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1 Jun, 10 tweets, 4 min read
As I am still in bank holiday spirit, and The New Yorker published this #drone cartoon yesterday, here is a thread with my favourite drone and #AI cartoons, comics, memes etc.
Drone delivery gone wrong.
Me, in 50 years.
Or maybe that will be me?
Delivery by #drone, taken literally.
When #AI development goes *really* wrong
Bit of an insider on the German #drone debate
This one, by @xkcd sounds like a joke…
…but then again 🤷‍♀️
I’ll end (for now, I got a feeling this thread will grow further) with one of my @xkcd comics ever.
I actually think about this a lot.
Have a great start into the week.

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1 Jun
So I finally read the UN report which allegedly claims the first use of a lethal autonomous weapon system to kill a person. ( undocs.org/S/2021/229)
I must admit, I am still unclear on why this is the news that has gotten so much traction. 🤔
The report states that a convoy in Libya was "hunted down and remotely engaged by the unmanned combat aerial vehicles or the lethal autonomous weapons systems such as the STM Kargu-2 and other loitering munitions."
This story has been picked up by many news outlets now, first (I think) by the New Scientist.
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4 May
Yesterday, the candidate for chancellor for the German Greens, Annalena Baerbock gave a long recorded interview *on foreign and security policy*.
You can watch it here: baks.bund.de/de/aktuelles/d…
Thread with some things I find noteworthy.
This interview is in and of itself really good news. We *need* to talk more about security and defence policy, and foreign policy in Germany.

(You think you've heard me say this before? Well yes I have warontherocks.com/2019/02/it-is-… )
Some thoughts on what Baerbock said & how she did (my take, obviously).
Overall, she appeared rather well informed on the relevant topics - though not very concrete in her proposals.
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1 May
Massive reading recommendation for the German speakers. This article by ⁦@berndulrich⁩ ⁦@DIEZEIT⁩ is the best analysis I’ve read so far about Black-Green.
Spoiler: it’s not good.

Es blubbert, aber es leuchtet nicht: epaper.zeit.de/article/1da006…
So so well observed. Image
So so well observed part II Image
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23 Apr
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation has put out a good report on German #drones.

Whaat, Rike siding with the LINKE?!
Well no, but I can appreciate good research and (overall) coherent arguments.
(Short thread)

rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_…
The report is written by @matthimon who has been working on this for many years (I spoke with him for my PhD research ages ago).
He clearly knows his stuff and the report is a good overview of German #drone capabilities.
A sidenote here: there is little love lost between me and the LINKE but they have been playing a great role in German drone politics through their inquiries (questions to the government). I used these questions and answers extensively in my research. That's just good politics.
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22 Apr
The Annual Edelman Trust Barometer has been published with some really interesting insights

edelman.com/sites/g/files/…
Good news for Germany: the German government is highly trusted abroad.

(“Please indicate how much you trust the national government of each of the following countries to do what is right”) Image
This shows nicely what a fickle and inexact thing ‘trust’ is: Trump voters, after the election in which their candidate lost, suddenly trust US NGOs, the media, and even US business much less.
🤷‍♀️ Image
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30 Mar
What a discussion between German Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU, President of Bundestag) and ⁦@GoulardSylvie⁩ (LREM, former MEP, former French defence minister)! 😮

Schäuble: „Deutsche wären bereit, auf nationale Armee zu verzichten“ - WELT welt.de/politik/deutsc…
A Franco-German interview that *starts* with questions about security and defence? Where things actually go beyond “we’re striving to create a European Army... eventually”? Pretty neat!
Schäuble: “I regret that the Aachen Treaty did not include more on the cooperation on the military level. That this is missing today wasn’t Paris fault.”
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