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what a good thing this website is. makes an important point, is funny & comprehensible, but more than that, just gives me joy to look at. all these people! in the world! doing things! being people! @fulligin/1335030372187312128Permalink Look on archive.org
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what a good expression! i hope this lady is doing well.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the thing it does as well, is give you a link back to the original photo. which suddenly gives you context. here's someone who has just has Halloween makeup applied in a costume shop near Seattle in 2010.Permalink Look on archive.org
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and clicking through a few of those makes you realise... it's quite likely that *you*, statistically, are in this dataset. because if you're reading this, you're probably in the right demographic to be in a creative commons licensed photo put on Flickr around 2000.Permalink Look on archive.org
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(i just checked, and no, this dataset doesn't include any photos i've taken)Permalink Look on archive.org
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thinking about that bubble of 00s time, when normal people would put photos on websites with APIs and license fields. and before the default for photos of faces online was that there'd be a filter on them.Permalink Look on archive.org
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i say normal people, but of course that was a pretty self-selecting group. the aesthetic choices (and faces) of which will no doubt live on in our AI models for decades to come. alongside mugshots and presumably, increasingly, surveillance footage.Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is correct & puts a finger on something that was scratching at me while looking through this site @everestpipkin/1335896138961068032?s=19Permalink Look on archive.org
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while I was seeing if any of my photos were in the dataset, I was thinking... what if one is. and what if it is a photo of a friend that I'd posted. would I tell them? would I apologise? would I pretend it hadn't happened, in shame? maybe they'd find it exciting? but prob not.Look on archive.org