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He (oh he is you, OP) has got a lot of different projects, including one that was tracking people on EarthCam streams and trying to find their Instagram post (or the other way around):

https://driesdepoorter.be/thefollower/ , which went sort of viral: https://mashable.com/article/instagram-stalking-ai-facial-re...

I wonder why you self-promote and repost your "old" stuff though..

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Yea kind of odd when the last post by which the submission about is from 2022 when it appears to be last active.

If there was some update, revelation, or even just being active.

I am seeing this person being referred as an "artist".

Thinking its a ploy for sales... they arent really selling anything i would consider valuable or sellable (eye of the beholder?).

> they arent really selling anything i would consider valuable or sellable (eye of the beholder?).

Which meshes well with art, so maybe the OP, in fact, is an artist.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

True...

I suspect you may just not value artists or art because your comment is quite dismissive. There are artists putting significantly less effort into their creations than this who sell them for significantly more. This particular exhibit isn't even for sale.

> I wonder why you self-promote and repost your "old" stuff though..

Personal branding / marketing? Pretty common on HN if you look out for it.

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