Yeah, my parents didn’t have money for expensive toys either. I had a small transformer that I swapped off a kid at school for all my marbles (including the large steel bearing). It transformed from robot into tape cassette and I thought that was just cool as fuck.

It’s to prevent a small child from falling arse-first into the crapper and causing a blockage.

Indeed, I’ve seen the porn.

A pretty early chatbot called Eliza simulated a non-directive psychotherapist. It kind of feels like they’ve improved hugely but not really changed much.

Mostly, but not always first person. But I’m not always the same person - my age and sex isn’t at all consistent in my dreams. I’ve been an old woman or a baby boy, and pretty much everything across those spectrums. In my dreams it’s completely unremarkable.

The word ‘sinister’ derives from ‘the left side’, which shows we’ve been aware of the strong links between left-handedness and the unholy prince of falsehood for some time. Have fun in hell, abomination!