My initial impression was that the police shot the robot dog.
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024
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passive voice "was shot" generally means by cops
Not always, sometimes it's the IDF.
Occupation Cops
50% chance this incident also involved the shooting or killing of an actual person who is being ignored to talk about the robot
Makes sense.
It's just a force of habit
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.
person-barricaded-in-a-home-involved shooting
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.
The robo dog? You guessed it...made of acorns.
Did the cops mistake their pet robot for a black kid again?
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
Well they are funded by DARPA so… yeah that checks out.
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