Creating baby geniuses to thwart the AI threat? (Yes, really.) The new wave of Silicon Valley–backed gene-editing startups is straight out of “Brave New World.”

Source:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Text from Mother Jones article: "Embryo selection is just the start of what some tech billionaires envision. At the “IVF clinic of the future,” Coinbase’s Armstrong mused in a post on X, multiple technologies will be combined for absolute offspring optimization. Using in vitro ­gametogenesis, he wrote, technicians will be able to generate thousands of eggs from a client’s blood or skin cells. Once those eggs are fertilized, the client will be able to screen the embryos and pick a favorite, whose DNA can then be edited as desired. Even surrogacy won’t be necessary, Armstrong predicted, because artificial wombs will allow fetuses to develop without “the risk/burden of pregnancy.” He dubbed this medley the “Gattaca stack,” perhaps forgetting that the protagonist of the 1997 dystopian classic was a nongenetically optimized “in-valid,” gestated in his mother’s womb."

Another entry for the 'Tech billionaires don't understand the science fiction that influenced them' files.

Trump Is Reportedly Going Full Steam Ahead with the Golden Dome A Bloomberg report provides a rare glimpse into the timeline for Trump's super secret and disputed project.

Anduril, funded in part by Trump backers Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, appears to be the front-runner for the big 'Golden Dome' contract.

gizmodo.com/trump-is-rep...

Photo of HR Giger holding one of the alien egg props from the movie Alien. Text at the bottom says "Happy Easter! Hope the eggs don't give you a tummy ache..."

Happy Easter to all who celebrate!

To be fair, it *is* a great shot of the Gulf of Mexico. 👌

NGL, 'investors are buying Musk's meth' would probably make more sense of the stock market at this stage @quinnslobodian.com 😂

💯 that fake laugh of his does my head in every time. Sociopathic opportunist who will say anything to achieve his goals

Vance's comments and fake laughs came in an interview with the very awful Benny Johnson, in which Vance noted that when he first came into office he was "obsessed with the UFO files" and while he's got the "very tippy top of classification" he's going to get to the bottom of it.

JD Vance: "I don't think [the UFOs] are aliens, I think they're demons...

...I think that celestial beings who fly around, who do weird things to people...where I go to is the Christian understanding that, you there's a lot of good out there, but there's also some evil out there."

He would happily do atrocities to make the MAGA faithful's dreams come true, and that's all they're really looking for.

And Tim Dillon went on a whole rant about being invited to Thiel dinners multiple times, including to "discuss the media", as well as having visited (Palantir co-founder) Joe Lonsdale's house.

bsky.app/profile/weir...

Joe Rogan has been attending dinner parties at Thiel's house since at least 2018.

He's also regularly hosted Thiel employees Eric Weinstein and Jesse Michels, as well as interviewing a whole bunch of people from the Thielverse (from Aron D'Souza to Bari Weiss/IDW ppl).

bsky.app/profile/weir...

From the duncantrussell community on Reddit: Duncan describes going to a Peter Thiel talk in Austin and having his opinion totally change... Explore this post and more from the duncantrussell community

Duncan Trussell has spoken about going along to attend Peter Thiel's "Antichrist" lecture series in Austin, and defended him somewhat against all the criticism of being an evil guy.

www.reddit.com/r/duncantrus...

Joe Rogan Experience #2326 - Jimmy Carr YouTube video by PowerfulJRE

In a previous appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast mid-last year, Jimmy Carr brought up the same point about physics, this time citing Eric Weinstein (of Thiel Capital), calling him "one of my favourite people in the world" and "the smartest guy we know".

youtu.be/r63cwSWbFME?...

Is Peter Thiel running a cultural influence operation using popular comedians, by inviting them to dinners/parties and seeding ideas?

British comedian Jimmy Carr cited Peter Thiel's "science has not progressed since 1970" during an interview on the Triggernometry podcast in December.

After Alex Jones had left, Tim Pool felt compelled to acknowledge his condition.

After saying "I wanna be respectful and not say too much", the podcast panel went on to talk about how overweight Jones was and that he had a drinking problem.

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Though Jones seemed inebriated the entire time, he became almost unintelligible after a coughing fit that seemed to have Tim Pool and other members of the streaming show concerned.

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Alex Jones appeared to be drunk or under the influence of drugs during an appearance on Tim Pool's streaming show last week.

Jones mentioned that Infowars will be shutting down in the middle of next month, and repeatedly talked about "Joe Rogan's vagina".

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Screencap of text from an article titled "The Technocratic Conspiracy": "President Dwight Eisenhower’s famous farewell address in 1961 has often been quoted for its warning about the grave implications of the establishment of a “military-industrial complex”. Few people who have cited it however have noted that Eisenhower’s warning was not just about the military-industrial complex, but also the possible future dangers of a technocracy: “Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture,” Eisenhower stated, “has been the technological revolution during recent decades… In holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” 63 years on from Eisenhower’s warning, that danger has become manifest." https://www.dailygrail.com/2024/10/the-technocratic-conspiracy-how-tech-tycoons-plan-to-disrupt-democracy-and-become-the-new-rulers-of-the-world

Given the mention of Eisenhower's military-industrial complex speech by a tech guy, would have loved to have seen @jacobsilverman.com point out another part of that speech that rarely gets quoted (screencapped from my own article 'The Technocratic Conspiracy')...

Inside the secretive Silicon Valley giant that is trying to reshape how the world fights wars Three new books distill Palantir's true vision: an unapologetically nationalistic attitude that sees constant, world-rending conflict in our future.

ICYMI, this is a fantastic piece on 'Palantirianism' by @jacobsilverman.com, a topic that definitely needs more coverage.

www.businessinsider.com/palantir-gui...

Tech CEOs are being incentivized to make unhinged predictions Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Marc Andreessen know the best way to build a modern tech business is to act a little bit insane.

For Business Insider, I wrote about some impossibly grandiose rhetoric from tech leaders and how the market rewards insanity.
www.businessinsider.com/andreessen-a...

So he's saying Israel is a rogue nation that violently attacks its neighbours?

(TBH, pretty funny/awful that the most emotional he's been has been because oil facilities have been attacked, rather than human casualties.)

Bringing back this banger seeing people are asking about Marc Andreessen again.

Billionaire weapons manufacturer Palmer Luckey believes UFOs might be time-traveling technology from the deep past Anyone with more than a passing interest in the UFO topic knows there is a particular theory that, rather than being piloted by extraterrestrials from another galaxy, they are instead actually humans ...

Billionaire weapons manufacturer Palmer Luckey of Anduril believes UFOs might be time-traveling technology from an advanced civilization that existed on Earth in the depths of history.

www.dailygrail.com/2026/03/bill...

Tired: They‘re NPCs
Wired: I’m an NPC

Inside the secretive Silicon Valley giant that is trying to reshape how the world fights wars Three new books distill Palantir's true vision: an unapologetically nationalistic attitude that sees constant, world-rending conflict in our future.

For Business Insider, I read three books about Palantir and wrote about how "Palantirianism" -- unabashed nationalism, tech building up the US security state, ready to commit violence on behalf of the US and our allies -- is ascendant in Silicon Valley.
www.businessinsider.com/palantir-gui...

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On a side note:

"It's a real problem...at work and it's a problem at home."

JFC, tell me you're an asshole employer and husband without telling me.

Ah yes Marc, I believe it was the modern woke philosopher Socrates that said "The unexamined life is not worth living." 🤡

The reason Marc Andreessen doesn't do introspection is because he'd have to face up to the truth that he's a nuclear-level dipshit.

If you read Yarvin et al, you see quite obviously that these are lame-ass guys who always thought they were obviously superior to everyone else (due to being academically gifted, plus white males), but were instead ridiculed and laughed at.

It's quite literally 'revenge of the nerds'.