My new hobby: finding public domain images that Getty sells for $500, locating hi-rez scans of their original publications, cropping and cleaning them up, adding metadata, and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons.
First one: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F…
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I think mine is better than Getty's, tbh. That's a pretty shit cleanup job. gettyimages.ca/detail/news-p…
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Here's the column I ended up using that graphic for: doctorow.medium.com/culture-…
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I sometimes think about this piece from Techdirt in 2006 in which it claims every household in the US has already paid $2000 for a broadband fiber connection.
techdirt.com/2006/01/31/youv…
Mar 19, 2023 · 7:42 PM UTC
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