@funnymonkey For me, this article is important because the #rosegarden becomes a #metaphor for a death cult (fascism), for an inner attitude towards #nature and a lack of empathy towards the #diversity of species and people, for a deliberate break with democratic tradition. In Europe, we call them "gardens of horror". The USA became one.
These pictures tell more than many complex analyses.
BTW, it reminds me of the 1968 revolution with
2. Cyber Demon: The Flesh Protocols : Chapter 1.02
https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1668-5297-ab1f-a8a475378550
you mischievous crow
wending strangely here to there
thwarting metaphor
The massive glacial flow in Blatten is a good metaphor, I guess.
"We had been aware of cracks, of pressure; we knew it was serious enough to prepare, but no one expected *this*. Yet in retrospect we should have. Huh."
And someone has to find a new shelter someplace "safer", and look after the kids, and make food on a temporary stove, and deal with paperwork.
And in a superdiverse alpine landscape, a thousand ledges and outcrops and gullies with gentians and mosses and evanescent bulbs...are gone.
But the company that conveniently sold and delivered that stove, and the company that makes diesel diggers rooting through the rubble, and the company that sold cloud computing services to the geological survey department, and the tourist airlines worried about a drop in revenue, and the insurance brokers...they adjust their business practices to deal with any temporary effect on future economic growth and then just market all the harder.
"In retrospect we should have. Huh."
सर्वं दु:खम्। सर्वमनित्यम् । सर्वमनात्मकम् ।
Imagine two wolves eating each other. One wolf is older, has an orange fur, and he is a corrupted president of United States involved into a hush payment scandal who survived two impeachment proceedings. Other wolf has white fur and he is a billionaire from South Africa whose father owns an emerald mine.
I was playing with metaphor of a tale poem line "Волки от испуга скушали друг-друга" (The wolves got so scared they ate each other.)
Su AI4Business un articolo sulla ricerca svolta con G.L. Pozzato e S. Zoia sul nostro sistema di #IA per la generazione e classificazione di #metafore https://ai4business.it/intelligenza-artificiale/ecco-lintelligenza-artificiale-italiana-che-genera-metafore-come-un-essere-umano/
Paper: https://www.ciitlab.org/IJCAI_25_Lieto_Pozzato_Zoia_.pdf
"AI is a Microwave" — The following is a response I wrote to a text message from a friend. Over the years, he has reached out to discuss tech topics. Occasionally, my musings are too lengthy for a terse phone reply. For those, I tend to type up a GitHub gist and send a link.
"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
— Mark Twain
Recently he asked for recommendations for who to follow on LinkedIn to learn more about artificial intelligence (AI). I figured, since I already wrote this in Markdown format I might as well make it a blog post. Perhaps others might enjoy reading it as well.
seasonal ratchet.
once more Climate ups its torque,
daring Spring to break
Publication News from CIIT Lab @ IJCAI 2025 Ijcai:
Last week, the paper “The Delta of Though: Channeling Rivers of Commonsense Knowledge in the Sea of Metaphorical Interpretations” by Antonio Lieto, Gian Luca Pozzato and Stefano Zoia has been accepted at the prestigious International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2025) that will be held in Montreal next August (16-22).
Title: The Delta of Though: Channeling Rivers of Commonsense Knowledge in the Sea of Metaphorical Interpretations
Abstract:
We propose a system called METCL (Metaphor Elaboration in Typicality-Based Compositional Logic) able to generate and identify metaphors by using the TCL reasoning framework, specialized in human-like commonsense concept combination. We show thatMETCL is able to improve both state of-the-art Large Language Models (e.g DeepSeek-R1, GPT-4o, Qwen2.5-Max) and symbolic ones in the task of metaphor identification. Additionally,
we show how the metaphors generated by METCL are generally well accepted by human subjects.
The obtained results are encouraging and pave the way to research in automatic metaphor generation and comprehension based on the assumption that metaphors interpretation can be partially regarded as a categorization problem relying on generative commonsense concept combination.
#ai #commonsensereasoning #conceptcombination, #metaphor #cogsci #computationalcreativity
Link to the paper: https://lnkd.in/dqVpz74E
@s31bz Though if you crush the system then paperworks will slide easily aside :quirkysmile:
Judge: Mr. Webster, you've stolen a few dollars each from thousands of Ameri--
Webster: Not just Americans, people from all over the world!
Judge: Well, ah, yes, and you've--
Webster: I'd say it's more like a few billion people, your Honor.
Judge: O..kay... you committed billions of acts of theft. And you're admitting it. To a judge.
Webster: Yup, but I only stole a few dollars from each person. They'll never miss the money!
Judge: It wasn't your money to steal.
Webster: Your Honor, I'm very rich, and if I can't keep stealing a few bucks from every human on earth I will be reduced to a nobody like... like... my employee Gus, or like you. My entire wealth model depends on continuing to steal from every person on earth all the time.
Judge: I see your point. Very well--
Eight Billion People in the gallery: Boo!
Judge: [bangs gavel] I'm ordering the laws changed so rich people like you can steal from everyone, and I'm ordering everyone over there to STFU and stop their whining.
Webster: Also I'm polluting everyone's water and destroying the climate.
How To Make Your Writing Stick In People’s Minds (Like A Catchy Tune)
A simple technique to make your writing sizzle Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
https://writingcooperative.com/how-to-make-your-writing-stick-in-peoples-minds-like-a-catchy-tune-daf2d76a9a1
#productivity #writingtips #creativity #metaphor #writer
@indieauthors
Beautiful #dream last night. I was lost, floating in a calm ocean, no land in sight. A dolphin - one of my spirit animals - came to save me.
It floated underneath, nudging me onto my stomach, pointing me to the right, hovering its fin beneath my hands. I wrapped my hands around the fin - slippery, hard to hold.
That is all. It felt like I was eventually rescued. I woke up, told myself: "Remember this, it's important." Interpretations welcome! 
The perfect #metaphor for #republican #leadership does not exi.... 
These "#Ostrich Sculptures" adjacent to the European Parliament in Brussels, were created by the architectural firm MSA in collaboration with contemporary art sculptor Elodie Antoine 
