The one where Jim got replaced with Diana
03/14/23 • 78 min
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) couldn't bring Jim with him to Japan so we replaced him with Diana (https://twitter.com/dianasoyster) and she was the best co-host/guest you could ask for! The one is a truly off-topic session, so much so that we didn't actually follow many of our starter points. But we did cover:
- Bidets
- Vending machines
- VR influence to save the virtual world https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-64862006
- Mushroom clothes! https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64810935
- Robot restaurant servers
- Square watermelons
- Parking garage elevators
- Driving system
Enjoy the truly random conversation we had, we enjoyed having it
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) couldn't bring Jim with him to Japan so we replaced him with Diana (https://twitter.com/dianasoyster) and she was the best co-host/guest you could ask for! The one is a truly off-topic session, so much so that we didn't actually follow many of our starter points. But we did cover:
- Bidets
- Vending machines
- VR influence to save the virtual world https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-64862006
- Mushroom clothes! https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64810935
- Robot restaurant servers
- Square watermelons
- Parking garage elevators
- Driving system
Enjoy the truly random conversation we had, we enjoyed having it
Previous Episode
What the heck does international tomato trolling have to do with time shares?
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) are at it again, did you miss the tangential chat? The odd directions the conversation goes in this episode are truly off-topic, but our starter topics are:
- Trongate, the legendary new PHP Framework
- New Relic is hiring! That was an expensive mistake
- ChatGPT Articles and Avatar 2 gaslighting - https://twitter.com/MovingToTheSun/status/1625156575202537474
- Google wants people to share a desk - https://fortune.com/2023/02/23/google-returning-staff-share-desks-partner-maximize-office-space-tidiness-expectations-rotational-model/
- The tomato thing is real - https://www.itv.com/news/2023-02-24/europeans-mock-uk-shoppers-over-tomato-shortage-but-is-brexit-to-blame
- What on EARTH did Purple Bricks DO https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64678984
- 15-minute cities are a MARXIST CONSPIRACY
And the usual off-topic tangents.
Next Episode
Stuart Langridge (@sil) is a true wonder of the world, off-topic is default setting!
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz https://mastodon.social/@ukmadlz) and co-host Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej https://phpc.social/@SecondeJ) gather for the first time in a while and are joined by Stuart Langridge (https://twitter.com/sil https://mastodon.social/@sil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Langridge). The usual variety of social tech chat goes truly off the rails to the point where it's more teachable moments than tech discussion. But some of what we cover is:
- Elon is against Chat GPT 4+ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/pause-ai-development-open-letter-warning/
- Don't deploy on Friday horseshit is BACK https://twitter.com/allenholub/status/1637111242610610182?t=EBkSZzQ6-zVpZ0I5lC4s4g&s=19
- Dilbert
- Twitter outage two weeks ago was because they fired everyone with access to mint certs https://izzodlaw.com/@IzzoD/110001516908481048
- You can't avoid politics in tech sometimes https://twitter.com/AlyssaM_InfoSec/status/1637383087020548096
The topics list was a lot longer, and this is all we got to. I think we hit a new level of off-topic with this episode, so enjoy.
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