Greg M. Epstein

I'm in month 5 of a 6-month self-gifted sabbatical from social media posting—but allowed myself a LinkedIn life update—I'm in a NYT article on "Techno-Religion" as NYT's Cade Metz calls it. 🎯 what my 📔 #TechAgnostic is about! Check out my post on LI & @bcmerchant.bsky.social's great writeup here.

The Techno-Utopian Seasteaders Who Want to Colonize the Ocean (Gift Article) Libertarians have long looked at ocean living as the next frontier. Some wealthy men are testing the waters.

In January, I traveled to Panama to check out Ocean Builders, the startup behind “eco-forward housing solutions” called SeaPods. Here's the report, my first piece for the NYT Magazine. In print (it looks glorious!) on Sunday. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/m...

The History of Tech-As-Religion - Politics and Rights Review Excerpt from Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation (MITPress)

A must-read: Greg M. Epstein ( @gregmepstein.bsky.social ) explores how technology has taken on the role of religion. In this excerpt from "Tech Agnostic" (The MIT Press), he examines belief, awe, and meaning in the digital age. Available in 3 languages

Weird that he can’t recognize that only a villain would say “cure cancer or whatever.”

Everyone give a follow to the great @sturkle.bsky.social, who juuuuust joined BkueSky! Make it feel like the olden days of November '24! Sherry's work is one of the bigger reasons I started researching tech and writing what became my book Tech Agnostic. I know many have similar stories.

If anything Trump's stories about little DJ, who has survived cancer and wants to be a police officer, or Jason Hartley who was informed he got into West Point, etc., should confirm him as a master manipulator. He expertly plays on emotion, winning praise for deeply immoral acts. What a fight ahead.

Watching Trump's speech. This may not be my most popular post, but: So much time and energy attacking him for cognitive decline or being unintelligent, wasted. He's duplicitous, immoral, and often traitorous. But cognitively OK. We must change our line of attack or be stuck with him for a long time.

Watching Trump's speech. This may not be my most popular post, but: So much time and energy attacking him for cognitive decline or being unintelligent, wasted. He's duplicitous, immoral, and often traitorous. But cognitively OK. We must change our line of attack or be stuck with him for a long time.

I'm guest preaching at a church today, on my book Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion and Why it Desperately Needs a Reformation. Before the service the tech guy pointed out to the minister that some members have been DMing prayers and he needs to check them. 👨‍🍳😘

“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament”

Skilled technologists are being forced out of government 18F and USDS are gutted by DOGE

New, from me: Musk is not just destroying core government functions, he is also destroying the tech capacity of government.
The people with serious tech skills who care about fixing govt have been fired. Both 18F and the US Digital Service are gone.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/skilled-te...

Are there better experiences in life than having tomorrow's speech printed, timed, and successfully rehearsed before tonight's bedtime? Sure. But not many!

Tesla Takedown Rally · Tesla Takedown Boston ## Take action at the downtown Boston Tesla showroom this Saturday! ⚡ Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines. ⚡ Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk. ⚡ Stopping Musk will help save lives ...

Excited to head to this #TeslaTakedown rally in downtown Boston! Told the kids we're going to say "No!" to the frustrated space car badguy, per @hypervisible.bsky.social's Silicon Valley Supervillains thesis 🦹. #BoycottTesla
www.mobilize.us/teslatakedow...

A lot of Americans of vague white Christian backgrounds (never anyone else, really) have told me they regret that unlike others, they don't really have "a culture." Oh no you very much do

I changed my schedule around so that on certain weeks I'm not available at all, but on other weeks I once again, is if it were pre-tech days, have time to linger in conversation and drop by people's offices and discover new possibilities. So far it's the best thing I've done at work in MONTHS

'We Were Told Nothing.' What to Know About the Canceled Meeting to Discuss the Next Flu Shot The group meets every year to discuss the best vaccine for the upcoming flu season. Until now.

Cancel Culture is evil, unless it's cancelling a meeting to discuss the flu shot, in which case cancel away, apparently

The single clearest through-line of Trump II is it's a great time to defraud the government, and a terrible time to try and actual deliver on government services.

Oligarchs are waging class war from the top down and they're doing it against all the civil servants that exist to hold them back.

I'm actually requesting this Miami Beach police report just to frame it and put it on the wall.

I had a very long and dark laugh about this story yesterday. The layers of the self victimization narrative are a perfect commentary on this historical moment.

The victim agrees with his attacker!!!!

For sure but it's not a prestigious enough award in this case

I've been on an extended social media pause where every day I feel like I have to hit snooze on rejoining the fray in this age of absurdity. Would be amazing if this were the story that finally shocked me into participating again

A Jewish man in Florida shot two Israelis he thought were Palestinian. What is going on? ***

Trigger happy Florida Jewish man shoots 2 men he thinks are Palestinians. Wrongly believes them dead. Turns out they're Israeli Jews who think they've been attacked by Palestinians. One proclaims, on social media, "death to Arabs!" Is there a Nobel Prize for stupidity
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Easily the most fun, chill hour of my Tech Agnostic book tour. Especially if you come say hi.

Zero clue how best to share...that my book was named the "Business Book of the Year" for "Big Ideas & New Perspectives." It's called TECH AGNOSTIC: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why it Desperately Needs a Reformation.

Here's an excerpt with the award announcement:

One way to know you're really a writer and need to let go of the imposter syndrome stuff is when you keep having to buy new notebooks, so much that you're often asking yourself/asked by loved ones, "MORE notebooks? Really??" but you really do actually need more notebooks. For real.

So basically, Brady wins another.

ESPN.com video: "What color will the Super Bowl Gatorade be?"

I love sports, but this country's collective addiction to gambling is increasingly hard to watch these days

Damn almost forgot I wrote about that 😞. Biden will prove to have been right about a number of things, and wrong about many, too. This prediction is, scarily, looking like a banger though

So little surprises me about our Prophet-In-Chief Elon Musk—but I DON'T get all these people still driving Teslas in places like Cambridge, MA. Bro if I were you I'd sell that thing ASAP even at a loss. Get another EV, from anyone, if you're such an environmentalist. Few products are more complicit

Why Are People Wearing Apple Watches on Their Ankles? In pursuit of tracking fitness goals in a comfortable manner, a growing number of people are relocating their watches (and causing some confusion along the way).

I haven't asked @hypervisible.bsky.social exactly how often people complain about his upcoming @mitpress.bsky.social book LUXURY SURVEILLANCE: "weLL, is surveillance rEaLLy **LUXury**?" But it must be often. He's too kind to literally ball this article up and throw it in their faces so allow me?

In a slightly better world we'd have started talking about Jamie Raskin for President by now. We'll see what happens in this world...