The [email protected] event begins in 2 days! Any Tims interested in placing some pixels in the 2024 Fediverse Canvas?

A bit of history if you are curious...

r/place 2017

This was the original r/place event, and the only one that Grey and Brady discussed on the podcast.

Grey and Brady faces, Numberphile "pi" logo, Flaggy Flag, HI logo, Nail and Gear, CGP Grey flask icon, "r/hellointernet", White Cross, and "Tims!"

r/place 2022

• Left panel: Audrey, allied territory, and bees.
• Middle panel: Grey and Brady faces, HI logo, Nail and Gear, and "CXXXVII" (137 in roman numerals)
• Right panel: CGP Grey the lady penguin, allied territory, Numberphile "pi" logo, CGP Grey logo, allied watermelon, plane crash corner, and a tiny 4x4 Professor Poliakoff.

r/place 2023

Last year, we were unable to secure a single large territory, but managed to claim and hold multiple small territories.

Region 1

CGP Grey bot, Nail and Gear, split Grey and Brady face, HI logo, 137, and Flaggy Flag. Unfortunately, this region was steamrollered by a streamer and did not survive to the end of the event.

Region 2

CGP Grey bot, plane crash corner, Flaggy Flag, HI logo, and Audrey.

Region 3

Another HI logo, 137, and bees.

Region 4

Near the very end of the event, we managed to secure a whopping 24x24 region on the "taskbar" at the bottom of the canvas. We had to fight off a barbie to get it (true story), but the Tims held strong!

Fediverse Canvas 2023

And finally, our humble patch on [email protected] last year.

Fediverse Canvas 2024

The [email protected] event begins in 2 days! Would this community be up for placing some pixels?

There are already a few Tims organizing in the "Tim Army" Discord but I thought it would be nice to have some people from here as well.

What do the Tims say?

Link to the Canvas: https://canvas.fediverse.events/

Link to the Tim Army Discord: https://discord.gg/GJnj7avh

Could there be a more "Brady" news story?

Yet another case in which I wish the podcast were still active...

Hello fellow Tims!

Continuing the 10-year anniversary relisten, @[email protected] and I have put together a trivia quiz on episode 6 (Delete, Flag, Delete, Reply), which came out in 2014 on March 10th. You can take the quiz here.

Good luck! Please let us know how you did in the comments :)

Long may the Nail and Gear fly!

Hello fellow Tims!

Continuing the 10-year anniversary relisten, @[email protected] and I have put together a trivia quiz on episode 5 (Freebooting), which came out in 2014 on February 26th (sorry it's a week late). You can take the quiz here.

Good luck! Please let us know how you did in the comments :)

Long may the Nail and Gear fly!

Hello fellow Tims!

Continuing the 10-year anniversary relisten, @[email protected] and I have put together a trivia quiz on episode 4, which came out in 2014 on February 18th (sorry it's a day late). You can take the quiz here.

Good luck! Feel free to let us know how you did in the comments, though try not to spoil the answers for others :)

Long may the Nail and Gear fly!

Here is the distribution of scores from trivia quiz 3. We had a more even distribution of scores this time, though slightly bimodal. Shoutout to the super-Tim who got a perfect score!

I was pleased that we managed to trick most of you on "Which Numberphile video was referenced in the context of averaging lightbulbs over a long period?" :)

Episode 4 quiz should be up shortly.

Here is the distribution of scores from trivia quiz 2. It looks like many of you found this one more difficult! I think we also misjudged the relative difficulties of the questions.

I was surprised that more people selected the correct hypothetical username than whether Grey would prefer zero or infinite copyright, if forced to choose :)

Let's see how you do on the third quiz! Good luck!

Hello fellow Tims!

Continuing the 10-year anniversary relisten, @[email protected] and I have put together a trivia quiz on episode 3, which came out in 2014 on February 11th. You can take the quiz here.

Good luck! Feel free to let us know how you did in the comments, though try not to spoil the answers for others :)

Long may the Nail and Gear fly!

Hello fellow Tims!

Continuing the 10-year anniversary relisten, @[email protected] and I have put together a trivia quiz on episode 2! You can take the quiz here.

Good luck! Feel free to let us know how you did in the comments, though try not to spoil the answers for others :)

Long may the Nail and Gear fly!

Thanks to everyone who participated in last week's trivia quiz!

Most of you did pretty well. Special shout-out to the super-Tim who got 10/10!

Episode 2 trivia quiz should be up shortly :)

I really hope this gets read as a body and not a title that gets cut off

Relistening to the first episode, forgot the 10th anniversary but whatever. It's amazing how much everything still applies, a lot of people now could use this wisdom. Also interesting how the Hierarchy of Errors and "the cost of perfection is infinite" came back for the Tekoi saga; I only listened to this episode once on 2018 January 6 (not three months after getting into podcasts at all), so I have probably even less recollection than most of you.

I do miss and have been recently trying to recreate this internet of people rather than Algorithms. Ten years (and three days) ago there was the beginnings of what we have now, but the machines were a vehicle of communication, not attention.

Oh wow, yeah, the run was originally only planned to be 10 episodes. We got 126 more.

I guess my main frustration is that it hasn't been radio silence since 2020, there were several notable signals in 2022 (Grey helping in r/place on his main, the Twitter account posting about flag votes, I think that's it but there might be more). BFDIA is the longest hiatus I've seen (just over a decade), but I've seen many many projects get continued after many many years, and I'm frankly confused by people older than me being less patient.

Funny the mention of people's short attention spans. I guess that's been seen as a 'new' problem for decades now. It's definitely worse now with sfc. Everything moves faster and all of the problems mentioned have been amplified. It's astounding seeing people give completely incorrect takes on events from months ago because they didn't follow more of it -- Kyle Rittenhouse an example of this effect that I saw a lot in the following years.

Anyway, good first episode! Excited to go through these up to 2030.

feddit.uk seems a bit unstable? Let me know if y'all move somewhere else; I can just change the address on kbin.

testing, testing, posting from kbin, extremely useful as a fediverse mediator if this works

Hello fellow Tims!

To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the first episode, @[email protected] and I have done some timwork and put together a trivia quiz! You can take the quiz here.

Hope you enjoy it! Feel free to let us know how you did in the comments, though try not to spoil the quiz for others :)

Long may the Nail and Gear fly!

Unmade surpasses Hello Internet in episode number. Both shows have had their share of numberless episodes, so it's not an exact comparison, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless. I wonder when Unmade will surpass Cortex. For reference, Cortex matched Hello Internet just over a year ago.

The 10th anniversary of Hello Internet is coming up. Anyone planning on doing a relisten?

Very similar to the ones at Grey's *favourite* airport (Washington Dulles), but slightly larger and more modern.

Hey Tims! Thoughts on these, individually and as a set?

Credit to Reddit. OP is deleted.

I just finished my third listen-through! I'm pleased by how well the show holds up. Some of the politics and tech segments obviously feel dated, but many of the segments are pretty timeless.

On this most recent pass, I also listened to Goodbye Internet for the first time. It was nice to have that little bit of new (to me) content. Now, all I have to do is track down the wax cylinder episode and I'll be fully "caught up"!

How much of the show have you listened to?

An old classic: Grey and Brady's conversations animated by Dovsky.