I suppose that they’re using all the available resources to build drones for the conflict, but I’d definitely choose a Ukrainian FPV drone over a DJI or other Chinese drone if they were commercially available, both to support the Ukrainian economy and to buy within Europe

Meshtastic network is a communication system that doesn’t rely on mobile phones. Have a look at it, it’s simple, secure, cheap, and rapidly growing

Electric Fight Orchestra is kinda fire

In fairness, harbour is a pretty long word for someone with the reading comprehension of a toddler

Before “blowing up” meant trending on Xitter

He’s only been in office for a few weeks, how the hell has he started a fungal zombie apocalypse already?!

I’ve been slightly obsessed by Love Endeavour (Maurice Fulton Remix) by Alice Smith from 2014, Golden Fool by Gnome (and indeed the whole album), and Cabin Fever by Slomosa (and indeed almost everything they’ve done), both released last year

https://open.spotify.com/track/0oGM4LIuCrXG5aYOAu6ANJ

https://open.spotify.com/track/6Bc3ADDXY0JKUPPJ3AXYBp

https://open.spotify.com/track/4lmnpR0Z7kc7ktKOwlPFsi

That’s valid, but I think that there’s going to be an increasing number of people who feel unsafe enough to take that hit, from the left/lgbt/scientific/non-caucasian communities. There’s almost inevitably going to be a brain-drain because of this, so we might as well take advantage of it

The smart move here would be for the EU/UK to set up an easy method for all the clever, motivated people alienated by the orange hitter’s actions to jump ship

You may have conflated two separate things there. There’s a table-top game that, if iirc, he had a hand in making, which gets fairly well reviewed I think. There’s also a TV series (loosely) based on Tales From The Loop, which has essentially lost everything of value from the narrative of the book.

Yeah, I supported his Labyrinth book (which is great) on there a while ago, so I got notified when the kickstarter for Swedish Machines was launched. It should be getting delivered fairly soon, I can’t wait!

I love his work, I’m in the kickstarter for his new book and I can’t wait to see it

On fire, AND buried in snow. Nice

The Water Knife by Paolo Baccigalupi is pretty on the nose for the near future of the southern US

Crowbocop

Please tell me you’ve seen Thingu?! If not, allow me to present…

https://youtu.be/wrZ7PnolbQ4

Disappointing image, no standard scale reference

Not even a little Nazi gold tax?

They’re actually for big, manly super-straight homophobic alpha blokes

I watched a video by Botgrinder on YouTube called “you can’t mini whoop the president” or something similar, where he was messing about with an fpv drone at a Kamala rally. Turns out that the Secret Service won’t let you buzz her with a small drone for fun, and if you stand around in fpv goggles they’ll come and give you some grief. He wrote a very funny ai country song about it, worth a watch. However, he didn’t say much about jamming, it was being stood about in the goggles that got him I think. I’d assume that the Secret Service’s jamming is a fair bit better than the Russian’s, but the way the Ukrainian drones have been dealing with that shows that jamming only does so much - if the drone is falling toward the target on an essentially ballistic trajectory, jamming it won’t do jack