Luis Villa

Programmer turned lawyer and community guy.

Current: Tidelift, Creative Commons, OpenET, California HDF, 415/94110, dad.

Previously: Wikimedia, Mozilla, Open Source Initiative, GNOME, LegOS, Duke, 305/MIA, more.

Home + about me: https://lu.is
OpenML newsletter: https://openml.fyi
Work: https://tidelift.com

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2024-06-26 05:04:55

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🧵I really enjoy everything Becky Chambers writes, but I particularly have been enjoying her #solarpunk novellas, starting with Psalm for the Wild Built. They’re good for the heart.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-psalm-for-the-wild-built-becky-chambers/15125608
#bookstodon #diversifyyourbookshelf

2024-06-26 05:02:20

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🧵 NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth shouldn’t require a recommendation from me because anyone who is into science fiction or fantasy at all should already have read it; it is one of the towering achievements of the genre.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/17/16156416/n-k-jemisin-broken-earth-trilogy-the-stone-sky-fantasy-book-review
#bookstodon #diversifyyourbookshelf

2024-06-26 05:00:29

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🧵 In the “BDSM space lesbians” category, special sub-category “space necromancers”, Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb is absolutely as good as everyone says it is, though not a light read—second book in particular I found structurally challenging (in a good way!)
https://read.macmillan.com/torforge/the-locked-tomb/
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2024-06-26 04:57:16

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🧵 Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a bit hit-or-miss for me (eg, Mexican Gothic wasn’t bad but didn’t quite hit the spot for me) but Gods of Jade and Shadow was *terrific*:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/gods-of-jade-and-shadow-silvia-moreno-garcia/12105572
#bookstodon #diversifyyourbookshelf

2024-06-26 04:55:06

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🧵 Nghi Vo’s novella Empress of Salt and Fortune melted me; strikingly original. (Also reminded me, in terms of form, of the underrated classic The Carpet Makers, by Andreas Eschbach.) The rest of her Singing Hills cycle of novellas have also been fun, though I admit none struck me quite as directly as the first.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-empress-of-salt-and-fortune-nghi-vo/16390013
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2024-06-25 23:01:10

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Surfacing this rec from @npub1hv5…xq0v from the older thread’s responses. The best scifi is a lens through which we can look at ourselves; @npub1fa4…k5z8 ‘s Sorcerer’s Apprentice was part of how I learned that fantasy can have the same impact: https://social.coop/@brainwane/112195892365448957
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2024-06-25 22:55:25

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Tade Thompson’s Rosewater / Wormwood trilogy is one of the few members of the *extremely* rare genre of “science fiction that acknowledges that the Hausa language exists”, a language with 50-80M speakers, and meaningful to me personally because my wife speaks it after her stint in Niger in the Peace Corps. These are hard to summarize; suffice to say “alien invasion via West Africa”, with a structure that is sometimes jarring and always engaging.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/tade-thompsons-rosewater-an-alien-invasion-that-grows-on-you/
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2024-06-25 22:50:19

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Picking up this old #bookstodon thread on science fiction and fantasy from different perspectives, because it is summer and friends have been asking for recs.
Cortez on Jupiter, Ernest Hogan: what if 1990s cyberpunk, but starring a Chicano muralist from LA? A gloriously weird book I wish I’d found when I lived in Miami rather than 30 years later: https://ernesthogan.blogspot.com/2014/11/ernest-hogan-on-cortez-on-jupiter.html

2024-06-25 20:59:31

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many benefits to open, but selecting for leadership primarily on the basis of "bullheadedness over near-decade spans" rather than things like "vision and speed of implementation" ... not open's best feature.

2024-06-21 15:47:03

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a question I've never seen a concise answer to: is the problem you're describing a Mastodon problem or an ActivityPub problem?

2024-06-20 17:35:09

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the existence of the a11y stack at all is because Sun was worried about that. Which tells you how old the stack is.

2024-06-12 20:37:58

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I have been thinking a lot about the legal component of this (IAALBIANYL[1]) and I'm glad to hear someone else say it out loud. It'd be interesting to noodle on what @npub1v0s…tw6h -like TOSs *and enforcement mechanisms for them* would look like for Fedi.
[1] https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/IAALBIANYL

2024-06-12 20:35:04

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in a discussion last week[1], someone explained a related vibe as "I used to create works, now I produce points in a corpus" and I've been thinking about that a lot as an efficient encapsulation of the current moment.
Among other things thoughts, I'm not aware of any protocol, or implementation, or legal supplement to a protocol, that has terminology or other mechanisms to capture that vibe.
[1] Maybe it was @npub175v…g8tr ?

2024-06-01 04:39:13

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from now on, going to call converting old cars from gas to battery “transitioning”

2024-05-20 01:52:57

#bloomscrolling at Lake Tahoe.
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/470/443/562/402/999/original/49f657f119406a32.jpeg

2024-05-01 05:02:00

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yeah it’s just a mediocre team this year. But the ballpark is still great on a nice night, as is the radio team.

2024-04-25 15:51:27

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2024-04-16 18:07:35

Gotta admit I found it pretty irritating, in the xz discussion of the last two weeks, that some people declared confidently "you can't pay maintainers". (cc [@ehashman](https://toot.cat/@ehashman))
It isn't *easy* to pay maintainers, but it can be done: at Tidelift, we've been doing it for years. So I figured I'd write up how we do it and what we've learned. And yes, it's a HOWTO. Be glad I also avoided an FAQ ;)
https://blog.tidelift.com/paying-maintainers-the-howto

2024-03-29 21:51:45

I have been trying to tell CTOs for years that the time to give money to the projects in the middle of their stack that they’ve never heard of is *before* a crisis happens. But human nature being what it is, that’s a very hard sell.
https://mastodon.social/@glyph/112180922900094371