Michael Weinberg

Several parallelish rides, really: - most importantly, one where the mass of individual users are empowered to actually take advantage of Freedom 1 - one where FOSS quality is higher because many things that used to be too volunteer-intensive (like good TDD, formal proofs, etc.) are tractable 🧵

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You've seen LinkNYC kiosks and towers around New York. But have they actually delivered on their promise? Cornell Tech's Michael Samuelian thinks the decade-long experiment has been a failure. www.vitalcitynyc.org/link-nyc-kio...

This is a sweet one. Congrats to the team, including my Lex Lumina colleagues Rhett Millsaps, Mark McKenna, and Mark Lemley.

Tomorrow I'm introducing my Creative Coding students to "data-parallel computing", i.e. shader programming, with this cute Alfa-Zeta flip-dot display. For anyone interested, I've published a p5.js display API and a demo sketch inspired by Martin Kleppe's tixy.land: github.com/golanlevin/p...

"[T]here seems to be a clear consensus that public libraries want more guidance and resources for navigating the AI landscape." Read the initial findings from our AI Policy Working Group and stay tuned for more! www.libraryfutures.net/post/ai-poli...

Exciting news!

You know those old billion dollar car manufacturing lines with all those robots? What's often not appreciated is how modern computerised manufacturing like laser-cutters, 3D printers and low-cost CNC cutters allows things like this to be made commercially in smaller, but significant, numbers.

A reminder that my clinic is hiring! If you want to build a future for hopeful tech, come join us.

New @nyuengelberg.org & @oshwassociation.bsky.social report: State of Open Source Hardware 2026 How is OSHW growing? What countries have the most certifications? Which licenses are H-O-T HOT? All this and more, waiting for you: www.nyuengelberg.org/outputs/stat...

you can FAX your disappointment in me directly to the live stream

I'll be joining this in 10 minutes for a SNEAK PREVIEW of the new State of Open Source Hardware 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GlD...

We had a few slots open up for this! If you wanna show off your work on stream tomorrow let us know or email info[at]oshwa.org !

Shot in the dark but if anyone wants to trade #NYCC2026 passes - Friday for Sunday - let me know. We have 3 for today and would like to switch to Sunday.

Claude's estimates of how long it will take Claude to write code are truly bonkers. It's like how I would react if someone demanded a 100% guaranteed date of completion for something. "Write my name on this piece of paper? Give me 4-6 months."

In case you missed my hot take yesterday. www.interconnects.ai/p/the-cyber-...

On Saturday 10/10 at 2:20 PM Eastern, watch me announce the first (!) piece of letterpress art to get @oshwassociation.bsky.social certified!! See the award-winning original and watch me make a new piece LIVE!

My Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic is hiring a new teaching fellow! If you find joy in iPIP work; share our enthusiasm for collaborating; and demonstrate creativity through your work—maybe it could be you? Apply by the end of the month: apply.interfolio.com/194762 Share broadly!

I broke this story in 2011, about the first major publisher-imposed loan restrictions on ebooks (the only truly big story of my trade journalism career). It’s been 15 years, and the only major difference is that public library budgets are lower and what publishers charge libraries has gone up.

You: "OCR is a solved problem" Me:

Pour one out for open APIs.

Who's drunk? One of the so-called “shadow pictures” from Temperance Stories and Sketches (1879) by Edward Carswell — a collection tales, poems, and illustrations warning readers against the perils of alcohol, tobacco, and gambling. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

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These are the most false-precisioned numbers to have ever false-precisioned but they support my priors so maybe they’re good, actually

New work featured in New Public!: There is no neutral feed algorithm. Each one makes source, ranking, & content diversity choices. @jonathanstray.com & I started MySky so you can see - and change! - these settings. Check it out here on Bluesky, in "Feeds" # newpublic.substack.com/p/meet-the-a...

YES! We are extremely very very interested in hearing from technicians, engineers, backstage crew, designers, and all!

LOOK AT THIS BIRD en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmete...

I pushed back the start of the morning cohort of Binoculars to Binomials to September 28th. Which means you have an extra week to jump in. Meetings every second Monday at 9am ET.

Current Students! Members of the Engelverse! Engelverse Curious Individuals! The Welcome Back HH is Next Week: 9/23 from 5-7pm It is the ONLY HH with a 100% You Will Enjoy Yourself And Meet Interesting People guarantee. www.eventbrite.com/e/engelberg-...

👁️ 👁️ Performers, choreographers, playwrights, musicians, designers, technicians! Lend me your eyeballs! 👁️ 👁️ There are only two weeks left to take the *Impacts of AI on the Performing Arts Survey*! Read all about it in the link below, take the survey, and please SHARE WIDELY with your colleagues.

After two years of working closely with the Open Healthware community we are proud to launch the Open Healthware Certification process! This certification compliments our base process with a specialized look at source for open hardware health projects. Read more: oshwa.org/announcement...

@nyuengelberg.org & the GLAM-E Lab is hiring a 6 month Editor and Community Liaison Lead to launch our AI and GLAM Coordination Initiative: www.nyuengelberg.org/news/job-pos... Help us disseminate information within the community about how open collections can respond to AI bots

Stop what you are doing and look at this amazing ad from the 1906 Upington Brooklyn City Directory! Nothing screams "all kinds of legitimate detective work undertaken" more than a floating, radiant, disembodied eye. 📜📚

While I am sure they are just as horrible as their competitors, in a world of hack-for-hire companies with ridiculous h4x0r/fantasy novel-inspired names, I appreciate the work that "Sunkissed Organic Farms" is doing to stand out www.techdirt.com/2026/09/10/l...

Turns out my entire career was prepping to do the legal work for this project and I’m not mad about it. www.wired.com/story/you-ca...

I like this idea from @nyuengelberg.org Co-Director Scott Hemphill - if companies are so confident their merger will increase competition, condition approval on shorting their rivals news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchan...

Prospective copyright plaintiffs have started asking me my opinion about citing "Alignment Whack-a-Mole" in litigation. It reports that fine-tuning makes frontier LLMs reproduce up to 85-90% of copyrighted books. I don't think the headline results hold up: afedercooper.info/whack-a-mole/

But none of these three panelists mentioned understandable reasons for people to be wary of biometric authentication: the ability of governments, especially the Trump administration, to abuse this data, combined with the lack of a federal privacy law in the US.

Not smart to understand how NY state CLE requirements, which currently have me listening to a podcast about investigating truck accidents in Georgia, materially improve either my ability to be a lawyer or society more broadly

having claude configure a new remote server while I bake cookies comes with a modest increase in the risk of a horribly configured server and a significant increase in the chance I eat some cookies