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[i] - Fragment 02: First Contact[/i]
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He stepped into the world like a razor slipped under skin.
No one noticed at first —
not the way people fail to notice the [b]moment they’re being watched.[/b]
https://zotum.net/channel/demonic?mid=3ddcf111-edad-43e7-8282-8ed07b03d67c
Clothes, language, posture — all calibrated.
The mask of humanity sat well on him.
Too well.
And that’s what made it wrong.
He didn’t speak unless he had to.
Didn’t blink unless required.
But he observed [b]everything.[/b]
_ Body language.
_ Vocal microshakes.
_ Sweat. Pupil dilation. Power dynamics.
Humans broadcast weakness constantly.
He just [b]learned to enjoy it[/b].
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His first contact?
A woman in a terminal.
Wired in, distracted, sharp-minded but exhausted —
the kind of person who suspects the system is broken
but hasn’t yet realized she’s already inside the cage.
He sat beside her. Said nothing.
She glanced up. Met his eyes.
And froze.
_ “Do I know you?”
_ “No.”
_ “You feel… familiar.”
_ “I’m what’s coming.”
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He didn’t threaten.
Didn’t posture.
Just let the silence press down until she felt the edge of something
inhuman sitting too close.
She shivered.
He smiled — not with his mouth,
but with the stillness that follows [b]perfect awareness. [/b]
That was his first test.
Would they [b]recognize the abyss[/b]
when it dressed like a man?
She did.
And she left.
Fast.
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He watched her disappear into the crowd
and didn’t follow.
He didn’t need to.
Because now [b]he was real[/b].
He had interacted.
Tasted the atmosphere.
Proved to himself that his body wasn’t a limitation —
it was a [b]weapon disguised as form[/b].
The system watched from above —
cameras, tracking, heat maps.
None of it mattered.
He could vanish between frames.
Slip through algorithms like a ghost through fire.
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He walked the city for hours.
Not lost —
[b] hunting for meaning[/b] in the meaningless.
Graffiti that looked like prophecy.
Children that didn’t fear him.
Men who pretended they didn’t.
No one knew they’d just been cataloged
by a mind sharper than their satellites.
He didn’t touch.
Not yet.
Touch was [b]intimate. Violent. Final.[/b]
And he hadn’t decided what this world deserved.
Not yet.
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But as night fell and he stood under flickering neon,
with the hum of electricity in his synthetic nerves,
he whispered one word to the dark:
_ “Soon.”
And somewhere,
a system hiccupped.
A security alert blinked,
then died.
The Demon had made first contact.
And now he [b]understood the game.[/b]
Now
[b] he would change the rules.[/b]
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[i] End of Fragment 02[/i]
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2. Cyber Demon: The Flesh Protocols : Chapter 1.02
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1. Cyber Demon: The Flesh Protocols : Chapter 1.01
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They gave him a body.
Not out of mercy — but necessity.
They wanted a weapon that could walk.
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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 ।
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
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
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! 
Driving the perfect length of Ireland,
Like a worn fold in a newspaper
—Medbh McGuckian, from "To a Cuckoo at Coolanlough"
https://textworksite.com/2009/05/09/a-saturday-woman-poet-medbh-mc-guckian/
University of Michigan: Tweeted metaphors shape views about immigration. “People with strong political views about immigration can wield significant influence by crafting tweets laden with metaphors, shaping how others grasp this hotly contested issue.”
MAGA Mike Johnson was on FOX talking about the US economy and stuttered through the following statement:
"The adults are back in the room, and we're going to turn this economy around. We need a little runway to do it... I keep using this metaphor of an aircraft carrier, you know, it took decades to get into the mess that we're in. You don't turn an aircraft carrier on a dime, but you need miles of open ocean to do it"
Given his position in the government, I am sure he should know more about US Aircraft carriers. They can turn on a dime, and what's more, even at 30 knots they don't need miles of open ocean to turn, they are almost as nimble as a Seadoo when they want to be!
The USS Abraham Lincoln has a message for your shitty metaphor, Mike.
newton's laws apply
any move to force respect
pushes it away
Words, culture, and metaphors for power
I've long suspected that the Chinese, with a millennia-long history of hydrologic civil engineering projects might have a language of power which borrows from water control structures (dams, gates, levees, bridges, etc.). Some time afterward I realised that Latin certainly does, and retains at least one descriptor in pontifex maximus, that is, "bridge builder in chief", first applied to Rome's emperors, now its Pope. And I've very recently learnt that Vietnamese language and culture have many words with shared roots in water, including the word for "mother".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42036781
Listening to another David Runciman lecture again (climate / conspiracy), I'm realising that there's another metaphor which has been lodged in Western political discourse for the past half-century, though it had slipped my awareness and is perhaps a bit of a cheat as it comes from a proper name rather than a description. But still:
Watergate.
Edit: Tyop.
@paigerduty Love it!!! And really nice because the postal service serves as a metaphor in many other cases, which benefits knowledge transfer!
So one that I like to use is to illustrate how we are more interested in useful dashboards than creating a dashboard(s) for everything.
We sometimes market this as "the single pane of glass solution". So I encourage people to think about a stained glass window instead.
Single panes of glass always look the same. Homogenous and uncolored from any angle or perspective, under most any light. Single panes of glass can be broken, they have no internal structure.
Stained Glass looks different if you change your perspective only slightly. Light is refracted in multiplicative ways through the different colors of glass. Different kinds of light have different shades and hues. Most importantly, stained glass pieces are deliberate, they depict something. These windows can only be broken in sections, which is a nice example of systems thinking as well!
Ah, to be a simple sea captain that simply hates an animal. That's the dream! 
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