Here are a few stories to read this first Monday of the new year.

• Frida Kahlo and Henri Matisse are just two of the artists whose work entered the public domain this past week.
• Jane Litte explains how you can use the OSX Automator tool to add your purchased Kindle ebooks to Calibre.
• Thinking of going back to school to work on your writing? Kristin Hoffman has some advice which can help.
• Victoria Strauss has published an update on PageTurner Press, a long-running vanity press scammer.
• Here’s another example of AI not actually having any intelligence, and how it is really just a massive guessing game. One startup’s AI was asked by clients for a how to video which didn’t exist, so it did what people do on the internet: it rickrolled them.