YR VERY OWN SECURITY DRONE

Yr Future-Of-Crowd-Control lede of the day:



Their first customer is a mining company, apparently.

The International Trade Union Confederation is understandably alarmed:

"This is a deeply disturbing and repugnant development and we are convinced that any reasonable government will move quickly to stop the deployment of advanced battlefield technology on workers or indeed the public involved in legitimate protests and demonstrations," said spokesman Tim Noonan.

So is the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (and yes there is such a thing):
 

 

Noel Sharkey, chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control campaign group, is concerned that the deployment of such drones risks "creeping authoritarianism and the suppression of protest".

"Firing plastic balls or bullets from the air will maim and kill," he said.

"Using pepper spray against a crowd of protesters is a form of torture and should not be allowed.

For perspective, this is unlikely to come to America – at least not to the private sector. The FAA has already nixed the idea of Amazon’s delivery drones. I don’t think they’ll okay private riot-control securitybot fleets. If anyone’s going to conduct pepper-spray airstrikes on people, it’s going to be the police.

Twenty seconds to comply,

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THE UNIVERSE IS LAUGHING BEHIND YR BACK

I had this years ago courtesy of a 2-LP compilation of classic comedy records, but it popped up in my head the other day for some unexplained reason.

It’s from National Lampoon.

I think it’s probably Norman Rose’s best work. Which is saying something.

PRODUCTION NOTE: This being National Lampoon, it’s kind of an intellectual joke. The words are a parody of a Max Ehrmann poem (Desiderata) though the recording itself is meant to be a parody of Les Crane’s spoken-word take on it.

"Desiderata - Les Crane" (Watch on YouTube)

Needless to say, I like the parody better.

Because, you know, college existentialist nihilism is funny.

Rotate yr tires,

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