The State Is Coming For Your Roomba

The popular pastime of modern democracies of punishing the diligent and thrifty, while rewarding the lazy, improvident, and unthrifty, is cultivated via the State, fulfilling a demo-egalitarian program based on a demo-totalitarian ideology.

Viral: Humanoid Robot Kicks Chinese Kid In The Stomach During Public Demonstration Authored by Jijo Malayil via Interesting Engineering, A humanoid robot demonstration has sparked safety concerns after a video circulating on social media appeared to show a Unitree G1 robot accidentally kicking a young child during a public event. The robot, which was performing a roundhouse kick while wearing a blue clown wig, struck the child in the stomach, causing the youngster to double over in pain. The incident has reignited debate over the safe deployment of advanced humanoid robots in crowded...

Net Zero Fearmongering In Tatters After Climate Report 'Implausibility' Ruling Authored by Chris Morrison via DailySceptic.org, The fallout from the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ruling that computer model high emissions pathway RCP8.5 is “implausible” is only just beginning. Most mainstream media fearmongering stories over the last 15 years need to be moved into the junk file, as do the increasingly shrill sandwich-board pronouncements of King Charles and Sir David Attenborough. But the rot goes much deeper than ill-informed public comment, although that alone has been enormously influential in promoting...