An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/28/patrick-gelsinger-christian-ai-gloo-silicon-valley

 

 

Brother of GSA leader tried to buy prime federal property at below-market value - The Washington Post

The proposal to buy a parcel in Silicon Valley prompted a complaint to the inspector general. The GSA says it rejected the offer and its acting administrator followed ethics rules...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/03/13/gsa-administrator-brother-property-menlo-park/

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

The Silicon Valley titans of 2025 are following the same blueprint. Last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was ending its DEI programs and changing its platform policies to allow more discriminatory and harassing posts. On Joe Rogan's podcast, Zuckerberg made his motivations clear: he claimed that corporate culture had moved away from "masculine energy" and needed to reinstate it after getting "neutered". Elon Musk has reshaped Twitter into X, a platform in large part operating as a response to claims of a "woke mind virus"– the newest iteration of "political correctness". And Marc Andreessen himself, the "boy genius" of the 1990s, has increasingly drawn inspiration from the Italian futurists, a movement of fascist artists in the early 20th century who glorified technology while seeking to "demolish" feminism...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism

 

Silicon Valley Is Reviving the Discredited and Discriminatory Idea of ‘Race Science’ | Scientific American

Modern proponents of race science insist they're not motivated by racism but are simply reporting data on intelligence. This dubious claim was fostered by the publication of The Bell Curve in 1994, which propagated the idea that African Americans were intellectually inferior. 

This central thesis was eviscerated in scathing criticism by experts ranging from Stephen J. Gould to Noam Chomsky, many of whom noted the data presented were riddled with errors and spurious inferences. 

This fatal criticism however was not enough to stop even some Nobel laureates, most notably DNA double helix co-discoverer James Watson and transistor co-inventor William Shockley, from pushing discredited claims on race and intelligence. Overall their arguments about ostensible racial differences commit a statistical fallacy, ignoring extremely relevant lurking variables; while slavery was abolished in the U.S. in 1865, this did not magically alleviate massive inequality or the legacy of historical harms that persist still.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silicon-valley-is-reviving-the-discredited-and-discriminatory-idea-of-race/

SHOCK Video: Trump’s Biggest Donors Wanted Him Jailed. Called Him “Maniac”, “scumbag“

The most influential of the MAGA Tech Set has been two hosts of the All-In podcast: long-time Republican David Sacks and Trumpy convert Chamath Palihapitiya. They are joined on the podcast by Jason Calacanis (who has become Trump-curious) and token Democrat David Friedberg. When did they become MAGA converts? More specifically, what did they think of Trump after his darkest, most horrifying moment: January 6th? The answer is that their disgust was palpable, maybe even more radical than what we were publishing here at The Bulwark, online home of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkrEhV9Ik2k

Silicon Valley donors like Laurene Powell Jobs are pouring money into Biden’s campaign - Vox

Biden is sweeping up cash from billionaires, CEOs, and political kingmakers in a show of force. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/7/16/21326740/silicon-valley-biden-trump-fundraising-reports-steve-ballmer

Silicon Valley’s Trump Brain Drain Continues -- Vanity Fair

Canada makes an enticing pitch to engineers who feel alienated by the Trump administration....
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/silicon-valleys-trump-brain-drain-continues

Round 2: Tech companies condemn Trump’s anti-transgender ruling

First it was the immigration ban, now Silicon Valley is publicly denouncing President Donald Trump’s ruling that rescinds protections for transgender students....
https://thinkprogress.org/silicon-valley-resists-trump-transgender-ruling-50f2a97d939e#.ojhd071uh

The New York Times: Silicon Valley’s Ambivalence Toward Trump Turns to Anger

Tech companies, which have embraced globalization, reacted more forcefully to the president's immigration order than counterparts in other industries....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/technology/silicon-valleys-ambivalence-toward-trump-turns-to-anger.html