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1. kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (kline@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 19:31:17 JST kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

   Guys I have a great comic book idea:

   Talented, optimistic engineer develops bright new tech, before being exploited by megacorp. In the heat of his betrayal, heel-turns to a mad scientist, instead developing autonomous killer drones and a VR video game system that kills its losers by blowing their heads up with explosives.

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   • kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (kline@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 19:32:54 JST kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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     If this sounds too cliche for you, I have great news:

     This is the actual bio for Palmer Luckey, the Oculus Rift founder who was acquired and fired by zuckerberg, and now leads defence contractor Arundil, the NixOS conference sponsor everyone is mad about.

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   • kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (kline@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 19:34:12 JST kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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     NixCon sponsorship: https://chaos.social/@nixos_org/111007010535962541

     Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Luckey

     Selected quotes:
     "In June 2017, Luckey founded the autonomy-focused defense co. Anduril Industries, along with former Palantir Technologies executives"

     "In November 2022, it was announced that as a commemoration of the anime Sword Art Online, Luckey created a VR headset 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"