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The End of “Someone”

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Re: The End of “Someone”

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One of my favorite long-running gags from the Onion is that, for their "American Voices" / people on the street articles, they use the exact same photos every time. Sometimes I wonder who those people actually are, since we've been seeing their same faces for so many years.

I actually looked that up last year, came across this article which goes into some depth: https://triviahappy.com/articles/who-are-the-people-in-the-o... “ Most of the crew were just strangers or friends in Madison, Wisconsin, where The Onion used to be based.” “ The brown-haired caucasian man is Bill Harris. He was The Onion’s Madison UPS truck driver”

Awesome find—thanks!

Re: The End of “Someone”

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> In 2019, and perhaps forever, we’re now at a new level, one where the polish of photography or video is no longer any clue at all about the provenance of what we’re encountering. > ... how disruptive this shift is going to be. > There are people and organizations that are racing to break the fabric of community... An interesting article but it irks me when authors downplay the bad things that have already happened…

> one where the polish of photography or video is no longer any clue at all about the provenance of what we’re encountering. At least with software I’ve pretty much always felt uneasy when there was lots of polish. When I was a kid and I saw the web pages auto generated from texinfo I’d get this reflexive “oh this is written by a programmer and not some PR person” feeling even though I had no idea what texinfo or GNU…

Honestly I've never trusted the Polish but I think you can rely on Germans.
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