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  1. On a sunny note...

    So far... a 'fair and balanced' cartoon feed today, between florid #TrumpVirus #insanity and 'better angels' of #democracy - and #DogDays

    #Snoopy #rest #hope #optimism #CarpeDiem #pragmatism

  2. A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

    EXPEDIENCY, n. The father of all virtues.

    Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
    “Expediency,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1884-06-07)

    More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/85383…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #convenience #excuse #expediency #justification #opportunism #pragmatism #rationale #selfinterest #selfjustification #virtue

  3. I've been reading #Horkheimer as my vacation book (real light reading, huh?), and it really strikes me of that all the problems that #fascism exploited, many of them are related to why #AI sucks.

    In Horkheimer's view, the Nazis were able come along because society had already abandoned absolute truths and turned into #pragmatism & #positivism defining #philosophy instead of the other way around.

    Today, we're basing our future on #probabilisticcomputing .. 🙈

    #bookstodon

  4. My new essay Objectivity Is Illusion: An Operating Model of Social and Moral Reasoning is now archived with a DOI.

    I argue that what passes as “objectivity” is consensus disguised as granite. Truth is rhetorical, morality prescriptive, and our real obligation is care: tending the scaffolding we walk on.

    Read the full essay (open access):
    👉 doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17195641

    #Philosophy #MetaEthics #SocialEpistemology #Pragmatism #PhilosophyOfScience #Truth #Morality #pschology #society #social