hibearmate

hibearmate t1_j6bw3d4 wrote

Reply to What happens to our data when we no longer use a social media network or publishing platform? by Ssider69

They just keep tracking your device IDs and website cookies associated with your previous account

FB tracks EVERYONE, regardless if your ever had an account

https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2022/02/new-research-reveals-how-facebook.html

>… even people that don’t use Facebook for a wide range of reasons might end up having their activities tracked by the platform whenever they visit a site that incorporates its engagement buttons. Even sites that are relatively privacy sensitive tend to give Facebook a large amount of user data
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>Facebook can track non-users on around 44% of the websites that they tend to visit

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hibearmate t1_j47eog8 wrote

Reply to comment by ThornsyAgain in Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”. by VinkyStagina

I just think people are thinking this was some kind of malicious act to destroy history or something

and not a guy doing a job with an eye towards history, by selecting the photos that best communicated the harshness, emotions, and toll of that moment in history was having in the subjects

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hibearmate t1_j41e4vn wrote

Reply to comment by Violentfascist in Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”. by VinkyStagina

editor's edit, it's their job

>Most of the negatives Stryker killed, by all accounts, were redundancies nixed in favor of a similar image with stronger composition, clearer focus, and facial expressions better comporting with the themes of suffering and endurance he sought to draw out of the FSA’s subjects.

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hibearmate t1_j41dxw2 wrote

Reply to comment by KnudsonRegime in Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”. by VinkyStagina

The job of an editor is to "kill" photo's from a collection

>Most of the negatives Stryker killed, by all accounts, were redundancies nixed in favor of a similar image with stronger composition, clearer focus, and facial expressions better comporting with the themes of suffering and endurance he sought to draw out of the FSA’s subjects.

The "killed" photos provide an interesting alternative view

>Shot through, these unloved alternates have become almost more interesting than their perfect twins. In contrast to the carefully captioned File images, killed negatives have no names attached, often no notes on provenance: what little we know about them is only by analogy to those photos that were saved, clues about location gleaned from landscapes, clothing, faces. As such, the killed photos demand a more active viewer, one willing to piece together, to parse, to consign some things to the realm of the curious and unknowable.

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hibearmate t1_j3c1zm3 wrote

Reply to The ability to permanently save a video of a memory straight from a bionic eye camera to a personal storage vault…and have the ability to pick a dream from your vault to sleep at night by Mysterious-Status-44

The ability to forget heavily underated

People with true photographic recall have trouble forgiving friends and family because they remember ever petty thing ever said between the two of them

they can’t forget abuse

Also, the privacy and law enforcement implications are deeply disturbing

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hibearmate t1_j02rkbg wrote

Reply to Why do so many people assume malevolent AI won’t be an issue until future AI controlled robots and drones come into play? What if malevolent AI has already been in play, covertly, via social media or other distributed/connected platforms? -if this post gets deleted by a bot, we might have the answer by Shaboda

look AI is either going to kill us or control us

regardless, we aren't going to stop it

Basically I assume AI is going to end up treating us like we treat pets

make sure our basic needs met and that we exercise, learn things, play, socialize, and generally thrive

some work, most just live their best lives

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