#AltText A painting of a brown pipe with a black mouth piece half way along its curved stem partitioned by a small gold coloured partition on a plain light yellow background with the caption below in italics: ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe’, signed in small text by Magritte in the bottom right hand corner

Deduce: this reality is not a #MAGA

#models #Abstraction #DialecticPrinciple #TranscendentalRepresentations #Magritte #Assumptions #Arguments #AntoninArtaud #AbductingLanguage #MouldyLogic #LanguageRacketeering #TheatreOfTheAbsurd #Philosophy

Unpacking #economics 101 by #politics 101

📍 History of #enclosure and #capitalism, and deconstructing #myths

https://substack.com/@michaelmezzatesta/note/c-246586563

#May1st #publicsociology #queering #assumptions

#politicaleconomy #history

They read themselves, or: As they are

A Sijo

Sijo?

A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

Join Wayne Gustafson April 24-26, 2026 in Linthicum, MD to challenge #assumptions in #psychotherapy and life. Deepen your #cultural competence and #embodied presence.

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A queering #lens interrupts unjust unchecked #assumptions, disinformation, hegemonic binaries, and opens up new, democratic, ways of seeing, being, relating.

Queering unpacks #structures made #invisible by historical and contemporary hegemony.

I came across this excellent paper on the philosophical underpinnings of Machine Learning (as a discipline). It's well worth a read.

http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06754

The summary (from the paper) is:

Machine learning is a style of reasoning, and is as rhetorical as any other. It

• Takes data as fact (not a core object of enquiry)
• Presumes the data is “random” (as an omnibus sanitisation protocol)
• Purports to learn representations of the world (from the “intrinsic structure of data”)
• Presumes that knowing the world suffices to control it
• Takes categories as features of the world (to avoid grappling with the hard choice)
• Avoids grappling with the tension between the individual and the aggregate
• Confuses and conflates data and information
• Valorises method above all
• Judges methods solely via canned “benchmarks”
• Makes black boxes, without providing the associated data-sheets.
• Construes its products as fully autonomous, when it is mere partial delegation.

It has honed its style of reasoning so that the style is invisible. It has thus successfully turned itself into a self-perpetuating thought-style — in other words, a “discipline”.

#ML #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #assumptions #philosophy #rhetoric #NewPaper