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A #philosophy podcast for surviving the worst of all possible timelines. Hosted by ethicist Aaron Rabinowitz. Ethics director and credentialed creator at creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org. Obsessed with luck. Sibling show: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · Mar 18

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!

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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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 53m

Pretty sure Fredrick Douglas called out this bullshit. Some terrible things never change.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 10h

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3h

it is frustrating how much space NYT gives to people with nothing worthwhile to say

just an uninteresting man with stale, despicable views talking to a lazy man with no intellectual curiosity

like wow, a white Christian nationalist? is he just like the other ones? is he wearing a suit? fascinating

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 10h

When you cut away all the citations to nazi apologists and stuff, what's going on here is a fear that (((someone))) will use consolidated power to try to make the world better and instead make it worse. That's it. That's the whole thing, has been since at least the Civil War.

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 10h

Legit I just drafted a piece on how all of this was foretold in The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Read your Principia Discordia's people, it's right there! Jordan Peterson is Greyface!

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 10h

We’re back round to Buckley’s “Don’t immanentize the eschaton!”. Fear of (((globalists))) trying to make things “better”.

Candybaz @barryodonovan.bsky.social · 12h

Peter Thiel is quite, quite mad.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 16h

For anyone curious to understand, this episode of Be Reasonable is my all time favorite podcast episode. It takes the wildest hard right turn about halfway through. Enjoy!

Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 1d

Frogs together strong is a fucking immaculate vibe.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a decent chunk of people who will take this as absolute proof he was murdered by Mossad.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d

MAGA is freaking out & splintering over a leaked text chain—which TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet says is real—where Kirk wrote “Just lost another Jewish donor…Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes. I cannot & will not be bullied like this. Leaving me no choice but to leave the pro Israel cause.” 1/

Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 1d

When I say conservative politics is ideologically and morally bankrupt, this is what I mean:

Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 1d

Fragment of the interview in the post quoted below in which ‘stoning adulterers’ is discussed as desirable but “not yet possible”.

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly I’d still prefer him over RFK Jr.

Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 2d

This close to a HHS position.

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 2d

Listening to a back episode of the Embrace the Void podcast with @etvpod.bsky.social interviewing @jonathanjarry.bsky.social, and boy is the Joe Mercola medical misinformation story taking a weird turn podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

The Spiral of Joe Mercola with Jonathan Jarry

Podcast Episode · Embrace The Void · 2025-03-20 · 1h 5m

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 2d

It always comes backs to religion and narcotics.

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d

It's finally happened, in the latest story (archiveofourown.org/works/72116466 - kudos comment subscribe etc) I have finally Jumped the Shark, I have made the Sanguinary Utnapishtim. This story inspired by recent events in the US military circles.

The Logistician's War

Header: logisticians at work, by Ciaraíoch.

When death came for Abnu Šimé Katoguar, it found him curled in a ball, deliriously repeating his cult’s mantra with his final breath—“hut… hut… hut...” History would record this as the Battle of Gírzu, a tale of heroic Pactsmen defeating heretical fanatics in the Cult of the Operator. In places with a large Loxatl population, Gírzutide would even become a children’s holiday, its plays portraying Šimé as a buffoonish villain, gleefully vowing absurd over-the-top evils: “MWHAHAHA! Now I can bring peace and love to the entire galaxy!”, and the like.

But in truth, his end was pathetic—a broken man barely able to lift his gun, his final breath dissolving into the freezing air just as his soul vanished into the warp. How had it gone so wrong?

Having achieved the rank of Katoguar, Abnu Šimé had been reassigned from the front lines to a desk job on Atrahasis Prime. There he'd found religion and narcotics. With synthetic clarity, he became certain that Khorne was speaking to him directly — and that the Blood God had chosen him to revive the Empire.

Like many born on recently conquered worlds, Šimé despised the Sanguinary Utnapishtim being a multi-species empire. His bitterness deepened when a Loxatl rival won the promotion to Sirdar rank Šimé coveted. When he complained, colleagues replied with data proving that integration raised the integrated Empire’s Murder-Per-Moment ratio—evidence, they said, that Khorne cared not whence the blood flowed. Šimé simply took this as proof that logistical reasoning itself was the problem.

He founded the Cult of the Operator under the guise of a fight club—an innocent-looking after-work brawl circle. But in secret, Šimé preached his gospel: that the Empire’s logisticians and xenos-sympathisers were conspiring to weaken humanity, denying each warrior’s divine right to embody perfect violence. Only by purging the Loxatl could mankind reclaim Khorne’s special favour. The cult’s ultimate plan—the “Operation”—was simple: detonate a stolen thermonuclear device in Ālumušṭuru, the largest Loxatl population centre in the system.

At first, everything went smoothly. The Operators hijacked a transport ship carrying a decommissioned warhead and landed at Gírzu, the nearest void-port outside Ālumušṭuru’s defences. They simply needed to drive the bomb a few miles into the city.

Then their fuel didn’t work. The local grade was incompatible with their stolen vehicle, and, lacking appropriate boots to traverse the terrain, they could not carry the warhead by hand. Trapped in Gírzu, they searched for alternatives as an ice storm swept in. Lacking winter-wear or appropriate accommodation, Operators began dying of the cold.

Three days later, marines from the S.U.N. vessel Lamented Dawn tracked the cult to Gírzu—by tracing the serial numbers of the aviator sunglasses the Operators wore religiously. The squad stormed the “compound” and made short work of the frostbitten survivors.

Abnu Šimé Katoguar was shot by a warm, well-fed, marine of average skill, who later enjoyed a distinguished career in the Office for Ceremonial Calculations as Assistant Deputy Sub-Prefect for Skull-Stack Audits.

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 2d

Right on schedule.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 2d

It is Wednesday my dudes.

Drawing of the guy in a frog suit standing in front of armed police officers. Labeled Portland, 2025.

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 2d

They’re all 5D chess geniuses until you ask them to imagine other minds.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 2d

War. War never changes.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 3d

Worst Andor cosplay ever.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Nathan Alexander @nathgalexander.bsky.social · 3d

Really interesting podcast, @etvpod.bsky.social and @humanistdad.bsky.social !!

www.voidpod.com/podcasts/202...

Autism and Humanism with Alastair Lichten — Embrace The Void

My guest this week is Alastair Lichten (@humanistdad.bsky.social), a humanist organizer who is particularly interested in the intersection of neurodivergence and secularism. We discuss the theory that...

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 3d

True, and I've gotten lots of positive responses on this stuff as well. Just also worth being clear eyed about institutional and ideological entrenchment.

Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 3d

Yep, and I feel for teachers, the expectations being put on them to navigate this while maintaining the trappings of meritocratic pedagogy are unfulfillable and guaranteed to lead to burnout, especially combined with cuts and increased class sizes.

Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely, I think academia is in a bad way on a lot of fronts that limit but don't prevent progress. I do still see a ton of support for grading despite the ungrading research, which likely arises from a mix of systemic inertia and people genuinely struggling to see alternatives.

Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 3d

The number of times I checked today’s date to make sure I’m not the broken one here…

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 3d

I wanted to see when the Gen V season 2 finale is. Turns out it already happened on Oct 22nd and it was a real banger.

Al Overview

The "Gen V" Season 2 finale aired on October 22, 2025, and served as a major bridge to The Boys Season 5 by solidifying new alliances and continuing character arcs for Marie, Jordan, Cate, and Sam, as well as teasing Annabeth's potential powers and Cipher's sinister experiments. The finale also saw the Gen V cast back in Elmira, with Cipher revealing he was responsible for Andre's death and manipulating Marie by showing her how to bring Annabeth back to life, setting the stage for future events.

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 3d

Prolly several reasons. Unrelentingly short news cycles. Kirk being too horrible to be a functional martyr. The administration’s fascist trajectory already being about as bad as it could be, while their ability to prosecute their goals is also about as bad as it could be.

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