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An Outraged Diner Emails the In-Vitro Café

From: wally42@yaboo.com To: owner@invitrocafe.com Subject: Suing your restaurant Dear Proprietor, My wife and I managed to get a table at the grand opening of your establishment last night, and we regret our effort. We are both conscientious eaters, so the … Continue reading →

The New Clone 12000 Helmet Finally Comes to Market

This fully functional metro-wanker-clone helmet will render your enemies helpless with laughter, right before you incinerate their lower intestines. Two Gigilo-Hertz-powered ocular particle beams makes the Clone 12000 more devastating than last month’s supernova in the Coagula System and only … Continue reading →

Come on Baby, Do the Locomotion

Capable of doing zero-to-sixty in less than ten seconds, the Flannigan Repto-Buggy was a big seller right after President Rutherford B. Hayes started building the Great Chicken Highway. Thousands of tender birds were released on the roads every day, giving … Continue reading →

Pallas Athena, Goddess of Wisdom and Nerds

She sprang from the cranium of Zeus himself, a divine thought found form, and a blessing unto the Gods, the philosophers of men, and the City of Athens. She was the goddess of civilization, wisdom, strength, strategy, wit, craft, raffia-worked … Continue reading →

Review: The Silence of Animals

My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars In 1961 Martin Luther King Jr. told an audience on the New York University campus: “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; … Continue reading →

The long course of civilization

“With the collapse of totalitarian empires, we believed that living together, peace, pluralism, and human rights would gain the ascendancy and the world would leave behind holocausts, genocides, invasions, and wars of extermination. None of that has occurred. New forms … Continue reading →

Daisy, Daisy, Call on the Cthulu

At first, everyone was really excited when Daisy Stagbys joined the Brighton Cycling Society. She was young, hot, and had a four-seater. And then, when she suggested that she had some “friends” who would love to be involved, they were … Continue reading →

Eventually, you’re going to need a robo-nun

Eucrecia was pretty exciting about her transformation into a Happy Ending Pleasure Bot, but the nice men at Zina-Works 3000 were having problems with the fittings. It was delicate work. The cavity extruder was just barely powerful enough to fit … Continue reading →

Robots need love too

Seriously. Robots need love too! If we’re going to survive the coming Toaster Uprising, then we have to love our robots. We have to instill them with love. It’s really what Ray Kurtzweil is talking about in The Singularity Is … Continue reading →

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs for Robots

I’m not sure that robots need food, but the rest of this seems accurate, particularly the top. Some of the robots despense food. Alltop is a self-actualized chatbot. More of Lunchbreath’s latest toons here.