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
"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
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/
Enjoying the American Experience documentary on Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/zora-neale-hurston-claiming-space/
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/
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
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/
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
Reading up on John R. Brinkley's role in the establish of not just radio, but advertising for the border blaster stations he ran. Reminds me of conservative circles I know today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley
The DOJ warned a provider of tenant-screening software, SafeRent, that its technology must comply with #FairHousing law
Hawaii Beach Safety API - Providing #alerts, #ratings, and #conditions for #Kauai, #Oahu, and# Maui, helping communicate what is happening across #Hawaiian #beaches. https://hawaiibeachsafety.com/api
Air Quality System (AQS) API - AQS contains ambient #air sample #data collected by #state, #local, #tribal, and #federal air #pollution control agencies from thousands of monitors around the nation. It also contains #meteorological data, descriptive information about each #monitoring station, and information about the quality of the samples. - https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/documents/data_api.html
Mastodon #HashTags as an API Search Engine https://apievangelist.com/2023/01/15/mastodon-hashtags-as-an-api-search-engine/
David Graeber’s Possible Worlds The Dawn of Everything author left behind countless fans and a belief society could still change for the better. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/david-graeber-dawn-of-everything.html
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