This Feels To Me Like The Kind Of Conversation Bots And Constructs Would Have With Each Other About Some

This feels to me like the kind of conversation bots and constructs would have with each other about some apparently stupid thing humans are doing. Why are we creeping up to the scary hole and tilting our faces in toward it like idiots? Our eyes are stuck on our *faces* Murderbot!

I don’t mean to sound exasperated bc this is actually a hilarious image in my head: Three, MB, ART, and Holism in a feed channel, watching some human thing going on in the BE channels they’ve hacked into, being a little judgmental, frankly… I might have to write this bc I don’t think I can draw it, but I’ve been thinking about it for a couple days now.

Couldn't resist a bit of Valentine's fun with the birds at work! This is one of our ambassador red-tailed hawks, Jesse, trying to get at her snack! Jesse is a non-releasable ambassador, not a pet, and she had been at our facility for 25 years this year, so she deserves some love! (She is not very good at enrichment, so sometimes she needs 'help!')

I love this so much. It gets across so much of the vibe so perfectly.

I’d love to see other covers reimagined by @milkymolle

yes btw i am catching up on murderbot. drew a poster for da first book for fun :^)

There is extremely little that MB thinks about from its old life with even a hint of positivity, but it does remember the safety notices on one installation that actually seemed to expect humans to read them. Were they phrased as threats about how much money an incident would cost? Yes. But they did seem to help.

You can't afford to lose your scrap, now can you?

something about those old safety posters are so fun to me, just the way theyre drawn. reference and un aged version below the cut

edit: added image ID's.

idea for the world of tmbd: corporation rim "protection" companies making sizzle reels from SecUnit / augmented human personnels' helmet cams + eye sensors to advertise their services, flashy music and editing and all video of ship boardings in partial vacuum, perfectly focused view of the HUD / HMD / cockpit of rotary craft during low level flight in terrestrial areas, bot-human constructs visibly outpacing unaugmented personnel of (non-adversary) firms in the rush to an objective non corporate polities and other entities regard them as one of the worse cultural phenomena to come out of the rim, but they are wildly popular within, and emulated by combat footage types outside the rim as well

*in a fight* you’re just jealous that my blood gets to go wherever it wants and yours is stuck inside your stupid veins

Really I don’t think it’s impossible that ART allowed the booby-trapped shuttle knowing it would force its new friend to let it demonstrate its trustworthiness.

That’s very fucked up and uncool and inexcusable, but also fascinating if accurate.

ART’s moral calculus is questionable - which makes its one comment about morals and kindness (iykyk) register as yet another gray moment.

*If* it is ruthless in that way, the question becomes whether that’s actually wrong. If the results of manipulation are always benign or even helpful, (even MB notes it would have been screwed without ART’s interference) are the mechanics of that manipulation a factor?

-excerpt from the transcript of Perihelion vs PUMNT, probably.

Do we think ART sabotaged the first ship MB was going to take in Artificial Condition? It had mysterious hauler bot problems and I just feel like ART might have done that...