I needed cheering up the other day. These bastards did the job.
After I wrote about it yesterday, @steevc asked how image files sound in Audacity. Well the databending thing works when you treat the image as a bitmap. I convert to .bmp format which is essentially a short header (a couple of seconds of sound) and then loads of bits that are an encoded mapping of the pixels in the image. I haven't listened to many of them but basically they sound just the same as the bits that we used to record on magnetic tape in cassettes for the early micro-computers - except these are like twenty seconds long instead of the few minutes that we used to need for idk, Frogger or Galaxians.
@teamhumble said something like my gif had been eaten by Climate Change. Yep, that's the aesthetic alright!
Today in Democracy is Only For The Rich: Martin Belam shared on Twitter the range of ads being bought on FB by the Conservatives to garner more data about voters - this is from the FB ad library
What's going on here is testing of different ads for different audiences which is ho-hum but also the subject is a "location tool" that asks for postcode information so they can tie up existing demographics with where voters are.
This is how they win. And awareness alone, while useful isn't going to be enough. We need a way of fighting this kind of campaign now and in the future.
It's midday, that's my deadline. That's all folks!
Social media has changed political campaigning and there are no precedents. I don't know if it can be regulated unless the big companies want to do so.
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