@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-23 03:12:57
Trump's demolition of the White House's East Wing is a metaphor for his destruction of the administrative state.
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-23 03:12:57
@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc2025-11-20 19:59:12
RE: https://mastodon.world/@afouxenidis/115583740362305127
Marx's metaphor of vampirism has itself become the subject of reflection in journals that are part of this system.* I now find it difficult to use. It is much more important to make clear wh…
@crell@phpc.social2026-01-07 09:33:02
Moving as a metaphor for software management.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/moving-metaphor
@whitequark@mastodon.social2025-12-17 12:07:59
it is funny to me that the metaphor for "installing software" is still unboxing an optical disc, despite nobody in the last 15 years actually shipping software that way
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-12-17 21:20:55
Just finished "Kirby's Lessons for Falling (In Love)" by Laura Gao. I'd previously read her autobiographical graphic novel "Messy Roots" which was excellent, and this book continues that trend. Yet another complicated look at a Chinese-American immigrant experience, wrapped into a queer romance with a dose of spirituality in there as well. I think the background metaphor of falling is really strong, and gets used in so many senses it's beautiful.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-11-20 06:10:19
Margins, Metaphor, and Medium: Subaltern Voices in East Asia
https://ift.tt/rEFKH2w
updated: Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - 3:01pmfull name / name of organization: McGill Graduate…
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@felwert@fedihum.org2025-10-28 08:08:37
This morning, the #MetaphorsOfReligion conference starts with the panel on “Digital and Computational Approaches to Metaphor Analysis,” including our own presentation “Religious Metaphors at Scale.” I am looking forward to the discussion!
@johl@mastodon.xyz2025-12-14 11:26:29
"Micro Live's Fred Harris considers how daunting computers can be to novice users. He chats to psychologist Professor David Canter, who notes how finding your way around a computer system can be frustrating and unintuitive. Professor Canter visits the Barbican Centre, which proves an excellent metaphor for navigating the endless corridors of unfriendly operating systems."
@david@boles.xyz2026-01-08 18:23:04
The Dying Grove: A Novel Born from the Collision of Joyce and Mycorrhiza
Some books are written. Others are grown. "The Dying Grove" belongs to the second category, and that distinction is not metaphor but method. This novel, the first in a new series called Fractional Fiction, emerged from an experiment in literary hybridization: what happens when you take the formal architecture of modernist masters and seed it with contemporary scientific research? The result is…
@ncoca@social.coop2026-01-14 05:48:38
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-11-13 02:47:44
We moved to our neighborhood 7 years ago. Over all that that time I watched people wander across the road in front of the subway station despite the sometimes heavy traffic. I always figured I'd go by one day and see an ambulance or worse. Tonight when I got off the train, I noticed that the city finally did something about it, installing a crosswalk with a beg button and lights.
Maybe it's a metaphor? We're (incredibly, painfully) slow, but we end up doing the right thing …
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-12-08 17:30:00
I did not know the Semble logo was a cairn.
Now I want a pet rock mascot. With googly eyes.
(I should make sure we have googly eyes at the conference)
Also a very good post by @wesleyfinck.org on naming in interfaces and products.
https://notes.wesleyfinck.org/3m6mpbihiy22o
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-08 02:57:20
I’ve seen a lot of posts from afar to the effect of “Why aren’t people in Minneapolis / the US doing anything?? When will they take action???”
…and, well, running with the metaphor from that thread, I guess maybe they’re looking at the top of the bread and wondering why it’s not golden brown already.
I want you to know, I want the world to know: never in my life, not even after the murder of George Floyd, have I seen the amount of sustained daily action I’ve seen here these last few weeks.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-12-05 21:23:33
I think I’m more offended it attributes a metaphor to me that I can find no record of me saying or writing.
https://elementor.com/blog/web-accessibility-myths/#myth-6-overlays-or-plugins-are-enough-to-make-my-site-accessibl…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-08 06:07:46
Language conversations have become highly performative,
with a fixation on the words people are using,
not why they’re using them
or what they’re reaching for when they deploy language
like “crazy,” “lame,” or the r-word
(currently experiencing a resurgence in popularitythanks to Elon Musk).
The language is a metaphor:
We call something “insane” because that word carries a specific baggage and burden.
But the fact that mental illness is stil…
@felwert@fedihum.org2025-10-31 14:33:25
This week was packed with #metaphor related events. Three days of the #MetaphorsOfReligion conference of @…, then two very promising meetings with other metaphor project…
@gray17@mastodon.social2026-01-02 20:13:33
I am an AI model made for everything in general.
I've memorized the wiki page of every Minecraft mineral.
I know the Queen rules England. My training set's historical.
Hallucinations are my Waterloo—That isn't allegorical.
I'm built from matrix operations simple and mathematical,
My neurons are a metaphor, not actually synaptical.
The data centers built today are ninety-nine percent for me.
Spare no expense; you'll live forever soon in …
@felwert@fedihum.org2025-11-04 08:12:03
Just published: A volume on “Professions as Religious Metaphors” in our @… Metaphor Papers series that I had the pleasure to edit. It’s a nice collection of short case studies on a wide arrange of professions that are used as metaphors of the divine. (My internal working title for it was “God’s jobs” 😉.)
@bici@mastodon.social2025-10-30 01:52:20
"The story of the East Wing’s demolition is the story of the Trump admini.writ large, a metaphor for what he’s doing to American democracy. The current President doesn’t seek permission. He fears no one and nothing. He is protected by the most lethal army in the world and a Supreme Court that has made it almost impossible to hold him liable for actions even remotely connected to his duties. This has allowed Mr. Trump to become the most openly corrupt president in American history."…
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-12-26 19:31:33
RE: https://pawb.fun/@itsOasus/115787031750775789
"Starting a company is really just about getting a credit card and frantically spending as much as possible until you're profitable. Don't worry about the debt. It's not going to be your problem."
This would be a useful metaphor if it wasn't just how these people think. Anyway, thanks for the free bugs. You'll never be able to pay enough consulting fees to keep from being hacked repeatedly forever.
This is how the system collapses. At some point it simply isn't possible to sustain the crushing weight of incompetence.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-01-06 14:00:51
My loose process for evaluating an ACR (VPAT®):
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/01/how-i-evaluate-an-acr-vpat.html
You may have your own thoughts / ideas. Add them to the comments.
I was also torn between the meat grinder and a Plinko metaphor.
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizza2025-10-24 11:56:19
I hate CSS. I really hate CSS. I hate all people who love CSS. If CSS was a person I'll punch him in the face without hesitation.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-01 00:12:25
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-11-30 16:47:44
Today's weather is a metaphor: while asleep snow accumulates; once awake, the rain turns what was beautiful into something else entirely.
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizza2025-10-26 20:45:52
Fascist Paramilitary dragging peaceful protesters across a property line so they can violently attack and abduct protesters. [Portland]
As the source states, this is a metaphor for what is happening all over the country right now. The Fascist s are trying everything they can to escalate.
Source: https://v.redd.it/4v6vdviwehxf1
@felwert@fedihum.org2025-10-27 09:00:37
Just starting: The conference #MetaphorsOfReligion, marking the highlight of the first phase of @…. I look forward to the next three days, including the keynote presentations by Eve Sweetser and Gerard Steen!
