Stephen Alfred Gutknecht
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Vincent emanates
thunderous across kalpas
art karmic echo
#haiku4u #metaphors #symbols #art #appreciation #translations #appearanceplay #softened_butters
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Ren, rex, and water
who shall now doubt his presence
turquoise majesty
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“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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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
---Victor Borge
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
---Victor Borge
#Metaphors
open.spotify.com/track/0lL6ar...
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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
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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
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what Anthropic calls “hydra cluster” architectures — sprawling networks of fake accounts that deliberately mixed distillation traffic with normal-looking usage #metaphors #animals #AI #cyberwar
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"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
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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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...
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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
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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
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#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.
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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
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THE TITLE OF THE POEM: To My Extraordinary Valentine THE POEM: If I'm a lung, you're oxygen sustaining me with every breath. While I'm your prism, you're my light, revealing more than eyes will know. But when I'm milkweed, butterfly, togetherness brings flourishing. And if I'm ocean, you're my Moon inspiring tides to rise with life. Where I'm a comet, your my Sun: our dancing dazzles galaxies. I could go on: you're rocket fuel that frees us from Earth's gravity. Or: you're the magnet to my compass, leading me from aimless ways. Or: you're the proof time's been a lie, because this kiss is timelessness. Or: if I'm words, you're poetry, creating beauty through new truths. Or: you're my faith, if I'm a church, such that I trust love is divine. .THE END OF THE POEM. Poem by Robert J. Tiess Copyright 2026
My Valentine's Day poem for my wife Sandra.
💕
"To My Extraordinary Valentine"
❤️
ALT text in image + poem text link: allpoetry.com/poem/1894000...
#poetry #poems #love #couples #husbands #wives #inspirational #valentine #valentinesday #romance #romantic #metaphors
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THE TITLE OF THE POEM: Receiver THE POEM: Elusive, it's true, but I do know it's to be found, that heartening song you really ought to hear instead of all these requiems on repeat. Somehow I've found it at the worst of times, whispering, whimpering, blistered with static, trampled by zombies with mouthfuls of shards, dazed by stations mixing disfigured strains with injured lyrics bleeding over frequencies. I swear it's out there somewhere for you. There've been days I've dialed it in by chance or by angling an antenna again and again or setting the radio closer to a window or situating it upstairs, in another room. Don't worry, I won't karaoke it! Besides, I'll be remembering it very differently: acoustical calm softly rocked by guitars with this glistening chorus of angels fading to black. It's sincere, difficult at bits, but upbeat to me. How can you recognize it through the noise or tease it out of the shifty dissonance? It could be disco, salsa, reggae, trance, baroque, the blues, free jazz, a rhapsody. How should I say which music sings to you? What stirs your legs with irrepressible dance? What hoists your spirits over the low clouds or rallies your heart against a total standstill? Whatever it is, I hope you'll soon tune into it. .THE END OF THE POEM. Poem by Robert J. Tiess Copyright © 2026
My poem "Receiver"
indulging in an extended analog radio metaphor.
Hope you enjoy it. 🎶📻🎵
ALT text + poem link: allpoetry.com/poem/1893695...
#poetry #poems #radios #music #songs #sadness #joy #bliss #motivational #inspiration #metaphors
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In this week's post I finally catch up with #Moltbook in my quest to hunt for #AI #metaphors and cultural framing makingsciencepublic.com/2026/02/13/m...
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King Papi Chulo AKA KPC - Cypher Freestyle 🎤🎤
NOW STREAMING AVAILABLE ON MY YOUTUBE @ Kingpapi1x
Link below 👇
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#rap #trap #real #newartist #kpc #kingpapi #papichulo #og #barz #metaphors #nextup #bandlab #worldstar #cypher #freestyle #youtuber
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King Papi Chulo AKA KPC - Cypher Freestyle 🎤🎤
NOW STREAMING AVAILABLE ON MY YOUTUBE @ Kingpapi1x
Link below 👇
youtube.com/shorts/Pc5bk...
#rap #rappers #hiphop #trending #newartist #bandlab #worldstar #kpc #papichulo #legend #real #lyrics #pimp #og #newartist #barz #metaphors
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What have we here? Is it Mount Metaphor? The redacted mountain of Trump crimes against women and children? Is it Toronto's winter road salt supply, awaiting the season down on Cherry Street? The choice is yours! #photography #metaphors #unusualsights #toronto #textures
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Phantom obligation · Why must RSS readers look like email clients? ilo.im/16a91i by Terry Godier
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#Metaphors #NewsReader #RSS #Email #Content #Blog #Website #Design #UxDesign #WebDesign
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For weekend readers, last shout-out for some musings on #AI #metaphors and their interconnections makingsciencepublic.com/2026/02/06/m...
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#kabbalah #symbolism #ancienthistory #religion #judaism #hebrew #alefbet #metaphors #treeoflife #merkava #magick #occultsky #qabalah #booksforsale #booksky
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I wrote this quickly last week before my eye op... some musings about #metaphors and #AI and how they relate to each other makingsciencepublic.com/2026/02/06/m...
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THE TITLE OF THE POEM: To a Bay Window THE POEM: Your openness, your patient charity... all gifts I welcome, friend, now that I'm at your sill again with questioned memories and sometimes dreams like dragonflies that eye these country scenes you frame like painted art. I haven't thanked you well enough for this, especially around mid-March, when you'll remind me winter's letting go of loss. Then June's new music full of wind and wings! And fall's reviving flights of phoenix hues! Through you, I see we ought to survey earth, our souls, search outside outworn vantage points to learn what different heights and angles teach. Perspective is the best gift you can give, now I've seen many other ways to live! . THE END OF THE POEM. Poem by Robert J. Tiess Copyright © 2026
My poem "To a Bay Window"
submitted to a window-themed poetry challenge.
I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for reading.
ALT text + poem text link: allpoetry.com/poem/1890850...
#poetry #poems #windows #perspectives #gratitude #insights #awareness #openmindedness #mindfulness #inspirational #metaphors
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Dear, #President🇺🇸 @barackobama.bsky.social,😢 today feels like #SandHook,🕊 right?😟 #AlexPretti & #ReneeGood were #Americans🇺🇸 & deserve #Justice!⚖️🗽 Even #children👼🏾🧐 understand #ICE🧊 in #metaphors, & through #God's #grace!🙏🏾🫶🏿🎸🎹🎼🎶🎵@arimelber! Maybe #ColdCatFish🦈🎣💔 can cheer us up.🥺 x.com/charise_lee/...
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THE TITLE OF THE POEM: A Knight's Progress THE POEM: How could I visit every square around this boundless checkered board that's running out of sight and time? I've learned the rules, moved nobly on, respecting measures, turn by turn, yet I see pieces leaping wrong. No rook should glide diagonal. Now random knights ride anywhere? Since when are kings bulldozing pawns? Break free from dead chess metaphors which trick us into "wins" or "loss" and treat like life a battle zone. Among the trillion intervals between our charge and charred extremes old ranks and files vanish fast. Ignore false talk of royalty: maneuvers need humility, not crowns or jewels or pageantry. Let's not pretend we're enemies invested in these tournaments competing for a day of praise. I think you're wanting progress too beyond the cardboard armor, shields, these backdrop castles, paper swords. Forget crass gambits, sad pursuits, the made-up banners, plastic grails. The stalemate was no strategy. Let's check and best ourselves instead and make a nation love may reign —in all directions—glorious! Or would you be "victorious" and game away so hatefully? Know love is my Excalibur. .END OF POEM. Poem by Robert J. Tiess Copyright © 2026
Image credit: Life Is Not a Game by Robert J. Tiess Copyright © 2005 Image description: on a black and red chess board there are human-looking chess pieces looking on with concern and sadness at one of their own fallen pieces who is disappearing into the board. One chess piece near the top center of the image looks up toward perhaps the player with a facial expression that may suggest bewilderment or simply a question of why such suffering is taking place.
My poem A Knights Progress
(spanning 2 columns)
partly inspired by the Knight's Tour chess idea
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%...
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allpoetry.com/poem/1888866...
#poetry #poem #chess #metaphors #suffering #progress #unity #peace
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Life Is Not a Game
© 2005 Robert J. Tiess
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