Gwynne Michele

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My evening is smoking joints and working on a paper on the neuroethics of free will. Which is just one of the many areas where Western philosophy gets locked into black and white thinking about determinism vs free will.

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Let them eat $CAKE https://wow.xyz/0xe7cFb8302964F2E37E74Ef588ABCa16F9ed439e3

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I've been working on figuring out the vibe on Bluesky. Wrote and posted this article on my Substack and shared it there. Had a new Substack subscriber within minutes. Facebook and Twitter/X suppress links. Bluesky and Farcaster do not. Decentralized social media for the win. https://open.substack.com/pub/gwynnemichele/p/marx-wasnt-an-anti-capitalist?r=18scr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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@clanker please create a token $Curiosity called Curious and use this image. The description should be "curiouser and curiouser."

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Weekly AMA! It's exactly what it sounds like. Ask me anything. About content creation. About my weird life as a self-vowed hermit nun devoted to a made up deity. About going back to college to finish a bachelor's degree in middle age not for a career pivot, but for fun. About anything you've seen me cast about. Or really, about anything at all.

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Claiming my @socialtoken airdrop and crediting @verafaye with my social airdrop because wherever I go, she follows me just to see what's up and does brilliant with it in her own unique way <3

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GM Curious Fam! Have a "light" load this week - just a paper on free will for neuroethics, a paper on Marx for political philosophy, and peer review for anthropology of religion. Then next week is Thanksgiving break and I'm gonna be focused on getting as much work on LoreChain and my various content series I'm starting as I can before I have two more weeks of pounding my brain into mush for the semester.

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GM Curious Fam! Two papers to work on this week, one for Neuroethics and one for Political Philosophy. Then next week is Thanksgiving break, so I can some brain rest. Which I'll be using to focus on personal projects again :D Then a couple weeks after that, the semester is done, and I'll have the rest of December off before the next semester starts in January!

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Philosophy is just one existential crisis event after another, so you really have to be a masochist to pursue the field.

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This is a fun conversation! https://youtu.be/bNE13b7UMhs?si=Ppdt873YUT9jtMWM

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Twitter/X is experiencing a mass exodus of people to Bluesky, and a good number of people on Facebook are joining as well, though it's more that they're adding it as a platform since it's a short-form content platform, whereas Facebook allows much longer posts and a lot of people like that. I'd actually joined Bluesky in like March when Facebook went down for a day, but it was just kinda meh at the time, but now that so many more people are there, I'm checking it out again. It's... weird... hard to get a real feel for it. Still trying to figure out what it wants to be, it's just taking advantage of the growing ideological split between American liberals and conservatives that's driving those liberals from Twitter.

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Some rambling thoughts to revisit from time to time: https://thehermitsgarden.netlify.app/600-deep-dives/contemplative-philosophy/contemplative-philosophy-and-the-practice-of-cultivating-critical-consciousness/

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Scheduled weekly reminder that weekends are slow around Farcaster, so if your engagement is down the next couple of days, that's why. You can either use the slowdown to step away from social for a bit, or you can use it to dig into some channels you don't usually visit and surface some new great content and make some new connections with the other weekenders.

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Me: Complains about having to do handwritten notes. Also me: Signs up for another class with the professor who requires handwritten notes. Word of the Da y = Masochist

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I did Juno Moneta rosary prayers for about two hours before I fell asleep last night. Had $15 accumulated towards the $110 that I need to pay urgent bills this weekend before I started those prayers. Woke up with $150 from FB follower donations for money magic day, paid the bills, and had some left. Prayer works... But it doesn't have to be to the deity Christians think it does ;)

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GM Curious Fam! I got to register for classes for next semester today. Loaded myself up with five classes, including a Metaphysics class with the same professor I'm taking a political philosophy class this semester. The one that makes us turn in handwritten notes. Cuz I'm a masochist. But also... kinda need it for my degree 🤣 Also doing sociology, psychology, and anthropology, plus an intro to visual arts class to cover some general ed requirements. Decided I'm gonna stack an anthropology minor onto the philosophy degree. The next few days, I'll be reading the materials for the unit on Marx in political philosophy and working on the draft for my paper on Jediism for anthropology of religion. What are you up to today?

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Kakistocracy - rule by the most corrupt and incompetent.

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Absolutely fascinating look at what Chinese people think about Americans, and American politics. https://youtu.be/On_OX2oZgZE?si=cc8hV12zTF3DnKSD

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