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Tuesday, April 20, 2021
THE HAPPENING WORLD: Flying Spam: Now Do it on Mars
A scannable QR code advertisement created by drones above the skies of Shanghai.
— John Pathfinder Lester (@Pathfinder) April 17, 2021
Beautiful. pic.twitter.com/s3T4Fb9314
So, of course you're wondering, “What does it say?” Well, after taking out the skew, perspective projection, thresholding, inverting, scaling up, shifting and multiplying to expand dots to (kind of) squares, you get:
I duplicated your image and moved it around (2px right, 2px right-down, 2px down) with "multiply" blend to reduce the gaps between the dots, now it can also be read: pic.twitter.com/0vuqnekq4V
— Gábor Héja (@gheja_) April 18, 2021
This, in turn, decodes to the URL: https://game.bilibili.com/pcr/1anniversarytocode-h5/
I have no idea what following this link may do to your Social Credit score.
Posted at April 20, 2021 10:35