Twitter has started blocking unregistered users - I noticed this earlier, didn't think much of it, I was busy doing other things, waiting for extremely slow git push/pull or branch switch. Thought to myself oh here we go again world, now you're blocking Twitter too? Anyhow, hope Elon finds a way to undo because what's the point in posting there if everything is annexed behind a login, might as well just use WhatsApp. Yuk. www.theverge.com #
2023/07/02 #
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Euclid: Europe ready to launch dark matter and dark energy telescope into space - The super high precision telescope will be able to determine where all the missing stuff is in the universe. According to measurements we have made to date, measurements of the distortion to light arriving to earth from far away, everything we see in the universe, all the planets, moons, stars and billions of galaxies only accounts for about 5% of the mass and energy of the entire universe. It might even turn out that dark energy is a 5th force, one that only operates at enormous scales. Doesn't that sound earie? What in the universe would cause such a thing? www.bbc.com #
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Twitter temporarily restricts number of tweets users can see - Following on from the news earlier about Twitter forcing login to view tweets, now there are reports of user quotas, 500 tweets per day for unverified accounts, 10000 tweets per day for verified (i.e. paying) accounts. If it really is just to combat scraping by AI training companies, why isn't regular rate limiting not enough? Does he expect literally everyone in the future to be training AIs? I suppose that is a possibility. www.bbc.com #
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Linda Yaccarino's vision for Twitter2.0 emerges - The new Twitter CEO, who previously headed advertizing at NBCUniversal, has announced plans for full screen video ads, a new digital wallet, and gaining back advertisers trust by focussing on brand safety, as well as business partnerships with large companies like Google, Amazon, Salesforce, and IBM. I hope they don't forget about the small fish, indie Twitter seems such a long time ago now. arstechnica.com #