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Welcome back to Space Camel.

Dumb, risky, and dystopian stuff is happening everyday in the world of tech. 😟 But no worries;

We’ll surface it for you with the combined power of the latest large-ass-language-models and some unapologetically “epic” human commentary. 😆

So sit back, relax, and help yourself to another dose of our Brave New World 🫠

Remember people, AI is totally awesome and going to make the world a bundle of fun and magic.

Now if you’ll just move to the left a bit so we can install Mechanize… Yea it’ll be watching your every move in exquisite detail and the more mistakes you make the sooner it’ll go into ‘automate-mode’ and eviscerate you at your desk.

Ok have a great day!

Pentagon officials justify their oversight claiming “in our defense, we’re typically in a dark alleyway when we buy these and thought the tags said ‘made for China’ which of course is completely in line with our current doctrine”.

Big tech claims this is only a problem until they find a new solution for cooling their massive data farms and in typical double speak also state that new solutions require massive data farms that have intense cooling requirements.

How many times can we have our data stolen before it just doesn’t pay to be a data thief any longer?

Honestly this is frustrating to hear, not because we value our data but because DOGE is seemingly able to get access in the light of day, without having to first commit themselves to a shadowy existence in their cousins basement apartment surrounded by empty pizza boxes and red bulls. Its an embarrassment to the hard earned reputation of hackers everywhere.

Finally, a solution to the global lack of emotional connection happening on rush hour commuter trains. Everyday there’s someone wishing they could make that nearby stranger with questionable hygiene lean in just a little bit closer and really share in the joy of life together, for just that one happy moment.

Excellent idea general. We have drones but they have drones too. We better step it up a notch.

Remember that movie where Arnold was a scary robot but then in the second one actually was a good robot and did some stuff and looked all buff and then America won and the world was finally free? Yea let’s recreate that.

Go team Skynet!

There seems to be a theme developing here around an increasing acceptance and thereby likelihood that the use of lethal autonomous weapons is going to be the new norm for how disagreements between nation states are resolved.

Good times ahead… And by that, we mean good times for arms manufacturers.

Call us naive, but allowing the profiteers of wartime to dictate the narrative in peacetime seems like a predictably bad idea.

But we’re not ones to complain without also proposing a solution. So here’s the pitch.

How about instead of a steady march towards WW3 with swarms of killer robots flying overhead deciding if you’re a threat or just getting ice cream with your kids, we set up some ground rules, pick an empty plot of neutral ground, and let all the Chinese and Americans field their killer robots to fight each other (and maybe some politicians and reality tv stars) to the death?

Winner gets to set policy and hold bragging rights as the superpower of the year 🌏 🏆.

At the least, it would make for some great entertainment. Anyhow, that’s all the semi-serious problem solving we can do in one post and still call Space Camel a satirical newsletter.

Robot power 🤖

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