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      But how can techbros get rich from bees? Bees just make themselves for free then serve the greater good, the little buzzing communists.

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        11 month ago

        oh so you think birds aren’t already flying robots? robot bees are just the next step.

        /s obviously

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      21 month ago

      I’d rather not have robot bees. I’ve seen hated in the nation (black mirror episode).

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        The MIT engineers agree. They said something to the effect of “If you could make a robotic bee, it wouldn’t replace bees. It would be a terrible idea to try to use them for pollination… Just put that same amount of finding into conservation and researching bees, you would have a much better result.”

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    In the latest video about this by veritasium, he asked the researcher about ethics concern. the researcher insist that they dont care as humanity can decide for itself.

    Meanwhile:

    The new report also details the extent of MIT’s partnerships with Israeli military contractors like Elbit Systems, which supplies 85 percent of Israel’s killer drones, and Maersk, one of the world’s largest shipping companies, that has sent millions of pounds of military goods to Israel since the start of the war on Gaza. The Israeli military also sponsored several of the MIT projects with funds provided by the U.S. Defense Department.

    https://theintercept.com/2025/01/16/mit-israel-military-funding-research-gaza/

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    The new technology could increase crop yields dramatically without harming the environment.

    That’s a surprisingly benign use case, I was expecting far worse.

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    Because developing a replacement for bees is certainly a better solution then saving the bees…

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    Dear technology under capitalism… We just want healthcare, housing, etc… We don’t fucking need swarms of robot insects.

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    It wont be long now before the nanobots exist and the Borg can finally take over. Resistance is futile.

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    How’s this for an obscure reference? This reminded me of an episode of Max Headroom in which the wunderkind Bryce invented a robotic fly with a spycam that could be used to literally bug a room. They send it on a mission to uncover an evil plot and everyone is excitedly crowded around the screen and heaping praise on it. Then it manages to sneak into the evil lair where it promptly gets swatted, leaving Bryce shocked and devastated.

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    Canada might need these sooner rather than later.

    With the breakdown of democracy and the rule of law in America, the Constitution just became wholly unenforceable and therefore irrelevant. That means that Trump could make good on his fever dream of invading Canada.

    And there are many Americans who would jump at the chance to obey his command to slaughter Canadians. With only 40M against America’s 334M - and 0.097M military personnel against America’s 2.1M - it would be absolutely no contest.

    Our only way of making such a fascist act of aggression as painful as possible would be with asymmetrical warfare using tiny, hard-to-defeat drones that could act independently and strike without warning. Deploy 10k of these suckers onto a battlefield, and the only survivors would be those within sealed armour or flying at high altitude. Because even an A10 Warthog loitering low over the field can be taken out if it unexpectedly ingests a half-dozen of the explosive buggers.

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    I think there was an X-Files episode about this.