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Mark Zuckerberg unveils giant Roman sculpture of his wife – AP News
- edward 2y agoThe Internet Archive got there first: https://www.getty.edu/news/clay-sculptures-of-archivists-show-the-human-face-of-big-data/ https://www.getty.edu/news/clay-sculptures-of-archivists-sho... Full disclosure: There's a statue of me at the Internet Archive.
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- drno123 2y agoDoes not look Roman.
- aetherson 2y agoHard to tell the size, but based on the tree doesn't seem all that giant either.
- ASalazarMX 2y agoIt looks barely 2:1 scale, IMO big but hardly giant: https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebrity/mark-zuckerbergs-wife-priscilla-chan-poses-with-bold-roman-statue-he-commissioned-of-her-can-t-miss-me/ar-AA1oK7l8 https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebr...
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- blitzar 2y ago> In the post, captioned "Bringing back the Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife" The "Roman" aspect is the tradition not the style I assume.
- lenerdenator 2y agoThis is way more fun than spending money on content moderation team benefits or proper customer service.
- sprior 2y agoThe misunderstanding here is that you think you're their customer - you're the product not the customer.
- lenerdenator 2y agoThis mainly comes from people who wish to post their business or other commercial page on Facebook and have, for a reason that isn't particularly clear, been prevented from doing so, and no one at Meta can give them an explanation. I don't have it in front of me right now but there's a Python podcast episode I listened to recently where a person involved with the Pandas project was banned from having some sort of presence on a Meta property. The theory was that the content moderation algorithms had marked his account as being related to the exotic animal trade because of the words "python" and "pandas" being in so many posts. This person had extreme difficulty in getting any sort of answers from Meta.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoI wish billionaires were spending more on beautiful public places with cool sculptures. Better than hiding wealth with art in storage centers that will never be seen again.
- practicemaths 2y agoBezos is funding this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now
- wmf 2y agoWhich sounds like it will never be open to the public.
- practicemaths 2y agoSay's Bezos is getting the prototype. A public one is planned for Ely, Nevada.
- tempsy 2y agodo they not? little island in NYC was funded by Barry Diller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Island_at_Pier_55 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Island_at_Pier_55
- kjkjadksj 2y agoSay what you will about the robber barrons. We still have rockefeller, carnegie, and vanderbilt buildings, institutions, and colleges today. Being a patron for general public welfare was at least socially popular for the ultra wealthy capitalists in this country 100 years ago. A shame how that has changed.
- wahnfrieden 2y agoWe don't call them robber barons anymore, they've succeeded enough at spinning their entrepreneurship in the public eye that they don't need to build those institutions these days Instead they now buy enough land to keep common folk far enough away from them on what used to be areas free to roam, eg what they're doing in Hawaii
- hprotagonist 2y agoI met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert...
- coolspot 2y agoChrist the Redeemer statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro is giant. This one is not.
- chamakits 2y agoThis really opened my eyes to some historical context I never thought of before. My initial gut reaction was judgmental about the way billionaires spend their money; thinking it might involve some amount of hubris. Then I realized I have no idea of how sculpture that are now show in museums as treasured historical art pieces were judge in the time they were created. Today we treasure them. But what did the general population think of them? I have no idea. I imagine that at the time of their commissioning they were also paid by affluent people that could afford such luxuries. People that probably mirror today’s billionaires in influence and access. So what’s different about these?
- midiguy 2y agoThe difference is that Roman sculpture is revered for it's ingenuity and craftmanship at a time where that style of sculpture was being developed with the more limited resources they had back then, and it often depicted important motifs from religion, society, etc. Whereas this is just a copy of that with limited cultural relevance (no one is going to be talking about Priscilla Chan in 20 years, let alone a couple thousand).
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoThis is on a level with the thousands of Roman sculptures that we've never known about because they were unremarkable and crumbled to dust long ago.
- igrekel 2y agoRoman style? It seems like today's rich don't have statues depicting them naked like in ancient times.
- snapplebobapple 2y agoas Pericles sayeth: "ostende mihi faciem tuam libris"
- OutOfHere 2y agoIMHO, this is proof that an aggressive wealth tax on the top 1% would be well deserved, assuming that the tax is structured in a way that fully pays off the national debt faster than the debt can grow.
- pushcx 2y agoThis might be less ostentation than assumed. There is a California startup named Monumental Labs who have recently developed tech to enormously reduce the cost of statuary: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-26/the-startup-behind-the-viral-marble-statue-at-the-stripe-conference https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-26/the-start...
- mysterydip 2y agoWhy doesn't she look happy (or at least not annoyed)? If that was the photo I took of my wife, she'd make me take it again.
- nunez 2y agoMark claims that he's "bringing back" the practice of making "Roman" sculptures for partners. Was this actually common?
- zingababba 2y agoUgly and soulless.