The AI Bubble
— disturbing post on the leveraged financing of the AI infrastructure buildout from No One’s Happy, a new anonymously-authored blog via Marcin Wichary #Last.fm goes independent after 19 years at CBS Interactive
— no info about how the ownership change happened, though they say it will be run by the same team #More than 340 local news outlets are now blocking the Internet Archive
— Nieman Lab continues to report on news orgs blocking the Archive’s crawlers over fears of AI training #Launching a permanent archive for XOXO
Last week, we launched XOXO Explore, a permanent archive for XOXO, the Portland-based festival and conference I co-organized with Andy McMillan for eight years between 2012 and 2024.
This was a huge undertaking, bringing together every lineup, schedule, recap video, conference talk, and standalone website that we ever made into a single permanent archive, filled with little photos and ephemera from the festival. It includes the final versions of our policies, which we refined over several years and released under open licenses, along with an archive of our guide. We even finally made a proper About page.
This is something we first started talking about back in 2015, and attempted three times, but it was never finished until now.