Michael Weinberg
@michaelweinberg.org
Exec Dir @nyuengelberg.org, Board Member @oshwassociation.bsky.social, Formerly GC @ Shapeways & many things @publicknowledge.bsky.social
NYC/Berlin
NYC/Berlin
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It's (Moth)boxing day!
Testing out newest versions and running them through their paces!
Testing out newest versions and running them through their paces!
December 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It's (Moth)boxing day!
Testing out newest versions and running them through their paces!
Testing out newest versions and running them through their paces!
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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!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
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🎬 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
🎥 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
December 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
🎬 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
🎥 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
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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.
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.
December 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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.
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.
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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
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
December 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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
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
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Last twelve hours let’s see those PROPOSALS!!!!!
We are officially seeking applications for TALKS, WORKSHOPS, EXHIBITIONS, ART and PERFORMANCES for OHS2026 May 23rd and 24th at TU Berlin! Submit yours today: forms.gle/kDGTVqfVAZXm...
Applications run until December 21st at 11:59pm EDT.
Applications run until December 21st at 11:59pm EDT.
December 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Last twelve hours let’s see those PROPOSALS!!!!!
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Deadline for proposals is tomorrow at midnight!! forms.gle/kDGTVqfVAZXm...
December 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Deadline for proposals is tomorrow at midnight!! forms.gle/kDGTVqfVAZXm...
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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.
December 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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.
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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.
December 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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.
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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
December 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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
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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.
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.
We're open-sourcing the full CAD files of the CORE One and CORE One L, released under a new license we built for the maker community. Read more about it in Josef's new article: blog.prusa3d.com/core-one-cad...
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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.
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.
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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...
Executive Director @bb.usefairuse.com also highlights how the current requirements for a work to enter the public domain are overly long, and hold back creativity: recreatecoalition.org/after-nearly...
After Nearly a Century, 1930’s Creative Works & Characters Receive Public Domain Diploma, Set Free for Public Use - Re:Create
As Public Domain Day approaches, Re:Create highlights the creative works and characters first published in 1930 and set to enter the public domain. On January 1, 2026, these characters will receive th...
recreatecoalition.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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...
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In this week’s @neverpo.st, Hans talks with @michaelweinberg.org about OpenAI’s surprising, more-than-a-little confusing partnership w/ Disney, who is normally mother goose levels of protective over its IP. WTF is going on?
🆕 Never Post! Posting from Inside
Jeremy Busby, and the tenuous case of internet access from prison
www.neverpo.st
December 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
In this week’s @neverpo.st, Hans talks with @michaelweinberg.org about OpenAI’s surprising, more-than-a-little confusing partnership w/ Disney, who is normally mother goose levels of protective over its IP. WTF is going on?
"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...
Oh? Just that?
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
December 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"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...
Oh? Just that?
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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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 👇
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 👇
December 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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 👇
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 👇
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Time again for the Fackrell Cuteness Test:
To infringe, the accused product must look "the same" as the patented design. I posit that if one is notably cuter than the other, they are not "the same."
Which costume is cuter?
Which costume is cuter?
December 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Time again for the Fackrell Cuteness Test:
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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...
www.nyuengelberg.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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...
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Every year, this is the saddest email I get all year
December 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Every year, this is the saddest email I get all year
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It’s the final week to get your proposal on for OHS2026!! forms.gle/kDGTVqfVAZXm...
December 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It’s the final week to get your proposal on for OHS2026!! forms.gle/kDGTVqfVAZXm...
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📢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
"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
UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk Project - Introduction
YouTube video by The Spatial Heritage Review
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
📢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
"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
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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...
December 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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."
"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."
I require a 10,000 word investigation on why this gym chain uses these weird pod tubes as gated entry.
It seems like the Rube Goldberg of doors. hellgatenyc.com/puregym-entr...
It seems like the Rube Goldberg of doors. hellgatenyc.com/puregym-entr...
We Need to Talk About the 'Dystopian' PureGym Entry Tubes
Finally, a local gym that feels more like waiting on the TSA line.
hellgatenyc.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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."
"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."
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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"
December 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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"
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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.
But AI itself is probably not even an information service.
December 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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.
But AI itself is probably not even an information service.
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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.
December 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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.