I am an information technology omnivore

One last post before I batten down the hatches and push through this last week of work on the east coast.
I wrote the following in response to TiCK’s commentary on the Fox News vs Channers video that’s been rolling round the internet.
TiCK posted:
I read that shit all the time and I don’t give [...]

This is from the NYT Mag article linked in the last post.
I thought Leo (at MIT, of course) deserved special attention:
The reason the robot, called Leonardo (Leo for short), is so lifelike is that it was made by Hollywood animatronics experts at the Stan Winston Studio. (Breazeal consulted with the studio on the construction [...]

I’ve received a lot of links.
Some are great
a lot of them stink
Oh, the links I get!
Just this past week
I’ve received a lot of links
Because apparently
when people read of weed
they think of me.
Oh, the links I get!
My reputation may not be high
But I don’t worry. Don’t stew.
I also get links about AI
and robots towering in [...]

I’ve wanted to post this video for a while, but YouTube only had a crappy cam of it. It is by far the best part of the ATHF movie

Watch this.

The title is a quote from Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto (1985). Here’s the relevant passage:
The third distinction is a subset of the second: the boundary between physical and non-physical is very imprecise for us. Pop physics books on the consequences of quantum theory and the indeterminacy principle are a kind of popular scientific equivalent [...]