Made a bot that posts an old "Suck.com" article every day. It tries to use one related to today's news. Follow it at @barrelofsuck.bsky.social Read about it www.bricoleur.org/2026/01/fina...

Florida #AIBillofRights meets the Blueprint for an #AIBillofRights 🤝 Safe and Effective Systems 🤝 Algorithmic Discrimination Protections 🤝 Data Privacy 🤝 Notice and Explanation bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/ai-bill...

Call for Papers! 🧵 The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz) Abstract Deadline: Sept 19 www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

As you may have heard, there’s an important birthday this weekend. We can only hope that people across the nation — nay, the globe — engage in tribute and fanfare proportional to the occasion. 1/

AI vibe coding best practices look a lot like waterfall development, with all of its pitfalls. 1/4

Quick blog post about a tool I wrote* to help understand Claude Code sessions. www.bricoleur.org/2025/05/unde... *mostly this was guiding o3 and Claude Sonnet 4.

The narrative that #AI will do all routine and we can just focus on important/strategic/big picture things works because it tell us that we are oh so smart and special. WE DO THE BIG STUFF. Newsflash: If your big picture decisions are not grounded in real experience they are gonna end up bullshit.

Claude Code logs a bunch of stuff via jsonl. The logs are a little hard to read, so I made a rough and ready parser that can also show git commits in the log timeline: github.com/amac0/Claude... All coded via LLM, mostly o3 & when o3 had trouble, switched to Claude 4 Sonnet (in Claude Code).

A good example of Claude Code teaching me stuff. Claude code says: "Let's try a different approach - instead of using a .bandit file, let's update the pre-commit config directly to skip bandit checks for tests:" 1/

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Thank you for your leadership, courage, and example!

Alondra Nelson (@alondra.bsky.social‬) is a beacon, as usual. "To watch these changes unfold without naming them for what they are is to participate in a collective amnesia about how knowledge infrastructures shape power relations. ... 1/

Saw An Oak Tree last night at the Young Vic. Most unusual play I've seen in a while and I don't really know what to think of it -- which I'm enjoying a lot. Anyhow, I'd recommend it if you get a chance to see it. www.timeout.com/london/theat...

Published a short thing on one of my Claude Code experiments. www.bricoleur.org/2025/05/clau... Key takeaways: 1) be prepared to throw everything out (also, learn & incorporate git); 2) make the spec and the prompts simple -- no, simpler than that; 1/

Am angry and sad about this: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... Carla Hayden is a wonderful public servant and has been a great Librarian of Congress.

One sad (?) learning from this great @timoreilly.bsky.social conf on AI Coding (www.oreilly.com/CodingwithAI...) is that I finally have to really learn git and use it (including pre-commit hooks). If anyone has good resources to suggest, please do.

Claude Code continues to get better. The update that allows Claude to manage a todo list within a task set is great. Keeping that todo list as well as the first line of your last prompt visible while working would be a good upgrade.

OpenAI o3 has replaced Claude 3.7 for generating specs for programming projects for me, but wow does it get more in the weeds than it needs to. From a recent chat, it asked: "Which exact HTTP header name would you like the client to use—X‑CSRF‑Token (widely used) or a different custom header?"

"They’re not your friends. They’re not secret agent man. They’re not people. It’s an API call with really useful tech behind it that can usefully do things in the semantic realm that we couldn’t do with code before. See the tech for what it is and build useful things with it!" -Sam Schillace 1/2

As these lawyers write, lawyers have a special duty to defend the rule of law. Bowing to an extortionist only brings more extortion.

Possibly my favorite AI prompt: "Please create google calendar events for easy import for each of the events in the following text. Note that all events are in [PLACE] for the purposes of setting the correct time zone. ... 1/2

This says so much about the USA today. "Successful countries respond to observable reality by changing course to account for that reality." - @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social on The Daily www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/p...

This resignation letter is such a valuable piece of writing. That’s in part because it is thoughtful about the *process* and urgency of institutions like law firms taking action. Or failing to. Institutions only take the harder course if people do the work to make that happen, and do it in time.

This is a great interview with @ann-lewis.bsky.social !

Am playing around with @anthropic.com's new coding application. Kinda love the words it uses for "thinking": puttering, herding, ruminating, marinating, conjuring, cooking, moseying... Looks like someone asked an AI for a list of words. I wonder what the prompt was?

Would like someone to ask the White House if they think the Special Forces officer with two bronze stars and a Robert clerkship is a part of the woke deepstate. Slander this person from the podium, you hacks.

As @ruchowdh.bsky.social says, there are some eerie similarities between current moves against federal employees & the moves against Twitter employees by Musk. Dr. Chowdhury's great thread is below. Also, I found Character Limit by @kateconger.com & @rmac.bsky.social a useful history of that time.

7. Preserve your sanity. This is a marathon, not a sprint. You don’t have to know every detail of everything happening. It’s a lot of theater. Try to read the signals in the noise and then throw your phone in a closet and take a walk.

All interruptions in funding have cost (even if the funding is restored). Anyone seen any reports of how much the Trump administration's "freeze" will cost? Or why this 90 day review needed to happen after Jan 20 as opposed to during the Transition?

We have built a state that relies on nonprofits and industry to do its basic tasks. Pausing funding breaks in this framework breaks the current us social safety net. Though the legality of this directive is quite suspect, it goes WAY beyond research.

Amazing video. Clearly @questlove.bsky.social is a virtuoso at mixing, editing & DJing but what really comes through here is both his knowledge of the catalog and his respect for it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPWu... I hope I'm at least 1/100th as open minded as I approach a field.

I can't make this and I know I'm going to regret it.

If you want some hope today, check out this report on the opportunities for Tech Policy in the next decade from @princetoncitp.bsky.social (released in Dec) & the accompanying videos from their conference. citpsite.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/u... citp.princeton.edu/event/tech-p... 1/

MORE NEWS: The US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on shaky ground as the Trump administration requests the three Democrats on the board resign by Friday or be fired. This could have serious implications for the brittle EU-US Data Privacy Framework. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

Traditional New Orleans architecture under the snow. #sneauxday

Still thinking days later about how they implemented DOGE by simply taking over and renaming the US Digital Service, a groundbreaking agency that *actually* made government more efficient by fixing Healthcare.gov and creating Login.gov, among other important things

My statement on the repeal of President Biden's Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence www.americanprogress.org/press/statem...

Another interesting part of this is mandating that agency heads grant "full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems". There are a few issues I suspect agencies will encounter when attempting to implement this.

President Trump’s Executive Order re: DOGE is not the most important nor most inhumane EO from yesterday, but here’s a thread about it. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/

For folks that are interested, I'll be streaming Alan Wake 2 on Twtich in about 15 minutes. And fundraising for the survivors of the LA fires! www.twitch.tv/nkjemisin

Molly White (@molly.wiki) will be essential reading for the next four years. If you don't already follow her, now's a good time.

heartbreaking Rest in Power Cecile Richards 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...

Welcome to the lawless era.

The TikTok “ban” is a mess. (a thread) 0/

Grateful to all the appointees rolling out of the US govt over the last few weeks. Thank you for your service! Also grateful to the many great federal employees still in service. I wish you all many successes over the next four years!

EFF Statement on U.S. Supreme Court's Decision to Uphold TikTok Ban:

Anyone checked in with the [Facebook] Oversight Board since Mr. Zuckerberg's latest? Will the members be moving to the bias-free state? Or have they been made redundant?

Jupiter & Okwess are amazing as always!

Am in SF/Bay to mourn the death of Harvey Anderson. I'm devastated. Harvey was a friend and someone I admired tremendously. He was a giant in shaping what it means to be a tech General Counsel but also in every other aspect of his life.  1/

Interesting dichotomy in my feed re the FB/Meta news: a) this is bootlicking and pandering to Trump; or b) this is who Zuck is and Trump's win is just a convenient excuse to make these changes.