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Interesting article about the Oscars and celebrities. I hate it when powerful people (celebrities) punch down. I’m glad I didn’t see the tourist bit because how dehumanizing is that? Let’s use some tourists as a comedy prop. ugh.

I’m not a Tom Cruise fan, but I remember his appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s late late show. They lip synced “you’ve lost that lovin’ feeling” to a young lady in the front row. She was of course overwhelmed. Afterwards, TC shook her hand and said thank you, and thank you to her boyfriend. He knew what was happening and I thought it showed some grace and class to acknowledge it.

Went to Ars Technica for the satellite story and saw this too: Get Ready for Robots Made with Human Flesh: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/get-ready-for-robots-made-with-human-flesh/:

“MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks predicted many years ago that humans wouldn’t be replaced by robots—we would become them. In this paper about tissue engineering, we can see one possible way that prediction might come true.”

Plenty of fun Blade Runner & Terminator stuff in the comments there.

And this: Creepy Experiment Uses Implanted Electrodes to Make Beetles Run Faster: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/creepy-experiment-uses-implanted-electrodes-to-make-beetles-run-faster/

“Just in case you were craving an army of beetle minions to do your bidding, a group of engineers in Singapore has invented a new kind of “biobot.” Fitted out with a microcontroller and electrodes implanted in the muscles of its legs, it’s a cyborg beetle that can be made to run faster or slower at the whim of its human master.”

“Similar kinds of biobots have been built before—the last few years have seen the invention of everything from ratbots to mind-controlled cockroaches—but this is the first variable-speed model. That’s because the engineers are directly controlling the insect’s leg muscles rather than driving it by manipulating signals in its brain or antennae.”

More fun comments…

That Oscar bus thing was weird. (Also, I find Jimmy Kimmel annoying.)

Good morning.