Roko's ObeliskThey're threatening us with a good time again
Steven Reed
Fugue State Machine@srtcd424 @pikesley “[D]rone attacks on multinational cloud infrastructure are indeed new and the sort of thing that is almost certainly going to become more common, particularly as domestic tech industries and militaries continue to fuse together into terrifying killing blobs.”
Love this for them. Sow::Reap
LevkaShahid's secret sauce is they're cheap and easy to produce. Production can be widely dispersed.
The R&D phase is over. All that's left for their creative types to do is improvise tactics. It's not like drone warfare itself is anything new. It's Tesla era tech. Tesla himself invented it.
Shahids look like they'd be ab easy-peasy build for any competent model airplane enthusiast. They're just big model airplanes that have been weaponized, thats all. The design is adaptable to small scale DIY workshops.
That's scary.
Once the expertise gets around we'll start seeing non-state actors using them. Then we'll see that mercenaries are advertising drone "services" online and taking their payoffs in crypto.
Drone war is already out of hand. Think it can't get worse? Think again. Imagine these things in the hands of grassroots neo-Nazi paramilitaries. Skills, like knowledge itself, are hard to contain. It'll spread, by "each one teach one" if nothing else, but the internet is quicker. Ideas spread like wildfire here.
Sooner or later, drone war will be beyond control. Already there are ghost guns. How long before there are ghost drones with 3D printed avionics to guide them? How long before we see them fly where we live? What will we do then? What can we be doing right now to impede the impending rogue drone timeline from playing out to its full potential?
(1.) It isn't "always". Don't put words in my mouth. It's rude. It's dishonest. It's very bad form.
(2.) “Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.” -- Rebecca Solnit, *A Field Guide to Getting Lost*
(3.) I already explained my personal beef with the Nazis:
https://kolektiva.social/@cmdrmoto@hachyderm.io/116192389856430814
(. . .)
Why should I personally worry? Among other things, I'm what Nazis call a "race traitor". My wife of 41 years is a Jew. At least 3,459 self-professed neo-Nazis live and vote within an hour's drive of where the two of us live. 841 of them live within walking distance. They say they want to kill us both. They have a track record. To feel even remotely safe we keep a scatter gun next to the bed. I can reach it from my desk chair, too. And that's just the scatter gun. We have some other surprises in wait for them, too, several of them. No way we will disarm ourselves. Ever. It's not going to happen. Save your breath.
In a recent GOP primary, neo-Nazi Patrick Little, campaigning on a platform of Holocaust denial and ethnic cleansing, got 1,369 votes in Alameda County, 841 in SF and 1,249 in Contra Costa. That's a lot of neo-Nazis in what most of the country considers a hotbed of leftism. And that's just the ones who voted.
It's safe to assume that each of them owns at least one firearm. No fascist is unarmed. This is a lot like having a fascist army camped over the next hill. In a very real sense, it *is* having a fascist army camped over the next hill.
As avid history buffs my wife and I know exactly what happens when a fascist army is within striking distance and nobody does anything about it. For the historically ignorant folks out there who are reading this, let's just say it's not pretty. You can look up the details if you want. They're not hard to find.
Start here:
https://
kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/110626253199684709
It only takes one racist fanatic to shoot up a synagogue, a mosque, a grocery store, a shopping mall, or anywhere really. Or anyone. It happens sometimes, and not just in so-called "America". It happens again and again. Once was too many. Neither my wife nor I intend to let it happen to us, not without a fight. If you have a problem with us staying alive, please be polite and keep it to yourselves.
The last thing that we, or any sane people, want is a shooting war here. Yeah, it might bring down tyranny but only by creating something far, far worse.
But there's no need for violence to bring down tyranny. Instead, we need a #GeneralStrike.
"If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped." -- Big Bill Haywood
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