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И здесь, в общем, одновременно всё человеческое. #казаться_а_не_быть, #повествовательные_технологии и, пожалуй, #конкультура в её высшем смысле и проявлении. - × × ×

“Artist and photographer Michael Paul Smith has spent hours upon hours photographing one special town that he holds very dear to his heart. There is something that always drew him to it, and the images he created are simple, but stunning. They glow with small-town charm and innocence, reminiscent of days and decades past.” • #конкультура - × × ×

"At 4'11" and just over 100 pounds, Michelle Gomez doesn’t look like the sort of person you’d hire to retrieve earthmoving equipment stolen by a Peruvian crime family. But in the summer of 2013, that’s exactly what she was doing." • #конкультура - × × ×

Почему-то на меня пахнуло Гибсоном. - рептильный дом

Для этого у нас есть тег #gibsonesque - × × ×

“Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping on moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance, captured entirely in camera.” #now_this_is_awesome • #конкультура - × × ×

"The US Patent and Trademark Office made public this week a newly-granted Apple patent. It’s called “Techniques to pollute electronic profiling.” Apple didn’t invent this technology. It was probably invented at Novell. But, according to the patent document, Apple is an “assignee,” which means Apple has the exclusive legal right to use or license the technology. The idea is to foil online data harvesting through misinformation. It’s a method for systematically lying to data-harvesting servers." • #because_fuck_you_thats_why • #конкультура - × × ×

“Phil Ferguson made quite a name for himself in northeastern Indiana. As a boy, Ferguson had worked on his family’s farm near Alexandria, helping his father, mother, and sister tend to corn, beans, and a few spotted Appaloosa horses. At Alexandria High School, he was active in the AV club and Future Farmers of America. “Above-average student, worked hard, well-liked, good parents,” says Orvis Burdsall, Ferguson’s high-school principal. “He was the kind of kid you never had to worry about.” • #конкультура - × × ×

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“Well, gah. This was such a good story. You wanted it to be true -- not just as a fun fact, or as an easy Internet Shareable, or as a reminder of the psychic continuity between past and present, or as a Campbellian lesson of the banality of heroism, or as a Buellerian tale of the obvious productivity of truancy ... but also because, I mean, Lincoln inventing Facebook. There is nothing that is not awesome about that.” • #конкультура • #безжалостный_постмодернизм - × × ×

“We now have a thing that lets us, just as "Honest Abe" wanted, "keep aware of Others in the Town." How we use that thing, though, is up to us. "I just think this is fun; I don't think it hurts anybody," St. Pierre says of his prank. At the same time, though, "people have this willing suspension of disbelief," he notes. And with people and outlets constantly racing to find the newest and shiniest and share-iest thing on the web, "you can take advantage of that if you want.” - × × ×

“A woman opens an old steamer trunk and discovers tantalizing clues that a long-dead relative may actually have been a serial killer, stalking the streets of New York in the closing years of the nineteenth century. A beer enthusiast is presented by his neighbor with the original recipe for Brown's Ale, salvaged decades before from the wreckage of the old brewery--the very building where the Star-Spangled Banner was sewn in 1813. A student buys a sandwich called the Last American Pirate and unearths the long-forgotten tale of Edward Owens, who terrorized the Chesapeake Bay in the 1870s. These stories have two things in common. They are all tailor-made for viral success on the internet. And they are all lies.” - × × ×

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“Sometimes even an apparent failure can mask an underlying success. The students may have failed to pull off a spectacular hoax, but they surely learned a tremendous amount in the process. "Why would I design a course," Kelly asks on his syllabus, "that is both a study of historical hoaxes and then has the specific aim of promoting a lie (or two) about the past?" Kelly explains that he hopes to mold his students into "much better consumers of historical information," and at the same time, "to lighten up a little" in contrast to "overly stuffy" approaches to the subject. He defends his creative approach to teaching the mechanics of the historian's craft, and plans to convert the class from an experimental course into a regular offering.” - × × ×

“If every person here really does represent a $3,000 ticket (I have my doubts about that one), that means that, after the B-movie lighting and special effects, the speaker's fees and other expenses, Yanik is still making some money — that's before the livestream and cash bar sales from the closing night party are counted. Additionally, I am pretty sure that, had I booked my hotel room through the link he emailed me, he would have received a cut of that, too. If that weren’t enough money-making angles, Yanik offered to make The Verge an affiliate partner in his livestream of the event: the site “would get 40% on any sale that came through [the] link. Right now the livestream is selling for $995.” Maybe we should have taken him up on it.” • #конкультура - × × ×

“The Verge's Joseph L. Flatley delves into the world of Internet marketing scams (those stupid spam pitches you get for "lead generation" and such) in eye-watering detail. Fundamentally, these things are exactly what they appear to be: con artists who suck money out of desperate people by lying to them about the money they can make with "work from home" businesses. They're pyramid schemes. But Flatley lingers on the personalities, the histories, the motivations and the unique innovations that the Internet has given rise to, providing insight into the feel of being inside one of these desperate, sweaty scams.” - × × ×

“Count” Victor Lustig was a con man of considerable note. Born in 1890, by the 1930s he was wanted by approximately 45 law enforcement agencies worldwide. He had 25 known aliases and spoke 5 languages. He cunningly gained $5k from Al Capone. Better still, in 1925, Lustig posed as a government official in Paris, took five businessmen on a tour of the Eiffel Tower, and then “sold” it to one of them as 7300 tonnes of scrap metal; the con went so well, he tried it again soon after. He also wrote the following list of commandments for aspiring con men. Be a patient listener (it is this, not fast talking, that gets a con-man his coups). Never look bored. Wait for the other person to reveal any political opinions, then agree with them. Let the other person reveal religious views, then have the same ones. Hint at sex talk, but don’t follow it up unless the other fellow shows a strong interest. Never discuss illness, unless some special concern is shown. Never pry into a person’s personal... #конкультура - × × ×

"At 25, Stephen Glass was the most sought-after young reporter in the nation’s capital, producing knockout articles for magazines ranging from The New Republic to Rolling Stone. Trouble was, he made things up—sources, quotes, whole stories—in a breathtaking web of deception that emerged as the most sustained fraud in modern journalism." #конкультура #воображаемая_цивилизация - × × ×

Unlike other young Internet entrepreneurs who built big businesses at the start of the new millennium, the story of Sam Jain and Daniel Sundin hasn’t been told in fawning profiles or books or in movies directed by David Fincher. Yet in a perverse way, IMI could be considered one of the most remarkable startups of the past decade. This duo’s knack for social engineering has been as brilliant as anything Facebook ever rolled out, and IMI’s nimble, iterative approach to software development and marketing produced innovation on an almost weekly basis. The IMI story apparently isn’t one that its two founders are eager to tell, though; in fact, their whereabouts are unknown and both have warrants out for their arrest. But thanks to a series of lawsuits and criminal complaints filed over the past several years, combined with interviews with former company insiders, it’s possible to reconstruct a picture of how scareware gets made—and how it made multimillionaires out of two misanthropic hucksters. #конкультура - × × ×

“Cons and Scams used or mentioned in the television series Leverage. Some of these are Long Cons, while others are grifts or more spontaneous scams.” • #congames • #конкультура - × × ×

“The goal of The Encyclopedia Of Scams is to eventually feature every scam, trick, cheat and swindle ever perpetrated against the world's suckers. It's not about warning rubes. It's not about teaching criminals. It's about having some fun with the incredible world of the con artist!” #congames #проигры #конкультура - × × ×

List of confidence tricks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - × × ×

Psychological manipulation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - × × ×