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Tue. 02/15 - The Love Story Behind the High Five Wikipedia Page

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Uncovering the story behind two anonymous people whose photographs serve as instructions on the high five Wikipedia entry. Plus, people apparently find AI-generated faces more trustworthy than real human ones. And the Idaho Potato Commission just dropped their first fragrance. Sponsors: Munk Pack, Use code KRH at Munkpack.com for 20% off your first purchase DeVry University, Learn more at DeVry.edu/Engineering Links: The adorable love story behind Wikipedia's 'high five' photos (Input) Depths of Wikipedia (Instagram) Depths of Wikipedia (Twitter)  Goofing Off (Wikipedia) 4/8/21 episode about the origin of the high five (Kottke Ride Home) Fake faces created by AI look more trustworthy than real people (NewScientist) Humans Find AI-Generated Faces More Trustworthy Than the Real Thing (Scientific American) AI generated faces are MORE trustworthy than real faces say researchers who warn of “deep fakes” (Lancaster University)  AI Creates Photorealistic Portraits of Cartoon Characters (Kottke) "Frites by Idaho" is a new perfume that smells like french fries (Boing Boing) Love is in the Air... And it Smells like French Fries (Idaho Potato Commission) Laserwriter II by Tamara Shopsin Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.7

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0:11.1

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0:12.9

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0:27.8

Music lines and stores subject to availability ends 14th of february welcome to the khaki ride home for tuesday february 15th 2022 i'm jackson bird today uncovering the story behind two anonymous people

0:36.1

whose photographs serve as instructions on the

0:39.3

high five Wikipedia entry. Plus, people apparently find AI-generated faces more trustworthy

0:47.1

than real human ones. And the Idaho Potato Commission just dropped their first fragrance.

0:54.7

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:00.3

With Valentine's yesterday, the internet was flooded with starry-eyed Instagram tributes to significant others

1:07.8

and clickbait articles about the greatest love stories of all time,

1:11.9

but I've got to admit that one of them got me.

1:15.7

Annie Rewrida at Input Magazine did some excellent detective work to uncover the people behind

1:22.0

some of the high five photos on Wikipedia.

1:25.9

Rewrida runs the depths of Wikipedia account on both Twitter and Instagram, where she shares

1:31.4

some of her favorite obscure finds.

1:34.0

So she was uniquely qualified to uncover the identities and current whereabouts of the anonymous

1:40.1

man and woman demonstrating proper technique for a up high, down low, too slow, fake-out variation

1:48.0

of the high-five. It's one of fittingly five variations listed on the page, in addition to the

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