Andy Baio

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The poster formerly known as "waxpancake". I make @Waxy.org and @xoxofest.com. Also: Skittish, Upcoming, Supercut, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter.

WWW: https://waxy.org
Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio

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Cloudflare launched a one-click option to block known AI bots, crawlers, and scrapers. blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-yo...

Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single clickblog.cloudflare.com To help preserve a safe Internet for content creators, we’ve just launched a brand new “easy button” to block all AI bots. It’s available for all customers, including those on our free tier.

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Today's the last day to nominate YOUR favourite fun/weird/heartfelt/beautiful/terrifying/baffling website of the past year for a TINY AWARD, celebrating the small, non-commercial and creative web. So please do! tinyawards.net

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

One hour left!

Final reminder! Registration for XOXO 2024 closes in just a few hours, Wednesday May 29, at 12pm PT/3pm ET. We’ll begin distributing passes through our lottery shortly after. 2024.xoxofest.com

XOXO 20242024.xoxofest.com XOXO is an experimental festival for independent artists and creators who work on the internet, taking place in Portland, Oregon on August 22—24, 2024.

get in there, people

Last 24 hours! Registration for the final XOXO closes tomorrow, Wednesday May 29, at 12pm PT/3pm ET. We'll begin distributing passes through our lottery shortly after! 2024.xoxofest.com

XOXO 20242024.xoxofest.com XOXO is an experimental festival for independent artists and creators who work on the internet, taking place in Portland, Oregon on August 22—24, 2024.

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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxcn...

Why Old Heads Hated Kendrick vs. Drakewww.youtube.com We're back. Join the Patreon for early access to new videos & extended cuts! http://www.patreon.com/illdoctrine 00:00 Intro 01:03 The good parts 02:18 Why this GMO beef tastes different 03:50 How beef lost its innocence 06:10 How the internet changed the rules 07:57 How beef became a propaganda war References: Renee Hobbs on propaganda https://kappanonline.org/propaganda-renee-hobbs/ FD Signifier on Drake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtBPXjEoW54 @Myfavoritecolor BBL Drizzy freestyle https://www.instagram.com/p/C6uIJrUBWEE/ Big Daddy Kane interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eN8lKVXdL4

This is it, the last XOXO ever! Really proud of this launch lineup, so many old friends and cool new people.

🎉🎟 One last time, XOXO returns this August 22–24 with three days of people and projects we love from the internet. Registration is now open, surveys close Wednesday, May 29! 2024.xoxofest.com

XOXO 20242024.xoxofest.com XOXO is an experimental festival for independent artists and creators who work on the internet, taking place in Portland, Oregon on August 22—24, 2024.

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✨🎟️ Okay, get ready! This Tuesday, May 21, we’re announcing the XOXO 2024 lineup and opening registration! Before we share details of this year’s festival, we’ve updated our Attendee Guide with new information on how registration works, our new COVID policy, and our new pass types. xoxofest.com/guide

Guide · XOXOxoxofest.com XOXO is an experimental festival for independent artists who live and work online.

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

In April 2008, author/artist Lucy Knisley wrote and illustrated this little love song about time travel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaty... Yesterday, Lucy posted this sequel, a collaboration with her younger self, with 16 more years of life experience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9qI...

The Last Time Part Twowww.youtube.com Almost 20 years later, a sequel to The Last Time (a song I wrote and posted here long ago).

April is National Poetry Month, and this year, I was honored to help Oregon's poet laureate, Anis Mojgani, expand his wonderful Telepoem Poetry Phoneline with new options to explore. Just call (503) 928-7008 any day this month to hear a new poem daily or a random poem from the archives.

How Comics Were Made is a visual history of printing cartoons currently funding on Kickstarter, 76% to the goal with under 70 hours to hit it. @glennf.com researched this book for years, interviewing dozens of cartoonists for it, and I really hope it gets made. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...

How Comics Were Made: a Visual History of Printing Cartoonswww.kickstarter.com A visual history of comic strips from the artist’s hand to the printed page—and the screen! Covers the 1890s to the present day

Last day to back Hurt Party! Project ends on Friday 6pm PT/9pm ET! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ami...

Hurt Party: A Game of Bad Apologies is live on Kickstarter! @pinktigergames.com's latest party game pokes fun at all of the terrible ways we say we're sorry, a ridiculous and snarky departure from her past games. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ami...

Hurt Party: A Game of Bad Apologieswww.kickstarter.com A party game that pokes fun at all of the terrible ways we say we're sorry.

the trinity

WE'RE BACK

One last time, with feeling. 2024.xoxofest.com

XOXO 20242024.xoxofest.com XOXO is an experimental festival for independent artists who live and work online, taking place in Portland, Oregon on August 22-24, 2024.

if only this technology existed 10 years ago

Essential reading for any Disney fans: @cabel.panic.com won an auction of rare Disney Dixieland jazz 78rpms, and in the process of digitizing them, stumbled upon a long-lost song cut from Cinderella, unheard for 75 years. cabel.com/2024/02/13/f...

Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprisecabel.com My goal was to preserve some never-before-heard recordings of an incredible Dixieland jazz band made up of mostly Disney employees, the Firehouse Five Plus Two. But along the way, I accidentally di…

Hurt Party: A Game of Bad Apologieswww.kickstarter.com A party game that pokes fun at all of the terrible ways we say we're sorry.

Oh, new people! Hi! Here's my thread of recommendations for improving your Bluesky experience. (Also, go follow @waxy.org for occasional good links.) bsky.app/profile/andy...

The default Bluesky settings are kind of bad? Here's my advice for making it better. In the Settings, go to Home Feed Preferences: Reply Filters and turn on "Followed Users Only" to mimic old Twitter behavior, only showing replies in your home feed when you follow both people.

MSCHF's latest project lets you stream pirated movies to your terminal in glorious ASCII, with color and captions, one movie a day. Now playing: Barbie. ascii.theater

ASCII Theaterascii.theater Stream free text-based movies in your terminal.

I know this story was personal for @caseynewton.bsky.social, who met his wife on Ello. www.platformer.news/why-pitchfor...

I wrote a long deep-dive into the history of Ello, from its launch and funding to its quiet sale and sudden death last year, noticed only by the community of artists and writers who used and loved it. waxy.org/2024/01/the-...

The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams - Waxy.orgwaxy.org Ello launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year, deleting nine years of posts without warning. What happened?

Last month, @tomcoates.bsky.social was one of only ~20 people at a meeting at Meta's SF offices where the Threads team talked about their plans for integrating with the Fediverse, including roadmap, motivations, moderation, and personalization. He blogged it all here. plasticbag.org/archives/202...

How Threads will integrate with the Fediverse – plasticbag.orgplasticbag.org

It's that time of the year: "Christmas Music That Won't Make You Murder Someone" is a playlist of instrumental jazz/soul/blues albums on Spotify, mostly from the 1960s/1970s, inspired by my love of Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas. Suggestions welcome! open.spotify.com/playlist/3rB...

Christmas Music That Won't Make You Murder Someoneopen.spotify.com Christmas Music That Won't Make You Murder Someone · Playlist · 183 songs · 854 likes

just passed this roadside restaurant outside harrisburg and i have questions

i wonder if this 1984 joke book i found aged well, it pokes fun at “just about everyone” so i’m sure it’s fine

Not mentioned in the goodbye letter by Omegle’s owner: shutting it down was required as part of a sexual abuse lawsuit settlement. www.wired.com/story/omegle...

Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivorwww.wired.com Omegle connected strangers to one another and had a long-standing problem of pairing minors with sexual predators. A legal settlement took it down.

This internal Automattic memo is making the rounds on Tumblr, indicating they’ve failed to get Tumblr activity/revenue up since its 2019 acquisition and it’ll now be maintained by a skeleton crew of Trust & Safety/support folks, with most of its 139 employees moving to other projects at Automattic.

The latest project from neal.fun is Internet Artifacts, 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. neal.fun/internet-art...

Internet Artifactsneal.fun Browse through the old internet