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Big Tech Oligarchs Pretending to be Christian, AoT#481

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The Age of Transitions
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Dec 8, 2025
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Summary

Don't feel bad if you aren't sure what to do right now. Even the high and mighty captors of America are relying on social media analytics to know what to say. Topics include: esoteric transhumanism, Peter Thiel, Patreon, AI automating online content creation, waiting for something to happen, no normal life, rapid pace of change, Big Tech AI projects, data centers, electrical power needs increasing, Ray Kurzweil, AGI, TMI, Tech oligarch version of Libertarian politics, UBI, social media and legacy media being consolidated, dependence of technological system, technique perfecting itself, faith in creation of technological god, Joe Rogan's transhumanist views, pretending to be Christian, using analytics to craft new media narratives, appropriating conspiracy culture, previous Big Tech religious identities, mainstreaming of fringe media and tech figures, social media marketing, Communism as boogey man scape goat, no accountability built into new American government, no way out of total surveillance