ethics - Sonya Supposedly

Ideograph/ Oct 2022 /4 min read

Ideograph • sprouting

Guess what: I'm pregnant. A baby is growing inside my abdomen. My uterus has more than doubled in size and produced an entire new organ, the placenta. Plus my child's

Ideograph/ Apr 2022 /5 min read

Ideograph • creative obligations

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examining/ Aug 2021 /6 min read

Nimrod vs. Abraham

James Simpkins on cynegetic violence and ontological policing in Gregoire Chamayou's Manhunts (2012).

navel-gazing/ May 2021 /5 min read

not purely navel-gazing but that's def the correct classification

There ya go, today's requisite batch of neuroses laid bare.

history/ Jan 2021 /2 min read

People of the Past

I think of them often, don't you? They were much like us, I think. More of them, though, when you add up the decades, the centuries, the eons, all the way back

examining/ Sep 2020 /11 min read

Brutality of Life Reading List (12 Books)

Earlier this year I summed up the perpetual utilitarian lament: > Despite nigh-inestimable progress [https://rootsofprogress.org/smart-rich-and-free], the world is pervaded by suffering. An unimaginable amount of suffering. Trying

examining/ Jun 2020 /8 min read

Survivalist Epistemology

On the existential politics of sorting through salience signals under uncertainty.

journalism/ Aug 2019 /3 min read

Thoughts on Media Twitter

I like it when journalists tweet about their personal opinions and experiences. I want to know where people are coming from, why they care about the issues that concern them most, how they approach the world, and whether they seem like a thoughtful person in general.