Day 8 #NationalPoetryMonth: I'd label this piece an extended metaphor. If you are part of the "we" in this poem, you are part of the problem. ChangedWorldPoetry.com

#KatherinesCoffeehouse #poem #poetry #metaphors #PoemOfTheDay

If you like that you might also like this #ai #metaphors jime.open.ac.uk/articles/10....

#Metaphors for AI*…when all I can think of are derogatory epithets…

*by AI here I’m referring to LLM and other slopware, not genuinely useful scientific machine learning tools

Tamás Demeter, László Kocsis & Krisztián Pete aim to show that representationally essential #metaphors are incompatible with genuine causal #explanation doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol38issue3 #philsky #philpsy
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Do you think it's a coincidence that the #Orions, a culture known for extreme hyper #capitalist, hyper #imperialist / piracy, have skin the color of US currency?

#StarTrek #capitalism #imperialism #metaphors #symbols #orarethecurtainsjustblue

#POV It is a truism that #language shapes #politics through strategic #rhetoric, #metaphors, and #wordchoice. But does invoking entrenched national #stereotypes make #armedconflict inevitable?Whether one is on the side of the “mad mullahs” or the “Great Satan”, the point is simple: watch your words.

Years ago, whilst window shopping but not shopping for windows in the posh Yorkville section of Toronto, I saw this abstract sculpture and decided to underexpose it for a future day when I could share the image online and say it reminds me of the Trump Regime. #photography #abstractart #metaphors

We can't stop aging, so let's enjoy the journey. #photography #stopsigns #metaphors #aging

A poem inspired by @attielime.bsky.social and @kaymedway.bsky.social on @brianmosespoet.bsky.social blog. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2024/09/fun-... #poetryforkids #kidlit #similes #metaphors

twilight avenue
lavender shadows falling
love shines silver moon

#haiku4u #art #appreciation #metaphors #color_sense #lovely_night

Metaphors AIs live by I wanted to write something about the history of science this week but I’ll postpone that until next week. In this post, I just want to draw your attention to a phenomenon relating to AI and metaph…

In today's post is inspired by a discussion here on Bluesky about gremlins, goblins, gardens and rocks as #metaphors used by #LLMs who then run with them - what's going on and what does it have to do with metaphor theory? makingsciencepublic.com/2026/03/20/m...

competent the queen
diamond hard and ready
reflections delight

#haiku4u #art #appreciation #subtle_energies #metaphors

Language models and the intentional stance When are words like "belief" and "desire" useful, and when do we risk mistaking the map for the territory?

I wish Sean Trott was on Bluesky, but anyway, here is another extremely rewarding post on #AI, #metaphors and the intentional stance - read it !! seantrott.substack.com/p/language-m...

A short poem about being remembered. And probably a few other things. 👉https://katherinegotthardt.com/2026/03/18/doily/

#KatherinesCoffeehouse #poetry #poem #metaphors

Stephen Alfred Gutknecht
RoundSparrow

Tribute to Great Seal of the United States of America, Dirty Logic Thinking.

#SteelyDan /\ #SteamPowered #Dildo #Japanese #Metaphors #LiteraryDevices
#NakedLunch /\

Vincent emanates
thunderous across kalpas
art karmic echo

#haiku4u #metaphors #symbols #art #appreciation #translations #appearanceplay #softened_butters

Ren, rex, and water
who shall now doubt his presence
turquoise majesty

#haiku4u #metaphors #symbols #appearanceplay #art #artappreciation #watercolor

From the explainlikeimfive community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the explainlikeimfive community

“In the event of a loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks will drop from the panel above you. Pull a mask toward you, place it over your nose and mouth, secure the elastic band, and breathe normally.”

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#AutisticPatternMatching
#YaWelcome #Metaphors
#AnalogousLearning

Everything Burns

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
---Victor Borge
#Metaphors

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Everything Burns

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
---Victor Borge
#Metaphors

open.spotify.com/track/0lL6ar...

I saw some bizarre scaffold underpinning at a condo construction site and immediately wanted this photo. Years later, it reminds me of a certain regime that is going to collapse with a lot of damage done to those who never supported it. #photography #abstractphotos #metaphors #blackandwhite #danger

im imagining a world where everybody speaks a version of my fav lang and im seeing its illegal to "break a leg" due to violence, "spill the tea" bc its vandalism, and "hold your horses" since its against their will #hwa4 #metaphors

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

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Making and unmaking AI metaphors and magic Twenty years ago, Noel and Amanda Sharkey, seminal contributors to early AI debates, wrote an article on artificial intelligence and natural magic which deserves to be read again today. They focus …

This week's post is about #AI, #metaphors and magic, and, inspired by @davemurrayrust.bsky.social and @mlucel.bsky.social, how to deal with the enchantment through design makingsciencepublic.com/2026/02/27/m...

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

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

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ev...

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

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" www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/what-we-miss… #AI #metaphors

Metaphors we live by: a company is like a ship In their seminal 1980 book, 'Metaphors We Live By', George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggested that metaphors are a tool that allow us to use what we know

#metaphors #idioms #advancedEnglish #businessEnglish There's a new blog post up on site exploring the many words and phrases that come from the conceptual metaphor that a company is like a ship.

THE TITLE OF THE POEM: A Sorting Out THE POEM: It's neither famished fox nor staggered snowshoe hare waiting (shaking (gasping (gaping with (breakneck (heartbeats))))) for the tremendous split-second to burst from the fir's asylum of snow-laden branches toward breathless survival; whatever hesitates, it's more life-and-death than any metaphor conceives to wheeze... .THE END OF THE POEM. Poem by Robert J. Tiess Copyright © 2026

My poem A Sorting Out

I submitted it to a William Carlos Williams ("A Sort of Song") themed poetry challenge.

I hope you enjoy what I tried to do here vs. what WCW did with his classic poem.

ALT text + poem link: allpoetry.com/poem/1895216...

#poetry #poems #nature #animals #survival #metaphors