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Inscrutable Exhortations
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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave

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anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
oh no there's a youtube wrapped now
Your top interests 1. Economics discussions 2. Philosophical debates 3. Current events analysis 4. Quantum physics 5. Consciousness studies
December 9, 2025 at 12:35 AM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
I have done close to no relevant reading on the subject, but I'm gonna say there's about a 50% chance I end up being a physicalist about consciousness, about a 35% chance I end up a panpsychist, and about a 15% chance I end up something else
December 8, 2025 at 5:42 AM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
This is quite good so far
Posthuman Bliss? The Failed Promise of Transhumanism, by Susan B Levin
December 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
bad bangs, weird tech job, tries to kill herself ............ transgender?
Helly R. from the TV show Severance
December 7, 2025 at 3:09 AM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
Making my predictions now: I think my dad will get me a copy of Rawls' Theory of Justice for Christmas
December 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
Lol

From WIRED's article about cyber truck owners:
Photo of a man in a cyber truck with a dumb looking wolf fact design on the side. The text says: RUSS TAYLOR, 44 “People occasionally just flip [me] off or whatever, but nobody’s come up to me and tried to make a statement about anything. It’s just a vehicle. So it’s ironic that it would even become a political statement, but nonetheless it is.” EDITOR’S NOTE: Taylor was arrested and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.
December 6, 2025 at 2:14 AM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
I am going to (try to) finish two pieces of writing that have been floating around 70% complete for a while before the end of the year
December 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
Good article:

scholar.google.com/scholar?clus...
scholar.google.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
Trilogies I own and have read only the first book of:

Foucault's History of Sexuality
McCloskey's Bourgeois Trilogy
Evan's Third Reach Trilogy
Braudel's Capitalism and Civilization
November 30, 2025 at 6:31 AM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
Secretary of War (Crimes)
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
Julian Savulescu is a terrible philosopher
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
This urge becomes quite strong around Thanksgiving
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social Inscrutable Exhortations @anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social · Nov 7
I am a little tempted to be an annoying vegan in the comments of any food post about non-vegan food
November 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
For some reason, my Wikipedia app consistently gives me the wrong picture for the article I look at. Instead of showing me the cover image for the article I'm looking at, it shows me the one for the article I looked at last
Wikipedia article for Jawaharlal Nehru attached to the picture of Curtis Yarvin
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
I think DBH might not appreciate Google images confusing him with Dennett
Google search for "David Bentley Hart." One of the resulting images is a picture of Daniel Dennett
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
What the fuck

nypost.com/2025/11/17/o...
Mamdani’s ‘gender-affirming care’ plan surgically erases gays — just like Iran
The New York Times reported last month on the dire situation for gay people in Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death. Many are pressured to undergo brutal reassignment surgeries to live …
nypost.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
Was . . . this a concern in the 1920s?
There will be laws requiring a dependable certificate of a successfully passed eugenic examination by both applicants before they can secure a marriage license. These laws will also require that at least five or seven days should elapse between the issuance of a marriage license and the execution of the marriage contract. In this way many an altogether hasty marriage may be prevented. Thus most of the weddings performed during hours of intoxication by either alcohol, passion, infatuation, or a mere fleeting fancy may be avoided.
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
Wait there were eugenicists arguing that cousin marriage had eugenic effects?
1. Consanguineous marriage This is a feature of Arab life much older than Isl4m, but like many other traditions and customs is deemed by the Arabs to have received the sanction of Muhammad. It is well known that among the desert Arabs in particular, a young man had what might be termed “the refusal” of any female cousin. As a general rule, the latter was not betrothed by her parents, until her own male cousins had the opportunity to take her in marriage; and it was quite the custom for cousins to marry. This led to the establishment of the phrase “daughter of ————— my uncle” as an accepted euphemism for “my wife,’’ since delicacy forbade a man to speak too directly, in public, of such a personal matter as his harim. It is not necessary to point out the eugenic effect of consanguineous mar- riage, in the light of researches of the last half century. Ina country where existence was as severe as in desert Arabia, it may be fairly assumed that many of the weaklings were weeded out early in life, and the relatively strong, physically and mentally, left to reach adult life and accompany the tribe on its wanderings. In such a stringently selected people, the practice of cousin marriage could not fail to be useful, by intensifying the desirable traits of the tribal germ-plasm.
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
I think Hannibal is the only example of a tv show I've seen where they expect the correct audience reaction from a meat cooking scene (i.e. disgust mixed with the uncomfortable knowledge that it probably does taste good anyway)
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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vinminen.bsky.social
Yinz guys remember when people started calling out "virtue signaling" and after a while it became clear this was really an attack on virtue qua virtue, and before long we realized that the social pressure to perform virtue, even insincerely, was an important bulwark against its total collapse? Yeah.
robpalk.bsky.social Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 29d
Oh fuck off
November 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
Excited
Choosing Down Syndrome: Ethics and New Prenatal Testing Technologies, by Chris Kaposy
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
Just saw a bumper sticker that said "Had Enough? Vote Republican" and y'know what I don't think that will help
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
Good article:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Rethinking “Liberal Eugenics”: Reflections and Questions on Habermas on Bioethics
In the new “liberal eugenics,” children could be genetically improved as long as the enhancements let children choose from among a wide range of ways to live their lives. The German political philoso...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
I still find annihilationism super unappealing theoretically but I gotta say this does feel like a persuasive "that's what the Bible says" sort of pitch

youtu.be/oHUPpmbTOV4?...
November 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2023/07/05/o...
Opinion: Lab-grown meat is an expensive distraction from reality | CNN
Lab-grown meat has been hailed as the future, a more ethical and environmentally friendly option than factory farm meat. Unfortunately, the hype is mostly an illusion, writes Alice Driver.
www.cnn.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
I learned at some point, and then forgot, and have now just re-learned, that Helen Keller was a socialist. She wrote a eulogy for Lenin:
The Russian Revolution did not originate with Lenin. It had hovered for centuries in the dreams of Russian mystics and patriots, but when the body of Lenin was laid in simple state in the Kremlin,^^ all Russia trembled and wept. The mouths of hungry enemies fed on new hopes, but the spirit of Lenin descended upon the weeping multitude as with cloven tongues of fire, and they spoke one to another and were not afraid. "Let us not follow him with cowering hearts," they said, "let us rather gird ourselves for the task he has left us. Where our dull eyes see only ruin, his clearer sight discovers the road by which we shall gain our liberty. Revolution he sees, yea, and even disintegration which symbolizes disorder is in truth the working of God's undeviating order; and the manner of our government shall be no less wonderful than the manner of our deliverance. If we are steadfast, the world will be quickened to courage by our deeds." Men vanish from earth leaving behind them the furrows they have ploughed. I see the furrow Lenin left sown with the unshatterable seed of a new life for mankind, and cast deep below the rolling tides of storm and lightning, mighty crops for the ages to reap.
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM