goes both ways. drones are 3d printable, and nazis can also explode.

they may not want to open this pandora's box.

Which was revealed when Anthropic made their very simple demands and the administration threw a tantrum.

1. No fully autonomous murder; a human must make the final decision.
2. No domestic mass surveillance.

Pretty simple demands that should have been easy to agree to.

"The government plans to begin sending killer drones after you!"

[...the rest of the article...]

"I urgently need you to call your government representative and tell them you think that's bad; also vote"

Don't want to be that guy, but this is far from new news.

"Less than two weeks ago, the United States conducted a drone strike over central Yemen, killing one al-Qaeda operative. The strike was the last under Obama (that we know of). The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians. As he reportedly told senior aides in 2011: “Turns out I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”

This is from 2017. You can find even older stuff.

cfr.org/articles/obamas-final-…

Double Down

Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times:"Those hungry for political news will read Double Down for the scooplets and insidery glimpses it serves up about the two campaigns, and the clues it offers about the positioning already going on among Republicans…

^{Google Books}

Umm..didn't Obama do this to the first US American living abroad?

We've had this reality for a looong time

Their responsibilities include counterterrorism, unconventional warfare...

I read that as "we will fight terrorism with terrorism"

...and that's especially concerning because the current administration defines "writing articles like this one" as terrorism, because it's antifascist

Anyone remember that short film from 2017 Slaughterbots?

youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU

FAA quietly issued a nationwide notice in January creating 3,000-foot no-fly zones around every DHS and ICE vehicle, so that citizens and journalists can’t film federal immigration operations from the air.

Now that's something I haven't heard before

We’ve been here before, albeit on a much smaller scale and overseas. Between 1967 and 1972, the CIA ran a program in South Vietnam called Phoenix that generated intelligence-scored capture-or-kill lists of suspected Viet Cong and eventually killed somewhere between twenty-six- and forty-thousand people, many of them innocent Vietnamese civilians mistakenly flagged by informants and unreliable data

Jesus

With Renee Good, the decision to kill her was made by a human being who was operating inside a system that had already decided her neighborhood, her opposition to ICE, and her observer status made her a legitimate target. What happens when that decision is made in twenty seconds by a machine down in Florida, and executed by a hovering armed drone as the FAA has cleared the civilian sky so nobody is watching?

Sounds like we need cheap open source defense drones that can defend our communities by knocking these murder drones out of the sky.

Does anyone have a link to a project to 3d print drones that can be used to disable other drones in the sky?