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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 10h

How would slowing those down help the Trump family stock portfolio?

Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 05/10/2026

This is where "AI-as-marketing-term" really fails the casual observer. Machine vision for weed detection is not particularly related to LLMs at all. It's like saying ketchup is a vegetable.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 05/10/2026

Yes, because if anybody makes a wave it might have an impact on the real business of America: quarterly enshittification profits.

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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If your news network is interviewing a guy who claims he spent 18 days in heaven hanging out with Jesus, that is not actually a news network.

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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

COMIC: 100 Billion Stars

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Hot Metal and Methadrine @unityandsolidarity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So It’s another fucking Ponzi scheme to funnel tax dollars to these dipshits. In my 17 years/7 combat tours fighting in the GWOT, never once did it occur to me “you know what would improve this? Some ketamine addled nazi dipshit, a fat, smarmy ham faced fuck, and a failed video game developer.”

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 30/09/2026

Also cell phone companies don't say you're barred from calling Philadelphia if you have a history of calling Philadelphia.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 30/09/2026

My boy has genetic kidney disease and was uninsurable in the United States. It's literally one of the reasons we moved to Puerto Rico, which had universal coverage by law before the ACA made it national. Rick Scott might technically be human, but I don't want him.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 30/09/2026

We've got some cousins who are deaf. (Weirdly, the family always refers to them that way; I'm assuming one of them is an actual cousin and married another deaf person.) Anyway, they got their house really, really cheap because of its proximity to the Indianapolis airport.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 28/09/2026

Joke's on him, Puerto Rico is also part of the entire United States but our power company already blacks us out on a regular basis. Way ahead of the game!

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

eliezer yudcosby. come on guys. make this catch on

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 23/09/2026

They could go the Vance route and beg for another two years to complete the homework. That might even resonate with Trump voters.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 23/09/2026

So who stole the money that was supposed to have been spent on the bodycams? Isn't the GOP hyperfocused on government spending fraud?

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 21/09/2026

"Can't hear what the President's saying." Honestly, who gives a fuck what he's saying? It's some kind of hateful and self-serving lie, whatever it is.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 20/09/2026

He really wants to be in the position of an occupying force in the United States. Aches for it, yearns for it.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 20/09/2026

Hey, my kid played soccer in Dayton, too! But indoors in Englewood, not in that vasty expanse of Midwest flatness there.

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Particle board, particle board There’s a big pile on the office floor What in the world are we saving it for? Nobody knows Particle board

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 18/09/2026

It might be more retail than wholesale, but one thing we have now that makes *me* less stupid is levothyroxine.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

David Heinemeier Hansson called for the extermination of Romani people, comparing them to animals. An entire roster of tech tycoons responded by each personally giving him $1 million for his open source software project, even though he’s already wealthy enough to have a personal race car team.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 18/09/2026

"If you wouldn't keep insisting you were human we wouldn't have to be so overt about white supremacy," basically. It's not their fault you've driven them to be so open by continuing to exist.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 17/09/2026

And - knowing them - why do you allow them to escape containment?

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 17/09/2026

the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to start a sex cult as somebody nobody would ever want to have sex with

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 17/09/2026

Be an even bigger shame if they were penalized and/or jailed for destruction of public property.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 17/09/2026

The Roku Basilisk: if you don't actively contribute to the formation of superintelligent AI, its eventual inevitable embodiment will resurrect a simulation of you and force you to watch an infinite amount of cheap TV.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 16/09/2026

Part of it's even nuttier. If they had the chance to create superintelligence and *refused*, then they think the superintelligent AI will simulate their minds a billion times over in unimaginable suffering because it will be angry they didn't help create it. And they think it's inevitable.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 15/09/2026

This wicker man plan is gathering momentum, what can I say

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 15/09/2026

lmk beforehand because I will fly there and help with the wicker man

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 14/09/2026

"Your cat is metabolically weird." "Yeah, runs in the family." "You're ... not the same species." "Weird is *weird*."

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 14/09/2026

I had that experience with a mosquito zapper racket once. Well. More than once.

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Michael Roberts is categorically not building machetebots @vivtek.com · 14/09/2026

I waited years to show my kid the Matrix and he was like, meh, it seems kind of old-fashioned.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So how about this for a "pause AI" proposal: "pause credulous AI reporting". No more media about "breakthroughs" or "rogue agent swarms" or ... UNLESS and UNTIL that media demands the actual empirical evidence and/or focuses on the motivations of & harms by these companies.

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