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Um, so, the nuclear launch code was 00000000.
The metropolis of tomorrow (1929).
Meanwhile: The (dystopian) future is now! Amazon wants to send you your items via drones.
Perhaps you’d like to watch a small squid fight an owlfish.
The Los Angeles poet, translator, and filmmaker David Shook has created a Kickstarter campaign with the imaginative objective of purchasing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)—i.e., a drone—to rain specially comissioned poems on cities around the world.
The poems, printed on biodegradable paper implanted with wildflower seeds, will address the US military’s covert drone strikes, which have killed thousands of people, including hundreds of children and adult civilians.
...more“Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Pity. A signature strike leveled the florist’s.”
This and six other “short stories” (i.e., tweets) about drones by Teju Cole are gathered in a Storify for your reading ease.
...more...moreI started this Twitter account because I expected no one to follow it. In some ways, that was the point — I didn’t really think anyone wanted to be interrupted by all this data. The fact that 19,000 people want their timeline to be flooded with reports of old U.S.
Animal New York interviews Essam, the artist behind a recent campaign aiming to start a conversation about the United States’ foreign, and what he believes to be imminent, domestic use of drones.
To do so, Essam designed what appear to be NYPD endorsed advertisements that depict drones dropping bombs onto New York citizens, and posted upwards of 100 around the city.
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