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14 years of working with the latest data from twitter is over. I particularly loved the 4am wake up call on Easter Saturday morning 🙄. The servers were screaming at me that the sky was falling. Access to the API was abruptly and without notice cut. More details from the bird site : 🫡
@onurozer You're on ruby? omniauth makes it *less* painful at least! I found once you get one or two going the next few are relatively painless that way.
@katestarbird The v1 API filter stream was cut off. It was in theory 'deprecated' a while ago when they posted a message at the top of the community forums site saying it was ending on the 8/3, but seems they took an extra week because of everything else breaking. It wasn't really deprecated because it wasn't mentioned anywhere else, and those forums were taken down for a few weeks, and even then not something many used them. Only option now is v2 version of this endpoint, but you will run into tweet limits much sooner unless you pay $$$ for the 'going to be removed a month ago' Premium subscription.

I’m mind-blown 🤯 by the Safari 16.4 beta release: https://webkit.org/blog/13878/web-push-for-web-apps-on-ios-and-ipados/. Some highlights:

🛎️ Web Push for apps added to the Home Screen
📲 Ability for other browsers to add apps to the Home Screen
🔴 Badging API
💤 Screen Wake Lock API
🔃 Screen Orientation API
🙋 User Activation API
🎥 WebCodecs API
📄 Manifest ID

Full release notes with all details: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes/safari-16_4-release-notes. 🎉

Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS

With iOS and iPadOS 16.4 beta 1 comes support for Web Push for Home Screen web apps, Badging API, Manifest ID, and more.

WebKit

I showed my students this movie of how atmospheric #CarbonDioxide (CO₂) travels around the globe and you should see it too.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11719

NASA Scientific Visualization Studio - A Year In The Life Of Earth’s CO2

Narrated video - Jan. 1, 2006 - Dec. 31, 2006For complete transcript, click here. Visualization - Jan. 1, 2006 - Dec. 31, 2006 North America - Feb. 1 - 28, 2006 Africa - Aug. 1 - 31, 2006 Himalayas - Feb. 1 - 28, 2006 Still image - Jan. 1, 2006 Still image - North America - Feb. 12, 2006 Visualization without annotation - Jan. 1, 2006 - Dec. 31, 2006 An ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe.Plumes of carbon dioxide in the simulation swirl and shift as winds disperse the greenhouse gas away from its sources. The simulation also illustrates differences in carbon dioxide levels in the northern and southern hemispheres and distinct swings in global carbon dioxide concentrations as the growth cycle of plants and trees changes with the seasons.The carbon dioxide visualization was produced by a computer model called GEOS-5, created by scientists at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office.The visualization is a product of a simulation called a “Nature Run.” The Nature Run ingests real data on atmospheric conditions and the emission of greenhouse gases and both natural and man-made particulates. The model is then left to run on its own and simulate the natural behavior of the Earth’s atmosphere. This Nature Run simulates January 2006 through December 2006.While Goddard scientists worked with a “beta” version of the Nature Run internally for several years, they released this updated, improved version to the scientific community for the first time in the fall of 2014. For More InformationSee [http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/a-closer-look-at-carbon-dioxide/#.VGpHfC9by7s](http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/a-closer-look-at-carbon-dioxide/#.VGpHfC9by7s) Related pages

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With the new Navigation API, you can now show the native spinner + stop button for any asynchronous operation - all you need is a Promise.
Be careful when combining powers.
Musk and Murdoch together at the football game is a gathering of today's most powerful anti-democracy media barons. And it's a reminder that journalists who would never consider working for Murdoch's Fox "News" -- at least he pays for his content -- are still toiling for free to support Musk's rancid trollsite.
Absolutely the best Acknowledgments section of a paper I’ve read. From https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03988 #astrodon / h/t @playingwithdust
On Cosmological Low Entropy After the Big Bang: Universal Expansion and Nucleosynthesis

We investigate the sensitivity of a universe's nuclear entropy after Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) to variations in both the baryon-to-photon ratio and the temporal evolution of cosmological expansion. Specifically, we construct counterfactual cosmologies to quantify the degree by which these two parameters must vary from those in our Universe before we observe a substantial change in the degree of fusion, and thus nuclear entropy, during BBN. We find that, while the post-BBN nuclear entropy is indeed linked to baryogenesis and the Universe's expansion history, the requirement of leftover light elements does not place strong constraints on the properties of these two cosmological processes.

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@katestarbird @failedLyndonLaRouchite Yeah, same here, do you have any other info on the rate limit changes, or is that just reading between the lines of that email? I had hoped that the $100 level would be just the existing free access with a price tag. This seems less likely now given the wordage used 😓