Welcome to "Turtle Square", the intersection of Ashland, Madison, and Ogden Ave, late 1950s. Yes, Chicago once had a 34 foot turtle statue perched above the traffic. For #throwbackthursday, the photographer of this one is sadly unknown.

#Chicago #photography #historicphoto

If you had code on GitHub at any point it looks like it might be included in a large dataset called “The Stack” — If you want your code removed from this massive “ai” training data go here:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack

I found two of my old Github repos in there. Both were deleted last year and both were private. This is a serious breach of trust by Github and @huggingface.

Remove all your code from Github.

CONSENT IS NOT OPT-OUT.

Edit — thanks for all the replies. More context here: https://hachyderm.io/@joeyh/112105744123363587

Also the repos i found of mine i’m sure were private, but even if they were public at some point, for a brief time, in the past that isn’t my consent to use them for purposes beyond their intent.

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Edit 2 -- I see this made it to HN, which is a level of attention I do not want nor appreciate....

For all those wondering about the private repo issue -- No, I am not 100% sure that these ancient repos weren't at some point public for a split second before I changed it. I do know that they were never meant for this and that one of them didn't even contain any code.

If my accidentally making a repo public for a moment just so happened to overlap with this scraping, then I guess that's possible. But it in no way invalidates the issues, and the anger that i feel about it.

Today in 1920, 104 years ago: in Detroit, station 8 MK broadcasts the first radio news.

#OnThisDay

36 years ago

Live at Wilson Center, Washington D.C., 1988

Fugazi - Waiting Room

#punkrockhistory

"what if we replaced *people* with a computer facsimile that sucks ass, uses a billion gallons of water and doesn't work but is technically cheaper?"

- every CEO over the last 4 months

"Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter" by #timbernerslee

Worth reading, and taking action to build a better internet. We need it.

Many of we strivers will be gathering at https://dwebcamp.org Aug 7-11. hopefully with Sir Tim.

Tim's article:

https://medium.com/@timberners_lee/marking-the-webs-35th-birthday-an-open-letter-ebb410cc7d42