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"The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change. It is a furious, burning, physical greed, as well as a state of mystical exaltation. It will have its own."
Mary Webb
Sometimes the simple beauty of flowers makes me wish everyone could experience the view through a macro lens.
One of my artworks for the exhibition TIME WARPS at Kondor Art Garden.
Thanks to my partner Eli Medier for his poem:
"Run
before the cold reaches you
and freezes your thoughts
Under a crescent moon
and a strange lonely star
Three degrees
and even less in the wind
without defenses
Run
escape the spell
of the night
that infernal color
It is a purple
or a blue
they play dead"
© Eli Medier
Taken at Foul Whisperings Strange Matters
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Le premier des 7 pêchés capitaux...
Mon précieux... Ma passion.. Il est à moi et personne n'y touchera...
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The first of the 7 deadly sins ...
My precious ... My passion .. It is mine and no one will touch it ...
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today, I
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world, you
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
*Working Towards a Better World
The greedy are taking over and leaving those who have very little with less still. This too must and will change.
Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea caesia) picking two seeds from an improvised feeder. They always pick as many as they can and stash them away.
Kowalik (Sitta europaea caesia) wybierający dwa ziarenka z zaimprowizowanego karmnika. Kowaliki zawsze wybierają tak wiele, ile tylko są w stanie i ukrywają je w swoich skrytkach.
It would be very greedy if I ate all of these myself. Could be for gluttony if I ate them all at once as well.
52 weeks of 2023 - Seven deadly sins
something made me feel safe. Was it him?
Or was it me feeling more in control now that I could see his face?
His face his eyes ... his whisper... why was i calm?
Reading through this article about the benefits of Machine Learning,
www.datacamp.com/blog/what-is-machine-learning
I've learned that Machine Learning (ML) is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) enabling AI to imitate the way that humans learn, gradually improving it's accuracy.
The following statement particularly caught my attention in the article:
'In the 21st century, data is the new oil, and machine learning is the engine that powers this data-driven world. It is a critical technology in today's digital age, and its importance cannot be overstated.'
I have also learned throughout the article the many ways machine learning is beneficial for me personally: it helps me to see what I'd like to see, shows me what I'd like to buy, listens to me, tracks my behaviour and feeds my mind it's daily dose of information.
And from there I can see the benefits of me being in a perfectly round digital world with all my favourite things and thoughts circulating around me, I just need make sure that no one will ever come close to me with their strange worlds and disturbing opinions, unless they want to see my existential fear being properly activated...
To be fair with the article, it does mention one actual benefit to humanity; it states that machine learning is used widely in health care. Google's DeepMind Health for example is working with doctors to build machine learning models to detect diseases earlier and improve patient care. And I would like to think that there are many other areas as well where the application of ML is implemented by goodwill and in faith of a better future for us, not driven by greed, power or any other sinister agendas.
I believe regardless of what is the original intent of creating a tool/machine/algorithm, once created, you will have the moral choice to use it and aim towards what's right, or to use it and aim towards what's wrong, or don't even care at all, just use the tool and see what happens, in any ways, there is always a price to pay.
We've yet to see what is the ultimate price to pay for releasing and so desperately trying to finalize an 'all knowing' machine god above us, and I can only hope that while we are still in control, human goodwill will always outweigh human greed, and we can still remain to be compassionate individual human beings seeing each other in the warm light of the sun, and not turning into some cold numbers on a blue screen as part of a soulless database.
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I do understand the importance of science and economics, but I don't want to live in a 'data-driven' world...
I want to live in a love-driven world.
If only machines could 'deep learn' love, and mass generate it into the world... that I could call Progress.
Image taken at Bikás Park Underground Station, Budapest, Hungary.
This is what it looks like when a coot sees you standing by the canal bank and thinks you've got food! The trail behind it was probably twice as long as the picture shows.it was determined not to take off, but belted along as fast as its legs could move it for some 20-30 metres. Unbelievable! Serious aggression too! No...we're not bird feeders. No bread or other edibles were used in the making of this picture!
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GREED: Greed is called the excessive desire of a person to have wealth and goods.
CODICIA: Se denomina codicia el afán desmedido de una persona por tener riquezas y bienes.
"I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am."
─ Richard Hammond
123 in 2023
#44 - Greed
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If the bait is right, hunger or greed will always be the down fall of the predator seeking an easy meal, quickly the table is turned on the hunter.
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A remarkably brutal fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. But, then, greed is a most brutal form of behaviour. Leica M Mono.
Not to be a dooms sayer, but I wonder how many of us who post this will find our accounts eliminated over the weekend. Jyst call me Squished Pickle
The reason I'm Bitter
No account is safe.......
I had my only flicker pro account deleted because of content, though they were never clear as to what content was offensive, all my picks on that account were safe?...
this was during the first weeks of Smugs takeover.
Earthy Yam (deleted) RIP