Notices by Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)

“Who’s ever gonna get a chance to do 1500 pages on revolution again? With this much money, and this much muscle?” Man, Tony Gliroy is as good as it gets. From Michael Clayton to now where he’s going with the full culmination of Andor, he’s truly making some id the best mainstream media that it’s possible to do, and I’m as inspired by him navigating giant infrastructures like Disney to get these outputs as I am by the actual final results.

@stefan 😬

@reflex @ctietze yeah the DNS thing is a big missing piece.

@zefu I think so! Lemme ask.

@reflex @ctietze what capabilities are you looking to replace?

@egoldblatt yeah. Internet Archive is (understandably!) reluctant to have any commercial dependencies. I think the challenge for them then is that it’s very, very expensive for them to manage serving this kind of traffic on their own.

@colby no, just the silly art part. But yeah, I take your larger point.

@zefu it is ridiculous that this is where we’re at.

@travisfw @egoldblatt that’s a thing site owners can control.

@kkarhan @niko there are a lot of different approaches, that one is fairly technical and resource-intensive. We have been thinking a lot about deception-based approaches, though.

Truly my greatest professional joy is that, not only did we get to build a tool to help people stop AI bots from scraping up their work without consent, I was able to have our in-house artist create a SLOP sign to mark the spot where the bots expire.

If you are a non-profit or open source project that does good internet stuff, we’ll protect you for free. If not, then you can pay us money and we will hook you up. Either way, good tools to put you in control over the bots. https://www.fastly.com/blog/take-back-control-make-ai-bots-play-by-your-rules

There’s a credible case that the funkiest song Prince ever recorded was the 10-minute-long, “The Exodus Has Begun”, a tribute to P-funk, Bebe’s kids, the evils of the music industry, vocal distortion, spaceships, and vinyl records: https://youtu.be/vDub5pjG8Xw

@oisin my old show was usually in the top 5 or 10.

(My old show was here: https://open.spotify.com/show/61FfAOZJBJQbP7vfLoTuYB or https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/function-with-anil-dash/id1439658455 )

@caseyliss happy to say it! And grateful a thoughtful show has a big platform.

@jeff @atpfm yep, they do a good show

@jwz I’m trying to explain to the youngs that nothing could be less cool than a banker who cuts checks to arms dealers. Listening to the ramblings of one? Oh buddy.

I took a look at the top “tech” podcasts and holy SHIT all but, like… 2? of them are just straight up fascist propaganda by VC firms promoting their defense investments or lifestyle scams from right-wing bros? Obviously we don’t need any more podcasts, but it made me think I should bring mine back.

I know this is silly, but bringing some of my older pieces online, this one made me happy: Years ago, Prince invited me to his house in LA to preview his new album — and I couldn't go. So I asked for a Purple Raincheck. And I ended up with an even more amazing story. https://www.anildash.com//2016/05/12/the-purple-raincheck/

@jemal thanks! Fixed.