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Wrote a quick post that analyses which apps I've been using most often to post on Mastodon (some code in #Python for the #MastodonAPI) https://dev.to/andypiper/analysing-which-mastodon-apps-ive-used-30pb
I have had many amazing tacos and rarely get surprised by new ones, but Tacos Oscar blew my mind and is up there with the best I’ve ever had. http://www.tacososcar.com/
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Pioneering geologist & oceanographer Marie Tharp changed our understanding of the ocean.
When Tharp sought a geology job at Columbia in 1948, women couldn’t go on research ships. So, she was hired to assist male grad students.
Back then, many scientists still assumed the bottom of the ocean was featureless. Tharp figured out how to use data to create sketches of the ocean floor. Her hand-drawn maps helped develop plate tectonic theory. https://theconversation.com/marie-tharp-pioneered-mapping-the-bottom-of-the-ocean-6-decades-ago-scientists-are-still-learning-about-earths-last-frontier-142451 #science #history #HistoryRemix
Google's big red banner over my free Gmail -- you are running out of space, and when it does you won't be able to receive email, schedule calendar events, and publish docs -- TEMPTING!
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The Magic of Small Databases - Notes on personal libraries, collections and small indexes on the web - https://tomcritchlow.com/2023/01/27/small-databases/
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I have had this on replay on a side monitor all morning. These are the drones we just sold a bunch of to the Ukraine. I am left thinking about my work on Drone Recovery and the imbalance in our priorities in this country. ;-( http://dronerecovery.org/journal/a-drone-recovery-post-to-remember-the-kid/
Me on Facebook: See a friends work of art like it.
Facebook: Here is a flood of similar art day after day until your vomit and you'll never see your friend again.
Me on Mastodon: See a friends work of art and I like it.
Mastodon: Business as usual until friend posts another work of art and I see that and like that.
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Meanwhile, as mentioned, businesses are not just writing software to be dependent on OpenAI's propreitary APIs but retooling entire business models around it. Once they flocked to Facebook, then seemed confused when suddenly the audience they'd built up was Facebook's audience now and they had nothing except what Facebook gave them. When their relationship with OpenAI someday flips the same way, they'll be just as confused how it got to that point.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/buzzfeed-to-use-chatgpt-creator-openai-to-help-create-some-of-its-content-11674752660
https://gizmodo.com/cnet-artificial-intelligence-writing-scandal-1850031292
Just because you can’t remember a time when you haven’t felt this way doesn’t mean you have to resign yourself to feeling it forever. https://annehelen.substack.com/p/layoff-brain
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We have finished the transition from monolith to Microsservices boss!
enshittification: Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
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Every worker in every industry deserves a union, and tech right now is having a clear demonstration of how our lack of unions hurts us.
I just heard an exec say that it was "unfortunate" that we couldn't fire people faster in other parts of the world because of labor protections. Sit with that for a moment.
In the US unions are one of our very very few tools to give us any chance at all.
We need strong unions to push back against this sort of callous insensitivity backed by unchecked greed.
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Antarctic Biodiversity Data Portal API - The SCAR Antarctic Biodiversity Portal (biodiversity.aq) is an international effort that seeks to increase our knowledge and understanding of Antarctic and Southern Ocean biodiversity. - https://data.biodiversity.aq/api/v1.0/swagger/
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Getty API - As part of Getty's Open Access program, we're pleased to provide public access to much of our collection data via APIs. These APIs are the same ones that we use behind-the-scenes for our website, Getty Guide, and other key applications. - https://data.getty.edu/
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