• ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca
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    9 hours ago

    Guys, we should all write to the Tolkien Estate to denounce the use of names from the Lord of the Rings for weapons and tools of mass surveillance. Let’s all write a letter condemning this and asking them to do something aboutit.

    The Tolkien Estate

    c/o Curtis Brown Heritage

    Cunard House

    15 Regent Street

    London

    SW1Y 4LR

  • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca
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    12 hours ago

    Are they fucking serious?

    When is the Tolkien estate going to sue all these companies like Palantir and shit for using LOTR names for weapons and surveillance systems meant to subjugate and kill people?

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    13 hours ago

    “We’ve created a real life version of the torment nexus from the famous book Never Create The Torment Nexus”

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      One of the biggest US companies works closely with the US intelligence industry and DoD to provide them very in-depth surveillance, facial recognition, customer tracking via payment systems, and AI-assisted target acquisition systems and many highly concerning privacy-invading tools.

      They call themselves Palantir.

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      Literally actually yes. Thiel and his ilk think Sauron just didn’t have enough focus on PR.

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    At least the name Palantir is appropriately sinister for the technology. Using the name Shadowfax for a combat drone just feels wrong. It would be more tolerable if it was an especially fast scout or something.

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      Less chance of jamming, that is why some early machine guns had top feeds/magazines, gravity and stuff you know.

      The reason humans dont do this is they have more chance of jamming upside down so it cancels out.

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    13 hours ago

    Love how the gun is a perfectly normal AR with grips, sights, stocks and everything kinda just strapped on there

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        8 hours ago

        Isn’t this basically Ukraine? The original grenade drop drones just used off the shelf drones and actuated the grenade stop with the light switch.

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    11 hours ago

    So its got 30 odd rounds then you get a load of free and expensive hardware to keep once you tip it over?

    They probably stick explosives in it too.

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    13 hours ago

    This thing looks way more scuffed than the ones that the Ukrainians are fielding.