Mastodawn

Oh, look! A website where you can hover over blinking dots to "remember" 72,000 lives, as if they were just pixels on a screen. Because nothing says meaningful homage like a digital version of Minesweeper with a side of ✨virtue signaling✨.
https://bkhmsi.github.io/i-am-not-a-number/ #digitalmemorials #virtue #signaling #onlinehomage #techcritique #pixelart #72000lives #HackerNews #ngated

I Am Not a Number

A memorial for the 60,199 Palestinian victims of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Each dot is a name. Each name was a life.

Bossons Nov 22, 2022

#China’s ‘digital cemeteries’ are for people to commemorate their departed loved ones. The government has been encouraging online memorials over the traditional ritual of burning joss paper or ghost money (believed to be transferred to one’s loved ones in the afterlife). Not only is the latter detrimental to the environment, but it is also a fire hazard. But the well-intentioned #digitalmemorials have a dark side: fake and super-creepy #obituaries.

https://radii.co/article/chinese-woman-finds-fake-obituary-on-douban

Chinese Woman Learns Online That She’s Been Dead for Over a Decade — RADII

A woman in South China sued a social media platform after stumbling upon her own obituary, which claimed that she had died tragically over a decade ago

https://radii.co