#obfuscation

[brian-in-finance]

Dear Home Location, NM, and Phantom Pregnancies Anons. Thank you for actually reading-for-clarity-and-comprehension my Tale of Two Tonys posts and for sending your messages. 😃

You made some valid and interesting points.

It’s reassuring to know you recognised the four points I made, complete with dated, linked, sources:

TMc and TH are two different men.

TMc is not and never was a music producer.

TMc manages/managed The Fratellis.

TMc was visible long before TV Outlander.

I didn’t mention cash, companies, or Christmas trees, all of which are irrelevant to A Tale of Two Tonys. It seems it’s easier to criticise what I didn’t say than to acknowledge what I did say. Imagine that. 🤷🏻‍♂️

By the way, if I’ve told any “uniformed, endless lies,” I truly would like to know what they are. 🤥 (And if those lies are about the only marriage, the only child, or the validity of that green paper… 😂😂😂)

Remember… it’s never not funny. — Brian-in-Finance, on repeat

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[lvnd3r]

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[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

A "gotcha question" is also known as a follow-up question. Diabolical.

Particularly useful for testing someone's ability to tell the truth.

[elegantzombielite]

"There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."

James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (8 December 1894-1961)

[gardubious]

Gardubery #21

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

[godloveyell]

We’ve already seen so many of the linguistic tricks that the mainstream media is using to obfuscate the fact that Israel is killing children. “Others Under Eighteen.” “Minors.”

FYI, here’s a picture of Hind Rajab. Shove it in the faces of anyone who needs it.

On April 30th while reporting on the Students Revolution at Columbia University, CNN anchor Kasie Hunt made reference to Hind Rajab as 'A Woman Who Was Killed in Gaza." Hind Rajab was six years old.

[anthedesign]

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[daveinediting]

Nonfiction editing is presenting reality in a just-so way. There's always been a bit of magic to it or, to put it another way, there's always a bit of outright lying to it.

Outright lying but acceptible outright lying, like...

Someone arrives at the bottom of a long and steep climb of stairs at the bottom of a cliff. We see them begin to mount the stairs. After a few steps of that, cut to the top of the stairs where, after a couple seconds they appear and finish the climb.

Lie.

A more typical one is crafting a single soundbite from multiple sections of interview using b-roll or morph dissolves to hide the edits.

Lie.

Or even just presenting a version of a person that's better than that person is in real life.

Lie.

Lie.

Lie.

But acceptable ones. We know why we edit the way we do. We know the purpose we serve. We pace and arrange Reality to collapse Time and, in so doing, tell the story we're telling in the most effective way possible.

The most effective.

Way possible.

We're showing you a one minute sampler, a fifteen minute, a half hour.

An hour.

All of which represents a subset of Reality. All of which shows you our just-so narrative to make some point or engage your emotions.

We do it for purpose.

We do it as part of our craft.

Amen.

All that reasoning breaks down, unfortunately, when we use AI to conjure what isn't there, create what doesn't exist, . What doesn't exist. Instinctively we know there's a problem. But the language we use to describe the problem quickly runs afoul of the language we use to justify how we've been shaping Time and Reality since the dawn of our careers.

Oof.

🤨

[spokenforinvaliduser]

Kevin Malone

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By: Peter Boghossian

Published: Mar 3, 2016

“If it’s not worth doing, it’s not worth doing well.” — Daniel Dennett

The most interesting thing about philosophy today is how uninteresting and largely irrelevant it has become. The overwhelming majority of professional philosophers deal with issues no one outside of their sub-disciplines care about, and use language few outside of their specialties understand. Contemporary philosophy is whittling away at what Daniel Dennett calls “issues of no abiding significance”. The discipline of philosophy has, in short, become esoteric and obscure – and largely irrelevant.

This is a heartbreaking turn for a discipline of study that engages life’s most fundamental questions: What is the best type of life to lead? How do we come to knowledge? What is justice? These questions and our responses should be informing our discourse about topics such as global climate change, terrorism, and the current immigration crisis. They’re not. Instead, we relentlessly pursue topics about which almost nobody cares, and professionally reward obfuscation and insularity.

In both philosophy journals and at philosophy conferences one can clearly see the celebration of obscurity and even irrelevance. Obfuscation through “grad speak”, niche topics of no significance to those not immersed in one’s sub-specialty (the overwhelming majority of philosophy papers are never cited outside their sub-discipline), a focus on speculative esoterica untethered to the real world (e.g., speculations about God’s attributes), un-evidenced arguments about the nature of reality (e.g., cosmological metaphysics), and, in a mix of irony and tragedy, the perception of these byzantine pursuits as intellectual virtues. The majority of philosophers with whom I’ve interacted view pedantry not as problem to be overcome, but as a virtue to which less seasoned philosophers should aspire.

But philosophy still matters. Philosophy affords us an opportunity to think clearly and critically. It helps us to think through problems, lead better lives, and make better communities. It does so by teaching us how to use reason to ask the right questions, and how to make better, more discerning judgements about our conclusions. The practice of philosophy can teach us what we can and cannot know. It can teach us how to be epistemically humble, and how to be honest with ourselves.

We need to spotlight and build upon the efforts of philosophers who are doing work that matters, and bring our moral and epistemological analyses to bear on substantive contemporary issues. Some philosophers have modelled this behaviour for us. For instance, in the 1970s John Rawls and Robert Nozick’s work paved the way for us to rethink the role our institutions play in dispensing social and economic justice. In the 1980s Peter Singer caused us to re-evaluate how we treat animals and Susan Haack emboldened us with reasons to defend science, rationality, and scepticism. Ten years later, Tim van Gelder’s work on applied reasoning and argument mapping made critical thinking practical, clear, relevant, and accessible. Most recently, Sam Harris has argued that moral questions have objectively right or wrong answers and that we can determine human values scientifically, and, Ricardo Rozzi’s work in applied environmental philosophy has helped us understand the importance of biodiversity and ecological conservation. These philosophers are at the vanguard of publicly engaging issues that matter.

For philosophy to exert influence and recapture relevance, we must focus philosophy on questions of abiding significance and public relevance. Philosophy matters. But philosophy only matters if we stop mistaking the obscure for the profound. We need to start asking the right questions and upholding the right intellectual values (free expression, reason, rationality, honesty), and do so in a way that places clarity front and centre. Philosophy, perhaps uniquely among the disciplines, offers us hope – the opportunity to use reason so that we may flourish.

Peter Boghossian is an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University. He was thrown out of a philosophy PhD program at the University of New Mexico. His book, A Manual for Creating Atheists, is available from Amazon.

[faithnfrivolity]

...quick answer: word salad & obfuscation

[phneep]

[stuff-by-parm]

Rewrite

Rewrite, revise, obfuscate, lie, and promote chaos and confusion, Putin’s playbook. I wonder if he collects royalties.

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