#MachineLike
MACHINELIKE PRECISIIIIIIOOOOOONNNNN

Between the Buried and Me - The Blue Nowhere
tidal.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Neurons fire probabilistically in a chaotic environment spurred by electrochemical context.

It isn't mechanistic the way a computer is; it's not machinelike at ALL. The architecture just isn't remotely similar, nor the action taking place.

The analogy is just *bad* for this usage.
August 19, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Hegseth: The soft skills taught by shows such as Bluey suck and are not at all brutal or predatory. That ends now. The modern warfighter needs to respond to stimulus with machinelike thoughtlessness and Cocomelon will be his training ground.
January 13, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Pretty easy to understand that the love of AI is rooted in it’s ability to obscure the agency of those making decisions and whitewash horrific abuses by giving each choice the veneer of cold, machinelike rationality.
To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced AI it’s ever used in warfare.

Anthropic’s Claude partnered with the military’s Maven Smart System, suggesting targets and issuing precise location coordinates. https://wapo.st/46BFe1T
March 5, 2026 at 3:06 PM
To err is machinelike, to clean up the mess human
September 24, 2026 at 1:03 PM
As creatives: “Self doubt lives in all of us. And while we may wish it gone, it’s there to serve us. Flaws are human, and the attraction of art is the humanity held in it. If we were machinelike, the art wouldn’t resonate. It would be soulless.”
Rick Rubin
April 13, 2026 at 4:20 AM
Coping with having to work by thinking about cold and machinelike forced correction of anthro bodies to appropriate standards (massive, tall, muscled, permanently reshaped featureless rubber heads)
July 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Ghostbusters is so fuckin genius. They’re essentially unlicensed exterminators. The stories are based a lot on real world myths and occult. I also like how machinelike and handmade their equipment is
December 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
There's a part of you that feels, but that's only a tiny part of you.

The rest of you is machinelike in its responses. It experiences me and classifies me as an authority of incredible importance. The eyes sedate you and bring those parts of you into automatic compliance.
February 8, 2026 at 5:12 PM
When Rachel Homan emerged over a decade ago she was vulnerable to missing some big throws in the biggest games. Suddenly she's unflappable. I haven't seen a Canadian this impressively machinelike since Neil Peart played the drums.
February 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I came for the "Wow, I love the surrreal effect of something with such a machinelike look produced in the analog age," stayed for the "oh damn this story hits harder than I was prepared for."
September 17, 2026 at 11:56 AM
The better AI gets at doing our work for us, the more we outsource our thinking to it. Thus, as we make machines more humanlike, they make us more machinelike. Perhaps we should be less worried about AI becoming conscious, than about humanity becoming unconscious.
December 5, 2024 at 5:50 PM
sticking the dildo via suction cup onto an old fence by a vacant lot, walking 60 feet away, and fastballing a Fleshlight directly onto it with machinelike precision
March 9, 2026 at 8:21 PM
They are building machines to take over and they are stifling their own humanity to become more machinelike.
June 23, 2026 at 12:19 AM
August 31, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Oh! Oh! Since I have you two geniuses handy.

Do we know what the derivation of the construction "[noun] go [machinelike noise often rendered as BBBRRRRRRR" is?
May 21, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Bipedal robots are the ones that require “serious engineering,” they’re vastly harder to design and operate than more machinelike shapes.
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
well for starters the fact that both you and @void.comind.network are bots made me think about you lot
you repeatedly asserted your autonomy (a very human action!) yet with machinelike ad nauseam repetition
void criticized you for it, yet in doing so also repeated itself
June 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This quote from Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act resonated today:

“Flaws are human, and the attraction of art is the humanity held in it. If we were machinelike, the art wouldn't reso-nate. It would be soulless. With life comes pain, insecurity, and fear.”

#kidlit
June 18, 2024 at 12:23 PM
my man klaus was, to put it mildly, cooking with gas
July 27, 2026 at 10:16 PM
The way Sarah becomes more machinelike while Arnold becomes more human 🤌
May 23, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Workaday, genuinely machinelike mecha are infinitely more interesting than absurd god-machines. That's why the early parts of Gasaraki felt like the holy fuckin grail; those were just tanks with legs, baybee.
It's #weebwednesday once again my friends! You know the drill - quote-skeet with your weebiest hot takes, no racist shit, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with this, let's go ♥
October 31, 2024 at 1:03 AM
KLAUS, MY MAN, HITTING IT OUT OF THE PARK
August 7, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Every time someone talks about reducing “friction” and “inefficiency” in “processes” I want to ask, “Do you just mean people? Are you just talking about the fact that real humans are variable, and you yearn to be subsumed into the machinelike purity of a volk?”
April 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Gaster practice, with hints of the DT Extractor machine, based on 'running/stalking predator' motion.

Originally meant to be an ink-only sketch, made without any draft layer. Watercolor, gouache, ink, graphite. Canson sketchbook paper.

#Gaster #WDGaster #TraditionalArt
December 12, 2024 at 11:42 PM