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This photographer spent 5 years searching the forgotten corners of the internet for strange and beautiful photos

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This photographer spent 5 years searching the forgotten corners of the internet for strange and beautiful photos

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Doug Battenhausen

Doug Battenhausen thinks all our advances in cellphone cameras and photo-sharing technology haven't made our pictures better, but rather more sterile. We all know how to get the perfect selfie now, with just the right filter. But, to him, that's boring.

What Battenhausen is interested in - and has been collecting since 2010 on his blog " Internet History" - are photos that are beautifully amateurish and capture strange moments.

To find these types of photos, Battenhausen mines the forgotten reaches of the internet, particularly defunct photo accounts on sites like the (now deleted) Webshots, Flickr, or Photobucket.

"If there's one rule I try to keep to all the time," Battenhausen says. "It's that I try to find pictures that have been abandoned. If you're still actively using your photosharing website, I don't want to encroach on that. Through 'Internet History,' I think I'm giving a second life to orphans."

But Battenhausen doesn't just take any old photo. He has a remarkable eye for finding ones that can evoke some emotion. He describes them as sometimes funny, sometimes bad, but usually photos that give him a feeling of "comforting sadness."

The photos on his site, which were once featured in an exhibit at the Rhode Island School of Design, are both bizarre and everyday at the time. Perhaps the best word to describe them is wistful.

See some of the photos below:

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This photographer spent 5 years searching the forgotten corners of the internet for strange and beautiful photos

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Doug Battenhausen thinks all our advances in cellphone cameras and photo-sharing technology haven't made our pictures better, but rather more sterile. We all know how to get the perfect selfie now, with just the right filter. But, to him, that's boring.

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Neuroscience and psychologyhave rendered it basicallyunnecessary to have a soul

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Neuroscience and psychologyhave rendered it basicallyunnecessary to have a soul

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You are almost definitely notliving in reality because yourbrain doesn’t want you to

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You are almost definitely notliving in reality because yourbrain doesn’t want you to

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Wie eine Russin ihren toten Freund zum Lebenerweckt

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Wie eine Russin ihren toten Freund zum Lebenerweckt

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Eine riesige Botnet-Schlacht bedrohtdas Internet

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Eine riesige Botnet-Schlacht bedrohtdas Internet

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What should people do in their20s to avoid regrets in their 30sand 40s?

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What should people do in their20s to avoid regrets in their 30sand 40s?

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«Bullshit» verdrängt Journalismus

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We haven´t realized the impact of virtual reality yet

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We haven´t realized the impact of virtual reality yet

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Wahrscheinlich leben wir in einer Simulation

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Wahrscheinlich leben wir in einer Simulation

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A comprehensive guide to cognitive biases

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A comprehensive guide to cognitive biases

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Oliver Stone über den Fall Snowden"Alle halten das Maul, wie in Nazi-Deutschland"

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Oliver Stone über den Fall Snowden"Alle halten das Maul, wie in Nazi-Deutschland"

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Hellfire-Raketen mit schönen Grüssenaus Berlin

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Hellfire-Raketen mit schönen Grüssenaus Berlin

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Mehr Licht! Diegefährliche Lustan der Apokalypse

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Mehr Licht! Diegefährliche Lustan der Apokalypse

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Das war der vielleicht wichtigste Virtual-Reality-Vortrag des Jahres

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Das war der vielleicht wichtigste Virtual-Reality-Vortrag des Jahres

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Ghost Dance (1983): Jacques Derrida & "The Science of Ghosts"

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Ghost Dance (1983): Jacques Derrida & "The Science of Ghosts"

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Ghost Dance (1983): Jacques Derrida & "The Science of Ghosts"

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Laura Poitras Interview Citizenfour Edward Snowden NSA

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Laura Poitras Interview Citizenfour Edward Snowden NSA

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Robert De Niro says Trump unfit for presidency. 'I'd Like to Punch Him in the Face'

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The principal ideological axis of Forest Gump is the opposition of the hero and his life-long love.

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The principal ideological axis of Forest Gump is the opposition of the hero and his life-long love.

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The principal ideological axis of Forest Gump is the opposition of the hero and his life-long love. Gump is a blessedly-innocent simpleton with a "heart of gold" who executes the orders of his superiors undisturbed by any ideological qualms or fanatical devotions. Renouncing even a minimum of "cognitive mapping"(Jameson), he is caught in a tautological symbolic machine towards which he lacks any ironic distance - a passive witness and/or participant of great historico-political battles whose significance he doesn't even try to understand (he never asks himself why he has to fight in Vietnam, why he is suddenly sent to China to play ping-pong, etc.).

His love is a girl fully engaged in the ideological struggles of the last decades (anti-Vietnam demonstrations, etc.) - in a word, she participates in history and endeavours to understand what is effectively going on. ... Gump, this slow-witted, automatic executor of orders, who doesn't even try to understand anything, gives body to the impossible pure subject of Ideology, to the ideal of a subject in whom Ideology would function flawlessly. The ideological mystification of the film resides in the fact that it presents Ideology at its purest as non-ideology, as extra-ideological good-natured participation in social life. That is to say, the ultimate lesson of the film is: do not try to understand, obey, and you shall succeed! (Gump ends up as a famous millionaire.) His girl, who endeavours to acquire a kind of "cognitive mapping" of the social situation, is symbolically punished for her thirst of knowledge: at the end of the film, she dies of AIDS. Forest Gump reveals the secret of ideology (the fact that its successful functioning involves the stupidity of its subjects) in such an open way that, in different historical circumstances, it would undoubtedly have subversive effects; today, however, in the era of cynicism, ideology can afford to reveal the secret of its functioning (its constitutive idiocy, which the traditional, pre-cynical ideology had to keep secret) without in the least affecting its efficiency.

Slavoj Zizek, The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters

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The principal ideological axis of Forest Gump is the opposition of the hero and his life-long love.

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The principal ideological axis of Forest Gump is the opposition of the hero and his life-long love. Gump is a blessedly-innocent simpleton with a "heart of gold" who executes the orders of his superiors undisturbed by any ideological qualms or fanatical devotions.

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Robert De Niro Wants to Punch Donald Trump in the Face

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Robert De Niro Wants to Punch Donald Trump in the Face

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Robert De Niro doesn't think very highly of Donald Trump. While shooting a political testimonial intended as part of a non-partisan get-out-the-vote effort called #Voteyourfuture, the Oscar winner was asked the same question as everyone else: "What do you care about?" His answer didn't exactly follow the non-partisan format.

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Robert De Niro Wants to Punch Donald Trump in the Face

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Robert De Niro doesn't think very highly of Donald Trump. While shooting a political testimonial intended as part of a non-partisan get-out-the-vote effort called #Voteyourfuture, the Oscar winner was asked the same question as everyone else: "What do you care about?" His answer didn't exactly follow the non-partisan format.

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Geheime Recherchen sollen den Menschen aus einer möglichen Computer-Simulation befreien

Leben wir Menschen in einer "Matrix"-ähnlichen Computer-Simulation? Glaubt man Tech-Milliardär Elon Musk ist dem tatsächlich so. Bereits im Juli sagte der Tesla- und SpaceX-Gründer, dass die Chance, dass wir nicht in einer Simulation leben bei "eins zu einer Milliarde" liege. Doch nicht nur Musk teilt diese Ansicht, auch Analysten der Bank of America haben im September offiziell bekannt gegeben, dass die Chancen für ein "Matrix"-ähnliches Leben der Menschheit bei 50 Prozent liegt.

Forscher sollen Menschen befreien

Laut dem US-Magazin "The New Yorker" sollen zwei unbekannte Tech-Milliardäre Forscher engagiert haben, die herausfinden sollen, wie der Mensch aus dieser Simulation entfliehen kann. Der Bericht beruft sich auf Sam Altman, Chef des Startup-Accelorators Y Combinator. Der 31-Jährige Tech-Investor und Stanford-Studienabbrecher ist wie Musk Milliardär.

Menschliches Gehirn soll mit Computer verschmelzen

Wer die beiden Spender sind, wird nicht verraten. Auch nicht, wie lange und in welchem Ausmaß geforscht wird. Altman denkt jedoch, dass das beste Szenario für die Menschheit wäre, wenn unsere Gehirne mit Computern verschmelzen und in die Cloud hochgeladen werden. Smartphones würden uns bereits jetzt kontrollieren, so die These des 31-jährigen Milliardärs. Sollten wir keine Verschmelzung anstreben, würden entweder die Menschen die künstliche Intelligenz beherrschen oder umgekehrt, denkt Altman weiter.

In der Philosophie länger Thema

In der Philosophie ist die Theorie bereits seit längerem Thema. Wie können wir Menschen wissen, ob unsere Welt nicht nur eine Simulation ist - dies beschäftigt Philosophen nicht erst seit den Aussagen Musks. Aufgrund konstanter technischer Weiterentwicklung und Innovation im Bereich der Künstlichen Intelligenz ist das Thema nun nach und nach in den Fokus der Gesellschaft gerückt. (red, 08.10.2016)

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Forschung: Milliardäre wollen Menschheit aus der "Matrix" befreien

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Leben wir Menschen in einer "Matrix"-ähnlichen Computer-Simulation? Glaubt man Tech-Milliardär Elon Musk ist dem tatsächlich so. Bereits im Juli sagte der Tesla- und SpaceX-Gründer, dass die Chance, dass wir nicht in einer Simulation leben bei "eins zu einer Milliarde" liege.

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U2 Hates Trump - Bono Fires Trump @ Dreamforce Benefit Show!

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U2 Hates Trump - Bono Fires Trump @ Dreamforce Benefit Show!

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Watch Before You Vote - Bono's U2 Fires Trump [Entire Performance]

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Check out U2 play Bullet The Blue Sky with a strong political message to Donald Trump (at Dreamfest)

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Map of the Internet, a new Quartz series

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Quartz's new series on the cables, wires, and machines that connect the world.