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New comment by jubilee33 in "One million passports leaked online"

jubilee33 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:05:30 +0000

Not even needed many times, I was recently at an overseas airport that wanted you to scan your passport to log into the internet. Ya not happening. On another device I downloaded a "sample" passport image of a British passport, the first one on Google images, pointed the phone at the device screen. "This will never work" , he thought as he was immediately logged in. All this stuff really hurts the people who follow the rules the most.

New comment by jubilee33 in "Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art"

jubilee33 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:51:20 +0000

Your absolutely correct. The Venice exhibition was made with 600 thousand euros of public money. The great art of the last age was also commissioned by rich nobility, basically the same as there was no public funds at that stage of developmemt. So you admitted that the public purse and what it is willing to pay to commission for public art is useful measure of a pseudoscientific constant, namely that of the public consideration of the "great art" of that age. I'm not sure that fountains of human excrement convey the grandeur that your attributing to modern art however.

We can make better than the past for sure, there is no point to rehash the glory of old, but we so far have not. In archeology there is a constant and agreed upon "decadent" style that can indicate when cultures have experienced conditions, for external or internal reasons, that ultimately led to their decline and downfall.

It's amazing that we cannot recognize the same precursors in our own. But perhaps this is interdisciplinary blindness?

New comment by jubilee33 in "Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses"

jubilee33 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:23:41 +0000

Yes, like immediately after they were beta on unsuspecting university students. Anyone with a Facebook in 2026, ...well we can't just say they deserve it because that is definitely (no sarcasm intended) blaming the victim. But sometimes it feels like, why does the Nigerian Prince scam keep working after 30 plus years? Do we have to sacrifice the weak and vulnerable to have any sense of freedom and creativity? I don't know honestly ...perhaps?

New comment by jubilee33 in "Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art"

jubilee33 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:57:21 +0000

Well "great" is rather subjective. But in terms of collective agreement we can conclusive say there really isn't anything like the art of the past made today. As an artist I was invited to a much vaunted exhibition in Venice itself recently. It consisted of a woman sitting in urine ...but with a kind message asking bystanders to please not poop in her tank.. The link if you fail to believe it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/arts/design/venice-bienna...

Modern art and artists indeed do mirror the feeling of their age.

New comment by jubilee33 in "Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art"

jubilee33 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:45:58 +0000

Great art is rooted in the hardest of human emotion. Is why we look back to ancient culture with reverance and sometimes nostalgia. We wouldn't want to be there in the midst of the brawl, most of us moderns would rather jump from the bridge. But our human spirit and memory recognizes the suffering and sacrifices of the ancestors. It's why there really isn't any "great art" anymore, at least in the classical sense, as those with the means to produce it don't have any great emotions. We will probably get there again, but like an LLM, sometimes humans need to reconstitute the entire corpus to make a rather small change

New comment by jubilee33 in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

jubilee33 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:32:48 +0000

Mullvad has always been a bit suspect with regard to their settings or lack their of, however what are you trying to insinuate? That founders are not political? That one "wing" of some hypothetical bird is in some way disconnected from its mirror wing? Regardless making something such as a VPN is and has been commoditiezed in current year to such an extent that whatever may be your motives, you can only do good by encouraging the userbase to not pay for said services.