<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:50:31 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/semantics/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Semantics of Advertising is Horror]]></title><description><![CDATA[Advertising is a horror. It exists to sell us things we don't need, to share unrelatable experiences we've never had, and to influence us to want. Sure, some artists and models, and creative production]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-196233/@holoz0r/the-semantics-of-advertising-is-horror</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-196233/@holoz0r/the-semantics-of-advertising-is-horror</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-196233]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[holoz0r]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:11:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/26uUsAjKTsXCDw7zixZR182JbFKvgzJ9YwsFpTVcRaGCmsqhA1unTgpqhwpbL1z7d759zrH4YW4K7qfLHy5A6TT9HKyoNnDKpaWMQtLiv7hYi6RjA4s3c1Boy9bUZzEeZRCZn9Ymf7eY6w7MbHijKNYQ1WNLYxytmzyPfc?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language and /pol/]]></title><description><![CDATA[Language and /pol/ Language determine concepts - Concepts determine thoughts Thoughts determine ideas - Ideas determine narratives Narratives determine stories - Stories are the structure we use to derive]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-110786/@n0m0refak3n3ws/language-and-pol</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-110786/@n0m0refak3n3ws/language-and-pol</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-110786]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[n0m0refak3n3ws]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2023 16:09:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3auKdN6FdQE2nCf33DTj8vWY81DC8RhoXqkaGpJzH49A38zSGuAqMMokiKHTD8?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative Musings: No, Alchemy Stones Are NOT "Dot Painted Rocks!"]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's interesting how often people feel compelled to put a familiar label on something, even if that label isn't accurate. I've been painting "Alchemy Stones" for somewhat over a decade, using]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-148441/@alchemystones/creative-musings-no-alchemy-stones-are-not-dot-painted-rocks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-148441/@alchemystones/creative-musings-no-alchemy-stones-are-not-dot-painted-rocks</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-148441]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[alchemystones]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:12:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3RTd4iuWD6NUeJEn5AVrJUoyatFqBqfcCJi1N7UixR4g2KPKN7w8NpZJDP2qDwm4bKLRgbTWr1zzLA2rJoQ9WPUwfBjVDzKkPcZUrKpf2YH4giDincGUgCFUN8yH4DZvsp48ccsS63W4XEA3aJJdYq1VaoCTjBCemy2krhUmR7kGy4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Muses Ebony and Blind|Playing with words]]></title><description><![CDATA[Speak to me oh muses, Ebony & blind, of truth Within the verses that bleed From my fingertips to stain these sheets. Touch my shoulder & pass Whatever remains of your gifts So I can propel thought]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@warpedpoetic/oh-muses-ebony-and-blind-or-playing-with-words</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@warpedpoetic/oh-muses-ebony-and-blind-or-playing-with-words</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[warpedpoetic]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:29:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/54TLbcUcnRm3sWQK3HKkuAMedF1JSX7yKgEqYjnyTKPwrcThVBQAHYGUrzyTFVAsa3zt6ukecfUKJnAWTZXTUwqv6KFXKhxD9mpA2xB9YeZyfJimzwa7Gmo8QtzgbP6bKEve86hWW?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communication between camps is becoming almost impossible]]></title><link>http://direct.ecency.com/semantics/@grimjim/communication-between-camps-is-becoming-almost-impossible</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/semantics/@grimjim/communication-between-camps-is-becoming-almost-impossible</guid><category><![CDATA[semantics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[grimjim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2019 11:55:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eQQdAh3JbWfgKnRcsFsXPWewPCrMyosftia?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is fair to equate prisons with concentration camps]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is fair to equate prisons with concentration camps]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/semantics/@tkoen/it-is-fair-to-equate-prisons-with-concentration-camps</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/semantics/@tkoen/it-is-fair-to-equate-prisons-with-concentration-camps</guid><category><![CDATA[semantics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[tkoen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2019 04:38:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the hell does "reparations" mean when 2020 candidates mention it?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've linked an insightful article explaining how the concept of "reparations" has expanded to include lots of things that have little or no connection to actual compensation payments given to]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@honeybee/what-the-hell-does-reparations-mean-when-2020-candidates-mention-it</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@honeybee/what-the-hell-does-reparations-mean-when-2020-candidates-mention-it</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[honeybee]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 03:48:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPZ6FkxvrVHFJdxFNZFacuwKUyN53ubGm6ynttgqMVRELqwWeM8L88FymwhFN4LNNAkxEwaeEhk?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How To Make The Lamb And Lion Lay Together?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thou Art Lion. The Lamb is yet still so small that it will trust you with utter nakedness every breath it takes before your violation. Never perform violation and so never introduce Fear to your humble]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@ryan.mill/how-to-make-the-lamb-and-lion-lay-together</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@ryan.mill/how-to-make-the-lamb-and-lion-lay-together</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[ryan.mill]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:51:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Semantics.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amen. Asexual. Amoral. Atypical. Men. Sexual. Moral. Typical.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@ryan.mill/semantics</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@ryan.mill/semantics</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[ryan.mill]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 04:45:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Little More On Healing]]></title><description><![CDATA[While you are still immature, filth and foulness will still need to be ejected from your body. While you are very very young, this will be disgusting- crying and shitting and belching and vomiting and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@ryan.mill/a-little-more-on-healing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@ryan.mill/a-little-more-on-healing</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[ryan.mill]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 03:40:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even Run-To-Waste is a Closed System, if Thou Art God]]></title><description><![CDATA[Does not the Law of Conservation of Mass and Energy guarantee this?]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@ryan.mill/even-run-to-waste-is-a-closed-system-if-thou-art-god</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@ryan.mill/even-run-to-waste-is-a-closed-system-if-thou-art-god</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[ryan.mill]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 03:20:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankenfurter]]></title><description><![CDATA["Be It; ['don't'] Dream It.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/semantics/@ryan.mill/frankenfurter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/semantics/@ryan.mill/frankenfurter</guid><category><![CDATA[semantics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[ryan.mill]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:59:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dangers of Conflation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conflation is the act of taking two different concepts and squeezing them to fit into a single word. It is a powerful tool that is quietly and pervasively used by an uneducated public and, perhaps more]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/semantics/@aonphleacs/the-dangers-of-conflation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/semantics/@aonphleacs/the-dangers-of-conflation</guid><category><![CDATA[semantics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[aonphleacs]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2019 01:52:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human Factor - Semantics]]></title><description><![CDATA[Semantics: Language of Relevance Language has evolved over centuries through ages of scarcity, superstition, and social insufficiency, and often contains ambiguity and uncertainty when important issues]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/thevenusproject/@thevenusproject/semantics-language-of-relevance</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/thevenusproject/@thevenusproject/semantics-language-of-relevance</guid><category><![CDATA[thevenusproject]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thevenusproject]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2019 08:34:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Greatest Journey -5minutefreewrite]]></title><description><![CDATA[For Our greatest journey, raising a child. Nah. Our greatest journey, hitchhiking around the world! Yeah, probably. I mean, no shade at raising a child, but you're bending the word "journey"]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freewrite/@improv/our-greatest-journey-5minutefreewrite</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freewrite/@improv/our-greatest-journey-5minutefreewrite</guid><category><![CDATA[freewrite]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[improv]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2018 18:59:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go on radio]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lol lrn.fm My live stream is at DLive]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dlive/@bodhi.agora/61081861-b888-11e8-8f16-0242ac110003</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dlive/@bodhi.agora/61081861-b888-11e8-8f16-0242ac110003</guid><category><![CDATA[dlive]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[bodhi.agora]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2018 01:40:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/KWcVEiwEzuiCuSt3rCYguvZ98x2mj34d8w76DQwjZp2KX5QhcB4SXRnmEw1UgE11mAxzsBxLBySenyKvob?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Screwing A Serger]]></title><description><![CDATA[There! Did it! A little bit of screwing here, a little bit of screwing there and now all's well in the Kingdom. This is almost done, some finetuning with a hammer and a pair of scissors and this serger]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dismantle/@insaneworks/screwing-a-serger</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dismantle/@insaneworks/screwing-a-serger</guid><category><![CDATA[dismantle]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[insaneworks]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2018 17:13:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNapwcuMu2ehPgeoLQuRtiV63S3xSSt5LnDrKdvHa5moDebjEjCTaGsTgNoU8xvPDbihe8NvpqGmFTACS7TKJHW9JimenCmXpzz29vKe76HBAe?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[2018, the year of Data 2.0]]></title><description><![CDATA["Big data" is finally just "data". We paused the #metadata conversation, but #AI requires that we start to focus more on Data Ontology and Taxonomy ( So far we have been concerned on]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/metadata/@luisdans/2018-the-year-of-data-2-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/metadata/@luisdans/2018-the-year-of-data-2-0</guid><category><![CDATA[metadata]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luisdans]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2018 23:51:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things To Consider: What Makes a Blockchain a Blockchain?]]></title><description><![CDATA[With so many scams and scammers looking to make a quick buck and so many uneducated and underinformed investors out there for a quick buck, the lines between good technology and get rich quick schemes]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/semantics/@greer184/things-to-consider-what-makes-a-blockchain-a-blockchain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/semantics/@greer184/things-to-consider-what-makes-a-blockchain-a-blockchain</guid><category><![CDATA[semantics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[greer184]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:21:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7258xSVeJbKkzXhyseBP4PYz11eBDT8sW2oR1a4vfVFS6HrZKaESqqM2ZHNpUTZPyr83kBcj4bqtpPXfoGGxQdJaN4gHsb6F5k9y1CrLY3xq2gQAkgPS7vmzfraVhe1Ruj8kybrNw74rr?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Characteristics of the linguistic sign]]></title><description><![CDATA[The linguistic sign is arbitrary because there is no direct relationship between the signifier and the meaning. Usually, in signs called signs, such as traffic signals, there is a certain relationship]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/semantics/@taijos/characteristics-of-the-linguistic-sign</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/semantics/@taijos/characteristics-of-the-linguistic-sign</guid><category><![CDATA[semantics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[taijos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2018 14:18:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/Zskj9C56UondJxcjVaienfhVaNb7LJVWG6e787ga4YtNaxFhVQboAD6zvnTnZdZeQzqULtF17CtPaKm5vhECxRaoodGbXPrFz1vGhgDhA7mxLPstWtdU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>