#Sleep. “Holy Mountain.” 1993. Germany. This clip touches the heart — the fuzzy riffs on an already fuzzy boot, the most respectful yet stoned intro, “hello we’re sleep we’re from the United States”, then these 19 yr old kids having to win over a Cannibal Corpse crowd with doom.
Once you start seeing videos of 20 year old kids begging for their lives before drones that are about to blow them up, this is a good time to pause as a human.
Did we really just see that and pretend that it was no big deal?
As a society we basically went from “robots shouldn’t kill” just a few years ago to swiping left at kids regularly getting blown up in drone footage, by robots. It’s happening now.
And yes, some of the night “vampire bomber” drones in Ukraine that destroy tanks are fully autonomous already.
I don’t think most of us are fully aware of what we are getting involved with here. I wasn’t fully aware until I saw that kid begging for his life.
Now imagine this isn’t an FPV drone with a human operator that can decide whether or not to pull the trigger, but an automated drone that doesn’t give a shit about your begging and praying. And there are tens of thousands of them in a swarm killing everyone in a city with extreme precision, and we don’t know who is controlling them. Ask yourself again, do we want this as a species?
After the Ukraine war is over, Ukraine will export their drones and drone expertise to other countries. A lucrative new industry will flourish. Nearly every country on earth will have millions of drones ready to be launched with launch codes, like nukes, to pre-programmed hard targets and even specific human populations. And leaders will be more likely to launch drones than nukes.
These will eventually be the most effective killing machines on earth, second only to nukes. But unlike nuclear weapons, automated killing drones will actually be used to kill hundreds of millions of people (or more) in this century.
AI powered drone swarms are effectively high precision nukes at scale but without the disastrous environmental impact of nuclear fallout. And they are relatively cheap and easy to manufacture by ONE PERSON.
Elon is right, all future wars will be drone wars. There’s nothing that will stop this.
#Ratt. “The Morning After.” 1984. Rock Palace. Hollywood, CA. Check it out - the almighty Warren DeMartini trading licks with Robbin Crosby — twin guitar harmonies too. However, not ‘metal’ enough to make it into metal archives - ho hum 🐀
Imagine if Indian Americans (richest in the US) demanded the US government pass a law making it illegal to dispute territorial claims on Kashmir
That is effectively what has happened on the anti-semitism legislation
One of my favorite hair bands from the 80s was Tesla. Now, lead singer Jeff Keith sounds like Cartman from South Park.
Name a band or artist you’ve seen who sounded awful live.
“City manager Art Noriega is an overpriced furniture hustler disguised as a professional executive…”
Another small victory on the long road to clean up the criminal racketeering organization that is Miami government: the city will no longer do business with Noriega’s wife’s overpriced furniture company @PradereOffice — as long as he’s city manager (which may not be much longer)… #BecauseMiami