The Gift of Things Going Wrong
podcast
8 Matching Annotations
- Oct 2022
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burningman.org burningman.org
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www.oif.ala.org www.oif.ala.org
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Meme creators and posters have been sued for using people’s images without permission, especially those who were not already public figures.
this is valid too because i like to keep my life fairly private, so to have my kids face everywhere is kind of alerting
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In 2013, the owners of the cats featured in the “Nyan Cat” and “Keyboard Cat” memes won a lawsuit against Warner Bros. and 5th Cell Media for respectively distributing and producing a video game using images of their cats.
this type of lawsuit is understandable since they produced a whole video game from it, not just a meme
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www.theverge.com www.theverge.com
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Go on a date; now kiss; now get engaged; tell us what it was like. We need to know more. More. More.
this is really interesting because the internet is a funny thing where you can pick and choose on what to show to the world, but the world will want to know every little detail to what's going on, which leads to nasty public breakups.
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invasiveness of celebrity and how it can eat away at every boundary you ever took for granted.
this is interesting because the internet can literally make you viral, whether you wanted to or not, and you can instantly receive a whole bunch of stalkers and hate for it.
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www.kanopy.com www.kanopy.com
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A Burning Man History
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- Sep 2022
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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hapgood.us hapgood.us
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Now imagine a world where checking your mirrors before switching lanes was rare, three standard-deviations-out behavior. What would the roads look like?
Using this analogy and applying it to unreliable sources online, I would think that the world would look foolish and naive. Everyone would believe things that they read on the internet without checking their "mirrors," e.g. author, credentials, sources of supporting evidence, etc.
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