"I'm not that much into something but it does run smoothly these days!"
"I'm very much into something but doing anything on something has never worked for me."
Does this kind of phrasing have a name? So argument B preceded by argument A that runs counter to argument B with the goal to emphasise argument B?
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!?!?
this isn’t good UI/UX @MastodonEngineering
more importantly, it fundamentally breaks one of the basics of #rhetorics and #writing : the ability to quote someone freely.
people either have public, embedabble posts or they don’t.
stop breaking the web. stop breaking #oembed.
For the weekday morning crowd, and also because I never remember to hash my stuff, anyway, here's some words on the Spear Cuts Through Water:
„But so long as your public culture permits dishonesty then you will have a huge advantage over both those people if you are willing to simply promise more stuff and fewer people to share it with. Witness the rise of Farage, Trump, Le Pen.“ – on the delusional style of western capitalist democracies.
#politics #rhetorics #democracy #politicaltheory #diskursanalyse #rechtsradikale #Faschismus #Spektakel
https://sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/04/more-stuff-and-fewer-people-to-share-it.html?m=1
"I think we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power. Projects that claim to “democratize” AI routinely conflate “democratization” with “commodification”. Even open-source AI projects often borrow from libertarian ideologies to help manufacture little fiefdoms.
This way of thinking about AI (as a political project that happens to be implemented technologically in myriad ways that are inconsequential to identifying the overarching project as “AI”) brings the discipline - reaching at least as far back as the 1950s and 60s, drenched in blood from military funding - into focus as part of the same continuous tradition.
Defining AI along political and ideological language allows us to think about things we experience and recognize productively as AI, without needing the self-serving supervision of computer scientists to allow or direct our collective work. We can recognize, based on our own knowledge and experience as people who deal with these systems, what’s part of this overarching project of disempowerment by the way that it renders autonomy farther away from us, by the way that it alienates our authority on the subjects of our own expertise."
https://ali-alkhatib.com/blog/defining-ai
#AI #GenerativeAI #Ideology #Propaganda #Rhetorics #Capitalism
""Some of the starkest examples looked at how Google treats certain health questions. Google often pulls information from the web and shows it at the top of results to provide a quick answer, which it calls a Featured Snippet. Presch searched for "link between coffee and hypertension". The Featured Snippet quoted an article from the Mayo Clinic, highlighting the words "Caffeine may cause a short, but dramatic increase in your blood pressure." But when she looked up "no link between coffee and hypertension", the Featured Snippet cited a contradictory line from the very same Mayo Clinic article: "Caffeine doesn't have a long-term effect on blood pressure and is not linked with a higher risk of high blood pressure".
The same thing happened when Presch searched for "is ADHD caused by sugar" and "ADHD not caused by sugar". Google pulled up Featured Snippets that argue support both sides of the question, again taken from the same article. (In reality, there's little evidence that sugar affects ADHD symptoms, and it certainly doesn't cause the disorder.)""
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241031-how-google-tells-you-what-you-want-to-hear
#Google #Search #SearchEngines #PostModernism #Rhetorics #AlgorithmicBias
The key to winning the #Elections2024 is to convince the undecided and the uninformed, even if they are presently #Republicans.
How do you do this on the ground?
I've just watched an introductory video by @MeidasTouch of #AdamMockler, who has a unique way of convincing people.
I really recommend watching this instructive video. Adam's method can also be used to sell many ideas and things
😉
#til #todayilearned "how to hide your final goal" or "how to get a budget for your idea without revealing it until the last moment" #rhetorics
Sadly no English version available.
The fediverse reawakened my appetite for blogging, so here's a new post on... actually I don't know how to categorize it https://ideophone.org/talk-tradition-templates-a-meta-note-on-building-scientific-arguments/
It originated as notes from reading Lucy Suchman's Human-Machine Configurations #hci #sts and includes some half-baked thoughts on #academicwriting, #rhetorics and #spandrels
Jeremy Jongepier
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Kip Manley
Christina Dongowski
Miguel Afonso Caetano
Two five zero zero zero
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
Gottfried Szing 
Mark Dingemanse