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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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Re-reading my 2016 post about why writing on your own site is still a good idea, this paragraph jumped out at me. https://waxy.org/2016/11/redesigning-waxy-2016-edition/

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Question for my ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canadian friends. While digging through ancient photos for my Storyeum post, I found this photo of a signed photo on the wall of a random restaurant in Vancouver BC.

Who??? Who is this???

andybaio,
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@cabel Thatโ€™s Jere Ring, professional entertainer! (Found via running the image through Tineye, which led to a thumbnail of a dead Instagram image, but Tineye on the thumbnail led to Discogs of the CD.) http://www.jerering.com/

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@cabel buy two

andybaio, to random
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I wonder how long it'll take for Google to start purging the hundreds of millions of now-unavailable Reddit pages from their index. https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1668634451088392193

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I'm helping judge the first Tiny Awards, a free and open competition to highlight the best small, playful, and heartfelt websites made in the last year, from the creators of Web Curios and Naive Weekly, two of my favorite newsletters. The winner gets $500 and a little trophy, so send in all your favorite non-commercial web projects by June 14! https://tinyawards.net/

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Tomorrow, June 14, is the last day to nominate your favorite web projects for the Tiny Awards! Please submit anything you love that you feel "embodies the idea of a small, playful and heartfelt web" โ€” it doesn't have to be your own work. https://tinyawards.net/

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mfw you block me for laughing at you wearing your vision pro to your kidโ€™s bday party

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Canโ€™t say Iโ€™m surprised to learn Stability AIโ€™s CEO has a history of unethical business practices. The whole business was founded on taking credit for Stable Diffusion. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/06/04/stable-diffusion-emad-mostaque-stability-ai-exaggeration/

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ever wonder what a bunch of friends out on the town having the time of their lives looks like? got Adobe Firefly to fill out the frame with the power of AI

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Ever wonder what the rest of Citizen Kane looked like? Got AI to generate the other 78 years of Charles Foster Kaneโ€™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, itโ€™s boring as fuck

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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

Spare bedroom with peeling painted walls, poster bed, hanging mirror, and vanity table with makeup.
Closeup photo of vanity with lamp, brush, and 1950s-1960s hai, and makeup products.
Closeup photo of 1950s/1960s Band-Aid and Nail-Dri boxes on a dresser.

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Absolute legendary phonebook SEO seen in the wild. Totally S-tier.

andybaio,
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@mathowie AAA Tier

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remember when words used to mean things in a language?

andybaio,
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@mathowie I really hope Bank of America rebrands to Bofa next. They already own bofa.com!

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This Psychonauts 2 project update says that former game crowdfunding platform Fig is going offline this Sunday, May 28, taking down 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

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Hank Green has cancer. Fortunately, it's one of the most curable kinds, Hodgkin lymphoma, and he started chemo today. He talked about his worries and expectations for how the treatment might affect his work and life over the next 4+ months in a characteristically thoughtful video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6a4hMyiwBo

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Dropbox: "ah yeah, I should have those files over to you in 2 hours. sorry, i meant 6 hours. or 2+ days... no, 2 hours"

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Iโ€˜ve never seen anything like Bobby Fingers and his celebrity diorama videos. The pseudonymous Irish model-maker behind them only made three so far, but each one is an unhinged masterpiece, so I reached out to him to learn more. https://waxy.org/2023/05/the-unhinged-miniature-world-of-bobby-fingers/

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Goodbye, Dooce. https://waxy.org/2023/05/goodbye-dooce/

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Iโ€™m eating brunch in SE Portland and the two guys at the table next to me are talking about Mastodon.

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They were also talking about Bluesky. Federated social media enthusiasts? They paid their bill and left. Probably for the best, I came dangerously close to introducing myself.

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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 wasnโ€™t him! https://ask.metafilter.com/372459/Whats-this-sci-fi-story-about-AI-lawsuit-bots

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Found, thanks to @jerzone! It was by Paul Ford. https://www.ftrain.com/nanolaw

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Can some Mastodon expert explain what determines which "Publishers" (i.e. domains) are eligible for admin approval, and can therefore appear in the Trending News/Links section of Explore? I've noticed that it's almost exclusively news articles, and never (for example) a YouTube video or sites like Neal.fun, MSCHF, etc. I've looked in the code, and can't figure out where that's defined.

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@jwildeboer I know, I'm an admin too. I'm asking how Mastodon determines which Publishers/domains are eligible to be allowed/disallowed by admins for the Trending links section. YouTube.com, for example, will apparently never appear as a Publisher in the trends moderation UI even if there's a very popular YouTube video. Why not? Where's that defined in the code?

andybaio,
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@jwildeboer Mastodon has its own internal concept of a โ€œpublisherโ€ (ie domains) for trending links.

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