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It's a weird place to be where I can watch a war unfold on television and have live geotagged curated material laid out on a map on my computer. It's amazing a
by superdug 5y ago
It's a weird place to be where I can watch a war unfold on television and have live geotagged curated material laid out on a map on my computer. It's amazing and depressing at the same time.
- dereg 5y agoIndeed. The first time I felt this sensation was during the Japanese tsunamis, where we were fed a live, HD footage of the flooding from the vantage point of news helicopters. I pray that we’ll never have to use tools like these for anything other than leisure.
- paganel 5y agoThe same happened with /r/syriancivilwar back in 2014-2015, in that case it was even more depressing because you also had some nutjobs like ISIS directly involved in said conflict, which meant massacres like this one [1] getting reported almost in real time, with images from the place where it had all happened and all that. The 2014 fight between Russia and Ukraine was also heavily documented in almost real time. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Speicher_massacre
- trinovantes 5y agoDefinitely surreal to watch war unfold in real time on twitter/tiktok
- LesZedCB 5y agoThe phenomenon is at least as old as Baudrillard's work The Gulf War Did Not Take Place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulf_War_Did_Not_Take_Place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulf_War_Did_Not_Take_Plac...