Kat Walsh

The letter X will be holding a press conference later today. #TwitterX

We are still running our monthly office hours! Next one begins in about an hour; see the quoted post for info on dropping in!

TODAY! Join @danish_c, @Carlos_MFerr, @Madhusrikumar, and @mindspillage for a panel dicussion on responsible #AI licensing (#RAIL)! Last chance to register below: eventbrite.com/e/responsible-…

@Dr_CSWright FOSS licenses != public domain releases. Almost all FOSS licenses have restrictions such as attribution reqs; given those are followed, MIT specifically grants recipients the right to "use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the work."

@Dr_CSWright LOL, I see that he blocked me for this, probably because he did not have a good reply without admitting being wrong. Anyway, what I was going to say to his (still incorrect) reply tweet:

Bitcoin is digital cash. The code is licensed under MIT open source as this is instrumental to its auditability and transparency.

@Dr_CSWright @Frienr @jimmiebitcoin This is not the definition of Open Source that the rest of the open source community uses (opensource.org/osd/) (code you can't modify is usually "Shared Source"), but even if you insist on your own usage here, the MIT license is pretty clear about allowing modification.

@Frienr @jimmiebitcoin Open Source means you can READ THE CODE. Bitcoin is not GNU

COPA wants control. Not rule of law... rule. Think about it. I want courts, societies, justice... I am willing to leave others to decide. COPA want rule by the code they control... Not court... code... that they set. Explain the difference between these concepts.

In 15 minutes!

@ericladler I really wanted these to be good but they were not.

Should you expand your soap brand into chocolate? No. no you should not.

Still time to catch today's show in Berkeley!

@michael_nielsen I also appreciate A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting by @AdamsDrafting, which similarly lives on my desk and where every section analyzes something I never really thought about before despite having a reasonable amount of experience with contracts.

What’s the most wonderful textbook you’ve ever read?

@michael_nielsen Behind Bars by Elaine Gould is such a useful book on music notation that it has residence on my desk. (It's not great as a reading all the way through book, but it is excellent as reference.)

Last-minute concert announcement! The choir I sing in, Sacred & Profane, is presenting choral music from the Jewish tradition, tonight at 8 in SF and tomorrow at 4 in Berkeley: sacredprofane.org/shalom

@carolinesinders @e_salvaggio And a policy questions we're wrangling with is whether copyright is the correct way to address the harms at all--it's a limited tool for limited purposes; are there better policy interventions to make? So that's where we are right now.

@carolinesinders @e_salvaggio But it means that a license that was meaningful to cover AI would depend on those uses not being covered by limitations and exceptions--which I think it definitely is in some cases, and is an unsettled question in others. (...)

@thomasgpadilla That said, I am not sure what you mean by "linking" here--could you clarify?

@thomasgpadilla Jumping in--I'm not 100% sure what you mean here, but CC's approach has generally been not to pursue these ends through *copyright* licensing specifically, that these types of restrictions don't work well in general purpose licenses & their aims pursued through other means.

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