Sam Altman’s “Worldcoin” is real… and somehow it’s even weirder than it sounds.

TJ walks the crew through the orb, iris scans, “proof of human,” and the pitch for AI-funded UBI.

We break down the funding, the rollout, the controversies, and why this all feels insanely ominous.

Plus: classic Standup chaos, conspiracy energy, and too many jokes about where the orb shouldn’t go.

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Casey breaks down the AWS outage in great detail with literally the coolest whiteboard demonstration you have ever seen.

Jon Blow shows up to the podcast and tells us all about the journey from Braid to his newest game, Order of the Sinking Star. We talk Jai, Braid and so much more. Hope you enjoy the episode!

We each give our best and spiciest predictions for 2026 - Amazon, AI, Tech, Hacks, and so much more are in this episode.

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Thanks to Planetscale for Open Source Santa this year! They gave us $30k to give away to open source projects we love, and so each of us picked a project we liked. We also gave some money from twitch chat, youtube chat and some final surprises! We hope you like the episode! Merry Christmas!!

We finally figured out WHY AWS had their outage… Casey reveals the absolutely unhinged and crazy story.

00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:54 - Caseys Intro
00:01:15 - The Setup
00:02:55 - The Story
00:08:44 - The Post Mortem
00:12:11 - The Informants
00:14:10 - The Suspect
00:15:34 - The Code
00:20:33 - The Deal
00:23:05 - The Conclusion
00:24:37 - The Debrief
00:26:40 - Google Testing Utility Failure
00:28:43 - Production Code is Forever
00:40:10 - Outro

The gang talks about the craziest onboarding ever… and why Tom is a Genius!

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