Let’s see how I do, left to right top to bottom:
The LA times ran this profile of him not long ago: https://www.latimes.com/la-influential/story/2024-06-30/palmer-luckey-anduril
Anduril means “flame of the west” btw it’s not exactly subtle
Their business model differs from most defense giants because they develop the “product” (mass murder machine) first before selling it to the government, all the others do it on contract according to requirements. So it makes sense they would do ads like this I guess.
I had one of their recruiters reach out to me on linkedin recently and was like heeeeellllllll no.
It is funny to think about the actual labor that goes into this stuff. Like do you think bruce wayne spent a month hanging off the bridge support painting his symbol in some kind of water-resistant flammable chemical? No, it must have been his invisible art department.
I do kinda like the idea of using CHERI to run all this C code with memory safety properties enforced by hardware instead of rewriting it all in rust, but whatever either works