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“Half the parts, half the cost, and 95% less production tools mean America can mass-produce whole batteries of Barracuda at a scale that can beat China,” gloats Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey on X. Announcing his autonomous cruise missile system Barracuda-M with a slick cel-shaded video, the VR-inventor-turned-arms-dealer talks up the design on social media. While shiny Pentagon weapons are nothing new, Luckey notably (and unscrupulously) brings Silicon Valley know-how to weapons manufacturing.

“Her tribute to photojournalists portrays death as an interruption to the continuity of life and a disruption to the mechanical routine of American society—to clock out work, return home, and sit on the sofa to watch that day’s evening show.”
– Critic Nahui Garcia, unpacking the significance of war photography in Gretchen Bender’s iconic video installation Dumping Core (1984). Reviewing Bender’s show at Sprüth Magers Los Angeles, Garcia hones in on the presence of the Salvadoran Civil War in the late artist’s work.
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