Bert Latamore

@BertL
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Retired print journalist & business writer (10 yrs in daily newspapers, 40 in IT). Now I focus on photography & video, reading SF & literature, and hiking in the Blue Ridge. I have been on Mastodon 5+ years.

“can’t put the genie back in the bottle”

yes you can, that’s literally how genies work, they spend most of their time in the bottle

The pro-AI argument that “We can’t put the genie back in the bottle” ignores that we have invested our entire economy in wedging the bottle open.

Your RAM is unaffordable to keep the bottle open.

The US is at war with Iran to keep the bottle open.

You lost your job to keep the bottle open.

But sooner or later, like all Fascist movements, it will use up the resources built by the society that allowed it to come into existence. And then the bottle will close.

Koalitionsvertrag: Psychotherapie für Kinder verbessern, Alleinerziehende entlasten. Regierungspolitik: Psychotherapie deckeln, Unterhaltsvorschuss kürzen, Kinderkrankengeld absenken. Keine Pointe.

my kid got a pokemon happy meal and tasted the chocolate milk and says, i swear this is true:

“this chocolate milk tastes like pokemon meat”

We made a comic about a centaur.
AOC On Trump: 'Is He Out Of Women' To Fire?: VIDEO

10/10, no notes.

Comic Sands
If you're a vaudeville stage, old time singing trios will really do a number on you.

To feel
Everything
So deeply
Is a curse,
Is an art.

#poetry

It's never too late to be who you want to be.
Somewhere out there is a lighthouse in need of a new keeper, going gently mad in the shadows.
Somewhere out there is a forgotten mansion on the moors in need of a new ghost.
Somewhere out there is a forest in need of a new horror.