#internuts

[nataschaartworx]

i just had a great idea: what if i invest some money (that i do not have now) and put some real #gold on all of my #internuts #selfie #art #project #paintings...gold paint doesn't really do the job... #internuts_selfie_art_project what do you think? yay or nay? https://www.instagram.com/p/Buj4E8dnAnU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zwu0o6uoqwli

[nataschaartworx]

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are you #internuts??? my #internuts_selfie_art_project at #atelierhaus23 in #Hamburg #vernissage #myart #groupexhibition #groupshow #lesmontmartroisdehambourg #art #contemporaryart #hamburgartists https://www.instagram.com/p/BqCe1ivl3wj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16sjonvr014qv

[nataschaartworx]

are you #internuts? #endoftheyeargifts i think #free #art #cards for my lovely #patrons are a good #idea at this time of the year. want some? #support me #onpatreon #linkinmybio for just 1$ a month (or more) 1$ patrons get 1 card, 5$: get 5 cards and 25$: get the full set of 10 cards #art #artcards #patreonartist #patreoncreator #supportlivingartists #contemporaryart https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpzz_urnzcW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=acn8hhfc6bv4

[nataschaartworx]

hey #artlovers, you MAY #come to my #virtualartauction on #facebook now! the #virtual #art #auction is #live now! #youMAYbuyartinMAY #buyartwork #online #internuts

[nataschaartworx]

My #internuts #internuts_selfie_art_project #paintings are hanging in osterstr.154,hamburg now...have a coffee, enjoy some #art at #lalpera

[becknism]

The Internuts is a project created by Claire Decrock, it is a new way to meet people. Without seeing one’s face, you can talk, touch, dance whatever you want. And it’s only when the conversation is over that you see the person who you’ve been talking to.

I directed the short movie.

[millennialwhy-blog]

Millennials are really in a sweet spot when it comes to technology. When they were children, there was hardly any internet technology. They started to learn about technology in Middle and High School. So currently, they're the only generation who literally grew up with no technology and grew up with technology. Let's not forget, Millennials were at their sweet spots when AOL came to the home also.

Millennial Why?

[habeasporpoise]

Squawking Points: Twitter and Minors.

        The 2012 election left Romney supporters disappointed and furious. Battered by defeat, they did what true Americans do under such grave circumstances: They took to twitter.  What followed was a salvo of troubling (read: SUPER racist and not okay) tweets launched into the ether like so many… I don’t know… Going to go with “angry jerk missiles". Anyway, Jezebel highlights some of the worst ones here (NSFW).

       Oh, but the story doesn’t end there! This is the 21st century and everything must be counted, sorted, poked, prodded and probed until we are certain that we never cared about it in the first place. If there is a God, he/she definitely has OCD.* 

         Somebody created a tumblr that highlights racist, and anti-obama twitter users. It’s called “Hello there, Racists” (google it on your own time) and it lit up my newsfeed this weekend. Everyone had a good laugh before going back to their pictures of cats doing things that they aren’t suppose to do.

        I’m not sure how to feel about it. The site exists in the capacity to shame racists for being horrible and ignorant. At first glance, it feels like frontier justice served up piping hot. Disliking racists is safe. It’s easy. It's like watching Indiana Jones punch Nazis. Nazis have it coming. Upon further inspection however, “Hello there, Racists” inadvertently raises some interesting issues about twitter and social media as whole.

        About half of the twitter accounts featured in “Hello there, Racists” belong to minors. This begs the question: Should twitter have an age restriction? Currently it doesn't  As it stands, these kids who, by law, are not fully responsible for their actions are endangering their futures by publicly announcing to the world that they are both hateful and ignorant.

        After reading many of the tweets put up on “Hello there, Racists”, it becomes clear that these kids are using twitter to communicate with their peers a la facebook. Twitter is not facebook. Twitter is vast and terrifying. Anything you tweet is instantly removed from its intended context and is put on the operating table for dissection by the entire god damned universe. There is no “what I meant was…” in twitter. Twitter has taken down celebrities and politicians alike. In most cases it’s self inflicted.** Tweets are archived in the library of congress. These kids have isbn codes attached to their juvenile gaffes.

       Videogames and movies, on the other hand, do have age restrictions. Whether this is more for the purposes of protecting kids or avoiding lawsuits is another discussion entirely.

        Don’t get me wrong. Bigots are stupid, smelly jerks. Simply put, they are why we can’t have nice thing. For example, while the United States was fighting a civil war over “States Rights to own slaves”, London was busy making a subway system. The London Underground opened in 1863. Read that again. What I am trying to say is that we should have hoverboards by now but we don’t. Thanks a lot, Jefferson Davis! 

        At this point you are asking yourself: Why don’t these kids just make their twitter accounts private? Well, Mom, I will tell you. I think it’s the same reason why many people from my generation didn't make their livejournals private. Giving everyone access to your thoughts appeals to the ego. The only difference is that livejournals were kept in a dusty corner of the internet's attic. You had to go looking for them. Also, there are spiders in the attic. Twitter’s hashtag system has changed all of that.

Further reading: Mapping racist tweets in response to President Obama's Re-election

* Fjords.

** off the top of my head: Jamie Kennedy, Anthony Weiner, the rapid downward nutspiral that is Donald Trump.