In Peekskill this Friday, 1/9? Please join me and my Drawing with Machines students for the opening of our exhibition at the @bantamtools.bsky.social Machine Arts Gallery! We'll be showing scores of generative artworks created with pen-plotters, p5.js, and much more! www.instagram.com/p/DTGWAUlkS8Q/

Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain

On the last day of this year, I’m proud to share the tool I’ve spent the better part of year co-creating with my RA to let anyone make what I call “redactive poetry” from legal documents. I’d be thrilled if you tried our Redactive Layering Technology (ReLaTe): www.tepski.tech/redaction

This is ridiculous "Officer, if you consult your training document you will see that this is a beaglebone black, which is totally permitted. That? Oh that's a VIA EPIA Mini-ITX board. Also permitted! Yes, I agree it was slightly underpowered for an XBMC frontend in 2006. & this is my cell phone"

Very excited when I saw this pop up in my podcast feed

It's (Moth)boxing day! Testing out newest versions and running them through their paces!

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

🎬 Filmmakers! The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Day Remix Contest is open! 🎥 Create a 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of public domain material from 1930. 🎶🎭📚 📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026 💰 First prize: $1,500 ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2... #publicdomain #contest

If RepRap had originally used this license, you would never have been granted the freedom to build upon it and start your business. Not being open source any more is sad. However, creating licenses that are not open source, but claim to be is detrimental to the community you left behind.

Inspired by Prusa's new license "for the maker community", OCL, I'm introducing it's long-awaited sequel, SOCL! Like Hollow Knight Silksong, it promises to be an improvement over its prequel in every way. Looking forward to community adoption and feedback! github.com/theacodes/socl

Last twelve hours let’s see those PROPOSALS!!!!!

Deadline for proposals is tomorrow at midnight!! forms.gle/kDGTVqfVAZXm...

Bambu was closed sourced from the jump, still has numerous clones, and is still the market leader despite that. Open source isn't Prusa's problem, but he's really trying to become a problem for Open Source.

Not to horsebeat, but it's also really gross that Prusa takes time to pat himself on the back about their Slic3r-derived PrusaSlicer and Marlin-derived firmware being open source (when they have to be) while simultaneously insulting those projects by saying they could rewrite them.

I suppose it’s for the best that we don’t have another site to mine, but I wish Shazam had a default public feed; I want to see other’s random musical lookup transactions, like Venmo but fun

I really wish Prusa had tried to work with OSI, CC, and/or OSHWA instead of greenfielding a new license. Even if the principle behind this license wasn't misguided, I don't think it's precise enough to legally accomplish any of the goals Prusa stated. Please don't use this.

Welcome to the public domain, Sam Spade, Miss Marple, Betty Boop, and many more! They'd throw their caps in the air, but they're 95 years old, so they don't quite have the arm strength they used to...

"The trick was to house the 3D printing inside a vacuum chamber using a jet nozzle as the printing head" Oh? Just that? arstechnica.com/science/2025...

We have lift off! 🚀✨ The first survey response is in, expert interviews are getting booked, + free tickets to the online 'ask me anything' in January are getting picked up. The UK 3D Heritage Data at Risk project is underway ...and I want to hear from YOU next :) Info + links in replies 👇

Time again for the Fackrell Cuteness Test:

Here's a synopsis of everything @nyuengelberg.org Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, which I co-direct, did this year, from our symposium on consumers and innovation policy to events on patent law and pharma, social media design, and law and AI www.nyuengelberg.org/files/engelb...

Every year, this is the saddest email I get all year

It’s the final week to get your proposal on for OHS2026!! forms.gle/kDGTVqfVAZXm...

📢Calling all *UK* heritage folks working with 3D data: I'd like to hear from you! "UK 3D Heritage at Risk" project seeks to gather info from *at least* 50 organisations... Links in thread. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZILD... . #GLAM3D #UK #Heritage #3D #Data #Galleries #Libraries #Archives #Museums

Out on Make magazine! Three new projects we think are sooo cool! Check out Nathan Nifong's Stringman robot, Tanmoy Dutta's Autonoe and our very first Colombian certification from Insituto Technologico Metropolitano. Read more: makezine.com/article/make...

deep appreciation for the dueling quotes: "What the fuck? I literally don't want to do this," one man remarked, before putting his whole body into the tube "It'd be nice if it was faster, but I think it's really nice ...they're going 24/7," Casey said. "So this at $25 a month is a fucking steal."

Seriously, a civil service reform we need is to not call Article I immigration adjudicators, ALJs, etc, "judges" anymore, to not call their hearing rooms "courts"

That said, I think AI is close enough, and has enough telecom-related uses, for the FCC to "keep itself informed" under Section 218. But figuring out how to follow this EO is -- happily -- Adam Candueb's (FCC GC) problem, not mine. But AI itself is probably not even an information service.

Indeed, those in the shambles that remains of Admin law should properly ask where the FCC even has the authority to make such an investigation, let alone preempt states. Agencies don't get to investigate whatever they feel like. Their powers derive from their statutes.

New Publication! It's taken 3 years due to lots of delays from our most difficult conference we ever put on, but the Proceedings of the Third Digital Naturalism Conference are out! 300 pages of cool projects led by artists, biologists, and designers in Sri Lanka! archive.org/details/dina...

nightmare: Developer downloads reputable AI training data which no one knew contained CSAM. He uploads it to Google Drive, tripping an alarm, and his Google accounts are banned. He does everything right but was banned for months until I reached out for comment www.404media.co/a-developer-...

Is the company talking about all of the things they did to make the final video in order to establish a copyright claim on the ad as a compilation of uncopyrightable AI outputs?

"tweet is the generic term for a post on a microblogging site" is a position I know to be true and will defend against everyone who is wrong

Tencent (the giant Chinese company that runs WeChat) is using pressure on US cloud hosting providers to try and shut down a service that . . . tracks censorship on WeChat en.greatfire.org/blog/2025/de...

I love this time of year. C'mon guys, post yours #boschwashed #dishwashersky

All our projects are my favorite projects, but this one, by one of my interns, is my favorite right now. Enjoy! 📚

Particularly galling because U.S.-based social media companies have routinely outsourced moderation to hubs and contractors outside the U.S.

Excited to be talking about my latest paper *Ban Cookie Banners: A Case Study in Tech Regulation* at PhilMod today at 12:30 ET! Tune in if you want to hear why the history and measurable results of the laws that gave us cookie banners teach us a lot about how NOT to regulate tomorrow's tech. 1/2

These librarians reeeeeally want you to know libraries let you borrow more than just books. New from me for @404media.co

"I see that I'm over time, so I'll just talk about some of these"

kind of alarming to reflect on how quickly, stupidly, and joyously a registrar gift card would be spent once it hit my hands

Also DNA PEOPLE!! We need your help!! Our cool friends collected the white witch caterpillar's poop but need to process it to find what kinds of plants it eats! Does your lab do some kind of poop plant analysis? Please let us know!! We have special poop!

Very excited that the GLAM-E Lab will be partnering with @artukdotorg.bsky.social on this major initiative to open up the UK's national art collection for reuse artuk.org/discover/sto...

My dissertation is finally published under my real name! utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/e28db9...

scrolling past Cox v Sony livetweets like they are movie spoilers so I can listen to the whole thing later

Federal Circuit: No patents for AI inventions. USPTO:

This is incredibly important work thinking through where to store, share, and engage with 3D models of open culture when commercial platforms aren't trusted stewards

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New evolution in supposedly-membership-based academic/professional org being hostile to its own members: A presenter agreement that not only has the presenter agree the org is the sole owner of all presentation materials, but that ALL COMMUNICATIONS are confidential, including the agreement.