The section of this paper "Religious Nationalism in the United States: Its Sources and History" gives a good overview of White Christian Nationalism, and most if not all of the beliefs are lockstep with Mormonism. www.philipgorski.com/assets/docum...

Conspicuously missing Italians

Called both of the new ones:

Musk pivoting from one thing that's definitely not going to happen (Mars city) to a thing that is, shockingly, even less likely to happen (mass drivers to build O'Neill Cylinders and a Dyson Swarm) shows that we're in late-stage Howard Hughes territory.

"...and, yes, handsome,..."

Rise and shine, time to immanentize the eschaton.

We're going to make a reusable rocket -> we're going land on Mars -> we're going to build a city on Mars -> we're going to build data centers in space -> we're going to be a Kardashev II civilization -> I think the sun might be alive.

Brigham Young moment. "What is in the sun? Can astronomers tell us who lives there? No. Now know that millions of inhabitants dwell there! The Sun is filled with the power of God."

Keeping up with what exactly SpaceX is trying to accomplish is like that phaser target practice game they play in TNG where the dots keep swirling around, randomly changing position with no apparent rhyme or reason. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Kx...

Always a good time to point out that the Mormon church pushed their investments in Palantir from $68 million in 2024 to $288 million after Trump was elected.

Checking in on SpaceX

wars and rumors of wars... Joseph Smith prophesied that the Lost Ten Tribes would return from the north and smite the ice... holy cow...

Checks out.

Trevor Lee is my favorite "blocked by" from Twitter.

*Nelson laugh* Stephen Miller likes Star Trek V!

This will always be my favorite Jan. 6 dress up.

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

Recently I've been thinking a lot about how Eric Berger named Elon launching a car into space as the #1 moment in 21st century spaceflight.

Isaacman is a great example of the Every is 12 Now Theory. "I think a tech billionaire is qualified to lead NASA because he owns a fighter plane, thinks nuclear reactors in space are cool, and bought his own tourist spaceflight." Of course you do, you're 12.

For a brief second when they found out about SpaceX going public the clouds suddenly parted and they was handwringing on Twitter when they realized that Musk actually doesn't really care about going to Mars. The moment was brief, but it was an interesting one to see.

Jeffrey R. Holland: "if [a person] leaves this Church, it must be done by crawling over or under or around the Book of Mormon to make that exit." Me:

While a believing Mormon I had my suspicions that Jeffrey Holland† and David Bednar were going to be the two prophets spoken of in Revelation that would fight for Israel during the Battle of Armageddon.

A favorite moment of mine r.e. Holland's eloquence is when BBC was interviewing him about Romney's temple covenants and Jeff accidentally called Obama "Osama" and then implied he'd also made secret religious pledges. youtu.be/pb2GRssSSMw?...

I love being eloquent and benevolent. Go to hell Jeff.

It's very funny every time the Doctrine and Covenants is like: "I your Lord God, creator of this world, yea verily the Alpha and Omega as spoken of in the Holy Scriptures, have something to say concerning the state of Missouri."

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out when the Book of Mormon suddenly starts reading differently than the Bible to members. I suspect a big chunk of the member's perception of the Book of Mormon as authentic comes from the fact that it "sounds" Biblical.

The slopificiation of the internet started with the pandemic. All the social media channels since then have been full of low-effort content fed algorithmically into peoples' eyeballs. AI has allowed people to produce the same type of slop, but at scale.

The Zoomers got into Y2K nostalgia for the aesthetics, now they're gonna get the era's WMD politics.

If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation. (2025)

Silent Night, Deadly Night (and thus, half of Silent Night, Deadly Night Pt. 2) was filmed in Heber City, Utah.

Space Twitter is wringing their hands about the SpaceX IPO, wondering whether or not Mars was ever really Elon Musk's goal; a rare moment of clarity in an otherwise obtuse community.

Oh no

The reason the Mormon church went in big on Palantir stocks this year is because the Word of Wisdom means they don't have to fund a cocaine habit.

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: