Petition to call the first objective history written about this program "Failure Is An Option."

How on-the-nose is it that the Mormon church is investing big on mass digital surveillance? Not surprised that they seem enamored with the idea of compiling detailed records on every American.

Misguided Mormon anti-porn movements are funny.

In the LDS church's new SEC filing they now have $288 million invested in Palantir, up from $13 million last year. That's a staggering investment. Unreal. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

"Second, to divest from the weapon’s primary developer, Northrop Grumman, plus other missile manufacturers." I really hope this leads to broader movement around this point, because it is wrong that the church is invested in weapons manufacturers like Northrop Grumman, Palantir, L3Harris, etc.

I'll take 10% of your money. Cash works.

A subtle way in which our society is becoming like 1984 is that 1984 is one of the only political book anybody reads.

Re: strange messianic influence in the tech industry bsky.app/profile/high...

In the 80s, BYU had a computer research arm called the Eyring Research Institute. Novell, Dynix, and WordPerfect came from it. Dynix was an evolution of software used to record Mormon temple records. The software that became WordPerfect was supposedly invented with the 2nd Coming in mind.

I'm reminded of how the initial HLS contract award had SpaceX management rated "outstanding."

FINALLY. Maybe this time we can get a lander actually designed for the moon from the start and a normal landing architecture. www.businessinsider.com/nasa-sean-du...

It's a fitting swan song for 60 years of American spaceflight excellence that we will be undone by this nation's near-religious faith that private industry always does it better.

Mormon A E S T H E T I C

... and here to bow the lid off the ultra-top-secret government UFO coverup, it's special guest star Secretary of State Marco Rubio!

Lotta CIA guys brushing up on their mission language right now.

"Hmm, this is a picture of something called the Lamanite Generation." Clark Gilbert:

hightokolob.substack.com/p/lets-play-... Some thoughts on a surprising turn of events

I was curious so I looked at the text of the talk and it's about pronatalism and reaffirming the church's opposition to gay marriage. That's culture war stuff. I don't know if the Salt Lake Tribune writers here are being intentionally misleading or simply ignorant. I don't know which is worse.

Oaks basically confirmed that Nelson went off the rails.

Electioneering is better, actually. There should be vigorous debate about the future of a massive religious organization.

New LDS apostle prediction in descending order of likelihood: either W. Christopher Waddell, Gerald Causse, Clark Gilbert, Edward Dube

AI generated nostalgia is already strange but there's something hyperreal about using it to generate images from a year where camera and video technology was already ubiquitous.

BYU-coded

They should do a Polymarket for who the next Mormon apostle will be.

Thoughts about Russell M. Nelson. hightokolob.substack.com/p/russell-m-...

Not re-promoting Dieter is going to be extremely funny.

End of a baffling era

A sampling of this anti-LGBT hate screed as wall decor.

all these spectacles in our society got me like

"SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell... said propellant transfer worried her more than docking Starships in orbit. 'Hopefully it’s not as hard as some of my engineers think it could be,' she said." Bet ya $100 it's a lot harder. spacenews.com/nasa-safety-...

I do wish it was more well-known that the Mormons are meatpuppeting their 101 year old prophet and pretending he's still actively leading the church and getting revelations from God.

This review of a book of Ashtar messages got me thinking: can Mormon patriarchal blessings be considered a more low-key version of New Age channeling?

The sort of thing you read in the Background section of the Wikipedia page on a space disaster.

This just keeps getting funnier every year

The change that needs to be made is switching to a lander that actually will work, dipshit.

Spencer Cox—whose solution to droughts and nearly inevitable environmental collapse in his state is to pray about it 👍

FYI a miracle was performed yesterday. "Andersen... was interrupted by technical difficulties when the microphone and sound system unexpectedly shut off... missionaries who sat in the back of the gym were miraculously able to hear Elder Andersen’s testimony. www.thechurchnews.com/leaders/2025...

"It was all a stage set, a series of elaborate props for playing at living in the future." - William Gibson, The Gernsback Continuum

Relatedly: remember how Russell M. Nelson is still alive?

Non-linear quantum mechanics is sending me.

So you know how there were two Handbooks: the blue one for everyone and the red one for only leaders. Are there any other Exmormons who remember rumors of a third, green Handbook that was secret and only given to like Temple Presidents?

Two hours out from the Starship test flight and Elon is live-tweeting anti-immigrant propaganda.

Third time's the charm for the tenth time's the charm test flight!

Still blows my mind that Elon Musk showed this slide and none of his fans went hold on, that's obviously bullshit.

IFT-10 LETS GO

I've often wondered if this influenced early Mormon beliefs that the moon was inhabited.

Starship is on the pad, Elon's retweeting soft core AI pornography. All systems nominal.

all these spectacles in our society got me like

A fun thing about Starship test flight live streams is listening to the commentators have what I'd recognize as a faith crisis in real time.