Adversarial Adventurers Mugs

"It's all ads!"

No caption (A young bald eagle plays a claw game full of fish as his parent stands behind him).

"It's a postmodern mosaic, almost lyrical in its undercurrent." "My five-year-old will be happy to hear that."

I sometimes feel spotted, but I never really feel seen.

Robotics. He's programmed to play video games all day long. Planned adolescence!

"Shankar, I needed someone to dot the 'I's' and cross the 'T's' but that was before there was ChatGPT."

Book Shop Plot Spoilers

Otto the SmartyCar!

"I'm pretty sure my self-driving car is moonlighting for Uber behind my back."

"Trust me, I'm a robot."

"Turn on the news." "I will not comply." "My analysis of your viewing patterns has determined you will grow depressed after the lead story." "There is a 95% probability you will then gorge yourself on rocky road ice cream and then stay up all night googling elliptical machines and diet pills." "Who told you this?" "Both your refrigerator and your browser are gossipy."

Gianni Tatti's Dining-Room Chair

"Outré or simply bad?"

'And then Dmitri noticed something that would have a profound effect on the human/robot wars.'

"I did seize the day. But then it seized me right back and used some kind of jujitsu move to flip me on my ass."

'I shall now hand over to our guest speaker, management unit XT-56.'

Two gamers play in a game arcade near a machine titled; 'Get a life'.

"You like it? It’s from the MoMA Store!"

'I sense this may not be a one-way journey.'

'I'm not sure my heart could take the excitement.'

"I'm terrible with names, but never fail at fingerprint, facial or voice recognition."

"We're too tired to argue. Let's let Siri and Alexa handle this for us."

'I saw an offbeat play the other night. No one took off their clothes.'

"But, Jesus - you can't become an atheist."

'We programmed it to simulate living conditions in the year 2000, and it's become hysterical.'

"Alexa...order my shopping!"

"As your new President I shall govern by algorithm."

"AI tsumoney"

"Apparently, if you understand it, you don’t understand it."

"My kid could have done that with AI."

"Miles... I'm going abstract!"

"You look like the kind of folks who laugh at adversity."

"Dehumanization, maybe, but not depersonalization."

Marcel Duchamp caricature

"Wanna come over and watch the big game?....I was actually talking about the new 'Pac-Man vs. Superman' X-box game."