Mastodawn

I've been putting off posting about my 5,000+ essay downloads in deference to more 'important' pieces, but since my weekend was occupied plotting a new story idea, I have space for a short celebratory piece. Hooray for me. 🥳

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/06/celebration/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

The two favourites were 'Objectivity Is an Illusion' and 'Rational Ghosts: Why Enlightenment Democracy Was Built to Fail'. Follow the link.

#philosophy #essays #writing #reading #democracy #fiction #nonfiction #objectivity #rationality #celebrate

Philosophics Mar 27

I crashed a thread and ran off on this tangent to compare my Architecture of Encounter.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/27/plural-worlds-or-plural-mediations-goodman-meets-meow/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I prompted ChatGPT to do the heavy lifting.

#mediation #philosophy #ontology #epistemology #worldbuilding #blog #podcast #constraint #pluralism #metaphysics #grammar #systems #objectivity

JWcph, Radicalized By Decency Mar 24

RE: https://mastodon.world/@davidho/116282312269551854

No, seriously - when was the last time you saw a refinery fire, or gas line explosion, or spill, or overturned tanker (ship or truck), treated with the same "this is a systemic problem!" urgency as, oh, let's say wind turbine bird strikes or humming noises...?

Selectively uncritical journalism is like 80% of how we got into this mess. I really hope we're paying attention.

#communication #journalism #bias #facts #objectivity

Teacher Jason Feb 14

#mediaproducers present us with information about #ourworld. An #objectiveview is an #ideal only. #Objectivity exists as an #aspiration. #Facts themselves might be objectively true, their #presentation never is. #context matters. It would be nice to have a tool that presents all this #content in a manner that helps us categorise & consume less nudgingly. Only #FOSS can deliver here. Be prepared for #manipulative #agents, as #AI is a #tool of #opression primarily. #ads is #legal #humanhacking

sheislaurence Feb 6

"I learned, from veteran colleagues, what I consider to be the two principles of #journalism. The first is that #objectivity is not the same as #neutrality"

Anthony Feb 4

I wonder whether the digital age has led to a decline in the use of atlases, which in turn might be expected to imbue a false sense of increasing objectivity as scientific practitioners of become less acquainted with analog methods.

#science #PhilosophyOfScience #objectivity #digital

WIST Quotations Jan 29

A quotation from Ben Franklin

Hear Reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1744 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/15…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #intelligence #objectivity #rationality #reality #reason #reasoning #sensibility #thinking #thought #goodsense

Franklin, Benjamin - Poor Richard (1744 ed.) | WIST Quotations

Hear Reason, or she’ll make you feel her. See also Franklin (1753).

WIST Quotations

WIST Quotations Jan 28

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

The happy man is the man who lives objectively, who has free affections and wide interests, who secures his happiness through these interests and affections and through the fact that they, in turn, make him an object of interest and affection to many others.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 17 “The Happy Man” (1930)

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/816…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #affection #expansiveness #happiness #interests #objectivity