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  1. 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
    #Software #language

  2. 🚀👾 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. 😂🔍
    tensor.khalilli.ai/blog/part-0 #Navigation #HackerNews #ngated

  3. 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.)
    universeodon.com/@jaykuo/11705
    #usPol #metaphors

  4. #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."

    @wwu #WWU

    [1] medium.com/regarding-wikipedia

    [2] meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_t

  5. 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

  6. 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. xenofact.com/2026/07/02/sexual

    #taoism #meditation #metaphors

  7. “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...

  8. 🎨🔬 "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." 😏🍽️
    acesounderglass.com/2025/10/13 #BiochemicalBeauty #GLP1s #HungerHormones #Metaphors #ScienceHumor #PeptideArt #HackerNews #ngated

  9. 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

  10. 🤔 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 🌊.
    lawvm.org/why-law-is-law-shape #humor #tech #satire #absurdity #metaphors #HackerNews #ngated

  11. 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!

    cleanlearning.co.uk/blog/discu

    #metaphors #CleanLanguage

  12. “My argument is not anti-tech. My argument is that we must resist the equation of cognition with computation.”
    —Matthew Segall
    footnotes2plato.substack.com/p
    #consciousness #mind #machine #metaphors #ai #llm