The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Age of Drones has Come: the End of Cities as We Know Them? Never ask for whom the drone is coming, it is coming for thee. Ugo Bardi An image of things already coming. The Iranian Shahed (“martyr”) drone is an example of a new generation of killing machines. In themselves, drones are just a further step forward in the human capability to kill people at a long distance that started with slings and bows, went through firearms and artillery, and is now mainly based on these nearly autonomous murdering tools. These things are manufactured by the millions and then handed to psychopathic criminals who use them as extermination weapons. How can we defend ourselves? It may well be that we are watching the end of a cycle nearly 10,000 years long. Cities have become a target, no longer a safe haven. We may have to abandon them to move to low-value targets in the form of small villages. The story of human warfare is an arms race between attack and defense, mainly driven by range. In earl...

  Google to Dump 32 Million Diseased, AI-Bred Mosquitoes on Florida and California Benjamin Bartee The aspirational totalitarians over at Big Tech have seen fit to retrofit 32 million mosquitoes with a bacterial infection, using AI, and then dump them onto California and Florida. The federal government, beholden as ever to the private interests that run it, is poised to give its blessing. Via California Post : “ California could soon become a testing ground for one of Google’s most ambitious public health projects yet . The tech giant is seeking federal approval to release up to 32 million specially treated mosquitoes in California and Florida over the next two years as part of an effort to reduce the spread of mosquito-borne diseases , including West Nile virus, St. Louis encephalitis, dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever… The project is part of Google’s little-known Debug initiative , launched more than a decade ago to develop new technologies aimed at reducing populations ...