Cursed thought: what result under these facts if this had happened post-CRA implementation and Ruby Central had declared itself a Steward. (including: what obligations do downstream consumers who use Bundler have?) joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-t...

What if @sovereign.tech was just UBI for top FOSS developers 🤔

There’s genuinely a very interesting legal history+theory(+current events?) class to be taught on constitutionalism under conditions of rising authoritarianism. One suspects my cowed alma mater will not be the one to teach it, though.

Good: I’m enjoying writing a process+disclosure note for the next openml.fyi on how I’m using LLMs to build tooling to help my writing process Bad: now I’m tempted down the dark road of “what if I self-hosted my tools, how hard can yunohost be with LLM help”

i know it's a struggle but folks, you really do directly fund fascism every time you get in your car. I'm not judging you for that but if we're gonna have any shot at defeating fascism maybe try at least one walk/bike/transit trip per week?

Happy first day of autumn!!! (In the northern hemisphere at least... and those west of UTC-02:00). ⁠ Pictured here: Maple Trees at Mama (1857) by Utagawa Hiroshige. More works by Hiroshige → https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utagawa-hiroshige-last-great-master-of-ukiyo-e

@mmasnick.bsky.social is there a lex user forum somewhere? I thought I had seen a reference to one but not finding it now.

Reminder: you can filter proper names of politicians and assholes. Being more enraged than you already are definitely doesn’t help you and probably doesn’t help the world.

Most of the world does not care for sustainability, if that means Europe and the US get to have nice things and everyone else is stuck in the 1920s or 1820s. That could lead to brutal overshoot so I really hope “catalyze with solar panels+batteries” works. Shame about US and EU ICE mfrs though.

I really need to bang out my “special UNESCO status for Wikipedia” piece. Both because it’s genuinely one of the top wonders of *any* period of human achievement, and because it needs all the protection and support it can get.

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#solarpunk short stories that wrestled with deeply reduced compute budgets would be very interesting. Original post: tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_n...

The three things that give me the most hope for the future of climate are Caltrain electrification, NYC congestion pricing, and the economics of solar + battery.

As a tech lawyer I am often on team “unfortunately that bad clause is in every ToU you sign and there are usually not-scammy reasons for it”. But uh explicitly claiming your signature? wwwtttffff

I re-read Letter from a Birmingham Jail the other day and I was struck by just how stunningly brilliant it was not just in writing but strategic thinking. Like, not news, it's a modern classic for a reason. It's just a remarkably clear vision of a strategy to achieve change.

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I just fixed the hinges on my 25(6?)yo waffle maker using my 3d printer and newly-acquired CAD skills. This isn’t something for everyone (the printer is not cheap!) but super-satisfying for me, especially since I have some emotional attachment to this waffle maker (attn @margolis3000.bsky.social )

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The alumni of this program are a who’s-who across silicon valley. Suspect there aren’t many law students following me here but if there is one in your life who is interested in tech law, they should apply.

sign of the times: Claude ad on Fox college football national broadcast.

New lit review post: filtering. 1/

I wonder about conceding to the "Bluesky is not ideologically diverse and that is bad" argument. I am not sure that spending four years on the Howard University campus exposes you to fewer ideas than state college X, even if most state colleges likely include more Republican students/faculty.

Modern information sharing decreases diversity of tactics in go. A whole thread, but filing this one away under “data-driven analysis makes the world more efficient but less interesting”.

Even in very limited experiments (tens of thousands of words, not millions it’s been interesting. I definitely want to continue the experiment, both because I’m curious about the model output and also because it is giving me an excuse to clean up my very dusty digital word attic.

Had General Tso’s ribs then watched “Search for General Tso” with 9yo. Holds up for the parents, and little guy thoroughly enjoyed too. Bonus: Mission Chinese ribs (same ones we had, more or less) make a cameo, which A got a kick out of. Thanks @jenny8lee.bsky.social!

#sfusd parents: do SFUSD chromebooks really not allow imposition of time limits/controls on usage by parents? So we just have to physically take them away if a kid has spent too much time on them? wtaf?

“What would it take to let kids play in the street again” is such a great question to ask about traffic/transit/urbanism tech and policy. More ambitious, but also more human/optimistic, than vision zero.

I sort of miss my haters. Sort of.

It's important to celebrate even quite small reasons for climate optimism, because otherwise you will succumb to despair, and that will help nobody. Sure, the line between optimism and delusion is a fine one, but you have to get out of bed in the morning and sometimes for that you need delusion.

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This is an admirably clear explanation of a problem, and a straightforward admission that it is a problem, both of which are hard for a lot of companies to do. Kudos.

San Franciscans are blessed with a wealth of good options to invest in (and 48 Hills). Take your cancellations and do something useful with them.

This is a very good ruling, on the face of it. I’ve long thought that a missed opportunity for libre software (particularly in the context of LLMs) was emphasizing that democratic accountability can’t happen without code transparency. Original post: mastodon.social/@dcabo/11522...

I wonder if this from @grimalkina.bsky.social is part of why so many senior devs are enjoying AI right now: they know their positions are (relatively) secure so they *feel* this as primarily a time of experimentation and upside. Original post: masto.machlis.com/@smach/11522...

Just takes 30 seconds! If you want a cut-and-paste message: “I have cancelled my Hulu and Disney+ subscriptions because of your unprecedented attack on free speech, and am urging my friends and family to do the same.” Link: support.abc.com/hc/en-us/req...

While searching for the share button in the generally excellent Wikipedia mobile app: realized there is probably a product design horror story to be told about why “choose language” and “change font” buttons are top-level, while “share” and “edit” are buried in a menu. 🤔😭

“world heritage posts” 💀

So: has anyone who previously tried to do one of the knowledge managers/zettelkasten, but bounced because importing your old knowledge seemed impossible, tried using an LLM to aid that import? Any suggestions or pointers?

Parenting goals in this letter from Haywood Jones, to a law firm where his son David had applied for work in the mid 60s. Love, earnestness, and respect. Bowie kept it for the rest of his life. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🤔 Dick’s “We Remember It For You Wholesale” (aka Total Recall)’s vacation as a mental service? Everyone loves a vacation, no one has the time. Honorable mention is probably also Dick but it’s been too long…

Huh.

This has been so good. Hoping @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social posts a version of it later-lots of transit nerd friends will appreciate.

I’m going to publish a new openml.fyi. When I started the 📧 (‘22?!?!?) the question was “can ML be open(ish)”. That’s still important—but now we also must ask: how will ML change open? That’s a rich, and important, vein of writing and thinking to tap. Subscribe now—going out tonight.

us: “leopard party” our media rank and file: whoa whoa calling them leopards would be rude also our media rank and file: weird, we didn’t vote for the definitely-not-leopards and yet they keep eating our faces (I know why Bezos/Sulzberger don’t say leopard. But the rank-and-file…)

I am sadly cynical about the success of charmingly naive software. But maybe the atproto experimenters will benefit from all the VC money being distracted by AI, so that they have time and space to experiment, stumble, and still grow. bsky.app/profile/leaf...

The "teaching about digital policy" experience

"Public Transit Visions in Speculative Fiction" now at 1st Unitarian at Geary/Van Ness busways + online due to popular demand. Tomorrow, Tuesday 9/16 with @audthentic.bsky.social @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @vwoo.bsky.social @awalkerinla.bsky.social and me Deets below

Coyote Media is now online! I’m so excited to be a founding supporter and can’t wait to read the stories they’ll bring to #SanFrancisco!

This is true for virtually any point A to point B, even when there is no traffic, and especially when you count parking times. Rare exception: Mission to Sunset, where cars can blaze west on 280. Source: dad who beat other dads to kid’s soccer games repeatedly, on a Tern.

Every time I turn around there’s a new way SF makes it hard to build. I had no idea on this one.