Ostrich
ostrichstrauss.bsky.social
Ostrich
@ostrichstrauss.bsky.social
Metaethics and Animal Ethics

Incessant moralizer (that's good)
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November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Honestly this has always been weird to me. Giving the head of the executive unilateral pardoning power seems to have only one expectable outcome right? There aren't really two different waysthis could go.
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Wake up honey they invented a kind of moral dumbfounding that actually exists
Tired: moral dumbfounding
Wired: *moral* dumbfounding
October 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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his commitment to the scream was impressive
October 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Fp zou öovf cole
September 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Oh I see your confusion, you thought the prophesy meant nobody could kill you, but it says here “nobody” is the name of a man who will kill you. And that’s much less strange than being immortal.
September 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
You guys get decisions?
You got rejected? I got DESK rejected. I cry sexism.
August 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
@lastpositivist.bsky.social liam thanks for being super nice and super helpful to a friend of mine they said you are great in person!
August 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Sadly @morallawwithin.bsky.social does not really post on here but she just cooked up an absolute banger of a blog I want bluesky to witness

morallawwithin.substack.com/p/against-in...
Against intuitionism
If moral obligation is real, it can be demonstrated taking no moral claim for granted
morallawwithin.substack.com
July 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It defo is a bit concerning that it is somewhat acceptable to accuse the IDF of genocide on the BBC but completely unacceptible to call for the demise of that institution.

Makes me worry about the BBC's opinion on genocide
July 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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At rhe risk of undermining my bit of Never Being Serious On Here, I want to think about the post I'm joking about here. A lot of people have told me the rise of AI jobs in philosophy means weaker candidates are getting all the jobs. I don't think that's quite right.
The screenshotted post is dangerously reductive: some of us were weaker candidates who were luckily in fashion AND knew a bunch of people on search committes from posting "Tim Williamson kinda thicc tho" memes on twitter
I think about this post so much these days.

(h/t @doctorcochrane.bsky.social)
June 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Wrote the first draft of a poem, I guess it needs some work
June 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It's excilerating to find an eminent scholar in your field on social media and find that they are an absolute menace

Gives me hope that we're all gonna be okay
June 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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anyways please watch this edit that sent me into hysterics and now I need to redo my makeup
June 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
One thing i really like about Kant is that theoretical phil people all go "how could such a brilliant guy come up with such bad moral philosophy" and all the practical phil people go "you just have to ignore all the weird metaphysics then he's great"

Love a confusing king
May 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Okay so holy shit, twitter actually has become /pol/, people weren't exaggerating

P distressing if you ask me
May 17, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Pope Innocence X
Pope Turkeywrap VI
Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name —

Pope Oatcake VI. I’ll run with it.
May 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
People who reply+block immidiately have actually won the exchange.

Yes it does make me mad
Yes i do agonize about whether what you responded actually threatens my point
Yes i am mking a tweet about it

It's a killer move
April 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM
MCB is unironically my most valuable follow
So in spite of all the incentives for companies to suck up to Trump not a single one said they supported the tariffs
1. We contacted the 100 largest American companies and asked a simple question:

Do you support the tariffs announced by President Trump on April 2?

These are tariffs that have already destroyed trillions of shareholder value

NOT ONE COMPANY WOULD ANSWER THE QUESTION
April 8, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Enjoying these feuding wrestlers and the differing approaches they have to Bluesky
March 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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A great tragedy is also that his most prescient warning - AI will make us complascent and dumb by taking over our thinking in an uncreative, meaningless way - has been obfuscated by his son insisting that the warning was that big robots are going to kill usnlike in terminator
March 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Make sure Bernie is staying hydrated, eating well. and getting enough rest.
March 23, 2025 at 5:19 AM
So i just got an email from my institution that they have set up a dedicated research aid ai and one of the things advertised is that they can help doing mathematical calculations - am i wrong to think that this is NOT something llm's can reliably do?
March 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Along with these disconnected islands are segregated roadways & checkpoints randomly interspersed across the landscape. From a map i made...
January 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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On Christmas Eve I got a gun pulled on me while I was peacefully protesting Omni Hotels' decision to keep selling foie gras (aka diseased liver made from force-feeding ducks).

How's your holiday season going? 🤣🤣🤣
December 27, 2024 at 5:38 AM