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Sep. 21

Ricky Stanicky (2024) Among all the same Hollywood comedy slop movies, I think this is one of the better ones. John Cena plays his role surprisingly well and is probably the highlight of the movie, while the rest of the cast is just meh. I hate this classic Hollywood ending where every movie has to have some kind of moral lesson. If you turn your brain off, this movie can be fun. 6/10

Sep. 20

I Am Slaughter This is the first book in the Warhammer 40K series The Beating Arises. We continually change perspective from chapter to chapter between the Space Marines fighting some xenos on a planet and the High Lords of Terra and their council, where they deal with politics. In general, I liked the book, but the politics part was really good. It actually made me want to read a Warhammer book that is mainly focused on politics.

Sep. 17

Ghost in Cell (2026) Indonesian movie. Like always, it’s interesting to watch movies that don’t come from Hollywood. Everything just feels different: the acting, cinematography, set design, and so on. Besides that, it doesn’t have that much serious horror, so don’t expect something like Hereditary. It’s more silly fun. The focus on Islam is interesting, but it also makes sense given Indonesia’s high percentage of Muslim population. Yeah, just silly fun. 6.5/10

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Ljot Swanhild: the process of disconnecting

August 18, 2026

My dream existence would be a stone, outside of the realm of time, and just sitting there, and be nothing.

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Philosophical Ramblings #14: A Rejection of Morality

July 21, 2026

Every ethical situation presents a demand to choose. This demand, the necessity of choosing between alternatives, of taking a stand, is what makes it an ethical situation at all. Not choosing is itself a choice, but one made passively, without the burden of active deliberation.

The obsessive construction of moral frameworks arises from a desire to abdicate this burden. Each ethical confrontation places a weight on the chooser: one must choose, and one must live with that choice forever. The responsibility is unsharable and permanent. To escape this, the individual creates or adopts, a moral framework. Then one says: ‘I did what is right’. The framework becomes a screen: responsibility is displaced from the individual onto an anonymous abstraction called “morality,” where it is diluted and depersonalised. The individual no longer stands behind a choice as its author, but hides behind a pre-approved category.

Following a moral framework is a choice made by proxy. The framework chooses in one’s stead. The decision was already settled before the situation arose, not because the agent reflected and resolved, but because the framework had already classified the kind of situation and prescribed the correct response. This is the deepest abdication: not the refusal to act, but the refusal to bear the weight of acting as oneself.

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