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  1. Apr 2019
    1. With TrackMeNot, actual web searches, lost in a cloud of false leads, are essentially hidden in plain view

      Okay @cogdog here is another noise generating tool to try

    1. When we all use Noiszy, we can create a flood of meaningless data.

      The question, alchemy wanna bees, as how many Noiszy users would it take to be effective?

    1. Hiding from data collection isn't working.

      This is the message of our field guide selection.

    1. One of the main things we hope Noiszy will accomplish is driving a conversation about algorithms and how they should be made to function responsibly.

      This transparency is commendable, and something to say positive about this approach.

    1. Still, White worried, random Google searches could send the program down a dark rabbit hole, without the user’s knowledge.

      Is this really something to worry about? More so than what we deal with already?

    2. He hypothesized that a system masking a person’s browsing history by layering in copies of other people’s browsing patterns might be more useful.

      Interesting hypothes(is) we wonder if this is something that can be done collaboratively

    3. These are of course recommended steps, but more in the vein of erecting walls of protection. In a world of entities of life forms, the ones wishing to penetrate walls (hear me oh Orange Haired Moron) will always find cracks, and ways around.

  2. Apr 2017
    1. The Big Movement

      Big is an understatement. This is HUGE it is so great, really great, it is a-mazing.

      We, with PepsiCo will Make Advertising Great Again.

      You read it here.

    2. a Pepsi Jenner-ation

      We love the idea of branding generations as Jenner-ations... Think of all the generations we can get rocking out, and they should be drinking Pepsi in videos like this (Tom in graphics says we can CGI it in)

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY

    3. Did you see her

      We need to tap in to the marketing angle of head scarves for the middle class white housewife demographic

    4. PepsiCo-opted Protest-a-palooza

      "co-opt"?? nothing opted, We are definitely doing this hashtag Cooperatively. There must be a typo here

    5. #AllChipsMatter
    6. Tropicana® Orange You Glad Slavery Was Abolished Pavilion

      A clever subtle reference to Anita Bryant?

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ld8DQkC6po

      Nice work McSweeny

    7. May we all have the bravery to one day flick off our expensive custom made blonde wig and walk away from our highly paid photo shoot

      This bit was the pivotal turn in the video, maybe that opening sequence a tad long, but gave it a lot of time to build to the moment, when everything busted open. Yes, it took 12 takes to get it perfect, but so worth it. A throwback to classic movies

      https://media0.giphy.com/media/GQZQwJWuRrAfm/giphy.gif

    8. it looks like an elementary school play about the ’60s?

      A strong opening that only faintly ties back to the so wholesome Coca Cola commercial with the 60s reference (though it was 1971, looking back it looks like the 1960s, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxHqWUnp2e4

    1. well, try it out for yourself, and see how you are implicated in this video.

      Indeed, this is well worth watching. But that is not why you are here. You are seeking something. A different place. You did well to get here. There are coins to the realm of Arganee, which one is the way in?

      Coin 1

      Coin 2

      Coin 3

    1. As for "world building," wow, that's a hot topic if I've ever heard one. 

      And it will be the topic that might singe you or warm you well the next few weeks. Yet, this also is not the clue you were seeking to get to arganee. Try again?

    1. two scientists that were looking for attention made up a story that said “manbats” lived on the moon

      Are you quite sure there are no manbots on the moon? Have you been there? Have you crawled up and down the craters?

      Me either. And sadly, this is not the way into Arganee. Perhaps try another coin

    1. i i i i i o i i i i i

      This is an old joke from my birthplace. And a palindrome too.

      Ha!

      This video may be my favorite one so far.