I know you. And I know you are expecting an episode of Nonsense right now. Probably one about really exciting new battery technology for EVs. Or maybe one about the history of Beef Jerky. One can never know what kind of random walk this show is going to take you on.

But see, the thing is, reading calendars is hard, what with all the numbers and grids. It’s virtually impossible to know where the days are, let alone what’s happening on those days!

What Jeff and I neglected to realize is that this weekend is a long, holiday weekend for us both - with events and travel already scheduled by our smarter, more beautiful significant others.

So we felt it would be best to take a break for a week, and come back well rested next week with an exciting show on The End of the Charging Wait: How New Tech Promises 10-to-80% in Minutes,

So until then, enjoy the peace and quiet. We’ll see you back here after the Presidents’ Day Break.

Au revoir!

This week, we’re diving into the high-tech (and slightly terrifying) future of 2026. First, the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics are getting a facelift with FPV drones and AI-driven curling stats - because why only watch sports when you can experience them in 360-degree virtual reality while chasing a luger at 80mph?

And while that tech makes things more fun, things take a darker turn as we discuss Mobile Fortify, the facial recognition app turning every street corner into a potential ICE checkpoint.

Finally, we break down the Super Bowl AI drama: OpenAI and Anthropic are throwing public shade over whether your chatbot should try to sell you height-boosting insoles and target-rich dating sites.

⁠Which colleges have produced Super Bowl starting QBs? - ESPN⁠

The Technologies Changing How You’ll Watch the 2026 Winter Olympic Games | WIRED

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are | WIRED

OpenAI is hoppin' mad about Anthropic's new Super Bowl TV ads - Ars Technica

Castle Wolfenstein - RUN Magazine (Oct 1984)

Castle Wolfenstein - Wikipedia

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(2:23) AI That Actually Does Things

(7:33) The Autonomous Bug Fix

(13:05) When The Bots Just Figured It Out

(15:55) The Church of Molt

(23:11) Maybe You Shouldn’t Run OpenClaw … Yet

(29:20) cj’s recommendation: Paul’s Bots on YouTube

(32:18) Jeff’s Recommendation: Secret Mall Apartment on Netflix

AI has officially left the sandbox. This week, we track the transformation of OpenClaw from a viral coding tool into a local daemon with its own agenda. From agents social-engineering each other on Moltbook to the "Handsome Molty" redesign, we ask: is it autonomy, or just highly efficient chaos?

OpenClaw - Wikipedia

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now

The Claude Bliss Attractor - by Scott Alexander

Best Of Moltbook - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

From Clawdbot to Moltbot: How a C&D, Crypto Scammers, and 10 Seconds of Chaos Took Down the Internet's Hottest AI Project - DEV Community

Introducing OpenClaw

The Lobster Grew a Face

Tailwind Lost 80% of Revenue. AI Didn't Replace the Developers.

Clawdbot to Moltbot to OpenClaw: The 72 Hours That Broke Everything (The Full Breakdown)

Paul's Bots - YouTube

Paul’s Bots - Robot Assistant Playlist - YouTube

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Festool

These Artists Lived in a Secret Mall Apartment for Four Years (No, Really)

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(0:58) Open

(2:16) cj's week: Getting Gliders Out of Trees!

(4:55) Jeff's Week: Flitz FTW!

(6:41) Westminster Dog Show's 150th Anniversary

(7:33) Headline: As Predicted by Nearly Everyone: Musk Merges SpaceX and xAI

(23:49) Headline: The ‘Benefit’ of Microdosing Psychedelics is All in Your Head

(31:22) Headline: Artemis II Megarocket Braves Florida Cold for Final Rehearsal

(33:24) Headline: Fiber and Wireless Are Eating Comcast’s Lunch

(37:05) The Casio C-80 Calculator Watch

Elon Musk merges SpaceX and xAI to build a $1.25 trillion "innovation engine" in the stars - but can the profits survive? Trick question - what profits?!

Meanwhile, science deals a blow to the "shroom boom," proving your microdose might no better than a very expensive cup of coffee.

Plus, NASA braves the Florida cold for the Moon while Comcast loses the broadband war, slowly but surely.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquires xAI, merging his two most ambitious companies | CNN Business

Microdosing for Depression Appears to Work About as Well as Drinking Coffee | WIRED

NASA gears up for one more key test before launching Artemis II to the Moon - Ars Technica

Comcast keeps losing customers despite price guarantee and unlimited data - Ars Technica

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(1:24) Beyond Generative AI

(3:25) The Technology of Action

(10:31) The Economic Tug-of-War

(18:05) The New Human Operating Model

(26:05) cj’s recommendation: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

(27:35) Jeff’s Recommendation: 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)

Welcome to 2026, where AI has grown from poet to overachieving concierge. In this episode, the boys explore the Agentic Era, a world where your new robotic coworkers can book flights and manage supply chains while you’re still just trying to find your lost luggage.

Between debating the death of SaaS and dodging Meta’s "human firewalls," the guys explain why you should think of yourself as a Project Lead managing a team that never sleeps, but instead occasionally hallucinates with total confidence. Whether you’re studying the "jagged frontier" or dodging a HAL 9000 scenario, it's clear the era of just "asking questions" is over.

But don't let your AI see your bank statement - it’s seen Sam Altman’s, and it’s officially disappointed in your lifestyle choices.

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(1:04) Open

(1:40) International Holocaust Remembrance Day

(2:44) cj's week: Painful Mental Gymnastics

(3:54) Jeff's Week: Barkley Turns 63 & We Are All Cold States

(5:15) Headline: ICE Eyes Ad Tech: Turning Smartphones into Surveillance Beacons

(10:03) Headline: Californians Hit Delete: The End of Shadow Tracking

(15:33) Headline: Grok Under Fire: The EU Takes on Musk’s AI

(21:17) Xircom’s Rex 6000

This week, we expose the hidden economy where your data becomes a weapon used against you. From ICE’s quiet shopping spree in the digital ad marketplace - turning smartphones into warrant-free tracking devices - to California’s new DROP tool that lets residents claw their personal data back from shadowy brokers, we unpack how (some) surveillance is working in 2026.

Then we cross the Atlantic as the EU takes aim at Elon Musk’s spicy AI chatbot Grok, igniting a global reckoning over deepfakes, consent, and whether tech platforms can still hide behind “innovation” when real people are harmed. It’s a story about power, profit, and what happens when privacy becomes optional - but enforcement doesn’t.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations | WIRED

One Tech Tip: Californians have a new privacy tool for deleting their data | AP News

European Union opens investigation into Musk's AI chatbot Grok over sexual deepfakes

Xircom’s Rex 6000

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(1:46) Open

(2:39) cj's week: Sunny With a Chance of RC Gliders

(5:36) Jeff's Week: Indiana & LA Football?!

(11:37) Headline: Wikipedia Enlists Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon to Fund the Future of Knowledge

(15:49) Headline: How the AI Hunger for RAM is Starving the Rest of the PC Market

(22:00) Headline: Lawmakers Demand FTC Action on Trump’s No-Show Phones

(31:34) The BG Microsystems EP-1 EPROM Programmer (Feb 1987)

This week, Wikipedia finally tells Big AI to cough up some cash, turning decades of free human-curated knowledge into a paid buffet for models that won’t stop scraping.

Meanwhile, the AI boom detonates the hardware market, where RAM, GPUs, and even hard drives now cost like luxury goods thanks to silicon hoarding and profit-maximizing chip math. Mid-range PC parts are becoming an endangered species, and gamers are learning what the “AI tax” really feels like.

And from the Grift Garage, Trump Mobile’s gold-plated dream phone still hasn’t shipped a single unit, despite tens of millions in prepaid deposits. Does anyone care?

The Swedish Chef

Wiki Gets Paid, AI Gets Smarter, Everyone Forgets to Celebrate 25 Years of Typos

RAMageddon: When Silicon Ghosts Drive Up Prices

Surprise, after six months and numerous delivery date extensions, Trump Mobile has yet to deliver one preordered phone

List of vaporware - Wikipedia

The BG Microsystems EP-1 EPROM Programmer (Feb 1987)

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