1mo ago

The weaponization of Waymo

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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A human driver would have the common sense not to drive into a war zone. A robotic money vacuum, not so much.
- I get your point, but calling it a war zone is exactly what right wing media wants everyone to hear. It's a protest, we've had one every single weekend since 1/20, in nearly every state, and nobody needed to call the NG.
  Let it not go unsaid: fuck waymo, I'm happy to see those death traps burn.
  
  Map of the incident for clear context https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/08/us/la-immigration-protests-photos-map.html
  Archive https://archive.is/2025.06.10-171551/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/08/us/la-immigration-protests-photos-map.html
  
  I don’t understand why people keep trying to appease right wing media. They are going to say whatever the hell they want in all the bad faith they want anyway to further their agenda. Fuck trying to appease those scum sucking cunts
  
  Death traps? Can you elaborate?
  
  Waymo's are safer than human drivers, prove me wrong.
- Not a warzone. A protest. A protest where over twice as many reporters have been assaulted and/or shot than waymo cars have burned.
A beautiful sight. The tech corps joined the wrong side of this afraid of their own free will. It should cost them at least a little.
Seeing so many disingenuous conservatives clutching their pearls about this, while being completely fine with unspeakably cruel shit they're doing to immigrants (including green card holders, and others who are here legally) is infuriating. Fucking shameful.
Property damage to insured vehicles owned by a corporation vs. actual human beings
But it might be noted that ICE raids are carried out using data provided by Silicon Valley companies—most notably Peter Thiel and Alex Karp’s Palantir, which has a $30 million contract with ICE to manage a “real-time” surveillance system on immigrants. But whether directly or through third party contractors, much of big tech, including Google, has made deals with ICE, too.
- Palantir will be playing the role of IBM in this reenactment of fascism.
  
  I believe IBM will be happy to do their part.
When people who have tried to say their opinion with words are already suppressed by the national guards
https://feddit.org/post/13826715
then I (do not exactly approve but) find it somewhat understandable that some find other ways now to tell what they think.

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