Put your Palantir-working-for plans on hold because they're rescinding offers :kitty-cri-texas:

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      ·
      1 year ago

      How long until some billionaire techbro "ironically" names a startup "Torment Nexus?" :so-true: :no-mouth-must-scream:

        • The_Walkening [none/use name]
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Tornex, an in-house division of Syscom Building Management Ltd, offers a range of products from around the world including Smoke Filtration Equipment, Air Sanitisation products, and Ozilite Automatic Flameless Cigarette Lighters.

          The lighters that TorNex makes are designed for prisons: https://ozilite.com/about-ozilite/

          Ron Leishman developed and began manufacturing the Ozilite Automatic Cigarette Lighter nearly 20 years ago. Initially the product was named Automatic Cigarette Lighter, now referred to as Ozilite; this device was developed to use in Australian correctional facilities (jails, prisons, penitentiaries etc) for their prisoners.

          It's a wall-mount unit that's designed to be tamperproof

          • D61 [any]
            ·
            1 year ago

            :the-more-you-know:

      • Shoegazer [he/him]
        ·
        1 year ago

        The guy who was the former Oculus CEO made a VR headset that will kill the wearer. It was a "love letter" to SAO

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          ·
          1 year ago

          It was a “love letter” to SAO

          Bazinga brain and its consequences.

          • barrbaric [he/him]
            ·
            1 year ago

            Sword Art Online, a fairly influential anime where people are trapped in a game and if you die in the game you die in real life.

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
        ·
        1 year ago

        I'm surprised one of them hasn't done it already for a company with deep contacts in the military that produces equipment that's def not for "enhanced interrogation".

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          ·
          1 year ago

          I did hear about that recent Davos shit where the ruling class announced that "brain transparency" was their next manmade horror beyond our comprehension. :so-true: :no-mouth-must-scream:

      • invo_rt [he/him]
        ·
        1 year ago

        Don't mind me, just getting VC funding for my funeral arrangement and domestic spying company, the "Lament Configuration".