Demi says she’s a fire starter. But what burns? A song stuck between empowerment anthem and Hot Topic diary entry, Fire Starter fumbles metaphor, mangles dream logic, and melts into its own clichés.
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FIRE STARTER (2013) by Demi Lovato

“There’s an ‘S’ under my clothes/On my chest where nobody else can see,” so say the first two lines of Demi Lovato’s “Fire Starter.” I was hoping for an allusion to The Scarlet Letter and tha…

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Neurohype: People do X because their brains are wired that way!
Also neurohype: Y can rewire people's brains!

#BadMetaphors

Surviving the Spider’s Web, January 1, 2025

Surviving the Spider’s Web “Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don’t seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.” ~…

Ravings of a Mad Southerner

@jelena3121 In short, we should be wary of metaphors for scholarly communication that figure knowledge as something that just naturally flows, with the malevolent forces blocking the flow. Knowledge doesn’t flow: rather, it’s mediated.

If we want to develop something better than the extractive commercial form of scholarly publishing (I certainly do), flow gives us no purchase on all the work that will need to be done.

#ScholarlyPublishing #BadMetaphors

#BadMetaphors are worse than #NoMetaphors. 😅
The Revolution Will Be Federated | monkinetic .blog

Much has been made lately about Twitter having become a trashfire, with rampant trolling and abuse of women, monitories, and non white-dude-being folks. Bein...