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    4 days ago

    If Hillary were president HitchBot would still be alive

    E: followup, from wikipedia:

    Smith and Zeller recreated their invention as hitchBOT 2.0 in 2019. The robot was sent to Paris, France, where it was touring about and appearing in a play, Killing Robots, by Linda Blanchet. That tour was put on hold indefinitely due to COVID-19.

    As a metaphor for liberal fantasy and optimism, hitchbot was doomed to die, one way or another.