Programmer turned lawyer and community guy. Current: Tidelift, OpenET, California HDF, 415/94110. Previously: Wikimedia, Mozilla, Open Source Initiative, 305/MIA, more.
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Last Notes npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1ulm…hweg I am not familiar with the Harkness but can report that the Grossman is, so far, great fun. (Also, run, don’t walk to Robin Sloan’s Moonbound.) npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa So does any other adult here buy themselves #lego as a motivational tool? “when I finish this big/unpleasant project, I get to build this”? Asking for a friend who just bought the Statue of Liberty and is having it delivered to my house. So weird! npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa added "TFG" to my politicians filter keyword list. No one has ever added signal in a post that includes "TFG". npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Really struggling withJohn Ganz’s “When The Clock Broke”, about the roots of today’s politics in the early 90s, including David Duke, Pat Buchanan, and Rush Limbaugh. It is a great read, which is why I’m struggling with it—the throughline he lays out is *so* painfully clear. And the ultimate solution to the problem then (Bill Clinton hammering a bad economy) is not going to save us this year. So… yeah, dunno, it’s mostly making me angry and sad. #bookstodon npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Has someone done a bestiary/thesaurus of the various alternatives to the identifier "AI"? I'd like to use something else when writing, but I'm not sure what. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Ugh, I wish I had time/energy to write about this process. It’s been challenging in the best way, making me challenge some of my preconceptions about CC and where it should be headed. If you’re interested in CC, please check it out. https://mastodon.social/@creativecommons/112763691005653190 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa The annual Tidelift maintainer survey is open for responses. It gets cited *all the time*—there really aren't many other sources for understanding of why maintainers do (or don't do) the things they do. So please circulate widely in all the places you and your #opensource #FOSS maintainer friends hang out. https://tidelift.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8cfOxXluZDsXrrE npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Fedi would be better off if it took Mosseri at face value 👇🏽: Meta has to comply with the GDPR and CCPA while federating with Fedi instances who, generally, don't even know what GDPR or CCPA are. This is Occam's razor for a lot of their somewhat weird Fedi-choices. You can argue that it is bad faith compliance (and even good-faith compliance is problematic, since it reinforces the FB-Google ad network duopoly) but it is at least some sort of compliance. https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/112723071187121597 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1v52…qu8a I saw that. I had assumed y'all had a fair amount of 3d capacity in-house (in-barn?) npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1v52…qu8a you weren't kidding about becoming a puzzle business with a sideline in various generative/3d art, were you npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Love this mix of old and new. Let it be your challenge for the week/month/year/life: how are you bringing new life and vibrancy to old, rightfully loved things? https://mastodon.green/@Tarnport/112709440663765603 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa I love software, but can’t help but think our society would be much better off if we had made people like this rich instead. https://www.wired.com/story/heat-pump-maximum-efficiency/ via @npub1vyv…fsps who is a very solid follow on energy issues. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa For this interested in the question of public interest and pro-social AI in an age of proliferating licensing regimes for training data, this ruling may end up being a very important one. #lawfedi https://dair-community.social/@kendraserra/112697123502168467 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Cool, cool—another "how do we do open source funding" thing that... never even presents "we're paying developers for their value" as an option, just endless variations of questions about charity, donations, and "contributions". npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa We've gotten a fair bit into #kintsugi at home in recent years (in part because we have a loooot of pottery and it gets busted from time to time) so this cracked my wife and I up. But obviously it needed to have edible gold glitter... https://mastodon.social/@kottke/112677979536893818 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Today's reminder that packets exist in the real world and don't just magically beam from fingers to eyeballs. https://pleroma.pch.net/objects/7accf8e6-2af6-4dce-829c-3ff3ffa7a943 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa How did I not know about this? Suing the Rodin museum for scans of The Thinker—brilliant tactical activism. (I think that, in principle, a very-limited-term (5?7? years) right for scanners/scans would be a nice incentive, but in practice it'd start at 7 and be life-of-the-scanner+90 in a heartbeat.) https://cosmowenman.com/bmamuseerodinthinker3dscan/ npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1hxf…g8qu you take off the hat? npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa It's increasingly clear that the shocking opening of Kim Stanley Robinson's "Ministry for the Future" won't happen as he wrote it. The 20M-death heat wave will come, but no one will care, it will have been preceded by many 1M+ death heat waves and we'll have become desensitized. The 1K+ heat waves are already here, and floods displacing millions don't make American or European front pages. 😭 https://mastodon.social/@TheEnvyofAngels/112668663103173910 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa I had assumed that the behavior that led to SV having one of the densest concentration of Superfund sites in the country was a thing of the past. Apparently not. Galling. https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik/112668309100333232 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Ugh, this from @npub1qjq…hq9j is so good it might force me to actually write my newsletter. https://glammr.us/@flickrfdn/112655931600734636 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa It's good and important when people in power (here, a PSF Fellow) explain why their power and prestige should be limited. https://mastodon.social/@hynek/112654977658573572 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Blew through Sloan ("Moonbound") and it was... full of delights, big and small. Immediately recommended to my wife and figuring out if I can read out loud to the kiddo. Started Ganz ("When the Clock Broke", on 🇺🇸 politics in the 1990s) last night. I had been skeptical (ordered because I love his writing on 🇺🇸 fascism and...the 🇫🇷 3rd Republic?) but the Intro is a masterful piece of historical writing—not just laying out the case, but explaining why it matters. https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@jtlg/112607156990137123 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1hx9…lyhl Carl, have you ever written about how/why India became such a hot spot for your efforts? Was that personal interest on your end? Receptiveness in India? …? npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa This is wild. Probably not widely useful, but still... such a fascinating approach to HW development. https://fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer/112638098841106104 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Kim Stanley Robinson fans on #bookstodon: has anyone done a list of all the various formats of non-traditional dialog in his books? Eg meeting minutes, memos, etc.? I assume he did not invent this, and that writers have a name for the technique, but I have no idea where I’d even start searching for more information. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa How are you turning your frustration with LLMs (or their creators) into something positive, constructive, and in keeping with your values? https://mastodon.social/@reichenstein/112609760284765327 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Have been doing this for a while; a lot of my news media giving (like to @npub1knu…mucn ) is essentially charitable. Highly recommend. https://social.jacobian.org/@jacob/112604481942656450 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Are Wikipedians aware of this 1997 Apple puzzle globe? https://mastodon.social/@arroz/112593289375457368 #wikipedia npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1v52…qu8a but I already have a summer puzzle, how can I have two (narrator: he would figure out the address of the summer house and have two) npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub19jj…zmpa I have been busy all day. Does this mean good news? npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa I am on the A-train. Good morning to everyone except Gov. Hochul. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub186j…8z6r sure, but we’ve got the worst of all worlds: state has all the violence, private industry has all the competence, nobody has any accountability. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub186j…8z6r almost worse than state-adjacent, the whole complex of privatized services that should be core competencies of the state npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Need a @npub1xkg…gph9 -style timeline at didntreadthe.book or tormentnex.us to tally Torment Nexuses like this one. https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/112524755483145307 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa So, #wikipedia friends: my notability is somewhat borderline, and my article is bad, both of which evidenced by my article having had {{update}} since 2016. (The article's existence predates my time with WMF, and survived one RFD during my time at WMF.) Thoughts on next steps? I could self-nom for deletion, or provide some citations for relevant updates, or...? In any case the current state seems bad for everyone—for me, and for the wiki. So thoughts welcome. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luis_Villa npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa I promise this made sense in context. https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief/112521081291721281 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa This is a great short explainer of the (not hallucination!) phenomenon we're seeing in all the Google search results being shared lately. It is also a nice reminder that threads can be shared/shareable as short posts instead. The MST3K crew have been admirably dedicated to that lately; I wish I had the discipline to mirror that. https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/112520320400170894 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa TIL that when they made the original meter and kilogram, there were six official sets, one of which was sent to Thomas Jefferson, and those were… intercepted by pirates??? https://everything.happens.horse/@vruba/112509458408578316 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa "it always astonishes me that the New York Times feels the need to store a document considerably larger than War and Peace on my phone. It also astonishes me this document only has one subject – how to target online ads to [me] – and that nonetheless, the New York Times isn’t very good at that." https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/112497101967477059 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa It’s (1) painfully obvious that @npub1cpk…tfh0 is correct here and (2) painful that it even needs to be said. It was obvious at the time, obvious now, always will be obvious. https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@marklemley/112497226984030361 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1src…fms4 [feeling lucky] npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Lucky(?) to still be NOVID: https://socialserver.science/@miekeroth/112471894386180559 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1h56…ch5t I haven't rewatched it in a while, and I am not a TV connoisseur by any stretch, but at the time it struck me as one of the greatest TV episodes I've ever seen, in any show, on any topic. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa So what SF movies are smart on AI? Challenge level: nothing where AI is the cliched bad guy (looking at you, Skynet). I will also accept favorite TV episodes about AI (eg maybe it is time for me to rewatch the Kiksuya episode of Westworld). https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief/112485463853611952 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1typ…c8hh SF and NYC need an Anne Hidalgo npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa I do not have time for Yet Another Group Chat but these books by @npub1lqr…cqzp are so good. If reading them in a group would help push you towards reading them, now is your chance: https://mstdn.social/@AEMarling/112479804221277319 #bookstodon npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1md8…lhh6 to be fair, it’s not just SV VC types who have no idea what the law actually is. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa I would read the hell out of a deep analysis of the many layers (internal, external, technical, personal, systemic, etc., etc.) that have combined to make early Google so arguably less *dumb* than early OpenAI. It isn’t just rose colored glasses, right? There was no equivalent of the shareholder coup, the ScarJo voice thing, etc.? npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa “may their memory be a blessing” is just such a perfect response to news of a loved one’s passing. I wish I remembered to use it more often. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa #bloomscrolling at Lake Tahoe. https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/470/443/562/402/999/original/49f657f119406a32.jpeg npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1v42…y8ys fingers crossed. The timeline of releases (showing that it has been a lot longer than average between V and VI) makes me itchy. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1v42…y8ys 👀 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa A thing I can’t emphasize enough when engineers ask me “is AI scraping fair use” is that it really, really depends (more than it should!) on how judges feel about AI. Google Book Search: judges love (and can easily comprehend) that → scanning is fair use. Google AI: ??? → scraping…??? Elon: lol, judges all know he’s a dick → scraping is legal! https://mastodon.world/@LumenDatabase/112457381008358657 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Do I know any #seo experts? Not looking for advice—academic friends looking into robots.txt trends would like to pick the brain of an expert about an interesting data set. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa In a #PeakSF moment, our babysitter was late because her Waymo first was attacked by a motorcyclist (punched the car’s side mirror while split-laning) and then got stuck in a weird traffic situation on Guerrero that the Waymo couldn’t cope with. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa This is just laughably bad, Google. https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/453/106/698/249/973/original/b8107ce2d6ea8b79.png npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Me: socialism has a lot of schisms and factions, it is one of the reasons I don’t particularly love the label Also me: I am a card-carrying… whatever this is: https://kind.social/@wehpudicabok/112452415198620932 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa yo #bookstodon does anyone have a recommendation for a history (need not be a book, could easily be a longread) of the Dark Wood Panel aesthetic of academia/old-ass dive bars/upscale steak houses/libraries? https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief/112451434248604312 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Apple: we would be happy to take your laptop for recycling Me: cool! Apple: unless it has stickers Me: oh. https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/446/731/865/299/585/original/853b2f52ef4e76a4.jpeg npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub19st…u9g9 700MB should be enough for anyone npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub10lc…7wpc ooh, you'll have to share more! npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Wikipedia building a search engine was a deeply terrible idea a few years ago (for many reasons) but I can't help but wonder what could be done these days with the Wikipedia + Archive corpuses, an open+locally hosted LLM, and RAG (especially given how deeply enshittified main Google search has become). npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa I can't make this but looks like an interesting discussion this afternoon at #Berkeley on `xz`: https://events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/246188-understanding-the-xz-security-breach-and-open-source-#!view/month #sfbayarea #xz npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1utv…87lr oh, I was thinking about iPads getting worse, not laptops getting better. Thanks for clarifying. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1utv…87lr say more about the "pre-apple silicon" bit? Still works fine for Zoom for me, and I expect better with the new camera position (though I do most of my zooming from a much more elaborate camera setup). npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Big #sharegoodnewstoo vibes here. Glioblastoma suuuucks. https://mstdn.ca/@dabertime/112401908735572326 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Very useful find from @npub1s9r…s0sn on the theorized relationship of #opendata and data spaces in the EU. https://101010.pl/@tarkowski/112398533782766536 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Wow. This is amazing. https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/112396087229997530 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Since I'm seeing some #libreplanet2024 stuff float across my feed, it is always a good time to remind you that FSF's board has for decades supported a known abuser and failed to advance software freedom. https://lu.is/2021/04/values-centered-npos-with-kmaher/ #libreplanet npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Have any of the various FOSS grant programs talked in a thoughtful (or even just detailed) way about their approach to project sustainability *after* the grant? npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa I was introduced last week to the concept of an “accountability sink”; a structural technique for saying “the rules/tools/processes made me do it” and therefore avoiding accountability. They aren’t universally bad but booooy is AI going to create a kid of them in bad places, like (checks notes) killing civilians. https://kolektiva.social/@danmcquillan/112377379849654399 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Today in my old thread of “the first thing AI breaks will be our moderators”: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/112372206794477756 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Yesterday was #Ellington’s birthday, so here’s an amazing Caravan from 1967 with snatches of… Day Tripper! https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=vGm70VHILTg&si=ijd2gx42wULn0NyK #jazz npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa I don’t particularly love the protests (among other things, on pragmatic grounds) but this is absolutely fascists flexing. I only wish I had given the school money in the past so I could call and heartily threaten to stop giving them money in the future. https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/112363553997424115 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1wst…ez75 yeah it’s just a mediocre team this year. But the ballpark is still great on a nice night, as is the radio team. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa This sentiment is such a recurring sentiment for so many people who try to work in good faith with open communities. That sucks. https://mastodon.social/@migurski/112360700602208937 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1gg5…vxnm my sense is that the Mission political culture is very much about control, not listening. Lots of claiming to represent the community, and strongarming others on that basis, but it’s always been unclear to me what that claim is based on. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa I would take sci-fi recommendations that match @npub1rk4…ew3d’s description here. https://friend.camp/@jomc/112351083223236646 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Finished the Daniel Davies book on cybernetics and the polycrisis last night, so now going for the Crooked Timber April 2024 two-fer with @npub1wky…6c6c ’s new Ordinal Society. #BooksSeriously npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa There are plenty of valid concerns about this new org, but as @npub1js3…v04g says the idea that a 501(c)3 is somehow a place to hide money is bonkers. https://cloudisland.nz/@ehashman/112345806881398976 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa "I both apologize in advance that these comments are so long, and also that they are so short - each could be several thousand words and at least one could probably be a publishable law journal article." -- me, inflicting myself on strangers npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Data/surveillance/payment systems mystery: 1. Google's payment systems regularly require me to regularly re-identify myself to them at the "picture of passport" level. No other online payment provider has this problem with me. .2 The passport office, on my last renewal, required surprising-to-the-clerk, mysterious, time-consuming, additional checks with a system in DC. (🧵) npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa #sharegoodnewstoo https://flipboard.com/@haveago/happy-healthy-cities-k0h57qs0z/-/a-h1JI7veCRVKK-PyHUXc_ng%3Aa%3A7347489-%2F0 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa BRB, working on an open whimsy license https://socel.net/@catandgirl/112326756956012057 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1c98…dnw0 how good is it at accurate references? Does it actually avoid hallucination there? npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Someone here was asking about why we don’t see more use of cybernetics as an explanatory theory of the present moment, but damned if I can remember who. In very related news, just stumbled across this and am looking forward to devouring it. https://www.amazon.com/Unaccountability-Machine-Systems-Terrible-Decisions-ebook/dp/B0CGFWBFD6 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub194h…4ewx the paper is directionally correct; I wrote about some of the same issues here: https://www.openml.fyi/open-data-entities/ npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa It's a day ending in -y, so again trying to go with love and not "jhfc how can you not be learning from decades of relevant expertise" but uh... I am straining. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1yhj…3h3t it isn't perfect but booooy is it very good for a very large, very impactful class of problem. (Also, it is catchy as hell.) Linguistic slip of a term like that is pretty inevitable. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Recommendations for extremely simple group/collaborative post-it note brainstorming on the web? - Bonus points if FOSS but not required. - Miro is great but overkill; target here is people who don’t (and wouldn’t otherwise) use Miro. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa TFW when a speaker says "I found a study on the internet" and you immediately scoff because hey, the internet is full of garbage, and then you realize that the "study on the internet" they're referring to is one you co-authored. 😬 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Cool documentation job with some cool folks doing impactful work. https://mastodon.energy/@catalystcoop/112282243874304575 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa 24 hours to figure out quite how much fire to load into this molotov cocktail of a slide deck. Or if I even want to throw it at all. npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa Fuck. I climbed this last year. Something unique is gone. [Edited: woops, I climbed a *different* twisty CPH building. Still, this one was very cool too. Motion to preserve all our spires in fireproof epoxy. And climb them when you get a chance, don't put it off!] https://journa.host/@w7voa/112280332072138748 npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1g57…y839 oh, is this why I haven’t built mine yet because I need it to have organized sub-sections and sort of aspire to give it a website and maybe a checkout process npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1km9…rh4n the real big guns would be an SEC shareholder class action fraud shop, since (AIUI) they did not call out AGPL risk in their 10K? npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1md8…lhh6 "a legal theory to justify everything you always wanted" that's all legal theory tho npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1pfe…e2dm hahaha, I hardly recognize it without (whatever that shape is called). In work slack it is :ohno: npub1szcpjn5y4mlh7vzeythwanuatypw60dzjky4jyulydnpz606ntpsy35ale Luis Villa @npub1pfe…e2dm hahah no not like that! We spend so much time trying to communicate to enterprises that maybe there’s a lot of explaining to be done on theory, philosophy, etc.