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Embrace the Void
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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/
Just getting full custody of pro-social behaviors at this point.
February 12, 2026 at 2:31 PM
I do worry that satire and art more broadly may take decades to recover from this glut of overwrought symbolism tho...
February 11, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Like Trump, their capacity for vice is intuitive, instinctual, pre-reflective. As natural as breathing.
February 11, 2026 at 5:11 AM
It’s definitely weird to think that a good life is one with just the right amount of continuity.
February 10, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Thanks! If you want some extra fun on this subject, when that came out I skeeted my way through him taking to Douthat about the antichrist! Can’t wait to see what you’re working on with this! bsky.app/profile/etvp...
New article out on Thiel's antichrist obsession! In honor of this momentous occasion I'm gonna live-skeet my way through the part of Ross Douthat's interview with Thiel where the talk about the antichrist, cause it's fucking hilarious. A 🧵
Why billionaire Peter Thiel is suddenly talking about the antichrist | Aaron Rabinowitz @etvpod.bsky.social

Billionaire Peter Thiel has the ear of politicians at the top of the US government - so his recent lecture series on the antichrist ought to be particularly concerning.
February 10, 2026 at 12:37 AM
On behalf of the progressive American writers and activists,” we claim you as one of our own.
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
And people laughed when I said this was the worst of all possible timelines.
February 8, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Yeah clearly they didn’t read it well.
February 7, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Partly true! Dems working in those institutions will have to do some normalizing to cope. Downplaying, willful ignorance etc.
February 6, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Maybe they’ll try to go back to using subtext once he dies, but I kind of doubt it. Being racist is sticking it to the woke, which is all that matters anymore.
February 6, 2026 at 2:46 PM