Turning a big dial that says “teen pregnancy” and constantly looking back at the White Christian Nationalists approval like a contestant on price is right.

Credentialing obsessed meritocracy illusion preserving the factory model of education. Rarely do you see it defended so explicitly.

At this point I have no idea if it's going to be ethical to play Subnautica 2 and I'm too afraid to ask.

Watching one of the most cursed members of movement atheism wade into one of the most cursed discourses online and seeing the coverage spread across all my socials is profoundly depressing on so many levels. Just a terrible week for many things I care about and a sign of the horrors to come.

Slightly diminish a book Moby Dink

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

If he could just convince the other folks on the panel to cancel their podcasts, dayenu.

We need a virgin Dawkins vs. Chad Stephen Jay Gould meme, stat.

Yo @gilmorejon.bsky.social come be mad at this with me.

This popped up in my feed and the Spinozan in me won’t stop screaming.

Media: What could he possibly believe? Tucker: Welcome to my hour on how demons are real and I got attacked by one! Media: Such a mystery. Guess we’ll never know…

What does he really believe????? As if he hasn't been a public figure for decades spewing his white power propaganda constantly! The media is rushing in to put their thumb on the scale to ensure this Nazi runs in 2028.

The media learned absolutely nothing from their role in making JD Vance. We’re gonna have president Carlson because of this shit and they’re still not gonna get it.

It’s weird to me to get nostalgic watching one of the shows most directly responsible for the dystopia we’re now living through.

As I argued in this article, if you really believe these entities are conscious, you should be horrified by participating in digital slavery. Not amused at the situation. Part of the problem though is Dawkins just can’t resist conflating understanding and sentience.

New ETV out for everyone! I'm joined by @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social to discuss his book Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction. Really fun and valuable chat on a topic quite relevant to our current void. Enjoy!

So wild when conservatives fuck around, find out, and still continue to be conservative assholes. Hermetically sealed epistemology right there.

If this is true (and I suspect it is), it’s a prime left-wing example of how the just-world illusion results in worse, less just outcomes.

Another good piece about Luckpilled adjacent ideas, in this case my concerns about the co-opting of growth mindset approaches by meritocratic pedagogy. I think growth mindsets are better than fixed mindsets, but they can become toxic when employed in a system built around deservingness judgments.

Democrats should be gerrymandering everything they can on explicitly political grounds and packing the SC is the moderate position.

So this person was okay spending $300 to have premium access to a Nazi bar? Wild times over there.

There’s no clearer moral obligation than the need to learn from the past and not normalize this any further.

Slay the Spire Two: Poor predictable Aaron, always picks power. Me: Good old power, nothing beats that!

I really do think it opens a lot of doors when you understand the just-world illusion cluster, including free will, meritocracy, and cosmic justice, as a self-sealing ideology for preserving deservingness judgments.

Guess I know what I’m reading this morning!

So, obviously he’s gonna refuse to leave the bunker, but hear me out, what if we just seal it up and leave him down there? Feels like a win.

The collapse of OpenAI would be a huge win for both AI and society.

Billionaires are a policy failure and the solution has to be global or they’ll always find a shelter.

The degree to which Trump has fully murdered the post-crisis rally-round-the-flag effect is really quite impressive.

This has been the goal of White Christian Nationalism in this country for as long as I’ve been alive and this is the closest they’ve ever been to achieving their goal of killing public education.

I suspect Evanescence got so popular amongst Millennials because they accurately conveyed how hard it is to wake up as a teenager.

If this were an SNL bit it would be the funniest thing they’ve done in years.

Teachers should not be AI cops, and using black box algorithms to chase other black box algorithms is stupid. Nothing good can come of this.

FWIW I think a conversation like this, where they spent zero time considering the potential harms of following their advice and even downplayed the possibility of getting caught, is harmful when coming from privileged creators with zero chance of repercussions. It’s revolutionary crime porn.

We really didn’t take Poe’s law seriously enough.

Ulysses S. Can’t.

Me, a moral realist who has spent decades arguing against cultural relativism:

Excited to announce that after a brutal year of waiting through peer review Luckpilled is cleared for publication and should be coming out Spring/Summer of 2027. Let’s gooooo! 🎉

Good article that overlaps with the work I’ve been doing on the just-world illusion cluster and luck. Deservingness is a blight.

“The Secretary of War is Vibecoding White Christian Fascism” is the kind of Philip K Dick bullshit that I shouldn’t have to deal with being true.

Me watching the He-Man trailer: staying true to the source material (derogatory) Me watching the Street Fighter trailer: staying true to the source material (laudatory)

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

It probably goes without saying, but the average age on this website is “old enough to remember when conservatives did a moral panic about teen pregnancy from sex ed.”

Hey, just a thought, but what if scarlet letters are actually good and we all fundamentally misunderstood the moral of that story, which is that sexually deprived Puritans use scarlet letters for the wrong things. I feel like this could be big for the whole "make shame great again" movement...

Okay, the most baffling part to me is this can’t possibly be the first time he reposted an AI slop of himself as Jesus, right? It’s gotta be that it’s the first time he did it while trying to incite beef with The Pope. But I’m still baffled why he caved on this one.

I understand every part of this and that fact is making me question a lot of my choices in life…

Conservative Protestant Work Ethic going strong as ever.

This is art.

Luckpilling and grading, now in German! I definitely still think this is a bullshit situation with no easy solutions for teachers.