Dispatch #13 (March 2024)
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title: "Dispatch #13 (March 2024)"
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date: 2024-03-04T23:24:54-05:00
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- title: "Publish Your Work | Brain Baking"
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url: https://brainbaking.com/post/2024/01/publish-your-work/
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date: 2024-03-04T04:27:21Z
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- title: "Remembering HFStival: 20 years since DC's festival went quiet | wusa9.com"
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url: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/remembering-hfstival-dcs-biggest-music-festival/65-60a8d4f0-68a7-4ac0-b79a-80d596e6ec67
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- title: "The 1998 HFStival"
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date: 2024-03-04T04:49:23Z
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- title: "Create a systemd service for your docker-compose project in 10 seconds - TechOverflow"
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url: https://techoverflow.net/2020/10/24/create-a-systemd-service-for-your-docker-compose-project-in-10-seconds/
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- title: "Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? – Locus Online"
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url: https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/
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- title: "Subprime Intelligence"
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- title: "Neal Stephenson's Most Stunning Prediction - The Atlantic"
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- title: "Skiff Should Be A Reminder To Us All – The New Oil"
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- title: "The internet used to be fun"
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Highlights this month: a weekend in Wilmington, a successful 10K, and a solo dad weekend (including a rainy bike adventure followed by an incredible rainbow over Central Park). Plus some new music and a bunch of website improvements.
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I'm really pleased with [my result][1] in the in the [Wrightsville Beach Valentine Run][2] 10K. You can see I'm still far from competitive, but that's much faster than I ever thought I'd be when I started this journey in 2021. Running (at least at the level I'm at) is one of the few things you can get improve at just by showing up. Want to get better? Run more. Were all the other things I pursue so straightforward.
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[2]: https://runsignup.com/Race/NC/WrightsvilleBeach/WrightsvilleBeachValentineRun
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At the beginning of February, I updated the site to store encrypted photos and display them as black-and-white dithered images. I [documented the process in some detail][3], and then put a link to it on the [Hugo discussion forum][4]. Imagine my suprise when, a few days later, one of the core contributers posted that the next version of Hugo would ship with [native dithering functionality][5]. I guess my post [inspired him to add it][6], which echoed a post I'd read a few days earler, ["Publishing Your Work"][7]:
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> I don’t create or publish in the hopes of influencing others. I create things because I have an urge to create. But it sure is great to help others along the way, however small my contribution might be.
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[3]: /journal/encrypt-and-dither-photos-in-hugo/
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[4]: https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/encrypt-and-dither-photos-in-hugo/48157
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[5]: https://gohugo.io/functions/images/dither/
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[6]: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/pull/12016#issuecomment-1936664139
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[7]: https://brainbaking.com/post/2024/01/publish-your-work/
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I stumbled on a [retrospective of the HFStival][8], a DC-area music festival that was a big part of my adolescence. I remembered that I made fan sites for a few of them, and after a few minutes of trying to recall the domains, I discovered that the [1998][9] and [1999][10] editions are still online. Not bad, 15-year-old Dave. Funny how I'm still doing basically the same thing 25+ years later, though I guess we have CSS now and I write in Markdown rather than hand-editing HTML files on a server.
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[8]: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/remembering-hfstival-dcs-biggest-music-festival/65-60a8d4f0-68a7-4ac0-b79a-80d596e6ec67
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[9]: https://hfs98.tripod.com/
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[10]: https://hfs99.tripod.com/
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I made several website updates this month:
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* The site now has full-text RSS; I wish this was the default or at least a toggleable option. [The fix][11] is to copy the RSS template into your site and then change `.Summary` to `.Content`, which is a maintenance headache.
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* I added a favicon using this [friendly generator][12].
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* I moved the site to a new server on Digital Ocean. My previous VPS was running a version of Ubuntu from 2014 and was just a mess. I haven't really kept up with modern DevOps and didn't want to learn [Ansible][13] for my relatively basic needs, but I do have a lot of experience with [Docker][14] and decided to use Docker Compose to run this site and a handful of others. It all came together easily with [Caddy][15] plus `php-fpm` and MySQL for an old [Textpattern][16] site I keep around. Now I've got all my infrastructure in a version-controlled repository I can test locally, and the actual server is doing very little. [Here's a handy script for running `docker-compose` as a `systemd` service][17] that I used.
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* Finally, I've wanted to be able to send out these dispatches as emails for a while now, but didn't want to sign up and pay for a service like [Buttondown][18] when I've no idea if anyone would sign up. I discovered [Listmonk][19], which is open-source, self-hosted software that offers exactly what I need: a signup form, an admin UI, and an API for creating new emails. It snapped into my Docker setup super easily, and now you can go to [dispatch.davideisinger.com][20] and sign up to receive these posts in your inbox. Go on! Be the first.
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[11]: https://jasonmurray.org/posts/2021/rssfulltexthugo/
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[12]: https://favicon.io/favicon-generator/
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[14]: https://www.docker.com/
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[16]: https://textpattern.com/
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[17]: https://techoverflow.net/2020/10/24/create-a-systemd-service-for-your-docker-compose-project-in-10-seconds/
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[18]: https://buttondown.email/
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* Adventure: we're headed back to Wilmington again, this time to run the [Steve Haydu St. Patrick's Lo Tide Run][21]; I've also got my annual Vegas trip and we'll head to Lake Norman at the end of the month
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* Project: Nev has this little [fidget toy][22] that I'm obsessed with; I want to learn [three.js][23] and create a digital version of it
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* Skill: just keep making music; I've got my eye on this [Roland SP-404][24] sampler that I might pick up -- curious how that might pair with my Novation Circuit
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[21]: https://runsignup.com/Race/NC/CarolinaBeach/LoTideRun
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[22]: https://www.amazon.com/Fidget-Rainbow-Stocking-Stuffers-Fillers/dp/B092M5DS4X/ref=asc_df_B092M5DS4X&mcid=ba508808da2c3bf09cb27e0b262f1682?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=79920869053533&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583520396659984&th=1
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[23]: https://threejs.org/
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[24]: https://www.roland.com/global/products/sp-404mk2/
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* Fiction: [_The Disposessed_][25], Ursula K. LeGuin
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* Non-fiction: [_Dilla Time_][26], Dan Charnas
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[25]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-dispossessed-ursula-k-le-guin/7899183
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[26]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/dilla-time-the-life-and-afterlife-of-j-dilla-the-hip-hop-producer-who-reinvented-rhythm-dan-charnas/18480833
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* [What Kind of Bubble is AI?][27]
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> Tech bubbles come in two varieties: The ones that leave something behind, and the ones that leave *nothing* behind. Sometimes, it can be hard to guess what kind of bubble you’re living through until it pops and you find out the hard way.
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* [Neal Stephenson's Most Stunning Prediction][29] -- if I had to pick a favorite book, _Diamond Age_ would be it; I should re-read it at some point, especially now that I have a young daughter
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* [Why all your notes and files should be plain text][30]
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* [Skiff Should Be A Reminder To Us All][31]
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* [How to make self-hosting and local-first software work][32]
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* [File over app][33]
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* [More Files Please][34]
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* [The future needs files][35]
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* [The internet used to be fun][36]
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* [What’s the fun in writing on the internet anymore?][37] ([via][38])
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* [The Year of the Personal Website][39]
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[27]: https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/
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[28]: https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-fried/
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[29]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/chatbots-ai-neal-stephenson-diamond-age/677364/
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[30]: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/18/24075077/bose-ultra-open-superlist-bulletin-text-files-note-apps-installer
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[31]: https://blog.thenewoil.org/skiff-should-be-a-reminder-to-us-all
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[33]: https://stephango.com/file-over-app
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[35]: https://jenson.org/files/
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the usefulness of currency.
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The most powerful aspect of files is that they liberate your data. Any app
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can see it and do something useful to it.
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Files represent a “data first vs app first organization”. If you’re planning a
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wedding, you put everything wedding related into a folder. All your data is now
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in one place vs. strewn across various apps.
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Documents — like a Notion doc — are today’s folders: they contain a list of
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links to “files” that will open in bespoke applications.
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the success or failure of a single company?
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Files encapsulate a ‘chunk’ of your work and allow that chunk to be seen,
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moved, acted on, and accessed by multiple people and more importantly
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external 3rd party processes.
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Can you imagine working on a codebase — which is a set of files — but the files
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were locked to a particular IDE? Craziness.
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Personally, I’m a file guy. I love files. And I wish more products worked in
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the currency of exchange of files.
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Comment? Reply via: [11]Email, [12]Mastodon, or [13]Twitter.
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[3] https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/about/
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[4] https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/feed
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[5] https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/website-fidelity/
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[10] https://jenson.org/files/
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[11] mailto:jimniels%2Bblog@gmail.com?subject=Re:%20blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/more-files-plz/
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[12] https://mastodon.social/@jimniels
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[1]The New Oil
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Skiff Should Be A Reminder To Us All
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February 18, 2024
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Last week, encrypted email, cloud, and calendar provider Skiff announced they
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will be shutting down in six months after being acquired by Notion. This has
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understandably caused a lot of frustration in the privacy community as many
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people were initially quite excited about Skiff. Several other privacy outlets
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– including [2]Michael Bazzell, [3]Privacy Guides, and even our own [4]
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Surveillance Report – have all discussed our own frustrations, lessons learned,
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and plans going forward. But really, this is nothing new. Two years ago (nearly
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to the month), [5]CTemplar also suddenly shut down, and we saw nearly the same
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scenario play out (with different reasons being given by the companies). So
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this week, let’s take a moment to reflect back on the second email shutdown The
|
||||||
|
New Oil has survived and see what lessons we can take away for the next
|
||||||
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inevitable disruption.
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Reminder: Beware the Little Guys
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In the above-linked CTemplar blog post, I wrote that “in the privacy space, we
|
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are very skeptical of new services.” Since then, I’ve seen a shift away from
|
||||||
|
that. I’m not a fan. On the one hand, I’ve [6]written in the past about how no
|
||||||
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service or tool is perfect and how we should always be striving for better
|
||||||
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services that improve upon those shortcomings. In the CTemplar post, I also
|
||||||
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mentioned the value of supporting the little guy and how every major
|
||||||
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organization was once a “little guy.” However, I think that the privacy
|
||||||
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community has taken this mentality too far. Not a week goes by that I don’t see
|
||||||
|
some new forum post, email, or [7]Surveillance Report question about some new
|
||||||
|
service I’ve never heard of before. It’s great that so many new people are
|
||||||
|
recognizing the room for improvement and stepping up to the challenge, and that
|
||||||
|
so many privacy enthusiasts stand ready to support these efforts. But in the
|
||||||
|
CTemplar post, I also touched on the fact that starting a new service is really
|
||||||
|
hard and riddled with uncertainty. It could be a Big Tech or government [8]
|
||||||
|
honeypot. Even if it’s not and the creators are genuine, it’s incredibly easy
|
||||||
|
to accidentally screw up implementation and allow for bugs and vulnerabilities
|
||||||
|
(if it happens to the big, well-funded giants on a regular basis, why would the
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||||||
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small, cash-strapped startups be any safer?). And of course, any new company in
|
||||||
|
any industry must compete, and that’s never a sure thing no matter how much
|
||||||
|
money you throw at something or else there’d be no such thing as “box-office
|
||||||
|
bombs” and venture capitalists would have a far higher [9]success rate.
|
||||||
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||||||
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I know that advice is contradictory, but life is complicated, contradictory,
|
||||||
|
and messy. Still, two things can be real – like how new services should be both
|
||||||
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supported but also treated cautiously. It’s okay to donate to a new service you
|
||||||
|
believe in that you think is doing interesting things, but you probably
|
||||||
|
shouldn’t immediately move everything over to be your primary service.
|
||||||
|
Relationships have some pretty consistent rules and characteristics across the
|
||||||
|
board, whether it’s with a potential romantic partner or a corporation. One
|
||||||
|
such rule is to go slow. You wouldn’t propose marriage on the first date, so
|
||||||
|
why on earth would you move all your most sensitive data into a brand new
|
||||||
|
service you just discovered that’s less than two years old and just launched
|
||||||
|
their first stable release six months ago and you can’t find any expert reviews
|
||||||
|
of it? Explore, support, but temper your excitement. Wait to see what the
|
||||||
|
experts say and if the service really is here to stand the test of time.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Reminder: Control Your Data
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This is a topic I clearly need to discuss more: the tech space in general – but
|
||||||
|
especially the privacy space – is rife with ephemeral projects, whether because
|
||||||
|
they get sold, abandoned, or forced out of business. The single best way to
|
||||||
|
defend against this is to control your data, and the best way to do that – I
|
||||||
|
think – is to think in “standards.” The internet was never Netscape, Explorer,
|
||||||
|
Firefox, or Chrome (or apps, for that matter). It was always HTTP, TCP/IP, the
|
||||||
|
OSI model, and other such standards. These have been improved upon over time
|
||||||
|
(such as HTTPS and DoH/DoT), but the core standards have never changed. And
|
||||||
|
they're open! Accessing [10]The New Oil today is no different than accessing
|
||||||
|
Myspace in 2003 or the [11]CERN website in 1991, except it’s probably a lot
|
||||||
|
faster, easier, and better-looking (no offense, Proton/CERN alumni).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you don’t know what any of that stuff means, don’t worry about it. Here’s
|
||||||
|
the point: try to think about how to reduce your data to a standard –
|
||||||
|
preferably an open one – and then preserve that. For the record, I don’t mean a
|
||||||
|
literal web standard like the ones above, but I do mean the same ideas and
|
||||||
|
principles. Bear with me and I’ll come back to that. Since this post was
|
||||||
|
inspired by Skiff (and built off my CTemplar post), let’s take email for
|
||||||
|
example. Like it or not, email isn’t going away any time soon. Nearly all
|
||||||
|
websites require email to sign up for an account, for example, and lately
|
||||||
|
there's been a big push for services to forgo a password logon entirely and
|
||||||
|
instead email you a link every time you sign in. (Not a fan.) However, email is
|
||||||
|
an interoperable standard. Whether you use Proton, Tuta, Mailbox, or Gmail,
|
||||||
|
that login link is going to get sent to you. So regardless of whether you’re
|
||||||
|
wanting to check out a new provider or simply improve your own data
|
||||||
|
sovereignty, the question to ask here is “how can I think of email as a
|
||||||
|
'standard' to ensure that I retain control of my email no matter what?” The
|
||||||
|
most extreme option here is to self-host your own email server, but that’s
|
||||||
|
generally not recommended unless you’re an expert – there’s too many
|
||||||
|
opportunities for things to go wrong and suddenly your emails will be blocked
|
||||||
|
(possibly both sending and receiving) and you may not have any idea for a long
|
||||||
|
while. Instead, the next-best option is to control the email address, because
|
||||||
|
then you always control where the emails go. You’re not bound to a specific
|
||||||
|
provider, which means you can migrate for any reason – shutdown, censorship,
|
||||||
|
better options, etc. The good news is that this is incredibly easy to
|
||||||
|
accomplish. You simply buy your own domain name from any reputable registrar
|
||||||
|
for a few bucks a year, and most email providers have instructions on how to
|
||||||
|
set it up. Then, if you decide you want to use a different provider, you just
|
||||||
|
look up their instructions instead.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Now, of course, experienced readers will go “email isn’t a standard, Nate.” And
|
||||||
|
you’re 100% right. As I said, I don’t mean to think in literal standards like
|
||||||
|
HTTP or TCP/IP. What I do mean is think in terms of “universal” and
|
||||||
|
“interoperable” – like a standard. As I said earlier, email is universal.
|
||||||
|
Proton, Tuta, Gmail, Yahoo, every email provider is built on the exact same
|
||||||
|
standards that make email function, such as SMTP, RFC 5322, and MX DNS records.
|
||||||
|
Of course, Proton & Tuta offer different protections and technical features
|
||||||
|
than Gmail and Yahoo (and even each other) but the core product is identical:
|
||||||
|
an email is an email and will be delivered to or sent from anywhere (not
|
||||||
|
including restrictions such as company or government censorship). As such, you
|
||||||
|
can think of an email the same way you think of any standard: how can I ensure
|
||||||
|
that I always receive my emails, send emails, and have my emails? As I said,
|
||||||
|
the first two are easily accomplished via custom domains: if you ever have
|
||||||
|
issues or find a better provider, simply migrate over with a few clicks and
|
||||||
|
some help from the provider and you’re golden. The last one can be accomplished
|
||||||
|
by exporting your emails, a feature that going forward I will consider a
|
||||||
|
non-negotiable requirement to be listed on The New Oil because of situations
|
||||||
|
exactly like this. Most providers also let you import emails, allowing you to
|
||||||
|
transfer as if nothing ever happened. Backing up your emails via exporting on a
|
||||||
|
regular basis and owning a custom domain essentially untethers you from any one
|
||||||
|
given provider for email, making you independent, resilient, and in control of
|
||||||
|
your own data.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Practical Application
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This thought process can be applied to nearly anything. “How can I save this
|
||||||
|
file in a format that’s compatible with other word processors or operating
|
||||||
|
systems?” “How can I save my backups in a format that’s recoverable and usable?
|
||||||
|
” “What would I do if this messenger shuts down tomorrow?” Not to victim blame,
|
||||||
|
but perhaps the biggest failing with the Skiff fiasco – and CTemplar before it
|
||||||
|
– was not asking these kinds of questions in advance and planning ahead. One
|
||||||
|
should always have an exit strategy and backup plan in place, even with the
|
||||||
|
most trusted and long-standing services, and one should always look for
|
||||||
|
opportunities to reduce their dependence on these platforms as much as
|
||||||
|
possible. (Note: I would like to recognize that some people are truly living
|
||||||
|
paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford to pay for a custom domain or even a
|
||||||
|
premium email aliasing service. This is valid, and I still encourage you to ask
|
||||||
|
these questions and come up with solutions that are within your means, even if
|
||||||
|
they’re less than ideal.)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
It is, of course, worth noting that there’s only so much you can do. You can’t
|
||||||
|
literally own your own domain registrar, and even if you could you couldn’t own
|
||||||
|
the organization who makes the kinds of decisions that affect your specific
|
||||||
|
domain. Therefore you can never 100% be certain of your domain name. But even
|
||||||
|
as an everyday individual, you can rest assured that it would take a lot to get
|
||||||
|
your domain name revoked or taken away, and for most of us that’s simply not
|
||||||
|
something to even worry about. Likewise, for a lot of apps, you can export your
|
||||||
|
data but it may only be readable by that same app. It’s important to be aware
|
||||||
|
of these limitations and ask if you’re comfortable with them. I am a [12]Qubes
|
||||||
|
user, and I don’t expect that to change any time soon. My backups from Qubes
|
||||||
|
can only be read by another Qubes device, and for me that’s okay. The purpose
|
||||||
|
of these backups is to have them as literal backups – to be able to reload them
|
||||||
|
on another Qubes device in the event of theft, loss, or damage of my Qubes
|
||||||
|
laptop. On the other hand, I want my emails to be portable so that I can open
|
||||||
|
them with another provider (or at very least, another program) so that I don’t
|
||||||
|
lose all my past correspondence if I ever have to migrate services. These are
|
||||||
|
two very different use cases that warrant consideration.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Whatever services you’re using today, there’s a near 100% chance you won’t be
|
||||||
|
using most of them in 10 years. Whether they shut down or whether you simply
|
||||||
|
migrate to something that better suits your needs, the software you’re using
|
||||||
|
will almost certainly change in the future. The question is if you’ll be ready
|
||||||
|
when that happens. Everyone who was depending on Skiff directly must now
|
||||||
|
scramble to migrate and pray that they didn’t overlook anything when the dust
|
||||||
|
settles. Don’t be caught in that situation when the service you depend on sheds
|
||||||
|
this mortal coil and joins the choir invisible. If you’re lucky, you’ll decide
|
||||||
|
that the time is right to move on to another project and have all the time you
|
||||||
|
want to make the switch. We can’t always be so lucky. The best time to plant a
|
||||||
|
tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today. I’ll end with what I said
|
||||||
|
when CTemplar shut down:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Controlling your data is important and powerful. It makes you independent,
|
||||||
|
it makes you resilient, and it makes your life simpler by being prepared
|
||||||
|
for when things change – and in tech, things are always changing. Part of
|
||||||
|
threat modeling is planning for what could go wrong and then putting
|
||||||
|
systems in place to mitigate it if it happens. Maybe you weren’t affected
|
||||||
|
by this CTemplar situation. That doesn’t mean you won’t be affected by the
|
||||||
|
next one. Be sure to review the products and services you use and plan
|
||||||
|
ahead. There’s always room to improve. Take this time to learn some lessons
|
||||||
|
and apply the necessary changes to your own posture.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
You can find more recommended services and programs at [13]TheNewOil.org, and
|
||||||
|
you can find our other content across the web [14]here or support our work in a
|
||||||
|
variety of ways [15]here.
|
||||||
|
|
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|
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
published with [16]write.as
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[piwik]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
References:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[1] https://blog.thenewoil.org/
|
||||||
|
[2] https://inteltechniques.com/blog/2024/02/12/lessons-learned-from-skiffs-shutdown/
|
||||||
|
[3] https://blog.privacyguides.org/2024/02/11/this-week-in-privacy-8/
|
||||||
|
[4] https://apertatube.net/w/ftu35a7ZFgYguE6emeX9r5?start=10m3s
|
||||||
|
[5] https://blog.thenewoil.org/ctemplar-is-dead-aka-lessons-about-email-sovereignty
|
||||||
|
[6] https://blog.thenewoil.org/the-self-destructive-quest-for-perfection
|
||||||
|
[7] https://surveillancereport.tech/
|
||||||
|
[8] https://usa.kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/what-is-a-honeypot
|
||||||
|
[9] https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/the-meeting-that-showed-me-the-truth-about-vcs/
|
||||||
|
[10] https://thenewoil.org/
|
||||||
|
[11] https://www.history.com/news/the-worlds-first-web-site
|
||||||
|
[12] https://www.qubes-os.org/
|
||||||
|
[13] https://thenewoil.org/
|
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|
[14] https://thenewoil.org/en/links/
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[15] https://thenewoil.org/en/support/
|
||||||
|
[16] https://write.as/
|
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|
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||||||
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[11] 31 January 2024 | [12]braindump
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
As an electrical and mechanical engineer, my late father-in-law was an expert
|
||||||
|
in crafting home-grown black boxes that meticulously—and sometimes also
|
||||||
|
miraculously—executed certain tasks in and around the house, such as
|
||||||
|
automatically opening and closing the curtains based on the position of the sun
|
||||||
|
(that included LEGO Technic radar work), routing audio and video from the
|
||||||
|
doorbell to the TV or smartphone when someone pressed the button, or mediating
|
||||||
|
the central heating based on too many factors. He also loved building things
|
||||||
|
that weren’t really needed, just for fun: how about a full-size sixties jukebox
|
||||||
|
emulated with a couple of Arduino boards, where each mechanical piece was
|
||||||
|
hand-cut?
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
When I asked him why he doesn’t take pictures of each project to document and
|
||||||
|
publish them online, to inspire others, he was never interested. Most of these
|
||||||
|
projects aren’t well-documented privately either, leaving us now with
|
||||||
|
unsolvable puzzles when things break. But his ideas, as with all ideas, were
|
||||||
|
gradually formed by studying ideas and projects of others, so why not come full
|
||||||
|
circle to again share what you’ve made? I never really got an answer as to why
|
||||||
|
not.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
When I talk to friends about blogging, or more generally “putting stuff out
|
||||||
|
there”, the vast majority of them don’t care, and that comes across as very
|
||||||
|
strange to me, since I do. Not everyone has the urge [13]to write in public.
|
||||||
|
Yet publishing your work comes with so many advantages that I don’t even know
|
||||||
|
where to begin to list them. I think many people underestimate the value of
|
||||||
|
sharing what you’ve made.
|
||||||
|
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Austin Kleon wrote a whole book about this [14]called Show Your Work!, which,
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as Austin puts it, is a good starting point for people who hate the very idea
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||||||
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of self-promotion. Perhaps I should have given a copy to my father-in-law,
|
||||||
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although I doubt that would have changed anything. He was content tinkering in
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||||||
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his cellar without letting the world know what he made. Yet if he did, more
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||||||
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people would have made something based on his work. And that feeling of
|
||||||
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contributing is amazing.
|
||||||
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||||||
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It doesn’t take a genius or a huge project to make a bit of an impact. Just
|
||||||
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influencing your own “tribe”, as Seth Godin likes to call it, is more than
|
||||||
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enough to get a positive feedback loop going. As a silly example, I fooled
|
||||||
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around with hacking a [15]Phomemo M02 thermal printer a year ago, and I just
|
||||||
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found out that there’s a Node CLI module on GitHub that thanks my article for
|
||||||
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pointing them in the right direction. Conventional contributions to existing
|
||||||
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open-source projects is of course the obvious other example, but it’s not even
|
||||||
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needed to go that far. I sometimes just write about things I tried—and often
|
||||||
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failed—to do, and it always puts a smile on my face when I notice someone
|
||||||
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picked that up.
|
||||||
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||||||
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I don’t create or publish in the hopes of influencing others. I create things
|
||||||
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because I have an urge to create. But it sure is great to help others along the
|
||||||
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way, however small my contribution might be. I don’t care about being found
|
||||||
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online and I am certainly not actively pushing my stuff down others’ throats
|
||||||
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(Kleon’s rule #7: Don’t turn into human spam). I love reading about the
|
||||||
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creation process of others. I love sharing my creation process. It’s almost
|
||||||
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second nature: it feels like a wasted opportunity to do something good in this
|
||||||
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world if I didn’t.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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If you made something, great! Why don’t you tell us about it? It’s simple, you
|
||||||
|
just need to hire a VPS, configure iptables, download and customize a Hugo
|
||||||
|
theme, write front matter and markdown, have a CI pipeline setup, and install
|
||||||
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Nginx. Ah, dang it!
|
||||||
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[16] You Might Also Like...
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I'm [21]Wouter Groeneveld, a Brain Baker, and I love the smell of freshly baked
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thoughts (and bread) in the morning. I sometimes convince others to bake their
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hfs99. Check it out!
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[hfs_head] ┌──────────────┐
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[Saturday, 7/25/98] Anybody else see │ Jimmie's │
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yesterday? It was great! Not the │ 4/3 - │
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really cool. Eve 6 performed first. │ TOMORROW │
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Peace was also really good. │ announcement │
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└──────────────┘
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|
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Blind. They performed practically [stars]
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every song on their album, including
|
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such hits as "Semi-Charmed Life", The Site
|
||||||
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"Graduate", and "Jumper". I really - [2]News
|
||||||
|
wanted to see Third Eye Blind - [3]The Bands
|
||||||
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because I missed them at the 1997 - [4]Submit
|
||||||
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HFStival. News
|
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- [5]Contact Me
|
||||||
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If you were at the concert, or
|
||||||
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you've heard about any other cool Links
|
||||||
|
upcoming concerts, [11]drop me a - [6]HFS.com
|
||||||
|
line! - [7]HFStival
|
||||||
|
Rumor
|
||||||
|
[Sunday, 6/21/98] I just recieved Source
|
||||||
|
word that MTV has some video clips - [8]
|
||||||
|
of the HFStival on their page. The HFStival.com
|
||||||
|
clips are available in both
|
||||||
|
RealVideo and QuickTime formats. Which HFStival
|
||||||
|
Just looking at these things brings artist was the
|
||||||
|
back memories. Great stuff. You can best?
|
||||||
|
find the clips [12]here.
|
||||||
|
[thanks Eddie] [9][ ]
|
||||||
|
[10][Submit]
|
||||||
|
[Sunday, 6/14/98] Hey! It's been a
|
||||||
|
while since I updated the page, but [hfs98]
|
||||||
|
(believe it or not), there hasn't
|
||||||
|
been a whole lot of HFStival news [stars]
|
||||||
|
going around. Those pictures I took
|
||||||
|
and was going to put online, they THE BANDS
|
||||||
|
suck! Nothing you couldn't see
|
||||||
|
better at HFS.com anyway. The B-52s
|
||||||
|
The Mighty
|
||||||
|
And as a final testament to just how Mighty Bosstones
|
||||||
|
damn cool the HFStival was, the Green Day
|
||||||
|
Tibetan Freedom Concert, the only Everclear
|
||||||
|
other big music festival in the Scott Weiland
|
||||||
|
area, was CANCELED yesterday! Or Wyclef Jean
|
||||||
|
delayed anyway. It will commence Harvey Danger
|
||||||
|
today, but not without everybody Fuel
|
||||||
|
knowing which festival REALLY kicked Save Ferris
|
||||||
|
ass. Geez, I don't think anyone Semisonic
|
||||||
|
would have cared if someone got Fastball
|
||||||
|
struck by lightning during GREEN Marcy Playground
|
||||||
|
DAY's set, you? Barenaked Ladies
|
||||||
|
Tuscadero
|
||||||
|
[Tuesday, 5/19/98] There's a little Crystal Method
|
||||||
|
article on the festival over on Soul Coughing
|
||||||
|
Rolling Stone. You can check it out Foo Fighters
|
||||||
|
[13]here. [thanks Eric] Agents of Good
|
||||||
|
Roots
|
||||||
|
[Sunday, 5/17/98] Well folks, it's Cherry Poppin'
|
||||||
|
all over. The HFStival, which took Daddies
|
||||||
|
place yesterday, was AWESOME. Sure, God Lives
|
||||||
|
the temperatures were in the 90s Underwater
|
||||||
|
throughout the day, and nobody left
|
||||||
|
without a sunburn, but it was okay,
|
||||||
|
because we could quench our thirst
|
||||||
|
with $3 Cokes! Yeah, the prices were
|
||||||
|
a little rediculous, but the music
|
||||||
|
was great.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The best performer, in my opinion,
|
||||||
|
was Green Day. While they aren't my
|
||||||
|
favorite radio band, they really
|
||||||
|
know how to work the crowd. At one
|
||||||
|
point, they pulled a guy out of the
|
||||||
|
audience and let him play a song on
|
||||||
|
the guitar with the band. They also
|
||||||
|
burned a drum set, and sang some
|
||||||
|
Maryln Manson. I really enjoyed the
|
||||||
|
morning outer stage bands, like
|
||||||
|
Fuel, Harvey Danger, and Fastball.
|
||||||
|
Wyclef Jean (say "john", dammit!)
|
||||||
|
was great, and so was Everclear, who
|
||||||
|
had the entire place singing along
|
||||||
|
to a couple of their songs. Scott
|
||||||
|
Weiland was different, but in a good
|
||||||
|
way. Foo Fighters were great, and
|
||||||
|
then, right before Green Day came
|
||||||
|
on, they showed "The Spirit of
|
||||||
|
Christmas", the original South Park
|
||||||
|
cartoon, on those two huge
|
||||||
|
television screens. Now maybe next
|
||||||
|
year they can look into putting a
|
||||||
|
roof onto RFK?
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
I took some pictures, and I'll try
|
||||||
|
to have them online in the next
|
||||||
|
couple of days.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[14]Click here for Past News
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
[15][bottomtop][bottom]
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||||||
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||||||
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|
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
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[1] https://members.tripod.com/hfs99
|
||||||
|
[2] https://hfs98.tripod.com/~hfs98/
|
||||||
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[3] https://hfs98.tripod.com/bands.html
|
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[4] https://hfs98.tripod.com/news.html
|
||||||
|
[5] mailto:eisinger@worldnet.att.net
|
||||||
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[6] http://www.whfs.com/
|
||||||
|
[7] http://members.aol.com/gregw99058
|
||||||
|
[8] http://hfstival.home.ml.org/
|
||||||
|
[11] mailto:eisinger@worldnet.att.net
|
||||||
|
[12] http://www.mtv.com/news/gallery/h/hfstivalfeature98.html
|
||||||
|
[13] http://www.rollingstone.com/sections/news/text/newsarticle.asp?afl=rsn&NewsID=4356&ArtistID=2458&origin=news
|
||||||
|
[14] https://hfs98.tripod.com/index2.html
|
||||||
|
[15] https://hfs98.tripod.com/#top
|
||||||
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[1]GO CHECK OUT MY NEW PAGE!! HFS2G, BABY!!
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[banner1] [banner2]
|
||||||
|
The Site Thursday, September 30 I think we can sum up the
|
||||||
|
- [2]News HFStival Fall Edition with one word: ROWDY. From the
|
||||||
|
- [3]The Bands violence and ticket-tearing that went down before
|
||||||
|
- [4]Submit the gates even opened, to the early mosh pits (in
|
||||||
|
News one of which my friend got a nasty black eye), to
|
||||||
|
- [5]Contact Me Limp Bizkit's hell-raising set, this HFStival was,
|
||||||
|
in my humble opinion, the craziest EVER. I actually
|
||||||
|
Links fell down in the mosh pit during Bizkit's set. It
|
||||||
|
- [6]HFS.com was seriously the scariest thing that's ever
|
||||||
|
- [7]Official happened to me. No joke.
|
||||||
|
HFStival
|
||||||
|
Page It was great to have the festival back at RFK.
|
||||||
|
PSInet was nice, but taking the metro is sooo
|
||||||
|
Who was da best convenient, or at least it was in the morning...
|
||||||
|
act at the Fall Coming back was a different story entirely. There
|
||||||
|
Edition? were some great acts. A few of my favorites were
|
||||||
|
[8][ ] Fuel, Long Beach Dub Allstars, surprise guests Run
|
||||||
|
[9][Submit] DMC, Sev (Fairfax County. Aww yeah.), Jimmie's
|
||||||
|
Chicken Shack (who had a much better set than in the
|
||||||
|
[hfs99] spring), and of course Limp Bizkit. Words cannot
|
||||||
|
fully describe the spectacle that was Limp's set.
|
||||||
|
Fireballs! Foul language! Exposed breasts! And
|
||||||
|
100,000 flying plastic bottles! It was AMAZING. I
|
||||||
|
came home after their set and slept for FOURTEEN
|
||||||
|
hours.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Another year, another TWO great HFStivals. I'll see
|
||||||
|
yall in the spring! HFStival 2000, baby!
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Friday, August 27 A friend of mind pointed me to a
|
||||||
|
bit o' HFStival news on the [10]SEV WEBSITE. It
|
||||||
|
seems that there will be not one, not two, but THREE
|
||||||
|
stages at the upcoming HFStival. There will be the
|
||||||
|
traditional inner stage, for the bigger acts, and
|
||||||
|
the outer stage, for the lesser-known ones, but this
|
||||||
|
festival will see the addition of a stage for local
|
||||||
|
acts. You can check out the [11]bands page for my
|
||||||
|
breakdown of the acts and their respective stages.
|
||||||
|
Just my guesses, but its the best I can do at this
|
||||||
|
point. And oh yeah, tickets tomorrow, 10:00am,
|
||||||
|
Ticketmaster, $25 each, cash only.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Wednesday, August 25 Outer stage! Outer stage! Party
|
||||||
|
time! Excellent! Just discovered the lineup for the
|
||||||
|
HFStival Outer Stage, the home of local music at the
|
||||||
|
festival. Here we go: Good Charlotte, Underfoot,
|
||||||
|
Laughing Colors, Mary Prankster, Colouring Lesson,
|
||||||
|
Modern Yesterday, Live Alien Broadcast, and the
|
||||||
|
Wakeing Hours. Sounds good to me. And in other news,
|
||||||
|
appearing at the Trancemissions Tent will be:
|
||||||
|
Thievrey Corporation, DieselBoy, DJ Touche of the
|
||||||
|
Wiseguys, John Tab, Feelgood, Lovegrove, Scott
|
||||||
|
Henry, and Lieven.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
In other news, tickets for the 1999 HFStival: Fall
|
||||||
|
Edition go on sale this saturday at 10:00. Be there,
|
||||||
|
or... don't be at the HFStival.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Tuesday, August 24 I was just checking the official
|
||||||
|
HFStival page, and it seems that 6 more bands have
|
||||||
|
been quietly added to the line-up. These new bands
|
||||||
|
are HFStival veteran Sev, Staind, Jact, Bis,
|
||||||
|
Splittsville, and Uncle Ho (yeah, you read that
|
||||||
|
right). That brings our grand total to 16 bands,
|
||||||
|
with reportedly more on the way. Also, the
|
||||||
|
Trancemissions tent will be returning to this latest
|
||||||
|
HFStival, so all you dance fans can have something
|
||||||
|
to look forward to.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[12]And everybody wish my sister a happy birthday!
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Thursday, August 19 I wuz listening to HFS last
|
||||||
|
night, and I heard about three more bands headed for
|
||||||
|
the fall festival... Fuel, Filter, and Bush! This
|
||||||
|
brings our grand total up to 10 bands, with more on
|
||||||
|
the way. Exciting stuff.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Wednesday, August 18 HFStival '99 -- FALL EDITION,
|
||||||
|
BABY! That's right, folks, for the first time ever,
|
||||||
|
the year of 99, the year of HFS, will host not one
|
||||||
|
but TWO HFStivals! This second HFStival will take
|
||||||
|
place on Saturday, September 25, at RFK STADIUM,
|
||||||
|
unlike the earlier HFStival. Tickets go on sale on
|
||||||
|
Saturday, August 28, at 10:00AM, and are available
|
||||||
|
through TicketMaster Outlets, TicketMaster
|
||||||
|
PhoneCharge, and, in an interesting twist, through
|
||||||
|
[13]TicketMaster Online.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
And now on to what's really important, the bands.
|
||||||
|
HFStival Fall '99 will featured such acts as Limp
|
||||||
|
Bizkit, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Everclear, the
|
||||||
|
Chemical Brothers, Buckcherry, 311, and the Long
|
||||||
|
Beach Dub Allstars (basically Sublime without Brad
|
||||||
|
Nowell). Sounds awesome, although this list seems
|
||||||
|
short to me, and there is always a possibility that
|
||||||
|
other bands will be announced later.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Expect a new look for this page, as well as more
|
||||||
|
information as it becomes available. Two HFStivals
|
||||||
|
in one year! Who woulda thought...
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Sunday, May 30 80,000 people crammed together like
|
||||||
|
sardines on a scorchingly hot day, listening to
|
||||||
|
music that was far too loud and doing things that
|
||||||
|
are illegal in most states? Yeah, I'd say that
|
||||||
|
pretty much sums it up. This year's HFStival kicked
|
||||||
|
ass!
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The Chili Peppers were good, playing some classic
|
||||||
|
songs as well as new material, but I think we all
|
||||||
|
know who owned this year's festival: The Offspring.
|
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They had the whole stadium going crazy. I'd put
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their performance right up there with Green Day as
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one of the all-time HFStival best. I didn't get out
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|
to the side stage very much, but I hear Sev was
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|
really good. If you've got any HFStival memories,
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|
please, [14]send em my way.
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I think the most exciting thing all day was an
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announcement on the Jumbotron screen over the
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|
stage... a second HFStival! The message said
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|
something like, "Only once a century does it happen
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|
twice a year: May 29 and September 25." I was like,
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|
oh my god! More info as I hear it.
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Saturday, May 29 Hell yeah, folks. The festival is
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|
here. I hear it's gonna be a scorching 91 degrees
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|
today, and it'll feel more like 130 inside the
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|
stadium. It's gonna be freakin' insane. 70,000 or
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|
more people dancing, yelling, smoking, and having an
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|
all around hell of a good time. It's BS that we
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|
can't bring in water, but there should be enough to
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|
go around. I hear about a booth they are going to
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|
set up that sprays people with cool, soothing,
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|
life-giving mist. That's where you'll find me :) If
|
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|
you have any last minute questions, send them my
|
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|
way, and I'll be back with my HFStival wrap-up after
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|
I recover (36 hours of sleep, minimum). I hope you
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|
all have a great time, and I'll be seein' ya'll at
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|
the 1999 HFStival, baby!
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|
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|
Wednesday, May 19 Well, the HFStival is only 10
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|
short days away! Aww man, it's gonna rock your
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|
world.
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|
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|
If I had only one piece of advice to offer you,
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|
fellow HFStivalgoer, sunscreen would be it. Put some
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|
on before you leave. Put some on when you get to the
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|
stadium. Put some on after every band you see. If
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|
you think you have too much sunscreen on, put on
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|
some more. I promise you'll still get a tan, and
|
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|
this way you might not get burned too bad. Also,
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|
bring enough money for drinks. Water is hard to
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|
find, and a drink'll run about $3. I know it's
|
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|
expensive, but you won't care after you've been
|
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|
standing in the heat for five or six hours.
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|
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|
I'll be back with more helpful advice as we get
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|
closer to the festival. Some of my ideas may not be
|
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|
the greatest, but trust me on the sunscreen :P
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|
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|
Thursday, April 28 Tickets this saturday! They go on
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|
sale this saturday at 9am through MOST TicketMaster
|
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|
outlets and through TicketMaster PhoneCharge. There
|
||||||
|
are a few locations that won't be selling HFStival
|
||||||
|
tickets, and I'd advise you to check [15]here to see
|
||||||
|
if you're local ticket outlet is one of them.
|
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|
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|
My advice to all of you is to go to where ever it is
|
||||||
|
you plan to buy tickets on friday night and see
|
||||||
|
what's up. Talk to the ticket sellers and mall
|
||||||
|
security and see what their plan is, and try to get
|
||||||
|
your name on any list, official or unofficial, that
|
||||||
|
you can find. Remember: you can only buy tickets
|
||||||
|
with cash. Tickets are $25 plus a service charge of
|
||||||
|
less than $5 per ticket. Four tickets per person
|
||||||
|
limit. Good luck to everyone, and just try to be
|
||||||
|
civil about it.
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|
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|
Wednesday, April 21 Sorry for the lack of updates.
|
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|
I've been feeling a little bit under the weather,
|
||||||
|
and I needed to get my beauty sleep. Anyway, we've
|
||||||
|
got the complete band list (aside from any surprise
|
||||||
|
bands) and all the ticket info. Tickets will go on
|
||||||
|
sale on Saturday, May 1 at 9am, available at
|
||||||
|
TicketMaster outlets, through TicketMaster
|
||||||
|
PhoneCharge, and at many other places, including RFK
|
||||||
|
Stadium (I'd call there first, though) and Mailboxes
|
||||||
|
Etc. Like last year, tickets will cost $25 with a
|
||||||
|
$4-5 service charge.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
And now, what you've all been waiting for: the
|
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|
bands! They've got some great acts lined up this
|
||||||
|
year. Headlining the festival will be the Red Hot
|
||||||
|
Chili Peppers. Other major bands include the
|
||||||
|
Offspring, Live, Sugar Ray, Goo Goo Dolls,
|
||||||
|
Silverchair, Blink 182, and the Mighty Mighty
|
||||||
|
Bosstones. The other main stage performers will be
|
||||||
|
Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Orgy, Lit, and Sev, for a
|
||||||
|
total of 12 bands.
|
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|
|
||||||
|
On the outer stage, the more popular bands playing
|
||||||
|
are 2 Skinee J's, Citizen King, and Fountains of
|
||||||
|
Wayne. Also, we'll be hearing Buck Cherry, the
|
||||||
|
Freestylers, the Living End, Ozomatli, and Beth
|
||||||
|
Orton, the only female performer at this year's
|
||||||
|
HFStival.
|
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|
|
||||||
|
Expect some surprise announcements from HFS, this
|
||||||
|
being the 10th HFStival and whatnot, and listen to
|
||||||
|
win tickets. They've already started giving them
|
||||||
|
away. Good luck, and I think this year's festival is
|
||||||
|
going to be a blast!
|
||||||
|
|
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|
Sunday, April 18 Official HFStival announcements
|
||||||
|
coming on monday! We'll finally learn about the
|
||||||
|
bands and when we can finally get tickets. I'll
|
||||||
|
listen to as much as I can, but I'd appreciate it if
|
||||||
|
you'd tell me about any of the bands you hear.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Also, we have our first confirmed band: SEV. This
|
||||||
|
local act won the Big Break dealie and now they get
|
||||||
|
to open the main stage. Way to go guys.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Thursday, April 15 Just got an email announcing the
|
||||||
|
new offical HFStival page. Now, it's still under
|
||||||
|
construction, and some of the links don't work, but
|
||||||
|
it's a good sign of things to come. You can find it
|
||||||
|
[16]here. Keep the rumors coming folks!
|
||||||
|
|
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|
Monday, April 12 Big update today. It turns out that
|
||||||
|
the rumors I heard earlier were from a Rolling Stone
|
||||||
|
article (which can be found [17]here). Now, I've
|
||||||
|
been told that the author of this article tried the
|
||||||
|
same stunt (leaking HFStival bands before the
|
||||||
|
official announcements) last year, and half of his
|
||||||
|
article turned out to be wrong, so don't have too
|
||||||
|
much faith in anything you hear from non-HFS
|
||||||
|
sources.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
On a more positive note, I've heard some great
|
||||||
|
things about Raven Stadium (actually called "PSInet
|
||||||
|
Stadium"), where the 1999 HFStival will be held. One
|
||||||
|
reader described it as "nothing less than A FRIGGIN'
|
||||||
|
PALACE with a football field in the middle." I've
|
||||||
|
never been to the stadium, being a Redskins fan
|
||||||
|
myself (hold your laughter until the end of the
|
||||||
|
presentation). I hear it has great audio and video
|
||||||
|
systems, as well as 100,000 parking spaces, so
|
||||||
|
parking won't be a problem. Also, Raven Stadium is
|
||||||
|
larger, allowing HFS to sell approx. 10,000 more
|
||||||
|
tickets. There's a light rail system in Baltimore
|
||||||
|
that stops right outside the stadium that could be
|
||||||
|
used by festival-goers (is that a word?). Overall, I
|
||||||
|
feel that the choice to move the HFStival was
|
||||||
|
probably a good one and won't be a major
|
||||||
|
inconvenience for fans in Washington.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Still haven't heard much about ticket sales. One
|
||||||
|
source told me that tickets will go on sale this
|
||||||
|
saturday, april 17, but that seems a little too soon
|
||||||
|
to me, considering that they haven't announced
|
||||||
|
anything yet.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Sunday, April 11 Hey folks! Wasn't sure if I was
|
||||||
|
gonna do this again this year, but I got an email
|
||||||
|
with a whole bunch of HFStival info (thanks Dave),
|
||||||
|
and I felt like I had to post all this stuff. So
|
||||||
|
here I am, back again this year, bringing you all
|
||||||
|
the info as I hear it.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The 1999 HFStival will take place on May 29, 1999.
|
||||||
|
If you hadn't heard yet, the '99 HFStival will NOT
|
||||||
|
take place at RFK as it has in the past, but rather
|
||||||
|
at Raven Stadium in Baltimore. This raises some
|
||||||
|
questions in my mind, but I'll reserve judgement
|
||||||
|
until I hear more info. I guess I'm not taking metro
|
||||||
|
this year.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This year, I've got a TON of info about the bands,
|
||||||
|
unlike last year, when I didn't hear much until they
|
||||||
|
were officially announced. Here's what we've got so
|
||||||
|
far:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Keeping in mind that this is all just rumors at this
|
||||||
|
point, my source tells me that the Red Hot Chili
|
||||||
|
Peppers and the Offspring could play the festival,
|
||||||
|
as well as the Goo Goo Dolls, Sugar Ray, the Mighty
|
||||||
|
Mighty Bosstones, Lit ("My Own Worst Enemy"), Orgy,
|
||||||
|
Blink 182, and four others. The Chili Peppers and
|
||||||
|
Blink will preview material from their forthcoming
|
||||||
|
albums, called "Californication" and "Enema of the
|
||||||
|
State," respectively. And those are just the main
|
||||||
|
stage bands.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
On the outer stage, slated artists include Fountains
|
||||||
|
of Wayne, Beth Orton and Zebrahead. Other
|
||||||
|
possibilities are Citizen King, Marvelous 3, Puya,
|
||||||
|
and Buckcherry. The winner of the HFS Big Break will
|
||||||
|
also get a spot. The three finalists are Sev, the
|
||||||
|
Martians, and Sampson. The finals will be on April
|
||||||
|
15th at Bohagers in Baltimore.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
"In all, twenty bands are expected to play this
|
||||||
|
year's HFStival -- twelve on the main stage and
|
||||||
|
eight on the second stage." -Dave (my source)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Like always, I love your input. If you've got some
|
||||||
|
info or thoughts on improving the site, email me.
|
||||||
|
Lets hope this year's HFStival turns out to be as
|
||||||
|
cool as the festivals from years past.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
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|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
[1] http://hfs2g.tripod.com/
|
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|
[2] https://hfs99.tripod.com/~hfs99/
|
||||||
|
[3] javascript:bands()
|
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|
[4] javascript:submit()
|
||||||
|
[5] mailto:HFSdavid@hotmail.com
|
||||||
|
[6] http://www.whfs.com/
|
||||||
|
[7] http://www.whfs.com/festival/1999fall/
|
||||||
|
[10] http://www.24sev.com/
|
||||||
|
[11] javascript:bands()
|
||||||
|
[12] mailto:fishbulb100w@hotmail.com?subject=Happy_Birthday!!
|
||||||
|
[13] http://www.ticketmaster.com/
|
||||||
|
[14] mailto:HFSdavid@hotmail.com
|
||||||
|
[15] http://www.whfs.com/festival/1999/festnews.htm
|
||||||
|
[16] http://www.whfs.com/festival/1999/festmain.htm
|
||||||
|
[17] http://www.rollingstone.com/sections/news/text/newsarticle.asp?afl=mnew&NewsID=7551&ArtistID=80origin=news
|
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|
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|
|
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|
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
You are reading some words on the internet.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Think about all the things you could do with these words.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
You could copy and paste this article into ChatGPT and say, “Please rewrite and
|
||||||
|
paraphrase this blog post in such a way as to keep its main points and
|
||||||
|
observations, but substantively reconfigure the text to make the original
|
||||||
|
version undetectable.” And then, just like that, you have content for your own
|
||||||
|
blog. So easy.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Or you could just copy the contents of this page and paste it into a site like
|
||||||
|
plagiarism-remover.com so you could, as advertised, “Easily Convert Your
|
||||||
|
Plagiarism article Into Plagiarism Free article.” Or you could use Spinbot. Or
|
||||||
|
Jasper. Or QuillBot. Or Paraphraser. And so on.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
You can now spin up [1]new, “original” articles faster and easier than even
|
||||||
|
reading the originals. This is a dizzying and dumbfounding new reality, when
|
||||||
|
you stop and think about it: automated plagiarism is now more efficient than
|
||||||
|
reading itself.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
All the same, if you want to skip the whole paraphrase/spin step, you could
|
||||||
|
instead [2]copy and paste this article verbatim into a newsletter served up
|
||||||
|
behind a paywall. This strategy drastically reduces the odds that it will be
|
||||||
|
recognized as plagiarism on the open web. And, hey, why not make a few extra
|
||||||
|
bucks? (Perhaps ironically, turbo-charged content spinning is so pervasive that
|
||||||
|
[3]evermore sites require user logins just to access content. This seems
|
||||||
|
vicious: repurposing content engenders the proliferation of walled gardens and
|
||||||
|
walled gardens, in turn, engenders the proliferation of repurposed content.)
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
In summary, it feels like the fate of words on the internet is to be
|
||||||
|
paraphrased. Emerging tools like [4]Perplexity.ai respond to quiries with
|
||||||
|
fulsome answers that do not require users to even click off the site. In other
|
||||||
|
words, search itself is becoming the delivery of paraphrase and summary. Waning
|
||||||
|
are the days of sifting through “search results” to find a specific source.
|
||||||
|
Henceforth, digital words are little more than raw data to be crunched,
|
||||||
|
processed, and served up by third-party intermediaries.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The “moral rights” of the author. Copyright. Attribution. We have grown to
|
||||||
|
assume these concepts as givens, but they are rapidly sliding into practical
|
||||||
|
irrelevance in the age of AI and paywalls. To put any thoughtful labour into
|
||||||
|
crafting words online today is to watch them get sucked up, repurposed, and
|
||||||
|
often monetized by someone else. It feels a bit like a digital wasteland;
|
||||||
|
overrun with pirates, replete with armies of robots regurgitating everything
|
||||||
|
into a gooey cocktail of digital sludge.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
It is interesting to speculate about the future. It seems like people might
|
||||||
|
eventually grow skeptical about investing their personal creativity in such a
|
||||||
|
space, right? Will anyone bother writing on the internet when they know their
|
||||||
|
words will be pilfered and junkified? What happens to the craft of writing
|
||||||
|
itself when our de facto global platform for sharing text no longer reinforces
|
||||||
|
or recognizes the role or rights of authorship?
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
To ponder this question, we can look back. In some ways, today’s internet
|
||||||
|
evermore reminds of the world I encountered back in classical studies. There
|
||||||
|
are bits of papyrus and parchment are flying around everywhere. Some texts
|
||||||
|
claim attribution, some are anonymous, and a lot are pseudonymous—and you can’t
|
||||||
|
tease any of this apart with any certainty. There are competing manuscripts,
|
||||||
|
copies of copies, and significant “versioning issues” everywhere you look.
|
||||||
|
Ultimately, the credence and authority you give to any specific text typically
|
||||||
|
reflects the trust your community bestows on it. The only words that survive
|
||||||
|
are the ones that get copied. This all sounds strangely familiar, yes?
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
If you were lucky and wealthy enough to write in antiquity, your scribbles went
|
||||||
|
out into the world to completely unknown ends. Authorship, accompanied by
|
||||||
|
newfangled attributions of moral and legal entitlements, is not yet a refined
|
||||||
|
concept. Once you “release” the words, you categorically relinquish control of
|
||||||
|
them. And you are fully aware that the more clever and helpful your words are
|
||||||
|
to others, the more likely it is that future readers will attribute your words
|
||||||
|
to someone else.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Sic semper erat, et sic semper erit. The better your words, the more likely it
|
||||||
|
is that somebody will poach them. Somebody will probably “paraphrase” your work
|
||||||
|
beyond detection. Somebody will “republish” it as their “original.” Somebody
|
||||||
|
else will train their large language model on your text and serve it up without
|
||||||
|
citations or footnotes. To write on today’s internet and assume universal
|
||||||
|
respect for your “moral rights of authorship” is an act of grand delusion.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
You might as well write anonymous papyrus fragments.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
And this is the point.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
None of this really matters.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Whether papyrus or the internet, humans doggedly write for influence, status,
|
||||||
|
wealth, conviction, and pleasure. But the so-called sanctity of “authorship” is
|
||||||
|
only a very recent idea. These “rights” of authorship are only true if they are
|
||||||
|
enforced. They are a kind of fiction that only make sense in occasional times,
|
||||||
|
places, and cultures. For the next chapter of the human experiment, I wonder if
|
||||||
|
“authorship” will again recede into the background, as it often seems to do in
|
||||||
|
times of disruptive changes in communication technology.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
But the banishment of the author doesn’t mean writing ends. Writers still write
|
||||||
|
even when “authorship” functionally means nothing. And what they write still
|
||||||
|
influences their world, with or without the universe dutifully paying homage to
|
||||||
|
their bylines. In the long arcs of history, what is written typically goes on
|
||||||
|
to mean much more than who wrote it. The future, like today, is built on ideas,
|
||||||
|
not on the people who had them, because people die but ideas never stop
|
||||||
|
evolving.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
And the future needs ideas—not auto-generated “summaries” of old ones.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
So, what’s the fun of writing on the internet anymore? Well, if your aim is to
|
||||||
|
be respected as an author, there’s probably not much fun to be had here at all.
|
||||||
|
Don’t write online for fame and glory. Oblivion, obscurity and exploitation are
|
||||||
|
all but guaranteed. Write here because ideas matter, not authorship. Write here
|
||||||
|
because the more robots, pirates, and single-minded trolls swallow up
|
||||||
|
cyberspace, the more we need independent writing in order to think new thoughts
|
||||||
|
in the future — even if your words are getting dished up and plated by an
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[2] https://jamesshelley.com/blog/on-being-plagiarized.html
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[26] Newer
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Configure Client Wireguard VPN Server on Linux [27] Older
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Preparing to ThreatHunt: Installing and Configuring Sysmon on Windows 10
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[2] Scott Jenson
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The future needs files
|
||||||
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||||||
|
For many mobile users, files are like dinosaurs, a holdover from the bygone
|
||||||
|
desktop era. Sure, they “work” but, they’re mostly there because, you know,
|
||||||
|
ancient history. I’ve discussed this issue for the last 2 years and I usually
|
||||||
|
get some version of “get over it grandpa”.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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I’m not here to tell you exactly what should happen, but more what you should
|
||||||
|
want. For me, it’s a travesty that people don’t understand why files are so
|
||||||
|
powerful and more importantly, how they need to evolve for mobile. I want all
|
||||||
|
OSs, including mobile ones, to properly support real files as they are amazing,
|
||||||
|
inspiring, and possibly the future of how we build our digital future.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Note: I’m using iOS as an example throughout this post but Android (and others)
|
||||||
|
are doing nearly the same thing. Please don’t mistake this as some type of
|
||||||
|
attack on Apple, this applies to everyone.
|
||||||
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||||||
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I’m not a luddite
|
||||||
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|
||||||
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I can understand your skepticism. Am I the dinosaur, overly attached to the
|
||||||
|
past? In my defense, I was on the Apple Newton team in the 90s (even working on
|
||||||
|
an unreleased “Newton Phone” concept) and also managed Google’s Mobile UX team
|
||||||
|
from 2005-2009, I was there when all hell broke loose and saw firsthand how
|
||||||
|
mobile changed everything. Mobile is clearly a juggernaut far bigger than
|
||||||
|
desktop. But too many assume a market win means a perfect product. It’s never
|
||||||
|
that simple. Mobile won for a variety of reasons, but throwing away files
|
||||||
|
wasn’t one of them.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Misconception #1: Mobile already has files!
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Whenever I broach this topic on Twitter I always get some smart aleck posting a
|
||||||
|
screenshot of the Apple Files app. Sigh… Yes, there is a Files app, Bravo… But
|
||||||
|
it’s so poorly integrated into the experience that it creates confusion and
|
||||||
|
extra work. Let’s back up a bit.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
In 2007, the iPhone was a radical simplification over the desktop. There were
|
||||||
|
no windows, no menu bar, and there weren’t even visible scroll bars! The iPhone
|
||||||
|
was primarily a content consumption device. This was a brilliant insight. It
|
||||||
|
didn’t rule out content creation, it just made it an edge case. The iPhone was
|
||||||
|
first and foremost focused on browsing and scrolling. In fact, it’s maniacal
|
||||||
|
focus on scrolling introduced “flicking”, which allowed a super fast scroll to
|
||||||
|
the bottom of lists. (there’s a whole blog post I could write just on the
|
||||||
|
difference between the Newton and iPhone scrolling behaviors)
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
UI, the most notable was removing the file system entirely. Remember, this was
|
||||||
|
a consumption device, so files weren’t strictly necessary. You had file-like
|
||||||
|
things, but they were locked up inside the apps themselves. The Notes app is a
|
||||||
|
good example.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
• [Notes1]
|
||||||
|
• [Notes2]
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
And to be honest, if you have just a few notes, this isn’t bad. The problem is
|
||||||
|
that if you have lots of notes, or want to do anything interesting with these
|
||||||
|
notes (e.g. get comments on them, post to blog, or import previous work) you’re
|
||||||
|
out of luck. My issue with that initial 2007 iPhone was that while it was well
|
||||||
|
intentioned it took things too far. Instead of hiding files away, it killed
|
||||||
|
them off entirely.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
But things have improved since then right? There is a Files app after all.
|
||||||
|
Notes can import from Files!
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Well, not quite. Let’s just look at the most recent (2021) version of the iOS
|
||||||
|
Notes app. It’s significantly different from the original 2007 version, with
|
||||||
|
lots more functionality, but below is a screenshot of me trying to save a note
|
||||||
|
to Dropbox.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[Notes-2021-Export-700x527]Notes 2021
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Notice something? There is no “Save to Files” option! Even more confusing,
|
||||||
|
Notes has its own parallel folders that don’t show up in the Files app. And if
|
||||||
|
you feel like being a smarty-pants and say “Scott, look, those are iCloud
|
||||||
|
folders!” Not so fast there buckeroo. Here’s my iCloud drive:
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[YI4kG_di0flii3q8LURZVnypQ2KggBwOQG_IPFqmrn3y22V0VlYfwSdKg]Web iCloud
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Those Notes folders are nowhere to be seen. They are ONLY visible in the Notes
|
||||||
|
app or the iCloud Notes app! A tight little ecosystem you can’t escape from.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
To further confuse things, when I took a screenshot of the Notes app and tried
|
||||||
|
to save this to the Files app, that actually was possible! The Mac prided
|
||||||
|
itself on “learn once, use everywhere.” That’s clearly not the case for iOS
|
||||||
|
apps.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
[Screenshot-savejpg-700x525]Screenshots support Files app
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Side Note: You actually can use Files from Notes but it’s hidden. Instead of
|
||||||
|
“Save to Files” you have to chose “Send a copy” menu item that will export a
|
||||||
|
version into Files. So while it’s Notes does indeed support the Files app, it’s
|
||||||
|
unlike others and clearly only focuses in the Import/Export use case.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
This odd-man-out approach for Notes shows an underappreciated challenge for any
|
||||||
|
paradigm shift. iOS started off without files so when Apple suddenly added a
|
||||||
|
Files app a decade later, it’s not surprising that most apps didn’t immediately
|
||||||
|
start to use it uniformly.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Of course, things may improve over time but it’s been years with little change.
|
||||||
|
I worry things are intellectually calcifying, or in Notes case, bifurcating.
|
||||||
|
Part of my motivation in writing this post is to get us fired up about the
|
||||||
|
value of files so it we appreciate this is happening.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Misconception #2: Sharing is all I need
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The power of files comes from them being powerful nouns. They are temporary
|
||||||
|
holding blocks that are used as a form of exchange between applications. A
|
||||||
|
range of apps can edit a single file in a single location. On mobile, the
|
||||||
|
primary way to really use files is to “Share” between apps. This demotes files
|
||||||
|
from a powerful abstract noun into a lackluster narrow verb.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
For example, I can import a text file into the Notes app but it’s really
|
||||||
|
nothing more than a glorified copy/paste, not an editing of an object in place.
|
||||||
|
This makes a cloud storage service like DropBox nearly useless as I’m not
|
||||||
|
editing “the thing” but a copy of the thing. I need to save it back out to
|
||||||
|
Dropbox if I want anyone else to see my changes. That’s vastly underutilizing
|
||||||
|
the power of the abstraction that comes from files.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
By sharing a file into an app you’re effectively making a copy. If I’d like to
|
||||||
|
make a few changes to a photo before posting it, each app I use makes an
|
||||||
|
internal copy of that photo. In order to pass the new photo to another app, I
|
||||||
|
have to export it out, so I get not only a copy of the photo in each app I use,
|
||||||
|
but it’s result needs to be copied out yet again to a service like Dropbox so
|
||||||
|
that I can share it back into the next app.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Of course, people don’t do this type of flow often but that’s because mobile is
|
||||||
|
mostly about consumption not creation. If we want mobile to expand and grow it
|
||||||
|
needs to handle the flows “knowledge workers” do routinely. Part of my
|
||||||
|
frustration in talking about this issue is that people are so trapped within
|
||||||
|
the present. Just because no one needs something today somehow justifies our
|
||||||
|
pain forever. If we’re talking about the future, we need to talk about new
|
||||||
|
tools and new workflows. The current model of files on mobile is drastically
|
||||||
|
restricting this.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Misconception #3: But I can share with iPhone users!
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Yes, you can “Share” notes with other iOS users but that’s a very [10]
|
||||||
|
Procrustean Bed you’re making. You have to ask “at what cost”? Are you really
|
||||||
|
willing to bet your creative productivity to a single app from a single
|
||||||
|
company? Remember, this approach prevents your notes even from being used by
|
||||||
|
other iOS apps as well!
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The most powerful aspect of files is that they liberate your data. Any app can
|
||||||
|
see it and do something useful to it. DropBox (et. al.) were able to seamlessly
|
||||||
|
merge with desktop usage as it required zero changes to your workflow. Files
|
||||||
|
were just magically synced to the cloud, unlocking not only multiple computers
|
||||||
|
working on the same file but multiple device types.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The current mobile model does indeed sync your data but through the wrapper of
|
||||||
|
apps which forms a restrictive shield around your data. It’s so much more
|
||||||
|
powerful to sync your data through files.
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
Misconception #4: Files are just blobs of data
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Files are mistakenly conceived as only content, something holding your notes,
|
||||||
|
spreadsheet data, or a photo. But files also have metadata, information about
|
||||||
|
the information. The obvious examples are the file name, creation and
|
||||||
|
modification date. The only one of these that is really used much on mobile is
|
||||||
|
modification date as when you use the ‘file picker’ on mobile, it usually
|
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activity! Files are at some level a hack, I get that, there are limits but they
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mobile is adequate today. It isn’t adequate and we desperately need the power
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critical mass around [19]all our personal websites. The year we [20]take back
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mastodon.social/@rjkwon).
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[2]Blogs Are Dead. Long Live Blogs! [3]Gersande La 2023-03-26 2024-03-03
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Flèche
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[4]Surfing the Old Web [5]Juan Villela 2023-01-11 2024-03-03
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[6]Why Personal Blogging Still Rules [7]Mike Grindle 2023-04-12 2024-03-03
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[8]L'informatique, c'était mieux avant [9]Richard Dern 2022-01-21 2024-03-03
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[10]shite: static sites from shell [11]Aditya Athalye 2022-03-08 2024-03-03
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[12]Desktops.zip - Some thoughts on [13]Simone 2023-08-14 2024-03-03
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websites that look like desktops Marzulli
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[14]Reviving Ye Olde Personal Home [15]Dominik Rabiej 2019-06-30 2024-03-03
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[16]Digital Homes and Neighborhoods [17]Jake Weber 2023-05-23 2024-03-03
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[18]Game of Content [19]Deep H. Dave 2021-03-09 2024-03-03
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[20]The Internet Changed My Life [21]Maxime 2022-01-19 2024-03-03
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Chevalier-Boisvert
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[22]Social Websites [23]Matt Stein 2024-02-06 2024-03-03
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[24]The Web is Fantastic [25]Robb Knight 2023-12-28 2024-03-03
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[26]Into the Personal Website-Verse [27]Matthias Ott 2019-05-12 2024-03-03
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[28]Splitting the Web [29]Ploum 2023-08-01 2024-03-03
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[30]Do You Remember the Internet [31]dear talula 2022-02-19 2024-03-03
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Before Social Media?
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[32]Blog Bookmark Rot [33]Skelly 2024-02-17 2024-03-03
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[34]Let Us Build a New Web [35]Brad Enslen 2018-09-13 2024-03-03
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[36]Where have all the websites gone? [37]Jason 2024-01-08 2024-03-03
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Velazquez
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[38]Ruminating on Walled Gardens [39]Brandon 2024-02-16 2024-03-03
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[40]My website is a shifting house [41]Laurel
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next to a river of knowledge. What Schwulst 2018-05-21 2024-02-11
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could yours be?
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[42]Rediscovering the Old Internet [43]Noisy 2023-09-07 2024-02-11
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Vibe Deadlines
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[44]Click around, find out [45]John Hoare 2024-01-21 2024-02-11
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[46]The Bullshit Web [47]Nick Heer 2018-11-30 2024-02-11
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[48]The old internet [49]Rebecca Toh 2020-01-16 2024-02-11
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[50]Computers: An Invocation for Soft [51]Katherine Yang 2023-09-01 2024-02-11
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[52]i really love the (hipster) [53]Judah 2023-02-02 2024-02-11
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internet
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[54]Poor man's web [55]Serge Zaitsev 2021-04-27 2024-02-11
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[56]The web is yours [57]James G 2024-01-06 2024-02-11
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[58]Refuge in blogs and the IndieWeb [59]Robert Kingett 2023-10-17 2024-02-11
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[60]I Love the Web [61]fLaMEd 2021-04-06 2024-02-11
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[62]a personal manifesto [63]Simone 2023-04-20 2024-01-04
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Silvestroni
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[64]Everyone Should Blog, And That [65]Alexandra 2023-12-30 2024-01-04
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Includes You
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[66]My website as a home [67]Nico Chilla 2023-11-13 2024-01-04
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[68]The Web Revival [69]Melon 2023-11-10 2024-01-04
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[70]Make your own independent website [71]Victoria Drake 2021-01-16 2024-01-04
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[72]Why the Indie Web movement is so [73]Dan Gillmor 2014-04-25 2024-01-04
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important
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[74]It’s Time to Get Personal [75]Laura Kalbag 2019-12-09 2024-01-04
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[76]Please for the love of Blarg, [77]Jay Springett 2019-12-14 2024-01-04
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Start a Blog
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[79]Spencer Chang
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[78]Taking an Internet Walk [80]Kristoffer -- 2023-11-12
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Tjalve
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[81]tiny internets [82]Spencer Chang -- 2023-11-12
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[83]You Should Have a Website [84]Mark Murphy -- 2023-11-12
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[85]Notes on the small web [86]Felix 2022-09-10 2023-10-24
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Pleşoianu
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[87]The Quiet Web [88]Brian 2021-02-12 2023-10-24
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Koberlein
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[89]Rediscovering the Old Internet [90] 2023-09-07 2023-10-24
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Vibe noisydeadlines.net
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[91]Soft tech [92]Helena -- 2023-10-24
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Jaramillo
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[93]How to fix the internet [94]Katie 2023-10-17 2023-10-19
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Notopoulos
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[95]Social Internet Is Dead. Get Over [96]Om Malik 2023-10-15 2023-10-18
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It.
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[97]Build your own website! [98]Devastatia del 2023-07-09 2023-10-16
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Gato
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[99]The Importance of Personal [100]Hayden White 2023-08-29 2023-10-16
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Websites
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[101]why the web? [102]Justin Hall -- 2023-09-30
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[103]Exploring the Personal Web [104] 2023-05-06 2023-09-30
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foreverliketh.is
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[105]Why you should have a blog (and [106]Leticia 2020-06-21 2023-09-30
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write in it) Portella
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[107]My 20th anniversary of blogging! [108]Tracy Durnell 2023-09-23 2023-09-30
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[109]Bix's story of his internet [110]Bix Frankonis 2020-02-24 2023-09-18
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[111]About me (localghost) [112]Sophie Koonin -- 2023-09-12
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[113]At home on the internet [114]Johnny -- 2023-09-12
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Rodgers
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[115]How I experience web today [116]Li Guangyi -- 2023-09-12
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[117]About this website [118]Zinzy Waleson -- 2023-09-12
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Geene
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[119]How the Blog Broke the Web [120]Amy Hoy -- 2023-09-12
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[121]I miss the internet. [122]Joan 2023-07-07 2023-09-12
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Westenberg
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[123]Every person on the planet should [124]Amin 2023-07-06 2023-09-12
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have their own website Eftegarie
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[125]Eight years of blogging [126]Paweł Grzybek 2023-03-11 2023-09-12
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[127]Blogging is alive and well [128]Colin Devroe 2023-01-11 2023-09-12
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[129]The Year of the Personal Website [130]Matthias Ott 2023-01-06 2023-09-12
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[131]Bring back personal blogging [132]Monique Judge 2022-12-31 2023-09-12
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[133]Passionless Web [134]Manuel 2022-08-16 2023-09-12
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Moreale
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[135]Building a Digital Homestead, Bit [136]Tom Critchlow 2022-03-08 2023-09-12
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by Brick
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[137]Early Web Design Helped a [138]Nika Simovich
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Generation Express Themselves Online. Fisher 2022-03-08 2023-09-12
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How Do We Capture That Feeling Again?
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[139]The Joys and Sorrows of [140]"Cheapskate" 2022-03-06 2023-09-12
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Maintaining a Personal Website
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[141]On building a home on the web [142]Daniël van 2022-02-25 2023-09-12
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der Winden
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[143]How Websites Die [144]Wesley 2022-02-21 2023-09-12
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Aptekar-Cassels
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[145]“Tom had us all doing front-end [146]Kate M.
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web development”: a nostalgic (re) Miltner 2021-10-07 2023-09-12
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imagining of Myspace [147]Ysabel
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Gerrard
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[148]Why Personal Websites are [149]Chuck Carroll 2021-03-25 2023-09-12
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Important
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[150]The Value of a Personal Site [151]Marc 2021-03-15 2023-09-12
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[152]The small web is beautiful [153]Ben Hoyt 2021-03-01 2023-09-12
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[154]envisioning my homepage as an [155]Winnie Lim 2020-11-22 2023-09-12
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online therapeutic space
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[156]Hunting the Nearly-Invisible [157]"Cheapskate" 2020-08-27 2023-09-12
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Personal Website
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[158]What is the Small Web? [159]Aral Balkan 2020-08-07 2023-09-12
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[160]Rediscovering the Small Web [161]Parimal 2020-05-25 2023-09-12
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Satyal
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[162]On attention management & owning [163]Roel van der 2017-06-04 2023-09-12
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your content Ven
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[164]Stop Crowdsourcing Your [165]Darius Foroux 2016-08-25 2023-09-12
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Confidence
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[166]Homesteading 2014 [167]Frank Chimero 2013-12-21 2023-09-12
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[168]Death to Bullshit [169]Brad Frost 2013-04-08 2023-09-12
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[170]A Brief History & Ethos of the [171]Maggie -- 2023-09-12
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Digital Garden Appleton
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[172]E/N (Everything/Nothing) [173]JR (Sawv) -- 2023-09-12
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Line drawing of an old-school desktop computer with various whimsical items
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emanating from the screen including an ice cream cone, rainbow, puppy, happy
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I still love the internet (it's still fun)
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[1] https://mastodon.social/@rjkwon
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[2] https://gersande.com/blog/blogs-are-dead/
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[3] https://gersande.com/
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[4] https://cleverlaziness.xyz/posts/surfing-the-old-web/
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[5] https://juanvillela.dev/
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[6] https://mikegrindle.com/posts/personal-blogging
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[7] https://mikegrindle.com/
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[8] https://www.richard-dern.fr/blog/2022/01/21/l-informatique-c-etait-mieux-avant/
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[9] https://www.richard-dern.fr/
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[10] https://www.evalapply.org/posts/shite-the-static-sites-from-shell-part-1/index.html#main
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[11] https://www.evalapply.org/
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[12] https://system31.simone.computer/blog/desktops-zip
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[13] https://simone.computer/
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[14] https://dominik.net/reviving-ye-olde-personal-home-page.html
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[15] https://dominik.net/
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[16] https://polymathematics.blog/2023/05/25/digital-homes-and-neighborhoods/
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[17] https://jakeweber.net/
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[18] https://deephdave.com/2021/03/09/Game-of-Content.html
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[19] https://deephdave.com/
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[20] https://pointersgonewild.com/2022/01/19/the-internet-changed-my-life/
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[21] https://pointersgonewild.com/
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[22] https://garden.mattstein.com/notes/people-content-6-social-websites
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[23] https://mattstein.com/
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[24] https://rknight.me/blog/the-web-is-fantastic/
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[25] https://rknight.me/
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[26] https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse
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[27] https://matthiasott.com/
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[28] https://ploum.net/2023-08-01-splitting-the-web.html
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[29] https://ploum.net/
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[30] https://deartalula.com/do-you-remember-the-internet-before-social-media/
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[31] https://deartalula.com/
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[32] https://yllekz.github.io/blog/blog-bookmarkrot.html
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[33] https://yllekz.github.io/
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[34] https://ramblinggit.com/2018/09/13/let-us-build.html
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[35] https://ramblinggit.com/
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[36] https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/
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[37] https://www.fromjason.xyz/
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[38] https://brandonsblog.bearblog.dev/ruminating-on-walled-gardens/
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[39] https://brandonsblog.bearblog.dev/ruminating-on-walled-gardens/
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[40] https://thecreativeindependent.com/essays/laurel-schwulst-my-website-is-a-shifting-house-next-to-a-river-of-knowledge-what-could-yours-be/
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[41] https://laurelschwulst.com/
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[42] https://noisydeadlines.net/rediscovering-the-old-internet-vibe
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[43] https://noisydeadlines.net/
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[44] https://www.dirtyfeed.org/2024/01/click-around-find-out/
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[45] https://www.dirtyfeed.org/
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[46] https://pxlnv.com/blog/bullshit-web/
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[47] https://pxlnv.com/
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[48] https://rebeccatoh.co/the-old-internet/
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[49] https://rebeccatoh.co/
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[50] https://kayserifserif.place/work/manifesto/
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[51] https://kayserifserif.place/
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[52] https://bewrong.substack.com/p/the-hipster-internet
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[53] https://joodaloop.com/
|
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[54] https://zserge.com/posts/small-web/
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[55] https://zserge.com/
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[56] https://jamesg.blog/2024/01/06/the-web-is-yours/
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[57] https://jamesg.blog/
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[58] https://robertkingett.com/posts/6158/
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[59] https://robertkingett.com/
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[60] https://flamedfury.com/posts/i-love-the-web/
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[61] https://flamedfury.com/
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[62] https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/personal-manifesto/
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[63] https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/
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[64] https://library.xandra.cc/everyone-should-blog/
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[65] https://xandra.cc/
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[66] https://nicochilla.com/my-website-as-a-home/
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[67] https://nicochilla.com/
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[68] https://wiki.melonland.net/web_revival
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[69] https://melonland.net/
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[70] https://victoria.dev/blog/make-your-own-independent-website/
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[71] https://victoria.dev/
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[72] https://dangillmor.com/2014/04/25/indie-web-important/
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[73] https://dangillmor.com/
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[74] https://24ways.org/2019/its-time-to-get-personal/
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[75] https://laurakalbag.com/
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[76] https://www.thejaymo.net/2019/12/14/114-please-for-the-love-of-blarg-start-a-blog/
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[77] https://www.thejaymo.net/
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[78] https://syllabusproject.org/syllabus-for-taking-an-internet-walk/
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[79] https://www.spencerchang.me/
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[80] https://cloudlord.management/
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[81] https://tiny-inter.net/
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[82] https://www.spencerchang.me/
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[83] https://maerk.xyz/blog/you-should-have-a-website/
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[84] https://maerk.xyz/
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[85] https://felix.plesoianu.ro/web/in-the-small.html
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[86] https://felix.plesoianu.ro/
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[87] https://briankoberlein.com/tech/quiet-web/
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[88] https://briankoberlein.com/
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[89] https://noisydeadlines.net/rediscovering-the-old-internet-vibe
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[90] https://noisydeadlines.net/
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[91] https://helena.mmm.page/soft_tech
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[92] https://everywwwhere.net/
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[93] https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/17/1081194/how-to-fix-the-internet-online-discourse/
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[94] https://katienotopoulos.com/
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[95] https://om.co/2023/10/15/social-internet-is-dead-get-used-to-it/
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[98] https://devastatia.com/
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[99] https://whitevhs.xyz/articles/2023/08/29/personal-websites
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[100] https://whitevhs.xyz/
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[101] https://www.links.net/dox/tech/whyweb.html
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[102] https://www.links.net/
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[103] https://foreverliketh.is/blog/exploring-the-personal-web/
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[104] https://foreverliketh.is/
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[105] https://leportella.com/why-have-a-blog.html/
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[107] https://tracydurnell.com/2023/09/23/my-20th-anniversary-of-blogging/
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[109] https://bix.blog/2020/Feb/24/in-some-sense-its-interesting-that-i-had/
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[113] https://johnnyrodgers.is/at-home-on-the-internet
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[117] https://www.zinzy.website/site
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[119] https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/
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[121] https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/i-miss-the-internet-c7e41544a8b9
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[122] https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/
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[123] https://eftegarie.com/every-person-on-the-planet-should-have-their-own-website/
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[124] https://eftegarie.com/
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[125] https://pawelgrzybek.com/eight-years-of-blogging/
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[126] https://pawelgrzybek.com/
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[127] https://cdevroe.com/2023/01/11/blogging-is-alive
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[128] https://cdevroe.com/
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[129] https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-year-of-the-personal-website
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[130] https://matthiasott.com/
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[131] https://www.theverge.com/23513418/bring-back-personal-blogging
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[132] https://moniquejudge.com/
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[133] https://manuelmoreale.com/passionless-web
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[134] https://manuelmoreale.com/
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[135] https://tomcritchlow.com/2022/03/08/architecture-blogging/
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[136] https://tomcritchlow.com/
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[137] https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/early-web-design-helped-generation-express/
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[138] https://www.nikafisher.com/
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[139] https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/joys-and-sorrows.html
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[140] https://cheapskatesguide.org/
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[141] https://www.daniel.pizza/writing/building-home-web
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[142] https://www.daniel.pizza/
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[143] https://notebook.wesleyac.com/how-websites-die/
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[144] https://wesleyac.com/
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[145] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2021.1985836
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[146] https://katemiltner.com/
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[147] https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/
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[148] https://chuck.is/web-independent/
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[149] https://chuck.is/
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[150] https://atthis.link/blog/2021/personalsite.html
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[151] https://atthis.link/
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[152] https://benhoyt.com/writings/the-small-web-is-beautiful/
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[153] https://benhoyt.com/
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[154] https://winnielim.org/experiments/website/envisioning-my-homepage-as-an-online-therapeutic-space/
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[155] https://winnielim.org/
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[156] https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/personal-website-hunting.html
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[157] https://cheapskatesguide.org/
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[158] https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/
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[159] https://ar.al/
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[160] https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/
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[161] https://neustadt.fr/
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[162] https://roelvanderven.com/blog/attention-management-owning-content
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[163] https://roelvanderven.com/
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[164] https://dariusforoux.com/stop-crowdsourcing-confidence/
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[165] https://dariusforoux.com/
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[166] https://archive.ph/2013.12.27-041357/http://frankchimero.com/blog/2013/12/homesteading-2014/
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[167] https://frankchimero.com/
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[168] https://deathtobullshit.com/
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[169] https://bradfrost.com/
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[170] https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history
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[171] https://maggieappleton.com/
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[172] http://sawv.org/en.html
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[174] https://gohugo.io/
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||||||
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||||||
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[52] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/ai-water-climate-microsoft/677602/
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[53] https://www.theatlantic.com/author/karen-hao/
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[54] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/generative-ai-lawsuits-copyright-fair-use/677595/
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[70] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/openai-chatgpt-writing-high-school-english-essay/672412/
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[71] https://www.ft.com/content/0ecab009-6543-4386-b936-0eecc9293d2e
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[72] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/books3-database-generative-ai-training-copyright-infringement/675363/
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newsletter (and a Verge alum!), just published one of the best tech books I’ve
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read in a while. It’s called [67]Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter
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Google Maps that I use as my personal phone. The process of having a separate
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Caroline Shaw.
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• Oh you meant on the internet??? Huh. Huuuuuh. I like the fashion newsletter
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[70]Blackbird Spyplane. I’m a big fan of the [71]Moderated Content podcast.
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jobs, and I seriously worried I was going to get fired), and she has [73]a
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new comedy special on Netflix that really gets me.
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“I’ve been playing the new [75]Dominion card game app! Dominion is a
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kick.” — Nicholas
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surprising place: the floor of the NBA All-Star Game. Have you seen the videos
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of the [84]all-LED full-court screen? [85]Here’s an example of what this kind
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of thing looks like during a game, too. It looks like a total nightmare to play
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boy is it going to be something to watch. This is my kind of augmented reality.
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Last week,[18] Sam Altman debuted OpenAI's "Sora," a text-to-video AI model
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that turns strings of text into full-blown videos, much like how[19] OpenAI's
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DALL-E turns text into images. These videos — which are usually no more than 60
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seconds long — can at times seem impressive, until you notice a little detail
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that breaks the entire facade, like[20] in this video where a cat wakes up its
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owner, but the owner's arm appears to be part of the cushion and the cat's paw
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explodes out of its arm like an amoeba. Reactions to Sora's AI generated videos
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— and, indeed, the existence of the model itself — have ranged from breathless
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hype to outright fear that this will be used to replace video producers, in
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that it can created reality-adjacent videos that for a few seconds seem
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remarkably real, especially in the case of[21] some of OpenAI's demo videos.
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However, even in OpenAI's own hand-picked Sora outputs you'll find weird little
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things that shatter the illusion, where[22] a woman's legs awkwardly shuffle
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then somehow switch sides as she walks (30 seconds) or[23] blobs of people
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merge into each other. These are, on some level, remarkable technological
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achievements, until you consider what they are for and what they might do — a
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problem that seems to run through the fabric of AI.
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We're just over a year into the existence (and proliferation) of ChatGPT,
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DALL-E, and other image generators, and despite the obvious (and reasonable)
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fear that these products will continue to erode the foundations of the already
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unstable economies of the creative arts, we keep running into the problem that
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these things are interesting, surprising, but not particularly useful for
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anything.
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Sora's outputs can mimic real-life objects in a genuinely chilling way, but its
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outputs — like DALL-E, like ChatGPT — are marred by the fact that these models
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do not actually know anything.[24] They do not know how many arms a monkey has,
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as these models do not "know" anything. Sora generates responses based on the
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data that it has been trained upon, which results in content that is reality-
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adjacent, but not actually realistic. This is why, despite shoveling billions
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of dollars and likely petabytes of data into their models, generative AI models
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still fail to get the basic details of images right,[25] like fingers or eyes,
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or tools.
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These models are not saying "I shall now draw a monkey," they are saying "I
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have been asked for something called a monkey, I will now draw on my dataset to
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generate what is most likely a monkey." These things are not "learning," or
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|
"understanding," or even "intelligent" — they're giant math machines that,
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|
while impressive at first, can never assail the limits of a technology that
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|
doesn't actually know anything.
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|
Despite what fantasists may tell you, these are not "kinks" to work out of
|
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|
artificial intelligence models — these are the hard limits, the restraints that
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come when you try to mimic knowledge with mathematics. You cannot "fix"
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|
hallucinations (the times when a model authoritatively tells you something that
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|
isn't true, or creates a picture of something that isn't right), because these
|
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models are predicting things based off of tags in a dataset, which it might be
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|
able to do well but can never do so flawlessly or reliably.
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This is a problem that dramatically limits how much one can rely on generative
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|
AI, and it's one that compounds severely with the complexity of what you're
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|
asking it to do. Words can be copy-pasted and edited, and citations can be
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|
checked. Images, however, are much tougher to edit, and videos are an entirely
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|
different beast, especially if you're generating lifelike humans or animals.
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|
While Sora is interesting and potentially quite scary to filmmakers, it's
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|
important to consider some practical questions, like "how can someone actually
|
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|
make something useful out of this?" and "how do I get this model to do the same
|
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|
thing every time without fail?" While an error in a 30-second-long clip might
|
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|
be something you might miss, once you see one of these strange visual
|
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|
hallucinations it's impossible to ignore them. The assumption is that audiences
|
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|
are stupid, and ignorant, and "just won't care," and I firmly disagree — I
|
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|
think regular people will find this stuff deeply offensive.
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|
I believe artificial intelligence companies deeply underestimate how perfect
|
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|
the things around us are, and how deeply we base our understanding and
|
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|
acceptance of the world on knowledge and context. People generally have four
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|
fingers and a thumb on each hand, hammers have a handle made of wood and a head
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|
made of metal, and monkeys have two legs and two arms. The text on the sign of
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|
a store generally has a name and a series of words that describe it, or perhaps
|
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|
its address and phone number.
|
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|
|
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|
These are simple concepts that we learn from the people and places we see as we
|
||||||
|
grow up, and what's very, very important to remember is that these are not
|
||||||
|
concepts that artificial intelligence models are aware of. When they see 20,000
|
||||||
|
pictures with signs in them, they understand that signs look a certain way, and
|
||||||
|
have some stuff on them, and then generate what's on the sign based on a user's
|
||||||
|
request and their dataset's tags that match that request. Even when a model is
|
||||||
|
fed exactly how a sign should be spelled out, it doesn't actually understand
|
||||||
|
what that information means or how it should be used, because the instructions
|
||||||
|
you are giving are based on your knowledge of signs and their contents, and the
|
||||||
|
model has no knowledge of any kind.
|
||||||
|
|
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|
[26]AI fanatics are currently fantasizing over a world where they can put a few
|
||||||
|
sentences into a prompt and create an entire series of TV, unable to realize
|
||||||
|
that we are rapidly approaching the top of generative AI's[27] S-curve, where
|
||||||
|
after a period of rapid growth things begin to slow down dramatically. While
|
||||||
|
Sora and[28] other video generators like Pika may seem like the future (and are
|
||||||
|
capable of some impressive magic tricks), they are not particularly adept —
|
||||||
|
much like a lot of generative AI — at performing a particular task. Once you
|
||||||
|
get past the idea that you can now generate an almost-useful video that lasts
|
||||||
|
roughly a minute, one must consider the practical applications of this kind of
|
||||||
|
product. Even Microsoft struggled to find compelling use cases for their $7m AI
|
||||||
|
Superbowl commercial, and these use cases are even narrower once you realize
|
||||||
|
that generative video is so much more restrained by its hallucinations. Where
|
||||||
|
will Sora be useful?
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Even if the costs weren't prohibitive, one cannot make a watchable movie, TV
|
||||||
|
show, or even commercial out of outputs that aren't consistent from clip to
|
||||||
|
clip, as even the smallest errors are outright repulsive to viewers. And as
|
||||||
|
I've suggested above, while these models might "improve," the billions of
|
||||||
|
dollars burned by OpenAI, Anthropic and Stability AI's models have found few
|
||||||
|
ways to mitigate the restrictions of an artificial intelligence that doesn't
|
||||||
|
have an intellect. I am also completely out of patience when it comes to being
|
||||||
|
told what it "will do" in the future.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Generative AI's greatest threat is that it is capable of creating a certain
|
||||||
|
kind of bland, generic content very quickly and cheaply. As I discussed in my
|
||||||
|
last newsletter, media entities are increasingly normalizing their content to
|
||||||
|
please search engine algorithms, and the jobs that involve pooling affiliate
|
||||||
|
links and answering where you can watch the Super Bowl are very much at risk.
|
||||||
|
The normalization of journalism — the consistent point to which many outlets
|
||||||
|
decide to write about the exact same thing — is a weak point that makes every
|
||||||
|
outlet "[29]exploring AI" that bit more scary, but the inevitable outcome is
|
||||||
|
that these models are not reliable enough to actually replace anyone, and those
|
||||||
|
that have experimented with doing so[30] have found themselves deeply
|
||||||
|
embarrassed.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Despite the frothy tales and visions of how generative artificial intelligence
|
||||||
|
will automate our entire existence, there's a distinct lack of practical
|
||||||
|
outputs that suggest that it is even capable of doing so. ChatGPT can spin up
|
||||||
|
piles of anodyne business copy, yet its outputs always require enough editing
|
||||||
|
that it's questionable how much time you've actually saved. Generative image
|
||||||
|
models are capable of creating cool-looking images that can replace generic
|
||||||
|
images that you might use in a project, but no matter how many different
|
||||||
|
prompts you use, they all kind of look the same, and that's even before you
|
||||||
|
notice how the minute details look off. Is a product that can only
|
||||||
|
sort-of-kind-of do something[31] really going to create trillions of dollars of
|
||||||
|
economic value?
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
I don't argue it will, at least not in such a way that anybody's lives will be
|
||||||
|
improved.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Shell Games
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
I believe we're reaching the upper limits about what generative AI can do[32]
|
||||||
|
and how accurate its outputs can be, and I believe that once reality catches up
|
||||||
|
with artificial intelligence's marketing, there will be a dramatic knock-on
|
||||||
|
effect that savages the entire tech industry.[33] A Wall Street Journal article
|
||||||
|
from mid-February told a worrying tale of OpenAI and Anthropic — the two
|
||||||
|
largest AI companies — racing to sell their generative AI systems despite the
|
||||||
|
prevalence of hallucinations, and how few answers they had for applications
|
||||||
|
that were highly regulated or dealt with highly sensitive data. When pressed on
|
||||||
|
the issue at a conference, Anthropic's Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan was
|
||||||
|
only able to come up with one idea — that it would make a model capable of
|
||||||
|
saying "I don't know" to an answer, which in turn would create a situation
|
||||||
|
where the AI would err on the side of caution, restricting its willingness to
|
||||||
|
answer prompts at all.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
The Journal seems unalarmed about multi-billion-dollar companies having very
|
||||||
|
few answers about the critical problem with their core product, but I'd argue
|
||||||
|
that a generative AI's inability to reliably generate stuff is an existential
|
||||||
|
threat that should have smothered these companies early in their lives.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
And there are so many stories about how unreliable this technology is.[34]
|
||||||
|
British delivery firm DPD recently had to shut down their generative support
|
||||||
|
chatbot after a customer convinced it to write an insulting poem about the
|
||||||
|
company.[35] A Chevy dealership's ChatGPT-powered virtual assistant ended up
|
||||||
|
offering to sell a user a car for a dollar, and wrote a python script for
|
||||||
|
another.[36] Fortune reported a researcher's study into Large Language Models'
|
||||||
|
ability to understand SEC filings and found that many of them were regularly
|
||||||
|
either unable to answer or hallucinating incorrect information, with Meta's
|
||||||
|
Llama2 model getting 70% of the study's questions wrong.[37] A deeply foolish
|
||||||
|
lawyer relied on ChatGPT to cite cases in a motion, only to find that it cited
|
||||||
|
several non-existent pieces of case law. That lawyer — Steven A. Schwartz — was
|
||||||
|
fined $5,000 and ordered to i[38]nform each judge incorrectly cited as the
|
||||||
|
author of a non-existent verdict in the motion. In June of last year, OpenAI
|
||||||
|
was [39]sued for defamation in Georgia by a radio host who claimed that ChatGPT
|
||||||
|
generated a false legal complaint that accused him of embezzling money.
|
||||||
|
Microsoft destroyed MSN.com — a page that gets nearly two billion viewers a
|
||||||
|
month — by replacing its human staff with an artificial intelligence that[40]
|
||||||
|
posts made up stories about bigfoot and[41] stealing other outlets' stories and
|
||||||
|
still getting the details wrong.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
It's also fair to question how many organizations are actually using it.[42] A
|
||||||
|
McKinsey report from August 2023 says that 55% of respondents' organizations
|
||||||
|
have adopted AI, yet only 23% of said respondents said that more than 5% of
|
||||||
|
their Earnings Before Interest (EBIT) was attributable to to their use of AI —
|
||||||
|
a similar number to their 2022 report, one which was published before
|
||||||
|
generative AI was widely available. In plain English, this means that while
|
||||||
|
generative AI is being shoved into plenty of places, it doesn't seem to be
|
||||||
|
generating organizations money.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
There are indications that consumers have also lost interest. As [43]pointed
|
||||||
|
out by Alex Kantrowitz’ Big Technology newsletter, traffic to ChatGPT on both
|
||||||
|
mobile and web has started to stagnate, if not decline. In January 2024,
|
||||||
|
ChatGPT had 1.6 billion visits — 11% below the all-time peak of 1.8 billion.
|
||||||
|
This makes it only modestly more popular than Bing, which had 1.3 billion
|
||||||
|
unique visits during that period. On the mobile front, ChatGPT has an estimated
|
||||||
|
6.3 million US users — or 1.7 times less than the total of new Snapchat users
|
||||||
|
added during Q4 2023.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Tech's largest cash cow since the cloud computing boom of the 2000s is based on
|
||||||
|
a technology that is impossibly unreliable, a technology with a potent inverted
|
||||||
|
Midas touch that burns far more money than it makes.[44] According to The
|
||||||
|
Information, OpenAI made around $1.6 billion in revenue in 2023, and[45]
|
||||||
|
competitor Anthropic made $100 million, with the expectation they'd make $850
|
||||||
|
million in 2024. What these stories don't seem to discuss are whether these
|
||||||
|
companies are making a profit, likely because generative AI is a deeply
|
||||||
|
unprofitable product, demanding massive amounts of cloud computing power to the
|
||||||
|
point that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trying to raise[46] seven trillion dollars
|
||||||
|
to build chips to bring the costs down — though reports suggest that "the
|
||||||
|
figure represents the sum total of investments that participants in such a
|
||||||
|
venture round would need to make," which is basically the same thing. It’s
|
||||||
|
also, incidentally, a greater sum than the GDPs of France and the United
|
||||||
|
Kingdom combined.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
While it's hard to tell precisely how much it’s losing, The Information[47]
|
||||||
|
reported in mid-2023 that OpenAI's losses "doubled" in 2022 to $540 million as
|
||||||
|
it developed ChatGPT, at a time when it wasn’t quite so demanding of cloud
|
||||||
|
computing resources.[48] Reports suggest that artificial intelligence companies
|
||||||
|
have worse margins than most software startups due to the vast cost of building
|
||||||
|
and maintaining their models, with gross margins in the 50-55% range — meaning
|
||||||
|
the money that it actually makes after incurring direct costs like power and
|
||||||
|
cloud compute. This figure is way below the 75-90% that modern software
|
||||||
|
companies have. In practical terms, this means that the raw infrastructure
|
||||||
|
firms — the companies that allow startups to integrate AI in the first place —
|
||||||
|
are not particularly healthy businesses, and they're taking home far less of
|
||||||
|
their money as actual revenue.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Luckily for them, Anthropic and OpenAI aren't really at risk, because they've
|
||||||
|
taken on an important part of the tech ecosystem — they're the tail of a very
|
||||||
|
hungry snake.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Turning On The Screw
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
During the imaginary panic of Sam Altman's ouster from OpenAI last year,[49]
|
||||||
|
Semafor reported that Microsoft's $10 billion investment was largely made up of
|
||||||
|
credits for their Azure cloud computing platform. In essence, Microsoft
|
||||||
|
"invested" $10 billion in money that OpenAI had to spend on Microsoft's
|
||||||
|
services, meaning that OpenAI would have to use Microsoft's "Azure" cloud
|
||||||
|
computing service to run ChatGPT.[50] When Google invested $2 billion in OpenAI
|
||||||
|
competitor Anthropic, it did so in tranches — $500 million up front and an
|
||||||
|
additional $1.5 billion over a non-specific period of time. Coincidentally,
|
||||||
|
this funding round took place only a few months after[51] Anthropic signed a
|
||||||
|
multi-year deal with Google Cloud worth $3 billion, locking them into Google's
|
||||||
|
compute platform in the process.[52] Amazon also invested $4 billion in
|
||||||
|
Anthropic, who agreed to a "long-term commitment" to provide Amazon Web
|
||||||
|
Services (Amazon's competitor to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud) with early
|
||||||
|
access to their models — and Anthropic access to Amazon's AI-focused chips.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
While Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have technically "invested" in these
|
||||||
|
companies, they've really created guaranteed revenue streams, investing money
|
||||||
|
to create customers that are effectively obliged to spend their investment
|
||||||
|
dollars on their own services. As the use of artificial intelligence grows, so
|
||||||
|
do these revenue streams, forcing almost every single dollar spent on AI into
|
||||||
|
the hands of a few trillion-dollar tech firms.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
It's a contrived process with a fairly simple revenue stream.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
In the case of an AI company (or a business that has jumped upon the AI
|
||||||
|
bandwagon), their website or app is integrated with OpenAI's ChatGPT or
|
||||||
|
Anthropic's Claude via their APIs. The company pays on a[53] per-token basis
|
||||||
|
for each input (request they make through their software) and output (thing
|
||||||
|
that the model does as a result). When these requests are made, ChatGPT,
|
||||||
|
Claude, or whatever model has to compute the result, which it does using
|
||||||
|
massive amounts of cloud computing — which is bought from the cloud provider
|
||||||
|
(say, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud). As a result, every interaction with
|
||||||
|
ChatGPT or Claude is, on some level, guaranteed revenue for one of the big tech
|
||||||
|
firms. These were investments in the sense that money changed hands, but while
|
||||||
|
it did so, big tech put giant handcuffs on the wrists of the AI companies that
|
||||||
|
every startup has to use.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Admittedly, you could argue that the same situation is true for the
|
||||||
|
conventional Internet. Most websites are hosted by a third-party cloud
|
||||||
|
provider. If you visit a site that uses an external company to implement
|
||||||
|
functionality that would otherwise be too complicated to build themselves (like
|
||||||
|
auth, or payment processing, or banking integrations), it’s a sure bet those
|
||||||
|
companies are using Amazon, Microsoft, or Google for hosting. And so, without
|
||||||
|
even realizing it, our online activity benefits a handful of already-powerful
|
||||||
|
companies. The key difference is that, for the most part, people aren’t
|
||||||
|
locked-in and can walk, either to one of the other big players, or to a smaller
|
||||||
|
vendor like Rackspace or Linode. Moreover, the scale is different, and serving
|
||||||
|
a webpage will always cost less than processing a request sent to a generative
|
||||||
|
AI model.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
These golden handcuffs have already led to massive swells of revenue for
|
||||||
|
Microsoft,[54] increasing by 30% in the last quarter alone thanks to the
|
||||||
|
increased usage of graphics processing units (GPUs) which have become essential
|
||||||
|
to the power-hungry demands of AI applications. Google's investment in
|
||||||
|
Anthropic was made in the hopes that it’d see a similar revenue multiplier, and
|
||||||
|
I'd argue Amazon's was made in the same vein — though it was too late to force
|
||||||
|
Anthropic to use AWS as their preferred vendor.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Big tech has turned the startup ecosystem into a giant goldmine, one that
|
||||||
|
guarantees that almost every dollar spent on any AI product is eventually
|
||||||
|
shared with one of a few multi-trillion dollar tech firms. And on some level,
|
||||||
|
it's become the savior of an ecosystem that hasn't had a new revenue-driving
|
||||||
|
industrial boondoggle this exciting since the Software-As-A-Service boom of the
|
||||||
|
2010s. Some might argue this is a situation where everybody wins — startups get
|
||||||
|
funded because they're able to do new things, venture capitalists make money
|
||||||
|
because their startups can actually get acquired or go public, and big tech
|
||||||
|
makes money because everybody is forced to pay them even more money by proxy.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
I, however, have grave concerns.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
As it stands, generative AI (and AI in general) may have some use. Yet even
|
||||||
|
with thousands of headlines, billions of dollars of investment, and trillions
|
||||||
|
of tokens run through various large language models, there are no essential
|
||||||
|
artificial intelligence use cases, and no killer apps outside of[55]
|
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The Concert Event of the Year:
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Outside, the abandoned Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg, Jeff Lund, stared past
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“I used to buy tickets to the [87]HFStival here,” he smiled. “There was like a
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shanty town of teenagers with tents and sleeping bags camped out all night just
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“You had the whole school year to get excited about it,” he said with memories
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swimming around him.
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It was the concert event of the year in the DMV. A summer show that brought the
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world’s biggest music acts to D.C.
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“We had the [88]Foo Fighters, we had [89]The Ramones, we had [90]Tony Bennett,”
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former WHFS music director and DJ Bob Waugh said.
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Waugh is one of the men behind the HFStival. For years, he spearheaded the
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logistics of it. He convinced hundreds of artists to make D.C. their summer
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music destination.
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“In radio you work in a bubble, so the idea of going out and doing something
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that was a live event was an opportunity we all savored,” he said.
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In the early 1990s Bob started work at the popular DMV rock station 99.1 WHFS.
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Northern Virginia.
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when we moved it to the Equestrian Center in Upper Marlboro, Maryland in 1992.”
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concert to The HFStival. After the success of the 1992 show, both men felt it
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headliner for the show. They got one in INXS.
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In 1993, WHFS hosted its first HFStival at RFK Stadium. The list of artists had
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Waugh said from there, it was off to the races. He and Benjamin built contacts
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across the music industry. Those contacts created relationships. Over time they
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were able to convince bands to make a yearly stop at RFK.
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“It got to a point where bands were planning their summer tours around the
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HFStival,” Waugh said. “They knew they wanted to be in D.C. around Memorial
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Day.”
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“Remember when Green Day set their drum kit on fire?” former WHFS DJ Gina Crash
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mused from a Towson recording studio.
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I’ve gotten her and another WHFS alumnus, Rob Timm, together for the interview.
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Crash and Timm sat together for a few minutes and the stories started to flow.
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They picked up like the 1990s had never ended.
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“That was the year we put everybody up at the Watergate and Adam Duritz of
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Counting Crows was upset that there was a grand piano in the suite that we got
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for him,” Timm laughed. He demanded the piano be removed.”
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Both had a front-row seat to the madness of the summer concert.
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“I just remember doing interviews backstage, like talking to Scott Weiland from
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Stone Temple Pilots and trying to prop him up on the couch because he was
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falling,” Crash smiled.
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Every summer the DMV got a days-long taste of the music that shaped the 1990s.
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No genre was safe from rock to hip-hop. In fact, for one night in 1995, even
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jazz singer Tony Bennett graced the RFK stage.
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“Courtney Love being Courtney Love, decided it might be fun to open that
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curtain and lift her shirt and flash Tony Bennett, which I happened to witness
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in real time. Tony Bennett was not impressed. I think he'd seen it all at that
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point.”
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The HFStival grew through the 90s. The crowds increased every year and
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eventually it gave native son, Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters, their first
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stadium show welcome.
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“I’m living my rock and roll dream,” Grohl shouted to the crowd in 1997. “I
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grew up in Springfield, Virginia!”
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Timm said. “In fact, I know that he did.”
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But the festival was more than the inside of the stadium. In the parking lots,
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different political and social causes set up shop. Vendors sold the wares of
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the decade. The radio station set up smaller stages for lesser known and local
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bands.
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Those stages turned into proving grounds for future artists.
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In the mid-'90s, Annapolis native Jimi Haha and his band Jimmie’s Chicken Shack
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tore it up on the local stage. But when Jimi looked back at RFK he said
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something he didn’t expect.
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“All the ramps in the side of the stadium were packed with people watching us
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play, it was intense,” he laughed. “I guess Art Alexakis of Everclear had told
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everyone to check us out.
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Later that year, the band would sign a major label record deal. The next year,
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they played inside RFK as their album took off.
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That was the other story of the HFStival, how it propelled local bands into the
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national spotlight. The local bands in turn would pull others up behind them.
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“We were huge Jimmie’s Chicken Shack fans,” Jeff Lund said. “This is really
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nerdy, but they had this record label ‘Fowl Records’ and at the HFStival they
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started a Fowl Records stage. That’s where I saw Good Charlotte for the first
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time.”
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That’s right. Waldorf, Mayland’s own Good Charlotte played on the local stage
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Jimi Haha sponsored after he made it big. Small music world. The brothers
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behind Good Charlotte, Benji and Joel Madden also had their songs played for
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the first time over WHFS airwaves. Within a few years the band was touring the
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world and playing on MTV.
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But it all started in a parking lot at RFK stadium.
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From 1993 to 2004 the HFStivals roared on. Each summer more fans came and more
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bands signed on. But in 2005 the radio station underwent a cataclysmic change.
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Radio Silence: The End of HFStival
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“I had a a lot of concerns about what was happening to the station as I was
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leaving,” Bob Waugh said.
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In January of 2005, those fears became realized.
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“I remember starting my car and it was set to HFS and there was just Latin
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music playing,” Jeff Lund said.
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“I was like maybe there is something wrong?”
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It was a sudden and unannounced format change. In one day, the station went
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from alternative rock to Latin music 99.1 El Zol. Not long after- HFStivals
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stopped as well.
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“They tried, but it was a mere shadow of its former self. A festival in name
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only at that point,” Waugh said.
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In the 20 years since RFK hosted the last HFStival. The DJs have moved on and
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the fans have moved on. Soon RFK will be completely torn down.
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Through the fence of the abandoned RFK stadium, Jimi Haha dreams of a new
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future.
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“Yeah, I get nostalgic, but tearing a building down doesn’t tear down the
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memories or the experiences there,” he smiled. “Hopefully they’ll build
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something badass.”
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Haha broke into a smile and let out his signature chuckle.
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“Then we can do more fun things in that venue.”
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