I’m taking some time offline, belatedly celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary and still basking in the afterglow of the final XOXO, but I wrote a bit about releasing the XOXO talks last week, my approach to booking speakers, and the themes that emerged in our final year. https://waxy.org/2024/10/the-xoxo-2024-talks/

Kind of Bloop is getting a surprise vinyl edition for its 15th anniversary this week, the weird little chiptune album that sparked a big legal fight, but also led to meeting @andymcmillan and starting @xoxo together. Preorders start Saturday 9am PT. https://waxy.org/2024/08/kind-of-bloop-15th-anniversary-vinyl/

I just caught a scammer! I listed an old couch for free on Craigslist, and some guy responded right away saying he wanted it. He kept changing the pickup times (not that unusual for CL) but then said he was on his way. At the time he was supposed to arrive, he said he couldn't pick it up after all. "Hey, so we couldn’t pick this up so we ended up finding someone to pickup, just charged them a finders fee. We told them they could pay us after it’s picked up through Venmo / Zelle!" What? No. [1/2]

I last updated my LinkedIn in 2014 and it continues to pay dividends.

Here’s a thread of some good stuff I found on the internet recently, starting with Louie Zong’s latest, “a song about perception?? and messing around with content aware scaling lmao” https://youtu.be/D9JKCoj8BJc

Ill Doctrine is back! After six years away, Jay Smooth is back to making regular videos, starting with this thoughtful look at how the internet and social media changed rap beefs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxcnTVEntEk

This is it, the last XOXO ever. Really proud of this launch lineup, and I love the website @ashur and @emicab made for it. So fun! https://xoxo.zone/@xoxo/112480714014034873

me: “I wish people would stop calling individual blog posts ‘a blog.’”
*monkey’s paw curls*
https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/112439941615950550

"Consent Mode is off by default" is like the unofficial motto of the tech industry. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24130832/limitless-ai-pendant-wearable-meetings

We're back! https://2024.xoxofest.com/

Last month, @tomcoates was one of only ~20 people at a meeting at Meta's SF offices where the Threads team talked openly about their plans for integrating it with the Fediverse, including their broad roadmap, motivations, and plans for content moderation and personalization. Tom posted his extensive notes and thoughts from the meeting, and it's well worth reading for anyone interested in the subject. http://plasticbag.org/archives/2024/01/how-threads-will-integrate-with-the-fediverse/

Neal.fun's Internet Artifacts is an online museum of artifacts from the early internet, including the first spam email, first MP3, first livestream, and dozens of notable early websites with a working browser and Flash emulation. https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

Tiny Awards is a new effort to celebrate the best of the "small, playful, and heartfelt web” made in the last year. As part of the selection committee, I helped narrow the ~300 nominees down to 16 finalists, and now you decide who wins. I wrote a little about each site here— voting’s open until July 20! https://waxy.org/2023/07/vote-on-the-tiny-awards/

4,144 people are currently drawing "The Free Movie," MSCHF's new project to "crowd pirate" a hand-drawn, frame-by-frame recreation of The Bee Movie with a built-in MS Paint-like editor. https://thefreemovie.buzz/

The Verge goes deep on who killed Google Reader, ten years after its demise. I’ve always been furious about this, and somehow, reading this made me even angrier. https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social

Ever wonder what the rest of Citizen Kane looked like? Got AI to generate the other 78 years of Charles Foster Kane’s life not depicted in the film, from potty training and first steps to board meetings and tax audits. Over 200,000 hours of him sleeping, it’s boring as fuck

This urban exploration YouTube channel I follow posted a video today exploring a house they found in Westchester County, New York that's literally splitting in half, but inside is like a time capsule from the 1960s. Photo albums and diaries, 1964 World's Fair memorabilia, 1920s ephemera in the attic... But it's all gone now: the house was demolished last week "with pretty much everything inside." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRIGBgwErP4

This Psychonauts 2 project update says that game crowdfunding platform Fig’s website is shutting down this Sunday, May 28, removing eight years of project updates and archives. Fig apparently hasn't announced this publicly anywhere. "Fig.co, including the Psychonauts 2 backer page, will no longer exist after May 28th 2023." https://www.fig.co/campaigns/psychonauts-2/updates/1707

Can any sci-fi fan out there help me identify a story about AI copyright lawyer bots? I thought it was by Cory Doctorow, but he says it wasn’t him! https://ask.metafilter.com/372459/Whats-this-sci-fi-story-about-AI-lawsuit-bots

Today's my birthday, and all I want is YOUR CLIPBOARD! Hit reply and paste—NO EDITING! ✂️📋🎉