Nicolas' toot: https://emacs.ch//@galdor/110120040016684054
Twitter's Microsoft Github: https://github.com/orgs/twitter/repositories
Twitter's release blog 1st archive:
(concatenate 'string
 "https://web.archive.org/web/20230331184701/"
 "https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/"
 "open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm")

The  metaphor   we  end with is the salvage  of  Lovecraftian   old  one
technology (Twitter) after the old ones (Twitter employees)  were killed
by the Shogoths they created (Elon Musk), and the Shogoths'  attempt  to
continue   the old ones'   culture  faded  away due to lack of interest.

Thank-you  to Nicolas @galdor@emacs.ch  on Mastodon for letting  me know
Twitter  sort-of released  their The Algorithm  yesterday  slash earlier
today  in another  hemisphere.   My theory  is that the  confluence   of
circumstances  around this release are especially  unique in this fallen
world. 

Elon Musk bought Twitter antagonistically.  There was a large amount
of leaving and firing as he seized the means of blue-checking.  And then
The (Evil) Algorithm  Twitter Edition was displayed on Microsoft  Github
May 31st, 2023. 

Parts of The Algorithm  exist in-memory only, which suggests there
will  be a power  failure  and what it was being used with will  be gone
forever  if it's ever meant to be produced.  I'm grabbing  what I can of
all of Twitter's  Microsoft Github account now, since I think the amount
of rogue and rogue-rogue  actors at Twitter and missing senior employees
mean that even the bowdlerised  public release shares more than any sane
and  composed  international  megacorporation  would deign to.   Already
(sub-24-hours)  at least once the initial  commit was clobbered  because
they had accidentally  increased the visibility of otherwise  publically
available  knowledge about their users, expect it to be done again,  sez
their commit message. 

So while I had hitherto happily ignored Twitter's  entire existence I
don't think there will be another similar case of a hostile actor buying
a company,  losing its staff, then trying to save face by revealing  how
the sausage  is made.  This makes /every/  part of Twitter  interesting,
since  we have an embarrassingly  complete  picture,  even through   the
mirror darkly of a publicity stunt. 

There's the easy side: Pillaging Twitter's  codes, since we have
unlikely  access  to how they were being used.  Dealing with one partial
megacorporation of code release as an individual is problematic. Lots of
it is also fundamentally uninteresting: How a small megacorporation uses
Google's Hadoop in Scala and Java, and some python deep learning. I also
believe   this release  harbinges  Twitter  throwing  away this code and
pivoting hard into the Microsoft/OpenAI  LLM generative models.  (Due to
Hadoop   and Java, I checked  whether  Twitter  was tight  with  Google;
sources  say they are/were  not).  In contrast  I would say Twitter   is
technologically  opportunistic. If something has buzz, Twitter will take
it and its associated publicity, whatever it is. 

Still,  I guess one plays one's hand and I got dealt a haphazard
partial  code release by Twitter.  Maybe I can build some fantasy  golem
out of parts raided  from Twitter's  graveyard  and activitypub  but  in
interlisp and with gophers. Several lifetimes' labor!