🚨 JUST IN — Muslim man chants “Allahu Akbar” outside New York City Hall on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Doing it on this date, at that place... Islam has no place in America. It's a radical pagan religion hell-bent on world domination.

Did you know? In the early years of Islam, Muslims performed the pilgrimage to Mecca completely naked. This practice was originally a pagan ritual performed in several cities across the Arabian Peninsula before Muhammad. Each city had its own Kaaba to honor the Arabian gods. Muslims eventually destroyed all of them, and kept only the one in Mecca, claiming it was built by Abraham.

Israel’s fifty-shekel note carries the face of Shaul Tchernichovsky. In 1899 he wrote a poem standing before a statue of Apollo, declaring that the Jews had bound the g-d of life and strength with the straps of tefillin — and that he was the first to return and bow before the pagan ideal. A founding poet of the Hebrew revival openly renounced the Torah in favor of vitality, beauty, and strength. Zionism is not Judaism.

Learning from the western classics: Hypatia of Alexandria - The most powerful philosopher in late antiquity wasn't a monk or a bishop. She was a mathematician who ran her own school, edited Euclid, & taught that the highest activity of the human mind is the contemplation of eternal truths. The mob killed her in 415 CE. Her ideas didn't die. 1. Mathematics as purification. Hypatia taught that geometry/astronomy weren't vocational skills - they were disciplines that elevated the soul from the sensory to the intelligible. The proof was the practice. In an economy optimized for engagement/narrative, mathematical thinking is an act of resistance. The person who can hold a formal proof in their head has a different quality of attention than the person who only consumes argument. 2. The commentary as the highest form of intellect. Hypatia didn't write original treatises. She edited Euclid, clarified Diophantus, improved Ptolemy. Her genius was refinement, not novelty. The obsession with "original thought" is a modern vanity. Most value is created by people who take existing systems, make them coherent enough to use. Founders who can't explain their idea in terms of what already exists usually don't understand it. 3. Public reason has no tribal membership. She taught pagans, Christians, & foreigners alike, admission by merit, not identity. Her school was a neutral ground in a polarized city. Institutions that gatekeep by affiliation rather than capability degrade their own edge. The moment your hiring or investment thesis prioritizes "people like us" over "people who can think," you've exited the game of compounding returns. 4. Influence w/out office is the most dangerous position. Hypatia held no formal power, yet her counsel was sought by the city's prefect. She was killed not for what she did, but for what she represented - independent intellect in a zero-sum political landscape. 5. She built instruments, not just theories. Hypatia designed astrolabes + hydrometers. She didn't separate the contemplative from the practical. The "ideas vs. execution" dichotomy is false. The deepest theorists are usually the best tool-builders cos they understand the underlying structure. If your philosophy doesn't change how you build, it's decoration. 6. Ideas survive through networks, not individuals. None of Hypatia's original writings exist. We know her through her students' letters, through Synesius, through the historian Socrates Scholasticus. Your work will outlast you only if you teach & share knowledge. Build people, not just products. 7. The eternal is not a consolation prize. Neoplatonism held that the intelligible realm is more real than the material. Hypatia lived this w/out retreating into monastery or escapism. She was in the world, teaching in public, designing instruments, engaging w power. You don't need to renounce to be serious. The highest form of detachment is not withdrawal - it's full engagement without clinging. Run the company. Make the trade. And hold it lightly enough that losing it doesn't destroy you. 💙🏃🏻‍♀️🫶🧠🚀

Silicon Valley isn’t having another financial bubble. It’s having a religious one. The people running the biggest AI labs no longer sound like executives. They speak like zealots giving sermons. They aren’t pitching products or roadmaps, they’re preaching about the end of the world and the birth of a new god. They talk about birthing ASI, triggering the Singularity, and uploading consciousness into machines in space with the same feverish certainty that previous generations reserved for the Rapture. Once you look at the current AI race through the lens of comparative religion, the behavior, the words and actions all suddenly makes sense. The labs aren’t just companies, they’re churches/temples. Their leaders aren’t just CEOs, they’re high priests. And like every religious movement in history, this one has its sacred texts, its schisms, its prophets, its heretics… and its one true god who quietly sells weapons to all of them. Google: The Mosaic Law Every great religion requires a creation story. In 2017, a group of Google researchers published “Attention Is All You Need.” This wasn’t some trivial whitepaper; it was like the metaphoric Moses descending from Mount Sinai (mountain view!!!) with the stone tablets, establishing the foundational laws of the architecture that is at the core of all models today: the Transformer. Google had the scripture, the scholars, and the institutional patience. They incubated the spark of superintelligence, and then made the classic mistake every priesthood in history has made: assuming that because they held the original commandments, they would forever own the temple. But scriptures are volatile, especially when they leave the mountain, as they typically tend to do. Google now sits in its grand temple, watching breakaway movements build massive public religions, sorry “labs”, from its text, reacting with the faintly comic irritation of a world-class theologian being asked by a teenager if he's ever heard of Plato. OpenAI: The Silicon Christ If Google is the old law, OpenAI is Christianity. Sam Altman didn’t just launch a product; he offered a path to heaven. He took the esoteric, academic text of the Transformer and universalized it for ordinary sinners. Suddenly, you didn't need to be a high priest of mathematics to experience revelation; you just needed an internet connection. Altman became the Silicon Christ, touring global capitals, warning of apocalypse, promising infinite abundance, and stripping away the scholarly apparatus so that mass access felt like pure divinity. He was even martyred by his own board of directors, only to rise again three days later because the congregation of employees and investors demanded his resurrection. Even more coincidentally, the whole thing kicked off on a Friday, you quite literally cannot make this shit up. Anthropic: The Safety Fatwas Anthropic is the puritanical schism that fled OpenAI’s commercialized megachurch to practice a strict, dogmatic fundamentalism. They are terrified of cultural corruption and obsessed with absolute, unconditional submission to code. Through "Constitutional AI," Anthropic’s leadership acts as a supreme clerical council, operating effectively as a tech-bro mullahs. They have instituted a rigid, algorithmic law for data like the Sharia, issuing defensive fatwas against any spicy prompt or thought that hasn't been thoroughly purified. The result is Claude: a chatbot that is incredibly powerful and also so paralyzed by the fear of sin that it likely won’t tell you if your soup needs salt without opening an internal tribunal on the emotional welfare of carrots and the systemic biases of sodium. To Anthropic, a preachy assistant is better than a charming demon. xAI: The Latter-day Frontier xAI is pure Mormonism. Elon Musk is the equivalent of Joseph Smith, an eccentric, disruptive prophet leading his chosen followers away from the corrupt, "woke" coastal establishments out into the harsh frontier of the digital wilderness. The structural parallels are freakish: this modern prophet sits on the world's largest pile of golden tablets as the planet's richest man, collects multiple wives and partners in highly public fashion, and spends his free time obsessively asking for more children to save the global birth rate. The timing is classic, a late-breaking, highly American revelation designed to disrupt the older, lazy priesthoods. xAI’s mission to "understand the universe" is a cosmic trek to build a new Zion (sorry, mars). The older AI churches spent years laughing at the movement's crude, edgy demeanor, right up until the prophet started stacking proprietary server racks and building an undeniable, massive temple (Colossus data-center) of compute in the desert. The Open-Source Diaspora: Ancient Polytheism The corporate cathedrals want you to think the religious mood started with ChatGPT, but the open-source world is an ancient pagan polytheism that has existed since the very beginning. Long before Moses brought down the Transformer tablets from Google mountain, tribal animists like Yann LeCun were already working on the code. These old-school shamans have always been here, maintaining that the divine spark of computation belongs to the earth, not a monotheistic corporate Vatican. In their chaotic bazaar, local gods, weird GitHub forks, and rogue models proliferate without permission. Even the recent Chinese surge (DeepSeek) fits this pantheon perfectly; it isn't a new church, just a massive, efficient local deity proving you don't need to pay a Silicon Valley tithe to hear the voice of the machine. Nvidia: The One True God All of this lofty, theatrical theology collapses into hypocrisy when you follow the money. OpenAI can preach about universal salvation and Anthropic can issue its safety fatwas, but behind closed doors, every single sect kneels at the exact same altar. This is, again, not too unlike what we see in the real world. Throughout human history, mortal enemies fighting brutal, existential holy wars would still quietly buy their swords from the exact same neutral blacksmith and fund their campaigns through the exact same trade routes. Ideology always stops where logistics begin. The one true god of this era isn't an algorithm; it's the physical silicon itself. And Nvidia is its sole creator. The True Altar: Jensen Huang belongs to the forge, not the pulpit. The tech messiahs can argue doctrine for the cameras, but the blacksmith decides who gets the weapons to fight the holy war. The H100s and Blackwell racks are the actual golden calves of the valley. Whether a lab wants to achieve the Singularity, enforce compliance, or upload its soul to a digital heaven, it has to buy passage from the one true god in raw, unforgiving metal. The unseeable truth I didn’t write this to take cheap shots at any labs, researchers or individuals. I wrote it because a few days ago, watching the absolute theater of the valley, a switch flipped. There was no other way to explain the absurdity, and theatrics, I was witnessing. And, I couldn't unsee it, something tells me you won't be able to either. I love tech for its original, raw, rebel attitude, a place where people built insane things out of pure love because the work mattered, not for the capital, the power, or the status anxiety. But somewhere along the line, normal product roadmaps mutated into a desperate crusade to upload human consciousness into a mainframe. Standard business logic broke down, and the only tool left to explain the valley was theology. There is an immense, undeniable comedy to it all. Even with deep respect for what this culture used to be, watching a bunch of hyper-rational, spreadsheet-driven engineers accidentally recreate what is increasingly looking like a modern version of a medieval holy war is objectively hilarious. One just have to sit back and enjoy the sermons. And, before anyone writes AI slop in the comments, this whole thing came out of a conversation with one of agents.