#metaphors — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #metaphors, aggregated by home.social.
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#Development #Misconceptions
There’s no limit to how bad code can get · “Technical debt has no bankruptcy, no clean reset.” https://ilo.im/16fxla_____
#Projects #Software #Codebases #Quality #TechDebt #Metaphors #WebDev #Frontend #Backend -
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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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
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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...
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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
#consciousness #mind #machine #metaphors #ai #llm
