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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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andybaio, to random
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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

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You could live a thousand lifetimes and you would never create a design this good

andybaio,
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@cabel Your post led me to this 21-year-long forum thread collecting research about the history of the original robot, which dates back to ~1938 Japan. Love this packaging. https://www.alphadrome.net/forums/topic/13496-lilliput-robot-main-research/

andybaio, to random
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The latest Bobby Fingers video is a ride, as usual, recreating the moment just before '90s heartthrob Fabio was hit by a goose while riding a rollercoaster— or was he? The last five minutes are wild. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RIEPKEhE2s

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

andybaio, to random
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Finally, a way to replace your cursor with a long cat’s paw. (Windows-only for now, sorry!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXFsE9mNhks

andybaio,
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This all started as a @foone post on Tumblr that blew up a couple months ago https://www.tumblr.com/foone/745797115053244416/bad-idea-a-mouse-cursor-thats-not-just-a-simple

andybaio,
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@foone demand royalties

andybaio, to random
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This Japanese YouTuber covers songs using Family Composer for the Famicom Disk System and a bunch of '90s portable music sequencers. They're all delightful. Here's Pink Floyd's "Any Colour You Like" with multitracked overdubs?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhePsAHeCT0

andybaio,
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Here's Steely Dan's "Peg" on the Family Composer. The video description says, "Enjoy the seaside café atmosphere." Perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahLQnTq-d0

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Here's "St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast," part of Frank Zappa's "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" suite from 1974, multitracked with two copies of Family Composer and the Yamaha QY70. This is gonzo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swvtt15jdJI

andybaio,
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A bunch of these are process videos: here they are making another version of Steely Dan's "Peg," this time on the Roland PMA-5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrUmImNikgY

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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

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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

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Guess what? I'm on book tour this summer. Come see me discussing the history of psyops and the future of peace with these astonishing conversation partners! Be sure to say hi!

andybaio,
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@annaleen Unbelievable, I'm going to be out of town when you're here. I'd love to see you!

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."

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