Anthropologist Roberto González (Professor, San José State University) examines how America’s military-industrial complex has been rapidly expanding from the Capital Beltway to Silicon Valley. Although much of the Pentagon’s budget is spent on conventional weapons systems, the Defense Department has … Read more
In her upcoming book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” Jill Lepore warns that tech companies are increasingly replacing the functions of democratic government. This shift, she said, marks “a return to tyranny and mystification in the form … Read more
‘Solutionism’ envisages the technology ending everything from the climate crisis to cancer, but huge class divisions are a more probable outcome Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei John NaughtonColumnist Share Related articles: Why do tech moguls seem so disconnected from the real … Read more
A few years I met a guy, let’s call him Jim, who was trying to break in tech by going to a bootcamp to become a developer. In the meantime, he worked as a bartender and had been living off … Read more
Currency Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum Silicon Valley’s biggest failing is not poor marketing of its products, or follow-through on promises, but, rather, the distinct lack of empathy for those whose lives are disturbed by its technological wizardry.Photograph by … Read more
April 14, 2026 Tech elites are enriching themselves by plundering STEM institutions—and offering researchers scraps. Ad Policy Peter Thiel and his ilk are starving public science.(Eva Marie Uzcategui / Getty) Silicon Valley would not exist without government-funded research. Foundational technologies, … Read more
Remote work raises fertility among employed, partnered adults. Davis et al. (2026) estimate WFH accounts for ~291,000 U.S. births per year. Return-to-office is functionally anti-natalist policy beloved by “pronatalists”. A drop from 42% to 30% WFH among women implies ~100,000 … Read more
Dec 19, 2025 In addition to the VGA donut, I submitted two other entries in the Tiny Tapeout 8 demo competition, where you submit a “tiny” ASIC design (room for about 4000 logic gates) that outputs 2-bit RGB to a … Read more
Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman are among the Silicon Valley veterans putting more than $100 million into a network of political action committees (PACs) that will advocate against strict AI regulations in next year’s midterm elections, reports The … Read more
Photo: Jacob Bobo After years of waiting, the ribbon has been cut and Micro Center Silicon Valley is officially open. On a sunny Friday morning in Santa Clara, with hundreds of fans queued in a line wrapping down the block … Read more