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artist working with code studio@kylemcdonald.net

Jan 12, 2021, 10 tweets

gps metadata of 68k videos uploaded to parler

some parler users uploaded videos from US military bases. and one near the googleplex.

normalized by county thanks to @PeterCBlack

here is the csv data and the process behind creating this heatmap of parler video GPS locations gist.github.com/kylemcdonald/8…

here is an interactive map for all the geocoded parler videos. you can look into specific cities and countries, and check timestamps and video ids kylemcdonald.net/parler/map/

a short tutorial on how to view the remaining parler videos by editing your DNS records. many have been made inaccessible, but some are still available gist.github.com/kylemcdonald/d…

you can see people moving from the white house (bottom) to the capitol (top), if you plot the video metadata with time on the x axis and longitude on the y axis. it looks like almost every second is covered from at least one angle.

1200+ videos uploaded to parler in the DC area on 1/6

wasn’t glenn the guy on backup vocals for poitras and snowden? really taking a new direction for his sophomore album.

there are around 14,000 parler videos that include personal computer usernames in the video metadata. these videos are typically edited with adobe products. (i replaced identifiable names with asterisks.)

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