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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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[–] [email protected] 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] WolfLink 33 points 20 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Just look at that facial hair, screams evil villain wannabe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Hair might as well come with a spoiler alert.

[–] [email protected] 170 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

Entire family are a bunch of winners

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

She probably helped hide the worst of it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Could make a great stripper stage name too 😅

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Hey Ginger gets all the drugs she wants now.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had the original devkit. The FB sale killed Oculus for me for life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Still have mine in the hard plastic case, such a neat piece of electronic history. Also a giant PoS, more screen door than a Lowes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

I remember trying it with Skyrim making me so nauseous I was wiped out the whole day:D

I sold it at a profit.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Did he ever possess a different world view? Or did we assume someone in tech in early 2000s must be actually smart and not a bad person, only to find out they're a piece of shit a la, Zuck, Dorsey, Musk, etc.

Remember there was a time we didn't know everything about these people and the notion that they were creating these platforms and industries for the betterment of man kind didn't seem so crazy.

Now we know every last one of them is a money obsessed freak with entire cemeteries in their closets, touting "Effective Altruism" or "Rationalism" or whatever new fad fake philanthropists are claiming this quarter.

[–] index 3 points 14 hours ago

Probably they didn't change at all but their influence scaled up. Lying to a person or to a million people doesn't carry the same weight

[–] ogmios 8 points 1 day ago

Or did we assume someone in tech in early 2000s must be actually smart and not a bad person

My god, people here are STILL struggling with the idea that their perspective isn't absolute, and that they actually need to investigate the world to truly know things about it, instead of just relying upon the social media hive mind to tell them truth from fiction.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

He did make those claims himself, in the past. Which of course means fucking nothing, because actions speak louder

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Well his general leadership of Twitter.

His absolutist take on "Free Speech" that allowed alt right and Nazi groups to flourish and spread on his platform

Then the eventual sale to Elon Musk, where he kept acting like he had no choice/no say in the sale.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

left bluesky and endorsed X b/c bluesky decided to do moderation

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago

lots and lots of money

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

I'm telling you, it's that chin beard that gone fucked things up

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

He's always been a shit heel. He was funding pepe meme anti Hillary billboards in 2014.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Wasn‘t he let go from Facebook partially for his political views like being a fierce Trump supporter, though? That was years before Suckerberg turned full fascist oligarch himself mind you.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

He’s been fash for a long time

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

Lucky didn't 'go' anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know how a lot of DIY gadgets have slogans like “trans rights are human rights” on the circuit boards? I wonder if the Modretro has some fascist slogan similarly inscribed. Perhaps “Deus Vult” or some particularly authoritarian Bible verse number, or maybe just a couple of plausibly deniable 14s and 88s.

[–] captain_aggravated 3 points 19 hours ago

I repaired an original SNES controller last night, and a couple places on the circuit board there were arrows pointing to unoccupied pads that looked like they were for SMT resistors with the legend "Only P" which I couldn't quite parse.

Also, cool detail: The inside of the top cover had a legend stamped into it that told you where each color went for both the US lilac and purple, and the international four colors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I was unaware of this douche until just now. I've been interested in the Modretro Chromatic for a little while, disappointing to see this guy is tied to it. Glad I haven't gotten one, thanks for letting people know.

[–] mindbleach 2 points 19 hours ago

The title should be more detailed, but the tone is correct.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Didn’t he sell it to Facebook? A sellout doesn’t bode well for him.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

For two billion.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not quite, but the goatee may be spreading...

DarkestTimelineIntensifies

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

I just heard they're still on for the movie. That, and it looks like Journey to the Center of Hawkthorne had a relatively recent update.

[–] Darkcoffee 12 points 1 day ago

Current owners too!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I had started hearing he was saying some messed up things around the time he sold Oculus to MetaBook. For a moment it actually made me feel better about the sale smh

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

What funny is apparently he was pressured by Zuck into resigning from Meta because it looked bad that he was supporting Trump....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The guy's got two surnames. That's a recipe for disaster.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

As a child he was homeschooled

I think that's the bigger red flag.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Count-down to OP being incarcerated...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

His drones over the borders are like the drones in Wildlands

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