I was sitting in a car with an elderly person (not using social media) and we happened to catch a bit of the Media Show and I said 'Do you want me to tell you the line?' and the other person said 'No need, I know it'....

From contamination to collapse: On the trail of a new AI metaphor – Making Science Public share.google/l3UvVo0ExR5Z...

What about metaphors that map meanings between cognitive domains, for example, your example of "Meg breezed through security before arriving at her gate…" (in this case a rather stable and conventional mapping between a breeze and ease, so to speak)

I can't find anything, but this was quite interesting lexiconia.art?page_id=362

Ah in German it is, I think, "KI-Müll", "KI-Mist", or "KI-Schrott" (junk, scrap...) - this loses the sloppiness a bit but still

So cool!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflati... - when they first talked about it under Biden I was VERY confused

I wrote this about 'red and blue AI' in 2023.... the questions I ask are still worth asking now and with more urgency makingsciencepublic.com/2023/08/25/r...

Ah, my first student research assistant job was working through file-cards for Peter Wunderli who was working on Saussure and that was one reason why I became interested in the history of linguistics

RFKJr has cut ALL mRNA vax research in the USA where all the work discussed in this thread was developed. Other countries can step in. But the rhetoric about mRNA vax from the likes of him are HUGELY harming the trust in mRNA vaccine technology. We address common questions n myths here

I really enjoyed that and learned a lot!

Not too bad. Still have my part-time cat Cleo that comes to visit which is nice 🐈

Wow, that is absolutely fantastic!!! Will have to watch that episode!!

Las metáforas se usan comúnmente en la literatura o el teatro con el fin de crear imágenes alegóricas, retóricas o analogías varias. Pero otras veces las usamos en nuestra vida diaria para simplificarnos la vida.