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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. ---Victor Borge #Metaphors open.spotify.com/track/0lL6ar...

Everything Burns

what Anthropic calls “hydra cluster” architectures — sprawling networks of fake accounts that deliberately mixed distillation traffic with normal-looking usage #metaphors #animals #AI #cyberwar

"For you see, ant colonies and slime molds are actually a kind of living computer," etc etc #AI #metaphors *So why isn't a foundation-model best understood as a silicon slime mold, let's be fair here, the slime molds came first iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

🚀 Oh wow, #BuildKit is Docker's #secret #sauce that no one knew they needed—except everyone uses it daily without a clue. 😲 It's like discovering your kitchen faucet is secretly Niagara Falls, but only if you’re into #overselling #plumbing #metaphors. 💧 Who knew #compiling #C was so relatable? 😂
https://tuananh.net/2026/02/25/buildkit-docker-hidden-gem/ #Docker #HackerNews #ngated

Would you like to create breakthrough meeting designs? Here's how Elementary Meetings suggest environments for participation at events.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2013/09/how-to-create-breakthrough-meeting-designs-with-elementary-meetings

#meetings #EventDesign #ElementaryMeetings #metaphors #events #eventprofs

create breakthrough meeting designs: photograph from above of the end of a hockey match with the players going through a handshake line. Photo attribution: Flickr user clydeorama

What we miss when we talk about "AI Harnesses" www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/what-we-miss… #AI #metaphors

At a minimum, I would suggest that an appropriate framing for how we build advanced Al systems should accommodate bidirectionality (the user is also changed), transformation as intrinsic to capability (not a side effect to be prevented), and the possibility that the most consequential effects of human-Al interaction may be invisible from within a paradigm optimized for task performance.
It should also leave room for the possibility that the nature of human-Al relationships may itself evolve in ways that a control-oriented metaphor cannot accommodate. Especially if, as I would argue, we need to be thinking more about working in relationship with emerging Al technologies, rather than approaching them as something to be commanded and controlled.

What we miss when we talk about "AI Harnesses" https://www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/what-we-miss-when-we-talk-about-ai-harnesses #AI #metaphors

Today in #metaphors:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpd8elz20jpo

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#Business #Analyses
Phantom obligation · Why must RSS readers look like email clients? https://ilo.im/16a91i

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#Metaphors #NewsReader #RSS #Email #Content #Blog #Website #Design #UxDesign #WebDesign

15 intriguing metaphors we still use that were inspired by famous historical people

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/examples-of-metaphors-based-on-history

A self deprecating quote about success attributed to Abraham Lincoln beautifully defines loyalty

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/a-self-deprecating-quote-about-success-attributed-to-abraham-lincoln-is-a-beautiful-metaphor-for-loyalty

#WritersCoffeeClub

January 20: Figuratively speaking, do you travel with the caravan or solo over the hills?

On-line I ride with the caravan, and even share a camel.

Off-line I'm the Lone Scribbler.

#Writing #WritingCommunity #Metaphors

Sex in pop lyrics isn’t the problem. Bad metaphors, broken grammar, and zero restraint are. If you have to explain the joke, it’s not funny.
#PopMusic #LyricAnalysis #Innuendo #Metaphors #Songwriting #CulturalCritique #PopCulture #MusicWriting
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/the-semiotics-of-sexual-innuendo-and-linguistic-decay-in-twenty-first-century-pop/

Linguist clearly demonstrates how 'thinking is walking' in English and it's just so cool

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/linguist-explains-thinking-is-walking-ex1

Great short thread from @lioness, about being a "queer elder" when you're not even old.

https://plush.city/@lioness/115851252299108706

#queer #elders #aging #RoleModels #metaphors

Woven into the fabric of #language, #metaphors shape how we understand reality. What happens when we try using new ones?

https://aeon.co/essays/how-changing-the-metaphors-we-use-can-change-the-way-we-think

Out of round.

My basketball at the gym this morning seemed an appropriate metaphor for 2025.

Lumpy, hard to get a grip on and it bounced in funny directions.

#Metaphors
#Life
#OldPeopleOfMastodon

A basketball that is most definitely got a bulge where the internal air-bladder seems to have failed. It has a shape but that shape is not round.

Maybe Finn Gillespie-Petersen did not write the sub-head. There's no mention of 'double-sided coin' in the body of the piece.

'two sides of the same coin' is a metaphor for two things that are a part of a single whole. 'a double-edged sword' is a metaphor for something that can be both favourable and unfavourable at the same time.

The metaphor in this sub-head seems to be a confused mixture of the twain.

In magic, a double-sided coin is simply a trick coin with both sides stamped the same, which clearly isn't relevant here as there's no assertion that tourism is some kind of magic trick.

https://westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/oxfords-dreaming-spires-or-crowded-squares-how-residents-really-feel-about-tourism/

#EnglishLanguage #metaphors #Bylines #journalism #magic

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