#metaphors — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #metaphors, aggregated by home.social.
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If you are an experienced sailor but you have to work in an industry like #IT where everyone (YES, I also mean you, generative #AI) feels appointed and authorized to use wobbly ship metaphors for everything - if you are in this situation your worklife is a complete torture.
#GenAI #Metaphors
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🚀👾 Behold, a mind-numbing attempt to compress the universe of #PyTorch into a single page of #dense gibberish. With more #metaphors than meaningful #content, you're left wondering if this article is a #tutorial or a cryptic treasure map. Good luck picking a door, because you'll need more than breadcrumbs to navigate this maze. 😂🔍
https://tensor.khalilli.ai/blog/part-0-the-map/ #Navigation #HackerNews #ngated -
CW: #usPol exit now …
😖 Eww. I had no idea #Trump stores exist.
On the up side: this one's "closing soon".
(I guess The Daily Show writes itself this week.)
https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/117059888442624998
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#Metaphors for the #WikimediaFoundation hiring of #UnionBusting firm #LittlerMendelson against #WikiWorkersUnited [1] are flowing thick and fast [2].
"You say, 'I don't view unionization at WMF as an adversarial process... why would I want otherwise?', ... It is rather like deploying an anti-tank missile launcher pointed at protesters and then claiming that it is merely being used to transport people to the protest grounds."
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:BMeehan-WMF#On_unionization_and_misleading_the_movement
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RE: https://fedihum.org/@CCeH/116924443577899365
⚠️ Programmänderung:
Frederik Elwert muss leider kurzfristig absagen.Umso mehr freuen wir uns, dass Sebastian Reimann einspringt – seit Juli PostDoc am @IDH_Cologne, promoviert im @sfb1475 „Metaphern der Religion" @ruhr-uni-bochum.de
#Religionswissenschaft #ReligiousStudies #Linguistik #Linguistics #Metaphern #Metaphors #MetaphorsOfReligion #NLP
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Morgen im #DigitalHumanities Kolloquium zu aktuellen Forschungsthemen 2026:
Apl. Prof. Dr. Frederik Elwert @sfb1475 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de: „Digitale Methoden in der Metaphernforschung“
📍 Donnerstag, 16.07.2026, 17:45–19:15 Uhr, HS XVIII, Hauptgebäude @UniKoeln
Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen! Es ist keine Anmeldung nötig.
@IDH_Cologne @prometheus_bildarchiv
#Religionswissenschaft #ReligiousStudies #Linguistik #Linguistics #Metaphern #Metaphors #MetaphorsOfReligion -
I talk about sexual metaphors in Taoism, how they're actually useful for medtitation, and how you have to learn to listen to advice with a relevant perspective to the language used. https://www.xenofact.com/2026/07/02/sexual-metaphors-across-the-centuries/
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“There’s one scene where #Coleridge goes to Humphry Davis’s lectures on #chemistry. He said he was doing this ‘to enlarge my stock of #metaphors’.” fivebooks.com/best-books/b...
The Best Biographies of 18th-C... -
Linguist clearly demonstrates how ‘thinking is walking’ in English and it’s just so cool
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/linguist-explains-thinking-is-walking-ex1/
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🎨🔬 "Biochemical Beauty" or How to Dress Up Hunger Hormones with Fancy Words. Apparently, GLP-1s are the Picasso of peptides, painting your hunger away—because hey, who needs science when we have metaphors? 🤔💡 Pro tip: If your stomach's growling, just remind it it's not the "target market." 😏🍽️
https://acesounderglass.com/2025/10/13/the-biochemical-beauty-of-retatrutide-how-glp-1s-actually-work/ #BiochemicalBeauty #GLP1s #HungerHormones #Metaphors #ScienceHumor #PeptideArt #HackerNews #ngated -
Many, especially Tech Bros™, like to imagine immortality for themselves.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/05/12/never-forever-not-ever/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
As for me, I'm not interested. I wrote about why not.
#philosophy #longevity #health #mentalhealth #forever #finitude #affluence #blog #podcast #myths #universe #physics #metaphysics #vampires #connexion #immortality #metaphors #lakoff #death #writing #perception #life #Tithonus
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Today at #LREC2026, Sebastian Reimann will present „A Novel Dataset and Three Ways to Approach Automatic Metaphor Detection in German Religious Online Forums“ in the Workshop on Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data (NLE 2026), 11:40 in Room Formentera #nlproc #metaphors @ruhr-uni-bochum.de
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Would you like to create breakthrough meeting designs? Here's how Elementary Meetings suggest environments for participation at events.
#meetings #EventDesign #ElementaryMeetings #metaphors #events #eventprofs
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🤔 Oh, look! Someone discovered that law is... #legal 🤯! Just wait until they realize that requiring a compiler for law is like needing a manual to open a #door 🚪. Next up: why water is wet 🌊.
https://lawvm.org/why-law-is-law-shaped/ #humor #tech #satire #absurdity #metaphors #HackerNews #ngated -
New blog post from my colleague Marian, with a few little stories of metaphors that turned out to persist & be useful: for letting go of resentment, picking up on warning signs, and other skills!
https://cleanlearning.co.uk/blog/discuss/metaphors-that-last-a-lifetime
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“My argument is not anti-tech. My argument is that we must resist the equation of cognition with computation.”
—Matthew Segall
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/human-consciousness-in-a-cybernetic
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"We are producing our reality through the #stories we choose to tell & the #metaphors that we use to narrate them."
"I realized ... #education by science is also a kind of education by #poetry.
And if you are willing to feel at home with the strange wonder that is our cosmos, to grapple with the abstract, then you are better positioned to resist those who are hoping to take you for a ride ..."
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, author of The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie
https://lithub.com/where-physics-meets-poetry-on-language-and-the-power-of-metaphor/
#Language #Science #Physics #Chanda_Prescod_Weinstein #Communication #Metaphor
