AI says we talk about this:

00:00 Introduction to Latin and Humor in Language

02:08 Market Demand and Product Creation

04:49 Family Dynamics and Expectations

07:55 Cultural Commentary and Current Events

10:08 Political Observations and Governance

11:58 Nuanced Discussions on Immigration and Labor

17:06 Civics Lessons in Modern Media

20:46 Living Eulogies and Celebrating Life

24:58 Conclusion and Reflections on Conversations

25:51 Living Eulogies: Celebrating Life and Community

30:14 The Inconvenience of Community and Connection

32:42 Team Building and Organizational Culture

33:09 Brand Loyalty: The Kraft Heinz Dilemma

41:21 The Future of the Marine Corps: A Critical Discussion

48:24 Digital Detox: Tools for Mindfulness

The Load Episode: Acknowledging the Burden

The Nickel Standard

Billionaires and Fun: The Wozniak Approach

Australia's Solar Power Surplus

AI Readers: The Impact on Understanding

The 7.5%: Those Carrying the Load

Holiday Realities: Time Away vs. Time Off

Head, Heart, Hands: Finding Purpose

Control What You Can Control: A Sanity Check

The Pace of Social Justice: A Standstill

Working on Something Bigger: The Key to Happiness

A new season. With no visible difference from prior seasons.

Video version.

- Ace as a model

- Are the vibes of Gen Z lying flat?

- Cheap drones out-swarming expensive missiles

- Japan's first woman PM (and her Supra)

- Bourdain Days for Christmas

PSA: Does as The President Does - Get Your Covid Booster

Involuntary Sponsor: Flightly

Audacity as Negotiation Strategy

Kicking Coal's But

Great Legs in Pink Shorts

Calculate vs Calibrated

Hotel Key Cards, Finally

Ace Could Be, Less Ace

Most People Won't Like What You Like

Neurodiverse anti-DEI People

Happiness = Your Current Situation - Your Expectations

This week...

• A space that represents Ace's brain. What is true creativity?
• The original and best, Large Language Model.
• Getting to Nazi Twitter, fast.
• Scott the RINO and Steven Miller's tactical brilliance.
• The extremes are extremes, but not small in number.
• Not enough news that people care about.
• The Overton Window
• Pete Butegigie faking gayness, according to Tucker (this is progress?)
• We need the Retraction Section on ERR.
• Telling boys what to do as well as what not to do.
• Your AI pet, Moflin, or Acelin.

Disclaimer: We don't have interns. Friends deliver the coffee. But anyway, this week:

• Little Kittens & Barbecue
• Involuntary Sponsor 1: Rockstarr BBQ
• Involuntary Sponsor 2: Tin Can
• Brainrot - Robbing our Thinking Time
• The Future of the Internet is Bright (thanks, slop and Mace and Mott)
• Procreate Against AI and the Aussie Way
• Showing Your Work
• With Sora 2 and Tilly Norwood and Starlink How Will We Tariff Creativity?
• Shouldn't We All Be Anti-Fascist, Like Our Grandparents Were?
• Let's All Be Outraged When People Unlike Us Are Hurt
• But, Who Started It?
• Least Exciting Corporate Names
• Secondary Doors on Planes
• Visit Us For Your Personal Retreat

This week...

Robotic surgeons and digital twins.

The key to building trust with driverless vehicles - have dangerous things happen.

The enshittification of search (aka: Ace's Birkenstocks).

The good news: shopping local, by text (human) bot.

Don't take reservations from Connecticut.

Kids will get off their phones if we let them go outside by themselves.

The loveliest feeling of doing nothing.

Ikea in Best Buy.

The "right way" to use eggs.

Zero traffic deaths in Helsinki.

It behooves us not to use the word behoove.

QWERTY keyboards and EV grills.

Damn franchise salesmen.

This week...

• We're getting into the magic spells business.
• Armed with bug assault rifles.
• And Amazon missiles.
• Bluetooth landline phones.
• Pretend trade deals (Scott said it was $350BN, it's $600BN)
• Shuttle stealing.
• Abandoned shuttles.
• Reverse innovation: reviving the payphone.
• Firing the Chair doesn't mean interest rates will change.
• Diaper diplomacy.
• We want to be Volonaut's.
• Disinformation, Misinformation, Malinformation. The accountability of Joe Rogan.
• 11,684KMs of non-memories.

Throwing self in front of cars

Falling out of love with San Francisco

Nailing adjacency

If we don’t measure climate change, is it still happening?

Do we need to all believe for change to happen?

Sinking cruise ships

Involution

Griefbots - when do we die?

Robot masseurs and assumed digitization

City of the Future?

Piles of toilet seat covers

Monetizing hegemony - is platform degradation inevitable in capitalism?

The ordering of blackouts