Just this morning, I was watching/listening to Canal26 News from Buenos Aires, which I recently found streaming on YouTube. To my relief, it is somewhat less infected with the woke mind virus than RTVE from Spain. I hear only sporadic references to the "extrema derecha" there. Nevertheless, the news readers were glibly and cheerfully rel…
Just this morning, I was watching/listening to Canal26 News from Buenos Aires, which I recently found streaming on YouTube. To my relief, it is somewhat less infected with the woke mind virus than RTVE from Spain. I hear only sporadic references to the "extrema derecha" there. Nevertheless, the news readers were glibly and cheerfully relaying a story of a "robot de seguridad" patrolling an area resembling an outdoor food court somewhere in the US, I didn't catch where specifically.
This robot was shaped and colored like an elongated egg, hardly threatening in appearance. I wonder if these news readers ever break away from the teleprompters long enough to consider what ominous portents these are.
During covid madness I saw a report on the patrol robot dogs prowling around a common area. I thought to myself - what if I sneaked up behind it and threw a fish net over it - would it stumble and become disabled?
"The Hound half rose in its kennel and looked at him with green-blue neon light flickering in its suddenly activated eye bulbs. It growled again, a strange rasping combination of electrical sizzle, a frying sound, a scraping of metal, a turning of cogs that seemed rusty and ancient with suspicion.
'No, no, boy,' said Montag, his heart pounding.
He saw the silver needle extend upon the air an inch, pull back, extend, pull back. The growl simmered in the beast and it looked at him.
Montag backed up. The Hound took a step from its kennel. Montag grabbed the brass pole with one hand. The pole, reacting, slid upward, and took him through the ceiling, quietly. He stepped off in the half-lit deck of the upper level. He was trembling and his face was green-white. Below, the Hound had sunk back down upon its eight incredible insect legs and was humming to itself again, its multifaceted eyes at peace."
Just this morning, I was watching/listening to Canal26 News from Buenos Aires, which I recently found streaming on YouTube. To my relief, it is somewhat less infected with the woke mind virus than RTVE from Spain. I hear only sporadic references to the "extrema derecha" there. Nevertheless, the news readers were glibly and cheerfully relaying a story of a "robot de seguridad" patrolling an area resembling an outdoor food court somewhere in the US, I didn't catch where specifically.
This robot was shaped and colored like an elongated egg, hardly threatening in appearance. I wonder if these news readers ever break away from the teleprompters long enough to consider what ominous portents these are.
During covid madness I saw a report on the patrol robot dogs prowling around a common area. I thought to myself - what if I sneaked up behind it and threw a fish net over it - would it stumble and become disabled?
"The Hound half rose in its kennel and looked at him with green-blue neon light flickering in its suddenly activated eye bulbs. It growled again, a strange rasping combination of electrical sizzle, a frying sound, a scraping of metal, a turning of cogs that seemed rusty and ancient with suspicion.
'No, no, boy,' said Montag, his heart pounding.
He saw the silver needle extend upon the air an inch, pull back, extend, pull back. The growl simmered in the beast and it looked at him.
Montag backed up. The Hound took a step from its kennel. Montag grabbed the brass pole with one hand. The pole, reacting, slid upward, and took him through the ceiling, quietly. He stepped off in the half-lit deck of the upper level. He was trembling and his face was green-white. Below, the Hound had sunk back down upon its eight incredible insect legs and was humming to itself again, its multifaceted eyes at peace."
Chapter 1,
Fahrenheit 451,
Ray Bradbury,
Published 1953
Life imitating art. Seems to be more common nowadays.
I say - no robot can outsmart the meemanator. I don't think I can do the pole vault thingy though. I'll have to figure out something else.