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New blog post: “This Mastodon Will Explode, Session 1” https://bavatuesdays.com/this-mastodon-will-explode-session-1/
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The tech press doesn't understand that Twitter just killed the only thing that ever made them innovative:
3rd party access to their API
This should be a bigger story because, in reality, almost all of Twitter innovations came from 3rd parties -- including the word "tweet" itself.
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🚨 BREAKING: This week, @CenDemTech & 6 technologists with expertise in online recommendation systems filed an amicus brief in Gonzalez v Google. The brief urges the U.S. #SupremeCourt to hold that #Section230’s liability shield applies to claims against interactive computer service providers based on their recommendation of third-party content, because those claims treat providers as publishers. Read more of our analysis & the full brief 👇 https://cdt.org/insights/cdt-and-technologists-file-scotus-brief-urging-court-to-hold-that-section-230-applies-to-recommendations-of-content/
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Twitter quietly updates its developer agreement with a clause banning third-party clients, after claiming the company was enforcing "long-standing API rules" (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/twitter-new-developer-terms-ban-third-party-clients-211247096.html
http://www.techmeme.com/230119/p31#a230119p31
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"Third-party clients don't make us any money so of course we're not allowing them" is a bold stance from the one platform that doesn't share revenue with its creators. #Twitter
I do not care what you use for your backend, just socialize and collaborate around the contract for the interface.
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Advance Open and Equitable Research https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2023/01/11/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-actions-to-advance-open-and-equitable-research/
Writing everyday grounds you.
Writing everyday centers you.
Writing each day is not about readers.
Forward motion depends on writing.
@jbminn It is. You are right.
I managed to accumulate 1K followers in just shy of 60 days on Mastodon. My ego does tune into these things, but mostly it reveals to me of the viability of the network. I've not just found my people, but I am expanding & finding new people--It is taking work, but worth it.
Enjoying the American Experience documentary on Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/zora-neale-hurston-claiming-space/
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I still have the original Twitter API Field Guide style documentation from back in the day. I collect old APIs. I am that guy you drive by their house on highway in the desert and they have a bunch of old APIs in their yard. https://twitter-field-guide.apievangelist.com/
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The Twitter OpenAPI is gone - https://api.twitter.com/labs/2/openapi.json Luckily I have a cached copy, and trying to figure out how to add to my API museum. https://gist.github.com/kinlane/173d89eb8a9cd7dfc4e77fb3bb63dda2
The Inner Beauty of Basic Electronics https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-circuits
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Getty Images is also suing Stable Diffusion, in UK court.
"Stability AI did not seek any such license from Getty Images and instead, we believe, chose to ignore viable licensing options and long‑standing legal protections in pursuit of their stand‑alone commercial interests."
https://www.pcgamer.com/getty-images-files-suit-against-one-of-the-biggest-ai-art-tools/
@nathan Understood. I seem some of it through the Ops lens i have with customers from the API lifecycle, but also sprawling across it--an OpenAPI / Swagger is basically a massive config for this and people struggle. Thanks for sharing. I am working on enablement efforts as part of my JSON Schema team -- see what I can cook up to assist people.
@nathan What do you think people find some daunting about configs? Unknown format? Size? Screwing up worse? Other?
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Microsoft makes Azure OpenAI Service, debuted in 2021, broadly available, giving customers access to the GPT-3.5 language model, DALL-E 2, and "soon" ChatGPT (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-17/microsoft-azure-to-add-chatgpt-to-cloud-services
http://www.techmeme.com/230116/p22#a230116p22
Someone suggested the documentary on him -- great name! https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01L5Y7HFK/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
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