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Don't Know, Do Care

Don't Know, Do Care

By: Ashmita Prakhar and Sandy
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 Curious minds welcome, clueless takes guaranteed! Don't Know, Do Care is a curious mix of comedy, commentary, and casually intense learning. Every episode, one of us brings a topic the others know nothing about and tries to "educate" them, just enough for them to feign interest. Do we learn anything? Absolutely not. Do we care about the topic? Probably not. Are we curious, though? Potentially yes. We're not experts by any stretch of our already stretched imagination, but we're just trying to get a bit smarter, one strange question at a time. Curiosity might have killed a cat, but will it kill us? Only time will tell. Join us on our journey to learn something you didn't know you cared about.2025
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  • Don't Know Why GenAI is a Ponzi Scheme

    Don't Know Why GenAI is a Ponzi Scheme
    Feb 16 2026
    In this episode, we ask a question that feels mildly illegal to say out loud in 2026: is Generative AI basically a Ponzi scheme? From OpenAI's eye-watering losses to Nvidia selling $40,000 GPUs like they're limited-edition sneakers, we unpack the very small circle of companies pumping billions into each other while insisting this is the future of humanity. Microsoft invests in OpenAI. Nvidia invests in companies that buy Nvidia chips. Those companies build data centers to power tools that still hallucinate confidently incorrect nonsense. Everyone claps. The debt piles up. Repeat. This episode is peak comedy commentary meets uncomfortable finance reality. It's offbeat learning about GPUs, venture capital, debt bubbles, and data centre mania, packed with quirky insights into how circular investing works when everyone is funding everyone else. Consider it lighthearted education about a not-so-light situation, blending tech skepticism with the kind of random topics that somehow connect Silicon Valley egos, environmental destruction, and your LinkedIn feed. If you've ever wondered who is actually making money in the AI boom, this episode might ruin the vibe. In the best way. Important links: 1. Zuckerberg's Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI - https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mark-zuckerberg-ai-digital-future-0bb04de7 2. How AI Datacenters Eat the World - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhqoTku-HAA 3. The leading generative AI companies - https://iot-analytics.com/leading-generative-ai-companies/ 4. NVIDIA H100 Price Guide 2026: GPU Costs, Cloud Pricing & Buy vs Rent - https://docs.jarvislabs.ai/blog/h100-price 5. Inside the world's most powerful AI datacenter - https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/18/inside-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-datacenter/ 6. Nvidia-backed Nscale raises $1.1bn in investor frenzy over AI infrastructure - https://www.ft.com/content/43fa049a-5d89-42f6-a657-36c42dd88fce 7. Tracking NScale's funding - https://platform.tracxn.com/a/d/company/58be5446e4b0b138a464d258/nscale.com#a:funding-and-investors 8. Nscale Contracts Approximately 200,000 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs with Microsoft to Deliver NVIDIA AI Infrastructure Across Europe and the U.S. - https://www.nscale.com/press-releases/nscale-microsoft-2025 9. The Oracle and Nvidia shebang - https://x.com/SullyOmarr/status/1970176527137718654 10. Nscale Announces $433 Million Pre-Series C SAFE, Building on Historic $1.1B Series B Momentum - https://www.nscale.com/press-releases/nscale-pre-series-c-safe 11. Here's why concerns about an AI bubble are bigger than ever - https://www.npr.org/2025/11/23/nx-s1-5615410/ai-bubble-nvidia-openai-revenue-bust-data-centers 12. MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing - https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/ 13. 55% of businesses admit wrong decisions in making employees redundant when bringing AI into the workforce - https://www.orgvue.com/news/55-of-businesses-admit-wrong-decisions-in-making-employees-redundant-when-bringing-ai-into-the-workforce/ 14. Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back - https://futurism.com/klarna-openai-humans-ai-back Don't Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who'd rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don't know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don't Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen!
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Don't Know About the Logistics of Valentines Day

    Don't Know About the Logistics of Valentines Day
    Feb 9 2026
    If you're listening to this around Valentine's Day, there's a good chance you've recently participated in one of the world's most aggressive annual rituals of romance, panic, and procurement. In this episode, we take a long, uncomfortable look at Valentine's Day, not as a celebration of love, but as a perfectly engineered, brutally efficient global logistics operation disguised as candlelight and overpriced roses. We peel back the soft-focus UI and dig into the operating system underneath. From why Valentine's Day accounts for up to 40% of annual florist revenue, to how nearly 250 million roses are grown, cut, refrigerated, flown across continents, and delivered within a non-negotiable 72-hour window, this is offbeat learning at its most industrial. Love, it turns out, is less about emotion and more about timing, because flowers don't get delayed, they die. By the end, Valentine's Day looks less like a romantic milestone and more like a textbook case of planned obsolescence, where romance is profitable only if it expires on schedule. It's one of those random topics that, once you see the machinery behind it, becomes impossible to unsee. Love may be priceless, but expressing it apparently comes with a refrigerated, air-freighted, non-negotiable bill. Important links: 1. Valentine's Day Wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day 2. More history of Valentine's Day - https://www.mentalfloss.com/holidays/valentines-day-horrible-historical-events 3. Yet another Valentine's Day origin story - https://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day 4. Fairtrade Flowers in High Demand for Valentine's Day -https://supplychaindigital.com/procurement/ethical-rose-procurement-for-guilt-free-valentines 5. Valentine's Day Trends and Statistics - https://www.storyly.io/post/valentines-day-trends-and-statistics 6. Valentine's Day Spending Trends - https://floristsreview.com/valentines-day-spending-trends/ 7. Flower Logistics from Kenya - https://cargo.flowers/en/blog/post/flower-logistics-from-kenya?utm_source=chatgpt.com 8. The flower power of Valentine's Day - https://airport-world.com/the-flower-power-of-valentines-day/?utm_source=chatgpt.com 9. Temporary Beauty: The Environmental Impact of Cut Flowers - https://atmos.earth/art-and-culture/cut-flowers-environmental-carbon-cost-facts/?utm_source=chatgpt.com 10. Hidden Costs of Valentine's Day Flowers - https://www.reeveconsulting.com/2023/02/07/hidden-costs-of-valentines-day-flowers/?utm_source=chatgpt.com 11. Yes, your mother loves the flowers, but maybe not the cost of flying them in - https://theicct.org/yes-your-mother-loves-the-flowers-but-maybe-not-the-cost-of-flying-them-in/ 12. Overview of flower production in Sub-Saharan Africa - https://verite.org/initiative/africa/commodities/flowers/?utm_source=chatgpt.com 13. French group issues Valentine's Day warning that cut flowers have a variety of pesticides - https://apnews.com/article/valentine-flowers-pesticides-france-ufcque-choisir-91b99d1007ec90455a4fcd1497e5d1d0 14. The Slow Flowers Movement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Flowers?utm_source=chatgpt.com Don't Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who'd rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all. Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don't know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week. Don't Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen!
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Don't Know Why Walking Into Rooms Erases Memory

    Don't Know Why Walking Into Rooms Erases Memory
    Feb 2 2026

    Have you ever walked into a room and completely forgotten why you're there; not in a poetic, existential way, but in a deeply annoying, brain-just-crashed way? This episode starts there and then happily spirals into the many ways our minds glitch, misfire, and occasionally gaslight us for no apparent reason.

    We explore a bunch of everyday brain "glitches", not mental illnesses or rare disorders, just extremely common psychological bugs that most of us experience and have collectively decided to ignore. As always, this all comes packaged as comedy commentary with plenty of quirky insights and lighthearted education, including a game segment where we try to figure out which brain glitches are real and which ones are just psychology-flavoured nonsense. The result is a joyful mess of random topics, memory failures, optical illusions, fake disorders, and the comforting realisation that your brain isn't broken, it's just doing what any overworked system does from time to time: glitch.

    So the next time you feel like the universe is sending you a sign, maybe pause for a second. It's probably just your brain rebooting mid-task, and honestly, that's way less scary.

    Important links:

    1. Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/

    2. Why Time Seems to Slow Down in Emergencies - https://www.livescience.com/2117-time-slow-emergencies.html

    3. What's the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon? - https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/baader-meinhof-phenomenon.htm

    4. All to know about the McCollough Effect - https://www.businessinsider.com/optical-illusion-mccollough-effect-2018-11

    5. What Is Capgras Syndrome? - https://www.verywellmind.com/capgras-syndrome-7100791

    Don't Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who'd rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all.

    Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don't know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week.

    Don't Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen!
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    1 hr and 23 mins
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