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Terrified Toaster Pastry!
Osiris comes from a universe where certain materials have differing physical properties, meaning a robot made of sugars and carbs can be pretty durable if done right. Unfortunately, they've recently been experiencing sudden relocations to various new patches of spacetime, meaning he's often much more fragile than he prefers, and as a result he's usually fairly anxious and on edge. That robovac isn't gonna attack them, is it??
[bonus lore: the dark blue tip of Osiris's tail is meant to create noise to scare things off, but it doesn't seem to be working here...]
#clean furry#furry art#sfw furry#anthro#original character#robot oc#oc: osiris#dromeowyrm#toaster pastry#wild berry#roomba#robot vacuum#small art blog#small artist
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Roomba kept crying because she couldn't find her spring toy and uh. Well, she had a good reason for it.
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Happy Caturday 🐈
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It was bound to happen.
And while I'm here: Just a friendly reminder that the last 72 hours of the Moggie campaign are starting, so if you still wish to grab this limited edition glow-in-the-dark monster-cat, please do so now! :) She won't be available again. And thanks for all the pre-orders so far! We're nearly at 560 orders, so there's still a small chance to make it to 666! :D Cheers!
#belzebubs#trve kvlt#black metal#jp ahonen#chrono#webcomics#comic#kids#parenting#robot vacuum#roomba
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Going along with my Alfred the roomba headcanon, here’s a scenario for you-
Keeping in mind I’ve never written a scenario for these guys.
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*It’s a Saturday afternoon, and the batkids have formed a tight circle around two roombas. One of the roombas, Alfred, is armed with a kitchen knife that had been taped to its back, curtesy of Damian. The other roomba, dubbed whatever petty criminals name they thought of, is unarmed with three balloons haphazardly taped to its side. A new weekly tradition.*
Stephanie: If Alfred doesn’t win I’m suing.
Damian: He’s the only one that can win. I made sure of that.
Jason: Guys, shut it. Alfred’s about to stab this guy.
*Alfred’s knife runs straight into the other roomba, successfully popping the final balloon. The room erupts in celebration. They’re all chanting Alfred’s name. At one point Damian holds up their champion, causing another round of proud shouting.*
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*Bruce and Alfred (human) casually talking in Bruce’s study. The batkids ruckus rattling the manors walls.*
Bruce: what is going on?
Alfred, internally: I just won another battle.
#bruce wayne#alfred pennyworth#batfam#dc batman#jason todd#cassandra cain#stephanie brown#tim drake#damian wayne#batkids#dc robin#dick grayson#barbra gordon#duke thomas#wayne family adventures#wayne manor#roomba#batman
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IN THE FALL OF 2020, GIG WORKERS IN VENEZUELA POSTED A SERIES OF images to online forums where they gathered to talk shop. The photos were mundane, if sometimes intimate, household scenes captured from low angles—including some you really wouldn’t want shared on the Internet.
In one particularly revealing shot, a young woman in a lavender T-shirt sits on the toilet, her shorts pulled down to mid-thigh.
The images were not taken by a person, but by development versions of iRobot’s Roomba J7 series robot vacuum. They were then sent to Scale AI, a startup that contracts workers around the world to label audio, photo, and video data used to train artificial intelligence.
They were the sorts of scenes that internet-connected devices regularly capture and send back to the cloud—though usually with stricter storage and access controls. Yet earlier this year, MIT Technology Review obtained 15 screenshots of these private photos, which had been posted to closed social media groups.
The photos vary in type and in sensitivity. The most intimate image we saw was the series of video stills featuring the young woman on the toilet, her face blocked in the lead image but unobscured in the grainy scroll of shots below. In another image, a boy who appears to be eight or nine years old, and whose face is clearly visible, is sprawled on his stomach across a hallway floor. A triangular flop of hair spills across his forehead as he stares, with apparent amusement, at the object recording him from just below eye level.
iRobot—the world’s largest vendor of robotic vacuums, which Amazon recently acquired for $1.7 billion in a pending deal—confirmed that these images were captured by its Roombas in 2020.
Ultimately, though, this set of images represents something bigger than any one individual company’s actions. They speak to the widespread, and growing, practice of sharing potentially sensitive data to train algorithms, as well as the surprising, globe-spanning journey that a single image can take—in this case, from homes in North America, Europe, and Asia to the servers of Massachusetts-based iRobot, from there to San Francisco–based Scale AI, and finally to Scale’s contracted data workers around the world (including, in this instance, Venezuelan gig workers who posted the images to private groups on Facebook, Discord, and elsewhere).
Together, the images reveal a whole data supply chain—and new points where personal information could leak out—that few consumers are even aware of.
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#politics#james baussmann#scale ai#irobot#amazon#roomba#privacy rights#colin angle#privacy#data mining#surveillance state#mass surveillance#surveillance industry#1st amendment#first amendment#1st amendment rights#first amendment rights#ai#artificial intelligence#iot#internet of things
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waffle makers are some sort of species related to the roomba that adapted to a more stationary lifestyle for trapping its prey (grease and batter) instead of the roomba's scavenger diet of dirt and debris
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Khornite Roomba.
Prowling the battlefield, collecting blood and skulls for its master. And trailing blood, too. Since there's never a shortage of blood in any khornite context.
Next up it'll paint a children's hospital according to colour theory.
Idea by @legiopraesagio
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Cozy :)
#cat#work#roomba#bengal#also pls notice the little purple toy!!#it is her favorite still#she carries it everywhere some days
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They really gotta start animating Zane more
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Trusty Dusty in action.
In other news, the new Belzebubs calendars arrived last week, and I have to say they turned out super nice once again! Thanks for all the pre-orders, guys, I hope you’ll like the new set. 🤘
If you still want to grab a copy in time for Christmas, please place your orders before Wednesday the 20th (for shipments here in Finland) or, well, TODAY, if you’re ordering to the US or Europe. Thanks so much!
You’ll find them from Backstage Rock Shop and Night Shift Merch.
#belzebubs#trve kvlt#black metal#jp ahonen#webcomics#chrono#comic#roomba#vacuum#wholesome#roller derby
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We have a robo vacuum now
I like it :3
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