The weaponization of Waymo:

Other witnesses and journalists who were there shared the same story: People summoned the cars to light them on fire when they arrived. Protestors were reportedly calling them "spy cars" as they were vandalized and set ablaze, and some noted how the cars can share data with the LAPD.

As a result, there's been some speculation that the cars were burned to destroy evidence. There's likely more to it than that -- and that the cars weren't torched to destroy evidence as much to punish collaborators. [...]

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. [...]

In light of previous epidemics of self-driving car trashings and torchings, such actions are liable to spring from the growing reservoir of public anger towards a Silicon Valley that has grown unaccountable and extractive -- and has now largely aligned itself with a punitive state.

Please send more photos of burning or burned murderbots. These images are my new happy place.

I will also accept donations of videos of same, but only if they don't have people talking over them or are loaded with watermarks. Those make me itch. Something with a nice crackle. Like a Yule log.

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