Ugh, continuing the dialog of Levy, Pearson, and Realbotix, all of whom are violently overquoted at this point. Levy’s original thesis was boring and heteronormative when it was published almost 20 years ago, and is worse while not having been redeveloped at all now. Pearson is also well know for “women will implant ipods in their breasts” and what not, he’s the futurist you can get to say anything for a good daily mail quote. Realbotix basically exists to get press at CES and that’s about it.
Glad that the article does take the whole subject to task but I’m just kinda ready to move on to something more useful. It’s a continued media engagement over things that were vacuous to begin with.
(Granted I work in the industry so this is also a case of massive overexposure heh.)
There’s interesting stuff happening in sex tech, but sex with robots sure ain’t it.
Akili Interactive, who made the product this 2020 report is about, eventually SPAC’d their way public but ended up being sold off to private equity in March 2024.
I'm not actually good enough at anything to be tempted to cheat, even if I were persuaded to become ethically OK with it. But if I were, I think that's where I'd start. Oh, some game is blocking a specific model? A recompile of the firmware says look at me, I'm a Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard!
Hah thats right. I did get some parts to try to update the other one you are referring to, but given all my projects it has not made it near the top of the queue yet.
> With repos titled "buttplug-rs-ffi" and “buttplug-xamarin-apps,” it seems like you're trying to make sure every platform knows just how much you care about "intimate hardware control," but really, are you just trying to make it impossible for anyone to look you in the eye?
> Keep doing you, Buttplug; just remember, the internet is forever, and so is that awkward curiosity about your profile!
The best roasts are correct. I am mentioned in the roast below.
> Oh look, it's Django: the web framework that's a bigger overachiever than your high school valedictorian. With 23 public repos and nearly 7400 followers, it seems like you’ve built an empire on the backs of developers who can’t spell “asynchronous” without Google.
