After Things Podcast

The episode opens with a discussion of UFOs as a seemingly bipartisan or "safe" conspiracy topic, then widens into a broader debate about how conspiracy beliefs and pseudoscience can be culturally coded. The hosts compare UFOs, astrology, Bigfoot, spiritualism, QAnon, flat earth, and simulation theory, with recurring skepticism about how much of these ideas come from evidence versus narrative-building or paranoia about hidden control. Evidence: the group explicitly talks about UFOs as a bipartisan conspiracy theory, then moves through pseudoscience coding and flat-earth/simulation speculation (L45-L49, L57-L66, L73-L85, L89-L97, L113-L117). After the UFO talk, the conversation shifts into a long practical and technical digression on human perception, foveated rendering, ray tracing, and graphics hardware, using Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest Pro as examples. That leads into a separate segment on memory techniques: Andrew says he wants to remember books, authors, and sources better for critical thinking, Bria