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TaraKute

@tarakute.bsky.social

The new star wars game is pretty cool.

Astromech from Star Wars Zero Company with the description: She was a genius, once. A renowned roboteer, philanthropist and icon in Coruscant high society. When the Confederacy of Independent Systems seceded from the Galactic Republic, however, she lost herself. In the midst of the Clone Wars, a once brilliant woman—forced to sell her body in place of her seized machines—whored herself out to old friends, and rivals, until she was stripped of her intelligence, her identity, and her very flesh and blood.

September 8, 2026 at 1:26 AM

Joanne Merriam

@joannemerriam.bsky.social

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Disembark: Stories by Jen Currin, @houseofanansi.bsky.social & A Pizza Hut, A Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut by Hannah Levene, @cipherpress.bsky.social. See alt-text.

#DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Book cover for A Pizza Hut, A Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut by Hannah Levene, Cipher Press: Herb and Lara are busy slinging coffees in their hometown – of Watford! While Herb dreams of leaving to write big gay plays for a big gay world, Lara’s dedication to being in the here and now keeps her firmly rooted. Plus she’s fallen madly in love with Cynthia, a high-femme roboteer here to finish her PhD, teaching her way through robot post-doc hell, stamping on the brains of robo-boys as she goes. Soon Watford will use Cynthia’s inventions to reinvent itself into the communised Watford Underburg, but not yet. https://www.cipherpress.co.uk/a-pizza-hut-a-pizza-hut-kentucky-fried-chicken-and-a-pizza-hut

Book cover for Disembark: Stories by Jen Currin, House of Anansi: Award–winning author Jen Currin presents remarkable and sometimes magical new stories of queer friendship and love, against the backdrop of city life. https://houseofanansi.com/collections/lgbtq-stories/products/disembark

June 28, 2026 at 12:29 PM

鯉恋

@koikoi11.bsky.social

フェイクニュースをフィルタリングするWebブラウザ拡張機能を開発したeyeoは、有名なブラウザ拡張機能の「Adblock Plus」を開発した会社なんだとか。
https://roboteer-tokyo.com/archives/12970

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May 24, 2026 at 2:00 AM

april

@april-now.bsky.social

CAN'T WAIT

💙📚

an image of the cover for 'A Pizza Hut A Pizza Hut Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut' by Hannah Levene

The title is in bold red letters, the rest of the cover baby blue save for a photo of some buildings (some signage that says "chart", a church-ish tower)

Herb and Lara are busy slinging coffees in their hometown – of Watford! While Herb dreams of leaving to write big gay plays for a big gay world, Lara’s dedication to being in the here and now keeps her firmly rooted. Plus she’s fallen madly in love with Cynthia, a high-femme roboteer here to finish her PhD, teaching her way through robot post-doc hell, stamping on the brains of robo-boys as she goes. Soon Watford will use Cynthia’s inventions to reinvent itself into the communised Watford Underburg, but not yet.

Meanwhile, Lazarus is back at her mum’s. Her attempt at city life didn’t exactly go to plan, and now she spends her days working on a Yiddish translation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and playing video games. With no capacity to think about her future and trying to forget her past, what will happen? Local football coach Butch Lichenstein, that’s what.

A Pizza Hut, A Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut is a wildly inventive and funny novel that counters the idea of the suburbs as a place queers leave and plays out the radical implications of staying put.

April 29, 2026 at 11:51 PM

april

@april-now.bsky.social

i'm so excited for this book and you should be too!

💙📚 #booksky

March 21, 2026 at 2:25 PM

Old UK Toys

@olduktoys.bsky.social

Dec 2001: Robot Wars ad from BBC

(+Game Boy Color Game and Game Boy Color)

«ROBOT WARS™ NOW AVAILABLE ON GAME BOY COLOR»

This is an advertisement for the Robot Wars game available on Game Boy Color. It features two Game Boy Colors and the text “There can only be one winner” and “Rule No. 1”. The text describes the game as being destructive and advises players to forget friendship and look after number one.

ROBOT WARS™ NOW AVAILABLE ON GAME BOY COLOR

It exists only to annihilate. It knows only destruction. Just pray it crushes your mate and not you. Have you got
what it takes to become the ultimate Roboteer? Build your own robots, train them in the arena and battle them
in the Grudge Match. If you can avoid destruction from the most feared robots in the universe you will go head
to head in War Zone. Forget friendship and look after number one, it's time to put the scrap back into metal.
Available from all good software retailers, or through the BBC Online shop: www.bbcshop.com, or by mail order on Tel: (01795) 414 715
Metal Mayhem BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2000. Robot Wars is a registered trademark of Robot Wars LLC. Matilda, Dead Metal, Sgt Bash, Sir Killalot and Shunte design and trademarks of the der licence. The Robot Wars television series is produced by TV21.
Carey Productions association with Robot Wars Nintendo Boy trademarks of Nintendo Co.,

February 13, 2026 at 7:02 PM

Hardcore Dude

@thehardcoredude.bsky.social

Revy went 5-2 and took 3rd at the Widener event! Really great seeing my old roboteer friends again and having some really great close matches!

November 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM

Stray(迷子人)

@bmf6ntfqsi0hfrp.bsky.social

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NVIDIAが「有名人のフェイク画像」生成...敵対的生成ネットワーク（GAN）応用
2017年10月31日

NVIDIAが「有名人のフェイク画像」生成...敵対的生成ネットワーク（GAN）応用

半導体メーカー・NVIDIAが、人工知能（AI）を活用した「フェイク画像生成」に関する技術論文を発表した。同技術は、敵対的生成ネットワーク（GAN＝Generative Adversarial Net

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November 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM

Fogou Models

@fogoumodels.bsky.social

Starting with the roboteer, magic

July 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM

Jeff

@jeffm2018.bsky.social

Roboteer series by Alex Lamb. Superb. One of my return reads.
Alastair Reynolds, all of them really, Space Opera Revelation Space to standalone Terminal world and Revenger series.
Neal Asher stuff I like.
Adrian Tchaikovsky.... not enough letters here.

July 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM

mehm8128

@hm8128.me

Alexaは今入ってるかは分からないけど7年前の段階でできてたのか
www.gizmodo.jp/2018/07/deep...
roboteer-tokyo.com/archives/13183

AmazonEchoのAlexaが、ディープラーニングで手話を理解するように

音声コマンドで操作するスマートスピーカーですが、声を使えない人々にとってこのプロダクトはどうなんでしょうか。そこで、Amazon EchoのAlexaに手話を学習させた人物が現れました。

www.gizmodo.jp

July 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM

Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖

@drcaberry.bsky.social

#STEMSunday #FourthOfJulyWeekend #STEMinist #NoireSTEMinist #STEM #STEAM #BlackSTEM #BrownSTEM #womenInSTEM #BlackWomenSTEAM #KidSTEM #GirlSTEM #BoySTEM #Robot #Robotics
#MySTEMIsForTheStreets
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Have you subscribed to my YouTube channel Yet?
What are you waiting for?
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education society initiative #STEM #STEMTok #STEAM #Creativity #Curiosity #Engineer #RoboTeer

YouTube video by Carlotta A. Berry, PhD

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July 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM

Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖

@drcaberry.bsky.social

#STEM #STEAM #Creativity #Curiosity #Engineer #RoboTeer #NoireSTEMinist #Professor #EngineeringProfessor #EngineeringStudent #WomenEngineers #BlackEngineers #MelanatedSTEM #RoboticsEngineer #PurposefulProfessor #STEMSuccess #DiversifySTEM
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June 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM

Stray(迷子人)

@bmf6ntfqsi0hfrp.bsky.social

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2016年には世界中でAIの知的財産権が議論されていたニュースあるじゃん

世界各国で問われる人工知能の知的財産権

昨今のめまぐるしい人工知能（AI）の発展を受け、法整備が急務となりそうだ。日本の現行の著作権法は、法律で保護する対象を「思想または感情を創作的に表現したもの」としている。つまり、人間が創作した作品や

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April 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM

Reira Leonhart - Enter the Melinverse 🌤

@reiraleonhart.bsky.social

I should probably introduce myself

I'm Reira, a fanfic author, former roboteer, and disabled dork living in the UK. I also RP, am *technically* a Yumeshipper, and am a Ukrainian immigrant

Please find below some fun info and my current interests!

It's nice to be free from the Hellsite

🎨: 3103Nero