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Developer/gamer/maker/musician. Perpetually fascinated by the blurring line between the digital and the real. Has more LEGO minifigs than is probably healthy.
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Public Domain Day 2024 | Duke University School of Law

Update: see what's entering the public domain on January 1, 2025! Tweet January 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1928 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1923! By Jennifer Jenkins Director, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries may be different.[1] On January 1, 2024, thousands of copyrighted works from 1928 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1923. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon.

WHY HAS NO ONE YET TOLD ME TO CHECK OUT THE B-52s.
I just saw a car with what looked to be a turbocharger on its roof and I am very confused...
"We built an A.I. and asked it to identify the greatest threat to human life and happiness."
"Did it answer A.I.?"
"No, it said 'venture capitalism'."
"Oh my god! Shut it down!"
"Why? That's not an unreasonable-"
"Exactly! That's an intelligent answer!"
"But what about-"
"That A.I. is alive!'
"But-"
#Fiction #MightBeTrue #MicroFiction

Stop arguing over the best Linux distro

Ubuntu is great
Arch is fun for tinkering
Fedora is good for workstations
Mint is good for newbies
Manjaro
Pop!_OS has a cool interface
EndeavourOS is interesting for easy Arch installs

Musk has to know (and if he doesn't then Linda Yaccarino surely does) that advertisers have no interest in "blackmailing" him to do anything with the former Twitter. The platform is an afterthought for ad dollars in the first place and won't be missed when the money moves to more effective platforms. He's perfectly within his rights as an owner to make the former Twitter scorched earth for major advertisers. They'll just... stop advertising there. Zuck says thanks!

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/29/elon-musk-to-advertisers-who-are-trying-to-blackmail-him-go-f----yourself.html

Good Riddance.
As someone who grew up in church and had a front-row seat for evangelicalism falling into tyranny and hypocrisy, this really hits hard. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/29/1215806967/how-support-for-trump-is-causing-a-rift-in-the-evangelical-church
Tearfully calling mom to inform her that this won't be the year of Linux on the desktop.