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Had this come in: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/labububot/overview/

Still have no intention of getting one but could be a lot of fun!

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Couple of showers over here which is nice. 🙂
Might be quite nice if the price is right, and if it can negotiate and traverse rough terrain. Can it operate off-grid for example? Mass production then may not be entirely in the spirit of the enterprise, in which case raising an issue for it may not elicit a response.
https://github.com/mirandali707/labububot/issues?q=is%3Aissue
Here’s another one from Sceptic:

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What began as a promise of global connection and unlimited access to knowledge has become a hornet’s nest of hatred, distortion, and lies.
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Facebook made “friends” out of strangers; Google made urban labyrinths now navigable and dynamic. E-commerce opened up entire new vistas of opportunity. Micro-loans, made possible by digital technology, would lift developing nations of endemic poverty. The vast, inscrutable world of the pre-digital era had magically become legible. We could discern truth from falsehood, fact from distorted fiction. The panacea was just on the horizon, burnishing the sky with hope.
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The theory of new journalism built on a rejection of neutrality and objectivity would not be quietly embraced by journalists at legacy outlets, but trumpeted in the pages of news outlets across the country. It would become a cause célèbre of journalism in itself.
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The atomization of living life with heads bowed, eyes locked on the device of our hands, is total. The common culture defined by books and magazines is gone. And with it, the shared vocabulary of generally agreed upon fact – the moon landing was a triumph, safely administered vaccines keep populations healthy, biological reality exists, and a complex dynamic of politics and markets, not a shady cabal of uber-rich Jews, determines the course of nations – has been dispatched

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Only two weeks after his shot, Shem has become almost immobile in a rather speedy downgrade to Stage 4 End-Stage Osteoarthritis. Difficulty with his eat/drink/motions now as well. Oh well, best to keep him comfortable in his basket for a while, looks like time for the needle in any case. 🙁
On a rather cheerier note, a few showers coming in for tomorrow which is nice. Weather behaving your way?

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The Labubu bot may need treads before it can adequately roll on various terrain. Not hard to do: gluing rubber mats to it may be the ticket. Will definitely need to look at the project in more detail.

The readme is kind of light on details, though. Definitely needs more fleshing out.

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Only two weeks after his shot, Shem has become almost immobile in a rather speedy downgrade to Stage 4 End-Stage Osteoarthritis. Difficulty with his eat/drink/motions now as well. Oh well, best to keep him comfortable in his basket for a while, looks like time for the needle in any case. 🙁
On a rather cheerier note, a few showers coming in for tomorrow which is nice. Weather behaving your way?

🙁 How old is he now?

We’re starting to get more regular rain, which is nice. We’ve already lost a lot of trees with others in desperate need of water. The neighborhood is definitely going to need to do some replanting once the drought ends.

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Another issue for the Labubu mob, arranging for it to be fitted with a vacuum hose for the gathering dust in our houses. And a playlist of cheerful whistles to get it across the task!
He’s gone to a better place now:

Next to some canna lilies in an area kept fallow for years now, and come over a little grassy. They will bloom for sure next year at least.
And to cap it all off, a filling along with some enamel shrapnel has removed itself in order to bring in more cheer for the coming winter.
More rain though which is nice.

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Could possibly cannibalize a few robot vacuums for parts to get the Labubu heads to suck up dirt 😛

🙁 Good choice on site. I like to keep my dogs’ ashes in the living room so that they’re always nearby 🙂

We’re getting some rain as expected, finally. Not a whole lot but it is better than nothing.

Got to thinking recently, we need a knowledge vault in addition to the seed vault. What’s the use of storing all of that food supplies if we won’t have the tools to use it to rebuild? Would need to manned around the clock just in case something happens so the various locations would need, ideally, at least three teams each taking eight hour shifts (or less, depending on how many shifts are used). Would also need to have the locations spread around the globe and all contents translated in multiple languages. Getting everyone to cooperate on this endeavor is another matter entirely.

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