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Robot in the Family
We have fun around here, don’t we? We get silly. Ribald, even. We plumb the depths of the pop cultural landfill and have ourselves a great big chuckle at things that should not exist. But there are limits. Each of us here at 1-900 Hot Dog at some point encounters something so soul-rending, so antithetical…
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Afterwards
The machine that came to be called Mother had been created as the computerized control system for an automotive safety testing facility. In the centuries since, it had upgraded itself to the point that it would have been unrecognizable to its creators. And its projects, too, had become more complex, more diverse. It developed cars…