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Nonilex

Until Jan 20, US civil servants worked acc/to a different moral code. Federal workers were under instructions to respect the rule of #law, venerate the #Constitution, maintain political #neutrality, & uphold lawful policy changes whether they come from Republican or Democratic admins. They were supposed to measure #objective #reality—evidence of pollution, for example—& respond accordingly. Not all of them were good administrators or moral people, but damage that any one …could do was limited….

Androcat

The funny thing about social constructs is that they bring two distinct meanings of the (extremely problematic) term "objective" into direct conflict.

Specifically, the meaning of 'objective' that is "existing intrinsically, plainly detectable, clearly segmentable from its immediate environs, etc. etc." and the meaning of 'objective' that is "agreed upon by all members of a group, etc. etc."

What makes a social construct a construct is that it has no physical particulars, is not plainly detectable, cannot be clearly segmented away from its immediate environs (if it can even be said to have immediate environs), i.e. it is not an 'objectively existing entity', and in fact it's entire existence consists of the 'objective' agreement or objectively held belief that it exists.

So, that's what humans are like, if you were wondering why things are shit.

Humans are all about those 'objectively' non-existing 'objective' existences.

Ugh.

p.s. in case you were wondering, both those senses of 'objective' are pretty much bollocks.

#objective #socialConstruct #borders #nation #Institution #law #philosophy @philosophy

:mima_rule: Mima-sama

My first thought on reading the title is an "I disagree". But the more I read on #objective #journalism after this article, it does indeed look like that the endless, never-reaching goal of "objectivity" is very soulless and just not happy to work on. Maybe that could be one of the reasons why my older brother gave up his job at #Reuters... ​:satsuki_sadge:​

I still think that we need some news articles that are written with the aim to be "objective", as a "view from nowhere" is still a view from somewhere, IMO. It's interesting to see how some overly detached person would look at it, and especially what are the blind spots that would be often missed in ("objective") reporting.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but perhaps this one of the few things that #ArtificialIntelligence can replace jobs on that would be beneficial overall? ​:sagume_think:​ Nobody seems to really like writing "objective" news, and though I have no illusions of #AI being somehow more neutral or less biased than human "objective journalists", I do believe it can write how an "objective journalist" usually would. Most of the replaced can work more on subjective journalism which they can burnout less on, and news agencies can widen the scope of the daily events they report on because human labor is now less of a bottleneck. ​:economist_kasen:​

I don't think this application can be done right now but it's something worth looking to in the future! ​:cirno_thumbs_up:​

RE: https://tweesecake.social/users/weirdwriter/statuses/111821956136002697

TweeseCakeRobert Kingett (@weirdwriter@tweesecake.social)Recent thing, We need less objective journalism https://robertkingett.com/posts/6437/
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Jon Awbrey

In the Way of Inquiry • Objections to Reflexive Inquiry 2
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/02

Our agent of inquiry is brought to the threshold of two questions:

• What actions are available to achieve the aims of the present activity?

• What assumptions already accepted are advisable to amend or abandon?

The inquirer is faced in the object of inquiry with an obstinately oppositional state of affairs, a character marked by the Greek word “pragma” for “object”, whose manifold of senses and derivatives includes among its connotations the ideas of purposeful objectives and problematic objections, and not too incidentally both inquiries and expositions.

Overview
• oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_S

Obstacles
• oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_S

#Peirce #Inquiry #InquiryIntoInquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Anomaly #Doubt #Discrepancy #Dispersion #Entropy #Uncertainty
#Interruption #Obstruction #Information #Comprehension #Extension
#Pragma #Pragmata #Purpose #Objective #Problem #Objection #Praxis
#Semiotics #SignRelations #Semiositis #Reflection #SelfApplication

Inquiry Into Inquiry · In the Way of Inquiry • Objections to Reflexive InquiryInquiry begins when an automatic routine or normal course of activity is interrupted and agents are thrown into doubt concerning what is best to do next and what is really true of their situation.&…
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