Ian and Jay Space Out

Twitter was way ahead of it's time. Jay and I discuss some innovative work (that sadly never got off the ground) Twitter was doing on ephemeral environments back in the day. We also talk about a $200K bug that spawned that work. Also, we try not to kink shame Donald Trump and/or Dan Scavino. Elon Musk still sucks.

Ian and Jay talk about JavaOne, Project Leyden, and Netflix. Donald Trump is a garbage person. Scott Bessent does it again. Iran can probably strike most of Europe if it wants to. Marc Andreessen has a no-personality disorder. Twitter would have been 20 years old if it had survived.

Ian and Jay come in hot with takes on the War on Iran (and Venezuela), xAI and Elon starting over again from "first principles", and the idiots who were running DOGE.

War all the time. Trees kill people in the winter. Pete Hegseth is cosplaying as a "warfighter". RIP Dan Simmons.

In under 40 minutes (Ian had to take the kids skiing) Jay and Ian send out good vibes to Owncast's Gabe Kangas, laugh at Donald Trump's assault on efficiency, lament the downward spiral of the Washington Post, and rejoice in the small-world serendipity that have brought Tim Bray, Rob Sayrer, and Claude together. Get well soon Gabe!!!

Ian and Jay talk sports, the Superbowl, and the origins of the show. Shout out to Domonique Foxworth and Charlie Kravitz! Also, can we have servers in space? Probaby not yet. SpaceX now owns Groq and Twitter. RIP Heroku. Tim Bray is in the Epstein Files! Sort of.

The End of America. ICE murdering civilians in the streets of Minneapolis. Trump Officials cosplaying as Nazis. Who needs a warrant if you have a gun? Oh yeah, Musk wanted to party with Jefferey Epstein and Dan Scavino is getting married today.

It is war all the time. Ian and Jay say what everybody else is saying. Nothing really revalatory in this show, since the Trump administration no longer gives a fuck about the Constitution they don't even try to hide it. The President is slurring the quiet part at press conferences. Also, it is a war, so innocent people are getting hurt and killed. Ian and Jay try, unsuccessfully, to end things on a high note, with a couple of jokes and some hopeful thoughts about the Fediverse. Oh well. So it goes.

Hüsker Dü vs The Replacements. A Kenyan explains why people can't identify ChatGPT-generated content just by looking for em-dashes. The billionaires don't want to pay taxes. Jay Holler is hiring.

Ian has (self-diagnosed) carpal tunnel from too much doomscrolling. The Wall Street Journal let an LLM manage a vending machine and it lost thousands of dollars, ordered live fish and a Playstation for workers, and was completely pwned. Suzie Wiles, JD Vanace, Stephen Miller, and Dan Scavino pose for a revealing photo shoot. The Sub-Pop store in Sea-Tac closes, and Elon Musk is giving financial advice.

We start off on a somber note as news of horrifying attacks at Brown and in Sydney trickle in. On a lighter note, Jay is excited to see that Lily Allen is on SNL this weekend, Marco Rubio declares war on Calibri, Marcin Wichary wants to see shift delimiters in markup languages, and we ponder the fate of the Twitter Time capsule before abruptly ending the show when the laptop battery dies. Enjoy!

Elon wants to break up the EU. JD Vance is looking ahead to 2028. The negatives of the positive feedback loop of ELon and his enablers. Bryan Cantrill and Oxide's take on writing and reading in the age of LLMs. Transcribing podcasts with Whisper.cpp. Analyzing Twitter archives using ChatGPT.