iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We talk a lot about being good bystanders but are we actually teaching our children what that means? My piece on the horrific faiture of the fraternity members in the group chat and a local high school’s missed opportunity to teach youth how to take action. dot-connecting.ghost.io/the-silent-p...

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The silent path from Cornell to Hope High

Three hundred and twenty six miles separate Cornell University from Hope High School in Providence, Rhode Island, but right now those two schools sit adjacent in my mind. Two stories of sexual assault...

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 15h

Really moved by this piece by @katemanne.bsky.social. Honestly the whole Cornell situation leaves me with few words fit for social media and I'm grateful for her eloquence and courage.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 16h

My campus chaplain colleagues and I have to sign a non-proselytizing agreement, because certain religious leaders want to do little more than preach at people and try to convert them. But you'll rarely see proselytizing as fanatical as this AI cult stuff.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

taps sign again

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI is definitely not a cult, everyone involved here is just exceptionally reasonable and rational

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI is definitely not a cult, everyone involved here is just exceptionally reasonable and rational

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I probably should not have read this. The sterile language of this timeline only heightens the effect. There are so many layers of anger, but the “afforded the opportunity to mitigate their conduct by submitting essays to CORNELL” part hits me where I live. I have measured out my life in essays…

174. At around 5:45 AM, this assault concluded and Plaintiff lost consciousness.
175. When Plaintiff awoke later that day, on October 20, 2024, Plaintiff returned to her
residence within the ALPHA BETA CHAPTER sorority house.
176. At this point, Plaintiff was in a state of shock.
177. At her residence, Plaintiff noticed a large bruise that had formed on her buttocks
and took preemptive medication for a urinary tract infection (UTI).
178. Later that day, Plaintiff became aware that what had happened to her at the XI
CHAPTER house the previous night was becoming public knowledge on CORNELL's campus.
179. With the encouragement of her friends, on or about November 8, 2024, Plaintiff reported the incident to CORNELL's private police force known as Cornell University Police
Department located at 117 Statler Drive G2 Barton Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853.
180. On or about November 8, 2024, XI CHAPTER was placed on a temporary
suspension for alleged violations of the Student Code of Conduct.
181. On or about November 8, 2024, temporary suspensions were also issued for several
students, including Defendants INGALLS, NEWELL, LEE, LOPES, SARABIA, NORRIS, and
KRETZSCHMAR, who were afforded the opportunity to mitigate their conduct by submitting
essays to CORNELL.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026

look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"When I'm critical of human rights abuses of Russia, that does not mean I am critical of people who believe in the Russian Orthodox Church...when I’m critical of the human rights abuses of Israel, that does not mean anything against anyone of any religion." Well said, @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social

Like I said, courage is contagious. I am a proponent of human rights for everyone. When I am critical of the human rights abuses of Russia, that does not mean that I am critical of people who believe in the Russian Orthodox Church. When I’m critical of human rights abuses of Saudi Arabia, that does not mean that I’m critical of people who believe in Islam.

“When I’m critical of human rights abuses of England, that does not mean I’m critical of people who believe in the Church of England. And when I’m critical of the human rights abuses of Israel, that does not mean anything against anyone of any religion. I want there to be peace, justice, equality and human rights across the board. And whenever that peace, justice or human rights are transgressed, it’s my duty to stand up against it.”

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"I have heard your name as someone that I must speak to from at least 5 people so far, and I’ve only been here [at Harvard] for two weeks." -- about as good of an email as a campus humanist chaplain like me can get. And also, a sign of a busy year ahead!

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'll say this: 90s me would have been stoked to see Liz Phair and Sleater Kinney partying on stage, covering Elastica after sets as great as tonight's were, and to be able to capture that energy with a tiny camera sauntered to the telephone in my pocket? Pretty, pretty good

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sleater Kinney has a three-decade catalog and not one single song that doesn't kick ass. That's the skeet.

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't believe AI is going to kill us all, ever. But I'm always shocked when smart people seem to think that means I'm not taking it seriously enough. I sure as shit believe it is going to get SOME of us killed. It already is.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If your boss is God and His Work Orders are crucial for Salvation, then yeah, your little pipsqueak complaints about hazardous working conditions or break time aren't going very far. #AITheology

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Soraya is right. Honestly her ten word skeet below is a pretty decent summary of my 100,000-word book on the topic.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Girl, you know I want your love Your love was handmade for somebody like me Well, come on now, follow my lead I may be crazy, don't mind me Say, "Boy, let's not talk too much" Grab on my waist and put that body on me Well, come on now, follow my lead, mm" ...But, but how could we cancel THIS?? 🖼️🎼

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes, and also, back in the day artists wrote songs that were about absolutely nothing, it was more understandable because the musical genre was still being invented. But now when artists like Ed Sheeran build careers on vapidity and platitudes, that is on them. Buh bye

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

These folks have untold wealth and can’t buy the things they want: to be liked, popular, and cool.

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tech broligarch sweaters, the priestly garments of the AI doomsday cult. A topic I never thought I'd find myself discussing with the BBC but here we are.

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Terry Jeffords: I Said What I Said! (B99)

ALT: Terry Jeffords: I Said What I Said! (B99)

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Granted it's a technology that is still not nearly as accessible or affordable as it should be. But if you are weighing the *possibility* of going electric...damn it feels good on days like this.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/09/2026

Speaking as someone who was there in the early 2000s, blogs weren't slop. Some of them were CRAP, but it was all HUMAN-MADE. The equivalent of "A.i." slop back then was the SPAM in blog COMMENTS. That was industrialized, automated, scammy bullshit -- just like generative "A.i." now.

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Elrond: I Was There, Gandalf

Alt: Elrond: I Was There, Gandalf

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

...And the winner of th Ultrashort Humanist Fiction Contest that nobody knew existed is @carlbergstrom.com

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My doctor's office got an AI assistant and *coincidentally* wait times to speak to a human are now dramatically longer. I'd quantify that -- 50% longer? 100%? -- but after 2 attempts and over an hour waiting, I still haven't reached anyone, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I wasn't sure what @anildash.com would mean by "Cancer Capital" or how I would feel about his use of that disease as a metaphor. But turns out he's...dead on. Completely correct usage 👇 and every bit as chilling as a cancer reference should be

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Our event w/ Congressman Jared Huffman on his new 📙 NO PROPHETS: The Fight to Save Democracy From Christian Nationalism, an instant NYT bestseller this week, is finally almost sold out w/under 24 hours to go! I'm relieved, it's a convo that deserves a good crowd: www.eventbrite.com/e/congressma...

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Congressman Jared Huffman in Conversation with Sasha Sagan and Greg Epstein

An evening with Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) to discuss his new book No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism.

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A writer just emailed to thank me for reading her work, then sort of half apologized for how if I were to go on to read her book, it's mainly meant for a female audience. You mean, like 60% of what I've read for pleasure, dating back to Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. In like 4th grade?

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Every time I get an email that someone is following me on Substack, it reminds me that Substack is a thing. That I once signed up for. That exists. That is the extent of my interest in Substack!

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Or given that a key feature of the cult is extreme social unawareness, it could just be that

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Dude at this cafe having a loud-ass, very detailed phone conversation about the inner workings of, basically, a tech cult, apparently does not realize he's standing next to someone (me) who has written a large section of his book about that exact cult. Checks out.

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a really great story about truly mutual political compromise and growth. AND it *might* even be big enough to help topple Netanyahu and his government. Sometimes it is important to read the hope-giving, life-affirming stories, too. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Haaretz Today • A Jewish cop joining an Islamist party might just save us all

Israelis are now watching a new paradigm form, in which a cop with all the Zionist bona fides – not some peacenik leftist – can openly talk about moving forward with Arabs as partners, and translate t...

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Atlanta airport is always so pretty, I like to skip the little trains and walk through the tunnels to see all the new art exhibits. End of skeet!

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Holy crow. I'm not gonna say this is like building idols and graven images to do your parenting for you, but I *will* say it seems equally effective and wise (give or take) as expecting Poseidon to keep your kid safe at the beach

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yeah that would be a no, thanks. Also Tram Nguyen has really impressed me.

Text copied from an article referenced in the post quoted below, and circled in red hand-drawn highlighter:

SIXTH FIGURES: Dan Koh held a massive fundraising lead over the five other Democratic candidates running in the Sixth Congressional District heading into pre-primary crunch time, federal campaign filings published late last week showed. He’s also gotten more than $940,000 in help from a super PAC dubbed the New Leadership PAC.

But in case that’s not enough, he’s also getting an assist from another super PAC, this one funded largely by venture capital colossus Andreessen Horowitz and Greg Brockman, the president of OpenAI.

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Love seeing someone sign up for my event w/ an @aol.com email address. Is it hip? No. But it's classic! Like the time we put on a conference w/ 300 students & 300 seniors. A kid from Kentucky was so psyched to see old faces. She'd been taught being an atheist liberal was just a phase she'd outgrow

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Oh, honey, please.

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I was just writing a response to a question some academics asked me about whether I think AI is literally a religion or just metaphorically a religion. And now here you have an AI devotee saying AI is the successor to creating sacred texts in a monastery. As always, the answer is, "Yes."

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

To be fair, when I peed my sweatpants in the 2nd grade, I lied and told the lunch lady it was a design

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Pascaretta has dabbled in the apps casually, thanks to a few colleagues who set him up with profiles on Hinge, Bumble and The League, but he thinks they’re superficial." My guy. Maybe start with the man in the mirror on that one? (Btw it costs $25K/6 months & yes *of course* he's an AI bro)

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Note to self, I need to make more posts like this one. Not just because people seem to like it, that's nice and all, but mainly because this random combination of topics is so *me* -- how else would I find my people, on here?

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Young Americans are the least religious generation in history. Relatedly, they're also increasingly unlikely to worship at the altars of an AI industry/religion that is trying to pass itself off as the Creator of our new Gods, or angels, or apocalyptic archangels, or whatever the latest thing is.

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

NEW from @pewresearch.org: For the first time, a majority of adults under 30 say they're more concerned than excited about AI. And 73% say AI will lead to fewer jobs in the US, up from 61% who expressed that view two years ago.

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Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs

About half of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about AI, and young adults' concern is rising.

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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 19/08/2026

"we can learn so much from these betting sites"

kalshi screenshot of Dem Senate nominee odds
showing vindman at 95% for most of it and then it flips to Nixon at the end

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A friend sent me an episode of the Joe Rogan podcast because she wanted me to introduce me to a friend of hers, the guest. I took a listen and my one comment is: how can we know for SURE that listening to Rogan does NOT slowly cause internal bleeding in the brain? It might! Don't stifle the debate!!

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The best thinkers and leaders know how to change their minds and apologize. Full stop. I don't know what @theradr.bsky.social said about this issue and honestly I don't care, because everyone is wrong sometimes. Just highlighting as an example of what the world needs more of.

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