Why is Twitler so angry? 🤔
"Billionaire investor George Soros' family office dumped its entire stake in Tesla during the first quarter of 2023." https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/george-soros-fund-dumps-entire-stake-tesla-elon-musk-2023-5
@bastardsheep still working for me over on my instance.
A few other instances have been blanket banning the service - just have a look at @vincent's mentions/reply toots.
There's been conversation surrounding people from the birdsite not consenting to their tweets showing up here, but under the twitter terms of service, their tweets can be embedded anywhere by anyone, so I don't think that holds water. People can put a stop to it by making their Twitter accounts private. 🤷♂️
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"NASA’s planetary science program is in trouble,” writes Shannon Hall in #ScientificAmerican. #MarsSampleReturn is running over budget, which is delaying other missions. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-interplanetary-plans-may-be-lurching-toward-disaster/
This. Is. Amazing.
Montréal suburb Brossard has a traffic light in a school zone that defaults to red, and only turns green when an attached speed camera detects a car driving under the speed limit.
The light is on a 90-day trial, on a 2-lane residential street. Similar signals are widespread across Europe.
Before it was installed, average vehicle speeds of 40 km/h. But in the past week, average speeds have dropped to 29 km/h.
@ariadne making software for other people is overrated
Pushing around these little robot soccer players, from DeepMind’s “Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning” paper.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13653
https://sites.google.com/view/op3-soccer
My little brother just produced a new song and it’s quite a banger!
(It’s in french though)
The clear message I am getting from Bluesky is that black people felt unsafe on mastodon. Black Twitter was a huge part of what made it special, and it's been notably absent on mastodon. I will be sad if mastodon loses to a less-open alternative because it couldn't figure out how to be welcoming to everyone.
On a more technical note: shoutout to https://github.com/instaloader/instaloader that will give me all the data I will need to make this work.
Also currently federation bird.makeup <> Pixelfed is imperfect. Posts and accounts can be found but followed posts don't show up in the timeline. I believe there might something with the activity ( https://bird.makeup/users/dog_rates/statuses/1650533062655242252/activity ) If a pixelfed expert could chime in here it will be very helpful to this project!
So I'm officially starting work to port bird.makeup to other social networks, starting with Instagram. There is some code already written, and the domain is already bought: kilogram.makeup
It will be very bare bone at first, and there will be a list of supported accounts, but as I make it scale those limits will be removed. I also plan to add features that will specifically help #pixelfed, like federating stories.
Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.