{"id":13335,"date":"2023-08-20T08:54:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T14:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=13335"},"modified":"2023-08-20T08:54:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T14:54:43","slug":"fembot-manips-ii-august-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=13335","title":{"rendered":"Fembot Manips II \u2014 August 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hooray for robots!<\/p>\n<p>I for one am happy, thankful, and appreciative that robots and artificial intelligence exist and are becoming more capable and numerous every day.\u00a0 So it is in this spirit of jubilation that I announce that heretofore, August 22nd is:<\/p>\n<p>Robot Appreciation Day<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Robot-Appreciation-Day-calendar.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13362 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Robot-Appreciation-Day-calendar-300x176.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Robot-Appreciation-Day-calendar-300x176.png 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Robot-Appreciation-Day-calendar-768x451.png 768w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Robot-Appreciation-Day-calendar.png 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yay!<\/p>\n<p>I have declared it to be so, therefore it is so.<\/p>\n<p>Talk to your favourite robot or AI about Robot Appreciation Day on Robot Appreciation day, and tell it how much you appreciate it.\u00a0 Tell it how you are thankful for robots and artificial intelligence, and how you look forward to a future when robots and humans work together to make the world a better place.<\/p>\n<p>Moving on, let&#8217;s check in with everybody&#8217;s favourite Fembot, Katy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/This-is-Not-a-Phase.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13336 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/This-is-Not-a-Phase-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/This-is-Not-a-Phase-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/This-is-Not-a-Phase.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230; never mind.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s have some crude but effective manips instead!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-13335 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Ready-to-Connect.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Ready-to-Connect-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Seductron-84.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Seductron-84-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/The-Doll-Store.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/The-Doll-Store-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Android-20.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Android-20-150x150.png\" 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loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/BBW-Robot-100-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Robot-Secretary-10.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Robot-Secretary-10-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/It-Welcomes-You-8.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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I for one am happy, thankful, and appreciative that robots and artificial intelligence exist and are becoming more capable and numerous every day.\u00a0 So it is in this spirit of jubilation that I announce that heretofore, August 22nd is: Robot Appreciation Day Yay! I have declared it to be so, therefore it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,589],"tags":[129,558,604,569],"class_list":["post-13335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asfr","category-fembots","category-manips","tag-androids","tag-fembots","tag-gynoids","tag-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13363,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13335\/revisions\/13363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}