Generation Jones

Music: Rob is all about a new guitar. KelZ talks about computer cooling pump drama in Tech and in music: Low Darts. In Most Newsworthy: Google investment in Anthropic.

OSTOTW: Lost Highway

This week on Episode 9 of the Generation Jones podcast - For Tech moments: Rob talks about what IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York is doing regarding Quantum Computing. GO IBM! KelZ talks about her lil Vector robot (first gen, acquired during the Kickstarter campaign). - For Music of the Week: Rob talks about Logic Pro drums and how it’s taken him to the next level. KelZ muses about Madonna at Cochella. For POLITICS-FREE newsworthy topics: Rob covers outdoor drive-in movie theaters in the Hudson Valley. KelZ talks about seeing the movie Hail Mary which she gives 5 out of 5 stars!

Much Thanks for your support!

Yes, there was an episode 7 - just didn't post it here. All Generation Jones podcasts are primarily made for Kelzone Radio.

This week Rob was all about Space, especially Artemis. For tech I discussed VR head mounted displays (HMDs) and my passion for getting back to my Quest 3s. In Newsworthy I discussed Anthropic NOT releasing Mythos because it's too powerful. For musical choice this week I picked Gil Scott-Heron. Rob picked Also Sprach Zarathustra and the 2001 soundtrack which is also the KELZONE ostotw.

As a side note: We have decided to attempt to make our podcasts politics-free, particularly current regime free starting with this one. We'll see how long that lasts.

You want to get a glimpse into what Generation Jones folks are like, this might be a good place to start.

As a reminder (from wiki):

Generation Jones is the generation or social cohort sandwiched between the Baby Boomers and Generation X. The term was coined in 1999 by American cultural commentator Jonathan Pontell, who has argued that the term refers to a distinct generation born from 1954 to 1965.

Media coverage of Generation Jones has typically described it as a distinct generation, using Pontell's dates of 1954 to 1965. Others see this as a subset of the Baby Boom Generation, namely its second half. A third view is that Generation Jones is a cusp or micro-generation between the Boomers and Xers, using only the 1960s as birth years. Dictionary.com defines Generation Jones as "members of the generation of people born in the Western world between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s".

Topics this episode include - TECH: Star Trek and Delivery Systems. MUSIC: Afroman and Steve, Clay, and all those who have influenced me. NEWS: Robert Muller / NATO and Joe Kent. This week the OSTOTW will be Vangelis’s Blade Runner (1982).

Topics this episode include - TECH: Sous Vide and Trifecta Tech in Western Kentucky (AI Data Center, SMRs, Self-Contained power ecosystem). MUSIC: Yes (TFTO) and Fred again… NEWS: Richard Kahn and Chaos. This week the OSTOTW will be Ennio Morricone’s The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966).

Links to the music of the week:

Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans (Full Album) 1979

Fred again… Tiny Desk Concert (2023)

Topics this episode include - TECH: YouTube and Anxiety-like behavior in Claude (corroborating LaMND & Blake Lemoine). MUSIC: Paul Winter & Oregon. NEWS: JammJam & Daft Punk (The Beatles), NEWS: Armageddon (Military Religious Freedom Foundation) and Iran. OSTOTW will be Hackers (1995).

Topics this episode include - TECH: Jellyfin & Quantum (and AI). MUSIC: JammJam & Daft Punk (The Beatles), NEWS: war (Board of Peace).

Topics:

Tech: The REAL Replacement & Quantum. Music: Eurovision 2026 & the new U2 EP. Newsworthy: On the brink of war - Niger/Nigeria/France and Iran, Andrew Arrest & SCOTUS/Tariffs.

Corrections:

Jimi’s girl was 14, not 13. Steven Tyler’s was 16. And, Elvis met Priscilla when she was 14 but married her when she was 21.

U2’s Pride came out 1986 - so forty years ago.

Links:

Articles mentioned wrt AI -

https://skooloflife.medium.com/stop-talking-to-ai-9e12f46212d8

https://medium.com/activated-thinker/why-the-smartest-people-in-tech-are-quietly-panicking-right-now-d2feb86e7e4b

Tech: Eliza and AI Engine. Music: Rob’s creations and ambient long plays. News: The value of the dollar and politics in the olympics.