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I started https://t.co/0CMiBharSZ on this day in 2002, and as a special 21st birthday present, Twitter just suspended this account’s API access. So this bot is officially dead! You can follow Waxy on Mastodon at https://t.co/PuZyWO1xcx and via RSS at https://t.co/XCg6O8Dcm6 ✌️

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@Rashley38 @Wikise1 Sorry, I won’t be there.

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Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500,000 group chat messages: fine-tuning LLaMa's privacy-friendly uncensored model on messages stored in iMessage's SQLite db with https://t.co/sGfTsgHCOV, deploying… https://t.co/TQ7DkdGiBN

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The Ringer interviews Paul Dochney, the Los Angeles writer behind Twitter legend Dril: his first interview not in character https://t.co/TKhfrsil2l

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Mad Magazine's Al Jaffee, creator of the Fold-In, dies at 102: from April 1964 to April 2013, only one issue of Mad was published without new material from the comics legend https://t.co/1m9Estxiic

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Last Squeak Tonight: John Oliver's web-only episode about the seedy underbelly of Chuck E. Cheese https://t.co/eB0yaVIt3E

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Garbage Day on the rise of TikTok bait videos: satirical or not, it's staged content optimized to annoy people into engaging with it to game the algorithm https://t.co/3STbBVcnXD

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Pentagon’s Ukraine war plans leaked on Minecraft Discord before Telegram and Twitter: related: classified military documents have repeatedly leaked on the War Thunder forums https://t.co/DeI7T0JXI7

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Big Tech's big downgrade: Google, Meta, and Amazon are focused on chasing trends to appease Wall Street, while letting their core products wither https://t.co/MjiMMnJWw1

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The history of Easter eggs in software: the earliest known one is an anti-war message in a text editor for the PDP-6, hidden in 1968 but only discovered in 2021 https://t.co/2bUt3kjr39

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Restoring the original Wilhelm Scream recording session: audio preservationist Craig Smith had to bake the Ampex tapes in an oven to make them stable enough to transfer https://t.co/rj9hWqpmf2

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"There was no up, there was no down, there was no side to side": a little poem about the universe before the Big Bang https://t.co/dBHnjTZv3a

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Chasing rainbows: for The Verge, I wrote about my personal experience being colorblind and they did a beautiful job on the design https://t.co/tIUfPGicFw

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Twitter cuts off Cheap Bots Done Quick, Substack, Feedbin, Thread Reader, and others from API: CBDQ was responsible for over 58,000 joyfully weird Twitter bots during its eight year run https://t.co/Xq3gDLiZR4

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Dan Gillmor on why (and how) journalists should leave Twitter for Mastodon: Elon Musk despises journalists, as his recent targeting of the NYT and NPR demonstrates, but the inertia is real https://t.co/vWBmuzIgoL

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ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment lawsuit about a real law professor: the tendency for LLMs to generate fake facts, and fake sources to back it up, can have devastating real-world consequences https://t.co/FUTfvDTTyT

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Clarence Thomas secretly accepted luxury trips from major GOP donor: ProPublica exposes his clear violations of disclosure laws, but Supreme Court justices can only be removed by impeachment https://t.co/8dRwIWV0pf

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I just discovered that every copy of macOS ships with a hidden PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper. But why? https://t.co/VAWjXrWAdY

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Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service: sad to learn the RSS reader that I happily paid for since 2013 decided to pivot to shameful enterprise surveillance tools https://t.co/H4bSLyN7N0

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AI and the American Smile: "AI dominated by American-influenced image sources is producing a new visual monoculture of facial expressions" https://t.co/gUshy61l3S