#ambiguity — Public Fediverse posts

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
-- Paul Tillich

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PaulTillich #Ambiguity

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #LakeSantaFe #Florida

“It's strange, because in some ways, the human #brain struggles with #change, and the uncertainty and #ambiguity that comes with it. But as a species, we seem to have been driven to innovate and to move in different directions, to explore and be curious. So there's always been a tension between the two, and I think it's helpful to just accept that this is a part of our species' natural predisposition – to create change and to be slightly fearful of it.“

A neuroscientist's guide to future-proofing your brain and thinking smarter in the 21st Century

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-neuroscience-how-to-future-proof-your-brain-and-think-smarter-for-the-21st-century

“It's strange, because in some ways, the human #brain struggles with #change, and the uncertainty and #ambiguity that comes with it. But as a species, we seem to have been driven to innovate and to move in different directions, to explore and be curious. So there's always been a tension between the two, and I think it's helpful to just accept that this is a part of our species' natural predisposition – to create change and to be slightly fearful of it.“

A neuroscientist's guide to future-proofing your brain and thinking smarter in the 21st Century

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-neuroscience-how-to-future-proof-your-brain-and-think-smarter-for-the-21st-century

“It's strange, because in some ways, the human #brain struggles with #change, and the uncertainty and #ambiguity that comes with it. But as a species, we seem to have been driven to innovate and to move in different directions, to explore and be curious. So there's always been a tension between the two, and I think it's helpful to just accept that this is a part of our species' natural predisposition – to create change and to be slightly fearful of it.“

A neuroscientist's guide to future-proofing your brain and thinking smarter in the 21st Century

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-neuroscience-how-to-future-proof-your-brain-and-think-smarter-for-the-21st-century

“It's strange, because in some ways, the human #brain struggles with #change, and the uncertainty and #ambiguity that comes with it. But as a species, we seem to have been driven to innovate and to move in different directions, to explore and be curious. So there's always been a tension between the two, and I think it's helpful to just accept that this is a part of our species' natural predisposition – to create change and to be slightly fearful of it.“

A neuroscientist's guide to future-proofing your brain and thinking smarter in the 21st Century

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-neuroscience-how-to-future-proof-your-brain-and-think-smarter-for-the-21st-century

“It's strange, because in some ways, the human #brain struggles with #change, and the uncertainty and #ambiguity that comes with it. But as a species, we seem to have been driven to innovate and to move in different directions, to explore and be curious. So there's always been a tension between the two, and I think it's helpful to just accept that this is a part of our species' natural predisposition – to create change and to be slightly fearful of it.“

A neuroscientist's guide to future-proofing your brain and thinking smarter in the 21st Century

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-neuroscience-how-to-future-proof-your-brain-and-think-smarter-for-the-21st-century

Escorting kids onto the elevator after enlisting the aid of a claustrophobic person.
#warning #ambiguity

Escorting kids onto the elevator after enlisting the aid of a claustrophobic person.
#warning #ambiguity

Acting. One of the oddities that permeate the English language is the dual meanings of the verb “to act”.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/07/acting

#acting #ToAct #ambiguity

Google destroyed the space between asking and knowing—and with it destroyed a cognitive state essential for original thought. The death of wondering.

https://riftlymedia.com/curiosity-died-when-google-made-everything-knowable/

#Ambiguity #behavior #culture #curiosity #technology

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Here's a pattern I see regularly:

1. Org decides something needs doing (e.g. "digital transformation")
2. Someone at org produces AI-assisted brief. They understand some, but not all, of the words.
3. Proposals come in with cookie-cutter approaches, shiny roadmaps, and big promises.
4. The work starts. It turns out nobody really knew what was going on.
...
n. The opposite of "profit"

-----

So how about we do things differently, eh?

https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/certainty-theatre/

#DigitalTransformation #Consulting #SystemsThinking #Ambiguity

I do not do well with #ambiguity. Get to the fucking point. Tell me, exactly what you're thinking or feeling because I do not know & am not egotistical enough to say what you feel/think, when I'm not the ambiguous player.

#ActuallyAutistic

🚫🤣 Roto: The revolutionary #scripting #language nobody asked for, where semicolons are banished to the shadow realm! Because who needs tiny dots and squiggles when you can create #chaos with #Pythonic ambiguity? 👏🥴
https://terts.dev/blog/no-semicolons-needed/ #Roto #Ambiguity #Tech #Humor #Coding #HackerNews #ngated

#GPT is a last resort or a #fact #checker only. It is so hard to wrestle with it; easy to use documentation is just not possible. I know how to talk to my girl Gemini. 😹😹😹 It took the kitty update. No it's just that it does #natural language and accepts #ambiguity much better than GPT the bitch. 😹😹😹

#GPT is a last resort or a #fact #checker only. It is so hard to wrestle with it; easy to use documentation is just not possible. I know how to talk to my girl Gemini. 😹😹😹 It took the kitty update. No it's just that it does #natural language and accepts #ambiguity much better than GPT the bitch. 😹😹😹

Stabbed on #Facebook, madam?

But it's a non-existent place!

#BadEnglish #BadJournalism #ambiguity

Tim is very dead, they tell us.
https://stereogum.com/2489296/manchester-orchestra-drummer-tim-very-dead-at-42/news
#ambiguity

Acting. One of the oddities that permeate the English language is the dual meanings of the verb “to act”.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/07/acting

#acting #ToAct #ambiguity

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
-- Paul Tillich

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PaulTillich #Ambiguity

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida

"Two scoops in every box!"

What standard measurement is a "scoop"?

For that matter, what standard measurement is a "box"?

I'm thinking this is not SI.

#Ambiguity

This youtuber is correct.

The great divide is not between left and the right, but in tolerance for #ambiguity & #plurality. #Authoritarians are genuinely afraid of this #freedom itself, and cry for the tyrant to save them from it.

You can treat some of these people, but you can’t heal all of them. You need to manage them.

Without acknowledging this basic human property like post-nazi Germany did and building the stops, these people will take over the state again.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NVd8zmjPGrg

@timberwraith
@Dgun8

Often language has similar words or similar sounding words that people speak with incorrectly without really knowing or realizing it's misleading or not quite right.

There is a more specific words and less misleading versions of #words or #phrases...

➡️ For example "Common sense"
...might mean "Common principles"

"Sense" is similar to "principles" but importantly principles can be more specific or measured way of saying / doing things so a list everyone can see is more agreeable, rather than your own version of "sense" which might be differently measured than list of "principles".

Since EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT and naturally they have different personality, it's better to measure it a bit more clearly which a list of principles in the middle which can help indicate agreement or debate things with less #ambiguity.

➡️ Another example
(quick-fast / maybe not perfect)

💜 Love for others is perhaps top of the #list of #commandments for Jesus ✝️ and his principles - so clears up a lot of confusion between #Christian people or #Christianity or #Religion #debate - presenting a |Yes| or |No| simple question

We all need need to debate what loving people or looking after them means perhaps after that, but can assume better and not guess too not far off than even more general / unspecific words.

So if #love is top 5 on your list then a debate "Common sense" or "Common principles" about Jesus or something can be quickly agreed / answered rather than something #ambiguous.

#Lists are always good.

#CommonSense #List of #Principles
= #Answer for #Ambiguous #words or #phrases in #Debate

@timberwraith
@Dgun8

Often language has similar words or similar sounding words that people speak with incorrectly without really knowing or realizing it's misleading or not quite right.

There is a more specific words and less misleading versions of #words or #phrases...

➡️ For example "Common sense"
...might mean "Common principles"

"Sense" is similar to "principles" but importantly principles can be more specific or measured way of saying / doing things so a list everyone can see is more agreeable, rather than your own version of "sense" which might be differently measured than list of "principles".

Since EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT and naturally they have different personality, it's better to measure it a bit more clearly which a list of principles in the middle which can help indicate agreement or debate things with less #ambiguity.

➡️ Another example
(quick-fast / maybe not perfect)

💜 Love for others is perhaps top of the #list of #commandments for Jesus ✝️ and his principles - so clears up a lot of confusion between #Christian people or #Christianity or #Religion #debate - presenting a |Yes| or |No| simple question

We all need need to debate what loving people or looking after them means perhaps after that, but can assume better and not guess too not far off than even more general / unspecific words.

So if #love is top 5 on your list then a debate "Common sense" or "Common principles" about Jesus or something can be quickly agreed / answered rather than something #ambiguous.

#Lists are always good.

#CommonSense #List of #Principles
= #Answer for #Ambiguous #words or #phrases in #Debate

Anthropic interviews: 1,250 ways to convince you that #AI is your new best friend 🤖💼. Spoiler: 85.7% of people are just one chatbot away from a professional existential crisis. But hey, who needs clarity when you have 58,750 data points of ambiguity? 📊🙃
https://www.playbookatlas.com/research/ai-adoption-explorer #Friendship #Chatbots #ProfessionalCrisis #DataPoints #Ambiguity #HackerNews #ngated

It's important to understand what 𝘈 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘏𝘺𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴 is 𝙣𝙤𝙩 talking about.
https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/19/what-the-lih-is-not-about-and-why-this-still-needs-saying/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lih
#philosophy #language #linguistics #meaning #hypothesis #book #blog #podcast #banks #pyjamas #baskets #basketball #communication #semantics #understanding #syntax #epistemology #ambiguity #elephants #humour

RE: https://fediscience.org/@skyglowberlin/115658046496365324

Beautiful example of a morphological + syntactic ambiguity (where even context doesn't help disambiguate 🙈) #linguistics #ambiguity

Added a new example of fucking ambiguity to my @stronglang post
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/fucking-ambiguity/

#language #swearing #semantics #profanity #ambiguity #wordplay #words

Max Bernstein serves us a buffet of #compiler #effects that are as #mystifying as they are mundane 🍽️. His riveting sequel to "What I talk about when I talk about IRs" is the perfect #insomnia #cure 😴. Apparently, the secret sauce is asking the right questions, but good luck finding any answers in this cauldron of #ambiguity 🌀.
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiler-effects/ #tech #insights #HackerNews #ngated

Jacobson et al. explore how #ReaderUncertainty becomes a source of insight by embracing interpretive #ambiguity.
Drawing on 1,026 questionnaire responses from the #HebrewNovelProject, they examine how readers express uncertainty—from skipping questions to outright rejecting interpretive frameworks.

So, this is the Fediverse server content distributor known to block my server. I am not sure why. There are no signs, no explanation. Just, when I tried to access `tagpush.app` accounts, I failed, but not from the other servers. I was hurt because people can easily have such ambiguous perceptions of me; possibly they don't like me, personally, or maybe systematically.

#fediverse #mastodon #server #blocking #decentralization #transparency #tech #humane #community #digitalrights #systemic #isolation #ambiguity #hurt #pain #feelings #openweb #governance #ethics #serveradmin #advocacy #dignity #socialmedia #techjustice #communication

So, this is the Fediverse server content distributor known to block my server. I am not sure why. There are no signs, no explanation. Just, when I tried to access `tagpush.app` accounts, I failed, but not from the other servers. I was hurt because people can easily have such ambiguous perceptions of me; possibly they don't like me, personally, or maybe systematically.

#fediverse #mastodon #server #blocking #decentralization #transparency #tech #humane #community #digitalrights #systemic #isolation #ambiguity #hurt #pain #feelings #openweb #governance #ethics #serveradmin #advocacy #dignity #socialmedia #techjustice #communication

A quotation from John Adams

As I have always been convinced that abuse of Words, has been the great instrument of Sophistry and Chicanery — of party, faction and Division in Society.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1819-03-31) to J. H. Tiffany

More info about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/36295/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #equivocation #ambiguity #chicanery #deception #language #meaning #persuasion #rhetoric #sophistry #talking #terminology #wordplay #words #definition

A quotation from John Adams

As I have always been convinced that abuse of Words, has been the great instrument of Sophistry and Chicanery — of party, faction and Division in Society.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1819-03-31) to J. H. Tiffany

More info about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/36295/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #equivocation #ambiguity #chicanery #deception #language #meaning #persuasion #rhetoric #sophistry #talking #terminology #wordplay #words #definition

A quotation from John Adams

As I have always been convinced that abuse of Words, has been the great instrument of Sophistry and Chicanery — of party, faction and Division in Society.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1819-03-31) to J. H. Tiffany

More info about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/36295/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #equivocation #ambiguity #chicanery #deception #language #meaning #persuasion #rhetoric #sophistry #talking #terminology #wordplay #words #definition

A quotation from John Adams

As I have always been convinced that abuse of Words, has been the great instrument of Sophistry and Chicanery — of party, faction and Division in Society.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1819-03-31) to J. H. Tiffany

More info about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/36295/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #equivocation #ambiguity #chicanery #deception #language #meaning #persuasion #rhetoric #sophistry #talking #terminology #wordplay #words #definition

In Waiting for a New Book: Illusions of Light, I expose how Enlightenment certainties erase the shadow-terrains where feeling, dissent, contradiction still breathe.

I’m trapped in bureaucratic limbo (yes, because the US government can’t function), so the printed book is delayed. The audiobook version—preface first—is coming in November.
Until then: an excerpt. Read along. Let your eyes adjust.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/17/waiting-for-a-new-book-illusions-of-light/

#philosophy #Enlightenment #critique #ambiguity #Book #essay #post #blog

A quotation from Charles Mackay

The prophecies of Nostradamus consist of upwards of a thousand stanzas, each of four lines, and are to the full as obscure as the oracles of old. They take so great a latitude, both as to time and space, that they are almost sure to be fulfilled somewhere or other in the course of a few centuries.

Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “Fortune-Telling” (1841)

More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79638…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #ambiguity #oracle #prediction #prognostication #prophecy #vagueness

A quotation from Charles Mackay

The prophecies of Nostradamus consist of upwards of a thousand stanzas, each of four lines, and are to the full as obscure as the oracles of old. They take so great a latitude, both as to time and space, that they are almost sure to be fulfilled somewhere or other in the course of a few centuries.

Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “Fortune-Telling” (1841)

More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79638…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #ambiguity #oracle #prediction #prognostication #prophecy #vagueness

A quotation from Charles Mackay

The prophecies of Nostradamus consist of upwards of a thousand stanzas, each of four lines, and are to the full as obscure as the oracles of old. They take so great a latitude, both as to time and space, that they are almost sure to be fulfilled somewhere or other in the course of a few centuries.

Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “Fortune-Telling” (1841)

More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79638…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #ambiguity #oracle #prediction #prognostication #prophecy #vagueness

A quotation from Charles Mackay

The prophecies of Nostradamus consist of upwards of a thousand stanzas, each of four lines, and are to the full as obscure as the oracles of old. They take so great a latitude, both as to time and space, that they are almost sure to be fulfilled somewhere or other in the course of a few centuries.

Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “Fortune-Telling” (1841)

More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79638…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #ambiguity #oracle #prediction #prognostication #prophecy #vagueness

Professors who are merely silly should be fine, though

#CrashBlossom #headlines #ambiguity #syntax #grammar #humour #CrashBlossoms #language

"Available for over a year": does that mean this iPlayer programme was first available before this time in 2024 or does it mean it will still be available after this time in 2026? #ambiguity

To be or not too
Are they the same? maybe
Only some will see
#haiku #wordplay #poetry #language #philosophy #ambiguity

@emsquared

Nah kelvingrove is a real park ;-)

#Language #ambiguity

Thursday, August 21, 2025

5 days of diplomacy, 5 days of deadly Russian attacks on Ukraine — Russia is turning occupied Ukraine into a giant military base — Today’s drone strike sparks blaze at oil refinery in Russia’s Rostov Oblast — [vlog/video] The ground drone revolution in Ukraine (Robots are Here) … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/thursday-august-21-2025/

Thursday, August 21, 2025

5 days of diplomacy, 5 days of deadly Russian attacks on Ukraine — Russia is turning occupied Ukraine into a giant military base — Today’s drone strike sparks blaze at oil refinery in Russia’s Rostov Oblast — [vlog/video] The ground drone revolution in Ukraine (Robots are Here) … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/thursday-august-21-2025/

Thursday, August 21, 2025

5 days of diplomacy, 5 days of deadly Russian attacks on Ukraine — Russia is turning occupied Ukraine into a giant military base — Today’s drone strike sparks blaze at oil refinery in Russia’s Rostov Oblast — [vlog/video] The ground drone revolution in Ukraine (Robots are Here) … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/thursday-august-21-2025/