{"id":146,"date":"2026-06-01T17:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:44:56","slug":"deranged-robotics-cult-at-duke-accidentally-summons-lovecraftian-outer-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Deranged Robotics Cult at Duke Accidentally Summons Lovecraftian Outer God"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>West of Durham lies an institution of learning, a varsity whose name I dare not speak, but whose avatar\u2014a devil of deepest azure\u2014should demonstrate amply the nature of the research that is conducted therein. In those hallowed halls labor intellects of such fantastic potency that it was inevitable one would look too far into the cyclopean depths of research funding and happen upon knowledge that no man was ever meant to glimpse.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=144\">Claude Got an \u2018Honesty\u2019 Upgrade. Some Users Would Rather Live in a Web of Lies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My own travels took me to that fantastic institution\u2019s website in search of #content, and now I curse the perverse curiosity that possessed me on that wretched day. Would that I had instead ventured into the ancient park opposite, to wander between the gnarled trees and bend my weary body down to touch grass!<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I clicked on a link furnished with the intriguing title \u201cExtreme dynamic symmetry enables omnidirectional and multifunctional robots\u201d, and in doing so, I sealed my own damnation. Readers, I will relate the horrors I saw, and then I will hit \u201cPublish\u201d on this blog post, file my invoice, and never speak of it again.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/78brFANEgkA?feature=oembed\" title=\"No front, no back: just 20 legs and (a) vision #robotics  #techshorts #scienceshorts\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>The \u201comnidirectional and multifunctional robots\u201d of which these learned men spoke had nothing resembling a human form\u2014a fact of which the designer spoke proudly, ignorant of the forces they had unleashed! The leader of the deranged robotocist cult that had summoned the beast, one Boyuan Chen, spoke openly of his terrible designs to Arkham periodical <em>Associated Press<\/em>: \u201cWe\u2019re not imitating anything in nature,\u201d he said. He need not have elucidated this philosophy, for it was clear that the mechanical abomination resembled none of the plain, virtuous forms that characterize the creatures of this world: no quadruped or biped, no vertebrate or arthropod, neither slithering snake nor avian soaring on the thermal currents of the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=142\">EcoFlow\u2019s New 45W Power Bank Sounds Great if You\u2019re Always Losing Your Cables<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>No, the thing manifested as a mass of glowing orbs, each tethered to a frame wrought from some fantastic material that I knew could not be of this Earth. (\u201cPlastic,\u201d I was later to learn it was called, a name that speaks of its hideous versatility and its fundamental indestructibility.) Around this frame snaked tendrils of every color and none, some stretching outward toward the orbs, others descending into a tangle of interstitial connections that originated in a central nodule I knew must contain the thing\u2019s brain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArgus,\u201d the paper called it. Ha! I knew instantly that the name \u201cArgus\u201d was the most risible of obfuscations, for this contraption had another name entirely, a base nomenclature that should long since have been banished from the world but lived on in the whispered lore of certain degenerate cults of San-Francisco. Argus? No, this could be none other than the outer god itself made manifest: the dreaded YOG-SOTOTH, whose form is described in the forbidden <em>Technonomicon <\/em>as \u201ca congery of iridescent globes\u201d. (I say also that at least one copy of the infernal tome exists to this day, and it rests in the hands of a cult devoted to the god \u201cAI\u201d, who use it even now to summon the obscene shoggoths and unleash them upon our world in the form of mendacious search summaries and an inane formless entity by the name of \u201cClaude\u201d.)<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But I digress, and I must force myself again to relate what I saw that day, even as my hands tremble over my keyboard and I crave nothing more than the sweet oblivion of cat videos on YouTube. When the thing began to move, revolving around a central axis like a terrible d20 comprised of eyes and madness, I confess that I let out a shriek and alt-tabbed away, but too late, too late, the vision of the thing forever burned into my blasted brain like light on a photographic plate. I ran gibbering and laughing into the kitchen, wherein I prepared more coffee for myself, knowing in my heart that the night would bring me no rest, only endless dreams of the outer god and his laughing tech bro enablers, their hands reaching out to encircle the globe, encrusting and encysting it forever in the dread womb of late capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=140\">Microsoft\u2019s Surface Laptop Ultra Is Picking a Fight With the M5 Max MacBook Pro<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogger HP Lovecraft writes on the latest advances in robotics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-robots"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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