Encounter #85: Load of Love

Poon fishing, flirty computers, and the best curds.

Executive producer: cottongin

Show Notes

Ice fishing prostitution: Hudson Ohio mayor comments on ice fishing

A sex toy scavenger hunt is coming to Toronto for Valentine's Day | News

Our Grim AI-flirting Future

This flirty chick does not exist.

Sonantic Launches AI That Can Flirt | Newswire

Sonantic

Good news, computer kissers: There's a flirty AI voice now

Internet ranks the 10 grossest words in the English language | Curated

No, "moist" is not number one.

A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum - The Awl

This is a chumbox. It is a variation on the banner ad which takes the form of a grid of advertisements that sits at the bottom of a web page underneath the main content.

Disgusting Invertebrates or Globular Masses Presented as Weird Food: Extremely common trope.

Six ‘swimming’ robots will check melted fuel at Fukushima plant | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Eco the IRIDolphin.

Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported - IEEE Spectrum

Cybereyes are a great idea for blind people, until they stop working.

15 of 23 Monkeys with Elon Musk's Neuralink Brain Chips Reportedly Died

Elon lied. Monkes died.

A complaint was filed with the US Department of Agriculture on Thursday, accusing UC Davis and Neuralink of nine violations of the Animal Welfare Act.

"Pretty much every single monkey that had had implants put in their head suffered from pretty debilitating health effects"

Neuralink chips were implanted by drilling holes into the monkeys’ skulls. One primate developed a bloody skin infection and had to be euthanized. Another was discovered missing fingers and toes, “possibly from self-mutilation or some other unspecified trauma,” and had to be put down. A third began uncontrollably vomiting shortly after surgery, and days later “appeared to collapse from exhaustion/fatigue.” An autopsy revealed the animal suffered from a brain hemorrhage.

Generate Fakemon using AI

These pokemon do not exist.

The Lord Of The Rings Fan Site Torches Amazon's New The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Series - Bounding Into Comics

This is never a good sign.

Podcasts

EOS Mixer Interview Series - Able Kirby

Interviewed by Tom Starkweather.

S01E84: Fruit Earth – BEHIND THE SCH3M3S

Black Knight of the Mothman on No Agenda Social

This is how we made magick