Show HN: Paint the Earth on a live, interactive globe (collaborative art.)

The report

tattoo divides the earth into 510 million 16x16 pixel "tiles" that you can own and paint as you like

Why show matters

This development in show, paint, earth, live, interactive matters because it alters the baseline assumptions that Hacker News and others have been working from.

What led here

Earlier reporting from Hacker News and comparable outlets sketched the conditions that would eventually produce an event like this.

Where this fits in Signal Ledger

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The editorial angle

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of show, paint, earth, live, interactive: tattoo divides the earth into 510 million 16x16 pixel "tiles" that you can own and paint as you like.