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> and semi autonomous killer bots on ukraine frontlines.

They did fully autonomous tests in 2022 through 2024. Something like everything in a 5km radius was dead. Various sources in mainstream media online about this now.


> I really think there’s a concerted effort by the media to demonize AI though

That sounds literally insane to me. This is not coming from the media, many of the same people that own the media have a vested interest in this particular US political administration... which is also basically all of big tech.


https://freefable.org/

This has some insight in my many cyber security professionals want Fable/Mythos open.


My APs are fiber now.

I expect my APs will be the last things to convert away from copper because of the need for power. (I just deployed new WiFi 7 APs with 10G PoE++ links.)

You still need to power things.

Often that will mean running both Cat6A and fiber.


> I've also wondered if such expensive hardware can be rented back out to offset cost.

Massive legal liability. Not worth it.


> Similarly, the M4 or direct derivatives continuing to be the main rifle for the majority of infantry is also stupid.

Man this is so far off topic, but I would consider myself somewhat well educated and personally and professionally experienced on this topic, and I very much would love to know what problems you see with the M4A1 weapon system in 2026.


Former Alaskan, very disappointed after skimming the first part of the article.

Allow me to introduce everyone to my favorite thing that isn't an artichoke and isn't from Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Artichoke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke

You keep your hands off my Jordan almonds!

And Rocky Mountain oysters.

> On the point of democracy, none of the candidates who spend the most on major elections seem to be winning much lately,

Thomas Massie was just ousted in the most expensive house primary in US history.

The difference between 1-2 mil that is normally spent and the $30+ million spent on that election alone.


Tom steyer spent half a billion to not even make it onto the final ca ballot

I think you'd find more examples of people spending much much less money to influence elections, or buy certain positions than you will people spending money to make the public vote for them. The money influences policies, regulations, wars, etc.

The problem isn’t necessarily that some one can buy a seat for themselves (though some people out there could spend 1000x as much as half a billion and still have 500 billion to spend), it's that for less than half a billion, someone can buy 20 house or senate seats for more conventional candidates that are willing to vote the way the financier wants.


Buying senate seats is for chumps. For $300 million, Musk got his own executive branch agency, a pseudo cabinet level position, and carte blanche to take a machete to all the programs he personally disliked including investigations into himself and his companies.

Trump said they would sign something today.

An hour later, now they're not signing anything until Friday.


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