#meaning — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #meaning, aggregated by home.social.
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Secular 40: career panic, fertility grief, ironic detachment, facelift jokes. What's absent is a story. Organized secularism hasn't built one. by @bledewitz.bsky.social
https://onlys.ky/this-is-secular-40/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=evergreen
#Secularism #Humanism #Philosophy #MidlifeReflections #Meaning
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Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
-- John Maeda⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnMaeda #Meaning #Simplicity
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico
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@remixtures
A well-structured, #semantically correct #HTML document MUST be made, first and foremost, for the benefit of _all_ people (including those using screen readers and other accessibility adaptations).You want #Ai systems to read the content as a human would, preserving #context and #meaning, ensuring the whole training leads to a better response to #human users' demands.
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🤖💬 From fake news to #fanfiction, from AI #chatbots to #emoji semantics - how do we navigate the lines between fact, fiction & deception online?
Join us at a interdisciplinary workshop on #meaning in the digital age, at the #Groningen Faculty of #Philosophy. Bringing together researchers across #Linguistics, #Philosophy & the #DigitalHumanities to discuss online deception, #trolling, #dogwhistles, #multimodal communication #SocialMedia, and (mis)communication with #AI.
https://www.rug.nl/filosofie/organization/news-and-events/events/2026/enlight-workshop-aug-2026
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Sanskrit poets embedded philosophical arguments in puns that worked on two levels.
Nahua orators criticized their rulers through wordplay, one layer was politically safe, the other seditious.
A listener who caught the double meaning knew the speaker’s actual position without triggering retaliation.
The skill lay not in #humor but in plausible deniability.
#language #Sanskrit #Nahua #meaning #wordplay #history #power #philosophy
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The Whole Boodle
People keep asking me one question, so here is the answer, whole: the history, the intention, the meaning, the being, and, at the end, the me. "What's a Boodle Boy?" I get the question at dinner tables, in podcast mail, in the pause after a lecture when someone has finally worked up the nerve. My business cards claim the title. My websites announce it. A consultancy of my own wears the name. The asker usually half-expects a punchline, because the phrase sounds like something a vaudeville comic would shout while falling off a stage, and some people assume the whole thing is a pun on Boles. Those vowels help, I admit. History does the heavy lifting. The honest answer needs a Sunday night in 1974, a Dutch probate record from 1699, a safe-deposit vault stuffed with bribe money in St. Louis, a candy raid at West Point, and a banana leaf piled with garlic rice somewhere on Luzon. It also needs a teenaged cadet holding a pot of coffee. Pour yourself a cup, and I will lay the whole boodle on the table. […] -
The Cost of Being Easy to Love
There's a kind of doubt that doesn't feel like doubt at all. It feels like good sense. You have a feeling, a real one, and before it's even fully arrived some part of you is already checking it: is this safe to say out loud? That check happens so fast most people never catch it working. What they catch is the aftermath: I don't really know what I want. Except that's not quite true. They know. Something just got there first and talked them out of it before they noticed. That's closer to what […]https://getawaywithhamza.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/the-cost-of-being-easy-to-love/
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Due to its impermanence, there is nothing in this world truly worth doing, except working to escape.
(According to Buddhism, neither salvation by a deity nor physical death/suicide is an escape from rebirth. Meditation is the only escape.)
#buddhism #impermanence #value #worth #meaning #purpose #substance #essence #salvation #liberation #deity #god #death #rebirth #reincarnation #meditation
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The Spanish word negocio means #business.
It comes from a Latin word that has a really interesting #history.
The Latin word negotium was made from two smaller word parts:
• nec means “not”
• ōtium means “free time” or “relaxation”So when you put them together, negotium literally meant “not free time.”
It described what people did when they weren’t relaxing: the work, the duties, the jobs.
The business that kept people busy.
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The Stellar #Lunarpunk #TTRPG can take its toll. We've been assigning #meaning & #symbolism to everything from numbers to letters of the alphabet. "L" means lose & when you get an 'L' typo, you bet it can feel like mockery! It's worse when it accidentally makes sense (because it's just a typo, it doesn't ACTUALLY mean anything) so we are trying (and failing) to retrain to think "L" is for "Love" or "Life" but mostly "Love" but it may be too late ;_;
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Why write from 'righting wrongs' to healing our own -
Mittelman: #Writing is a way to respond to the ongoing crisis of #meaning https://www.dailycamera.com/2026/07/12/george-orwell-writing-meaning-creativity-political-activism/
#Orwell #amwriting #writingtips #writingcommunity #inspiration #motivation #perseverance
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#WordsMeanThings and #sensemaking is downstream from the colloquialism and vernacular #meaning as #VerbalMemes ricochet around the mainstream #BodyPolitic and #subcultures.
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Democracy is at stake when foolish humans bet on machines being intelligent | Rafael Behr
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Fourteen Paintings for No One: The Most Somber Art Ever Made
Sad art is everywhere, and it comes cheap. Somber art is rare, because somber means sorrow that keeps its shape after the tears dry, sorrow with gravity, no laugh track, no lifeline. Ask which art is the most somber of all and the question sets a brutal standard: the winner must be born of grief, must depict grief, must refuse every exit from grief, and must offer no joy and no gesture of human harmony anywhere in its making or its reception. That last clause is the killer. Art is a social act before it is anything else. A song wants an ear. The play wants a house. Every poem wants a voice to carry it. Harmony rides along in the address itself, before a single consoling note gets played, and so nearly every candidate for the darkest art in the world fails on delivery, whatever horrors it contains. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/04/fourteen-paintings-for-no-one-the-most-somber-art-ever-made/
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@bagder Ok this is the interesting #nuance or #meaning I was trying to find:
So without pressure / in theory:
- Can you see that using #Money and #Banks themselves are the #bad #managers in life & they devalue all money by re-re-#lending it out ?
(+ MANY bad things as *the* #1 root of all problems / fund wars as their main #business etc.)
So while I accept #Banks seem to grow things infinitely, #Banks provides a false method expecting infinite growth (% debt) as the bad foundation of life?
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@gyrusinczky/117031610104797701
"Photography is a path of self-discovery. Each photo we take, each second we dedicate to practicing and mastering our craft, gets us closer to finding out who we truly are, the essence of our being"
Delightful short blog post by @gyrusinczky to kick off one's week with a smile, while you're already aiming at your next snap shot 😍👍🏻
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I am trying something new on Substack.
I’ve been working on an essay about understanding.
The premise is simple enough: LLMs are routinely described as subhuman because, among other alleged deficiencies, they lack consciousness and don’t understand.
#philosophy #language #understanding #linguistics #llms #aidebate #artificialintelligence #blog #podcast #substack #essay #preview #criticalanalysis #consciousness #meaning
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Six Hundred Million Breaths
The first inhale, the last exhale, and the enormous unexamined middle. A human being spends nine months underwater and then, in a single violent second, becomes an air-breathing animal. We tend to picture that first breath as a natural unfolding, the lungs simply beginning what they were built to do. The reality is closer to a demolition. Before birth the lungs are not empty. They are filled with fluid secreted by the lung tissue itself, and that fluid has to go somewhere before air can enter. Labor begins clearing it. The surge of adrenaline and noradrenaline that accompanies delivery flips the epithelial cells lining the airways from secreting fluid to absorbing it, and sodium channels in those cells begin pulling the liquid back into the tissue and the bloodstream. The mechanical compression of the chest during a vaginal delivery squeezes out more. Even so, at the moment of birth the newborn faces a set of collapsed, wet sacs whose internal surfaces are stuck together by the surface tension of water, and it must pull them open with nothing but the muscles of its own chest and diaphragm. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/01/six-hundred-million-breaths/
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R U the 1?
RU the 1?
the 1 2 read
what I wrote?UC
UR more than a
stat
and that
is all that
matters
2 meIf 1 word
gives life
2 U
that is
the only
stat
that
is trueAugust 1, 2015
#beingSeen #blogStats #concretePoetry #Connection #CreativeWriting #cyberpoetry #digitalPoetry #Encouragement #experimentalPoetry #lifeGivingWords #meaning #micropoetry #minimalistPoetry #oneReader #oneWord #onlineWriting #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Poetry #readerConnection #RUThe1 #stats #textPoem #theOnlyStat #UC #UR #visualPoetry #Wordplay #wordsMatter #writerLife #Writing
