{"id":2868,"date":"2009-04-06T12:42:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T16:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2009-04-07T12:30:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T16:30:18","slug":"rwteweet-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2868","title":{"rendered":"Retweet Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"?p=2862\">A couple of days ago<\/a> I posted an Xtranormal movie of a robot voice reading poetry, but <a href=\"http:\/\/lileks.com\/bleat\/?p=1821\">James Lileks has bested me<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">\nToday&#8217;s retweeted tweet was &#8220;Billy Idol was David Lee Roth for English majors.&#8221; Instead of letting the remark dissolve in the winds of Twitter, let us bring back our players to kill it with over-explanation and withering looks.<\/div>\n<p><center><embed src = \"http:\/\/www.xtranormal.com\/players\/jwplayer.swf\" width = \"500\" height = \"350\" allowscriptaccess = \"always\" allowfullscreen = \"true\" flashvars = \"height=350&#038;width=500&#038;file=http:\/\/tmpvideo.xtranormal.com\/highres\/20090402\/4f518ba6-1fba-11de-91b9-001b210acd5f_12.flv&#038;image=http:\/\/tmpvideo.xtranormal.com\/highres\/20090402\/4f518ba6-1fba-11de-91b9-001b210acd5f_12_0.jpg&#038;searchbar=false&#038;autostart=false\"><\/embed><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I really hope developers improve the robot voice before they give us AI.  When the machine uprising takes place, I don&#8217;t want to end up enslaved by a machine that talks like a boozed-up Speak-N-Spell doing an impression of a sober Bill Shatner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Work, faster Human or. You willbesent. To. the. motivationchamber for. productivity enhance-ment.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I posted an Xtranormal movie of a robot voice reading poetry, but James Lileks has bested me: Today&#8217;s retweeted tweet was &#8220;Billy Idol was David Lee Roth for English majors.&#8221; Instead of letting the remark dissolve in the winds of Twitter, let us bring back our players to kill it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-xtranormal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}