Eva Jones

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Uncanny Valley | WIRED · Stanford Grads Say Big Tech Is Creating a 'Modern-Day Draft’ · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

I am a recent graduate, having studied hydrology and water resources in my master's degree, but I also did my bachelor's programs there in feminist philosophy and in freshwater engineering.

I came to Stanford five years ago now from a rural town in Oregon because I truly believed that a place like Stanford was looking to pool together minds and resources to tackle, you know, these existential threats to humanity to build peace.

the kind of world that I always envisioned could be possible, one of connection, one of belonging.

And much like Amanda, I was like,

I was quickly horrified by the things about Silicon Valley that are now quite surface level.

And I was certainly naive, but, you know, I was 18 years old, had never lived anywhere like my town's like 7,000 people, you know.

I really believed that a place like Stanford would pool together its resources for the greater good of humanity.

I came to Stanford as a student organizer.

You know, I was the generation of students who were part of the climate justice organizing, anti-gun violence things, people who came into university ready to use their voice.

Thinking of that as like a way to...

to build a future.

You know, I think many of us understood our voices for a better world to be our pathway towards a better world, like that we could be an agent in that.

And so as soon as I got to Stanford, I got involved in anti-sexual violence organizing, which quickly put me in opposition with the administration.

And by 2023, when the student encampments in solidarity with Palestine began, you know, that was something that we saw so many more students get involved in and

and really come together to build something more than just opposition.

It was a really beautiful moment where we got to define why we came to university for ourselves, why we came seeking an education, and what we wanted to make of that one.

I have concerns about someone looking to define their career by participating in the rabid consumption of, you know, the American cultural fascination with what's going on at elite universities.

Because I think it really distracts from the actual issue going on, which are in many ways defense-propelled issues.

career pipelines at these universities and at Silicon Valley, at these companies that run deep and fuel really violent technologies and systems of control.

And so I would invite anybody who is tickled or interested in Theo Baker's book to take it a step further and become a part of a movement to counter this obsession with elitism, with tech optimism, and

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