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
These State of the Pod episodes are incredible windows into what it means to produce a podcast today even if you don't regularly listen to Never Post (although you should also regularly listen to Never Post)
Hello! Yesterday @neverpo.st published its yearly State of the Pod, in which we discuss how the show is doing, how much money we make, what we spend it on, how the last year felt and what we have planned for the next.
If you're a freak for the deets, this one's for you.
If you're a freak for the deets, this one's for you.
🆕 Never Post! State of the Pod: 2026
Checking in on finances, audience, and upcoming changes
www.neverpo.st
January 15, 2026 at 9:51 PM
These State of the Pod episodes are incredible windows into what it means to produce a podcast today even if you don't regularly listen to Never Post (although you should also regularly listen to Never Post)
I suspect there are very few lessons for GLAM open access collections in this "AI companies pay wikipedia for access" deal. Very few institutions have a collection at a scale that would be worth building the integration for
wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/01...
wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/01...
Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of knowledge at its best – Wikimedia Foundation
New video docuseries celebrates the humans who make knowledge on Wikipedia possible; new tech partnerships highlight Wikipedia's value in age of AI.
wikimediafoundation.org
January 15, 2026 at 6:59 PM
I suspect there are very few lessons for GLAM open access collections in this "AI companies pay wikipedia for access" deal. Very few institutions have a collection at a scale that would be worth building the integration for
wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/01...
wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/01...
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Re-posting with elaboration: searches of journalist work product (which is what's alleged here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...) for evidence of third-party crimes are heavily limited by the Privacy Protection Act. (Rules are similar for "documentary materials") [1/3]
January 14, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Re-posting with elaboration: searches of journalist work product (which is what's alleged here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...) for evidence of third-party crimes are heavily limited by the Privacy Protection Act. (Rules are similar for "documentary materials") [1/3]
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On the Policy Podcast, @corbinhiar.bsky.social speculates that companies are half-assing compliance with a patchwork of irreconcilable state privacy laws, and enforcers are letting it slide.
I would put money on that bet. I'd even double down and say that is the nature of data protection laws.
I would put money on that bet. I'd even double down and say that is the nature of data protection laws.
427: More State Tech Policy Than You Can Poke a Stick At
Podcast Episode · Tech Policy Podcast · 01/13/2026 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:52 PM
On the Policy Podcast, @corbinhiar.bsky.social speculates that companies are half-assing compliance with a patchwork of irreconcilable state privacy laws, and enforcers are letting it slide.
I would put money on that bet. I'd even double down and say that is the nature of data protection laws.
I would put money on that bet. I'd even double down and say that is the nature of data protection laws.
There is a lot to like in this @mozilla.org open source AI post, but:
"For a decade, the assumption has been that data is free to scrape — that the web is a commons to be harvested without asking. That norm is breaking, and not a moment too soon."
made me, um, pause
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/m...
"For a decade, the assumption has been that data is free to scrape — that the web is a commons to be harvested without asking. That norm is breaking, and not a moment too soon."
made me, um, pause
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/m...
Owners, not renters: Mozilla's open source AI strategy | The Mozilla Blog
The future of intelligence is being set right now, and the path we’re on leads somewhere I don’t want to go. We’re drifting toward a worl
blog.mozilla.org
January 13, 2026 at 3:10 PM
There is a lot to like in this @mozilla.org open source AI post, but:
"For a decade, the assumption has been that data is free to scrape — that the web is a commons to be harvested without asking. That norm is breaking, and not a moment too soon."
made me, um, pause
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/m...
"For a decade, the assumption has been that data is free to scrape — that the web is a commons to be harvested without asking. That norm is breaking, and not a moment too soon."
made me, um, pause
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/m...
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Curious about what's coming with the Open Healthware Certification? Read all about it right here: oshwa.org/announcement...
January 12, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Curious about what's coming with the Open Healthware Certification? Read all about it right here: oshwa.org/announcement...
What does it mean that the caterer that we are required to use for events at NYU Law is offering a promo code?
January 12, 2026 at 1:21 PM
What does it mean that the caterer that we are required to use for events at NYU Law is offering a promo code?
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the dynamics around APIs and bringing your own data are suddenly fascinating again in a way they haven’t been in a long time.
One thing I think is gonna really piss off these companies trying to jam AI into everything is that the people who actually *do* like AI are going to want to bring their own and use an API to hook up their harness/inference provider instead of having ones bundled in that only serve the company
January 10, 2026 at 9:59 AM
the dynamics around APIs and bringing your own data are suddenly fascinating again in a way they haven’t been in a long time.
First @oshwassociation.bsky.social certified open hardware from Pakistan (certification.oshwa.org/pk000001.html) and Vietnam (certification.oshwa.org/vn000001.html).
There are so many countries in the directory that it has been a long time since we had 2 new ones in the same week!
There are so many countries in the directory that it has been a long time since we had 2 new ones in the same week!
January 7, 2026 at 5:12 PM
First @oshwassociation.bsky.social certified open hardware from Pakistan (certification.oshwa.org/pk000001.html) and Vietnam (certification.oshwa.org/vn000001.html).
There are so many countries in the directory that it has been a long time since we had 2 new ones in the same week!
There are so many countries in the directory that it has been a long time since we had 2 new ones in the same week!
I was using bluesky DMs to schedule a meeting with someone, but now that I'm in the UK I can't access the conversation until I go through a third party age verification process.
So, uh, I guess this meeting will have to wait?
So, uh, I guess this meeting will have to wait?
January 6, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I was using bluesky DMs to schedule a meeting with someone, but now that I'm in the UK I can't access the conversation until I go through a third party age verification process.
So, uh, I guess this meeting will have to wait?
So, uh, I guess this meeting will have to wait?
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In 2023 I made this project with @christobuschek.net examining the slapdash processes used to assemble the enormous training sets used by AI models
knowingmachines.org/models-all-t...
knowingmachines.org/models-all-t...
Models All The Way Down
LAION-5B is an open-source foundation dataset. It contains 5.8 billion image and text pairs—a size too large to make sense of. We follow the construction of the dataset to better understand its conten...
knowingmachines.org
January 6, 2026 at 12:28 PM
In 2023 I made this project with @christobuschek.net examining the slapdash processes used to assemble the enormous training sets used by AI models
knowingmachines.org/models-all-t...
knowingmachines.org/models-all-t...
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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/
www.instagram.com/p/DTGWAUlkS8Q/
January 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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/
www.instagram.com/p/DTGWAUlkS8Q/
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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
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.
publicdomainreview.org
January 1, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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
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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
December 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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"
"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"
NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives -
adafruit.com/pi-ban
adafruit.com/pi-ban
December 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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"
"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
ripcorp.biz/episodes/202... the third annual RIP Corp In Memoriam episode is out, this year the team behind the show got together to do a bracket for saddest corporate collapse of 2025.
December 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Very excited when I saw this pop up in my podcast feed
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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.