Geeks in Space

RobChrisRob talked about the death of Google Reader, and the ongoing collapse of Reddit & Twitter, the trailer for Zom 100, Fue5, the AI that screws with telemarketer, the Philippines tourism trailer that got caught using stock footage from NOT the Philippines, a machine that lasers weeds instead of using herbicides, Elon's genius idea to give people who drive on the wrong side of the car a stick instead of giving them the car they want, iPhones calling 9/11 because it confuses dancing with car crashes, and finally a brief discussion of Indy 5 and then it gets spoilery so you should nope out!

RobChrisRob synced up their communications arrays from their locations in pretend low earth orbit to talk about the restaraunt that hired a fake priest to hear employee confessions, a browser designed to rewrite thumbnails & headlines on youtube to avoid clickbait, Reddit's latest embarassing decisions to replace moderators and just generally make the internet just a little bit worse, the titanic sub wreckage field was found, Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg cage match is definitely happening, Eve Online integrates with Microsoft Excel, Kraven the Hunter's trailer, a grizzly using a shed as a scratching post, and a brief chat over just how boring the premiere episode of Secret Invasion was, and maybe just maybe it will pick up the pace.

RobChrisRob successfully avoided Starlink Light Pollution to talk about the epic Oner that opens Extraction 2, a 5.7tb 3D navigable map of mars, the trailer for Squirrel with a Gun, the tragic disappearance of a tourist submersible en route to visit the titanic wreckage, a really amazing drone airshow, the ongoing slow motion collapse of reddit, and a brief discussion of The Flash concluding in a bunch of spoilers so you should nope out if you really care about the handful of cameo's that Warner Bros forgot to spoil already by just sticking them into the ads.

RobChrisRob briefly discussed the return of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to the air, but then mostly mired in the sadness of watching Reddit implode upon itself knowing full well that no matter what happens, the internet at large will be worse off when the dust settles. We also talked a fair bit about the worsening of google search results, the general enshittification of the internet, the bummer news that the Bab5 animated return is a time travel story, our general hopefullness for the return of The Boys, hackers that stole bitcoin from Russia, and an IBM quantum computer that for sure definitely is going to change everything definitely ok sure.

RobChrisRob dodge surface to low earth orbit power transmission beams from california to talk about Protosteroids, a new world record of solving Rubiks Cubes, Trailers for Star Wars Outlaws and Cities: Skylines 2 (where we go on an extended discussion about the inevitable Stephen King mod), rumors that the Monsterverse TV show will be shot in 3D for the Apple VR Helmet, we talked for a fair bit of time about the Reddit collapse currently underway over API changes on what was arguably the last large/good platform of this sort still online, we talked for awhile about a refinery explosion, Fast X, and ChatGPT updates including lawyers blaming the AI for lying to them, and a church that used it to write a sermon.

RobChrisRob pretended once again to orbit our glorious planet, but while talking about Windows 11 accidentally identifying zip files as 'Postcode Files' to UK english installations, a stable diffiusion project that transforms QR codes into art, the 2023 film Blackberry and how it represented the dot com era techies, a mechanical watch made from an actual apple watch, a tiktokker who was arrested for trespassing into a busch garden aligator pit, a lot of discussion of what should be done to him, and theme parks in general, K9 dogs not always used appropriately by law enforcement, and the first new nuclear reactor in 40 years going live in Georgia.

RobChrisRob return from beyond to catch up, talking about a Connecticut bear caught on tape stealing 60 cupcakes from a bakery, a netflix trailer for the new Skull Island animated series, the New Zealand Pizza Parlor that will let you buy a pizza in exchange for payment when you are dead...we waxed nostaligic about Computer Shopper and celebrated the brave soul who has taken on the task of scanning in many issues of this giant tome, the new NASA laser link capable of bursting 200gbs from orbit to ground, the awesomeness of Sisu, a few minutes raving about Across the Spider-Verse, and wrapped up by expressing

RobChrisRob did battle with the packet monsters and lag beasts and survived, but not before talking about a $200 8088 laptop & Rob's ancient Toshiba Libretto, The Strange New Worlds Season 2 Trailer, TikTok getting banned in Montanna and what that means for the first ammendment, the Texas Prof who failed his class because ChatGPT told him that it wrote their papers, a Cocaine Shark movie, Pink Floyd "Fans" who didn't know that the most famous album cover of all time had a rainbow on it, how to change a battery in a Pulse CD, Orcas sinking boats in europe, and John Wick 4

RobChrisRob spin up into pretend low earth orbit for a bit to talk about the AI girlfriend pulling down $71k in a week, the new .zip TLD and the risks it poses, a tiny handheld 386sx that yes will run doom, climbing a wall like Spider-Man, cutting the lawn with chainsaw boots, and a whole slew of new moons discovered around Saturn.

RobChrisRob talekd about crashing the ISS into the ocean, using deepfakes as a court defense, a pixies track that is cancelling google alarms, robots that play soccer and other robots that swim, edible batteries, the app to help people cancel meetings, X-Ray specs, the Wendy's chatbot that will take your order, Moderator Mayhem: the game for moderation, the meg 2, Fishing Scandals, and the Utah author who killed her husband and then wrote a book about grief...