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[carby]

sorry but I'm boosting your comment because I have similar concerns. I wanna crowdsource a reasonable, logical answer. Tumblr essayists, heeere tumblr essayists pspspspspsps

[radracer]

Peugeot 505 Sedan Lifted 💪

@rallystart

[chwedout]

hi everyone! as part of my 1k followers celebration, i've decided to open up a tracking tag over at #chwedoutbox.

the tag is open for anyone to use, you just need to follow the guidelines below:

visual content only (e.g. gifs, gfx, fanart, etc.)

only seventeen content for non-mutuals.

mutuals can tag me in whatever they want, even non-kpop content. i just ask that you don't tag me in groups that i don't post about.

i won't reblog any content that has been stolen or white-washed/ colour-washed.

i also have the right not to reblog anything that might make me uncomfortable.

i'll check the tag every other day and add tagged posts to my queue.

please feel free to spam the tag with your posts! i love seeing everything that you create and promise that spamming won't annoy me.

[nando161mando]

Now with a brain chip you can be tracked via satellite by a federally bankrolled chauvinistic billionaire fascist.

Enjoy.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/neuralink-implants-brain-chip-first-human-musk-says-2024-01-29/

[fred-waffen]

[stevebattle]

Roboteer by MBAssociates International (1975), San Ramon, California. This remote controlled, tracked vehicle is an explosive ordnance disposal and surveillance robot. "Roboteer, who was manufactured by a firm in San Ramon, California, is accompanied by employee Judy Bently as the mechanized marvel uses its own street crossing on its way to an unannounced destination. Officials say the robot is designed to perform functions which are considered hazardous to more ordinary and fragile mortals." – Celebrity Magazine, 1976.

[eight-cats-in-a-box]

Quick thing everybody. The thing that runs Tumblr live (I think??) tracks you even when you're not using the app. I recommend getting a tracking blocker, the one I use is DuckDuckGo. Install it, go to settings, scroll down to "More From DuckDuckGo, and you should see something that says, "Enable App Tracking Protection". Enable it. I turned it on yesterday and it's blocked over 30,000 attempts from Tumblr. Almost every. Singe. One. From that company. Here's a screenshot:

And heres some visual on how to turn it on:

Click the three dots and click settings

Scroll down till you see this and click on the one that says App Tracking Protection

Hit enable

OVER 30000 ATTEMPTS. I'D EXPECT THIS FROM A SHITTY GOOGLE PLAY GAME, NOT TUMBLR.

[ikjun]

bss fighting has really been the universal song of the year. gotta keep going, what else can you do indeed

[rainyfestivalsweets]

Le sigh.

Was feeling nauseous so I thought this would be nice. Almost 400 cals.

And why? Where? Why is tracking so important, you ask....?

This bread is the low calorie sara Lee stuff. 90 c Sugar free jam. 20 c, generous portion.

Yep. I apparently ate well over 200 cals of peanut butter.

On a meal that to be honest, was not that satisfying.

Next time- more volume, less peanut butter.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

that article going around abt firefox's new ad program is annoying bc it's phrased as though "mozilla has finally TURNED on its people and is SELLING YOU OUT for cold hard cash!!" when. that's not what's happening. it is specifically being implemented to discourage tracking behavior, and literally all the data they are giving to advertisers is aggregate and anonymized, which is like, the opposite of what that post wants you to worry about, lol

[walnutsupreme]

well. hm

[jodielandons]

NOAH LYLES pulls out the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Exodia the Forbidden One Yu-Gi-Oh! cards before winning all of his 100m races at the 2024 Olympic trials

[sirfrogsworth]

How do you take a photo of time?

I've been watching the track events at the Olympics since I was a wee lad. It was a tradition in our family. We'd gather around our ancient low-definition 19 inch CRT television and watch tiny blobs compete against other tiny blobs and root for our country.

It was a bit like watching YouTube on your phone in 144p.

Several heroes emerged.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee was amazing.

You can't forget about Flo-Jo.

And then the Olympics decided NBA players were allowed in the competition.

Which formed... The Dream Team.

Was this fair?

Well... they won each game by an average of 44 points.

So... no. It was not fair.

Though it became more fair as time went on.

But, umm... yeah. The other teams looked like the Washington Generals and the US looked like the Harlem Globetrotters if they stopped screwing around half of the game.

But my absolute favorite Olympian was a runner named Michael Johnson.

He was cool as heck.

For one thing... gold shoes.

But he also had this crazy, upright, Tom Cruise-ish sprinting style that just made him look like a running robot on the track.

And in the 1996 Atlanta games he just trounced EVERYONE. I mean, it wasn't even close.

Yikes. Those losing blobs are probably really embarrassed.

Last night I decided to invigorate my nostalgia and watch the track events again. And I got to see one of the wildest races in history.

It didn't even last 10 seconds but it was one of the most exciting sporting events I've ever witnessed. Almost every runner won the race.

After I saw that initially, I was like... who the heck won???

Even in slow motion I wasn't sure.

This was one of the closest finishes in history. There has never been a race where all 8 runners were within this margin.

The arena was silent as the winner was being confirmed. The runners just kind of paced around waiting for official word. My best guess was the Jamaican runner, Kishane Thompson. But then the loudspeaker announced Noah Lyles.

The last tiny morsel of American pride burst out of me with a big "Wooooo!"

I forgot what it was like to be proud of my country. I wish it happened more often. But this young man, despite being last place in the first 3rd of the race, turned on the afterburners and won in a photo finish.

And that's when my inner nerd took over.

Because when they showed the photo finish image, it looked super weird.

Why is the track white?

Why do all of the runners look all warpy like that QWOP game?

So I went down a research rabbit hole to figure this out.

Photo finishes are actually fascinating. The first photo finish captured the end of a horse race in 1890. But that was mostly luck and timing. The actual photo finish mechanisms weren't used until 1937.

Originally they would film the finish line through a physical slit.

And the first horsie head that appeared in that slit would be the winner. This technology ended a huge aspect of corruption in horse race fixing almost overnight.

But we have come a long way since then. And I'd like to introduce you to the Omega Scan 'O' Vision Ultimate.

This slow motion camera sits fixed on the finish line of every race. The concept of the photo finish has remained remarkably similar to the 1930s approach. The camera sensor is specially designed to only record a vertical slit.

Only the finish line itself is actually captured.

And because it limits what it records to only that slit, it can capture 40,000 frames per second to get amazing temporal resolution.

So why don't the photo finishes just look like, well... this?

That is because the camera takes a picture of time more-so than dimensional space. I guess it would be more accurate to say it *assembles* a picture of time.

As the runners cross the finish line, the camera combines all of the little strips of pictures into a single image.

It's almost like if you tried to reassemble a piece of paper after it had been shredded.

Imagine each strip of paper is a picture of ONLY the finish line, just at a slightly different point in time.

What if someone stopped on the finish line and didn't move... what would that look like?

Once they got there, the same part of their body would just be repeated.

So the right side of the photo finish picture represents earlier in time and it just assembles the image strip by strip as time passes and you literally get a picture of time itself.

NEAT!

Okay, but how do they determine the winner from the photo finish?

I mean, that shoe looks like it is ahead of Noah Lyles!

Clavicles!

The IAFF rules state the foremost part of the torso must cross the finish line first. And the endpoint of the torso is the outer end of the clavicle.

So if you get this bone across the finish line first, you win the race.

Two more fun facts!

The start of the race is actually just as carefully timed as the end of the race. There are sensors in the starting blocks of each runner.

The starting gun also has an electronic sensor.

They have determined the fastest a human can react to the sound of a gun is roughly 100 milliseconds. So if you start running before 100 milliseconds they know you didn't actually hear the gun, you just got antsy and started running too early.

And the final fun fact...

Did you notice the Omega logo at the top of the photo finish?

That isn't superimposed or added after the fact. That is captured by the camera.

But if this image is composed only of tiny little slivers, how did they get the Omega logo to show up?

That is a little display. And it is synchronized with the Scan 'O' Vision Ultimate to show a little sliver of the Omega logo for each frame captured.

So when the final image is stitched together, it looks like a cohesive logo at the top of the photo.

Pretty clever, Omega!

[bills-bible-basics]

TRACKED! -- a poem by Bill Kochman #Matrix #Manipulation #Poem NOTE: There is an easter egg hidden in this poem. Can you find it? To see other poems related to this one, and to listen to the actual song, go to: https://www.billkochman.com/Poetry/index.html#Ruling-Elite Article: "Gaslighting: We Are Being Manipulated and Surveilled": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/gaslighting-manipulated-surveilled-1.html "Mass Deception" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse186.html Article: "Age of Deception, Age of Delusion": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/deceptn1.html Article: "Speak the Pure Language of Truth!": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/purelng1.html Article: "To Vote, or Not to Vote": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/To-Vote-Or-Not-To-Vote-01.html "Righteousness Exalts a Nation" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse248.html "Free Through Jesus" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse024.html "Salvation is Free Through Christ" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse224.html Article: "Salvation is Free!": https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/salvfree.html https://www.billkochman.com/Blog/index.php/tracked-a-poem-by-bill-kochman/?feed_id=255246&TRACKED%21%20--%20a%20poem%20by%20Bill%20Kochman