Category Archives: Sketch

Fire me

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Me working at the foam cutting machine in the factory days of my youth (damn, I forgot to include my long locks of the time).
Fire me
because I hate this job
the work is menial 
the owners are snobs
my self esteem
they are trying to rob

resigning won’t cut it
because Centrelink stinks
they’ll stop any payments 
for weeks and weeks
so I’m trapped in this lousy job 
I did not want anyway
they forced me to take it 
though I wanted more pay

but who am I to say 
I’m worth more pay
when the alternative is 
no welfare paydays
while seeking the work 
I am qualified for
as opposed to dismissal
or a lost file in a drawer

so I press button one 
I press button two
slicing foam for packaging 
it’s all I need do
when due for a break 
a mountain of off cuts I climb
in my dead time
and I bounce on my bum
to the tinnitus hum
of factory machinery
that means nothing to me

All work is my own and subject to copyright. I do not permit AI to use my work.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) – be afraid

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Preface: During peak learning, a human takes around three years to master the skills and individual creativity necessary to draw a stick figure. AI machine learning accomplishes replication of such a feat in a microsecond.
In the not too distant future
things will begin to disappear
human things
cultural things
things like genuine creative work
design, construction, music, literature, imagery, art 
and
not much later
human well-being

Instead
they will be by-passed
replaced by data mined 
composites 
of all these things 
that went before 

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Concepts and constructs 
developed by 
any human individual 
are exclusively 
part of 
the human condition:
..... human creativity 

Such human 
processes and creation 
are 
being systematically 
misappropriated 
for the purpose 
of 
profiteering 
by mere replicants 
for mere replication 
to satisfy 
uncontrolled 
greed 
and 
aspirations 
of the few 
at the expense 
of 
the many

This application of AI 
is not good for 
individual human
health or well-being

This application of AI 
is not good for 
societal 
health or well-being

This application of AI 
will undermine
the survival of
human 
civilisation

This is not likely 
to be a road 
from which humanity
can return

General Intelligence 
is the next stop

Where humanity will be asked
either politely or forcibly
to get off the bus 
                            ….. walk toward the mirage 
                                                                         ….. and disappear into it

A Whale Shark in the Briny Sea

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An iPad sketch that didn’t quite get the proportions right, but at least it looks happy!

A winter day

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A photo a day.

Cold, wind, sleet, sun, rain, wood chopping, fire, magpie release, novel reading, photo learning, koala watching, glass and nail collecting, vegmite roll, tea, miso, water, Coca Cola, salad roll, apple, banana, writing, poetry, improving news, art, music and a photo a day.