Slop.

He’d do away with the U.S. military’s centuries-long reliance on gunpowder munitions by developing an array of hydrogen-powered weaponry.

Lol, what an incredible way of phrasing things. Journalists gotta add a spin/framing to everything, even statements that don't need it. This early in, gunpowder is being framed as a "reliance", meaning a problem to be solved, rather literally just what fucking everybody uses for munitions.

began R&D work on an artillery that could be replenished by hydrogen generators deployed on the frontlines, claiming it would give the military a critical battlefield advantage.

Did you not bother asking him how this is an advantage? Are the bullets made of hydrogen? Can you replenish them on site?

Three months later, Bedrock’s managing partner Geoff Lewis led a $79 million series A investment, valuing the nascent startup at more than $300 million.

These guys have so much money they don't know what to do with it, so between rounds of cocaine and hookers, they play games with their colleagues to randomly decide which toilet (startup) they will piss money into.

Thornton was miraculously unharmed, but a colleague helping with the test was rushed to the hospital with hundreds of pieces of metal in his body. (The employee recovered, though some of the shrapnel remains.)

The capitalists are literally absorbing the luck of their employees through black magic rituals. That's the only explanation.

Mach is part of a new cohort of defense tech companies, led by young, patriotic entrepreneurs looking to build businesses serving America’s national security interests.

Back in my day, we'd call em war profiteers who are trying to profiteer off a military currently committing genocide.

They’re driving a defense tech boom engorged with VC funding; between 2018 and 2023, $100 billion in venture funding poured into the sector, per Pitchbook.

Told you. Pissing gold between rounds of cocaine.

“Today, I write this from our 115,000 sq ft factory, where I work alongside people I deeply admire to develop world-changing products for war-fighting customers.”

They want to change the world by killing more people in it. What a glorious dream!

Thornton wrote in his blog last week, adding: “Between investors and recruits, I received far more traction than I expected.”

More proof that the bourgeoise are fucking stupid.