Wired: A Face Recognition Site Crawled the Web for Dead People’s Photos https://www.wired.com/story/a-face-recognition-site-crawled-the-web-for-dead-peoples-photos/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #Business/ComputersandSoftware #contentmoderation #facerecognition #GraveRobbers #algorithms #Business #ancestry #privacy

A Face Recognition Site Crawled the Web for Dead People’s Photos - PimEyes appears to have scraped a major ancestry website for photos, without permission. ... - https://www.wired.com/story/a-face-recognition-site-crawled-the-web-for-dead-peoples-photos/ #business/computersandsoftware #graverobbers #business

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)

How did this stupid film become the greatest science fiction cult classic ever? Who knows. This is Ed Wood’s magnum opus. Written and shot in a month, on a budget of $60k.

Here are a couple of excerpts from Wikipedia, “...his ideas tended to be too expensive to film, yet he tried to film them anyway.” and “[Wood’s films were] notable for their campy aesthetics, technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, use of poorly-matched (sic) stock footage, eccentric casts, idiosyncratic stories and non sequitur dialogue...”

Filmed in the San Fernando Valley, north of Hollywood, the movie contains many shots of historical interest from the area, including Tor Johnson’s house where Bela Lugosi did some unrelated test scenes before his death which were later worked into the film as his “last performance”. (Johnson was a professional wrestler and friend of Wood.)

Wood continued to make low-budget sensational films in the Valley, later shifting to porn in the late 1960s because they made more money. His productions were at the start of the boom in the porn industry in the San Fernando Valley, where 90% of porn films were make from the 60s through the 90s. (The industry declined significantly at the beginning of the 21th century due to the Internet.)

The film also starred Gregory Walcott, Bela Lugosi, Maila Nurmi, Tor Johnson, Lyle Talbot and Criswell.

The title was inspiration for the UNIX-like OS, Plan 9 from Bell Labs.

A biopic of Wood’s career was later produced, Ed Wood (1994), starring Johnny Deep as Wood and Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi.That biopic covers his productions from Glen or Glenda (1953) to Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957). The former was about transvestism -- Wood himself was a cross dresser and many of his friends were in the LGBTQ community.

(View this film at: https://video.qoto.org/videos/watch/21371376-a49f-499e-acb8-af232c0dea8e )

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #sfftw #film #movie #SanFernandoValley #LowBudget #vampires #horror #GraveRobbers #plan9 #lgbtq #lgbt #vitamins #Criswell

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)

How did this stupid film become the greatest science fiction cult classic ever? Who knows. This is Ed Wood’s magnum opus. Written and shot in a month, on a budget of $60k.

Here are a couple of excerpts from Wikipedia, “...his ideas tended to be too expensive to film, yet he tried to film them anyway.” and “[Wood’s films were] notable for their campy aesthetics, technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, use of poorly-matched (sic) stock footage, eccentric casts, idiosyncratic stories and non sequitur dialogue...”

Filmed in the San Fernando Valley, north of Hollywood, the movie contains many shots of historical interest from the area, including Tor Johnson’s house where Bela Lugosi did some unrelated test scenes before his death which were later worked into the film as his “last performance”. (Johnson was a professional wrestler and friend of Wood.)

Wood continued to make low-budget sensational films in the Valley, later shifting to porn in the late 1960s because they made more money. His productions were at the start of the boom in the porn industry in the San Fernando Valley, where 90% of porn films were make from the 60s through the 90s. (The industry declined significantly at the beginning of the 21th century due to the Internet.)

The film also starred Gregory Walcott, Bela Lugosi, Maila Nurmi, Tor Johnson, Lyle Talbot and Criswell.

The title was inspiration for the UNIX-like OS, Plan 9 from Bell Labs.

A biopic of Wood’s career was later produced, Ed Wood (1994), starring Johnny Deep as Wood and Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi.That biopic covers his productions from Glen or Glenda (1953) to Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957). The former was about transvestism -- Wood himself was cross dresser and many of his friends were in the LGBTQ community.

(View this film at: https://video.qoto.org/videos/watch/21371376-a49f-499e-acb8-af232c0dea8e )

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #sfftw #film #movie #SanFernandoValley #LowBudget #vampires #horror #GraveRobbers #plan9 #lgbtq #lgbt #vitamins #Criswell

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)

(View this film at: https://video.qoto.org/videos/watch/21371376-a49f-499e-acb8-af232c0dea8e )

How did this stupid film become the greatest science fiction cult classic ever? Who knows. This is Ed Wood’s magnum opus. Written and shot in a month, on a budget of $60k.

Here are a couple of excerpts from Wikipedia, “...his ideas tended to be too expensive to film, yet he tried to film them anyway.” and “[Wood’s films were] notable for their campy aesthetics, technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, use of poorly-matched (sic) stock footage, eccentric casts, idiosyncratic stories and non sequitur dialogue...”

Filmed in the San Fernando Valley, north of Hollywood, the movie contains many shots of historical interest from the area, including Tor Johnson’s house where Bela Lugosi did some unrelated test scenes before his death which were later worked into the film as his “last performance”. (Johnson was a professional wrestler and friend of Wood.)

Wood continued to make low-budget sensational films in the Valley, later shifting to porn in the late 1960s because they made more money. His productions were at the start of the boom in the porn industry in the San Fernando Valley, where 90% of porn films were make from the 60s through the 90s. (The industry declined significantly at the beginning of the 21th century due to the Internet.)

The film also starred Gregory Walcott, Bela Lugosi, Maila Nurmi, Tor Johnson, Lyle Talbot and Criswell.

The title was inspiration for the UNIX-like OS, Plan 9 from Bell Labs.

A biopic of Wood’s career was later produced, Ed Wood (1994), starring Johnny Deep as Wood and Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi.That biopic covers his productions from Glen or Glenda (1953) to Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957). The former was about transvestism -- Wood himself was cross dresser and many of his friends were in the LGBTQ community.

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #sfftw #film #movie #SanFernandoValley #LowBudget #vampires #horror #GraveRobbers #plan9 #lgbtq #lgbt #vitamins #Criswell

Grave Robbers. Call them researchers, scientists, archeologists. There's no label pretty enough, or intelligent sounding enough, to hide the ugly truth they are just grave robbers when it comes down to it.

#GraveRobbers #SacredSpace https://www.livescience.com/golden-boy-mummy-ancient-egypt

In 1990, Congress passed a law recognizing the unequal treatment of Native American remains and set up a process for tribes to request their return from museums and other institutions that had them. The law, known as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act or NAGPRA, sought to address this human rights issue by giving Indigenous peoples a way to reclaim their dead.

#nativeamerican #ucberkely #berkely #nagpra #UC #nativepopulation #graverobbers

https://projects.propublica.org/repatriation-nagpra-database/

There's been a church on the site across the road from our house for 1000 years. I read about grave-robbers caught here, now I can't stop wondering if the iron railing is to keep the bodies in!! They still lock the gates every night... Laugh-a-minute, aren't I?

#Photography #graverobbers