Aria~Bird

@Fancy-Pigeon

Anxiety Abundant, Deeply Depressive

She / Her

Trans bird girl trying her best! 26, Ace, and looking for ways to retry my younger years.

Aria~Bird @Fancy-Pigeon8/9/2023, 8:39 PM

Otter Arriving on Platform 1 @art-kitkat

gravis again @cathoderaydude4/6/2023, 5:24 AM

it's constantly funny what furries did with robot characters because like

people have been upset about Robots Taking Our Jobs for decades and the flipside worry is that they can do the jobs better. sci-fi posits impossibly strong and incredibly quick androids that are indistinguishable from humans and extremely lethal. furries are just like "he only cares about fucking" or "aaaaaaa h he does everything wrong and , does not have the latest software updates

#clive the protogen

Average Choster @IkomaTanomori4/6/2023, 7:13 AM

Furries, obviously, are correct

Eternal life as a machine? Buddy, show me a computer that stays relevant for 15 years, hell one that stays working for 8 is rare enough! Machines with moving parts? Even worse! It's not like the human body isn't a machine with moving parts to start! And that's a self repairing system, I can't imagine dealing with metal fatigue.

I welcome the attempted takeover of the clumsy, horny, patchily updated, scratch built, prototype protogen furry bots and drones. It will be hilarious.

#furry #furry culture #protogen #drone #bot #robot #robot x human

gravis again @cathoderaydude4/6/2023, 7:31 AM

this is why clive is outdated. because that's Computer anyway. people who collect them (like me) are surrounding themselves with machines that were proud of being relevant... for the eight months they were relevant. before the next Mac came out; before the next PC came out; before the next Intel chip came out and suddenly the "i7 10th gen" that looked like a freshly waxed paint job three weeks ago now looks like a clapped out east coast oldsmobile. and very rapidly the aches and pains stack up and become intolerable, and what was a Bitchin Rig turns into a machine you can't get anyone to take. you can't throw it away, though. so it goes in the corner, and sits, and eventually gets relegated to some menial task.

clive is no longer useful. he is still here, though

Just Another Apocryphal Mess @apocryphalmess4/6/2023, 2:35 PM

fiction concept: an electronics recycler in a cyberpunk/capitalist hellscape future, sharing his interesting finds along the lines of what @atomicthumbs sometimes posts

who the hell recycled this? there's thirty-two -licensed- copies of IBM NeoWatson on this thing and they have more legal rights than I do, so I can't just break it down for parts. hell, i have to keep it plugged into the grid or I could be charged for existential dataharm, christ. thank god the guys doing intake didn't cut the power cord off this one.

does anyone know a good intellect law specialist in the midCal area? or someone who can help me track down who left this at the loading dock? this is way above my paygrade and my boss is just telling me to throw it into the bay and make it somebody else's problem, but my roommate is a shiny and I'll never be able to look at them in the face again if I did that

#fiction #microfiction #cyberpunk #electronics #electronics recycling #science fiction #ai #artificial intelligence #Robots

You must log in to comment.

in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

Geight @Geight4/6/2023, 5:28 AM

In many cases they are also still extremely lethal

gravis again @cathoderaydude4/6/2023, 5:28 AM

yeah but a) incidentally and b) the other guy probably didn't make much effort to avoid it

@garudina4/6/2023, 5:31 AM

-paperclip optimizer +paperclip fetishist

Nadia Rain Chassis @softchassis4/6/2023, 5:32 AM

Furrys' ideas of robots add so much humanity to robots. I'm just furry adjacent and all my ideas for robots are like "it's an old IBM computer but a robot. Give it some time it's trying its best"

@garudina4/6/2023, 5:34 AM

their fursona is bonzi buddy

Nadia Rain Chassis @softchassis4/6/2023, 5:36 AM

When they get sick they get interrogated like asking a dog if they ate something out of the trash except you turn their screen on and they have a dozen dubious toolbars covering their facial features

Scribble Sheep @Scribble-Sheep4/6/2023, 5:53 AM

Yeah, I think it's that case where like, people latch onto characters with flaws. When it's sitting there frozen and waiting for its processor to finish, we can relate, lol

sleepiest queer in vol'dun 🦊💤@ShugoWah4/6/2023, 5:32 AM

a computer that i actually Like

Geight @Geight4/6/2023, 6:15 AM

a computer I might win an argument with

walking mirage @atomicthumbs4/6/2023, 6:55 AM

a computer, and a lover

JNP-3R @JNP-3R4/6/2023, 1:28 PM

I mean, a lot of us are neurodivergent and find clunky old machines to be relatable, and a lot of us are also into kink... I'd say it tracks.

Plus I've always found "robot as exploration of alienation from the rest of humanity" to be more compelling than "robot as bogeyman 'cuz they're like, so inhuman".

Lupi @lupi4/6/2023, 1:48 PM

to furries who are already deep in the species and shape anarchy, a robot is just another kind of guy

F4R-A413 @fara-smole4/11/2023, 8:56 AM

love me some pathetic horny little robot mans

in reply to @IkomaTanomori's post:

@secrets4/8/2023, 4:28 AM

For consumer electronics absolutely but it's not infrequent I run into working CNC machines older than I am, grime-slathered monoliths of monochrome CRTs and dead languages and hatred that only two old men in the country still know how to work with, but are still the beating heart of some industry not so much because nothing newer can do the job as because the old men have forgotten how to get the gcode back out of them and you'd have to demolish the building to remove them anyway. Who among us can hope to age so gracefully?

Average Choster @IkomaTanomori4/8/2023, 6:05 AM

Those machines are good examples of how the lifespan of such a machine is at best roughly the same as a human. But they do also offer the hope that if things were designed to different purposes, more (though not, I don't think, infinite - entropy will have its due in the end) longevity might well be possible. Though perhaps "bureaucratic inertia" is not the principle or purpose we should aim to emulate, exactly, as good a story as the actually existing ancient crusty computers make.

in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

godspeed you! big animal @niss4/6/2023, 3:00 PM

clive's use is in making us all very happy and he is excellent at that task

in reply to @apocryphalmess's post:

gravis again @cathoderaydude4/6/2023, 4:45 PM

I had sort of a cripplingly depressing parallel notion a couple years ago, which was "scavenger who goes through junkyards finding devices with AIs that nobody ever bothered to turn off and putting them out of their misery"

Just Another Apocryphal Mess @apocryphalmess4/6/2023, 5:03 PM

the cable he plugs into the devices to wipe the AIs is called a misericorde

[edit] dammit, there's supposed to be a strikethrough on the "e" but it's invisible because there's already a line there