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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026

They're joined by hardware vendors who offer corporations, the wealthy, and enclaves where both are to be found on *literal* robocops, the ultimate in cheap guard labor (alas, the robots suck): www.404media.co/the-roboguar... 79/

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The Roboguard Revolution is Short-Circuiting

Knightscope and other robotics companies are rethinking automated security following canceled contracts. One pivot? Human guards.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026

Trump and his orifice-winning army are caught in the same trap as the GDR leaders. Every gain in guard-labor efficiency creates space for more of them to stick more of their hands further into the cookie jar. Every time they do, American society grows more unstable, demanding more guard labor. 80/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026

As we saw in Minneapolis, guard labor - be it mass surveillance, robocops or ICE chuds - is *itself destabilizing*. Police states make the people who live in them want to overthrow the state, requiring yet more cops, creating more partisans for tearing the whole thing down. 81/

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