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Roboism episodes

May 02, 2019 31: Set to Dude
Alex and Savannah discuss the gender identity of voice assistants LIVE at C2E2!
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership Meet Q. The First Genderless Voice. Learn About Q: The First Genderless Voice - YouTube 14: Hey Siri | Welcome to Macintosh Roboism (@roboismfm) / Twitter Alex Cox (@AlexCox) / Twitter Savannah Million (@savannahmillion) / Twitter Savannah Million (@savmillion) • Instagram photos and videos
32 min
April 10, 2019 30: Easier to Tax a Robot
Alex and Savannah want robots to take everyone's jobs (no, seriously).
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership The Robots Are Coming for Our Jobs (Thank God) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Wikipedia Nuzzel - News Intelligence Seeds of Evil: Monsanto and Genetic Engineering Four Futures Roboism (@roboismfm) / Twitter
38 min
March 13, 2019 29: Hello Gorgeous
This week, Alex and Savannah look forward to the multiplicity and shame a new sexist robot.
Links and Show Notes:
This week, Alex and Savannah look forward to the multiplicity and shame a new sexist robot.
Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership Autofac - Wikipedia Forget the Robot Singularity Apocalypse. Let's Talk About the Multiplicity | WIRED Job Alert: How Would You Like to Babysit Robots? | WIRED Twine / An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories This Friendly Robot Got Fired for Scaring Customers Away - Six Robots & Us, Fabio the Fired Robot PARO Therapeutic Robot Everything you should know about happiness in one infographic - Big Think Questionable Content A Clockwork Origin - Wikipedia
34 min
February 27, 2019 28: Normie Toilet
Savannah brings a smart toilet to Alex's attention, a backwards lady robot confronts the Polar Vortex, and there's a major update in the scoot scoot department.
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership An Alexa in every home, a smart toilet under every butt | The Outline 2019 KOHLER® Konnect™ Smart Home Bathroom Products - YouTube “She Never Looks Back”: Inside Elizabeth Holmes’s Final Months at Theranos | Vanity Fair Simone Giertz - YouTube IFTTT helps your apps and devices work together Cold winter weather: Deadly storm batters Midwest, Chicago, East Chicago women who booked rooms for homeless during polar vortex | The Hill The Punishing Polar Vortex Is Ideal for Cassie the Robot | WIRED Cat anatomy - Wikipedia Amazon.com : Xiaomi Mi Electric Scooter, 18.6 Miles Long-range Battery, Up to 15.5 MPH, Easy Fold-n-Carry Design, Ultra-Lightweight Adult Electric Scooter (US Version with Warranty) : Sports & Outdoors $30 plug-and-play kit converts a Bird scooter into a "personal scooter" / Boing Boing E-scooters can be hacked. Here's what companies are doing about it. People are throwing Bird and Lime scooters into rivers and lakes Roboism: Live! - C2E2 symphony of snott (@AlexCox) / Twitter Savannah Million (@savannahmillion) / Twitter Roboism (@roboismfm) / Twitter
34 min
February 18, 2019 27: How to Kiss Mr. Washington
Alex and Savannah get into robot researchers, robot grifters, and how it’s not great to make love to your money.
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership How Fei-Fei Li Will Make Artificial Intelligence Better for Humanity | WIRED Donald Trump’s fast-food presidency - The Washington Post Elon Musk smokes weed during interview - CNN Video Tesla Motors - Ratings and Reviews from Women at InHerSight The New Radical, Cody Wilson, and the future of 3D-printed guns - The Verge Jeff Bezos’s divorce, explained - Vox The Dream by Stitcher on Apple Podcasts Roboism (@roboismfm) | Twitter Savannah Million (@savannahmillion) | Twitter symphony of snott (@AlexCox) | Twitter
32 min
December 11, 2018 26: More R2D2, Less Roomba
This week, Alex and Savannah give you a blast from the past from their interview with roboticist Adrian Choy, who leads the engineering team at the Museum of Science and Industry's Robot Revolution exhibit.
Guest Starring:
Adrian Choy
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership Robot Revolution – Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago | Until January 3, 2016 PARO Therapeutic Robot Baxter Collaborative Robots for Industrial Automation | Rethink Robotics Roomba® Robot Vacuums | iRobot BigDog | Boston Dynamics Dive of the RoboBee | Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Alex Coxmas 🎄 (@AlexCox) / Twitter Savannah Million (@savannahmillion) / Twitter Roboism (@roboismfm) / Twitter Membership - Relay FM Adrian Choy, Robot Rioter - An Illinois Story - YouTube
25 min
November 27, 2018 25: The Apple Factories Are Still Gonna Exist
This week Alex talks to guest host Trin Garritano about the possibilities fora solarpunk future!
Guest Starring:
Trin Garritano
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership Trin Garritano Friendshipping! Quest Quest Q (Star Trek) - Wikipedia WALL·E (2008) - IMDb 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus: Charles C. Mann: 9781400032051: Amazon.com: Books Chicago DSA Sustainable Tourism: Lessons from Iceland | HuffPost Environment - Apple The Expanse (TV Series 2015– ) - IMDb Habibi (Pantheon Graphic Library): Craig Thompson: 9780375424144: Amazon.com: Books da share z0ne - Wikipedia da share z0ne (@dasharez0ne) / Twitter Catholic Worker Movement - Wikipedia Afrofuturism - Wikipedia Black Panther’s Wakanda is a transportation utopia with a dash of reality - The Verge NASA Clean Air Study - Wikipedia Amish Friendship Bread {and starter} - Crazy for Crust vegan mortensen (@TrinAndTonic) / Twitter Alex Coxmas 🎄 (@AlexCox) / Twitter Savannah Million (@savannahmillion) / Twitter Roboism (@roboismfm) / Twitter Membership - Relay FM
47 min
November 06, 2018 24: All These Metaphors Fall Apart
Alex brings her friend Vector into the studio to see if Savannah will save them from an grease fire.
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership Anki Vector | The Home Robot With Interactive AI Technology | Anki USA The new Anki Vector robot is smart enough to just hang out - The Verge Poo-Chi - Wikipedia Cozmo | Meet Cozmo Hey, Vector – Anki Developer Voight-Kampff machine | Off-world: The Blade Runner Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia
34 min
October 23, 2018 23: You Need to Oil Its Tail
This week, Alex grills Savannah on her ability to anthropomorphize robots. Is she a monster? Let's find out!
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership Qoobo : A pillow with a wagging tail by Yukai Engineering — Kickstarter Tribble - Wikipedia PARO Therapeutic Robot Roboism Archive Kate Darling: Why we have an emotional connection to robots | TED Talk HitchBOT, hitchhiking robot, gets beheaded in Philly - CNN Stardew Valley Harvest Moon (video game) - Wikipedia Animal Crossing is Coming to Nintendo Switch! - YouTube Pokémon Bank | Pokémon Video Games “So Beary Sweet - Charlie Bear” - Precious Moments Savannah Million (@savmillion) • Instagram photos and videos Alexandra Cox (@alexcox) • Instagram photos and videos
39 min
October 16, 2018 22: Angry Most of the Time
This week, Savannah and Alex talk about focus and attention while not being able to focus on the topic of attention. The delve into internalized mysogyny, phantom taps, capitalism, and Animal Crossing. It ends up be cohesive. They promise.
Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership Thinking About Attention -- Walk with Me - YouTube What's behind phantom cellphone buzzes? Internalized sexism - Wikipedia Pink tax - Wikipedia Animal Crossing and Mental Health - YouTube Hang the DJ (Black Mirror) - Wikipedia Accelerationism - Wikipedia Savannah Million (@savmillion) • Instagram photos and videos
1 hr 2 min

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Roboism is a show mostly about robots. We are exploring how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and digital assistants are affecting our culture. Come explore the humanity behind the bots that…