Post #1859087

2026-04-29 19:12 UTC

RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116489502664120783 &quot;The files offer a glimpse into a world where ideas about eugenics and race science have never gone away. On the contrary, they run through our elite universities, through the most powerful companies in Silicon Valley, and through the tech industry itself.&quot; Welp... this is certainly a punctuation mark on my talk over the weekend. 😖

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@pythonbynight@hachyderm.io 2026-04-29 20:18

another echo from my talk... ugh... "The tech elite did not inherit this ideology by accident. Stanford University, the intellectual heart of Silicon Valley, was once a major hub for the American eugenics movement, which later helped to inspire Nazi race laws. Stanford’s founding president, David Starr Jordan, was a prominent eugenicist, campaigning for forced sterilization of people with undesirable genetic traits. The university removed his name from its buildings in 2020 — but in Palo Alto, his beliefs did not disappear with the nameplate. “Instead of eugenics we just call it longevity or biohacking,” Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower who has spent years investigating Silicon Valley’s belief systems, said on a panel with me at a journalism conference last year. “It’s the same.”

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