My secret hobby is feeding story ideas to the 404 Media crew via Signal group chat. This was one of them!
404 Media
Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?
Domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR and the U.S. government are being quietly eaten by AI slop.
The Tiny Awards are back, and so am I! After a year off, I'll be a judge helping to decide "the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web" made in the last 12 months. Nominations open until the end of June, submit anything you love!
Tiny Awards
This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.
Anyone know Madison, WI? I'm headed there for the first time next week. Recs for food/drink, neighborhoods, and off-beat and/or nerdy things to do welcome! (House on the Rock and the two big retro arcades are on my radar.)
This is such a bizarre iOS/Wikipedia mystery! I can reproduce it on my own iPhone and I'm totally stumped. I searched the Wikipedia edit history and the "scrambled egg" phrase is nowhere to be found. Any ideas?
pdx.social
Neven Mrgan (@neven@pdx.social)
Attached: 1 image [SOLVED] I stumbled upon the strangest Internet mystery. Looking for the origin of the phrase "a rising tide lifts all boats," A...
If you're in the U.S. and ever used TikTok, consider backing up all your liked/faved videos locally before it shuts down on Sunday. myFaveTT is a free Chrome extension that easily generates a local static HTML/MP4 archive with video metadata.
myfaveTT - backup all your Likes and Followings from TikTok
From TikTok, export mp4 files of all your Likes, all your Favorites, and all videos from people you follow
Nilay Patel frames The Verge’s endorsement of Kamala Harris around collective action problems: issues that require curbing the selfish behavior of individuals/companies for a greater good. Climate change, vaccines, school shootings, income inequality, tech/AI harms.
The Verge
A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles
Trump doesn’t care about any of this.
I’m taking some time offline, belatedly celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary and still basking in the afterglow of the final XOXO, but I wrote a bit about releasing the XOXO talks last week, my approach to booking speakers, and the themes that emerged in our final year.
Waxy.org
The XOXO 2024 Talks - Waxy.org
We published all the talks from the final XOXO, possibly the best day of talks we've ever had. I wrote a bit about how we booked speakers and ...
We started releasing the XOXO 2024 talks yesterday, two per day, and they're all bangers. We'll keep adding to this thread throughout the week.
XOXO Zone
XOXO (@xoxo@xoxo.zone)
βœ¨πŸ“Ί The talk videos for the final XOXO are here, publishing two per day all this week. You can watch them on our site: https://xoxofest.com/202...