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Nolen Gertz
@ethicistforhire.bsky.social
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Philosophy professor @utwentephilosophy.bsky.social
Author of #NihilismAndTechnology (RLI 2018), #Nihilism (MIT 2019), #PhilosophyOfWarAndExile (Palgrave 2014)

https://www.nolengertz.com

#Philsky #Philtech #Existentialism #Phenomenology #Filmsky
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Current mood:
The Purge: Anarchy (2014) 📽️
February 7, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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Nice venue for my talk this morning...
www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal/...
Turnzaal at Maastrict University
February 6, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Waking up in Maastricht...
Maastricht stadhuis plein
February 5, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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Joint Security Area (2000) 📽️
February 4, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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Made it to Maastricht...
Maastricht from the bridge crossing the Maas River
February 4, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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Ghoulies (1985) 📽️
February 3, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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Circuitry Man (1990) 📽️
February 2, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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First image from the QT but with the suggestion to use a different chatbot crossed out
February 2, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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Weathering With You (2019) 📽️
February 1, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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The Twelve Chairs (1970) 📽️
January 31, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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Current mood:
Your Name (2016) 📽️
January 31, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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Honored to have gotten a shoutout in this article about Herzog's "nihilist penguin"...
indianexpress.com/article/book...
The viral penguin clip is from a 2007 documentary, Encounters at the End of the World, by German filmmaker Werner Herzog. (YouTube/Reddit/Screenshot) The internet’s most common label for the bird, nihilist penguin, acts as if all value structures have collapsed. It enacts what Nietzsche might have seen as a passive nihilism, the draining of meaning that follows the proclamation “God is dead.” The old commandments of nature—thou shalt seek food, thou shalt stay with the colony—no longer compel. The penguin lives (or dies) in the void left behind. Yet, as contemporary philosopher Nolen Gertz explores in Nihilism, this void is not an end but a beginning, a tool for “questioning norms.” The penguin’s act is the ultimate question. It forces us to interrogate the very instinct to follow the path, to ask why survival is the highest good.
January 31, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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Karl Marx saying "I told you so!"
January 31, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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Current mood:
Waiting for Guffman (1996) 📽️
January 30, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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It's gonna be so embarrassing when Republicans start supporting calls to abolish ICE before Schumer does...
According to a recent YouGov poll, 19 percent of Republican voters now support abolishing ICE, up from 9 percent in June of last year. However, there remains considerable support among Trump's base for a hardline approach at the border. With the midterm elections looming, the question is growing whether more Republicans will be willing to abandon the president's hardline stance.
January 29, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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Wow it's being writen by the writer of "Terminator: Rise of the Machines"? Guess he didn't learn anything from his own movie then...
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January 28, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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LOL imagine how good their AI must be if it would send me of all people this investment "opportunity"...
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January 28, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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The NRA supported gun restrictions once in California. Is it rooted in racism? https://abc7news.com/post/california-gun-control-black-panther-party-laws-nra-mulford-act/13303767
January 28, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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Current mood:
Darkman (1990) 📽️
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Nice movie but I much prefer this version of Shakespeare and family...
Upstart Crow 📺
January 25, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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Hamnet (2025) 📽️
January 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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The People's Joker (2022) 📽️
January 24, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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Dutch high school students are clearly being better prepared for the real world than I ever was in America...
A card about "Fake news" making the connection to Plato's Cave
January 24, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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Visited a local high school today and found that students had made their own Philosophy card game...
Ancient Greek Philosophy cards in Dutch
January 24, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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Terrifyingly prescient and yet surprisingly optimistic in thinking that a TV-made demagogue could lose his fans so quickly if they simply learned what he was really like off camera...
Andy Griffith as Lonesome Rhodes in his Joker phase
January 23, 2026 at 11:31 PM