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Google, OpenAI, Meta, and VCs are increasingly embracing the US military industrial complex, a major Silicon Valley cultural shift supported by President Trump (Sheera Frenkel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/google-meta-openai-…

How Tech Firms Like Google and Meta Are Embracing the Military
In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.

Any sort of •actual• strength is a threat to that illusion. A real strongman makes the photo cut-out look cheap, laughable.
Say what you will about US imperialism and the military-industrial complex, but the military is truly full of people who possess actual strength and discipline and do extremely difficult jobs well. It is full of people whose daily life makes a mockery of fascism’s cartoonish masculinity. And — devastating!! — many of those people are women! brown people! Black people! with all kids of bodies! who look all kinds of ways! The existence of a competent military is a threat to fascism that must be contained for fascism to spread.
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Ukrainian drones strike major Russian military radio factory in Stavropol: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/26/ukrainian-drones-strike-major-russian.html

Good summary of the background:
"But a number of cultural and geopolitical factors – an openly rightward turn among the tech elite; the growing perception of a Chinese threat to US global hegemony; Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, along with Trump’s withdrawal from established defence arrangements, putting the fear of God into EU leaders – have made it clear that there is money, fast and deep money, to be made in defence tech."

Mark O'Connell: If you didn’t have qualms about Spotify before, wait until you hear what its founder has done
Over the past couple of years, tech investors have pivoted toward a collective embrace of the military-industrial complex

AERO-LQG: Aerial-Enabled Robust Optimization for LQG-Based Quadrotor Flight Controller
Daniel Engelsman, Itzik Klein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20888 https://

AERO-LQG: Aerial-Enabled Robust Optimization for LQG-Based Quadrotor Flight Controller
Quadrotors are indispensable in civilian, industrial, and military domains, undertaking complex, high-precision tasks once reserved for specialized systems. Across all contexts, energy efficiency remains a critical constraint: quadrotors must reconcile the high power demands of agility with the minimal consumption required for extended endurance. Meeting this trade-off calls for mode-specific optimization frameworks that adapt to diverse mission profiles. At their core lie optimal control polic…

Ukraine behind new pipeline explosion in Siberia that supplies Russian military-industrial complex, source claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/ukraine-behind-new-pipeline-explosion.html

h-hi every1!!! im just a lil military-industrial complex in a big world uwu 😊 there any leaders here who, yknow, wanna use me..... for nukes? 👉👈

Ukrainian drones reportedly target key logistics hub in southwestern Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/ukrainian-drones-reportedly-target-key.html

Ukraine war latest: Kyiv behind new pipeline explosion in Siberia, drone strikes reported at Russian aircraft plant: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/ukraine-war-latest-kyiv-behind.html