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I managed to pay £3.85 for a single can of coke in a Toby Carvery in Middlesbrough 😳 (this is probably because they want the punter to pay an extra 50p or so for their unlimited soft-drink refills; for example a normal pot of tea is still £1.85... Still, menu first *then* order drinks 🤦 )

Would love to see a spreadsheet of lifetime income/outgoings of one of those fancy coffee (starbucks/costa) vending machines. I reckon if there's a way to deliver a takeaway coffee cheaper, in a period of economic contraction, it's some kind of automat.

#coffee #economics #microeconomics #vending #automation #robotics

I love these a lot. Repurposed vending machines that sell products from local artists.

https://supafantastic.com/vending/

#vending #vendingmachines #art #creators

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As a followup to this I can say that a used outdoor tobacco vending machine costs ~ €3,5k + shipping (which is also triple digits since they have to be ratchet-strapped to a pallet and driven in a truck and can't just be put on a trolley out of the rear of a parcel truck)...

So that's a bummer...

#Vending #VendingMachine #VendingMachines

We Let #AI Run Our Office #Vending #Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.

#Anthropic’s #Claude ran a snack operation in the #WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents.

http://archive.today/2025.12.20-101445/https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34

🤦‍♂️ WSJ’s deep dive into an #AI #vending #machine is basically an #infomercial 🤖 disguised as #journalism, where the only thing more robotic than their chatbot is their shameless self-praise. 🥳 Bravo to #Anthropic for making a bot that loses #money, because nothing screams "future #of AI" like a money-draining vending machine! 💸
https://ploum.net/2025-12-19-prepare-for-that-world.html #Future #AI #Drain #HackerNews #ngated
Prepare for That Stupid World

Prepare for That Stupid World par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

This AI Vending Machine Was Tricked Into Giving Away Everything

Anthropic installed an AI-powered vending machine in the WSJ office. The LLM, named Claudius, was responsible for autonomously p

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First rule of #vending - assume there will be no food, regardless of what the event page says, or that you will not be able to obtain/eat it in a timely, nonstock-damaging way. Bring your own lunch.

What a wild year it has been!! 26 shows down, 1 more (maybe 2) to go!! Looking forward to some chill time this winter, creating a lot of new artwork & finishing some projects up!

#vending #season #artwork #fulltimeartist #artist #art #booth #tourposter #limited #edition #arcanecluster

Which country will be the first to have frozen #embryos available in #vending machines?