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<p>Marcus shared:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Steve wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“Their offices are in Kiev... they are
likely doing advanced skunkworks resistance projects in their
labs right now... “<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a
href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/starlink-helps-ukraines-elite-drone-unit-target-and-destroy-russian-tanks/"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/starlink-helps-ukraines-elite-drone-unit-target-and-destroy-russian-tanks/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">< The Ukrainian unit's "most
sophisticated drones are connected using Starlink,"
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The Times of London</a> wrote. "If we use a drone with
thermal vision at night, the drone must connect through
Starlink to the artillery guy and create target acquisition,"
an Aerorozvidka officer told the paper.></p>
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<p>And a Drone entry in the "Dove" column opposite the "Hawk"
column:<br>
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<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://draganfly.com/news/draganfly-receives-order-for-critical-lifesaving-drones-from-revived-soldiers-ukraine-for-immediate-deployment-to-ukraine/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://draganfly.com/news/draganfly-receives-order-for-critical-lifesaving-drones-from-revived-soldiers-ukraine-for-immediate-deployment-to-ukraine/</a></p>
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<p>and as is inevitable (IMO), the Red Queen steps up her pace
again:</p>
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<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.wired.com/story/watch-anti-drone-weapons-test/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.wired.com/story/watch-anti-drone-weapons-test/</a></p>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race"><img
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<p>Driving us (inexorably) up the increasing slope of the
(assumed/imagined) technological singularity?</p>
<p>Vernor Vinge's early 2000s whimsical view of experiencing that
slope is a fascinating reflection, now (only slightly) dated, and
somewhat prophetic.</p>
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<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End</a></p>
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<p>and a handful of related shorts, novellas, etc. set in the same
imagined future (overlapping the lived now we are in).<br>
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<p>Vinge (IMO) is classified as one of the SF writers whose
credentials as working scientists (Math/CS in his case) suggests a
certain credibility to their fiction. He retired from San Diego
State CS in 2000 I think, having contributed a great deal of
proto-cyberpunk fiction to the canon starting as early as 1991.</p>
<p>I would be curious to hear others' opinions here about the larger
context and implications of the Evolutionary Theoretic Red Queen
Hypothesis:</p>
<p> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis</a></p>
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