Can the Hot AI Robits Be a Bit More Beguilingly Sad? (CIB #257)

We plow through the news that caught our attention this week and wonder about a future that promises to feed our eyeballs with images and information that we know cannot be relied upon to contain any truth value. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!Show RundownOpen — Not RUSHing to our local arena3:20 — Abe explains the shutdown5:07 — WGAS NewsBag; Baseless speculation about Trump’s bad brain, baseless speculation about the gender status of famous women, Taylor Swift’s new record31:33 — Our Bogus Future is an AI-generated anti-reality nightmare59:19 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:07:28 — Wrap-up! The Smashing MachineRelevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.