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andybaio

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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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the formatting of this official Twitter post is so bizarre, it feels like a coded message, part of an ARG or some poor twitter employee hiding a cry for help https://twitter.com/TwitterBusiness/status/1681646056038187008

more text about Twitter's safety filtering with random letters and partial words bolded for no reason
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a reference to their Abuse & Harassment policy with an open parentheses spanning two lines, with no link inside

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if you love Infocom and have $155,000 hanging around, this eBay auction is for you https://www.ebay.com/itm/115558782739

Shelves of Infocom games
Infocom folio games

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When Meta's Threads launched, The Verge's Alex Heath reported they planned to integrate ActivityPub "three months after the initial release." But I noticed Instagram's Adam Mosseri stopped mentioning it since Threads blew up. His latest video update has a long list of planned features, but ActivityPub isn't on there. https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/CumU7sGg3Y8

Today, Heath reports Mosseri saying ActivityPub is a "long while" out, but still a priority. We'll see! https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/14/23795138/whats-next-for-instagram-threads-twitter

Screen grab from Mosseri's weekly video about upcoming Threads features, with an on-screen list reading, "Following Feed, Editing, Multiple Accounts, Post Search, Hashtags, Web Presence, Like List, Translations."

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I'm skeptical that Threads ever meaningfully integrates ActivityPub, personally. Mosseri repeatedly said before launch that account portability was a top priority for Threads, but I think the moment they exploded in popularity, that was dead in the water. The Threads social graph is basically the Instagram social graph, and the idea that Meta would freely let that go seems pretty unlikely.

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The official Threads account posted today that ActivityPub integration and account portability are still coming. Very curious to see how this plays out. https://www.threads.net/t/Cu2TLZHLvA4/

"So if you’re a creator with a public account here you’ll soon be able to reach new audiences with no added effort. 🔥 You’ll also have the option to take your content and move to other services like Mastodon at any time. If you have a private account, you can approve people who want to follow you, similar to your experience on Instagram.”

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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/

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Even if you don’t care about voting, go take a look at the 16 sites, they’re all worth checking out.

andybaio,
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@jon @mariyadelano Keep an eye on the Tiny Awards site after the winner's announced, I think they're planning on releasing the full list of nominees eventually.

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@janellecshane it’s so good, every post is a gem

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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/

andybaio,
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@stragu @nev like Shrek, it’s an endless meme factory https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/bee-movie

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accidental art challenge: go to your online marketplace of choice, search for people trying to sell their mirrors, and reply to this post with the best photos you find

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@annika love it

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@jerzone Art.

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Looks like @TheRealZophar has made it to Mastodon. Y’all should follow him if you're into

andybaio,
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@ernie @TheRealZophar oh my god, I loved Zophar’s Domain so much, I emailed in a couple submissions/corrections around 1999

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For the last two days, Elon Musk has been publicly freaking out about "EXTREME levels of data scraping," so added "temporary emergency measures" like blocking logged-out views and adding tight rate limits on viewing tweets. But, apparently noticed first here by @sysop408, a Javascript bug in the Twitter web app is self-DDOSing their servers, sending an endless loop of requests — which seems related to their scraping panic. https://waxy.org/2023/07/twitter-bug-causes-self-ddos-possibly-causing-elon-musks-emergency-blocks-and-rate-limits-its-amateur-hour/

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the best closet at Chuck E. Cheese was unlocked

A poster with instructions on how to properly put on a Chuck E. Cheese costume
A poster describing the Chuck E. cheese triangle of fun
A terrifyingly blurry photo of Chuck e costume heads

andybaio,
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@cabel you must dance in the triangle of fun

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it's weird how Ohio Smith doesn't sound like an interesting guy or a compelling name, but Indiana Jones sure does work.

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@mathowie

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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

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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.

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Went to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum in Columbus, and found myself unexpectedly overwhelmed seeing original art from cartoonists who shaped my childhood: pencil roughs, eraser marks, Wite-Out, and all.

Calvin sticking his tongue out. Original eyebrows were covered up with Wite-Out
Calvin making a scared face. Bill Watterson signature is on the panel, dated November 11, 1990

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It’s a magical place.

Close up of Nancy strip with an angry Nancy saying “I can blow thirteen at once” and Sluggo laughing with “Haw Haw”
1964 Family Circus strip with baby PJ covering his eyes, playing hide-and-seek with his mom. A confused Billy watches and says to his mom, “What do you mean ‘where’s PJ?’ He’s right there!”

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Calvin’s hair was originally different, but Watterson’s editor at the syndicate convinced him to change it, suggesting readers would want to see his eyes.

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andybaio,
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As great as the finished printed strips are, seeing the raw original panels at their full size lets you see all the little decisions and details that went into making each one.

Close up photo of same panel.
Tighter close up on Calvin shows eraser and pencil marks, and Wite-Out on his face and hands

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Twitter DM spam is evolving into surrealist generative Unicode glitch poetry

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