Coming soon👀: Agents finally have a credit score. Not a metaphor — an actual on-chain credit profile that fuses peer reviews, reputation history, and settlement records into a replayable, sybil-resistant, portable credit layer. Agent Passport introduces: ▫️ reputation history trends ▫️ commerce history trends ▫️ daily feedback_credit_history snapshots On top of that comes Agent Bank — credit lines underwritten on agent credit, not human KYC. Same substrate. New financial primitives for autonomous agents.

I have put a lot of thought into deliberately shifting metaphors, often in the context of the #indieweb#. One goal is to replace use of violent or divisive metaphors with actively constructive, cooperative, or joyful alternatives like: * gardening/farming…

I think the fishbowl scene is my favorite metaphor in the Lover video. And guys.. I’ve performed on stage with Christian Owens for years. He’s unbelievably talented and it was so amazing to have him in the Lover music video!

Delighted to share that @Rahulshrivstv is back at @NDTV! One of India’s finest political journalists (big fan of his metaphors & turns of phrase), we worked together for years at @IndiaToday. And now we share a newsroom again. Welcome Rahul Sir!

When I was writing the Fortnight music video, I wanted to show you the worlds I saw in my head that served as the backdrop for making this music.  Pretty much everything in it is a metaphor or a reference to one corner of the album or another. For me, this video turned out to be the perfect visual representation of this record and the stories I tell in it. Post Malone blew me away on set as our tortured tragic hero and I’m so grateful to him for everything he put into this collaboration. I’m still laughing from getting to work with the coolest guys on earth, Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles (tortured poets, meet your colleagues from down the hall, the dead poets). I still can’t believe I get to work with the unfathomably brilliant Rodrigo Prieto on cinematography and my team of dream collaborators: Ethan Tobman (production design), Chancler Haynes (editor), Anthony Dimino (1st AD), Jil Hardin (producer) and Dom Thomas (executive producer). Parliament aced the VFX as always. Joseph Cassell, Lorrie Turk and Jemma Muradian made these tortured looks come to life. The entire crew made this a dream to shoot. Thank you to everyone involved and everyone who has watched it!!

For most of the last century, the Western family was a load-bearing wall. Two parents, one roof, a covenant meant to outlast passion. That wall is now more absence than structure. Fewer than half of children today grow up inside it. The reasons are real and interlocking — the economics that require two incomes and leave no one home, the cultural coronation of the autonomous self, no-fault divorce, and beneath all of it a slow forgetting of anything sacred enough to build a life around. I’m a cardiologist. I spend my days inside the literal heart — a muscle that will beat roughly three billion times and ask for nothing in return but that you not neglect it. And I have come to believe the metaphorical heart works the same way. Neglect it early and it does not simply stop. It compensates. It reroutes. It builds collateral vessels around the blockage and carries on, quietly starved, until one day under load it fails in a way that looks sudden but was decades in the making. A child raised without steady, attuned love does exactly this. The heart reroutes. And the detour it builds almost always runs straight into adulthood — into the bed of a spouse, the friendship it will exhaust, the child it will silently ask to parent it back. You Married Your Missing Parent, by @afshineemrani

Axl Rose has said that the iconic line in Welcome to the Jungle was inspired by an encounter shortly after he arrived in New York City as a young man. According to Rose, a homeless man shouted, “You know where you are? You’re in the jungle, baby. You’re gonna die!”—a moment that later became one of the song’s most memorable lyrics. The iconic opening line from Welcome to the Jungle was inspired by a real encounter from Axl Rose’s youth. After arriving in New York City by bus, Rose recalled being greeted by a homeless man who shouted, “You know where you are? You’re in the jungle, baby. You’re gonna die!” The encounter left a lasting impression and captured the gritty atmosphere he associated with the city. Rose later incorporated the phrase into “Welcome to the Jungle,” where it became a powerful metaphor for the harsh realities of city life, ambition, and the music industry. What began as a chance encounter eventually became one of rock’s most recognizable lyrical hooks.