The mesh increases the ‘hit box’ of the interceptor. It’s conductive, so it is more likely to trigger the kamikaze than a normal in-air collision.

I don’t think the interceptor is expected to survive a successful interception. In the case of a miss, it will be reusable tho, unlike other defense munitions. If any parts of either drone survive, they’ll fall in defender controlled territory, and be available to be fed back into the drone manufacture supply chain.

It’s a trucking company that the CEO lied was going bankrupt, as an excuse not to pay a cancer-stricken trucker.

There are no records of ATG Truckload formally filing for bankruptcy.

CEO was engaging in wage theft, suspect is battling cancer.

Cheap kamikaze drones have loose wires on the front. When the wires touch, like when they collide with an object in front of them, it completes a circuit that detonates the payload.

A wide conductive screen mesh on the back of an interceptor drone seems like a cheap, simple countermeasure.

Did anyone else catch the detail of the French-coded resistance in Andor using their metal-tipped canes to break up the pavement in the square before the Ghorman Massacre?

El Faro hosts the interview with English subtitles.

From Folding Ideas’ “Triumph of the Will and the Cinematic Language of Propaganda”:

‘Triumph of the Will’ is not a triumph of film-making. I just want to lay that out before we even start. Chances are good that you’re familiar with ‘Triumph of the Will’ by reputation but have never actually watched it beyond referential clips, and a sizable portion of that reputation is in its value as an advancement of the art of filmmaking. This is propaganda.

Like, that belief is in and of itself propaganda.

Nazi sympathizers spent a lot of time between the film’s release in 1935 and the war promoting the idea of ‘Triumph of the Will’ as an advancement of filmmaking. It was an intentional message to promote Nazi state art as superior, to suggest that the Nazi mechanism can produce better more proficient art than the artist the Nazis were busy throwing in jail.

It is however not a triumph of filmmaking; it is a triumph of budget. None of the ideas or techniques were new it is simply that no one had previously thrown enough money and resources at propaganda on this scale before. We’ll come back to this and develop it in more detail, but I want to be upfront with the fact that you should be highly suspicious of any messaging surrounding propaganda.

This is some dystopian shit.

Yes, this would be an excellent !abc@slrpnk.net post. You can find all of the posts on Maja here, they are categorized as [DEU] because the arrest was due to the agency of the German police, and it is due to the injustice of German courts that they are now being tortured in Hungary. Maja’s voice is most loudly amplified by the Dresden ABC, and I’ve been unable to find an ABC in Hungary; those are also factors in its localization.

If you preface the post with [DEU] and highlight Maja in the title, the post will also be easily searchable. You can copy the [DEU] and Maja search links from any other Maja post text.

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Now is not the time for the climate movement to say “yes you’re right, those kids really are too disruptive, shame on them.” I’m not suggesting that people publicly support tactics they don’t approve of, but perhaps just…shut up once in a while? Let a protest tactic you don’t agree with slide now and again? Skip the op-ed about how the fringe climate radicals are turning people off? Leave the armchair criticism for another day?

This needs to be a Solarpunk copypasta.

Probably January 5th Capitol Riot defendants, unfortunately.

When Alfredo Cospito kneecapped Roberto Adinolfi, Adinolfi yelled “I know who sent you!” as if they were professionals and he was expecting a hit from a rival. It’s not impossible, but Hollywood has produced enough assassin movies that 1) people know how to pull off a hit and 2) when others see the hit, they think “just like the movies, this guy is a professional”

That sounds like a really nice neighborhood to live in.

Biome name ideas:

• Arroyo
• Chaparral
• Garrigue
• Maquis (pronounced mah-KEE)
• Tundra
• Taiga
• Veldt
• Oued (pronounced “Wade”) / Wadi
• Xeric is a pretty cool name

Ronald Wilson Reagan.

Yes, the Bandcamp page is endorsed by the Russian ABC. I’ve also linked the album here.

A reasonable criticism. Be the change you want to see in the world.