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The Transsexual Chofetz Chaim

Mutant, librarian, poet, union rabble rouser, dog, Ashkenazi Jewish. Neuroweird, bodyweird, mostly sleepy.

I write about transformative justice, community, love, Judaism, Neurodivergence, mental health, Disability, geography, rivers, labor, and libraries; through poetry, opinionated essays, and short fiction.

I review Schoolhouse Rock! songs at @PropagandaRock

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shoutouts to the japanese furry grad student who convinced his school to let him build a robot tail and then got it into SIGGRAPH 2019

link to the actual paper, although the above image pretty much covers everything

dude spoke basically zero english and had to work his way through a presentation more or less phonetically, but he fuckin did it

I love how every part of it is trying to wrap the concept in Serious Academic Language but it's still incredibly clear that the actual motivation is "DUDE TAILS ARE COOL AS HELL. EVERYONE WANTS A TAIL, AND I AM GOING TO HAVE ONE", and then also the academic language worked and it got accepted into Literally Siggraph

what a legend

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This was the one year I actually attended siggraph, so I actually got to try this thing. They had it set up at a booth on the expo floor. Unfortunately it was mainly controlled through a joystick and the whole thing seemed pretty fragile, so the person running the booth had control of it instead of the person wearing it

When I tried it they were basically demonstrating the "haptic feedback" mode which was effectively "hey look when it moves it alters your center of gravity" and then they move it and you're like "yep that sure did alter my center of gravity"

the paper talks about having it analyze posture and respond in realtime and I'm still really curious how well that would actually work in practice

cool as hell in any case

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hell this is really cool. if it could be made slimmer and had fake fur on it, I'd want one immediately. I've seen people make robotic tails but this one seems pretty advanced compared to most of those that swing from side to side.

also the other paper mentioned about robotic arms controlled with your feet?? rad stuff, this is the part of the cyberpunk dystopia that I need more of in my life.

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