Hello! Original Pushshift founder here.

I would greatly appreciate spreading the word for my gofundme located here:

https://gofund.me/0ee46b1b3

There are some exciting new data science projects I want to complete to help out data scientists so I would greatly appreciate your help!

Remember the halcyon days of pre-Elon Twitter when it didn't suck?

Yeah but X is such an improvement -- especially from an SEO perspective. Galaxy brain is just smarter than the rest of us.

Alright, let's talk data. I've been away for a bit helping out with family stuff but this election is too important not to get involved so that I can at least help fellow data scientists get access to important data.

Currently I have over 62 million Youtube channel metadata objects (stats / info for each channel). This constitutes all the major channels on Youtube all the way down to channels that may only have a few dozen followers.

I found out some "hacks" on how to grab comments from any time period on Youtube even though their API doesn't support grabbing by time. I found another way to do it that is just as good as using since / until parameters (if they existed).

I've grabbed 10 billion comments so far from the top one million channels going back in time. Goal will be to take all of this data and put it into Elasticsearch and create an API so data scientists can create a network mapping of user interactions, etc.

We are in uncharted territory. I wish I could say it would be easy to repair the damage but the feedback loops have already started. I hate to be negative Nancy but this is insane.

The black line is this year. We're setting all types of unwanted records. Check out this site to see just how bad it is across the globe: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=nh (this link goes to the Northern Hemisphere).

Client deniers have no clue what's going on.

I could list out Google bugs all day. Today's Google bug is their "widget system" when performing a search. The widget system does not interpret the query correctly (it is missing the period) but Google's search does understand the query evidenced by the results below the widget.

I mean it is a minor issue and putting a 0 in front of the period fixes the issue for the widget but I still found it to be interesting.

This video is from 13 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RMdwA8GWB8&ab_channel=GarfunkelAndOates