Mood and whatever else strikes my fancy...

[TheOlderGuy]

"..." The victims are duped because they are keyed to respond to certain information in nature. Insects do not have the ability to discriminate between what is real and what is mimicked.

I often fear I suffer the same fate.

 

[Orchidea73]

I often fear I suffer the same fate.

LOL

Well, you are in the right place, for starters.

 

[Orchidea73]

https://i.imgur.com/tsTJH7W.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

https://i.imgur.com/aKUcPdW.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

https://i.imgur.com/LwVUbq4.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

https://i.imgur.com/CeD6LDy.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

https://i.imgur.com/zAlWbuI.jpg

 

[parker77]

Do you ever lose, Mr. Poet?

nobody wins all the time. what would be the fun in that?

 

[Orchidea73]

nobody wins all the time. what would be the fun in that?

Oh, so you do have fun, then.

 

[Orchidea73]

Le comari

https://i.imgur.com/dsZpWrI.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

https://i.imgur.com/us2FYOB.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

https://i.imgur.com/VJGnNWX.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

https://i.imgur.com/Hv0H9Zn.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

https://i.imgur.com/WH0spAq.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

https://i.imgur.com/OjgO2zY.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

https://i.imgur.com/csoS1MQ.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

https://i.imgur.com/NEt2l9K.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

https://i.imgur.com/CMlWvd1.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

https://i.imgur.com/GcIk1Ns.jpg

 

[Mr Noone]

There’s a slight sense of Modigliani in the elongation of the faces.

 

[Orchidea73]

There’s a slight sense of Modigliani in the elongation of the faces.

Indeed.

 

[Orchidea73]

https://i.imgur.com/L0bgj9h.jpg

 

[Orchidea73]

L'Infinito - Giacomo Leopardi

Sempre caro mi fu quest’ermo colle,
E questa siepe, che da tanta parte
Dell’ultimo orizzonte il guardo esclude.
Ma sedendo e mirando, interminati
Spazi di là da quella, e sovrumani
Silenzi, e profondissima quiete
Io nel pensier mi fingo; ove per poco
Il cor non si spaura. E come il vento
Odo stormir tra queste piante, io quello
Infinito silenzio a questa voce
Vo comparando: e mi sovvien l’eterno,
E le morte stagioni, e la presente
E viva, e il suon di lei. Così tra questa
Immensità s’annega il pensier mio:
E il naufragar m’è dolce in questo mare.

 

[Orchidea73]

A couple of good questions to ask about any technology, beyond who controls it.

1. What is the problem that this new technology solves?
2. Whose problem is it?
3. What new problems do we create by solving this problem?
4. Which people and institutions will be most impacted by a technological solution?
5. What changes in language occur as the result of technological change?
6. Which shifts in economic and political power might result when this technology is adopted?
7. What alternative (and unintended) uses might be made of this technology?

 

[NemoNautilus]

A couple of good questions to ask about any technology, beyond who controls it.

Machines are taking over as we become slaves to technology. Terminator is now a documentary instead of science fiction