Do what thou wilt
12.03.2026 18:02
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Do what thou wilt
As Amazon loaded their smart displays with ads, a group of hardware hackers found a way to liberate a few early models, turning them into stripped-down, useful android displays. I now have performed four digital exorcisms. I spoke to the person behind the jailbreak via telegram for @aftermath.site
Most labels, publishers and studios are just branches in a massive global corporate archipelago, which is increasingly dominated by GenAI money. Now we're back to printers doing what they like with intellectual labour. The only difference is the public is policed and penalised.
Victor Hugo promoted the Berne convention to stop printers making money off authors words without consent. Very quickly that morphed into a tool to monopolise intellectual labour, thr majority of whichbwas bought by a ever shrinking number of capitalists
publicdomarchive.blogspot.com/2025/11/1886...
Copyright has for a century been a tool to protect profits of big business. A monopolisation of culture. Now big tech is replacing big entertainment. We're witnessing a transition of monopoly capital in real time.
More info on the artist Willibald Krain and some more examples of his work here publicdomarchive.blogspot.com/2026/03/1933...
Black and white sketch of women tied to posts made to look like factory chimnies.
#art
Stumbled upon this 1933 cartoon "Europas "Freie" Volkers!" Tye Free Peoples of Europe! A critique of industry and the domination of capital. Digging further I found out it was by Willibald Krain a press cartoonist for German socialist and liberal publications before being banned by the Nazis.
The CIA like all other intelligence services shouldn't be trusted or revered. However intelligence services do spend a large chunk of their budgets on research and archives. This move impedes global research and validation.
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996
British School 18th century, Park Scene with Boy, 1780
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1130142
cat: 140
La fatigue de vivre / The weariness of life - 1927
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112317
Sailboats at sea - 1868
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3109775
Winter on the Seine, Lavacourt - 1880
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9550
Are they the instructors? They look a bit old for boy scouts.
Art is business and the forced adoption of AI is also business. The key to defeating it is to expand artistic freedom and target the corporate economy that creates these bubbles.
This is the most thorough and damning argument against the markets AI pivot I've come across and I really appreciate the warnings against the delusion that even more copyright expansion and the megacorps will stop it.
And a Happy Public Domain Day to all the gay gals out there!
Black screen with text. Christmas has been detected. Activate Christmas? Yes, No.
Gameplay screen. A small triangular ship flies over an alien planet with many projectiles and enemy air craft visible.
Its still the Christmas season according to Tyrian a bullet hell game released by Eclipse Software in 1995. The game was released as free ware in 2004 and has an android compatible version.
Sinatra had many skeletons in his past but he actively campaigned against discrimination.
In 45 he filmed this short film aimed at teaching young audiences that bigotry was wrong.
youtu.be/XQ51vfG5AnM
Its #Christmas in my corner of the earth. Here's a playlist of seasonal films, music and cartoons in the public domain.
Christmas,: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Shchedryk, Carol of the Bells, recorded by the Ukrainian National Choir in New York 1922
youtu.be/HC5CXcwIhg0?...
A company busily buys up the rights to many fonts, comes under private equity ownership. Invests heavily in AI, sees no ROI. Initiates mass lay offs, then finally exploits its near monopoly on fonts to renegotiate contracts.
The damage property rights can bring.
Capitalist control wins out over safety once again.
Miles Morales co-creator Sara Pichelli says she does not get any royalties from the ‘Spider-Verse’ films, Insomniac games, or merch
"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"
(via SiteJamesons | TW)
Market forces have far greatrr impacts on wider society than simple consumer shares. Monopolisation and economic domination in any sphere should concern us all.
"Naturally, with this method many large gaps arose, which were filled in only gradually and slowly, many of them not until after it had already been reported that the building of the wall was complete. "
Stunts like this remind me of Kafka's story about the Great Wall of China.
www.kafka-online.info/the-great-wa...
History belongs to all of us. Those who take it away are robbing you personally and everyone you know.
Its one of Whale's best and is in the public domain so we can all enjoy it. youtu.be/IHnbCXq6dy4
