May 20

10 min read

Podcasting “About Those Killswitched Ukrainian Tractors”

Good spaceships don’t have self-destruct buttons.

A vintage John Deere tractor whose wheel hubs have been replaced with HAL 9000 eyes, matted over a background of the cyber-waterfall image from The Matrix. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

This week on my podcast, I read my Medium column, “About Those Killswitched Ukrainian Tractors,” in which I am a bit of a buzzkill about that feel-good story of a Ukrainian John Deere dealership bricking $5m worth of tractors stolen by Russian looters:

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