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Banksy: London Zoo removes gorilla artwork for 'safekeeping' - BBC News
  • Defining something as “art” or “not art” seems a rather simplistic worldview.

    Does art need to be “appreciated by anyone” to be “art”, is art only what is popular, or simplistic enough to be understood by a mass audience?

    Is stencilling over/tagging a banksy vandalism, or is it a making a statement on the middle class hypocrisy of its widespread acceptance of street works from one author and the derision of others?

    Which of these are “art” or “not art”…

    • banksy later tagging his own work
    • banksy later tagging his own work but not claiming authorship
    • banksy later tagging his own work, but publicly saying someone else did it, and that he doesn’t approve
    • someone else tagging banksy’s work, and banksy publicly saying that he approves
    • banksy stencilling over the mona lisa (on the actual paint)
    • banksy stencilling on the outside wall of fallingwater
    • banksy stencilling something regarded as offensive by some people
    • banksy stencilling something you like on the front of your house
    • banksy stencilling something you don’t like on the front of your house, but is widely liked by others
    • somebody else stencilling the same thing on the front of your house

    Seems like the rules for what is/isn’t art could be quite complicated. There would be endless possible scenarios to judicate on. Not to mention, who gets to decide? Popular vote, experts, the owner of the substrate?

    Much simpler to let art be undefined and interpretable however one wishes.

  • Banksy: London Zoo removes gorilla artwork for 'safekeeping' - BBC News
  • One persons vandalism is another persons art.

    No doubt if someone else claimed responsibility for it, it would already have been washed off.

  • The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine
  • Based on their 2022 report, only half of their expenses were on software development costs - around $220m, and it’s not clear what portion of that was on Firefox vs other projects.

    https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-2022-fs-final-0908.pdf

    In terms of revenue: around $100m was from sources other than Google.

    Therefore, it seems plausible to me that Firefox development could still be funded with $100m of annual revenue. At a smaller level no doubt, but still in existence nonetheless.

  • Recommend me romance anime
    • Kare Kano
    • True Tears
    • Kimagure Orange Road
    • Kimi ga Nozomu Eien
    • Voices of a Distant Star
    • Saikano

    Some of them might make you cry.

  • Adult Swim lands new show from ‘Cowboy Bebop’ and ‘John Wick’ creators | Engadget
  • “Cowboy Bebop and John Wick creators …Sunrise created John Wick?

  • A Flowchart For Cats
  • Does the cat crash if it nudges it twice and it’s on the floor?

  • No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched here.
  • The article title is a little misleading, it’s not being banned, Meta have just decided to launch Threads in US and UK only for the moment.

    “it is understood that the DPC has not actively blocked the service. Instead, the tech giant has not yet prepared the service for a European launch outside the UK”

  • What kind of players are in this community?
  • Here from reddit, play on Odin.

    Originally started playing during 1.0 beta, stopped playing probably within days after the 1.0 launch, then refused to play again until all the hype around Endwalker launch got me interested again.

    Now, other than story content when available, I login solely for watering plants, island sanctuary, weekly cactpot, and queuing for mahjong.