Gibbeting

Since late 2015, I have logged and detailed an account of how Facebook has treated my profile in various spheres. I will briefly outline the findings here. I will provide an explanation of my methods if requested; however, the details I am providing should be sufficient. Facebook has kept track of things that I write but do not post. Exact keyword and phrase match of items never posted led to my own profile. This is what began my investigation: I was writing a eulogy post regarding the passing of my best friend in 2015. I did not publish the post and yet I was targeted with a funeral ad later that week. This has apparently been the case for many other people and was disclosed by Facebook as being the case in 2018 by Mark Zuckerberg before Congress. A dummy profile created by someone other than me five years ago has all of the same ad groups I am a part of. This profile could not be found through my account once I reported it, but family members could easily find it and were occasi...

used to display executed criminals to deter future perpetrators of the same crime. Most commonly associated with a pre-industrial Britain and the Golden Age of Piracy, you might recognize the practice of displaying the dead in a gruesome fashion up and into the days of the Bloody Code in the 18th and 19th century. Though the barbaric practice itself is interesting enough, what becomes distinctly intriguing is how long bodies would remain inside a gibbet. Oliver Cromwell's head was on display for almost five years and was never reunited with his body, which remained in a cage fully clothed for an even longer length of time, possibly up to ten years. Similarly, in the United States, a slave named Mark Codman was accused of helping to poison and kill and his master. After his execution in 1755, he was gibbeted in Somerville; he remained there for at least twenty years, as it is alleged that Paul Revere passed the body in 1775. Speculation persists that even in 1798, when Paul Re...