GeekNights Mondays: Science Technology Computing

Tonight on GeekNights, we consider what social media and networking look like when we can no longer use platforms provided by any company, and have to roll our own. This future is inevitable, and you need to prepare for it. In the news, America is having its election, AO3 got hacked, Binance got hacked, European grocery stores got hacked, and Mercado got hacked.

• The Post-Platform Social Network

• The Post-Platform Social Network

• The Post-Platform Social Network

• Rym - The Movement Physics of Super Mario Bros - Behind the Code
• Scott - I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere)

Tonight on GeekNights, Rym and Emily discuss roller coaster technology in the course of tier ranking every roller coaster at Cedar Point. We live streamed this episode back in August, but now it's in the podcast feed! Millennium Force still holds up 26 years later.

• Roller Coaster Technology - Rym and Emily's Cedar Point Tier List

• Roller Coaster Technology - Rym and Emily's Cedar Point Tier List

• Roller Coaster Technology - Rym and Emily's Cedar Point Tier List

Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about robots. Real ones from the real world: not movie robots. In the news, Igor has tasted blood, the Meta pervert glasses are getting regulated in Norway, and do not give Meta's Muse thing your credit cards.

• Robots

• Robots

• Robots

• Rym - Salman Rushdie on Candide: Where to Begin
• Scott - The Weather Channel Classics

Tonight on GeekNights, we consider e-bikes, e-scooters, monowheels, and all the assorted electric conveyances that aren't cares and that are becoming more and more popular everywhere there are people. E.g., what are the "classes" of ebikes? In the news, streamers are suing Twitch and Amazon for their opt-out AI model training, 404 tracked down the "rare book" AI training story, and the Steam Frame might finally be coming.

• E-Bikes, E-Scooters, et al.

• E-Bikes, E-Scooters, et al.

• E-Bikes, E-Scooters, et al.

• Rym - That's a sapient answer
• Scott - Strawberry Vampire (INDIE PILOT ANIMATIC) 🍓🦇

Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss data centers. Once as positive thing, they have become a blight on the Earth in the ever-growing wake of the AI bubble. Rym and Emily are back from Cedar Point and will have a couple of special episodes about it in the near future, and also have a secret VR project that's slightly less secret than it was before. In the news, the AI slop factory wants help flagging AI slop, and ZGM is an open source gaming mouse firmware.

• Data Centers

• Data Centers

• Data Centers

• Rym - Cedar Point x Made to Thrill
• Scott - Milwaukee Transit Passes

Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the growing trend of seeking retro technology. From the Charmera to flip phones to audio cassettes, it's part aesthetic and part anti-consumerist anti-capitalist pushback to the ravages of modernity. In the news, Mamdani announces new Click-to-Cancel rule for New York City, workers in Acklam discover Medlar fruit trees (also known as dog's arse), and no technology is going to make exercising effectively take less time. Also, we did it.

• Intentionally Retro Technology

• Intentionally Retro Technology

• Intentionally Retro Technology

• Rym - How the K-line got its name
• Scott - MiniPCs.zip

Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the current state and evolution of bicycle technology. Not all advancement in modernity is "good" advancement. In the news, delivery robots are a menace, the illegitimate and fully compromised Supreme Court's broken clock was correct on geofence warrants, climate change is killing us, and AI slop music should be demonetized.

• Bicycle Technology

• Bicycle Technology

• Bicycle Technology

• Rym - I am a person, you are not
• Scott - Dirty Little Zine

Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the challenge of company-managed devices. In the news, Britain has banned the kids from all social media, Nvidia is issuing $25 Billion in corporate bonds, and Verizon screwed a guy over with MDM.

• Company Devices

• Company Devices

• Company Devices

• Rym - Jinxxy
• Scott - Anthropeum

Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the evil cameras all around us. In the news, Nvidia introduces an underwhelming chip to make underwhelming PCs, the US gestapo are trying to buy advertiser datasets in a dangerous escalation of the police state, and Furality is this weekend!

• The Evil Cameras All Around Us

• The Evil Cameras All Around Us

• The Evil Cameras All Around Us

• Rym - HD remaster of "Rejected"
• Scott - Because We Feud

Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the problem of spam in the current era. We last talked about spam in 2007. (Note that spam is distinct from slop. In the news, Rym is back from Hong Kong, supply chain attacks remain a major threat, the kids are booing AI people at graduations, Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI, deepfake software is getting better, and Meta is laying off 10% of its entire workforce.

• Spam in 2026

• Spam in 2026

• Spam in 2026

• Rym - NASA Didn't Even Know!!
• Scott - UnDUNE II: The Demaking of a Dynasty