British millionaire Samuel Leeds has announced his commitment to personally fund the legal defense of Christian street preachers who were recently arrested in the UK. The preachers, who were engaged in public evangelism, faced legal challenges that have sparked discussions on freedom of speech and religious expression. Leeds, known for his entrepreneurial ventures, emphasized the importance of supporting individuals who advocate for their faith in public spaces. His pledge comes amid growing concerns over the treatment of religious groups in the country. The legal proceedings are expected to attract significant media attention, as they may set a precedent regarding the rights of street preachers. Leeds has called for public support and awareness surrounding the issue, urging citizens to stand up for religious freedoms. The case is anticipated to unfold in the coming weeks, with implications for similar groups across the UK.

Pastor Robert Jeffress' Pathway to Victory YouTube channel surpassed 1 million subscribers, earning YouTube's Gold Creator Award for the milestone. #Jeffress# #YouTube# #Evangelism# #FirstBaptistDallas# #ChristianPost# 🔗

Basement Bible Study Ends in Detention: Hunan Police Lock Down House Church Police in Leiyang City, Hunan Province, sealed a basement house church near a local hot spring and ordered its Christian organizer detained for 15 days, according to a redacted administrative penalty decision issued on September 21 by the Leiyang City Public Security Bureau. The believer, who began practicing the faith in 2014, had purchased and renovated the space where dozens gathered on Sundays for evangelism and Bible study. Authorities cited the organizer’s statements, witness testimony, surveillance footage, and seized religious materials as conclusive evidence of illegal religious activities under Article 31 of the Public Security Administration Punishments Law. Stand with believers in Hunan—share this report, pray for the detained organizer, and urge leaders to defend religious freedom now. Read Now #ReligiousFreedom# #HouseChurch# #ChinaPersecution# #Hunan# #ChinaAid#

The best fun about coming to SF for a week is the people. Too many to name but I cannot believe how many excellent people I get to call friends in this industry! From excellent time at OpenAI DevDay (4th time covering) to an absolute banger @thursdai_pod stream from Moscone at CoreWeave FullyConnected, this week had so much! New models, new friends, a new assistant (hey Dot), and some amazing personal achievements! Most important, I got to meet and chat with many fans of the podcast, who gave feedback, told me what is valuable to them and that just keeps me going! One important thing I noticed that even in the middle of the AI SF bubble, there are tons of folks who are still not imagining big enough! Not tons of folks still use personal AI assistants to their full potential, many imagination gaps! I'm more energized than ever to keep doing AI Evangelism, as humanity steps into its next phase of AI adoption (AI Assistants) and continuing on my mission to bring positivity about AI! 🫡

If you’ve ever opened Chrome DevTools, or optimized a page for Core Web Vitals, you’ve used software built by @addyosmani. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:50 Addy’s current workflow 05:11 Addy’s path into tech 15:04 Addy’s work on jQuery 16:44 TodoMVC 21:44 Getting hired at Google and working on Chrome 27:17 Building dev tools 40:15 Core Web Vitals 45:42 Google’s engineering culture 51:03 Addy’s career trajectory at Google 57:55 The director role at Google 1:01:40 Cognitive debt and cognitive surrender 1:03:03 Working with agents 1:05:52 Loop engineering 1:12:55 The changing role of the software engineer 1:18:15 How Addy uses AI in writing 1:27:40 What’s next for Addy 1:28:47 Career advice Brought to you by: • @AntithesisHQ – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. Teams like Jane Street, and the etcd community use Antithesis to ship better code, faster. • @sentry – application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers. • Google Cloud Run – run untrusted agent code without the security anxiety. Cloud Run sandboxes deliver hyper-isolated, ephemeral execution environments that spin up in milliseconds. Check them out: Here's Addy's advice on where he believes engineers should invest efforts, in the coming years, in his words: “What we are very likely to see happen next with engineering careers (as well as product and other roles) is the unbundling of them, so that an engineer also has product sense, while a product person also has engineering sense, or UX sense. You should think about the non-engineering things if you don’t [usually] have the time to think about product or technical evangelism, or go-to-market approaches, or any other parts of how businesses are successful. If you can show employers that you are not just a builder, but someone that can help them as roles start to become a little bit fuzzier, then I think that you can be successful in these times. Don’t be just an engineer.”

Botnanza's Chief Evangelist @lukas_m_ziegler on the data advantage behind modern robotics: "We all know that this modern software stack for robotics includes a heavy, heavy pipeline of data." "Some companies claim they are not data factories, but in fact they are, and they employ a huge amount of people in China who are collecting that data just to feed the models." "Model equals software to me in that part. We have more capable models in the US, and hopefully very soon in Europe too."