Wikipedia is giving away its volunteers' hard work and research efforts to train AI. It is an effort to fend off bot scrapers and reduce the strain on its servers — but to me it seems like that's not what most Creative Commons proponents have in mind when they sign on to help Wikipedia.
https://www.theverge.com/news/650467/wikipedia-kaggle-partnership-ai-dataset-machine-learning
h/t @dave
https://social.masto.land/@dave/114352800317662714
#AI #IP #IntellectualProperty #CC #GNU #Wikipedia

New 5.2 D&D SRD to be released April 22nd. #dnd #ttrpg #srd #cc https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1949-coming-april-22-publish-your-own-creations-using

The Common Warbler, (Sylvia communis) is widespread across Europe & western Asia, and migrates to sub-Saharan Africa during the winter. They’re also commonly referred to as the Common Whitethroat. #birds #nature #spring #photography #CC license. #wildlife #biology

"Home (When Shadows Fall)", a pop ballad from 1932, recorded in #BlackbirdStudio on January 25th of this year for my student project.

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Ev'ning marks the close of day
Skies of blue begin to grey
Crimson hues are fading in the West

Ev'ning ever brings to me
Dreams of days that used to be
Memories of those I love the best
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#CC-BY-SA licensed music; MIDI and PDF of arrangement also for free download.

https://listen.soundslike.pro/home-when-shadows-fall/

We support open access to knowledge! Using Creative Commons licences allows other publishers to use our work, with appropriate credit. We sometimes republish content from likeminded #IndyMedia, too:

https://www.leicester.news/republishing/

L'éditorial de linuxmao.org du mois de mars 2025 est en ligne :
https://linuxmao.org/article466

#linuxmao #linuxaudio #mao #musiquelibre #art #artlibre #cc-by-sa #chanson #copyleft #creative-commons #culture-libre #gnu-linux #informatiquemusicale #logiciel libre #productionmusicale

I wanted to give #mentoss a try and am getting a “cannot find ‘mentoss’ from (...my test...)” when trying to use it with jest. Probably something I missed doing, but maybe someone else has success?
#cc: @nzakas

NYC, down 31st.

Published under #CC-BY-SA here https://www.flickr.com/photos/101430615@N03/54317324756

The Rockefeller Center.

Published under #CC-BY-SA here https://www.flickr.com/photos/101430615@N03/54316435882/

The hall of the New-York Public Library.

I love my tiny Pentax Q-S1 It's great for street photo, especially the "bold monochrome" or the "vintage color" settings.

Published under #CC-BY-SA here https://www.flickr.com/photos/101430615@N03/54317551299/

"At EFF, we want our work to be seen and shared widely. That’s why we’ve made our content available under Creative Commons licenses for many years. Today, in that spirit, we are updating the license for most materials on our website, www.eff.org, to Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/open-licensing-promotes-culture-and-learning-thats-why-eff-upgrading-its-creative

#CreativeCommons Launches its 2025-2028 Strategic Plan - https://creativecommons.org/2025/01/22/cc-launches-its-2025-2028-strategic-plan/ "ensuring a strong and resilient open infrastructure of sharing, and enabling a healthy and thriving creative commons powered by reciprocity and community in the public interest." #cc

Grand Tokaj set for C&C distribution https://www.diningandcooking.com/1829656/grand-tokaj-set-for-cc-distribution/ ##cc #Bibendum #distribution #GrandTokaj #Tokaji #Wine

heise+ | Programmieren lernen: Wir haben drei Monate Harvards Programmierkurs CS50 belegt

Der Onlinekurs CS50 lehrt C, Python, SQL und Javascript. Ein Professor der Harvard University doziert. Wir verraten, ob sich der Zeitaufwand lohnt.

https://www.heise.de/tests/Programmieren-lernen-Wir-haben-drei-Monate-Harvards-Programmierkurs-CS50-belegt-10228665.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

College food pantries in Colorado Springs a lifeline for grocery-strapped students | News https://www.diningandcooking.com/1797025/college-food-pantries-in-colorado-springs-a-lifeline-for-grocery-strapped-students-news/ ##cc #ColoradoCollege #ColoradoSprings #food #FoodPantriesOnCollegeCampuses #PikesPeakStateCollege #ppsc #uccs #UniversityOfColorado

From Recommendations to Implementation: Increasing Access to Climate Data for Earth Intelligence - https://creativecommons.org/2024/12/05/from-recommendations-to-implementation-increasing-access-to-climate-data-for-earth-intelligence/ "Our goal is to share strategies and provide resources that enable interconnected and interoperable climate data to be used to find faster solutions to mitigating the climate crisis." #cc