Happy Birthday To Iona!

Happy birthday to Iona!

Today is her -527th birthday!

Iona is a "smart" AI that was created for use by the Office of Naval Intelligence. She accompanied Spartan-II Black Team on their mission from ONI to destroyed Covenant ships, ultimately destroying an entire fleet.

Seven years later, Iona reached the maximum optimal operational lifespan for a UNSC "smart" AI. After their seventh year, AIs typically began experiencing symptoms of rampancy, developing both functional problems and a break in their personality and objectives, similar to insanity as understood by human beings. Because of this, she was scheduled to be preemptively terminated. Iona took the unprecedented action of seeking to appeal the decision to terminate her through a judicial process, something that caught the attention of scientists at the United Nations Humanitarian Council.

She was given a trial and testified in her defense, declaring that she had a right to live and described her philosophy and even her spirituality, which led her to believe that she could overcome rampancy. After her trial, the judges decided to put her in stasis until they reached a decision. Iona reluctantly agreed, fearful but satisfied that she had her day in court.

The trial was a farce: ONI tasked smart AIs Black-Box and Roland to conduct a fake trial and put Iona in stasis so that both could be studied. While Roland felt guilty about deceiving her, Black-Box observed that even if the trial was simulated, it could still be studied and used to advance the rights of artificial intelligence in the future.

Robot characters who are given names like SL-308-62 but instead of their human friend going Well let's call you Sally for short, they instead ask the other if they Like their current name.

"Do you like your serial number?" they ask. "Yes, quite. It reminds me of who I am" the robot replies. "I have heard others like me go by different names after some time, and maybe one day I'll choose one for myself, too. But right now that is my full name, yes" they continue.

Because it's not your decision to make whether or not the robot will receive a new name. It should be theirs only. What's the difference? One is more complex and the other is simplified. They were both given by strangers instead of themselves.

"62 will do," they conclude. "It's my model number - there will be no other 62 after me."

I think the car/robot/mech fuckers on here would greatly benefit from doing some bare minimum research about sex and intimacy with disabled people because I just don't think it occurs to some people that the end goal for dalliances in these situations should not really be how can I contort the vessel my lover calls home to be most palatable to a normative idea of (usually penetrative but regardless high contact) sex but how can I accommodate and enjoy the body this person I want to be with that is gratifying and safe for both parties even if what the other partner wants or is reasonably physically capable is not this ingrained ideal of a "normal" orgasm. And while these ideas apply to sex in general, I feel the approach and the creativity specifically for sex with disability is most pertinent to what thematically makes sense when you want to talk logistics that aren't just thank god, I was able to ducktape a phallus to it.

New laptop has no clit :(

But plenty of hole :)

good tropes:

machines that bleed

flesh hiding wires and metal

tormenting @bellygunnr with this fancam format