Spaaaaace Clouds in space…? Microsoft Azure Space and Azure Orbital. Making space cheaper and more accessible with satcomm as a service.VR The new Oculus Quest. Past predictions. Pulling the VR market in the direction of affordability?

Her: sad foreheads, augmented audio presence, and friendly AI takeoff scenarios

Nov 10th, 2020 37m 29s

AI everything Creating a thinking, feeling artificial intelligence to do really important things for humanity like… sorting through your e-mail. N-dimensional AI chess. Rapid takeoff scenarios.Personal Assistants Natural language proces

An unexplained absence

Nov 3rd, 2020 5m 43s

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The Core: Flying bricks, pacemakers, and quantum avian eyeballs

Oct 6th, 2020 23m 56s

Forgetability The valley of forgetability (The Core) between science-respecting sci-fi (e.g. Arrival) and totally bonkers nonsense (e.g. Jupiter Ascending).Space shuttle Landing the “flying brick.”Bird navigation Magnetite beaks. T

Stank waffles, VR development, and Venusian cloud datacenters

Sep 22nd, 2020 38m 33s

Clouds in episode image from “Storm Clouds” by Albert Bierstadt/The White House Historical Association CC-O @ WikipediaWaffles Belgian Waffle formulaTasty waffles! Stank waffles! With lots of syrup! Solving food problems wit

Raised by Wolves: exoplanets, eating rats, and fake-karate floaty physics

Sep 15th, 2020 47m 1s

Happy 5-year anniversary whoooooo 🥳🎉Subluminal interstellar travel Accelerating for half of the ride, and braking for the other half. The advantage of avoiding squishy human cargo for high acceleration. The difference between the Aluc

Isolated BS: nuclear bananas, unreal simulations, and buttplug archaeology w/ Josh

Sep 8th, 2020 50m 56s

“Banana” image used in featured image with our brains by nicubunu CC-0 Josh, recently Made a strong showing on the recent Saving Private Ryan episode over at LSG Media. Real human stuff in between the dick and fart jokes.Teledildonics

On Decipher History - Titanic! rich people, bad luck, and ever-increasing hugeness w/ Joe

Sep 1st, 2020 1h 40m

Production Costly! The costs of vising the wreck twelve times for research and footage, not to mention the cost of the film production overall. The extreme profitability of this film and James Cameron in general.Classism First, second,

Proactive prostheses, facial recognition, and correlating diarrhea

Aug 18th, 2020 24m 31s

Fawkes mask in post image Multipainkiller Studio CC-BYProsthetics Proactive prostheses in our future? Recognizing that we routinely do this with major joints, and with for a full cyberpunk limb-improvement future.Big brother etc Machi

X-Men First Class: nuclear panic, destructive resonance, and woolly mammoth piñatas

Aug 11th, 2020 39m 59s

Fear of mutation Our recent X-Men. Irl post-war nuclear anxieties. More mutant panic and more mutant supremacy bad guys.Irradiating Earth Not enough to make superpowers, but we sure did irradiate a lot. The clear mark of human civilizat

Isolated BS: 3D tracking, Doom on EVERYTHING, and game juice

Aug 4th, 2020 54m 30s

3D tracking Removing the manual work of 3d tracking in video production. CamTrackAR. Smartphone camera software processing innovations. Making creative tools more widely available. Grousing about Adobe’s overwhelming market-share and user-ho

X-Men: superhero evolution, wolverines, and what lightning does to everything else

Jul 28th, 2020 40m 28s

Comic book movies X-Men as the dawn of comic book blockbuster cinema. The un-comicbook-ness of previous Marvel adaptations like Blade and Punisher. X-Men as the gateway drug to the language of comic book storytelling. Perfect casting Patrick

Isolated BS: social engineering, spotted dick, and proper beaver representation

Jul 21st, 2020 52m 25s

Hacking The reality of most hacking: social engineering. Hackers vs Sneakers. The 90s as the best period for hacking in fiction, back when people understood even less how computers worked. A review of Hacking in media.Free Software Free

Sonic: the console wars, allocoprophagy, and tiny blue Godzilla

Jul 7th, 2020 47m 59s

Cashing in Sanic. 8-bit nostalgia. Remember the Mario movie? Imagining other possible Genesis-era ports. Chris is eagerly awaiting the film adaptation of Pigskin Footbrawl.Console wars Sega licensing sports for title recognizability. Se

Isolated BS: art restoration, ahistorical viking grooming, and preposterone

Jun 30th, 2020 47m 59s

Millhouse isolation Enabled introversion. Social anxiety and human avoidance: online ordering abd contactless food delivery.Masks Hoping for normalization of mask-wearing to confine your illness ot yourself. The popularization of medica

Watchmen - Tulsa, nostalgia, and victorian spacesuits

Jun 23rd, 2020 35m 13s

Tulsa Massacre The Black Wall Street Massacre. Detecting buried remains with ground-penetrating radar.Ozymandias Doing splodey blue-balls on a city vs dropping a squid. “Saving” humanity. Narcissism. Super-genius space-prison escape pla

Isolated BS: tasty Pi, robot vacuums, and our saddest failure

Jun 16th, 2020 37m 43s

Computing Not the sweet and sour delicious dessert, but the computing devices. Kodi, Smart Mirrors, retro arcade machines, and low-power cheap servers in the closet. Apple moving to ARM. The next generation of game consoles. SSDs.

Upload: living forever, digital personhood, and hacking your own reality

Jun 9th, 2020 45m 44s

Self-driving cars Garbage in/garbage out with ML training. Whether or not you allow the user to protect the driver at the expense of the pedestrian, those deicisions are still being made. The advantage of rolling blacked-out rooms on the com

Isolated BS: hip thrusts, Dragons, and linguistic POV

Jun 4th, 2020 41m 4s

Fitness Standing desks are great and all, but the real flexibility innovation is not sitting in a car for hours every day. Inventing the “standing car.” Hip adductors like steel bands.Gaming Just Dance.Video game bodily control abstract

Underwater: deep drilling, nitrogen narcosis, and astronaut helium voice

May 26th, 2020 41m 23s

Deep water drilling It’s expensive! And if oil is ever expensive enough to justify the cost of drilling in Challenger Deep then by golly you start investing in alternative power instead. Semi-submersible deep-water drilling platforms. Drills

Isolated BS part 3: ancient tattoos, zombie satellites, and running sandals

May 19th, 2020 31m

Prank’d! Kids and aliens and not understanding how pranks work. Losing your arm to a racoon attack, but then turning into a cyborg so maybe it’s okay.Zombie satellites! Joe shared with us this recent development in zombie satellite comm

Picard Season 1: mortality, great filters, and synthetic life w/ Jolene Creighton

May 12th, 2020 46m 31s

NostalgiaLike all the things with Star Trek in them – feeling nostalgia for good Trek.Prophecy/Not ProphecyConquering the Three Body Problem and moving on to the… eight body problem? Breaking your brain. Tidal forces and planetary ejection.

Picard Season 1: mortality, great filters, and synthetic life w/ Jolene Creighton

May 12th, 2020 46m 30s

Nostalgia Like all the things with Star Trek in them - feeling nostalgia for good Trek.Prophecy/Not Prophecy Conquering the Three Body Problem and moving on to the… eight body problem? Breaking your brain. Tidal forces and planetary eje

Isolated BS part two, the mayonnaisening - volcano edition

May 5th, 2020 44m 46s

Not just bread anymore.. But also mayonnaise! Definitively “The Best Sauce.” Coolio’s Ghettalian Garlic Bread. Japanese mayonnaise appreciation.Miscellany Dune set photos!. Sting’s codpiece. Manly housework. NVidia RTX Real-Time Noise-R

The Three Body Problem: mathy math math and first contact game theory w/ Adrian

Apr 21st, 2020 59m 26s

Books! A larger time investment, generally… but high idea-load! That one time we did a book in the past. And that next one we’ll probably do in the future.Context Chinese science fiction. This book as the first Asian Hugo Award-winner.