Michelle Yeoh makes #Oscars history as first Asian lead actress winner:

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/michelle-yeoh-oscar-win-first-asian-best-actress-1235544210/

Are there ANY car manufacturers NOT selling data about you / your car?

Reading @pluralistic 's Feb 28 piece about VW tracking cars (and not providing the info unless you pay): https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/28/kinderwagen/

Cory Doctorow writes:
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> And yet, here we are. Like most (all?) major car makers, Volkswagen has filled its vehicles with surveillance gear, and has a hot side-hustle as a funnel for the data-brokerage industry.
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Is anyone keeping a list of car manufacturers who are NOT doing this?

"At the Austin rally, people held signs that said, 'STOP Chinese Exclusion,' evoking the Chinese Exclusion Act, a 19th century law that blocked citizenship to Chinese residents in the U.S., affirming the exclusion of Asian immigrants from a 1790 naturalization law. A speaker also referenced 'alien land laws,' racist laws in California and other states that restricted Asian immigrants and others from owning property…"

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-02-08/sb-147-texas-bill-targeting-property-ownership-rattles-texans-of-chinese-descent

(h/t @michael_w_busch)

#NoToSB147 #TxLege

There was yet another Twitter API policy change last night: “good" bots may have light write-only API access.

This was instigated by, checks notes, someone Tweeting a picture of their cat.

I wish I was clever enough to make this stuff up…

Ah, so now he wants you to produce free content for his dying, unstable platform, after threatening you, on a whim, to shut off your free access. I see.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/04/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-provide-a-free-write-only-api-to-bots-providing-good-content/

In response, I will be discontinuing all my projects that rely on Twitter's API, and I advise you all to do the same, rather than let him decide their fate.

#twitter #TwitterAPI #TwitterBots