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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Will have to check it out, I'm a fan of Ellis and am working on a graphic novel series. But haven't read that one...

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

C'mon Carl, everybody knows Speak-n-Spell isn't conscious but if you just talk to Teddy Ruxpin

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Come on people. This is where we gotta rally round the family, with a pocket fulla' shells

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you want the three-word summary of my 2024 book Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why it Desperately Needs a Reformation ( @mitpress.bsky.social! @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social! Won a few awards 😳) here it is, 👇👇👇. "This. Is. Insane."

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can we all agree to be one hundred percent vegan WRT AI music. Look I get it you might have some use for other AI stuff. But ZERO AI music. How about that as a starting point? FFS.

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes to be clear agreed they're transparent on their coding (even if it's imperfect IMO). Overall it's important work, glad you're calling attention to it (you're how I found it!). As someone who does a lot of interfaith work (coded here as "civility industry" which is interesting)...much to consider

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social I combed through their whole dataset static1.squarespace.com/static/697aa.... First, caution: there's some iffy labeling/conflating. Like one foundation funds Bend the Arc & a group for Trans Latinas but is here because also, Hillel. But the overall pattern is interesting!

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Which circle of Hell is this, 1984 or Brave New World? So hard to keep up

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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm going to need someone to do a wellness check on Chris Olah of Anthropic. He does not come across well -- in either sense of the word -- in this new article. Then again, neither does any theologian or religious leader who attended these meetings without irony. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. (Gift Article)

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 01/10/2026

It's about goddamn time

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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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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

Dammit, it is soldered, a word I'm sure I was actually required to learn at some point in high school, and as usual I was paying no attention to anything but what I felt like paying attention to, which was...not that

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

Thanks for capturing this whole moment, her words were perfect for the moment as was the transition into "Dig Me Out." Grateful to have it ♥️

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

*Sautered, but there was also a lot of sauntering going on at this show, particularly by Carrie Brownstein who brought it and then some

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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

Love this @soraya.press though in my book Tech Agnostic, especially in the chapter about @hypervisible.blacksky.app and the surveillance tech apocalypse, I talk about his idea that it's less magic conch energy, and more comic book supervillain vibes.

Panels from a Fantastic Four comic book where Dr. Doom says that being a God is beneath him

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

I am glad this article, for which I was interviewed months ago, finally came out today because I hadn't been keeping up my usual pace of one skeet every three days or so! 😅

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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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