Fifty Years of Shit Robots

We continue our TERMINATOR season with another episode on T2: JUDGMENT DAY. Today we thumb through Dr Silberman's fractured timelines and marvel and John Conner's ability to bond with his new terminator daddy.WARNING! The S**t-bomb is said but nothing more TikTok: @FiftyYOSRInsta: @FiftyYOSRNOTESTERMINATOR REFERENCES IN THE SIMPSONShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htcP5UXN-E0 TERMINATOR REFERENCES IN THE SIMPSONS PART 2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbTyGH1c4vM 90S SLANG EXPLAINEDhttps://www.dictionary.com/articles/these-90s-slang-words-were-all-that TRUMP PLAYS DOWN GUARDRAILS ON AIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNw2BlyagKk  

Welcome to the FYOSR SIDEBORG. We hope this will become a fortnightly feature where we chat about robot-related news. Today we look at autonomous weapons and ask the Stephen Murray Doom-O-Meter, "should we be worried?"WARNING! The S**t-bomb is said but nothing more TikTok: @FiftyYOSRInsta: @FiftyYOSRNOTESAUTONOMOUS WEAPON KILLS THREEhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/world/europe/russia-drones-autonomous-ai-kill-ukraine-war.html PROBLEMS WITH AUTONOMOUS WEAPONShttps://www.stopkillerrobots.org/stop-killer-robots/facts-about-autonomous-weapons/ MPS CALL FOR NEW LAW TO ADDRESS AI THREATS TO HUMAN RIGHTShttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyzvgj70y4o 

We continue our TERMINATOR season with another episode on T2: JUDGMENT DAY. Today we ask, why did John Conner send a second good terminator back that looked exactly like the first bad terminator . Also, what would the movie have been like if James Cameron had cast Charles Hawtrey instead of Arnie?WARNING! The S**t-bomb is said but nothing more TikTok: @FiftyYOSRInsta: @FiftyYOSRNOTESBILLY IDOL’S T1000 SCREEN TESThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hV5AwSyd3Q ROY KINNEAR’S TRAGIC DEATHhttps://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/nov/06/my-dad-roy-kinnear-died-filming-a-stunt-why-are-lives-still-at-risk THE TECH OF T2: AN ORAL HISTORYhttps://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/ 100 FILMS THAT HAVE STOOD THE TEST OF TIMEhttps://www.frostmagazine.com/2012/05/100-films-that-have-stood-the-test-of-time/

We continue our TERMINATOR with another episode on T2: JUDGMENT DAY. Today we get lost in our own paradox. The message is simply this, never try and think too hard about the timelines of time-travel films.WARNING! The S**t-bomb is said but nothing more TikTok: @FiftyYOSRInsta: @FiftyYOSRNOTESTHE TERMINATOR TIMELINE EXPLAINEDhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xYsHC4IM-8 DIFFERENT TYPES OF SEQUELShttps://thesequelbook.wordpress.com/sequel-definitions/ WILLIAM SHELDON’S IDEAS ABOUT BODY SHAPEhttps://www.simplypsychology.org/sheldon-constitutional-theory-somatotyping.html WHAT FOSTER PARENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO?https://www.ncyfp.org/2025-12-4-what-are-foster-parents-not-allowed-to-do/

After a short break we continue our TERMINATOR with a first episode on T2: JUDGMENT DAY. Today we try and get through the opening credits.WARNING! The S**t-bomb is said but nothing more TikTok: @FiftyYOSRInsta: @FiftyYOSRNOTESTHE GULF WARhttps://www.iwm.org.uk/history/cold-war/gulf-war ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER’S MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHEShttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr5CENbugJAhVesAkIrj94ALCogBNC1nr THE UNSETTLING POWER OF EXISTENTIAL DREADhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/worklife/article/20220929-the-unsettling-power-of-existential-dread

Today we continue our season on THE TERMINATOR, maybe the most famous robot movie of them all. Today we try and make sense of Harlan Ellison's involvement with the Terminator movie.WARNING! The S**t-bomb is said but nothing more TikTok: @FiftyYOSRInsta: @FiftyYOSRNOTESHARLAN ELLISON INTERVIEW 1973https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydk-E58SGtk HARLAN ELLISON INTERVIEW 1976https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDxnsNw4FZI&t=266s TERMINATOR: 40 YEARS ONhttps://fanfare.pub/the-terminator-40-years-on-547499b35b3a HOW OUTER LIMITS INSPIRED STAR TREKhttps://screenrant.com/outer-limits-sci-fi-television-before-star-trek/