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Moving as a metaphor for software management.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/moving-metaphor

The Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer to Midnight. Does Anyone Care? https://www.404media.co/the-doomsday-clock-ticks-closer-to-midnight-does-anyone-care/

My inability to get a handle on the size of the crowd from inside the crowd is a metaphor for today writ large. In addition to the big downtown protest, there were multiple protests at the airport, clergy arrested for blocking the airport access road, at least two impromptu neighborhood protests I’m aware of near my house. There were food drives. There were street parties. Many businesses that were “closed” kept their doors open and offered free coffee, pancakes, warming spaces. Nobody really knows everything that happened.
#GeneralStrike #MInneapolis

You say "light,"
I say "semaphore."
You say "is,"
I say "metaphor."

Overtime is a near-perfect metaphor for how we're all feeling about… everything.

Moving as a metaphor for software management.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/moving-metaphor

Surely this is the most confusing metaphor they could have gone with?
> House of Lords has ‘signed its own death warrant’ by stalling assisted dying bill, says MP
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/m

House of Lords has ‘signed its own death warrant’ by stalling assisted dying bill, says MP
Kim Leadbeater joins protest against delaying of bill to allow assisted dying in the UK and says people are ‘extremely angry’

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…

The Dying Grove: A Novel Born from the Collision of Joyce and Mycorrhiza | David Boles, Blogs
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…

Neuroscience produces more data every year: more neurons mapped, more proteins identified. Yet the fundamental questions remain unanswered. We're creating puzzle pieces without knowing what image they're meant to form.
https://ocrampal.com/the-puzzle-in-neuroscience/

The Puzzle Without a Picture: Why Geneosophy is Needed
The metaphor of the puzzle can be applied to any science, though it becomes particularly vivid in neuroscience. In neuroscience, we work with a multitude of objects considered central to the field: neurons, brain structures such as the cortex, hippocampus, and basal ganglia; and, at a smaller scale, neurotransmitters, proteins,

Moving as a metaphor for software management.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/moving-metaphor

My favorite #udon place in #Saitama has, apparently, closed and become just another #ramen place.
I feel like this is an metaphor for something...

dominant hegemony gotta dominant hegemony!
https://beige.party/@StefanThinks/116049030384952808

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.

How I Evaluate an ACR (VPAT®)
ACRs are Accessibility Conformance Reports, which are the output of a VPAT, or Voluntary Product Accessibility Template maintained by ITIC, or the Information Technology Industry Council (which is why VPAT often has a ® symbol hanging off it). An organization may fill out the template to indicate how or if…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116172162968646693
This is quite an apt metaphor indeed.

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 …

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.

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To be real, if we wanted to force this make sense like Han Solo completing the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, you could also say that the machines needed humans not to generate the energy but to regulate energy like capacitors, hence the battery metaphor.

#sexed #kek

More on the topic (I still like this metaphor):
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/114094173419383163