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Adrian Segar<p>Would you like to create breakthrough meeting designs? Here's how Elementary Meetings suggest environments for participation at events.</p><p><a href="https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2013/09/how-to-create-breakthrough-meeting-designs-with-elementary-meetings" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">conferencesthatwork.com/index.</span><span class="invisible">php/event-design/2013/09/how-to-create-breakthrough-meeting-designs-with-elementary-meetings</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meetings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meetings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EventDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EventDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElementaryMeetings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElementaryMeetings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaphors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/events" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>events</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eventprofs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eventprofs</span></a></p>
Inautilo<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Approaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Approaches</span></a><br>The art of design tokens · A metaphor for the 3-tier token model <a href="https://ilo.im/163180" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ilo.im/163180</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>_____<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metaphors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Creativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Creativity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DesignTokens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DesignTokens</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DesignSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DesignSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProductDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProductDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UxDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UxDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UiDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UiDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebDesign</span></a></p>
Jer 🚵🏼<p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BikeTooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BikeTooter</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaphors</span></a></p>
Jason Yip<p>I like <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BarbaraOakley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BarbaraOakley</span></a> 's idea of using <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> to come up with candidate <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaphors</span></a> to explain concepts. Useful for <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/presentations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>presentations</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learning</span></a>.</p>
Nicole Hennig<p>AI isn’t running water <a href="https://noeticengines.substack.com/p/ai-isnt-running-water" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">noeticengines.substack.com/p/a</span><span class="invisible">i-isnt-running-water</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaphors</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/humans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humans</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a></p>
Nicole Hennig<p>AI isn’t running water <a href="https://noeticengines.substack.com/p/ai-isnt-running-water" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://noeticengines.substack.com/p/ai-isnt-running-water</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23metaphors" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphors</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23humans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humans</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23intelligence" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intelligence</a> </p>
OhSnap!Dragon<p>In the U.S.A., the Fourth Estate is a run-down, sketchy, flea-ridden shack economically and ethically beholden to their corrupt landlords.<br>🤨 <br><a href="https://lounge.town/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <br><a href="https://lounge.town/tags/metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaphors</span></a></p>
janNumerous writers have discussed the metaphors by which we live, the ones that give meaning and orientation to our lives, that structure the ways in which we react to the world around us and to other people. Light and darkness constitute one of those metaphors. But, unlike many others of more recent origin, light:darkness can be traced back to the Upper Palaeolithic.<br>—David Lewis-Williams, Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art<br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/metaphors" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphors</a>
earthling<p>Metaphorically Speaking: A Dictionary of 3,800 Picturesque Idiomatic Expressions (1990) by N. E. Renton</p><p>There are books on antonyms, synonyms, and rhyming words, but this is the first paperback work on metaphors, the idiomatic words and phrases used to create images for the purposes of comparison, clarification, or whimsy. Contains three separate, self-contained listings: a dictionary, a thematic section, and a thesaurus.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaphors</span></a></p>
Adrian Segar<p>Would you like to create breakthrough meeting designs? Here's how Elementary Meetings suggest environments for participation at events.</p><p><a href="https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2013/09/how-to-create-breakthrough-meeting-designs-with-elementary-meetings" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">conferencesthatwork.com/index.</span><span class="invisible">php/event-design/2013/09/how-to-create-breakthrough-meeting-designs-with-elementary-meetings</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meetings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meetings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EventDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EventDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElementaryMeetings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElementaryMeetings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaphors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/events" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>events</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eventprofs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eventprofs</span></a></p>
rikard<p>How to Stop Trump's Climate Pollution<br><a href="https://www.theframelab.org/how-to-stop-trumps-climate-pollution-2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theframelab.org/how-to-stop-tr</span><span class="invisible">umps-climate-pollution-2/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/Communication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Communication</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/Framing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Framing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/Metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metaphors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/MediaSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaSystem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/Values" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Values</span></a></p>
nearshorecyber<p>Sometimes, at Office Hours we talk about music theory, it´s true.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metaphors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybersecurity</span></a></p>
Frederik Elwert<p>Call for Papers: International Conference on “<a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metaphors</span></a> of <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a>” October 27–29, 2025, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.</p><p>This conference hosted by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://nrw.social/@sfb1475" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sfb1475</span></a></span> invites scholars from different fields to discuss <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/metaphor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaphor</span></a> research (including computational approaches) in a comparative perspective. Confirmed keynote speakers are Eve Sweetser and Gerard Steen. Submission deadline: February 28, 2025 <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalHumanities</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/MultilingualDH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MultilingualDH</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/ReligiousStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReligiousStudies</span></a> <a href="https://sfb1475.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/en/news/article/international-conference-on-metaphors-of-religion-october-2729-2025-ruhr-university-bochum-germany/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfb1475.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/en/</span><span class="invisible">news/article/international-conference-on-metaphors-of-religion-october-2729-2025-ruhr-university-bochum-germany/</span></a> 🚀</p>
Inautilo<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Development</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Debates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debates</span></a><br>The beautiful sentence that is the web · HTML is the noun, CSS the adjective, and JS the verb <a href="https://ilo.im/161m9i" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ilo.im/161m9i</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>_____<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Concepts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Concepts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metaphors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sentences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sentences</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Words</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frontend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frontend</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTML</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JavaScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JavaScript</span></a></p>
Xenofact<p><strong>The Tao Isn’t The Market</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.xenofact.com/2025/01/10/the-tao-isnt-the-market/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.xenofact.com/2025/01/10/the-tao-isnt-the-market/</a></p>
RHET AI Center<p>📢 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀</p><p>📝 Join Dr. Anna Henschel on 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 at the MPI lecture hall in Tübingen, where she will present the results of a survey with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> researchers and offer practical tips for using more effective <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaphors</span></a> in AI <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/communication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communication</span></a>.</p><p>Register at <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=M1hH4ejb4EqJTs0PVhyY9M_EJPY4xE5ImOfId7_gf-dUREg2T0g1WTJPTVFIUFBYVVMyMkVCVlBBOS4u" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forms.office.com/Pages/Respons</span><span class="invisible">ePage.aspx?id=M1hH4ejb4EqJTs0PVhyY9M_EJPY4xE5ImOfId7_gf-dUREg2T0g1WTJPTVFIUFBYVVMyMkVCVlBBOS4u</span></a></p><p>🗣️ The event will be held in English and takes place in person in the Max-Planck Institute lecture hall in Tübingen (Max-Planck-Ring 4) from 𝟱.𝟯𝟬 – 𝟳.𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺.</p>
nearshorecyber<p>Sometimes, at Office Hours we talk about music theory, it´s true.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metaphors</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybersecurity</span></a></p>
Frederik Elwert<p>Our research center <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://nrw.social/@sfb1475" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sfb1475</span></a></span> hosts an international conference on the topic “<a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metaphors</span></a> of <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a>: Comparative Perspectives, Theoretical Potential, and Methodic Innovation” next fall. One of the topics will be “Digital and Computational Approaches to <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Metaphor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metaphor</span></a> Analysis.” Keynote speakers are Eve Sweetser and Gerard Steen. Interested? Here’s the full <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/CfP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CfP</span></a>: <a href="https://sfb1475.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/de/aktuelles/artikel/international-conference-on-metaphors-of-religion-october-2729-2025-ruhr-university-bochum-germany/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfb1475.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/de/</span><span class="invisible">aktuelles/artikel/international-conference-on-metaphors-of-religion-october-2729-2025-ruhr-university-bochum-germany/</span></a> Deadline: 28 Feb 2025. Please share! <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalHumanities</span></a></p>
Nicole Hennig<p>Computing inside an AI | Will Whitney <a href="https://willwhitney.com/computing-inside-ai.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">willwhitney.com/computing-insi</span><span class="invisible">de-ai.html</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaphors</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>future</span></a></p>
earthling<p>Metaphors Dictionary by Elyse Sommer &amp; Dorrie Weiss, 2001</p><p>Presenting 6,500 colorful comparative phrases from ancient times to the present, the Metaphors Dictionary is a powerful tool for writers and speakers and a source of inspiration and entertainment for readers. This expansive collection offers annotated metaphors in a diverse range of timeless and timely subjects -- from love to the information superhighway.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metaphors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaphors</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictionaries</span></a></p>
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