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Michael Weinberg

@michaelweinberg.org
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Exec Dir @nyuengelberg.org, Board Member @oshwassociation.bsky.social, Formerly GC @ Shapeways & many things @publicknowledge.bsky.social NYC/Berlin

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 6h
Been going to lots of events to read the room and figure out what people are thinking about bots and otherwise aboard.com/people-are-r...
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People are reclaiming the computer
Observations from a few recent tech meetups.
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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 8h
You: "OCR is a solved problem" Me:
A screenshot of a page from The New Hampshire gazette, September 23, 1800, with text going in every possible direction, and brackets, and numbers
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 8h
This is an incredibly nuanced conversation with Clarissa Redwine and @js-tan.bsky.social about the evolving relationship between tech employees and tech companies, and how that relationship is changing the companies (and the workers) themselves eclive.engelberg.center/episodes/boo...
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Book Event: Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry | Engelberg Center Live!
This episode features audio from the book event Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry. It features a discussion with the book's authors J.S. Tan and Clarissa ...
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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@hadro.bsky.social built this tool that quickly "flips" through the contents of a work like a flipbook. Works w/ IIIF manifests, or plain item link from Internet Archive, Library of Congress, The Getty, & other sites. (FWIW, Josh churns out great things from his experiments. You should follow him!)
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Flipbook
Flip through centuries of digitized books by wiggling your mouse. Paste any IIIF manifest. Make GIFs.
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Luis Villa @lu.is · 29/09/2026
Pour one out for open APIs.
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 28/09/2026
Great writeup from @cosmowenman.bsky.social on his almost 10 year quest to get public access to publicly funded 3D scans of (public domain) Rodin sculptures. It has everything: open access, 3D, FOIA, French administrative law, public domain, & more: cosmowenman.substack.com/p/rodin-muse...
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Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict
Sometimes the law is not the law
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Who's drunk? One of the so-called “shadow pictures” from Temperance Stories and Sketches (1879) by Edward Carswell — a collection tales, poems, and illustrations warning readers against the perils of alcohol, tobacco, and gambling. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Luis Villa @lu.is · 23/09/2026
These are the most false-precisioned numbers to have ever false-precisioned but they support my priors so maybe they’re good, actually
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New work featured in New Public!: There is no neutral feed algorithm. Each one makes source, ranking, & content diversity choices. @jonathanstray.com & I started MySky so you can see - and change! - these settings. Check it out here on Bluesky, in "Feeds" # newpublic.substack.com/p/meet-the-a...
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🎛️📲 Meet the algorithm you can actually control and understand
Jonathan Stray and Renée DiResta introduce MySky, a feed that shows its work
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
YES! We are extremely very very interested in hearing from technicians, engineers, backstage crew, designers, and all!
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
LOOK AT THIS BIRD en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmete...
Helmeted hornbill
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I pushed back the start of the morning cohort of Binoculars to Binomials to September 28th. Which means you have an extra week to jump in. Meetings every second Monday at 9am ET.
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NYU Engelberg Center @nyuengelberg.org · 16/09/2026
Current Students! Members of the Engelverse! Engelverse Curious Individuals! The Welcome Back HH is Next Week: 9/23 from 5-7pm It is the ONLY HH with a 100% You Will Enjoy Yourself And Meet Interesting People guarantee. www.eventbrite.com/e/engelberg-...
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Engelberg Center Welcome Back Happy Hour
Celebrate the start of the semester with the Engelberg Center & ILI. Re-connect, or connect for the first time, with the Engelverse!
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
👁️ 👁️ Performers, choreographers, playwrights, musicians, designers, technicians! Lend me your eyeballs! 👁️ 👁️ There are only two weeks left to take the *Impacts of AI on the Performing Arts Survey*! Read all about it in the link below, take the survey, and please SHARE WIDELY with your colleagues.
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GenAI Usage in the Performing Arts
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
After two years of working closely with the Open Healthware community we are proud to launch the Open Healthware Certification process! This certification compliments our base process with a specialized look at source for open hardware health projects. Read more: oshwa.org/announcement...
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 14/09/2026
@nyuengelberg.org & the GLAM-E Lab is hiring a 6 month Editor and Community Liaison Lead to launch our AI and GLAM Coordination Initiative: www.nyuengelberg.org/news/job-pos... Help us disseminate information within the community about how open collections can respond to AI bots
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Job Posting: Editor and Community Liaison Lead - AI and GLAM Coordination Initiative
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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Stop what you are doing and look at this amazing ad from the 1906 Upington Brooklyn City Directory! Nothing screams "all kinds of legitimate detective work undertaken" more than a floating, radiant, disembodied eye. 📜📚
Black and white 1906 advertisement for Mahoney's National Detective Agency, with a floating eye that appears to be radiating light. The banner behind the eye reads, "All kinds of legitimate detective work undertaken; corporations, bankers, & merchants work a specialty."
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 11/09/2026
While I am sure they are just as horrible as their competitors, in a world of hack-for-hire companies with ridiculous h4x0r/fantasy novel-inspired names, I appreciate the work that "Sunkissed Organic Farms" is doing to stand out www.techdirt.com/2026/09/10/l...
screenshot of the paragraph "This week, Senators Ron Wyden and Sheldon Whitehouse, along with Rep. Pat Harrigan, sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, asking him to add Appin and several related companies (CyberRoot, BellTroX, Adaptive Control Security Global Corporate, ABP Holdings, and “Sunkissed Organic Farms” — yes really) to the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) “Entity List” — the tool that effectively cuts foreign entities deemed national security threats off from American technology and American business partners. It’s the same designation BIS used against NSO Group in 2021."
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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Turns out my entire career was prepping to do the legal work for this project and I’m not mad about it. www.wired.com/story/you-ca...
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You Can Now Destroy Flock Cameras for Cash in GTA V
A new GTA mod lets you smash and shoot Flock’s automatic license plate readers around the fictional Los Santos.
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 09/09/2026
I like this idea from @nyuengelberg.org Co-Director Scott Hemphill - if companies are so confident their merger will increase competition, condition approval on shorting their rivals news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchan...
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To Save the Paramount–Warner Merger, Make Hollywood Short Itself
Opinion: Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery should be required to take a negative ownership position in their remaining rivals to receive regulatory approval for their merger.
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A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Prospective copyright plaintiffs have started asking me my opinion about citing "Alignment Whack-a-Mole" in litigation. It reports that fine-tuning makes frontier LLMs reproduce up to 85-90% of copyrighted books. I don't think the headline results hold up: afedercooper.info/whack-a-mole/
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Playing Whack-a-Mole with misconceptions about memorization, extraction, and copyright
A response to Alignment Whack-a-Mole: why its headline book-memorization coverage numbers rest on a measurement procedure that can't separate memorization from coincidence or prompt leakage.
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Rob Pegoraro @robpegoraro.com · 03/09/2026
But none of these three panelists mentioned understandable reasons for people to be wary of biometric authentication: the ability of governments, especially the Trump administration, to abuse this data, combined with the lack of a federal privacy law in the US.
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 02/09/2026
Not smart to understand how NY state CLE requirements, which currently have me listening to a podcast about investigating truck accidents in Georgia, materially improve either my ability to be a lawyer or society more broadly
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 28/08/2026
having claude configure a new remote server while I bake cookies comes with a modest increase in the risk of a horribly configured server and a significant increase in the chance I eat some cookies
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As we close out our Pose grant we want to thank our community for all of the hard work and incredible connections made during the last two years. You can now certify your healthware device at Healthware.oshwa.org. Don't forget to stay in touch!
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Luis Villa @lu.is · 27/08/2026
There are very few specific objects (especially 1-of-1 devices) I can think of that have a specific tie-in to open culture and open knowledge in the way this one does. Amazing find.
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 27/08/2026
this is actually a pretty easy-to-understand way to answer the question "what do lawyers really do all day?"
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 27/08/2026
certifying open hardware as part of the @oshwassociation.bsky.social Open Hardware Certification program just opened a dangerously deep rabbit hole around reusing weather balloon monitoring hardware github.com/Bertruss/Bal...
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GitHub - Bertruss/Balloon-Jockey: Design artifacts of a programming clip to ease functional re-use of GRAW DFM-17 Radiosondes by providing an easily attachable SWD port breakout, providing clear label...
Design artifacts of a programming clip to ease functional re-use of GRAW DFM-17 Radiosondes by providing an easily attachable SWD port breakout, providing clear labeling and allowing one to use Dup...
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 26/08/2026
This set of republishing guidelines is simultaneously reasonable and (at least arguably) in tension with the CC BY-ND license on the content. Which is much more a commentary on the complexity of real world CC license use than on the guidelines. Scale is hard! knowablemagazine.org/republish
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Republishing guidelines
Knowable Magazine explores the real-world significance of scholarly work through a journalistic lens. A digital magazine from Annual Reviews.
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Open Science Hardware Foundation @opensciencehw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Last days to register for GOSH 2026 in Kathmandu🇳🇵! Infos below 👇
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 24/08/2026
The new round of "Unlock 3D printers so you can use third party materials to print without violating copyright law" US Copyright Office petitions starts today: michaelweinberg.org/blog/2026/08... #Hashtag1201
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Keep 3D Printers Unlocked (2026)
I put things here so they are on the internet
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Coming up this Thursday at 1pm EST! Show & Tell Monthly livestream :) This month we'll have COSMIIC and Open Water talking about their work in open source health devices! Join us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFok...
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Is there a jurisdiction fight brewing over AI companies that scrape content globally? In GEMA v. Suno, a German court said it had jurisdiction to enjoin training *in the US* because of German copyright. @technollama.bsky.social explains here. 1/
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GEMA v Suno: Another landmark AI copyright case from Germany
While a lot of the attention in the AI and copyright space has gone to the hundreds of ongoing cases in the US, courts around the world have been tackling the question of copyright infringement alr…
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 17/08/2026
This is very cool as a project, and also serves as the reference for "what does a top-tier 3D digitization project look like in 2026?"
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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...
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Everything is about to “go dark”
I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaini…
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 14/08/2026
very cool to see the "object shape maximizes performance, not manufacturability" promise of 3D printing starting to come to fancy cars arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08...
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Organic-looking brake assemblies debut on new Czinger 21C Spyder
Czinger used topological design and additive manufacturing to make the brakes.
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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Albert Sellars LLP (@kendraserra.bsky.social and I) were honored to represent the folks at @aclu.org, @aclum.bsky.social, @aclumaine.bsky.social, @aclu-nh.bsky.social, @riaclu.bsky.social, and the ACLU of Puerto Rico in an amicus brief in the AAUP v. Rubio case. A quick thread on what we filed!
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#00108490465 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (1st Cir., 26-1195) – CourtListener.com
AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF tendered by American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Massachusetts, ACLU of Maine, ACLU of New Hampshire, ACLU of Puerto Rico, ACLU of Rhode Island. [26-1141, 26-1195] (AFS) [Entere...
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 12/08/2026
Just wrote 2 pages that relied on an extended charismatic megafauna analogy and managed to spell either "charismatic" or "megafauna" (or both!) wrong every single time. Every elementary school teacher I ever had would have anticipated this development
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Luis Villa @lu.is · 09/08/2026
For the first time since the ‘90s, my home box is a highly personalized, custom Linux desktop. Not because GNOME got worse, but because I had an idea *and* an LLM helped me actually *use* the freedom of FOSS to make the idea real. mastodon.social/@webchick/117067256…
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webchick (@webchick@mastodon.social)
“THEY STOLE OUR REVOLUTION, NOW WE’RE STEALING IT BACK.” @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer argues from the “origin story” of the free software movement that there are uses of LLMs as tools to solve th...
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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 06/08/2026
New @neverpo.st will be out tomorrow! ✌️
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 30/07/2026
I don't know if I'm more thrilled about this happening or the fact that it happened without me knowing about it oshwa.org/announcement...
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Giving Open Source Hardware a Place on Wikidata
Open Source Hardware Association
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Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We're #hiring! Join us as Senior Policy Counsel/Analyst to help fight for an open internet & affordable broadband for all. 5+ yrs policy exp, DC or remote, $100K–$121K + benefits. Apply today at the link below: publicknowledge.org/policy_analyst
Graphic with Public Knowledge logo and link to job application.
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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Beautiful implementation
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 27/07/2026
I am sitting in the middle of what I assume will be a 5 minute window where I feel like I actually understand how CNAME DNS records work, instead of just understanding that I need to cut and paste some random values into them hoping for the best
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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Our #Mothweek event at the @amnh.org ended up super cool! We got to give a panel about how rad moths are, #opensource tech for studying them, hang on the front steps with blacklights, and when the museum closed, we lured everyone into Central Park for more first-hand mothing!
people giving a panel about mothswe got to give a talk under the big whale!Mothbox crew on the front stepsAfter party in central park!
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craig @fahner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Introducing p5.plotterControl, a library that enables live control of pen plotter hardware from p5.js github.com/craigfahner/...
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