@SciShowTangents@im_sam_schultz hi, roboticist here, re: "HybriBots," I have no opinion on the name, but fun fact (well, not too fun), the word robot comes from Czech robota which means serf or forced labor, and HybriBots are kinda forcing wild oat awns to do labor soooooooooooo
our product is built on thoughtfully engineered, hand crafted algorithms that are transparent and deterministic about how they use your data, not like all those AI products
we're in the liminal space between people not knowing what a Houthi is and corporate media doling out some talking points along the lines of "Houthi = ISIS" or "they put a baby in a cannon" and then like every cable news dumbass you know saying that shit ad nauseam
"I feel like you demoed more than anyone else combined today" yeah bc I missed the last 3 sprint demos so I had to present 4 months of work but I'll take the compliment