Drone Psych

“Even some politicians have been caught up in the online fervor. Former Maryland governor Larry Hogan (R) — who recently lost a campaign for U.S. Senate — posted a video on X last week showing what he said were drones flying over his house. They turned out to be stars in the constellation Orion.” The imagined drone invasion of New Jersey is in some ways the perfect story of our times. No one trusts institutions or believes in science, and we have an incoming president who says things like, “Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shoot them down!!!” (Look, up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Stuporman!) WaPo (Gift Article): In online drone panic, conspiracy thinking has gone mainstream. The second half of that headline works quite well as a stand-alone. (FWIW, I heard that drones can be deterred by an aerosol version of ivermectin.)