I don't know if I'm more thrilled about this happening or the fact that it happened without me knowing about it oshwa.org/announcement...

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Beautiful implementation

Jason Heppler@jasonheppler.org · last wk.

New little side project: Westward, an endless scroll of 1,000+ public-domain photographs of the American West from the Library of Congress, the Portal to Texas History, and SMU’s DeGolyer Library.

I am sitting in the middle of what I assume will be a 5 minute window where I feel like I actually understand how CNAME DNS records work, instead of just understanding that I need to cut and paste some random values into them hoping for the best

Our #Mothweek event at the @amnh.org ended up super cool! We got to give a panel about how rad moths are, #opensource tech for studying them, hang on the front steps with blacklights, and when the museum closed, we lured everyone into Central Park for more first-hand mothing!

Introducing p5.plotterControl, a library that enables live control of pen plotter hardware from p5.js github.com/craigfahner/...

Thanks to everyone who attended the Open Healthware Conference! For those that missed out, you can check out the streamed video on our YouTube youtube.com/@OpenSourceHardware

Library-focused event next week @ the Aboard office, featuring @hadro.bsky.social, regarding the intersection of The Most Forbidden Subject (LLM-based AI) and The Most Beloved Subject (librarianship and open access). Free, open, friendly, snacks. luma.com/aboard-p9g1

Databases for the People: How to use AI to unlock library archives · Luma

Join Aboard for a night of conversation with Josh Hadro, acting chief of the Library of Congress Digital Innovation Division, as he discusses an…

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from Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K Jerome (1889). anyway this is me

For three years now I've been teaching courses about birding and data viz that are *secretly* about building our capacity to notice and fostering environmental care. The next ones start in September. Space is limited.

LEARNING | jerthorp

Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding. Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...

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this is so good

Christopher Whitaker@civicwhitaker.com · 3w ago

This is a huge deal - New York City is getting it's own Public Interest Technology Crew! (PIT CREW) www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Day 2 of our @oshwassociation.bsky.social Open Source Healthware Conference is now live on YouTube. While we're focused on medical devices the event is broadly applicable to all hardware developers. www.youtube.com/live/6y4A6bc...

This is real. Every major infrastructure and service needs a well equipped makerspace.

OSHWA@oshwassociation.bsky.social · 4w ago

Enrico Bassi has taken the stage to talk how supply chains fail in conflict or crisis, open hardware and hospital makerspaces become real health infrastructure alternatives

Legitimately impressive that Berlin's mayor managed to turn a one day story into a career ending screwup

@berlin-news-en.bsky.social · 4w ago

rbb24.de (1/2): Just over 70 days before the Berlin elections in September, Berlin's Governing Mayor Kai Wegner (CDU) announced on Friday afternoon that he will not seek re-election

Doug B is bringing us back post break with a talk on open source MRI

Liz Henry and Olga Prilepova are guiding us through what it means to make a repairable wheelchair

Check out this $400 commercial braile printer at the @oshwassociation.bsky.social open healthware summit. Commercial printers cost almost $4000 making them unaffordable in the global south. If you're interested in this kind of stuff we're currently running a conference in SF.

Kicking off the Open Healthware Conference with a workshop in our new certification process with Yves Nazon and Avinash Baskaran!

amazing what you can learn by reading the actual research instead of just the coverage of the research or takes responding to the research

I guess @prusa3d.com is now confirming that the intention of their "Open Community License" is to give them copyright-style control over things that are in the public domain? github.com/OpenCommunit...

Clarify the relationship between the IP and the product · Issue #15 · OpenCommunityLicence/OpenCommunityLicence

Hi Prusa team. It's always good to see people trying to improve the legal structures of open hardware. I'm hoping that you can clarify the scope of parts of this license. The license opens by stati...

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@afedercooper.bsky.social and I have a new paper working through the surprisingly tricky problem of whether storing model weights that might or might not generate copyrighted output when prompted makes the model a "copy" under copyright law papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Rightsholder enforcement: not always perfect www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Orchestra Locks Horns With Copyright Cops Over Works by Long-Dead Composers

Standoff baffles audience as effort to modernize Kenya’s royalties regime encounters teething problems.

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Do you miss the Public Domain Slider? So did we! So we brought it back, along with all the other great interactive tools from the Copyright Advisory Network. librarycopyright.net

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Has something happened in the last two days to break mailchimp's bot countermeasures for newsletter signups? Also, why are bots signing random hacked email accounts up for a newsletter? I don't even understand the scam.

Huge list of open access wins in this report from @rammuseum.bsky.social 18 months into their new OA program (developed with support from the GLAM-E Lab) www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

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Public Knowledge@publicknowledge.bsky.social · last mo.

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This is . . . quite a lineup of people with similar opinions about the issue being discussed

Brandon Butler@bb.usefairuse.com · last mo.

So, tune in if you dare. I’m going to wait and read an AI summary. judiciary.house.gov/committee-a...

0 for 3 today trying to get access to a european cultural institution's open API without having to email support (cloudflare bot challenge blocking one, API key signup page 404 another, and just no way to do it for the third)