Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 11/09/2026While 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... 020
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 02/07/2026Huge list of open access wins in this report from @rammuseum.bsky.social 18 months into their new OA program (developed with support from the GLAM-E Lab) www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour... 022
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 29/05/2026Everything I think I know about capitalism means that this job should never be vacant 120
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 23/02/2026I did not realize that the Library of Congress AV Collection Preservation Team filed in favor of a 1201 exemption for breaking DVD encryption 010
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 23/02/2026real blast-from-the-past math from the 2000 1201 proceeding: 250
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 12/01/2026What does it mean that the caterer that we are required to use for events at NYU Law is offering a promo code? 010
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 21/11/2025"tactics that encourage litigation" from who? the entities being regulated? who, if they were in favor of the regulation, wouldn't need to be regulated in the first place? gothamist.com/news/the-tru... 020
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 02/11/2025This one feels like it is pushing the limits of puffery 020
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 21/10/2025I appreciate that NYC had Dumbo Boulders, a outdoor bouldering space that was fenced in, was staffed by multiple people, and required an entrance fee while Berlin has a concrete shed on the street that someone bolted holds onto 020
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 19/09/2025I really hope the NYT photo editor chose this image to illustrate how anyone standing next to Robert Redford looks like a giant dork in comparison 020
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 02/09/2025Clarence A. Freeman, Champion Checker Player AND Champion Oarsman of the World (only checkers depicted) www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... 100
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 02/09/2025W.A. Rowe, Bicyclist (uncomfortable position) www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... 100
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 02/09/2025John Wessels, Champion Boy Club Swinger www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... 110
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 03/07/2025This tram logo probably feels slightly less snazzy when the arrow is perpetually pointing away from the side one exits the car 000
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 17/06/2025Here’s another chart of the server load during a swarm (they tried to reset the server in the middle) 100
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 17/06/2025The bots often operate like a roving, relatively brief DDOS attack. Here’s a chart from one collection showing how they go from ~500 visits/day to ~10,000 visits/day about once per month 100
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 16/06/2025Years of riding Amtrak caused me to open this "timetable change for your scheduled train" email from Deutsche Bahn with real trepidation 000
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 31/05/2025Things get a bit hectic towards the end of the second day at the @oshwassociation.bsky.social Open Hardware Summit 041
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 30/05/2025Love how many @oshwassociation.bsky.social Summit slides feature certified own hardware logos 2154
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 22/05/2025Very here for the "no title" option on this registration page 030
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 05/05/2025BirdNET-Pi is the most "it just works" open source software/hardware project I have spun up in a long time www.birdweather.com/birdnetpi 030
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 14/04/2025Looking at this map of the first flight from the UK to Australia (27 days long) makes it seem like that kind of trip was probably simultaneously terrifying and boring. Do any online flight sim communities ever try to reprouce these trips? digital.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/6... 000
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 11/04/20253,000 pieces of certified open source hardware, from >60 countries, on every continent except antarctica (c'mon antarctica....) 075
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 14/02/2025This poster gets an A+ on its own, but the aipd-partei.de website really takes it to another level 020
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 10/02/2025Each year I use my insider information to buy a copy of the book to be necromanced before we announce the show (therefore sending prices through the roof) 000
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 28/01/2025Not thrilled that all of the branding around this is "buy now" when the first line in the terms are "DIGITAL BOOKS ARE DIGITAL GOODS THAT ARE LICENSED BY THE PUBLISHER, NOT OWNED BY THE PURCHASER." 073
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 21/01/2025High quality german squirrel content from @rbb24.de for anyone looking for that type of thing today www.rbb24.de/panorama/bei... 020
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 15/01/2025The graphics for this conference look like example slides from a bias-in-generative-AI-systems talk where the prompt was "create images of AI experts" 010
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 11/01/2025Sideline reporter for the German broadcast of the Texans - Chargers game is not going to make it out of Nakatomi Plaza alive 250
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 19/12/2024hard to say which of these emails make my heart beat faster 020
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 17/12/2024all lawsuits are Serious Business, but this attempt from @questauthority.bsky.social, @akivamcohen.bsky.social, & Dylan Schmeyer to get the parents of a Canadian teenager to make him stop being such a troll in an online game is also kind of hilarious www.courtlistener.com/docket/67890... 010
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 09/12/20241201(a) anti-circumvention claim against Alibaba for hosting allegedly infringing photos. I have no idea what "Plaintiff also disables the right-click copy function on its images prior to distribution" could possibly mean in this context. 210
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 20/11/2024A+ 404 page from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers 12310
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 31/10/2024SPECIAL LAST DAY OF OPEN HARDWARE MONTH ANNOUNCEMENT (spooky): Early Bird tickers for OHS2025 are Officially on sale! www.eventbrite.com/e/open-hardw... 100
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 28/10/2024If I'm ever in a position where someone needs to my portrait, this painting I just saw on a tour of the Museum Bredius in The Hague will be the one and only style reference I provide 020
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 25/10/2024I mean, sections of their joint autobiography pretty explicitly anticipate the entire game, so yeah? See, e.g., this excerpt from page 155 of the hardcover edition: 000
Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 09/10/2024I appreciate that it takes exactly 3 sentences to deliver on the promise of academic snark 100