A Converse sneaker ad provokes horror and backlash
The photo showed a figure in white carrying a pair of sneakers.
But it looked an awful lot like a Ku Klux Klan member’s pointed hood foregrounded by the dangling feet of a lynching victim, according to social media users.
The image was posted to the Instagram account of the shoe company Converse, a subsidiary of Nike, to promote the Chuck 70 X sneaker, which was released globally Aug. 27.
Almost immediately, social …
'Detailfotografie' #FotoVorschlag
Oh I posted this one recently but I think it also fits very well for the 'details' topic. And it has some waterdrops to cool your timeline during the heat ;)
Happy Saturday my #photography friends
If I had a nickel every time I posted an image of a cursed clock and someone made it into a real thing, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice...
https://glammr.us/@fskornia/116415597297660514
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➡️ Image Not Found — Art as Action
#bookmarks
Einige von euch mögen sich vielleicht daran erinnern, dass ich beim Lesen von Reda El Arbis ersten beiden tollen SciFi-Romanen "[empfindungsfæhig]" und "Asimovs Kindergarten" zwischendurch besonders eindrückliche Sätze oder Szenen hier postete.
Gestern Morgen beim Früh-Espresso auf der Gasse erfuhr ich, dass der "Kindergarten" für den Deutschen Science-Fiction-Preis nominiert wurde.
Und nur noch etwa 70 Seiten fehlen bis zum dritten Band …
There are some rumors on the web that coding agents scraped the website of the #ICM to find the Fields Medallist's names, which of course were already in the source code.
This reminded my of 12 years ago when I accidentally ran into a live version of the celebratory videos that were put up openly on the Internet for a couple of minutes. I managed to screenshot 3 out of 4 and posted them on Google and then one senior and famous mathematician got very angry at me.![]()
Amazon Workers @ DCH1 U...
@Dch1United
Not-so-fun fact of the day:
Amazon has A/C at facilities
that have robots
because the robots overheat in this
temperature.
We don't have robots at DCH1,
so we don't have A/C.
Amazon cares more about
their robots overheating than their
workers overheating!
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➡️ Geoffrey Giebelhaus Photography - An Intro to the Fediverse
https://photography.ggiebelhaus.ca/posts/the-fediverse---for-photographers/
(This is a link from my bookmark collection. A new link gets posted each night.)
Wenn Leute mit Grünabfalltonnen ins Postauto einsteigen, dann weisst du, es ist wieder Openair Frauenfeld!