Using a robot to clean grease from a restaurants kitchen extractor duct

IMO ppl r unhealthily obsessed with “the state of the world.” This scale of focus makes sense if you are, eg, a billionaire philanthropist, famous person, or policymaker. If you’re not, I think it’s ok to just focus on the state of YOUR world. How are your friends & fam doing?

Robin Williams' daughter Zelda tells fans: “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad.” “If you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to ‘this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that’s enough’, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.” "And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume." Read more here: variety.com/2025/film/news/r…