Tam's Tumbling

Becky on Flickr.

Found on the sidewalk

Flower Fez! A street shot in the MPD.

nickturse:

Drones dog-fighting off the coast of Africa? That’s what the Pentagon envisions and that how I begin my latest article about a weapons system that’s failing to perform as promised, but is becoming ever more disastrously embedded in our world: “A Drone-Eat-Drone World.”
The article includes both the military’s fantasy version of drone-on–drone combat in 2030 and beyond, and the increasingly grim reality of drones malfunctioning, going astray, or simply crashing-and-burning. The drone has been a remarkable fantasy weapon —so much so that the military has penned some wild fictions about its future. Increasingly, however, its reality is proving grimly mundane and far less like that of a sci-fi movie.
Read all about it here.
*(This piece is also the concluding chapter of the new book that I have just published: Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050. More on that soon!)

Drones dog-fighting off the coast of Africa? That’s what the Pentagon envisions and that how I begin my latest article about a weapons system that’s failing to perform as promised, but is becoming ever more disastrously embedded in our world: “A Drone-Eat-Drone World.”

The article includes both the military’s fantasy version of drone-on–drone combat in 2030 and beyond, and the increasingly grim reality of drones malfunctioning, going astray, or simply crashing-and-burning. The drone has been a remarkable fantasy weapon —so much so that the military has penned some wild fictions about its future. Increasingly, however, its reality is proving grimly mundane and far less like that of a sci-fi movie.

Read all about it here.

*(This piece is also the concluding chapter of the new book that I have just published: Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050. More on that soon!)

worldonpause:

blinded. (Taken with instagram)

pieceofces:

The semester is winding down time for some serious study mode.

stencils:

bush obama mask at forever spagnola (by dustin spagnola)

todaysdocument:

Dated February 28th, 1946, this telegram was sent from Ho Chi Minh to President Harry S. Truman, requesting the assistance of the United States government in the negotiations with France.

Letter from Ho Chi Minh to President Harry S. Truman, 02/28/1946

bostonreview:

Armchair Radical (Ian Saxton, via Daniel Spaulding)

30 Rock 603 Idiots Are People Three!

brain-food:

Behind Photographs – The most famous photographs presented by their photographers by Tim Mantoani