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Yes! Every one of our videos from this year has a human-edited transcript available on YouTube. Just expand the video description and click "Show transcript."
"Community is made out of the ephemeral." Closing out the final XOXO, @charliejane.bsky.social talked about how inclusive communities are key to our survival: building a consensus reality, defeating learned helplessness, and connecting to others with joy and kindness. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
After you watch his XOXO talk, go visit @cabel.panic.com's newly-launched Wes Cook Archive to explore all the art that he showed, and much more. wescook.art
"Appreciate everything endlessly." A pit stop on a Seattle road trip at McDonald's in Centralia, WA sent @cabel.panic.com down a deep and magical rabbit hole into the undiscovered life's work of a nearly-forgotten artist, bringing everyone at XOXO along for the ride. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
"I have achieved every professional accolade that I could have ever dreamed of and more, and it completely broke me." @edyong209.bsky.social earned global acclaim and a Pulitzer for his critical reporting on the pandemic for The Atlantic, but it came at a personal cost. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
"You can monetize a hate video, but there is no hazard pay for harassment." Sweet Baby Inc. founder/CEO Kim Belair shares what happened when a conspiracy theory about "woke-ifying" video games spawned a year-long coordinated hate campaign against her 16-person studio. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
"Envy. Impatience. They’re the monster I struggle with, but they are ultimately a part of me." Folding Ideas' @foldablehuman.bsky.social on measuring himself against the work of others, a sometimes-debilitating pressure that also drives him to make new things. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
"This did not define me." Two years after her XOXO 2016 talk, @sarahjeong.bsky.social became the target of a massive right-wing harassment campaign. Six years later, she revisits the ridiculous, traumatic, uniquely terrible experience—with a message of hope for others. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
"We have to fix the fucking networks." Writer/researcher @kissane.bsky.social on how her work on the COVID Tracking Project was made possible by social platforms now hostile to real human connection, and why we need better, safer networks for our collective survival. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
"I used to dream of labor… but now I dream of different things." @aftermath.site cofounder and journalist/critic @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social on surviving the collapsing media landscape and the rise of worker-owned, subscriber-funded online journalism. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
Returning to the XOXO stage ten years after his satirical “How I Won the Lottery” talk, @tinysubversions.bsky.social reflects on the compromises that come with being “indie” and the toxic systems that coerce us into betraying our values. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
“We can build the web we want to see.” @molly.wiki kicked off XOXO 2024's conference with a hopeful talk about building @web3isgoinggreat.com and how we can “push the web back towards the wonderful, joyful, beautiful place it used to be.” xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
✨📺 The talk videos for the final XOXO are here, publishing two per day all this week. You can watch them on our site: xoxofest.com/2024/videos/
Or to get notified, subscribe to our YouTube channel and turn on notifications. www.youtube.com/xoxofest
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🚨 The XOXO 2024 schedule is now live — including the newly-announced Arcade, Tabletop, and Art+Code lineups — plus an expanded Attendee Guide, on our newly-revamped site! xoxofest.com
So sorry, but we officially sold out yesterday. There’s always far more demand than seats in the venue, which is why we distribute passes via a lottery system.
If you didn’t get a pass, we’re so sorry—there’s always far more demand than available space, and this final year was no exception. As always, we’ll post videos of our conference talks after the festival. We wish all of you could come!
If you have a pass, you can also sign in to see this year's attendee directory and update your profile/badge info at my.xoxofest.com.
XOXO 2024 is officially sold out! If you got a pass in the lottery, congratulations! We'll see you in Portland this August. We updated our Attendee Guide with a schedule overview for this year's festival, info on hotels, and how to join the XOXO Slack. xoxofest.com/guide/
Sorry! Surveys closed on Wednesday and we’ve been distributing passes through our lottery ever since.
Don't fret! The first big batch of invites went out, but the lottery will resume sending out passes on Monday.
Final reminder! Registration for XOXO 2024 closes in just a few hours, Wednesday May 29, at 12pm PT/3pm ET. We’ll begin distributing passes through our lottery shortly after. 2024.xoxofest.com
Last 24 hours! Registration for the final XOXO closes tomorrow, Wednesday May 29, at 12pm PT/3pm ET. We'll begin distributing passes through our lottery shortly after! 2024.xoxofest.com
If you’re hoping to attend this year’s XOXO but haven’t registered yet, you have just 48 hours left to submit your survey. Registration closes this Wednesday, May 29 at 12pm PT/3pm ET. 2024.xoxofest.com
ICYMI we announced our launch lineup for the final XOXO! Registration is now open, and you have until 12pm PT/3pm ET on Wednesday, May 29 to get your survey in. 2024.xoxofest.com
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Everything is half the price of past years: $250 for the full festival and conference. Surveys are open until 12pm PT/3pm ET on Wednesday, May 29, and passes will start going out via the lottery shortly after. Hope to see you in August! 2024.xoxofest.com
We’ve teamed up with our friends at Panic, BackerKit, and @glitch.com to bring back our Arcade, Art+Code, and Tabletop events with some of our favorite indie videogame, creative code, and tabletop projects. As always, we’ll keep adding things right up until the day of the event.
