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another tiny baby update, somebody asked about it so i reposted something I originally published on cohost (which is now a 404! I deleted that particular account)

here it is. here's the trick to get the original markdown/metadata from your export:

$ cd projects/<account>/posts/<the-post>

# metadata!
$ jq "{title:.headline,date:.publishedAt,tags}" post.json

# the markdown. paragraphs separated by two newlines (assuming your markdown version works with that)
$ jq --raw-output0 .blocks.[].markdown.content post.json | sed 's/\x0/\n\n/g'

okokokokokok fine

Look at this guy.

little tiny baby update, i made a css theme from scratch :)

well mostly from scratch, i stole the mechanism for swapping between light and dark themes from here:

https://whitep4nth3r.com/blog/best-light-dark-mode-theme-toggle-javascript/

but still!

This post is response to this change in the twitter privacy policy, and the responses to the responses, and the responses to the responses to the responses.

Third-party collaborators. Depending on your settings, or if you decide to share your data, we may share or disclose your information with third parties. If you do not opt out, in some instances the recipients of the information may use it for their own independent purposes in addition to those stated in X’s Privacy Policy, including, for example, to train their artificial intelligence models, whether generative or otherwise.

To summarize, unless you opt-out, twitter can provide (or sell) your data to third parties to make generative AI, like for example OpenAI and chatgpt. They are already doing this with their in-house "Grok" chatbot, also with an opt-out. Not great!

(and just to be clear, some people believe that there won't be an opt-out for this: there's intended to be. this is future language, so presumably the checkbox will show up sometime between now and when this takes effect.)

Lots of people are jumping ship now, and they're jumping ship to Bluesky. So are they really better? Let's try to answer that.

so, the secret project I've been working on for my fellow chosties is a stylophone!!

like this!!!