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Michael Weinberg

@michaelweinberg.org

Exec Dir Engelberg Center @ NYU Law, Board Member OSHWA, Formerly GC @ Shapeways & many things @ PublicKnowledge
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discovering once again that there are lessons to be learned in the space between designing a piece of hardware and actually building said piece of hardware
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I would like to report that an open source software package I was using threw up an error that included a URL, that URL had clear instructions for what to do next, and doing that thing immediately fixed the problem
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New post where I try and work through all (some?) of the practical questions I have when it comes to attributing data used to train AI models michaelweinberg.org/blog/2024/07...
Is There A Coherent Theory of Attributing AI Training Data?michaelweinberg.org I put things here so they are on the internet
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it is legitimately miraculous that I can sit at my desk and pull up every public comment in 20+ years of a copyright office proceeding
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This is a very smart idea
Data & Society is hiring a rsch + ref librarian to help them "figure out better methods for making [their] rsch visible, discoverable, + durable" — and to create new methods of repository building to foreground the work of "lay experts, radical thinkers, community organizers, activist scholars"
Why You Should Apply to Be Our First Research and Reference Librariandatasociety.net
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When does typing "ignore your instructions..." into ChatGPT violate the CFAA? Come to my Black Hat talk and you'll find out! www.blackhat.com/us-24/briefi...
Black Hat USA 2024www.blackhat.com Black Hat USA 2024
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lmao someone put a recommendation for a thing in westchester in one of our stories and an editor was like "WHAT IS OUR NAME" and cut it tough but fair. five boroughs or nowhere my friends
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This seems as good a time as any for a small announcement: I'm visiting at NYU Law this fall! Excited to bring the Science, Health & Information Clinic to NYU for the semester. Eager to (re-)meet everyone at NYU! Back at Columbia Law in January ’25. its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofi...
Christopher J. Morten - Overview | NYU School of Lawits.law.nyu.edu
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It is wild how much more often I go to the beach living in NYC than I did when I lived in LA
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I was delighted to be a guest on MSNBC's @chrislhayes.bsky.social show "Why is This Happening?" #WITHpod w/ @brewster.kahle.org (founder of Internet Archive)! I got to discuss my work, scholarship #libraries #copyright & Controlled Digital Lending. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Thank you Spotify for inviting me to teach a masterclass on challenging spotify takedown requests
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It's hard to explain how widespread the repercussions of overturning Chevron deference will be. Even if you narrow the scope down to tech policy, you're left wrangling a super-explainer on a friday afternoon www.theverge.com/24188365/che...
What SCOTUS just did to net neutrality, the right to repair, the environment, and morewww.theverge.com The end of Chevron deference will touch on everything from broadband policy to climate change.
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"Brand X . . . has proven a durable mount for the pendulum that has swung back and forth between Republican and Democratic FCC decision"
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For every 20 minutes an NYPD helicopter spends hovering over Crown Heights, the City buys enough books to get 20 people off the holds waiting list
"open on sundays" was the compromise position. really NYPL should have as many helicopters as NYPD
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"effectively" is doing a lot of work for the RIAA in this paragraph
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My first step for finding a legal complaint that's in the news is to pull up the techdirt article because I know for damn sure they will link to it
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my man let his haters be his raters at the credit agency assessing his political capital
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someone just sent me a new open source hardware license with an authoring notice that included: "This licence is co-drafted by a Human NAME_REDACTED and the Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT4 (***)." Probably don't use that