Emboldened Evangelists

Evangelists try to conquer Silicon Valley: Many in the tech-Christian nexus are vocal Trump supporters – or at least sceptical of the more excessive liberal tendencies of Silicon Valley.

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Christianity Was “Borderline Illegal” in Silicon Valley: To have two of the world’s richest technologists, worth a recently estimated $400 billion (Elon Musk) and $14 billion (Peter Thiel), speak admiringly about biblical teachings challenges the view that Christianity is anti-capitalist or even anti-intellectual.

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Antichrist, yeah! Peter Thiel, the gay billionaire Christian evangelist CEO of Palantir is spreading the word about the rise of the Antichrist. This week, Thiel launched the first of a four-part lecture series he’s doing about the Dark Lord.

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"Moral crisis in tech industry": The Silicon Valley Christians Who Want to Build ‘Heaven on Earth’

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Meanwhile...: AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula—No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun... going San Francisco-sober to 'lock in' for 'grind mode'

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The Stupidity of GDP per Capita: What does GDP NOT tell us?

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Ye nahi sudhrega: India seeks people access in US trade talks after H-1B visa row. . . . . "the less Modi talks of the H1B visa the better. Everybody and his proverbial uncle in the leadership circles in the US and the West has about had it with the Indian PM’s pleadings to let in more Indian engineers and science grads as a way of pleasing his middle class voter base".

Modi’s effusive response to Trump sets India up for more humiliation

Quick notes: Agrivoltaics | Outsourcing tax....

• Farming under solar panels: "It reduces irrigation needs, shields crops from heat stress, and stabilizes incomes by diversifying revenue streams for farmers".




• Let MAGA eat soy: America’s latest farmer crisis is Government-Grown. Steep losses could fuel farm bankruptcies around the United States.
  
  
  



• Waiting for socialist bailouts: China’s snub of U.S. soybeans is a crisis for American farmers



• Forever dependent on foreign tech: India's IT sector nervous as US proposes 25% outsourcing tax. Navarro reposted a call from far-right activist Jack Posobiec for tariffs on services, not just goods.




Blaming AI for India’s IT woes is like blaming Uber for walking less. Truth is: we never built OS, chips or cloud because jugaad outsourcing was too profitable. Time isn’t the threat-our comfort zone is.

— Fropky (@fropky) September 6, 2025




• Trump attacks his cash cow: Hundreds of U.S. colleges poised to close in next decade. “Over the next decade, we’re going through a very painful but necessary re-balancing in supply and demand.”



• Ashtavakra Gita: The Perfect Spiritual Guide to Enlightenment




• Wi-Fi signals used to measure heart rate accurately: Signal variations caused by a beating heart enable determining beats per minute. The UCSC team, which included Professor Katia Obraczka, Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia, and high school student and visiting researcher Pranay Kocheta, used a low-cost ESP32 chip and paired it with a machine learning algorithm to detect changes in the Wi-Fi signal caused by the heart. They then run it through a machine learning algorithm, which can estimate the heart rate with an accuracy of around half a beat per minute



• "Strength of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship": US firm makes a $500 million investment deal with Pakistan for critical minerals