me: “I wish people would stop calling individual blog posts ‘a blog.’”
*monkey’s paw curls*
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me: “I wish people would stop calling individual blog posts ‘a blog.’”
Andy Baio
"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
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Andy Baio
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/
Andy Baio
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/
Andy Baio
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/
Andy Baio
Even if you don’t care about voting, go take a look at the 16 sites, they’re all worth checking out.
Andy Baio
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/
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Alan Smith :ablobfoxbongo:
@andybaio what if someone drew every frame by themselves. Like as a form of learning/practice? I wonder if that’s been done before :blobfoxthonking:
Andy Baio
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
Andy Baio
I knew a lot of this story already, except how horribly Google execs treated the Reader team, who built something wonderful and then were forced to constantly defend it and beg for resources, until they were dragged away to work on Google Plus and it was unceremoniously killed.
Andy Baio
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
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Andy Baio
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
Chris Laprun
@andybaio I don’t understand how houses get abandoned like this and stay untouched forever
Andy Baio
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
Yannick Rochat
@andybaio I've been surprised by this announcement and couldn't find any additional information. I've also not been able to recover my password from fig...
Andy Baio
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
Andy Baio
Today's my birthday, and all I want is YOUR CLIPBOARD! Hit reply and paste—NO EDITING! ✂️📋🎉
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Rafael Sabelli
@andybaio file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/56/06/8B661263-BAA7-4537-AB67-E18B08CE3533/IMG_5516.png
Hiro
@andybaio@xoxo.zone Happy birthday! Heres my clipboard! 📋 https://stop.voring.me/notes/9dsd61gok5
Andy Baio
For the Verge, @sarahjeong reached out to me to see if I’d be open to writing about my personal experience being colorblind and issues around accessibility. It’s currently the top story on their homepage, and they did a beautiful job with it. I hope you like it. https://www.theverge.com/23650428/colorblindness-design-ui-accessibility-wordle
Andy Baio
Found a weird thing hiding in macOS! https://waxy.org/2023/04/the-bitcoin-whitepaper-is-hidden-in-every-modern-copy-of-macos/
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System IV, Building K
@andybaio Whatever this story is about (what? Apple hired a dickhead? Heaven forfend), it’s the diametric opposite of digging up a monolith on the moon.
Andy Baio
Just found this browsing Twitch’s “AI” tag: a 24/7 livestream of deepfaked Twitch streamers and obnoxious personalities (e.g. Elon Musk, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro) answering questions from chat. It’s very uncanny valley: avatars move around, drink water, etc. https://www.twitch.tv/atheneaiheroes
Andy Baio
Material for the deepfaked video/audio/dialogue is all crowdsourced in their Discord: video clips, voice clips, catch phrases, details on their personal opinions and biography…
Andy Baio
Waiting for someone to make an artisanal search engine that only indexes manually verified websites written by humans. Farm-to-table organic search results, handmade with 100% certified human creativity, like your grandparents told you about.
Andy Baio
Judging from all the “that’s Yahoo” replies, it seems like many people have forgotten the difference between a directory and a search engine? A directory is an organized list of websites (e.g. Yahoo, DMOZ, ooh.directory), while a search engine usually searches the text of web pages (e.g. Google). I want a *search engine* that crawls and searches pages from a curated list of websites (which could be a directory). Marginalia is the closest I’ve seen. https://search.marginalia.nu/
Andy Baio
Google used to take pride in minimizing time we spent there, guiding us to relevant pages as quickly as possible. Over time, they tried to answer everything themselves: longer snippets, inline FAQs, search results full of knowledge panels. Today's Bard announcement feels like their natural evolution: extracting all value out of the internet for themselves, burying pages at the bottom of each GPT-generated essay like footnotes. https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/
Andy Baio
Of course, they frame it as "making it easier for people to get to the heart of what they’re looking for and get things done." But how long will publishers, blogs, online communities, and other creators tolerate generating free content to feed their machine, while getting little to nothing in return? It's only a one line change:
Andy Baio
Mastodon Flock is an excellent Twitter-to-Mastodon friend finder: all the functionality of Movetodon (before Twitter killed it today), but open-source and with a delightfully retro interface. https://mastodon-flock.vercel.app/
Andy Baio
Twitter just announced free access to the Twitter API will end on February 9, with unannounced pricing or usage details, effectively killing every free fun and useful thing ever built with it: bots, games, mashups, visualizations, research projects, autoposters, autoblockers, deleters, and so much more. https://twitter.com/twitterdev/status/1621026986784337922
Andy Baio
I guess that means the end of my own Belong.io link aggregator, which I’ve run for nearly ten years. https://belong.io/ |
@andybaio I posted a blog in my blog so you can read the blog while you read my blog.
@andybaio Dutch people started calling messages ‘apps’ (because of WhatsApp), so everything goes I guess
@andybaio I am seeing no discussion about the use of "blog" as a verb so I assume that's okay. 🤓
*leaves to go do some blogging*