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sophiaphile · 6 months

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"Like The New York Times, CNN and network news programs, it [PowerPoint] appears to be neutral, unbiased and free of any leanings one way or another. Just as a hammer does not tell you what kind of house to build, Microsoft would like us to think...that their product is merely a neutral tool. It is faceless, and it is what you put into it that counts.

However, every piece of software comes with its own set of biases and tendencies. The most obvious bias and the easiest to see in PowerPoint, is the Auto Content Wizard, a feature that makes outlines of presentations with bullet points for those who feel they don't know how to make a presentation themselves...

However, there are more subtle sets of biases at work. The way the PowerPoint is structured and the various options provided have not only been limited...but they have been designed assuming, a priori, a specific world view. The software, by making certain directions and actions easier and more convenient than others, tells you how to think as it helps you accomplish your task. Not in an obvious way or in an obnoxious way or even in a scheming way. The biases are almost unintentional, they are so natural and well-integrated. It is possible that the engineers and designers have no intention of guiding and straightening out your thinking; they simply feel that the assumptions upon which they base their design decisions are the most natural and practical. You are thus subtly indoctrinated into a manner of being and behaving, assuming and acting, that grows on you as you use the program."

—David Byrne, "Exegesis," Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information

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omegaphilosophia · 1 month

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The Philosophy of Behavior

The philosophy of behavior, also known as the philosophy of action, is a branch of philosophy that examines the nature, causes, and significance of human and animal behavior. It seeks to understand the underlying principles that govern actions and the relationship between behavior, intentionality, and agency. Key concepts and theories in the philosophy of behavior include:

Intentionality: Intentionality refers to the directedness or purposefulness of mental states and actions. Philosophers explore how intentions influence behavior and the role of intentionality in understanding the meaning and rationality of actions.

Free Will: The question of free will is central to the philosophy of behavior. Philosophers debate whether individuals have the capacity to choose and control their actions freely, or if behavior is determined by factors beyond conscious control, such as genetics, environment, or unconscious processes.

Agency: Agency refers to the capacity of individuals to act independently and make choices. Philosophers examine the conditions under which agents can be held responsible for their actions, the relationship between freedom and responsibility, and the constraints on agency imposed by social, cultural, and psychological factors.

Motivation: Motivation plays a crucial role in behavior, influencing the reasons why individuals act in particular ways. Philosophers analyze the nature of motivation, including desires, beliefs, emotions, and values, and how these factors shape behavior and decision-making.

Action Theory: Action theory explores the nature of actions, their causal mechanisms, and the criteria for distinguishing between intentional and unintentional actions. Philosophers investigate the structure of actions, the role of mental states in guiding behavior, and the relationship between actions, outcomes, and consequences.

Practical Reasoning: Practical reasoning involves the process of deliberation and decision-making in everyday life. Philosophers examine how individuals reason about actions, weigh competing values and considerations, and make choices based on practical concerns and ethical principles.

Behaviorism: Behaviorism is a psychological approach that emphasizes observable behavior and external stimuli as the primary determinants of behavior. Philosophers discuss the implications of behaviorism for understanding human agency, consciousness, and the mind-body relationship.

Ethical Behavior: Ethics considers the moral dimensions of behavior, including questions of right and wrong, good and bad, and the principles that guide ethical conduct. Philosophers explore ethical theories and principles, moral reasoning, and the application of ethical norms to individual and collective behavior.

The philosophy of behavior addresses fundamental questions about human nature, consciousness, and the factors that influence how individuals act and interact in the world.

#philosophy #epistemology #knowledge #learning #chatgpt #education #metaphysics #ethics #psychology #Intentionality #Free will #Agency #Motivation #Action theory #Practical reasoning #Behaviorism #Ethical behavior #Human nature #Consciousness

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sealsdaily · 2 months

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Today's Seal Is: Bucket Boy

#seals #pinniped #daily #baikal seal #mod ribbon #kind of mysterious....is there a practical reason for this?#phocidae

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prokopetz · 7 months

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Detachable junk sounds good in theory, but I can't help but feel that the plug-and-play approach is just asking for trouble. Forget about USB compatibility – I want something mounted on a threaded rod that I have to spend several minutes turning into place, and it makes an obtrusive squeaka-squeaka-squeaka noise the whole time because I'm a dumbass and forgot to lubricate it. I want something that needs to be seated and secured like the parallel data cable from a 1950s computer. I want something where removing it requires disengaging a series of four interlocking mechanical toggles, and I want each of those toggles to go ka-chunk.

#life #penis mention #transhumanism #(ish)#swearing #i want it to make a discordant thrumming noise and emit wispy clouds of dry ice vapour when i deploy it for absolutely no practical reason

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isjasz · 16 days

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[Day 276]

actually really like the sketch from yesterday so colors + more lineless practice‼️

#dddaily4sherin #desert duo #grian #goodtimeswithscar #hermitblr #hermitcraft #hermitcraft season 10 #my art #it looks. a bit off for some reason idek man but i had fun SANDKLAJD JUST NEED MORE PRACTICE ARGH

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faunandfloraas · 3 months

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Honestly I think a lot of people who have never made a gif for tumblr don't get that it does actually take time and effort, its not just rip it from a video and post it- you have to download the video, in my case I have a video player installed that grabs continuous caps, figure out what parts you need, you have to open those in photoshop or gimp, depending on where you got photoshop you might be paying for it every month and then on top of that is actually sizing, cropping, colouring, sharpening, adding text, etc. etc. like it is something that takes time and effort for which the only real reward is creating something that makes you happy and hopefully people reblog it with a nice or funny tag, so maybe keep that in mind the next time you think gif makers are being mean or unfair for being upset about reposts. It is its own little artform that is fairly unique to this website, and that's a big aspect of why I have always loved tumblr, if all the gifmakers stopped posting things would be a lot more boring around here.

#like its well known reposting art or fic is rude so idk why gifs are free game #and why people are always so ~its just a gif~ okay well if its *just* a gif then you go and make one to that quality #oh wait you cant bc it actually does take time and practice #ive been at this for years and i still dont know all the tips and tricks #also the reason i mention all the software needed is bc like. you have to find install learn and it takes up space on the drive #so just reblog stuff and appreciate people that make fun content

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romansmartini · 4 months

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ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to speculate about the sexual and romantic undertones of celebrities’ professional relationships

#thinking about the larry thing again. all my life i’ve been a believer 🙏#obviously many times of misguided beliefs were there before i like. learned how the world works. now i practice rpf discernment #but quite frankly there’s nothing like the drug of looking at star wars ot promo and being like man.#carrie fisher and harrison ford definitely fucked didn’t they.#and then for carrie fisher to drop the princess diarist and be like yeah me and harrison had the most torrid 70s affair #you can possibly imagine.#VINDICATIONNNNN #quite frankly they are the reason i still believe something similar happened with gillovny. we just need the memoir drop #rpf quiz

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ironinkpen · 1 year

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The dynamic in Rise between the rest of the team and Leo is. so fucking funny. Because like you've got these three extremely talented individuals who all seem like perfectly reasonable people at first glance, right, but then if you squint hard enough you realize they're actually all batshit insane (affectionate) and the clown boy standing behind them is secretly their common sense.

Clown boy will occasionally put himself and the others in danger to Prove Himself or Prove Someone Wrong (see Minotaur Maze and the movie) but like otherwise... i think people forget Leo's overwhelmingly the voice of reason in most situations?

Raph, Mikey, and Donnie are all incredibly powerful boys with very specific skill sets. They are also, as a direct result of this, the WORST decision-makers on god's green earth lmao. When presented with a problem, Raph will smash, Donnie will blow shit up, and Mikey will razzmatazz. They will all run straight toward death with the same oblivious enthusiasm of a dog about to run straight into a screen door. None of them realize this and all of them think they are Extremely Good At Problem-Solving.

And the guy cursed with the common sense to realize this is literally the LAST person anyone would expect.

When you look closely, the entirety of Rise is actually a chronicle of Leo trying to find new and creative ways to keep this team of superpowered fools alive while simultaneously white-knuckling his Cool Fun Guy persona so the others don't realize he's secretly the Boring Responsible One. Haha, you know what would be Cool and Fun, guys? Not going after the Spine Breaking Bandit lol. Getting home before the sun goes up lol. Evacuating that civilian lol. Not telling the guy dangling me off a roof "you won't, no balls" lol.

The sacred struggle of every iteration of Leonardo is thanklessly wrangling the most trigger-happy siblings in the world, and Rise Leo has not escaped it. He just does an occasional shenanigan to avoid detection and his brothers fall for it every time.

#rottmnt #rottmnt leo #rise leo #leo #donnie #mikey #raph #raph has the Older Brother Stress while leo has the Common Sense Stress #GOD i adore Rise's take on leo so much #just a funny little guy subtly herding his brothers away from danger like cats while trying desperately to be Chill and Cool about it #he's been dodging the responsibility allegations for YEARS but Splinter caught him right at the very end of the show lmao #because like listen. listen. is rise raph responsible? yes.#is he--in practice--the Responsible One? absolutely NOT #raph is a RUFFIAN and a HOOLIGAN (extremely affectionate)#anyway i think the movie has made people forget that like. for a vast majority of the series leo's the voice of reason

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skeletood · 1 month

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#homestuck #john egbert #dave strider #karkat vantas #johndave #pepsicola #hammertime #davejohn #johndavekat #a skele fanart #my art #the first one is an entire expression meme chart worth of johns #cause i needed to practice drawing him dead with no pupils for #reasons #but i had a loooot of fun with it #:)#beta kids

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finemealprompt · 4 days

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DP x DC Prompt #16

When Hal had asked him which town he protected, Danny was more than happy to tell him, "Amity Park!" When Hal asked Danny where it was, Danny hadn't thought the response, "At this moment? Or where it was last week?" would've caused such chaos in the meeting.

Danny knew not everyone's town traveled across the country, but he didn't think it was odd enough to warrant this kind of reaction.

#finemeal prompt #dp x dc #danny fenton #justice league #hal jordon #amity park #amity park moves around #ya know how a lot of people put amity park in different states?#this is my “in universe” reason for it #like amity park just moves from city to city #just living its best life #one day you go to bed in Minnesota #and wake up in California #just another day in the life of Amity Parkers #they're used to it #don't ask me how this works practically #it just works #trust me

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aliosne · 7 days

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Saw a post about working class butches in physical labour jobs and wanted to make my own, so: I love you butches who do childcare or early education. I love you butch nurses. I love you butch house cleaners and janitorial staff. I love you service industry butches. I love you butches who do sex work. I love you working class butches who do “feminine” jobs you are cool as hell

#butch #lgbtqia #lesbian #its me im butches doing stereotypically feminine work #when I was nannying full time I kind of thought of it as I was doing Nanny Gender #like especially bc I wore mostly dresses then for practicality reasons #which gave me The Dysphorias but yeah. my way of navigating that was to get a little fluid with it.#also even tho they don’t get perceived as such: all of these jobs are as physically demanding as many ‘physical’ jobs #like girly at least when I worked in a warehouse/delivery bay I got to sit down #look I could probably think of a better term than ‘physical labour’ but like. you know what I mean.#anyway. sometimes you have those I am uncomfortable when we are not about me moments #and then you remember that you can just go talk about your experience

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sophiaphile · 6 months

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Figures from Peter Railton's "That Obscure Object, Desire"

#philosophy #philosophy of action #moral psychology #desire #peter railton #that obscure object desire #it might be sort of incoherent presented this way 🤷🏼‍♀️ but this was the most visually engaging philosophy paper i read in grad school lol #desire theory #grad school #practical reasoning #marketing #philosophy of mind #ethics #normativity #my library

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hellspawnmotel · 7 months

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even after settling down, theyre pretty cautious.....

.......it doesnt last long

#princess tutu #princess tutu spoilers #ahiru #fakir #fakiru #art tag #my anime straight couple ever. nobody is doing it like them #anyway i know theres not a lot of reasons to think the 'confessing love = disappearing' rule still applies post-canon #but ahiru being human again necessitates that there are still reality-warping powers at work #and it's because of drosselmeyer that she was ever human in the first place so i can see them being nervous about it #also this is an aside but i picture after fakir writes ahiru back into a girl they kinda have to flee gold crown town #to avoid fakir getting his hands chopped up by cultists and everything yknow #they settle down somewhere else in the german countryside with a little village nearby and have a simple life #ahiru keeps practicing ballet and fakir keeps writing and theyre happy :)

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adoptable-fanfic-prompts · 3 months

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Red Robin Writing Prompt

Tim only told Jason that Jason had been cleaning up Gotham the ‘easy way’ is because Tim knows for a fact how easy killing is. He had his first kill before he was even 7 years old.

No one realizes this until Joker makes Tim “choose” between shooting one of two batfam members and Tim just picks up the gun without hesitation and shoots the Joker in just the right spot for it to be fatal but for it to not be an instant death.

Tim turns to Jason, “Like I said: Easy way out.”