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A robot dog advertising a darknet store seized by police in Moscow

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Tags: russia.moscow, crime, robots, dogs.robot, police, arrests, drugs, advertising, technology, internet, web.dark, cities.capital, offbeat, source.rua, short read
https://en.rua.gr/2024/12/03/loud-arrest-in-moscow-a-robot-drug-courier-fell-into-the-hands-of-law-enforcement-officers/

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"Loud arrest" in Moscow: a robot drug courier fell into the hands of law enforcement officers - Athens News
Published
Dec 3 2024
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302 words

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    pseudolobster
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    Especially in context, this is the most cyberpunk dystopian sci-fi thing I've ever seen. I've heard of billboard videoscreen trucks driving around disseminating propaganda, but autonomous robot...

    Especially in context, this is the most cyberpunk dystopian sci-fi thing I've ever seen. I've heard of billboard videoscreen trucks driving around disseminating propaganda, but autonomous robot dogs selling drugs for cryptocurrency in a war zone honestly takes the cake. This goes beyond parody, like you couldn't even write shit like this ten years ago in fiction - it'd be too unbelievable.

    13 votes
    1. Tuaam
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      It's cyberpunk dystopian sci-fi in a weird cool way, I guess. Like, it's not scary like robot dogs who kill people or whatever, it's just some weird thing where a robot dog is a drug courier.

      It's cyberpunk dystopian sci-fi in a weird cool way, I guess. Like, it's not scary like robot dogs who kill people or whatever, it's just some weird thing where a robot dog is a drug courier.

      4 votes
  2. pete_the_paper_boat
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    Moscow got the robotic crack dogs doing media tours 'round the block 🗿

    Moscow got the robotic crack dogs doing media tours 'round the block 🗿

    2 votes