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Merry Media

We didn’t watch as much holiday-related stuff this year as in previous ones, but here are a few things that were new to us, three movies and an album. The Holdovers – This movie focuses on people left behind during … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Ben Folds, Christmas, Families, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Prejudice, Relationships, Technology, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged abe vigoda, artificial intelligence, bing crosby, blackface, burt bacharach, dogs, e.t. the extra-terrestrial, fred astaire, herb alpert, holiday inn, irving berlin, lindsey kraft, prancer, racism, reindeer, sam elliott, santa claus, sleigher, the holdovers |

For the Benefit of Mankind

Something I came across recently that seemed interesting in a terrifying way was this article about religion and technology, by Kelly Hayes. It discusses the popularity in the technology industry of transhumanism, a philosophy that technological advances will lead to … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Corporations, Current Events, Economics, Global Warming, Philosophy, Politics, Prejudice, Religion, Science, Technology | Tagged apocalypse, artificial intelligence, bible, computers, elon musk, fascism, friedrich nietzsche, galatians, j.d. vance, kelly hayes, mars, nationalism, peter thiel, robots, transhumanism, ubermensch |

Information Wasn’t All He Never Gave Away

I’d been meaning to write something related to information in general and how it can affect people and society, but it’s difficult to organize my thoughts on the matter. And this is largely going to be a post about the importance … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Corporations, Current Events, Education, History, Language, Politics, Prejudice, Technology | Tagged artificial intelligence, book bans, censorship, elon musk, fake news, homework, information, large language models, misinformation, moderation, racism, research, ron desantis, slavery, vietnam war, wikipedia |

Annoyance Against the Machine

I’ve been meaning to write about a few things I’ve seen mentioned online recently, one of them being artificial intelligence. I guess my main thought is that the name sounds really generous for what’s really just pattern recognition, like someone … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Authors, Capitalism, Corporations, Current Events, Discworld, Economics, Health, Technology, Terry Pratchett | Tagged artificial intelligence, chatbots, coronavirus, disease, diseases, foul ole ron, plagiarism, quarantine, robots, science fiction, social distancing |

This Isn’t My First Odio

I’ve finished Live a Live with two different endings. There are a few others, but I think I’m done with it for the time being. There are SPOILERS for the game in what follows. I wrote about the first four … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Final Fantasy, History, Middle Ages, Monsters, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Video Games | Tagged 2001 a space odyssey, akira tadokoro, alien, aliens, artificial intelligence, behemoth, captain square, cogito ergo sum, corporal darthe, cube, doc tobei, hasshe, hor bishop, kenichi lawless matsu, kingdom of lucerne, kirk wells, lei kugo, live a live, martial arts, masaru takahara, o. dio, oboromaru, od-10, odeo, odie o'bright, odio, oersted, pogo, princess alathea, robots, steel titan, streibough, sundown kid, taroimo, turtles, uranus, yoshiyuki kato |

The Little Robot Girl

WARNING! SPOILERS for all three movies reviewed herein! Speak No Evil – Beth tends to like bleak, hopeless movies, while I tend more towards the whimsical and fantastic. Obviously there are exceptions for both of us, but one sort of … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Art, Authors, Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Families, Humor, Language, Magic, Mega Man, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Technology, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies, William Shakespeare | Tagged a midsummer night's dream, artificial intelligence, bog king, fairies, george lucas, horror, m3gan, murder, nutcracker suite, robots, speak no evil, strange magic, sugar plum fairy |

Automa-Tons of Fun

During a discussion of Ozma of Oz at the most recent OzCon International, Lee Speth proposed that, while Tik-Tok was not the first mechanical man in modern literature, he was perhaps the first artificial intelligence. L. Frank Baum himself had … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology | Tagged aa the salt sorcerer, artificial intelligence, auto-dragons, captain battery batt, cast-iron man, clank, clocker, clockwise, dot and tot of merryland, entropy, fred meyer, giant with the hammer, henry blossom, hundred-year alarm clock, jack breton, kadj the conjurer, king scowleyow, ku-klip, larry breton, little pink bear, mooj, mr. split, ozma of oz, ozwoz, pirates in oz, r.k. lionel, red jinn, robert pattrick, robots, smith and tinker, the braided man of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the master crafters of oz, the ork in oz, the purple prince of oz, the runaway in oz, the salt sorcerer of oz, the wicked witch of oz, thi, tik-tok, wizard of oz |

There’s a Name for My Pain, and It’s Mother Brain

It’s interesting that there are a few different video games with Mother Brains. The original and most famous, and likely the inspiration for the others, appears in Metroid as the final boss. She’s basically a biomechanical supercomputer created by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Captain N: The Game Master, Chrono Trigger, Metroid, Phantasy Star, Television, Video Games | Tagged andy richter, artificial intelligence, chozo, lavos, levi stubbs, metroid: other m, motavia, mother brain, robots, samus aran, super metroid |