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

Does England have a 4th of July?

Independence goes both ways.

Hotdogs segues to discussion on anti-semitism… who is the Vylan?

Free speech doesn’t equal free from consequences.

LinkedIn is garbage.

Verbo.

Wolf Hall and Great Wolf Lodge.

We were promised hoverboards (Jetson Trains).

As Members of Congress go at each other with their lines they will not cross, and as Elon Musk and the President draw lines of "If, then", an ERR Short on "What is a Red Line?" "How are they different from alternative paths?" "Are they relevant anymore?"

As we enter a new season...

• Emotional Support Microphone
• Longform Shortform Longform
• Oslo Pride
• Tehran and Texas
• The Beer Stein in The Hump & The Ash
• Deliverables vs. Outcomes
• (Hydro) Power Dynamics
• Gig Spooks
• Tech Founders as Conspiracy Theorists
• Area 51 Official Gossip
• Emotional Support Automotives

Stick with it, it gets better....

Some links:

Homo-Spaciens

23 and Me Data Sale

Exit Immigrants, Employ Children

“I’m not going to allow my inability to do everything undermine my ability to do something.”

Digital Twins

The Revolutionary Sharks of Greenland

Drone Delivery That Works? (In Arkansas)

Too Good To Go

Thank You, Elon

A deeply mediocre one. Don't listen to it. But here are the links we promised.

You're Probably DEI Too?

Pothole Protests

Woolly Mice

Texas Lands on the Moon

Bill Nighy on Fashion

First All-Robot Assault

Gay Nukes

Envoy Performance Podcast

The Chinese Volvo

The 10 Laws That Make Cars Ugly

Show Notes:

• Swallowed by a Humpback whale
• Canadian bluff calling
• DarkSky International - The supervillain we didn’t know we needed
• If success is a recurring cycle, is there a *wrong* time to wish someone congratulations?
• South African bloke savings?
• Volcells vs Incels
• World history. NYT Flashback. I don't know shit about India except through the lens of colonialism. 
• Ye said he would never sell swastika shirts…then
• Are NGOs NGOs if they need government funding?
• The mesmerizing video of how locks work:
• Single serving bags of tortilla chips
• Xoox hits the road in Vegas
• Let’s talk privacy follow this link at your own risk 
• “Dotted line” - reporting lines
• Thinking about core function, uncomfortably.
• I love these so much

• Ye Olde Body Shoppe.
• Spring before the Spring.
• Visiting The Throne in DC.
• Involuntary Sponsor: The GMC McKinley Truck.
• Lightly fried USB drives.
• Gulf of Peking?
• Adam Smith, Import Taxes, untouched DEI programs (inc golf handicaps).
• How Zone Flooding works.
• Choosing not to listen.
• Hypocrisy Central.
• Lying vs. Bullsh**ting.
• Prickly South Africans.
• Metaposturing.
• Welcome to Cleveland (in Milwaukee).
• Gail.com is the best page on the internet.
• GIUK Gap.
• 3 Star reviews are the best.
• Nuclear power to run AI.
• SikhDeep.
• The Parade of Planets and Cleo Abram and Morons.
• Exoskeletons for Mass Market.
• Time blindness: sharks, Saturn, Cleopatra, iPhones, and dinosaurs.