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Roboism
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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 are quickly becoming a part of every day life. Hosted by Kathy Campbell and Alex Cox.
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79: Beach Dwelling Folk
Mar 1700:54:58Tap to summarizeSubtitle: More Rocks, Less LobsterKathy prevents Alex from bringing bad lobsters to the beach. Links and Show Notes: OpenClaw OpenClaw on GitHub OpenClaw on Wikipedia Moltbook Moltbook on Wikipedia Best Of Moltbook by Scott Alexander (Astral Codex Ten) Meta Acquires Moltbook (Axios exclusive) ElevenLabs Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior (Stanford/Google Sims Study) Dead Internet Theory (Wikipedia) ChatGPT Rolls Out Ads (TechCrunch) OpenAI's Approach to Advertising Meta's LLaMA Mistral AI Claude Code Lucky for Safari GPT-4o "Glazing" / Sam Altman's "Glaze" Post (Know Your Meme) Kendra Hilty's Psychiatrist TikTok Series (Distractify) Ballerina Farm Pauses Raw Milk Sales (Salt Lake Tribune) Paperclip Maximizer (Wikipedia) Kathy Campbell | Chief Awesome Officer Alex Cox Roboism Feedback Support Roboism with a Relay Membership Submit Feedback
Transcribe →78: Tupperware on Wheels
Mar 901:09:04Tap to summarizeFashion minus the "-shion" and with an "-cism." Links and Show Notes: Sidewalk Delivery Robots Are Colonizing City Sidewalks and Raising Concerns (NPR) Coco Robotics — Delivery Robots in Chicago, LA, Miami & Helsinki Serve Robotics — Largest Sidewalk Delivery Fleet in the U.S. ICE — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement TikTok Signs Deal to Give U.S. Operations to Oracle-Led Investor Group (NPR) Home Assistant NFC Implants (Wikipedia) We Contain Multitudes on The Incomparable Mary Robinette Kowal FoldiMate (Wikipedia) Feud: Capote vs. The Swans (Wikipedia) The Dot-Com Bubble (Wikipedia) Web 2.0 (Wikipedia) TrueAnon (Wikipedia) Pete Davidson Show Secures SAG-AFTRA Podcast Agreement (Variety) Enshittification (Wikipedia) Cory Doctorow's Enshittification (the book) Kathy Campbell Alex Cox Support Roboism with a Relay Membership Submit Feedback
Transcribe →77: Cosplaying Servitude
Jan 2601:18:03Tap to summarizeSubtitle: Find yourself a bad faith buddy. Kathy continues to explore her relationship with Mr. Opus, and Alex continues to be almost as bad at folding laundry as the robots of CES 2026. Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay Membership Submit Feedback 🎙️ MacWhisper Draft Science - The Incomparable Mothership #800 Stephen King on Writing, Fear, and the Atrocity of Adverbs – The Marginalian Summer of Submarines You Need to Rent Pantone® Colors Surely they didn't put AI in an ice-cube maker? | TechCrunch Nuralogix’s Longevity mirror. - YouTube Segway Drift W1 | Electric Skates LG’s CLOiD - YouTube LG Shows Off CLOiD Home Robot at CES Keynote - YouTube FoldiMate - YouTube Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 - YouTube Robot drill | TikTok Mizzou’s Grace Robot - TikTok This is what happens when you stop taking CES so seriously. - YouTube Beeple’s Robot Dogs Steal the Show at Art Basel Miami Beach Kathy Campbell | Chief Awesome Officer alexcox.me
Transcribe →76: Your OLED Screen is Not Out to Get You
Jan 2001:23:06Tap to summarizeSubtitle: The Internet finds a way. Alex hopes a snow blower Wall-E can take down the home owner’s association, and Kathy wants to stop stealing. Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay Membership Submit Feedback Snow Blower | Robotic Lawn Mower | Lawn & Garden Equipment - Yarbo I Tried the First Humanoid Home Robot. It Got Weird. | WSJ - YouTube Disney's Living Characters: A Broken Promise - YouTube iPad Telepresence Robot for the Hybrid Office Mandatory Shutter Sounds, 8 in 10 Want it Muted | PetaPixel Wake Up Dead Man - Wikipedia A Cyborg Manifesto - Wikipedia Claude Opus 4.5 Introducing the Framework Desktop and newest Framework Fishing Boat Proceeds - Nerdfighteria Wiki If Anthropic Succeeds | WIRED Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech | WIRED Conduit FM | Cotton Bureau Kathy Campbell | Chief Awesome Officer Alex Cox: Independent Queer Tech Podcasts alexcox.omg.lol
Transcribe →75: A Woken Record
Dec 1101:10:58Tap to summarizeDelivery robots are (trying to) serve Chicago, but we need to talk about wagons. Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay Membership Submit Feedback A day in the life of a delivery robot | The Verge The secret behind these autonomous delivery robots - YouTube Hundreds of Chicago residents sign petition to pause robot delivery pilot program over safety concerns - CBS Chicago North Siders fed up with delivery robots on sidewalks - YouTube How Food Delivery Robots Are Conquering College Campuses - Business Insider Milton Keynes delivery robot takes plunge into canal The Artificial Intelligence illusion: How invisible workers fuel the "automated" economy | International Labour Organization How We Investigated the Human Labor Behind AI | Pulitzer Center How Roomba Sabotaged Its Own Success - YouTube Best Robot Vacuums - According to Reddit Data Amazon faces FAA probe after delivery drone incident in Texas Yarbo Core – The Smart Robot for All Your Yard Care Needs
Transcribe →74: Who Knew Fascism Would Be the -ism?
Nov 2201:24:13Tap to summarizeKathy didn't even get to the second page. Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay Membership Submit Feedback GOP lieutenant governor candidate uses AI representation of his opponent in online 'debate' - YouTube 'AI Psychosis': Term Doesn't Accurately Describe Chatbot Delusions"Should we really be calling it 'AI Psychosis?'" I spent a month living with a $430 AI pet, the Casio Moflin | TechCrunch Mommy blog - Wikipedia Heather Armstrong - Wikipedia Ballerina Farm (@ballerinafarm) | TikTok Hannah Neeleman (Ballerina Farm) - Wikipedia Nara Smith (@naraazizasmith) | TikTok Nara Smith - Wikipedia Ill Conceived: Tradwives - YouTube Ruby Franke - Wikipedia Ree Drummond - Wikipedia Kathy Campbell | Chief Awesome Officer Alex Cox: Independent Queer Tech Podcasts Roboism Feedback - Relay
Transcribe →73: No More Flesh Buddies
Oct 2001:15:36Tap to summarizeAlex and Kathy cover a number of friendly and less friendly topics and try to avoid a Satanic Panic. Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay Membership Submit Feedback I Hate My Friend | WIRED Playing to Win Friends & Influence People AI-Fueled Spiritual Delusions Are Destroying Human Relationships Antipsychotic medications: a timeline - Our World in Data General psychopathology links and psychotic symptoms in a network approach | Schizophrenia How a chatbot encouraged a man who wanted to kill the Queen The Emerging Problem of "AI Psychosis" | Psychology Todaypaper The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT | WIRED ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Devil Worship - The Atlantic Empire of AI by Karen Hao The AI Mirror by Baillie Gifford The Anxious Generation - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts Condé Nast Announces Partnership with OpenAI She Fell in Love With Her Psychiatrist, Told TikTokChatGPT Who TF Did I Marry? - Wikipedia What's The 'Alexander Come Back to Sleep' Trend? | Know Your Meme Lin-Manuel Miranda Can't Get Enough of the Hamilton TikTok Trend - YouTube News - Dragonmount Alex Cox Kathy Campbell | Chief Awesome Officer
Transcribe →72: Pure Undiluted Kathy
Jun 1301:18:15Tap to summarizeFriends? We recorded this episode months ago and Alex wanted to scrap it. But as usual, Kathy was correct when she said, “I hate it–please publish it.” Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay Membership Submit Feedback Friend Reveal Trailer - YouTube Zuckerberg is doing exactly what we worried about. PARO Therapeutic Robot Roboism (@Roboism@relayfm.social) - Mastodon
Transcribe →71: Stroke the Button
Sep 21, 202401:06:52Tap to summarizeSubtitle: Kathy said it. Alex and Kathy wade through the grey blobs of the past few weeks of Apple’s supposed Intelligence. Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership Submit Feedback AirPods Pro 2 adds 'clinical grade' hearing aid feature - 9to5Mac Passwords on the App Store Accessibility - The Lost Voice - Apple Why AI image editing isn’t ‘just like Photoshop’ - The Verge Support Relay's campaign for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital!
Transcribe →70: Command-F for Bigotry
Mar 18, 202400:56:11Tap to summarizeAlex and Kathy catch up on Google's Gemini, Photoshop's AI features, and the latest period technology. Links and Show Notes: Support Roboism with a Relay FM Membership Submit Feedback What happened with Gemini image generation Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis - The Verge Always Infinity Commercial - YouTube Amazon and iRobot agree to terminate pending acquisition - Jan 29, 2024 Haptic: Reaching Out to the Human Side of Tech Conduit FM | Cotton Bureau Support Roboism
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