Seems this has more to do with Palestine and Google's involvement with Israel to provide cloud computing.
I wonder what percentage of total graduates walked out? The video shows maybe around 50 people at all. The title makes it seem like everyone graduating walked out.
Tech leaders from this era will not be remembered well.
There's not much good to remember them by for the past decade they have been implementing a global panopticon system etc.<p>At least in the 1990s and 2000s it felt they were doing some good stuff for humanity. But the 2010s and 2020s the masked pretty much slipped.
That is a bold prediction
I went to the Electrical Engineering ceremony, the only speakers were from the faculty and one newly minted B.S.E.E. I biked there and saw there were a lot of smaller ceremonies across the campus outside of the stadium the photo captures.
Speech itself was kind of fun: <a href="https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/stanford-commencement-speech-2026/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/s...</a><p>Pretty light hearted, and honestly considering that he's given a speech to an empty stadium before (as referenced in the first few sentences, I think he'll have handled it just fine.<p>> But people have also been giving me a lot of advice on what to say. Actually, it’s been the same advice, and it’s about what not to say. People thought it would be really difficult for me; it is the last two letters of my last name, after all.<p>Ha, chuckle-worthy. Of course he'd find it hard to not pitch AI.<p>The only thing I find surprising is no-one points out that Stanford is a truly elite education system: Some 2 in 5 of students enter disabled, but almost all of them end up successful over time.
What was the speech on?
Good kids - proud of them.