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submitted 3 weeks ago by index@sh.itjust.works to c/til@lemmy.world

I remember the guy started working on military defense but i didn't know he founded his own military defense company named after the lord of the rings with the help of peter thiel. Also i wasn't aware his company is now producing an arsenal of surveillance weapons and leading the sector.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anduril_Industries

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[-] sittinonatoilet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Luckey's sister, Ginger Luckey, is married to former U.S. representative Matt Gaetz.

Entire family are a bunch of winners

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Hey Ginger gets all the drugs she wants now.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, she stayed married to him even after all the kiddie diddling came to light?

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Damn, I didn't know Gaetz was into older women.

[-] triing@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ginger Luckey is the name of a horse, not a human.

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Has gone? More like had gone. Way back when he was still running Oculus. People just liked the project that he was working on. He still wasn't a good person back then.

[-] ultranaut@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I remember when got caught secretly funding a gang of racist trolls to harass people online during the first Trump campaign.

[-] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

His heel-turn occurred three years before that when he sold Oculus to Facebook in 2014.

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Just look at that facial hair, screams evil villain wannabe

[-] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Hair might as well come with a spoiler alert.

[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Stuff like this should be studied in some kind of a medical facility. How do people flip their entire worldview overnight, and become colossal bigots, with the most aggressive and violent thought processes?

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

The secret sauce is that most of them always were bigoted assholes. They just pretended not to be because that wasn't socially acceptable. But showing their wretched true selves is cool under the new administration, so they are.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 weeks ago

as a commemoration of the anime Sword Art Online, Luckey created a VR headset art piece that kills its human user in real life when the user dies digitally in the video game, by means of several explosive charges affixed above the screen

Luckey blogged, "The idea of tying your real life to your virtual avatar has always fascinated me—you instantly raise the stakes to the maximum level and force people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the virtual world and the players inside it."[77] Luckey additionally described it as "just a piece of office art, a thought-provoking reminder of unexplored avenues in game design". He also mentioned that while it is "the first non-fiction example of a VR device that can actually kill the user, it won’t be the last."[75]

... and his job is making autonomous weapon systems. I wonder what the future built by Jigsaw types like this is gonna look like

[-] Float@startrek.website 0 points 3 weeks ago

Yea unfortunately the entire Gameboy community was re-introduced to this guy because of the modretro chromatic. You know things are fucked when you have an ethical dilemma about buying a Gameboy.

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