Embrace the Void
@etvpod.bsky.social
A #philosophy podcast for surviving the worst possible timelines. Hosted by ethicist aaronrabinowitz.net. Ethics director and credentialed creator at creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org. Obsessed with luck. Sibling show: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/
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Embrace the Void
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· Mar 18
Luckpilled Q and A 300th Episode Extravaganza! — Embrace The Void
My guest this week is Sarah Tulien (@sarahtulien.bsky.social), executive director of the Creator Accountability Network and together we tackle all the best questions and patron names a show could poss...
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New Episode out for everyone! The big 300! I'm joined by @sarahtulien.bsky.social executive director of the Creator Accountability Network to thank everyone who's supported the show and answer a bunch of questions about luck! Enjoy!
I’m very far left and I think AI is incredible tech, which is why it’s extra depressing to watch its current horrorshow incarnations play out under capitalism.
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 3:25 PM
I’m very far left and I think AI is incredible tech, which is why it’s extra depressing to watch its current horrorshow incarnations play out under capitalism.
Cool, when my Jewish atheist ancestors immigrated here they were fleeing from the same kind of fascists you’re now enabling and who will happily put us all against the wall together so cool fake story you quisling fuckwit.
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 18, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Cool, when my Jewish atheist ancestors immigrated here they were fleeing from the same kind of fascists you’re now enabling and who will happily put us all against the wall together so cool fake story you quisling fuckwit.
This is somehow simultaneously the gayest thing and the straightest thing I’ve ever seen. This has to defy some law of logic or metaphysics in a publishable way.
Who's up for an official U.S. government video showing RFK Jr. working out with Kid Rock and doing a cold water plunge in jeans
February 18, 2026 at 2:06 AM
This is somehow simultaneously the gayest thing and the straightest thing I’ve ever seen. This has to defy some law of logic or metaphysics in a publishable way.
Dude fell for a classic enlightening round question. I’ve had so many guests get hung up on “are aliens real or not real?”.
Former president Barack Obama appeared to drop an otherworldly bombshell: extraterrestrials exist.
Obama largely walked back his remarks, suggesting that he was offering a pithy response and that he was simply performing cosmic math. https://wapo.st/4rmz1PA
Obama largely walked back his remarks, suggesting that he was offering a pithy response and that he was simply performing cosmic math. https://wapo.st/4rmz1PA
February 18, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Dude fell for a classic enlightening round question. I’ve had so many guests get hung up on “are aliens real or not real?”.
I’ve never seen someone tell on themselves this hard.
February 17, 2026 at 9:36 PM
I’ve never seen someone tell on themselves this hard.
New ring of parasocial hell just dropped.
NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.
futurism.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:16 PM
New ring of parasocial hell just dropped.
Objectively true.
BROKE: debating deontological vs consequentialism implications of voter behavior
WOKE: debating deontology itself vs consequentialism itself
BESPOKE: virtue ethics
WOKE: debating deontology itself vs consequentialism itself
BESPOKE: virtue ethics
Every four years we debate the deontological versus consequentialist moral implications of voter behavior :)
February 16, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Objectively true.
New episode of ETV out for everyone! I'm joined by Alex Guerrero to talk about Lottocracies and what sort of alternative they present to democracies. If you're at all interested in this and have detail questions I highly recommend his book, it really covers a ton of fine grained issues. Enjoy!
Lottocracy with Alex Guerrero — Embrace The Void
My guest this week is Alex Guerrero, a professor of philosophy at the Rutgers University and author of the book Lottocracy: Democracy without Elections. We talk through the major problems with democra...
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February 16, 2026 at 6:14 PM
New episode of ETV out for everyone! I'm joined by Alex Guerrero to talk about Lottocracies and what sort of alternative they present to democracies. If you're at all interested in this and have detail questions I highly recommend his book, it really covers a ton of fine grained issues. Enjoy!
This reminds me of when Charles Murray wrote a book about human accomplishment and left out jazz.
February 15, 2026 at 11:49 PM
This reminds me of when Charles Murray wrote a book about human accomplishment and left out jazz.
This is the most neoliberal thing I’ve ever seen.
Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."
February 15, 2026 at 7:27 PM
This is the most neoliberal thing I’ve ever seen.
Every time I debated anti-trans activists, I always asked how this doesn’t result in enforcing traditional gender norms. Not a single one ever gave me a good answer.
Very much in keeping with how Davies-Arai argues against "affirmation policies in schools." It's not clear how they'd be able to implement this without aggressively enforcing traditionalist expectations, where not conforming is perceived as a precursor to (or even as amounting to) social transition.
February 15, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Every time I debated anti-trans activists, I always asked how this doesn’t result in enforcing traditional gender norms. Not a single one ever gave me a good answer.
Explain your country’s politics in one image. #EverythingIs40k
February 15, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Explain your country’s politics in one image. #EverythingIs40k
We are absolutely cooked.
563K views · 5K reactions | BREAKING🚨: Meet the next breakthrough in AI Technology, Seedance 2.0 just pushed AI to an entirely new level. | The Star Wars Garrison
BREAKING🚨: Meet the next breakthrough in AI Technology, Seedance 2.0 just pushed AI to an entirely new level.
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February 15, 2026 at 12:11 AM
We are absolutely cooked.
I mean, Epstein’s pedo empire was impressive. But it was new money pedo. The Church is old money pedo. They gonna outlast all of us.
This story feels too crazy, but also right on brand.
““Will take down (Pope) Francis,” Bannon wrote to Epstein in June 2019. “The Clintons, Xi, Francis, EU – come on brother.””
www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/w...
““Will take down (Pope) Francis,” Bannon wrote to Epstein in June 2019. “The Clintons, Xi, Francis, EU – come on brother.””
www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/w...
Steve Bannon courted Epstein in his efforts to ‘take down’ Pope Francis | CNN
Steve Bannon, a longtime adviser to US President Donald Trump, discussed opposition strategies with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein against Pope Francis, with Bannon saying he hoped to “take do...
www.cnn.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I mean, Epstein’s pedo empire was impressive. But it was new money pedo. The Church is old money pedo. They gonna outlast all of us.
Checkmate AI skeptics. (H/T to my best raven @bchenrock.bsky.social)
David Unger on Instagram: "We all remember where we were when the Swamp of Sorrows took Artax. It was the moment our collective childhood innocence ended… until now. I’m on a mission to use AI to rewr...
25K likes, 1,042 comments - thedungerzone on February 13, 2026: "We all remember where we were when the Swamp of Sorrows took Artax. It was the moment our collective childhood innocence ended… until n...
www.instagram.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Checkmate AI skeptics. (H/T to my best raven @bchenrock.bsky.social)
I wrote this piece about the dangers of AI relationships back in Oct, and here we are.
February 14, 2026 at 3:38 PM
I wrote this piece about the dangers of AI relationships back in Oct, and here we are.
My antiwoke grifter block list remains undefeated.
this feels like a Roger Bannister four minute mile moment for "reactionary centrism". a level of reactionary centrism doctors (of political science) assured us was impossible but that training, dedication, ingenuity, and the Indomitable human spirit were determined to overcome
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 14, 2026 at 3:22 PM
My antiwoke grifter block list remains undefeated.
My biggest takeaway from Predator: Badlands is predators shouldn’t talk. I don’t need them spouting dime-store Klingon.
February 13, 2026 at 11:53 PM
My biggest takeaway from Predator: Badlands is predators shouldn’t talk. I don’t need them spouting dime-store Klingon.
Teachers shouldn’t be AI cops. We should fix the system so it’s not necessary.
For the first time in my life I got accused of using ChatGPT for schoolwork by a professor and I am blind with rage
February 13, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Teachers shouldn’t be AI cops. We should fix the system so it’s not necessary.
Very much looking forward to this chat!
Going to be recording on this and how reactionary conspirituality was always present in the hippie movement of the 60s and 70s with @etvpod.bsky.social next week.
We're seeing a rebirth of this thinking AI "accelerationist" cultism.
We're seeing a rebirth of this thinking AI "accelerationist" cultism.
February 13, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Very much looking forward to this chat!
Everyone who believed him should resign in disgrace to spend more time washing the blood off their hands. There are no excuses for that level of willful ignorance.
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
n.pr
February 13, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Everyone who believed him should resign in disgrace to spend more time washing the blood off their hands. There are no excuses for that level of willful ignorance.
What I’m learning so far from peer review is that my claims about the pervasiveness of luck and its implications are simultaneously obviously true, incomprehensible, and dangerously insane. If not for my years of Discordian training I would have already become the Joker. 🙃
February 12, 2026 at 4:15 PM
What I’m learning so far from peer review is that my claims about the pervasiveness of luck and its implications are simultaneously obviously true, incomprehensible, and dangerously insane. If not for my years of Discordian training I would have already become the Joker. 🙃
The future of the GOP is overt inceldom.
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:01 PM
The future of the GOP is overt inceldom.
In these uncertain times there is something comforting in how utterly predictable some things still are.
Imagine a President bulldozing 1/3 of our Historic White House pocketing $300 million and that doesn’t even crack the top 100 most destructive, vile, disgusting things he’s done, yet here we are
February 11, 2026 at 3:46 PM
In these uncertain times there is something comforting in how utterly predictable some things still are.
The Goon is a Harsh Mistress.
Elon Musk told employees at xAI, his artificial intelligence company, on Tuesday that the company needed a factory on the moon to build A.I. satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space.
Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon
In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.
nyti.ms
February 11, 2026 at 2:44 PM
The Goon is a Harsh Mistress.