Greg M. Epstein's Avatar

Greg M. Epstein

@gregmepstein

Humanist/atheist chaplain @ places you may love to hate. Opinions & skeets my own. NYT Bestselling & award-winning πŸ“šGood Without God + Tech Agnostic. Reclaiming my last name from evil. Reforming the tech religion. Took '25 off social media, now ~back.

6,709
Followers
723
Following
982
Posts
21.08.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein

The reason she SHOULD have been fired.

06.03.2026 01:36 πŸ‘ 2125 πŸ” 394 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 8
Preview
Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

04.03.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 4179 πŸ” 1451 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 47

Have been slowly watching Munich all week because of this piece! Kushner has been one of my absolute favorite writers for 25+ years but I never realized I should see it.

06.03.2026 03:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

One hundred fucking percent same.

06.03.2026 03:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"At the end of the world, and in the grand scream of things..."

06.03.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If malignant chutzpah could be measured by seismograph, the Trump administration would truly be at Godzilla levels

06.03.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

His company was an apple and my god did he succeed in being fruitful and multiplying that mindset.

05.03.2026 23:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Branded. Vending machines. Of Tobacco pouches. Hey, at least Palantir has a brand and they're proud of it: "Disgusting tech. Disgusting policies. Disgusting vibes." πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

05.03.2026 23:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the biggest lies silicon valley figures and their friends have told is that they are atheists. This is spot on.

05.03.2026 22:05 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Spent years researching the idea that Silicon Valley tech/AI have become the world's most powerful religion, and after the book tour I was so sick of social media that I took last year off here and mostly anywhere else. But it's still fun at times! Post-return highlight=a reskeet from @gregpak.net!πŸ™

05.03.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

05.03.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 14762 πŸ” 2648 πŸ’¬ 305 πŸ“Œ 119

Millions of good and sincere believers practice faith from a place of earnest and humble conviction.

Then there are millions who turn to religion out of utter panic at all the choices a life of free thought requires.

Asking Google to manage your family is 100% a flight from ethical responsibility

05.03.2026 18:54 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Millions of good and sincere believers practice faith from a place of earnest and humble conviction.

Then there are millions who turn to religion out of utter panic at all the choices a life of free thought requires.

Asking Google to manage your family is 100% a flight from ethical responsibility

05.03.2026 18:54 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s the screen through which we must interpret all truth. bsky.app/profile/hype...

05.03.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Some religions sort of leave you alone to think for yourself most of the time. Then there are sects that won't let a single meal, snack, piss, or even breath go by without inserting a ritual to remind you of your obligations to their God. The tech religion is increasingly determined to be the latter

05.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 157 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

unreal

05.03.2026 18:23 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

This 🧡makes clear: AI makes it much easier to select and hit 1000s of "targets" (human lives & institutions!) regardless of accuracy or judgement. AI then helps turn careful reporting on such into useless slop. We're investing trillions into a tool for producing the fog of war, at scale.

05.03.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/liamrobinson_welp-it-finally-happened-i-was-hired-to-activity-7427742974891151361-oQQU?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAAXhSaIBxcnXYiwFXifMExMxjj7jcr9klaY

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/liamrobinson_welp-it-finally-happened-i-was-hired-to-activity-7427742974891151361-oQQU?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAAXhSaIBxcnXYiwFXifMExMxjj7jcr9klaY

The director should be fired mid-film. No need for any further work.

05.03.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Actually the only way to defeat drug cartels is to address the demand, which requires the literal opposite of war: care. But he doesn’t give a shit about helping people with substance use disorder.

05.03.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The Vatican has been holding lots of meetings about AI and religion. I've been to one and interviewed people about several others. What people need to understand: For some participants the meetings are about human values & justice. For others it's mainly about...how to use AI to advance Catholicism.

05.03.2026 13:39 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amid all the extremely important conversations about the deeply evil person who shared my last name, let us never forget his case was hardly unique, and nor were the powerful networks who shamefully empowered him the only ones to do such things.

04.03.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have heard some really freaky things about AI, but I swear I just got an email that made me want to hold up a cross and pray in Jesus's name. Which, uh, is a lot if you know me.

04.03.2026 15:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members.

So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company.

Shut it all down.

04.03.2026 04:26 πŸ‘ 938 πŸ” 390 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 4
Post image

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever πŸ’”

04.03.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 19853 πŸ” 8413 πŸ’¬ 347 πŸ“Œ 325

People love to talk about how one day AI will, like, make miracle drugs by the bushel but first it might have to rebuild the labs that will be destroyed in round after round of "faster than thought" AI bombing. (***This skeet is not a plan of action, Sam***)

04.03.2026 13:04 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I can't believe I may need to say this, but a repost does not imply endorsement of the stated length of recommended sentence. It sure as hell does imply agreement with what I see as the general sentiment.

04.03.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Washington post editorial board: Bernie sanders 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose.
sub head: a 5 percent annual wealth tax on america's billionaires aims to halve their wealth

Washington post editorial board: Bernie sanders 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose. sub head: a 5 percent annual wealth tax on america's billionaires aims to halve their wealth

The Jeff Bezos Washington Post really doesn't like Bernie’s proposal to tax the rich.

03.03.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 766 πŸ” 162 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 30

Is it possible that it's too easy to start a business in πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ 2026

03.03.2026 14:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This kind of religious prophesyβ€”paradise for the good, hellfire for the wickedβ€”has been used to justify & sell war for millennia. And btw one reason this "Dept. of War" is so obsessed with AI: AI companies think πŸŽ―πŸ’― the same way. True believer Meritocrats go to heaven/utopia; others face AI "doom"

03.03.2026 03:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I got asked to participate in a big study of how chaplains should use AI in our work. I filled out the 1st round, just to make comments like, "I beseech you to not even study this any further," and, there is absolutely no place for this among us and I'm shocked you apparently can't see that"

03.03.2026 02:54 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0