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andybaio

@andybaio@xoxo.zone

I write https://xoxo.zone/@waxy, made https://xoxo.zone/@xoxo, Skittish, Upcoming.org, Belong.io, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter. P.S. I love you.

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mathowie, to random
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Someone contacted me about a blog post I wrote around 2004 about a 1993 issue of Wired I bought on eBay back then that they desperately need today and I probably still have it in a storage box sitting with old office things.

Given the current state of Google Search, I’m amazed they found any part of this.

andybaio,
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@mathowie @dbelson if you can’t find yours, I have a copy

ernie, to random
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So for reasons out of my control, the fresh Tedium we had planned to post needed to get delayed for a week. (It’s going to be a piece by @mattl, who I appreciate for being flexible amid chaos on my end.)

But the great thing about @tedium is that it has archives hundreds of miles deep, and it led me to resurface an eight-year-old piece about umbrella patents:

https://tedium.co/2024/05/04/umbrella-invention-innovation-challenges/

andybaio,
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@ironicsans @ernie https://youtu.be/2kpLWmjnJvA

danhon, to random
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Imagine a car company is all "check out our amazing software for our new car" and it turns out to be Humane/Rabbit-levels of done

andybaio,
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@danhon imagine that https://archive.is/2024.05.01-190235/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-01/will-gm-regret-kicking-apple-carplay-off-the-dashboard

javi, to random

And you be clear of what I mean: there isn't any "non profit" reasons for a German company to stablish a non-profit entity in the US. Zero.

RE: https://journa.host/users/w7voa/statuses/112343524122689542

andybaio,
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@javi Doesn’t having a 501(c)3 allow for donations from U.S. donors to be tax-deductible? I imagine that alone would be worth forming a U.S. non-profit arm

andybaio, to random
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404 Media is doing a great job at getting tech companies to moderate bad actors on their platforms, impressive for such a small indie publication. Their reporting directly led to action at two major tech companies this week: Discord shut down the Spy Pet search engine that sold access to user messages. https://www.404media.co/discord-shuts-down-spy-pet-bots-that-scraped-sold-user-messages/

And Apple removed multiple AI “nudify” apps from the App Store.
https://www.404media.co/apple-removes-nonconsensual-ai-nude-apps-following-404-media-investigation/

(Note: 404 Media articles are all free to read, but you have to register.)

andybaio, to random
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"Illustrator now honors 9-slice scaling of symbols. Do you? Look carefully in your heart before answering, my child. The world, and all your scaled symbols, may never look the same."

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

andybaio,
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every year on my birthday, i destroy my mentions and it's an amazing snapshot of digital ephemera. feel free to boost for maximum damage https://waxy.org/2020/04/paste-parties-the-ephemeral-chaotic-joy-of-random-clipboards/

mathowie, to random
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It’s fun to watch the newest season (the 21st!) of top chef as they reveal one of the participants has a muscular degenerative disorder and you instantly realize reality tv shows have NEVER thought about accessibility for contestants before.

The entire genre was designed for healthy 22 year old competitors. They have to sprint when the host says GO to get ingredients, they make people cook under the hot sun outdoors for hours on end, everything is timed and you have to move FAST or you lose.

andybaio,
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@mathowie It's sad how often he makes self-deprecating comments about his age (he's 46) and calls himself "the old guy," while dealing with a rare neuromuscular disease and trying to hide his cane and leg braces. Here's another example of how the producers fail to create a level playing field. https://people.com/top-chef-dan-jacobs-talks-about-his-kennedys-disease-exclusive-8634935

ernie, to random
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The most dangerous subgenre of YouTube is marble machine YouTube. It is never-ending videos of people trying to do amazing feats with machines driven by marbles, and it threatens your sanity to watch them.

andybaio,
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@ernie I went down that rabbithole a couple years ago. https://waxy.org/2022/03/the-incredible-satisfying-birth-of-a-marble/

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

andybaio,
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also, naming your company "Limitless" is a really great way to set impossible expectations for everything you ever make

andybaio,
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@disquiet Yeah, they mention that as a parenthetical in the second paragraph. "Oh, and in case you’re wondering: yes, it’s very much a reference to the movie."

andybaio, to random
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Has anyone made a Mastodon friend finder that looks at all the accounts you follow, grabs their following list, and shows you the most commonly-followed accounts you aren’t following yet?

ernie, to random
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A classic is on eBay.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/326085495824?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=0IyErsC_TdG&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=eNxoN7UhRTW&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

andybaio,
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@ernie I still have this shirt hanging around somewhere

mathowie, to random
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The smartest line from Ted Lasso was when Ted says something like every man should be able to get up and get out the door and into the world smelling clean and fresh in as long as it takes to listen to Easy Lover by Philip Bailey & Phil Collins once (song is 5:07 long)

Today I crushed it with a 3min shower, about a minute spent on grooming and throwing clothes on and I still got to enjoy the end of the song as I drove away from my house.

andybaio,
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@mathowie it takes me longer than that to floss and brush my teeth

ernie, to random
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Stumbled on a tech history Substack. I’m glad to see someone else in this space, but one of the challenges I see for this writer is that there’s not a lot of color in what they’re building. It jumps straight into the facts, no context, no voice.

I don’t mean to demean the work, to be clear, but I think the framing is a challenge. The article starts with the creator every time out, rather than the cultural context. You don’t get a lot of the “why” in the writing.

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-silicon-graphics

andybaio,
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@ernie Great article, though I also enjoyed @benjedwards's coverage of this "untold story" in 2015 for Fast Company. Unfortunately, the live version has bad image formatting, but this archived copy is very readable. https://web.archive.org/web/20160608105301/http://www.fastcompany.com/3047428/how-two-bored-1970s-housewives-helped-create-the-pc-industry/

andybaio, to random
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In April 2008, author/artist Lucy Knisley wrote and illustrated this love song about time travel on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qatydEg7muk

Yesterday, Lucy posted this sequel, a collaboration with her past self from the perspective of someone 16 years older. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9qI4g66pnM

jonty, to random
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🚨 Underpants gnome startup alarm 🚨

The process from here involves setting up a business entity in Germany, so we can import the t-shirts, store them in a warehouse, connect inventory logistics and ship them all over the world. This includes building a website and connecting it to a back-end database. So, we basically ended up owning a merch production operation end-to-end, just so that we could ensure premium quality of these t-shirts!

andybaio,
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@jonty @mattround my bozo bit flipped on Kagi when I saw the founder write “Politics finding its way into tech is one of the reasons we do not have innovation any more” as a response to customers criticizing them for partnering with Brave last December https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111707573907442638

andybaio, to random
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April is National Poetry Month, and this year, I was honored to help Oregon's tenth poet laureate, Anis Mojgani, expand his wonderful Telepoem Poetry Phoneline with new options to explore. Just call (503) 928-7008 any time this month and you'll get a new poem read to you daily, or use the menus to hear a random poem from the archives or choose any day from the last two years of the project.

hotdogsladies, to random
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You guys should check out this band called Paramore.

They're very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCyGvGEtOwc

andybaio,
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@stublag @hotdogsladies they never played it live until 2022 because of the challenging vocals (and still have only played it 15 times total), but their 2023 Bonnaroo performance was better than the original IMO (44:30 mark) https://youtu.be/YuVZnjYX6tw#t=44m30s

andybaio,
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@hotdogsladies I got embarrassingly super into Paramore over the last year, particular After Laughter, which is now one of my favorite albums ever.

andybaio, to random
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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 exhaustively researched this 288-page full-color book for years, interviewing dozens of mainstream and alternative cartoonists, and I really hope it gets made. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made/

annika, to random
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people are still calling those who left twitter "refugees" 😬

andybaio,
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@annika pretty tacky when “eXiles” was right there

ernie, to random
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Interesting choice to make a band Pitchfork has barely covered a headliner of the Pitchfork Music Festival

https://pitchfork.com/news/pitchfork-music-festival-2024-lineup-and-dates-announced/

andybaio,
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@ernie They also only reviewed two of Alanis Morissette’s 10 albums (not counting her pre-Jagged Little Pill work), and one of those was an April Fool’s joke, giving Under Rug Swept an 8.2. They could be such assholes. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5429-under-rug-swept/

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