A friend of mine was working at a company with contracts for them when they released their first drones back in the early days.

At work, they watched the trailer for the fancy drone. (Later that day he would share the same video with me)

He made the joke: “At least we know what will be coming to gun us down in ten years.”

That joke went down like a brick with his coworkers. No one else seemed to understand the severity of what we were buidling up to

The problem it’s trying to solve is “How do we make ungodly amounts of money as ‘Defense Contractors’?”

To be genuinely fair, this sort of waste is part and parcel to the US Military.

Yeah, Anduril the company has been around for a minute (Since 2017). Luckey got in early on selling weapons tech to the government after he sold Oculus.

Hey Palmer Luckey, eat shit.

Haley Joel Osment’s role on Silicon Valley parodying this dipshit really sums it up.

Also more like Linux + Networking.

You can’t make all those devices work together in tandem if you don’t know the networking.

Yeah, I definitely haven’t seen as much sketchy stuff about their leadership, that’s for sure. It’s really hard to find a trustworthy group doing this kind of thing, partially because of the sheer amount of money needed to get such a thing off the ground to begin with… which usually ends up meaning VC money, which ends up meaning shady decisions to be able to pay it back.

Don’t forget your Shingles vaccination before you lay them! You don’t want a Shingle Transmitted Infection. You know, an ShTI (pronounced Esh-T-I).

Much like the current hullabaloo about the head of ProtonMail being suspect because of his support of Trump, there’s a ton of shady shit about Kagi, too. They’re Venture Capital funded. What’s the deal with the T-shirt company? Why did they lie stupidly about stuff like “we don’t do paid advertising… oh wait whoops now we do.”

Further, the CEO of Kagi just has that techbro attitude of “You are required to listen to what I have to say.”

https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/112258758788834454

Discussions with Vlad are him telling you his side and expecting you to accept it as the truth and not keep arguing. His goal isn’t to discuss, it’s to keep talking at you until you agree or go away. HE thinks he discusses with people, but he talks AT people. So I don’t feel bad making a blog post and forcing him to be talked at for once (which I never even expected him or that many other people to see it, I’m trying to figure out how many hits I even got rn to see how bad he Streissand’d this).

But yeah I knew that already, and that’s why I didn’t engage with him. I know what a Vlad conversation is and I wasn’t willing to be lectured by the CEO of a company I criticized on my tiny personal blog. Thats an insane proposition. And it’s really not even irony–I suspected this is exactly what would happen. I knew that arguing with Vlad would only benefit his own ego, but I knew that bluntly repeating “I will not discuss this with you quit emailing me” will just prove what I already knew, that he does not care what people say (and probably barely reads what they say given that he linked me the same post I already read twice) and that he will do whatever he’s driven to do no matter what. The only options were he quits emailing me (great!) or he digs himself in deeper and deeper (great??? idk but it proves a point)

Seriously, his behavior is unhinged.

Hot broads in your area want to talk to you!

As stupid as it is… You have to buy a fucking Google Pixel to really be able to get away from Google because it’s not as simple to get an alternate OS that is de-Googled on any other phones.

The Pixels, for example, are the only ones supported by GrapheneOS, widely considered one of the most secure phone operating systems with no Google nonsense in it.

LineageOS on the other hand you have to do a boatload of stuff to de-Google it.

It’s not even “rainbow capitalism.”

This goes all the way back to women’s suffrage and the Civil Rights era.

They didn’t start accepting women into the workforce and blacks into the workforce because they saw them as valuable humans just for existing.

They realized they were leaving money on the table. If women had money, they could be marketed products, if blacks had money, they could marketed products. That was “opening up new markets.” Hiring them meant they would get paid and have money in their pockets to spend at your business.

Every single group that got attention and understanding was about being able to exploit them for more money. The only color they’ve ever cared about is the green on their money. This is also why it’s been such an uphill battle for anyone disabled, because if you can’t maximize your output by absolutely destroying your body and mind for capital: they don’t want you.

Further, if you get enough money to do some capitalism yourself and create something like “Black Wall Street” they’ll bomb the living fuck out of you to put a stop to it.

They never thought of us as humans, just as “Human Capital Stock.” We’re just units to be used and discarded like millions of mistreated farm animals every single day.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

We’re a long long way from those lofty goals of yesteryear, aren’t we Google?

The audacity to still have this quote up, right now, is off the charts.

This is a screenshot from today. Get fucked Google. What a fucking lie. You’re busy changing information to capitulate to a government that wants certain information hidden.

Also don’t forget Europe in the 18th century and how reading was destroying the youth. German Wikipedia has a big ass entry on it.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesesucht

The US Wikipedia entry is just a blurb.

Despite all the external challenges, Kaleiki still feels “there’s not much we can do there with the budget” and “the most important thing is the game has to be good.” That’s because, according to him, “Valve does a very good job of surfacing games that players like or that players are enjoying” and “the algorithm is almost impenetrable.”

“If you watch some indie dev videos, they’ll often say we tried hacking the algorithm, we tried doing all these goofy things, and there’s not much you can do,” he said. "All you can really do is make a good game, which, in a lot of ways, is good news for us, but also this is really hard because there’s no little hacks you can do to surface your game like you could 20 years ago. "

I mean, he’s got a super valid take here, but also, like… There’s tons of pretty damn good games on Steam, a lot of them very kind of unknown and underrated for how fun they actually are.

Further, you’re not just competing with current “good games” you’re also competing with classic "good games.*

According to certain sources, there’s over 100,000 games in the US Valve game store in 2025.

Over one hundred thousand games.

That’s still a rough number of games to be up against, even if only a quarter of them are “good games.”

*Laughs in CLI.

I’d like to thank you for this measured take in response to my unbridled cynicism.

The kind of car Blade Runner would have driven.

They can just buy a used one since the value of these fucking hunks of junk drops dramatically once its driven at all.

…and unlike the Pinto, because we are so deep into fucked-reality-ville, it won’t get recalled.

Anyone else remember all the Torrentfreak articles from the early 2000’s about how folks in major corporations and the government were torrenting TV shows and music on corporate/government computers?

Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

Everyone’s IP is exposed in a swarm, all Torrentfreak did was track down those IPs, and tons of them went to corporate and government networks and computers.