Category: posterity
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Indestructible Robot Ghostwriter #1
It’s not X, it’s Y, is a particular English construct that has drawn more than the usual amount of discussion in recent months. Language used to be for storytelling. You might begin your work with one theme, one event; as it progressed, you could explore some aspect of that world, painting a picture as you…
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Our rights to life and liberty, imploded
The loss of the OceanGate submarine in late 2023 didn’t really shock me much. On one hand, I knew first-hand that carbon fiber was a terrible material for submarines. Having tried to build a molded battery shell for my college RoboSub team back in 2017, I couldn’t imagine scaling up the material that I found…
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The slaughterbots are here.
In Dune, a fiction novel released nearly sixty years ago, the brutally exploitative tech-enabled Harkonnen use remotely-piloted kamikaze drones, “Hunter-Seekers,” to conduct assassinations of their political enemies. More than a decade ago, the advent of ArduPilot brought quadcopters and drones in general from the cutting edge of technology to the hands of hobbyists and consumers.…