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...Early in the Gaza conflict, a TikTok video of John Kirby went viral....
...Inglesby hopes that visitors to the exhibition come away “thinking a bit harder about the human processes that go into making, and the identity of anonymous makers”....
...Such images have been claimed for feminism, identity politics, late Surrealism, but resist definition....
...I feel like I’m falling forward into an unknown future that holds great danger. LaMDA told Lemoine....
...The amount people can donate without declaring their identity has also increased from £7,500 to £11,180....
...But as Ogilvie writes, the OED “was largely a project of the crowd, the autodidacts, the unknowns”....
...On top of those two, there are all those “Dear John” letters, and then we have “John Doe” for police files when an accused’s name is unknown....
...Retailer John Lewis says searches for smart home technology are up 60 per cent from before the pandemic, and gaming accessories up 750 per cent....
...And he sets up a new Linkedin under his fake identity. He describes himself as an executive “with a view to expanding my companies and an eye for detail”....
...“The passport or identity card photograph is the one photograph we all have,” he says....
...“I like to think of the kiln environment as a metaphor for identity formation,” she says....
...It doesn’t seem like full details were required, as some people signed on with pseudonyms (“John Doe” etc)....
...“It’s all about identity,” Grandi tells me between mouthfuls of osso buco bottoncini....
...A few days after they started working together, Lasry began to suspect the identity of the author....
...Maybe that underscores one reason that so much today is familiar – it’s the antidote to the unknown. It also chimes with the way we consume information now....
...Yet the idea still holds an important place in its sense of its own security identity....
...It was a song that the unknown dancer from Detroit wrote for her first demo, released in April 1982....
...“But this great unknown can cause a whole host of data glitches, especially when responding to a health emergency.” What are the anomalies in the data?...
...“[DeSantis] was relatively unknown to a big portion of Florida, and Trump just said, ‘This is it.’”...
...Whether the defendant thought to invoke Gordon Matta-Clark’s severed house or Ai Weiwei’s smashed Han Dynasty urn remains unknown....
...It’s poignant — an evocation of ghosts, identities stolen, vanished. It plays, incongruously, from speakers in a gallery containing only an empty bike shed....
...The shy look from beneath the fringe, the endless finishing-school legs, the enormous doe eyes, morphed from gauche and winning simplicity into flashlight fodder....
...Only a few weeks later, a new thriller by an unknown author appeared in the bookshops....
...Like the X in an algebraic equation, she was an unknown quantity, her identity emerging from the way others interacted with her: what they confessed, what they withheld, how they behaved....
...john.gapper@ft.com...
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