How Silicon Valley learned to love America, drones, and glory

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/17/silicon-valley-military-tech-defense-contractors/

by pseudolus • 2 years ago

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pseudolus• 2 years ago

http://archive.today/fk7Cu

AlbertoGP• 2 years ago

Silicon Valley is just going back to its roots as the article mentions:

Tech’s military ties predate Silicon Valley, which began in the late 1950s when funding from defense and intelligence agencies transformed a stretch of fruit orchards into production grounds for mainframes and microprocessors.
These relationships dwindled during the internet era, then slowly resumed after 9/11, Margaret O’Mara writes in her 2019 book, The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America. Palantir, co-founded by Thiel, was one such company formed during the “war on terror,” with backing from the CIA’s venture firm, In-Q-Tel.

ThrowawayR2• 2 years ago

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39414453

perihelions• 2 years ago

- "On Wednesday, the prominent start-up incubator Y Combinator announced a new fund dedicated to defense, space, and robotics."

pangolinja• 2 years ago

ah, the makeup washes off the pig.

America forgets it was the makeup that made your brutality and inhumanity "acceptable". Kept the"freedom and democracy" lies alive.

Now it's just unbridled war piggery everywhere, and zero moral conscience.

America is a third world country with a Gucci belt.

How Silicon Valley learned to love America, drones, and glory

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