WNBR 2025

[GenghisKhan]

Originally Posted by abby147

If you're in Vancouver, Canada, there's a Naked Bike Ride happening this Sunday, July 6th. The ride kicks off at 2 PM, meeting at Sunset Beach/Beach Avenue. Weather looks decent too.

Any pictures?

[treska66]

Originally Posted by staypuftbr

*NOT AUTHORIZED
have you donwloaded it?

yes I did.

https://vimeo.com/1099096006

[Iamsailing]

Originally Posted by schlubby

"Ian" on Twitter has posted a bunch of watermarked Brighton pics over the past day. Go to his profile to see all of them, but it doesn't look like it was a great turnout. A few cute women at least.

twitter.com/WnbrTOG
twitter.com/WnbrTOG/status/1941862051225219289
twitter.com/WnbrTOG/status/1941757377742549110
twitter.com/WnbrTOG/status/1941831588678864991
twitter.com/WnbrTOG/status/1941840889904509284
twitter.com/WnbrTOG/status/1941823737646498083

I haven't seen anything anywhere else yet.

Looks like the watermarked posts are reposts of Flickr stuff where he has replaced one watermark with another , he doesn't normally watermark his stuff.

[treska66]

[QUOTE=treska66;3532458]yes I did



https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1099675232

[treska66]

Someone knows how to enjoy naked bike ride.

[Basiln]

Originally Posted by Iamsailing

Normally there would be pages of Brighton stuff on the day but this year there is virtually nothing around.
Some X posts and a few low quality and heavily watermarked posts on Flickr seem to be more or less it.
I would be very happy to be proved wrong on this but it looked like a very small turnout.

Well, I have been observing an exodus of the photographers covering events and parades from the Flickr last couple of years. Honestly I am planning to do the same thing this fall when my subscription expires. I don't like to pay for my pictures to be seen but to have nothing to see myself. Plus pretty much all the interaction except "likes" on Flickr is gone.

The question is where did all these people go?

[Basiln]

Originally Posted by wengwong111

5. Technology now means these events can be recorded in 4k and your face can be digitally searched across the entire internet. Not great if you're a normal woman with a kink for public nudity who isn't already a sex worker

You are right, that might be one of the reason is happened, but I think face recognition across the whole internet is not publicly available anymore.

I remember when face recognition was working at Google Images and some other search sites.
But in 2025 I have a feeling that this feature is long gone, probably available now to the law enforcement only. At least I don't know any search engines as of today that support it across the internet, while there are plenty tools supporting this kind of search across your photos.

In addition to this I think the picture recognition (not the face recognition, but search of the same picture across the internet) stopped working on Google Images too, recently. Now they have some AI instead that tries to analyze your picture and offer your additional places to buy any goods (especially expensive ones) found by AI in your picture.
My guess the manufacturers of these goods pay Google to have their goods "found" by Google Images.

What I am trying to say "the landscape" of the facial recognition and picture recognition available to the public changed drastically in the recent years. Maybe too late for some people who used to participate in those events.

[dd11aa]

Originally Posted by Basiln

You are right, that might be one of the reason is happened, but I think face recognition across the whole internet is not publicly available anymore.

I remember when face recognition was working at Google Images and some other search sites.
But in 2025 I have a feeling that this feature is long gone, probably available now to the law enforcement only. At least I don't know any search engines as of today that support it across the internet, while there are plenty tools supporting this kind of search across your photos.

In addition to this I think the picture recognition (not the face recognition, but search of the same picture across the internet) stopped working on Google Images too, recently. Now they have some AI instead that tries to analyze your picture and offer your additional places to buy any goods (especially expensive ones) found by AI in your picture.
My guess the manufacturers of these goods pay Google to have their goods "found" by Google Images.

What I am trying to say "the landscape" of the facial recognition and picture recognition available to the public changed drastically in the recent years. Maybe too late for some people who used to participate in those events.

Correct. I didn't like it to begin with, as I felt it did more harm than good. However like mostly everything else, if you pay you can still get it easily.

[carpec]

Originally Posted by treska66

Someone knows how to enjoy naked bike ride.

regular rider and also has appeared at the Druridge Bay mass skinnydip for charity

[flanker7]

Originally Posted by Basiln

You are right, that might be one of the reason is happened, but I think face recognition across the whole internet is not publicly available anymore.

I remember when face recognition was working at Google Images and some other search sites.
But in 2025 I have a feeling that this feature is long gone, probably available now to the law enforcement only.

Facial recognition is publicly available. It’s not free, but anyone with a credit card can use it. This a touchy subject, as I’m strongly opposed to using it to find personal photos of event participants and post them on this site. But I don’t want anyone to have any illusions that the issue has gone away. It hasn’t.