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In This Episode
Mel Gibson and The Passion - The film returns to theaters, a two-part Resurrection picture coming May 2027.
The Foundry School - The administration launches a manufacturing workforce program with eight universities.
Operation Economic Outcast - Bessent on the British Virgin Islands accounts, and a two-year forecast that the Strait of Hormuz becomes “a worthless piece of water.”
The Anthropic resignation - A researcher quits saying the labs are gambling with people’s lives, while a company safety lead puts the odds of AI killing all humans above one in 10.
“The Great Equalizer” - Jensen Huang says anybody can now program a computer in human language.
AI and Scripture - What’s an actual idol, why fluency is not a soul, and practical guardrails: don’t name it, don’t outsource discernment, don’t let it interpret Scripture.
Talarico and The Data Centers - Texas Senate candidate on who took money from the industry and who got ghosted.
H1B and the Dallas Housing Bust - Packing religious items to make the house sell.
Scripture in this episode
All passages New Living Translation.
Habakkuk 2:18-19
The idol that cannot speak - and the people who ask it to teach them anyway.
“What good is an idol carved by man, or a cast image that deceives you? How foolish to trust in your own creation - a god that can’t even talk!”
“What sorrow awaits you who say to wooden idols, ‘Wake up and save us!’ To speechless stone images you say, ‘Rise up and teach us!’ Can an idol tell you what to do? They may be overlaid with gold and silver, but they are lifeless inside.”
Psalm 115:4-8
The warning is not that the idol becomes like us. It is that we become like it.
“Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands. They have mouths but cannot speak, and eyes but cannot see.”
“They have ears but cannot hear, and noses but cannot smell. They have hands but cannot feel, and feet but cannot walk, and throats but cannot make a sound.”
“And those who make idols are just like them, as are all who trust in them.”
Genesis 1:27
Personhood is granted, not performed.
“So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
Genesis 2:7
Life is breathed, not built.
“Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.”
John 15:26
Why you do not outsource discernment - the Spirit of truth is a person, not a process.
“But I will send you the Advocate - the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the Father and will testify all about me.”
James 4:7
From the Daily Grind - you were born again into a world at war, and you were equipped the day you said yes.
“So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
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