Riley and Casey explore technology and society in rural communities. Today's focus: Resilient Rural Futures.

NEWS ROUNDUP: We break down [Hackaday] This Printed Zipper Repair Requires No Unsewing and [ScienceAlert] Weight-Loss Drugs Could Cost Just $3 a Month to Make as Patents End, plus 1 more stories, and explore what these developments mean for communities like ours.

RURAL CONNECTIONS: Deep dive on Resilient Rural Futures Topics include: broadband, telemedicine, renewable energy, solar, AI.

Hosts: Riley (Tech optimist with an engineering background) and Casey (Community-first skeptic of tech promises).

Sources discussed:

• Hackaday: [Hackaday] This Printed Zipper Repair Requires No Unsewing
• ScienceAlert: [ScienceAlert] Weight-Loss Drugs Could Cost Just $3 a Month ...
• Business Insider: [Business Insider] A $7.5 billion cop-tech darling runs head...
• TechRadar: [TechRadar] Could this be the key to eternal storage? Expert...
• XDA Developers: [XDA Developers] The internet nearly died (and nobody knew)
• Quesnel Cariboo Observer: [Quesnel Cariboo Observer] Infant from Fort St. John spends ...

Additional sources provided:

• Hackaday: [Hackaday] Building a Neatly Framed Word Clock
• Hackaday: [Hackaday] GNU Radio Gets a Makeover With PimpMyGRC
• How-To Geek: [How-To Geek] Stop treating your UPS like a dumb battery: 4 ...
• ScienceAlert: [ScienceAlert] Curiosity Cracked Open a Rock on Mars And Rev...
• Williams Lake Tribune: [Williams Lake Tribune] Williams Lake 97th birthday of incor...
• Williams Lake Tribune: [Williams Lake Tribune] B.C. mountaineer looks to conquer Se...
• Hackaday: [Hackaday] The Moon is Safe, For Now: No Collision in 2032 A...
• Business Insider: [Business Insider] AI agents are upending the company org ch...
• Hackaday: [Hackaday] Reverse-Engineering the Bluetooth Fichero Thermal...
• Toms Guide: [Toms Guide] I can text Claude like a personal assistant now...
• Business Insider: [Business Insider] I'm a 78-year-old retiree who's vibe codi...
• TechRadar: [TechRadar] Is that a Mac mini in disguise? No, but the new ...
• Quesnel Cariboo Observer: [Quesnel Cariboo Observer] Rezoning approved for building 60...
• How-To Geek: [How-To Geek] These 6 Windows background processes might be ...

Credits
Theme Song: Cariboo Signals by Sumo AI
Content Curation & Script: Claude (Anthropic)
TTS Voices: OpenAI TTS API
Cover Art: ChatGPT (OpenAI)
Podcast Coordination: Erich Zirnhelt
© 2026 Erich Zirnhelt. Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.