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Dropout Presents: Courtney Pauroso: Vanessa 5000 Season 1, Ep 10000
"Courtney Pauroso examines society's relationship with technology as sex robot Vanessa 5000." A one-hour Dropout Original live special, a one-woman show that starts off as comedy but goes some other places. Also available: an 11-minute behind-the-scenes video. Tags on Dropout's site: Dropout Presents, stand up comedy, improv, laughing, courtney pauroso, unhinged, dystopian, technology, robots, sexual fantasies. I'd add: cyberpunk, feminist, kink, music, scifi, clowning (Pauroso discusses how her clown experience feeds into this show). Mind the content notes on Dropout's site. [more inside]
Movie: M3gan
Brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma (Get Out's Allison Williams) suddenly becomes the caretaker of her orphaned 8-year-old niece, Cady (Violet McGraw, The Haunting of Hill House). Unsure and unprepared to be a parent, and under intense pressure at work, Gemma decides to pair M3GAN, her new AI-powered doll/companion prototype with Cady in an attempt to resolve both problems--a decision that will have unimaginable consequences. [more inside]
Movie: Short Circuit
After a lightning bolt gives it human emotions and intelligence, a military robot escapes and finds refuge at the home of an animal-loving pacifist (Ally Sheedy). [more inside]
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Lowes Hires Robots, State Legislatures Season 1, Ep 23
Hungary protests an internet tax. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key floats changes to his nation's flag. Lowes tests out employing robots instead of help staff in a store(6m), prompting Last Week Tonight to make a commercial for Home Depot in response. A couple of days before the 2014 elections, John Oliver takes a look at the madness of state legislatures(17m). Web exclusive: the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel reaches one million subscribers(2m). "I think of YouTube subscribers the same way I think of pogs: I recently acquired a lot of them, and I'm not quite sure what they do." According to the LWT YouTube channel, next week is the end of the first season of Last Week Tonight(1m).
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