Bald and Bloviating
A nonpartisan bald news junky talks to his fellow Americans from all political stripes, and dissects top stories and rants about their implications -- along with other personal, science, and tech discussions.
Bald and Bloviating
Latest Episodes
Joshua Adam Tests The Measurement Mind on AI and a Talking Cat
Every time you prompt an AI, a mind flares into existence, crunches its math, and vanishes. Every time you look at the Moon, says Joshua Adam, you set off a brand-new Big Bang. So what separates the two? Joshua locates the answer in continuity:...
AI Marks the Beginning of Mathematics, Not the End, as the Muse Gets Sexier
Cornell mathematician Steve Strogatz cried on The Daily as he told Rachel Abrams that chasing a proof feels like courtship, a slow seduction of a muse who resists, almost yields, then holds out for one more night. Now the AI labs have ended the...
Digger: A Series of Grave Miscalculations
An Oscar-worthy Tom Cruise shines in a movie that dug its own grave, but why?Today on Bald and Bloviating, Mookie Spitz takes on Digger, the Alejandro González Iñárritu satire starring Tom Cruise as an eccentric Arctic ...
Delete the NPCs in Your Life to Win
Mookie flies solo with a rant sparked by getting blocked by a friend of seventeen years and turning around to block someone else right back. He builds out a full philosophy of blocking, treating it as a clean, dignified way to end something tha...
Our AI Honeymoon: Full of Surprises and We're Constantly Getting Screwed
Mookie sits down solo on Bald and Bloviating with a comparison that caught him off guard: the anxious-avoidant relationship that once defined his most significant romantic partnership, and the relationship humanity is building with art...
