Observations from a few recent tech meetups.

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 ...

Flip through centuries of digitized books by wiggling your mouse. Paste any IIIF manifest. Make GIFs.

On 13 October, 14:00 to 15:00 CEST, join us for a new COMMUNIA Salon exploring the French “Rodin case.”

Sometimes the law is not the law

Jonathan Stray and Renée DiResta introduce MySky, a feed that shows its work

Celebrate the start of the semester with the Engelberg Center & ILI. Re-connect, or connect for the first time, with the Engelverse!

A new GTA mod lets you smash and shoot Flock’s automatic license plate readers around the fictional Los Santos.

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.

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.

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...

Knowable Magazine explores the real-world significance of scholarly work through a journalistic lens. A digital magazine from Annual Reviews.

I put things here so they are on the internet

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…

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…

Czinger used topological design and additive manufacturing to make the brakes.

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...

“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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