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My #Android phone has a Gallery app.

The app lets me draw on images.

See below:

@fixatedpersonsunit That's probably actually possible to build

@fixatedpersonsunit @dgar I was always disappointed the Stop Tony Meow addon didn't spread to subsequent PM's, didn't spread to FireFox, and also didn't go in to the ad blocking market. https://www.theguardian.com/world/australia-news-blog/2014/feb/06/replacing-abbott-with-kittens-qa-with-the-co-creator-of-stop-tony-meow

@fixatedpersonsunit Love that! #Banksy is amazing. Saw a gallery with his or her art recently. A couple of my favorites...

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There was a sign for a real estate agent that I would pass on my walk to work.

At one point someone started sticking ~30mm googly eyes on the agent's face. It was juvenile, and ridiculous, and I loved it.

For almost a year, googly eyes would show up for a few days, then the signage people would clean them off, only to be replaced a few days later.

The agent finally relented and went to a text only sign, which was sort of too bad.

@fixatedpersonsunit I had the same idea years ago.

Was thinking just black rectangles but I guess I'm boring that way.

@fixatedpersonsunit https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/461383-people-are-taking-the-piss-out-of-you-everyday-they

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Every time I see a billboard, I wish I had a grenade launcher

@fixatedpersonsunit I wouldn't mind just the "They Live" setting that replaces them with OBEY CONSUME REPRODUCE etc

@fixatedpersonsunit https://julianoliver.com/projects/the-artvertiser/

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This is a beautifully phrased quote. The argument it makes is so clear, but it feels so alien, because we’ve all grown up in a world where advertisements doing exactly that “bullying is, making our partner’s feel inadequate, etc.” is what we’ve known as “normal”.

Come to think of it, no, it’s not.

And I’m plenty of fun! And sexy! My abs are sheltered by the finest of adipose tissue!

Silly doctored magazine cover/billboard-unskippable advertisement.

@fixatedpersonsunit Banksy is sounding so wonderfully cyberpunk right there. I absolutely love it.

@fixatedpersonsunit Yes, but isn't that new Apple mother nature ad so wonderful, blah, blah. Such wondrous story-telling, etc. etc.

Actually, it makes me want to VOMIT.

@fixatedpersonsunit not to mention how they've hijacked 'creativity' and present themselves as the only 'real job' for artists. What a waste.

@fixatedpersonsunit @me_ For a while polarized sunglasses were that. The ad display panels at lots of bus stops were polarized the same way as sunglasses, so showed up empty. Sadly ad companies caught on to that.

@fixatedpersonsunit utterly brilliant and true

@fixatedpersonsunit "But that would put advertisers out of business." "Yes."

@fixatedpersonsunit Yet again Banksy is right on point!

@fixatedpersonsunit Advertising needs to be recognised as pollution

@fixatedpersonsunit at night, rave near the guard's compartment naked with a blue light. Amen.

@fixatedpersonsunit I remember an art project that did that exact thing quite a few years ago. Maybe it was @JulianOliver ?

@fixatedpersonsunit The screwiest part is: there is a small body of evidence saying that advertising does not influence our buying choices that much.

@fixatedpersonsunit where I live billboard adverts have been made illegal, though small ads (on bus stops for example) are allowed.

and I cannot describe how annoyed I am when I see one. aside from these small ads, I see pretty much none, with the contrast becoming quite jarring.

@fixatedpersonsunit You can train your consciousness to "ad block" and ignore advertising, both visually and audibly. I'm typing this while there's a commercial block on the radio. Those go in one ear and out the other, so to speak. I just ignore them.

@fixatedpersonsunit I tried making this for noise pollution once, initially using trying to filter out "Never gonna give you up" as a test, by playing the inverse wave form at the same time. Initial tests were not great, so ironically I did give it up

@fixatedpersonsunit my personal dystopia is that with that sort of AR technology, real space could start being discounted even more, but on purpose:

the design of public space extended to AR is encroached by brands and ad markets, and without the ads, things might look worse - reality as a lever to get people into the brand/ad pipelines

@fixatedpersonsunit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMewtlmkV6c

@fixatedpersonsunit that's doable with current tech!

1. train an image segmentation model to mask out ads
2. get a good track on those ads by using the 3D scanned scene or text or whatever
3. put a plane there, draw whatever image you want on it

@fixatedpersonsunit This is how I feel about my white employers who intrude into my private life without permission. They ask me for my date of birth, my race, home address, whether I live with parents without warning on interviews, first days on the job knowing that I cannot choose to say no without repercussion. The invasion, forced closeness is psychological intrusion. No one deserves this.

@fixatedpersonsunit iirc, there's been a few art projects doing that over the years…
With current state of image processing techniques, it should be more doable than ever…

@fixatedpersonsunit Interesting how the quote is low-key addressed to cishet males? "making your girlfriend feel inadequate"?

@fixatedpersonsunit Bill Hicks was totally right about marketing scumbags

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0

@fixatedpersonsunit I have never understood why people would pay over a thousand dollars for an ugly bag that has the company logo all over it only because someone decided it was prestigious to do so.
And I bet you know the company without me even telling you.

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A few toots up I read Greta Thunberg say "We can't save the world by following the rules." And here I read Bansky say something similar. Now to find a third stick-it-to-The-Man item to complete my need for things to come in threes. Thanks.

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@fixatedpersonsunit Wow!

@fixatedpersonsunit very similar to this manifesto I wrote about 28 years ago: http://www.detritus.net/manifesto.html

@fixatedpersonsunit This is brilliant and has got me thinking.... 🤔

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So true!!

@fixatedpersonsunit Wow…may they live a thousand years of perfect health.

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@fixatedpersonsunit @drgs100 One of the best parts about the periods of lockdown during COVID (the truly awful parts of this experience notwithstaning of course), was that it destroyed the market for advertising in public spaces. I found myself feeling so much calmer when walking around my city. I truly detest ads.

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Who was it who said "advertising is a form of pollution?"

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#ImNotSayingImOldBut I remember a time before #Corporations convinced people to advertise on their bodies

@fixatedpersonsunit I’m convinced that banksy is my spirit animal

@fixatedpersonsunit Or random placeholder kittens -- https://placekitten.com/

@fixatedpersonsunit David Ogilvy, perhaps the greatest of all ad men, despised billboards.

@fixatedpersonsunit #WiseWords 👍👍

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Couldn't agree more.
@devnull

@fixatedpersonsunit I've actually discussed with my therapist how adblocking has helped my self-esteem.

@fixatedpersonsunit this goes fking hard

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As much as I admire graffiti, public art, protests, + culture jamming, it's worth thinking about how this applies to truly small business owners. If we apply this to corporations, do we also think the HVAC tech with her small crew + tall van should be in the crosshairs? Should a nonprofit coop, who scraped together funds to reach people offline, be equally targeted?

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Banksy is a bit of a hack but I won't disagree with that

@fixatedpersonsunit Advertising is a computer virus for the brain (a "meme virus" perhaps?), trying to evade our defenses and rewrite our thoughts and preferences.

@fixatedpersonsunit Good book on this - Advertising Shits in Your Head by Dog Section Press

@fixatedpersonsunit this reminds me of a short-lived Google service where you paid them a few dollars a month and they replaced ads on existing sites with cat pictures. It was incredible.

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@fixatedpersonsunit Don't usually care for the guy these days but holy shit, this time his points *way* go hard.

RIP notifications

@fixatedpersonsunit NB, the "Banksy" quote is actually adapted from "Death, Phones, Sissors" by Sean Tejaratchi published in Crap Hound in 1999:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120314093434/http://www.readingfrenzy.com/ledger/2012/03/taking_the_piss

https://gawker.com/5892332/viral-banksy-quote-on-advertising-plagiarizes-1999-zine-essay

#Banksy #SamTejaratchi #TakingThePiss #Advertising #CrapHound

@fixatedpersonsunit An*extremely* interesting point.