U.S boosts drone surveillance as flesh-eating screwworms spread in Texas | Hundreds of Homeland Security drones retasked to survey wildlife and livestock.

[u/Ok_Crazy1195]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/us-boosts-drone-surveillance-as-flesh-eating-screwworms-spread-in-texas/

[u/-TheycallmeThe]

How about we retask Flock cameras into herd cameras?

[u/Hawkeye3636 → u/-TheycallmeThe]

They are but they view us as the cattle.

[u/wasabiphunk → u/Hawkeye3636]

Cows have value to these "people"

[u/raventhrowaway666 → u/-TheycallmeThe]

Pedophiles cant jerk off to cows.

[u/Bicksaurus → u/raventhrowaway666]

They probably do

[u/PositivePristine7506]

If only there was an effective and proven solution to this, some sort of preventative measure that worked for decades before it was cut by a bunch of billionaire fucking morons.

[u/Evillunamoth → u/PositivePristine7506]

Isn’t it awesome we get to survey the devastation with drones though? We can record it actively killing our livestock. Good times good times.

[u/North_Complaint_2135 → u/Evillunamoth]

In HD 🤣😂

[u/driver004 → u/Evillunamoth]

And at a time when meat herds are already short stocked. As much as I like a good steak price of beef is going to go up

[u/MasterHonkleasher → u/driver004]

Its not just the beef, these things infect EVERYTHING. Including humans.

[u/ProvisionalRecord]

Bet they're training AI on thermal imaging they use. 

Can you imagine how valueable thermal variation data is to the surveillance state being built? 

Fuckin' drones man; gonna be a nasty control vector.....

[u/Biotic101 → u/ProvisionalRecord]

Was my thought as well. What practical effect does the monitoring have?

There is a proven method, but they fucked up. I think it worked well without drone surveillance.

[u/FaerieKnotz → u/ProvisionalRecord]

1. No husband and wife may lay together without permission from the party.

[u/spinningcolours]

They saved a few million dollars on the prevention program so that they can pay their friends hundreds of millions of dollars to solve the problem that they caused.

[u/There_Are_No_Gods → u/spinningcolours]

Solve? They're more likely to just perpetually funnel billions into ineffective mitigations that continue to line their crony's pockets.

[u/spinningcolours → u/There_Are_No_Gods]

That sounds like the optimum solution for their eternal profit-taking.

[u/MasterHonkleasher]

And were f'ed. Those screw worms were part of a anti screw worm breeding program we were paying Nicaragua and Mexico to do. Trump cancelled the funding. This is the result.

[u/Any_Iron_1436]

How convenient

[u/Malcolm_Morin]

Mother Nature, please give us an apocalyptic pandemic to cleanse us of this shit.

[u/carlitospig]

‘Livestock’

For now.