Patreon Preview 100. 9/11 20th Anniversary: The Forever War Machine (ft. Kelsey D. Atherton)

Published: Sept. 11, 2021, 11:34 p.m.

b'It\\u2019s part two of the Never Forget Extravaganza! We\\u2019re joined again by military tech journalist Kelsey D. Atherton to explore the deep and decades long entanglement between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon\\u2014from the early days of the semiconductors industry being born in the cradle of military contracts to the contemporary period of, as one Pentagon startup calls it, \\u201cthe new Manhattan Project\\u201d of artificial intelligence. We wrap up by considering what the next phase of the forever war machine will bring.\\n\\nFollow Kelsey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AthertonKD \\nSubscribe to Kelsey on Substack: https://athertonkd.substack.com/ \\n\\nSome stuff we reference:\\n\\u2022 Silicon Valley Giants\\u2014Not Start-Ups\\u2014Dominate DoD Tech $$ | Kelsey D. Atheron: https://breakingdefense.com/2020/07/silicon-valley-giants-not-start-ups-dominate-dod-tech/\\n\\u2022 Reports of a Silicon Valley/Military Divide Have Been Greatly Exaggerated | Jack Poulson: https://techinquiry.org/SiliconValley-Military/\\n\\u2022 Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace | Jonathan Guyer: https://prospect.org/power/silicon-valley-takes-battlespace-eric-schmidt-rebellion/ \\n\\u2022 Project Maven: Amazon And Microsoft Scored $50 Million In Pentagon Surveillance Contracts After Google Quit | Thomas Brewster: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/09/08/project-maven-amazon-and-microsoft-get-50-million-in-pentagon-drone-surveillance-contracts-after-google/?sh=40ebfa5e6f1e \\n\\u2022 Silicon Valley Mystery House | Langdon Winner: https://bibliodarq.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/sorkin-m-ed-variations-on-a-theme-park.pdf \\n\\u2022 Cold War Armory: Military Contracting in Silicon Valley | Thomas Heinrich: https://faculty.fiu.edu/~revellk/pad2011/heinrich.pdf \\n\\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills \\n\\nGrab your TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ \\n\\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)'