Riley and Casey explore technology and society in rural communities. Today's focus: Working Lands & Industry.

NEWS ROUNDUP: We break down [The Tyee] Police Watchdog Finds Failures in Missing Indigenous Woman Case and [IBS Intelligence] Weak data infrastructure slows AI adoption, and explore what these developments mean for communities like ours.

RURAL CONNECTIONS: Deep dive on Working Lands & Industry Topics include: broadband, satellite, precision agriculture, solar, AI.

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

Sources discussed:

• The Tyee: [The Tyee] Police Watchdog Finds Failures in Missing Indigen...
• IBS Intelligence: [IBS Intelligence] Weak data infrastructure slows AI adoptio...
• Neowin: [Neowin] Anthropic accuses China of 'industrial-scale' attem...

Additional sources provided:

• The Tyee: [The Tyee] We Can’t Wait for War to Mobilize the Public
• XDA Developers: [XDA Developers] Panasonic won't build its own TVs anymore a...
• Al Jazeera English: [Al Jazeera English] Kashmir, spying, demolitions: How Modi’...
• New Atlas: [New Atlas] Lamborghini kills its electric supercar that nob...
• Toms Guide: [Toms Guide] Everything new coming to Apple TV in March 2026
• XDA Developers: [XDA Developers] I added a managed switch to my home network...
• The Tyee: [The Tyee] Can Vancouver Progressives Unite to Win the Next ...
• The Tyee: [The Tyee] A Sober Look at Alberta’s Separatist Surge

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.