"On Tuesday morning, an underground group dubbed the ‘#DoncasterDismantlers’ took action at the site of two companies with links to #Israel’s #war machine. These actions are another instance of targeted economic sabotage brought under the banner of ‘#Palestine Action Underground’, wherein #autonomous cells have taken covert direct action against #companies complicit in the ongoing #colonisation of Palestine. This Underground movement marks a new phase in the three-year-long campaign of Palestine Action.

#French-owned arms company #Thales and #British-owned property managers #FisherGerman found their #Doncaster offices smashed and premises sprayed in blood-red paint, as the Doncaster group targets #businesses with ties to Israel’s #drone #manufacturers..."

:antifa_100:

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/08/24/doncaster-dismantlers-target-companies-supplying-israel-weapons/

As an excellent example, the convergence of an XR chapter with a local squatters movement. The climate activists recognizing the synergy of place-based "generative refusal" (Leanne Simpson) with the squatters, and getting involved in place-based resistance and a strategic material intervention to change the system in that city. Same story with Atlanta and #StopCopCity ...

... whose work has resulted in hundreds of people — including the middle class people and workers, who seem so elusive to other climate movements — getting involved in mass protest and advocating abolitionist and ecological perspectives to local government. Example here, from a firefighter in Atlanta talking abolition perspectives to the government:

https://twitter.com/MarxistUnityDSA/status/1665861210598785027?s=20

"If you listen to any of the #StopCopCity public comment, you can hear how deeply abolitionist frameworks have taken root––so many people, whether identifying as abolitionists or not, articulated a vision of safety dependent on resources and relationships, rather than policing." — @micahinatl

(Posted on Groundtalk here: https://groundtalk.land/#2023-07-30T12:31:19.48+00:00)

#climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateActivism #StopCopCity #LandDefense #WaterProtector #XR #ExtinctionRebellion #squat #autonomous #abolition #atlanta #movement #MovementBuilding #MutualAid #strategy #organizing #activism #anarchy #anarchists #solidarity #pagan #antifa #decolonize #DualPower #labor #MiddleClass #workers #unions

@rikefranke we have been trying to get rid of them (hereditary peers) without success to date 🇬🇧 Fully #autonomous #weaponsystems certainly concern me. #AI should be applied #responsibly and #ethically.

@nataliesedacca
#Sovereignty is a #myth & barrier to rule of law. A region (state) can exist without it & can be #autonomous we need #justice #unity #equity. #WeThePeoples are working to change it. We need global governance.
#WeThePeoples r prisoners of the nation in which we r born. So many problems are global. No nation, state, or bloc: either political or financial will fix them. Ergo the nation-state has to end along with its #sovereignty. An afterthought; maybe #paternalcapitalism end 1st

Amazon's Zoox is hoping to mount a challenge to #Alphabet ’'s #Waymo and General Motors’ Cruise with a vehicle that has inward-facing seats but no steering wheel or pedals. #Zoox, whose vehicles travel at 35 miles per hour, is not yet authorized to pick up riders in any state.

Amazon has begun transporting employees around Las Vegas.

#driverless #autonomous #Amazon

Referenced link: https://www.youtube.com/watch
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://www.youtube.com/watch

Originally posted by IEEE ComputerSociety / @ComputerSociety: http://nitter.platypush.tech/ComputerSociety/status/1663609991704588294#m

Results for the 2023 #IEEE #Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Chase Challenge have been shared! Teams were challenged to take their projects from the simulator and present them at the Purdue UAS #Research and Test Facility (PURT).

https://www.youtube.com/watch

Referenced link: https://www.computer.org/distinguished-visitors-program
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://www.computer.org/distinguished-visitors-program

Originally posted by IEEE ComputerSociety / @ComputerSociety: http://nitter.platypush.tech/ComputerSociety/status/1663242580119674880#m

#VolunteerHighlight: Introducing @flamminifra, a 2023 Distinguished Visitor! He's looking forward to discussing the challenges and opportunities raised by next generation #autonomous systems. View this year's class of experts @ https://www.computer.org/distinguished-visitors-program

#IEEE

Referenced link: https://www.youtube.com/watch
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://www.youtube.com/watch

Originally posted by IEEE ComputerSociety / @ComputerSociety: http://nitter.platypush.tech/ComputerSociety/status/1661421052394602540#m

Results for the 2023 #IEEE #Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Chase Challenge have been shared! Teams were challenged to take their projects from the simulator and present them at the Purdue UAS #Research and Test Facility (PURT).

https://www.youtube.com/watch

#ALERTA! ALERTA! #TORONTO #ANTIFASCISTA! #Today!
Toronto Alert! Call for #autonomous drag defense in Toronto Saturday #April 29th, 2-4PM at the #FortYork #Library. Come with pals. wear a mask bring your flags and banners put in the earplugs and keep the #bigots out, streamers recording ground, and your feet dry

https://www.tumblr.com/antifainternational/715935954485002240/alerta-alerta-toronto-antifascista?source=share

2/2 #Sovereignty is a #myth & barrier to rule of law. States can exist without it & can be #autonomous we need #justice #unity #equity now. #NOW a word often used recently but rarely actioned. #WeThePeoples are working to change it.
Our "leaders" are hanging on by their fingernails to a broken unjust system.
@AspenProposal

I’ve yet to see anyone draw the parallel between the impact on society of (i) #autonomous #vehicles, and (ii) #AI.

We’re all now familiar with the struggles of #AutonomousVehicles, and I think we’ve accepted the fact that the world, as it exists, is just too #complex for them to operate totally autonomously — so what’s the point?

To solve this issue, it seems the trend is to #lobby #lawmakers and regulatory bodies to physically alter the #transportation #infrastructure in an effort to “dumb it down” to a level “autonomous” vehicles can predict.

This looks like eliminating pedestrians, lane changes, etc.

Now, do you see the parallel? And, if so, what’s the point of having these “autonomous” #labor saving devices that aren’t really autonomous, and don’t really save us any appreciable labor?

#Money.

The deep pocket AI club will have no issues dumbing society down to the point that AI looks #smart. Watch it happen, and weep at the next #corporate #social #experiment that steals our personal autonomy in the name of a “labor saving” device.

Hell, Ron Popeil provided more labor savings than AI or autonomous vehicles ever will. And he sold plastic shit that did little more than break in a month and clutter our #kitchens.

But man, he was good at marketing to #laziness. So are the AI and autonomous vehicle cheerleaders. And that’s all we’re seeing — marketing.

Fuck them.

@loganfive @luckytran it's called #Unity & is upheld by the pillars of #Justice #Equality #Equity #Education. The challenge is moving this from the nation (state) to a planetary scale.
#Sovereignty is a #myth & barrier to rule of law. States can exist without it & can be #autonomous we need #justice #unity #equity now. #NOW a word often used recently but rarely actioned. #WeThePeoples are working to change it.
Our "leaders" are hanging on by their fingernails to a broken, unjust system.

@smoke Another example of the need for #globalgovernance & lack of accountability. #Sovereignty is a #myth & barrier to rule of law. States can exist without it & can be #autonomous we need #justice #unity #equity now. #NOW a word often used recently but rarely actioned. #WeThePeoples are working to change it.
Our "leaders" are hanging on by their fingernails to a broken, unjust system.

More important than #autonomous driving really is a #shared car that pre-adjusts seats, mirrors and music before entering it.

@YorksBylines #Sovereignty is a #myth & barrier to rule of law. States can exist without it & can be #autonomous we need #justice #unity #equity now. #NOW a word often used recently but rarely actioned. #WeThePeoples are working to change it.
Our "leaders" are hanging on by their fingernails to a broken, unjust system.

@cyberdean07 #Sovereignty is a #myth & barrier to rule of law. States can exist without it & can be #autonomous we need #justice #unity #equity now. #NOW a word often used recently but rarely actioned. #WeThePeoples are working to change it, our "leaders" are just hanging on by their fingernails in a corrupt, broken system.

Drivers learning what happens when they block the bike lanes
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RT @fermoso
A friend of mine took a video in San Francisco tonight of 6 @Cruise self-driving cars stopped at an intersection for 20 min. Traffic came to a standstill + people didn’t know what to do. Two of the cars were on wrong side of the road. Doesn’t seem particularly safe. #Autonomous
https://twitter.com/fermoso/status/1616697392291807233

any argument that begins with #autonomous choice is unscientific and irrelevant to my life kinda y'know :QueerCatHeart_Bisexual:

Hey y'all, doing an #introduction here since I switched servers. I mostly work as a #translator of #feminist and #anticapitalist thought from Latin America and am interested in helping sustain dialogues between struggles across the continent. I also make #counter-cartographies, exploring how maps can be subverted for processes of struggle. After living in Argentina for a long time, working with #autonomous & unemployed workers movements there, I'm back in the US. Currently I spend a lot of time taking care of my toddler niece and dreaming about ways to collectivize #carework. Also here for soup and pie recipes.

Saw some really interesting conversations yesterday around organizing, and really how to actually talk to neighbors and start getting the ball rolling. One big thing to me is that small thing, just talking to someone, can snowball into something huge.

How do we go from talking to our neighbors, to creating small mutual aid networks, to building food autonomy, to doing stuff like tenant unions and larger community organizing, to regional shifts, to entire cultural and political shifts?

Most of it is just starting where you are at. Snowballing efforts build on each other and grow in force. Revolutionary action is about creating the revolution in all of us. It's not enough to only theorize, or act on an individual level.

The snowballing effect not only works with food, but everything in our lives. All of it is connected, all of our basic needs are connected, food, water, shelter, communications, all of it.

I wrote this article about building #foodautonomy to illustrate how we might build up from offering food to our neighbors, to feeding the whole city, to truly revolutionary potential.
https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/decentralized-food

#solarpunk #autonomy #autonomous #foodautonomy #food-autonomy