I am seriously considering bailing off the internet until 2021. I want off this ride.
I think it's pretty telling that after this last election, 90% of my internet time is split between Hubski and Wikimedia/Wikipedia. Honestly, it's done wonders for my happiness levels. I've even mused over the idea of seeing if there is a local photography store that does photography classes so I can contribute pictures to Wikimedia.I am seriously considering bailing off the internet until 2021. I want off this ride.
I pay a bit more than passing attention when you and her talk. This is still one of my favorite conversations of ours . . . Going through Wikimedia, especially on more esoteric items, I'm surprised that a lot of photos can be kind of crummy. They're blurry, poorly lit, don't show off defining details, etc. When I thought to myself that I could actually probably do better with my ancient, near busted, point and shoot, I started entertaining the idea of taking pictures for Wikipedia. Thought while I haven't looked into it just yet, I'm fairly certain it's a bit more difficult than Take Picture -> Upload -> Categorize.
The principle problems Wikimedia faces are: 1) Rights issues. Nobody wants to license them images of things they can sell later, and photographers cannot legally give them rights to photos of rights-controlled objects. 2) Volunteer issues. Wiki has been suffering a die-off of volunteers for a while now and what volunteers it has aren't really "go out and capture the real world' people, they're keyboard commandos. thus, they go with the images they can get.
Which is weird you say that, cause more than a few times have I stumbled upon stuff that's clearly still copywritten on their site, mostly fictional characters. Is there a reason for this? Site politics? Problems with the underlying program?Rights issues. Nobody wants to license them images of things they can sell later, and photographers cannot legally give them rights to photos of rights-controlled objects.
Volunteer issues. Wiki has been suffering a die-off of volunteers for a while now and what volunteers it has aren't really "go out and capture the real world' people, they're keyboard commandos.
I don’t know how I would have managed without our talks when I got this job :) I’m still no pro, but I think I’ve gotten a lot better in the last couple months! Kinda makes me want to buy myself some proper gear and photograph stuff for myself once I’m done - but the whole point of this job was to save up. Not shell out 4K on a camera and lenses once I’m done. I feel like I’ve inadvertently walked into a trap.
The only social media I have is Instagram. I dropped Twitter a year ago and Facebook years before that. I lost track of some people, but I'm happier. I like the simplicity of pictures and comments on pictures. The only forums I contribute to are Hubski and a hiking forum. You could create a blog where you just take pictures of notable things and describe them so Google images can find them. I assume that would work.
I've looked at the idea of a blog before, but I don't really think I wanna go in that direction. Hubski is kind of more than half-way bloggish to me as it is, so I'm also entertaining the idea of just taking pics and posting stuff on here, like I do with the antiques. It'll give me a good excuse to try to travel a bit. Take Dala and the dog along to see more of our piece of the world.
Printmaking I actually don't like photography much at all. I just do it because I always have a camera in my pocket. I think it is has like no artistic value on its own. I do think I am a good pet photographer. Those little fuckers require a lot of patience 
I'm hesitant to believe this one (but shared for discussion).
I constantly return to the idea that Russia's influence campaign being waged in "American" cyberspace is on a much larger scale than anyone yet understands. On the whole, people are still incredibly decent to one another out in meatspace, but a handful of radicals on either side, given disproportionate attention by the media (in their desperation to receive 10 trillion views per millisecond), also help to distort our perceptions. Of course, there's the fact that we should try to correct for how scummy people behave when given anonymity, but what'm I gonna do to even begin numerically evaluating and correcting for that one? What a crock. At least the Russians are leaving fingerprints in the data. And we will get an idea of the exact scale of that, but the research-illiterate U.S. can't seem to understand that scientific work (or building a legal case) takes time. Welp, back to getting recreationally offended, America's new favorite pasttime.
"Yet for some reason people assume that all the heinous shit on Reddit and 4chan are organic." it dates beck farther than we know that Russia cared. if anything, the inorganic effects went as such: Stormfront corrupted 4chan, then 4chan corrupted Reddit