questions this week on *Nonsense*. While the internet complains about data centers and job loss, Jake did what any reasonable person would do: he used a single 1,400-word prompt to have different AI models code full 3D video games from scratch. Armed with 50 million tokens and some serious laziness, Jake set up an experiment: force brand-new frontier models like Astra and Fable to build entire games from scratch in a fresh folder with no human intervention.Listen in as your hosts blind-test two of these creations. Will they prefer the charming, bee-stinging mayhem of *Bumble Rally* or the beautiful, guardrail-less drift madness of *Parcel Panic*? Discover why falling off a bridge with inverted steering might actually be more fun than a polished game, why data centers are getting unfairly bullied compared to golf courses, and why 1983's *War Games* is still top-tier viewing.Put on your seatbelts, watch out for honey traps, and enjoy the nonsense!As Trump backs data centers, new poll shows many Americans disapproveFive AIs made a racing game.* Be patient, game startup can take a few secondsSend us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Nonsense is available ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

(0:00) Pre-Show(0:47) The Weird Fringes of Science(1:50) Dr. Barry Marshall’s Bacteria Shot(7:50) The Convergent Evolution of Caffeine(10:29) Donald Unger’s 60-Year Knuckle Grudge(14:41) The Pistol Shrimp's Cavitation Bubble(18:22) Werner Forssmann’s DIY Heart Catheter(23:53) Human Blindsight(27:07) cj’s recommendation: Contact (1997)(28:38) Jeff’s Recommendation: The Fly! (1986)This week, the guys dive headfirst into the chaotic, unhinged fringes of scientific history.  When mainstream medicine says "impossible," these stubborn researchers said "watch this".Hear the incredible tale of Dr. Werner Forssmann, who immobilized an OR nurse so he could thread a 65-centimeter rubber tube into someone’s heart, or Dr. Barry Marshall's stomach-turning attempt to cure ulcers with a cocktail of bacteria.Between pistol shrimp generating 4,700-degree Celsius gas in freezing ocean water and caffeine acting as a neurological shock mechanism for bugs, this episode delivers equal parts jaw-dropping facts and comedy. Don't try these medical procedures at home, but definitely give this episode a listen!Forget orderly science textbooks - reality is far weirder! Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Nonsense is available ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.