Gabe Miller

Literally John Wick from future

do u ever catch urself unintentionally lovebombing, what the hell is wrong with me

🦔Delivery robots from companies like Kiwibot, Starship Technologies, and Uber Eats are facing increasing vandalism across US and UK cities. Incidents include graffiti, physical attacks, robots being knocked over, and worse. Kiwibot reported around 1,600 incidents out of 80,000 deliveries on the UC Berkeley campus. In Sheffield, UK, two robots were found covered in graffiti reading "off our streets." Each robot costs around $2,500 to replace. My Take I'd resist the easy framing of this as mindless vandalism or neo-Luddism. When people start physically attacking robots on public streets, it's usually worth asking what the robots represent to them rather than just condemning the behavior. Delivery robots occupy public sidewalks built and maintained by taxpayers, operated by private companies that pay nothing for that space and answer to no one locally if something goes wrong. They're also showing up in cities where gig workers are already squeezed, where the promise that technology creates more jobs than it eliminates is wearing thin, and where the people most affected by automation have the least say in how it gets deployed. The robots are an easy, visible, low-consequence target for frustration that has nowhere else to go. Companies treating this purely as a security problem to be solved rather than a signal worth understanding are going to keep replacing $2,500 robots indefinitely. Hedgie🤗