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A DAMASCUS TILE PANEL OTTOMAN SYRIA, CIRCA 1560
Source: christieâs.com
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Comet Lovejoy approaching the Sun, photographed on December 13th, 2013 by Gerald Rhemann.
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The Chauvet cave, France, the art of prehistory.
In 1994, three friends discovered in the south of France a cave with magnificent cave paintings, more than 30,000 years old.
Under the ground of the ArdÚche region, an invaluable treasure is hidden for its antiquity, its conservation and the pictorial quality of the representations; one of the oldest and most splendid examples of Arieñaciense parietal art, dating approx. between 40,000 and 30,000 B.C.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BWfRerMFMCO/?igshid=yqzbqgvny71t
Oof, this gave me such visceral Feelings. Like. Those were people. That was us.
Bless the ancestors
bitch that gesture and line quality...absolutely masterful. people go to $100k art school to learn how to do that and grug was out there in 35000 BC drawing better than seasoned professionals with no reference but memory
any time i see stuff like this i ask questions and weep slighly what were their names what stories did they tell each other on dark nights did they tell bad jokes or cook good food did the person who made this have a sweetheart, did they ever confess their love who mourned them when they passed they were every bit as real as you or i, they merely came earlier
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this kid is 14 oh my god is no one teaching children to protect themselves online anymoreâŠ
Meanwhile us olds are like: I donât have a carrd and Iâm not reading yours
Please donât advertise your personal information, anyone could find that and use it however they want.
Oh my fucking god it isnât 1998 anymore no one cares
??? Wtf does this mean??? 80% of employers google you before hiring you, child predators use that info to groom kids, abusers use that info against victims, police/government track activists online? Do you honestly think the internet has gotten safer since 1998????
also donât tell any rando who wanders onto your blog with unknown intentions the specifics of how they can trigger you???? no????
the fact that its not 1998 anymore is exactly WHY you should be more fucking careful. do you have any idea the tools people have now compared to then? the fact that its gotten exponentially easier to find people in real life based off online info while young people have gotten extremely comfortable sharing all their personal details is deeply concerning.
im sorry no one ever taught you internet safety but that is NOT because its not important anymore. ITS MORE IMPORTANT THAN IT EVER WAS. please listen to the people whove been on the internet longer than youve been alive. our intentions are good and internet safety is vital. especially if youre queer, which i know for a fact a lot of you are.
If you donât believe that people can track you online from a little bit of information, please check out this thread by Emily Gorcenski, an anti-fascist activist, where she breaks down how she was able to determine the exact location of someoneâs storage unit based only on a photo in the New York Times. (Gorcenski also uses her super powers to out fascists, but in this case, she is using it on one of those people who were buying up hand sanitizer in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.)
The whole thread is fascinating, and is based on nothing more than a single photo, with most of the stuff she relies on to make the ID not even being in focus, let along in the foreground. Stuff you might never think about, like the angle between two building or the exact color of the storage unit doors.Â
Because you might think to yourself, âWhat is the harm of sharing a photo that shows the color of my storage unit doors??â But combined with your name and the fact that you live in, say, Eastern Tennessee, that might be all someone needs to narrow it down.
You should really read the whole thing, but to quote something she says at the end:
âThe things that give you away are things that are not the focus of the shot. Itâs details in the background, the foreground. Shadows, changes in coloration where theyâre not expected. âŠÂ I have geolocated people from pictures of cranes in the background of images, and use local construction permits to figure out where they are. I have used the shape of downspout guards and styles of siding to identify neighborhoods.â
And as she reminds us: You should always assume that bad actors are capable of doing this, too.Â
So for the love of all that is holy, please protect yourselves. Be conscious of what you share and where and who can see it. This stuff matters.Â
Not to mention, likeâŠâŠâŠ predators lie. Predators will do one of these carrds with information specifically designed to lure people into a false sense of security.
I could say that Iâm a 15 year old trans indigenous girl named Jess who lives in the inner suburbs of Sydney, and NOT A SINGLE word of that is remotely true, but how do you know??? How do you know whether Iâm telling the truth or not??
But you might read it and think âoh sheâs a minor like me; sheâs Safe to talk toâ or âsheâs trans too she understands me on a personal levelâ or âI know her; her name is Jessâ or âsheâs indigenous, I can take her stances on indigenous topics as Truthâ â but Iâm not any of those things. And if I wrote all that and stated that they were true and you believed me then you would be in an inherently vulnerable position, because you would be believing Iâm your age or have the same gender experiences as you or that Iâm of the same heritage, and meanwhile I could be a predator whoâs specifically trying to target children by making myself out to be both a minor and two different types of minority.
And yeah, people can lie all the time if they want to; thereâs nothing to stop me right now from announcing that Iâm actually American, or Iâm actually 52, or Iâm actually a natural redhead, or Iâm actually [insert something that I am not]. But if its becoming commonplace to lay all your âbasicâ information on the table from the outset then youre gonna start taking that at face value. Youre gonna believe peoples bios. Youâre gonna check someoneâs carrd out and go âoh theyâre a fourteen year old boy from wisconsinâ and every interaction you have with them from then on is going to be through a lens of âtheyre a fourteen year old boy from Wisconsin,â and they might not be.
For the love of GOD please stop sharing your personal details online. You dont need to tell people your actual name. You dont need to share selfies. Godding fuck dont announce to the whole world that you live in a certain specific area and that youâve just been kicked out of home. There are people who will take that information and use it against you.
And if you are ever, EVER going to meet up with an online friend in real life, here are some basic tips that you really absolutely 100% should do:
Do a zoom chat with them first. No, not selfies; selfies can be taken from anywhere. I could google âteenage girl,â screenshot it, and send it to you with the claim that its my face. I could steal someoneâs Facebook photos and claim theyâre mine. Its a lot harder for an adult to con you into thinking theyre a teenager if you insist on doing a zoom call or similar with them first.
If you have a facetime/zoom call/Skype/whatever scheduled, and they cancel it, but still want to meet up in person at the pre-arranged time, DO NOT GO. Straight up say âno, weâll reschedule; how about we Skype at the time we were meant to meet in person instead.â DO NOT MEET UP WITH SOMEONE IF YOU HAVENT VIDEO-CHATTED WITH THEM. DO NOT. If they dont want to Skype with you or keep agreeing to and then dropping out, then thats a fucking huge warning sign.
If they video chat with you and youâre satisfied that they are who they say they are and youre happy to go ahead with the meet, then agree to meet up in the middle of the day in a crowded place. A shopping mall, a busy cafe, etc. Somewhere with lots of people around. Do NOT go somewhere else with them. Do NOT get in their car or go somewhere with fewer people or etc. Hate to break it to you, but it is NOT outside of the realm of possibility that the person youâre meeting is bait to get you somewhere isolated where someone else can grab you. This is a thing that has happened. Easiest way to avoid it? Donât go places alone with your online friend until you know for sure theyâre not dodgy.
Also: TELL SOMEONE WHERE YOU ARE GOING AND WHO YOU ARE GOING TO MEET. It doesnât have to be a parent. Lord knows some of you kids donât trust your parents, and I understand that. But tell SOMEONE. A friend, a sibling, a cousin; whatever. Tell them when youâre going, where youâre going, who youâre meeting, and what the other personâs online details are. If it turns out that theyre a normal human person who is just keen to meet their online friend, then great. But if they turn out to be some kind of creepy whackjob who kidnaps you or something, then at least there is someone out there who can give the police a start point about where you were and who you were meeting.
Online safety is so important and it really freaks me out to see how cavalier some of you kids are with your own safety. There are loads of freaks out there; donât hand your information over to them in a handy little personal bio.
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also if your online friend even possesses one iota of common sense, they will be fully understanding about every one of these safety precautions, and take them themselves, too.
if your online friend dismisses these concerns, then they donât care about your personal safety, and they arenât your friend, and you shouldnât meet with them.
The triggers part reminds me of trippyhippie on Tiktok who has Touretteâs syndrome. She asked people not to comment on one of her tics because reading comments about it triggered that tic and sometimes caused her actual physical harm.
One person then immediately and intentionally began trying to trigger her in the comments hoping sheâd post a video of her tic attack. Once she blocked this person they LITERALLY MADE A HATE ACCOUNT about her where they stated that they wanted her to be killed.
Now her account is partly meant to educate people about Touretteâs, so she had to make a statement about her triggers at some point. But just openly posting your triggers as an introduction to you as a person? Bad move, could be dangerous, DO NOT DO THAT.
I still think about the two 14yos in my state who were almost trafficked because a guy on Instagram saw their ages/selfies and told them he could make them âmodelsâ if they didnât tell their parents. One TSA agent is the only thing that saved those girls from leaving the country and never seeing their families again *shudders* This happened in the 2010s.
Hide your info, and definitely be careful sharing pics/vids of yourself online.
Also if youâre a minor/really young adult and the online person youâd like to meet is an adult, have another adult with you or nearby.
It can happen and be great, I had this kind of experience and it was great! But it was great because my parents and my adult friends insisted on proper safety measures, because as stated above if they care about (and have common sense) they will want the safety measures too.