Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this - gonna try posting last week's thread a different way this time)
I didn't really understand just how absurd this is before looking up the robot.
It is essentially Furby on wheels. It has extremely slick marketing, makes weird cooing sounds, has a weird camera sprouting out of it's head like a fungus, has big LED eyes, scoots around randomly, ~~stores your face on the cloud~~ "remembers up to 1000 people", and you can (as the kids say) boop the snoot. That's about it.
I'm trying to imagine someone going "Lovot, sometimes I don't want to go on. I'm sorry I didn't mean that. Thank you for always listening" and it being all "coo chirp gigigi tweeeee" while wiggling it's stupid little Lovot arms... and I just can't.
That chirping, scooting and flapping is bafflingly expensive for furby-level engagement too. This video on their official YouTube account speaks better to that evaluation than I think it intends. Video description: A man is busy working and doing chores while mostly ignoring his Lovot. (Currently working invidious link)
1024 GPU cores, 32 Tensor cores and 8 CPU cores (from their product description) to power that. Resources well spent. ~/s~
Image description: A smiling child holds a brown-faced cream-outfitted Lovot in the blurry foreground. In the background a cream-faced brown-outfitted Lovot peers around the corner, watching them from behind. It is unclear whether the Lovot is engaging in voyeurism, jealousy, or some other suspicious act.