Inside Silicon Valley’s growing obsession with having smarter babies, from @WSJ.

"Tech execs are paying tens of thousands to find brilliant dates or select high-IQ embryos."

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Repeat after me: The Linux Foundation are a bunch of Big Tech bellends. Don’t listen to a single thing they say.

https://social.lfx.dev/@linuxfoundation/114993371357953940

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #KarenHao (@karenhao), author of #EmpireOfAI: Dreams and Nightmares in #SamAltman’s #OpenAI

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-august-11-2025/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #tech #BigTech #SiliconValley #techFutures #books @bookstodon

Silicon Valley has shifted into its artificial intelligence age — some call it the "hard tech” era — and the signs are everywhere. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/11/tech/silicon-valley-hard-tech-era/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #siliconvalley #tech #socialmedia #defense #apple #netflix #google #internet #apps #markzuckerberg #facebook #ai #chatgpt

Erfahrt mehr über KI und hört mal rein!

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/kalifornische-ideologie-silicon-valley-usa-peter-thiel-donald-trump-faschismus-100.html

#KI #Faschismus #Trump #SiliconValley

While #OpenAI has released GPT-5, our research into the ‘imaginative landscape of AI’ in #SiliconValley / the San Francisco Bay Area is progressing.

By ‘imaginative landscape of AI,’ we mean the entirety of visions, positions, and conflicts seen in relation to #AI. This is not just about the technological side but about broader ideas for the #future of communications and society with AI, as well as possible dangers for humans. It is fragmented, diverse, and highly contradictory.

It's a war of attrition and the beast of Colonialism might be slowly dying after all...

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

"My motivation for creating Unplatform is simple. Once upon a time, I, too, was a digital defeatist that believed that the internet was beyond saving, and that Silicon Valley had achieved total control over the digital world. It's been a deeply humbling and extremely inspiring experience to be proven wrong - and not only do I no longer believe that the internet is a lost cause, I believe there's never been a better time to take it back.

But it won't be easy. Silicon Valley is holding our communities, careers, and conciousnesses hostage. They lured us onto their platforms over the course of 20 years with the promise of access and convenience, and now that they've gone completely mask off, they're betting on the idea that we've got too much invested in them to walk away. Unplatform is here to help you prove them wrong."

unplatform.fromthesuperhighway.com/

#Unplatform #FromTheSuperhighway #IndieWeb #SocialMedia #SiliconValley

Why Silicon Valley leans to the right should be no surprise to anyone.

A part of it comprises of people who believe they are so superior, they won’t even let their kids mingle with ”commoners”. These people are already raving about the superiority of AI in homeschooling and emotionally supporting their kids.

They were already eugenists. It’s really always the same.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1dNZLx06rQmE0Yab9IBrXZ
#siliconvalley #pronatalism #ai #eugenics #tescreal

TechSpot: AnandTech’s 27-year archive has vanished, but someone uploaded a 74 GB backup. “The thousands of articles from AnandTech’s 27-year history are still accessible through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, but they are no longer properly indexed…. Fortunately, a complete unofficial 74 GB archive is available for download, and users are attempting to clone the site at […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/08/techspot-anandtechs-27-year-archive-has-vanished-but-someone-uploaded-a-74-gb-backup/

#AI #religion #SiliconValley #TechBros

"In downtown Berkeley, an old hotel has become a temple to the pursuit of artificial intelligence and the future of humanity. Its name is Lighthaven.

Covering much of a city block, this gated complex includes five buildings and a small park dotted with rose bushes, stone fountains and neoclassical statues. Stained glass windows glisten on the top floor of the tallest building, called Bayes House after an 18th-century mathematician and philosopher.
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Lighthaven is the de facto headquarters of a group who call themselves the Rationalists. This group has many interests involving mathematics, genetics and philosophy. One of their overriding beliefs is that artificial intelligence can deliver a better life if it doesn’t destroy humanity first. And the Rationalists believe it is up to the people building A.I. to ensure that it is a force for the greater good."

https://archive.ph/Bs3R0

#military #technology #SiliconValley #Google #Facebook #OpenAI #GiftArticle

'In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/google-meta-openai-military-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cE8.85aS.pmtrpupTANe4&smid=url-share

University of Maine: UMaine unveils app to gauge AI’s environmental cost. “A new app, ‘What Uses More,’ aims to reveal the environmental footprint of tasks completed with artificial intelligence, encouraging users to examine critically the energy and water consumption of their digital activities.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/06/university-of-maine-umaine-unveils-app-to-gauge-ais-environmental-cost/

"JASON KELLEY: Kara, you started by talking about this concentration of power, which is obvious to anyone who's been paying attention, and at the same time, you know, we did use to have tech leaders who, I think, they had less power. It was less concentrated, but also people were more focused, I think, on solving real problems.

You know, you talk a lot about Steve Jobs. There was a goal of improving people's lives with technology, that that didn't necessarily it, it helped the bottom line, but the focus wasn't just on quarterly profits. And I wonder if you can talk a little bit about what you think it would look like if we returned to that in some way. Is that gone?

KARA SWISHER: I don't think we were there. I think they were always focused on quarterly profits. I think that was a canard. I wrote about it, that they would pretend that they were here to help. You know, it's sort of like the Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man. It's a cookbook. I always thought it was a cookbook for these people.

And they were always formulated in terms of making money and maximizing value for their shareholders, which was usually themselves. I wasn't stupid. I understood what they were doing, especially when these stocks went to the moon, especially the early internet days and their first boom. And they became instant, instant-airs, I think they were called that, which was instant millionaires and, and then now beyond that.

And so I was always aware of the money, even if they pretended they weren't, they were absolutely aware And so I don't have a romantic version of this at the beginning, um, except among a small group of people, you know, who, who, who were seeing it, like the Whole Earth Catalog and things like that, which we're looking at it as a way to bring everybody together or to spread knowledge throughout the world, which I also believed in too."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/podcast-episode-smashing-tech-oligarchy