Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

Let's pour one out for third-party Twitter clients:

Apps that shaped UI conventions, pioneered a market, and in many ways reinvented how we communicate online – unceremoniously killed off by a clown who thinks he's the smartest guy around because he has money.

These apps didn't deserve to end up like this.

https://www.macstories.net/stories/twitter-intentionally-ends-third-party-app-developer-access-to-its-apis/

Bij fysiotherapie Van ßommel hebben ze de B zo hard onder handen genomen dat ie een scharfes S is geworden.

"Der erzwungene Krieg" was the title by a book framing Hitler's expansionism as peacekeeping https://www.spiegel.de/politik/war-hitler-ein-friedensfreund-a-0e9eb78d-0002-0001-0000-000046173486

The Bündner Kunstmuseum was created in 1919 inside the neoclassical Villa Planta in Chur. Villa Planta was originally built in 1874 and 1875 to plans by Johannes Ludwig for Jacques Ambrosius von Planta, a cotton merchant in Alexandria.
#architecture #museum #photography #mastoart

@temptoetiam the most nasty aspect of #receptiogate is that it will be certainly more difficult for young people who work seriously and in precarious conditions to get funding from @SNF_ch in the future. SNF seems to be in an embarrassing situation, will have to ask (and to answer) many questions and be more careful in the future. The alleged “victim” #Rossi creates real victims. The whole thing is disgusting.

@BenPatrickWill I have an open Zotero group where people are adding stuff. Not claiming it’s exhaustive, but hopefully something useful. https://www.zotero.org/groups/4888338/chatgpt

Next Thursday we'll be only 15 years out from #Y2038, the date when a 32-bit signed time_t rolls over. It is already past time to start planning for it. Many of the cars and devices sold today will hopefully still be functioning in 15 years, so should be certified now that they won't break then. Also, timestamps in the future (eg, expiration dates) will increasingly cross the threshold as we get closer.

I wrote a blog in 2019 which still applies today: https://www.akamai.com/blog/performance/preparing-for-y2038-already

Almost 24 hours later and still no official/unofficial info from inside Twitter. I'm going to continue as if this was all done on purpose.

What now? Ivory goes into hyper mode with just the absolute minimum 3-4 things that have to be done finished up and then off to Apple. Probably going to be a bunch of things I'm not super happy with but I guess we'll fix it in post.

Hopefully everyone knows what we're capable of and can live with some, hopefully not long lived, rough edges/missing features.

Kolleg*in gesucht: Ausschreibung für eine #Professur zu "Design vertrauenswürdiger Künstlicher Intelligenz". 5 Jahre Leitung einer Forschungsgruppe am
CAIS / Bochum, danach unbefristet an der
Uni Wuppertal. https://www.cais-research.de/stellenangebote/design-vertrauenswurdiger-kunstlicher-intelligenz/ #KuenstlicheIntelligenz #Algorithmen

Professorship (W3) “Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory” Ruhr Universität Bochum | Bewerbungsfrist: 23.02.2023 http://www.gw.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/mam/content/rar-college-digital-objects.pdf | https://jobs.openbiblio.eu/stellenangebote/84724 #openbibliojobs #DigitalHumanities

Schöne Zusammenstellung aktueller Unternehmen, die #Regionalsprache dokumentieren und untersuchen (#Dialekt #Mundart #Schweizerdeutsch):
https://regionalsprache.de/regionalsprachenforschung-online.aspx

On 27 February, Olaf Scholz held his famous #Zeitenwende speech. More than ten months have passed since then. What’s the verdict? Have times turned in German defence and security policy? My assessment of where we are at the moment - the good, the bad, and the ugly.
(thread)

Des chercheurs de Microsoft ont créé une #IA capable d’imiter une voix à partir d’un échantillon de son de trois secondes. VALL-E préserve le timbre de la voix et peut imiter l'environnement acoustique de l'échantillon. L'IA devra produire un signal permettant de distinguer ses enregistrement. Pour éviter les fakes, pour l'instant, seul l'article scientifique et des enregistrements témoins sont disponibles #audio #IntelligenceArtificielle #AI https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/microsofts-new-ai-can-simulate-anyones-voice-with-3-seconds-of-audio/

New #OpenAccess #NLProc paper and dataset:
OpenBoek: A Corpus of Literary Coreference and Entities with an Exploration of Historical Spelling Normalization.
https://github.com/andreasvc/openboek

@ummjackson @sandofsky I suspect that users of 3rd party apps are some of the most likely to bail from Twitter to some alternative (like Mastodon) though, so it’s not like the move allows Twitter to start showing them ads now. And Twitter will also end up losing the value of those users’ tweets. And risk that those users will take a proportion of their followers with them to an alternative platform.
This is certainly the last straw when it comes to Twitter for me if the ban proves permanent.

A tiny fraction of Twitter users use third-party apps. So put yourself in the shoes of a bean counter…

"We can't serve ads. We can't sell a subscription. The API costs moeny. If we kill the clients we lose a few users, but some will stick around."

It makes sense on a spreadsheet, but misses the users' value. They produce the content that brings you to Twitter.

Killing clients is exactly what you expect from people who just don't get social networks, and too arrogant to listen to those who do.