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I am a writer, storyteller, and cybernetics researcher.
Joined Nov 2022
All the AI generated images online is making me want to get offline and go to an art gallery. I don’t trust anything I see online now and feel it all lacks soul.
Kin Lane
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"Twitter was the most important API. Up until the end of 2022 I was ready to fight for it, but I am fully captivated by the power of the #Fediverse now. While I don’t think all the mainstream people will move to #Mastodon, I am tired of rebuilding on someone else’s platform. I want my next round of work to occur on my platform. The people’s platform. I am not worried about reaching same scale + scope that Twitter, Facebook + others have. I am just looking for my people"
https://apievangelist.com/2023/02/05/twitter-is-the-most-important-api/
A Chinese satellite surveillance photo of me in Oakland China Town making a TikTok video of the Chinese surveillance balloon.
Kin Lane
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Twitter Is the Most Important API https://apievangelist.com/2023/02/05/twitter-is-the-most-important-api/
Kin Lane
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Twitter Should Be Able Charge for Their API Because It Costs Money to Operate - https://apievangelist.com/2023/02/05/twitter-should-be-able-charge-for-their-api-because-it-costs-money-to-operate/
Kin Lane
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A Loose Federation of API Standards https://apievangelist.com/2023/02/05/a-loose-federation-of-api-standards/
I will not be constrained by your lack of imagination.
Every time I drive to the office I grab a handful of change for the meter and leave the rest on this post. It never gets taken. It is downtown Berkeley.
They are just poster children for everything that is wrong with this country, our politics, our system, and do not reflect the actual diverse nation we are. We can do better.
Kin Lane
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@kin Kin, scalability and reach.
APIs and 🤖 code allow you to do things a human cannot. Using cheap commodity hardware, a well documented Python module and some custom code, since 2017 I’ve run a service ¥ that read out lines from Jane Austin novels, one line at a time every 15 minutes.
Humans cannot tweet as regularly as my 🤖 code. It is stable enough to run for months without intervention. I targeted #JaneAusten, a popular author and grew the readership to almost 3K. Not big numbers, but read by a significant portion of the serious Austen readers and scholars on twitter.
I started if for a challenge and kept it running for fun. You can read more of the technical bits here: <https://seldomlogical.com/pureausten.html>
Kin Lane
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My Mastodon #FollowFriday Postman Collection https://apievangelist.com/2023/02/04/my-mastodon-follow-friday-collection/
Kin Lane
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My #FollowFriday summary for the week:
Five of my recent favorites:
@bobmagicii
@markwyner
@pluralistic
@pinskal
@rdp
@ben
Five of my recent followers:
@mjsamberg
@kookster
@timdavies
@timklapdor
@tjlull
@stevedunn
I am wanting to understand the narrative of Twitter over the years for a story I am writing and there is no better way than to scan their blog -- so I pulled 2967 posts, and sorted in a list, so I can scan them. - https://gist.github.com/kinlane/34d77cf4f6749c19f3259b696cb597e6
It is interesting how many people today who have responded to me about Twitter charging for their API, stating if it costs the platform money, they should charge for it. When there are all these API platforms (Twitter included) who ask me to work for FREE in their ecosystems so they can build their platforms. I'll just start saying -- SHOW ME THE MONEY!!
Admin
I am a writer, storyteller, and cybernetics researcher.
Joined Nov 2022
