My initial impression was that the police shot the robot dog.
50% chance this incident also involved the shooting or killing of an actual person who is being ignored to talk about the robot
They call it a "dog" to lessen fear, but in a few years these things will be shooting back.
The way they talk about that robot in a quadruped form is still somehow more humane than the way they talk about/treat the actual dogs they abuse into being weapons. Honestly, more robot “dogs” just means less euthanized Belgian shepherds who can’t unlearn a traumatic puppyhood of being forced to bark and bite on (to the dog random) stimuli
They treat that robot better than the actual human people they harass and murder.
I was just going to say something along those lines, it feels very uncanny to me that the terminology goes unchallenged; the only thing it has in common with a dog is how it moves.
Accepting the word "dog" works to compare this to an actual living being, and hide the fact that it's just a terrestrial drone. Seeing the article just accept it makes my skin crawl.
The hell is a sleepy cape cod vacation town’s police force doing with a robo-dog?
Black Mirror: Metalhead (trailer)
This is my main association with robot "dogs": a depopulated warzone with autonomous murder drones scattered around like reusable landmines.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/robotic-police-dog-shot-multiple-times-credited-avoiding-108560209
Authorities have not identified the shooter or said what charges they face.
???? You can't even barricade yourself in your own house with your own weapons in america?? I THOUGHT THAT'S WHAT AMERICA WAS ALL ABOUT!
Boston Dynamics
Oh my god the whole Boston Dynamics social media blitz from 2015ish to 2020ish was a propaganda op for state violence wasn't it
Authorities have not identified the shooter or said what charges they face.
Wonder if we can guess..
At this time, I am not going to empathize with a piece of technology. This framing seems so fucking ominous
