Luis Villa
@lu.is
Programmer-turned-lawyer, trying to build human(e) futures.
Day job: SonarSource. Boards: Creative Commons, OpenET (open water data), CA Housing Defense. Also: 415, dad. Past: Wikipedia, Moz, 305
Also: https://lu.is + https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief
Day job: SonarSource. Boards: Creative Commons, OpenET (open water data), CA Housing Defense. Also: 415, dad. Past: Wikipedia, Moz, 305
Also: https://lu.is + https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief
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Luis Villa
@lu.is
· Nov 2
Besides the generic set of grey-fabric suits:
- a golden-yellow tie my father bought me, with a tie tack of my NASA grandfather’s; I’ve never loved the generic red power tie
- in certain very niche tech lawyer situations, this reminder that There Are Rules, Dammit
- a golden-yellow tie my father bought me, with a tie tack of my NASA grandfather’s; I’ve never loved the generic red power tie
- in certain very niche tech lawyer situations, this reminder that There Are Rules, Dammit
I didn’t set it out this way, but another way of thinking about both of these outfits is that one is what I wear when I need to remind engineers that I’m really a lawyer, and very much vice-versa.
I am going to struggle to stop thinking about this, which is somehow “what if operating system but also art” and tickles so many different parts of my brain.
Well the thing is it can already be done with AI *now* it just takes time. github.com/dollspace-ga...
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I am going to struggle to stop thinking about this, which is somehow “what if operating system but also art” and tickles so many different parts of my brain.
I have used Claude Code to implement reuse.software in a project and now I’m faced with the question: do I feel compelled to write a license waiver specific to the fact that I’ve carefully directed all of, but written none of, the code?
REUSE - Make licensing easy for everyone
We make licensing easy for humans and machines alike. REUSE solves a fundamental issue that Free Software licensing has at the very source. Adopting our recommendations is as easy as one-two-three!
reuse.software
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I have used Claude Code to implement reuse.software in a project and now I’m faced with the question: do I feel compelled to write a license waiver specific to the fact that I’ve carefully directed all of, but written none of, the code?
I’m a little skeptical about this for something the complexity of a desktop OS but it is absolutely coming at the app level. My hacking to bend my GTD experience to my will has been amazing—both fun and making every day more productive by enhancing the core of my todo system.
Imagine you just answer some questions from an agent and it just grows an operating system for you based on the things you like want and need
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I’m a little skeptical about this for something the complexity of a desktop OS but it is absolutely coming at the app level. My hacking to bend my GTD experience to my will has been amazing—both fun and making every day more productive by enhancing the core of my todo system.
Exclusion of many people from science and progress is a real, concrete problem. It is to our great shame that we are going backwards as a society on this.
Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm
On one evening, the speakers were divided up and went to dinner parties hosted by some of the wealthy folks who lived around Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island. My dinner was delightful, with good conversation with our host (the mayor of a nearby village), his friends, and some other speakers.
34/41
34/41
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Exclusion of many people from science and progress is a real, concrete problem. It is to our great shame that we are going backwards as a society on this.
Love James Bridle’s notion of “Actually Existing #solarpunk ”. Rhymes with Erik Olin Wright’s Real Utopias and The New Aesthetic… and googling for a link for TNA I realize it is also Bridle 🤯
booktwo.org/notebook/act...
#sharegoodnewstoo
booktwo.org/notebook/act...
#sharegoodnewstoo
Actually Existing Solarpunk | booktwo.org
November 7, 2025
booktwo.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Love James Bridle’s notion of “Actually Existing #solarpunk ”. Rhymes with Erik Olin Wright’s Real Utopias and The New Aesthetic… and googling for a link for TNA I realize it is also Bridle 🤯
booktwo.org/notebook/act...
#sharegoodnewstoo
booktwo.org/notebook/act...
#sharegoodnewstoo
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"Notice and consent hasn’t failed merely because people don’t care about their privacy, though that might be true. It has failed because we imposed the notice and consent paradigm while allowing companies to ensure that consumers actually got neither notice nor consent."
In today's "suggest a law scholar" (new feature) I suggest @marklemley.bsky.social
Why? A ton of reasons but especially because in his articles' you can read pearls like these "The result would make Darth Vader proud" www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/prote...
Why? A ton of reasons but especially because in his articles' you can read pearls like these "The result would make Darth Vader proud" www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/prote...
Protecting Consumers in a Post-Consent World | Stanford Law Review
In Charting a New Course on Digital Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, former FTC Chair Lina Khan and her co-authors Samuel Levine a
www.stanfordlawreview.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"Notice and consent hasn’t failed merely because people don’t care about their privacy, though that might be true. It has failed because we imposed the notice and consent paradigm while allowing companies to ensure that consumers actually got neither notice nor consent."
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I want my Machines to have more Loving Grace and do less All Watched Over
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I want my Machines to have more Loving Grace and do less All Watched Over
🚨 new Rosalia album 🚨
Ya escuché el nuevo de Rosalía. Mi parte favorita es cuando canta en el idioma de la F.
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🚨 new Rosalia album 🚨
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We cannot welcome foreigners and refugees into our communities when we refuse to let anyone build new homes.
"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We cannot welcome foreigners and refugees into our communities when we refuse to let anyone build new homes.
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Hey, if you (yes you) have 5 minutes I could use your help -- we are doing a project on how social conversation online will be reshaped in the next couple of years, and would love to hear what you're seeing/thinking about!
SEEKING SIGNALS! We want to hear more about how new technologies like AI are changing your experience online.
Our Co-Director @eli.bsky.social is kicking off new research and your input is critical. Help us understand what’s alive and worth paying attention to right now on the social internet!
Our Co-Director @eli.bsky.social is kicking off new research and your input is critical. Help us understand what’s alive and worth paying attention to right now on the social internet!
What Will Shape the Next Internet?
A pulse check from the New_ Public community
The New_ Public team is exploring how new technologies and behaviors, including AI, are reshaping the social fabric of the internet: how people connect, co...
forms.gle
November 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Hey, if you (yes you) have 5 minutes I could use your help -- we are doing a project on how social conversation online will be reshaped in the next couple of years, and would love to hear what you're seeing/thinking about!
There’s been several interesting jobs in tech/open come available lately (OSI, EFF) but with no offense to those other orgs, this one may be the most interesting.
We're #hiring a new Head of the Sovereign Tech Fund! 🚀
The #SovereignTechFund is the flagship program of the Sovereign Tech Agency. Since 2022, we've invested in critical #opensource infrastructure—from curl to FreeBSD to technologies like DNS powering the web—to strengthen #digitalsovereignty. 1/3
The #SovereignTechFund is the flagship program of the Sovereign Tech Agency. Since 2022, we've invested in critical #opensource infrastructure—from curl to FreeBSD to technologies like DNS powering the web—to strengthen #digitalsovereignty. 1/3
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
There’s been several interesting jobs in tech/open come available lately (OSI, EFF) but with no offense to those other orgs, this one may be the most interesting.
Love this set of questions about freedom, power, and control in community: smithery.com/2022/06/15/h...
How to use the Community Power Compass
A practical walk through on how to use the Community Power Compass to evaluate and analyse communities in spaces like Web3.
smithery.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Love this set of questions about freedom, power, and control in community: smithery.com/2022/06/15/h...
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For all you IPA fans out there, here is a reason to drink a Heineken (at least when in Southern Europe). Their Portugal brewer is transitioning from fossil-fuel boilers to zero-carbon steam, made possible by a 100MWh Rondo Heat Battery. #energysky
www.esgtoday.com/heineken-sig...
www.esgtoday.com/heineken-sig...
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
For all you IPA fans out there, here is a reason to drink a Heineken (at least when in Southern Europe). Their Portugal brewer is transitioning from fossil-fuel boilers to zero-carbon steam, made possible by a 100MWh Rondo Heat Battery. #energysky
www.esgtoday.com/heineken-sig...
www.esgtoday.com/heineken-sig...
Finally reading @adapalmer.bsky.social ‘s Inventing The Renaissance and may have just described it as “what if suck.com grew up just a tiny bit and wrote a deeply scholarly history of the renaissance”
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Finally reading @adapalmer.bsky.social ‘s Inventing The Renaissance and may have just described it as “what if suck.com grew up just a tiny bit and wrote a deeply scholarly history of the renaissance”
wooooooo (though this is missing @kenpom.com )
College basketball finally returns today😃
Bluesky's CBB activity is FAR too low, but I'll keep posting here all the same. Here's a big Starter Pack I created about a year ago. Share it! If there are accounts posting about ball near-daily that should be added, let me know and I'll share tonight.
Bluesky's CBB activity is FAR too low, but I'll keep posting here all the same. Here's a big Starter Pack I created about a year ago. Share it! If there are accounts posting about ball near-daily that should be added, let me know and I'll share tonight.
November 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
wooooooo (though this is missing @kenpom.com )
As part of a sidequest to reshape my news consumption a bit, am cleaning up some old feeds. Some actual deaths in there (RIP, yet again, Seth), as well as gaping holes in the culture.
The Toast having been inactive for nearly a decade is a real kick in the teeth.
The Toast having been inactive for nearly a decade is a real kick in the teeth.
November 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
As part of a sidequest to reshape my news consumption a bit, am cleaning up some old feeds. Some actual deaths in there (RIP, yet again, Seth), as well as gaping holes in the culture.
The Toast having been inactive for nearly a decade is a real kick in the teeth.
The Toast having been inactive for nearly a decade is a real kick in the teeth.
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Frankly, there are now many such stories among folks doing highly complex technical work. AI exhibits, as @emollick.bsky.social and others have noted, "jagged" capabilities (sometimes remarkably good, sometimes catastrophically bad). That's a more complex story than "useless hype" or "AGI soon".
I had a bug in my new ML-DSA implementation that caused Verify to reject all signatures. I gave up after half an hour. On a whim, I threw Claude Code at it. Surprisingly (to me!) it one-shotted it in 5 minutes.
A small case study of useful AI tasks that aren't generating code that requires review.
A small case study of useful AI tasks that aren't generating code that requires review.
Claude Code Can Debug Low-level Cryptography
Surprisingly (to me) Claude Code debugged my new ML-DSA implementation faster than I would have, finding the non-obvious low-level issue that was making Verify fail.
words.filippo.io
November 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Frankly, there are now many such stories among folks doing highly complex technical work. AI exhibits, as @emollick.bsky.social and others have noted, "jagged" capabilities (sometimes remarkably good, sometimes catastrophically bad). That's a more complex story than "useless hype" or "AGI soon".
TIL that Columbia Law fundraising posts were going to my spam filter, which denied me the pleasure of telling them that I’ll never give a dime while they bend the knee to tyrants. Spam filter fixed and response sent!
November 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
TIL that Columbia Law fundraising posts were going to my spam filter, which denied me the pleasure of telling them that I’ll never give a dime while they bend the knee to tyrants. Spam filter fixed and response sent!
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Harvard Law Library has created a brilliant website for their Data.gov archive—there's a static S3-style data store, and the front-end is a DuckDB-Wasm in-browser database using HTTP range requests to retrieve the needed data. In short, there's...no website? Kind of?
Rethinking Data Discovery for Libraries and Digital Humanities | Library Innovation Lab
Woman using a Macey vertical filing cabinet (detail, 1903). Source: Wikimedia Commons.
lil.law.harvard.edu
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Harvard Law Library has created a brilliant website for their Data.gov archive—there's a static S3-style data store, and the front-end is a DuckDB-Wasm in-browser database using HTTP range requests to retrieve the needed data. In short, there's...no website? Kind of?
I love this idea and now I want my newspaper ( @missionlocal.org ) to acquire my cafe (Precita Park Cafe), or vice-versa, either would be fine
Serving the community doesn’t have to be as literal as a newspaper-owned cafe, but The Midcoast Villager’s ethos and business model is a great example of local news adapting and thriving.
“Resurrecting the relevancy of community stories and reminding people that we are humans and neighbors first.”
“Resurrecting the relevancy of community stories and reminding people that we are humans and neighbors first.”
They Took Big Pay Cuts to Run a Little Paper
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I love this idea and now I want my newspaper ( @missionlocal.org ) to acquire my cafe (Precita Park Cafe), or vice-versa, either would be fine
Trademark nerd friends: one for your files. Gratuitous over claiming is not just a US/EU problem.
A few years ago, I helped persuade Zojirushi—Japan’s famous home-appliance brand—to withdraw its trademark for “Kuro-Urushi” (black urushi).
It became an important case about how corporations should treat traditional craft terminology.
www.zojirushi.com/category/ric...
It became an important case about how corporations should treat traditional craft terminology.
www.zojirushi.com/category/ric...
October 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Trademark nerd friends: one for your files. Gratuitous over claiming is not just a US/EU problem.
This bar/restaurant just played Pearl Jam Alive and Nirvana In Bloom back to back and I have never been more successfully pandered to.
October 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This bar/restaurant just played Pearl Jam Alive and Nirvana In Bloom back to back and I have never been more successfully pandered to.
Must resist the urge to just carve “fascism” into a pumpkin and call it a day
October 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Must resist the urge to just carve “fascism” into a pumpkin and call it a day
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Great moments in Halloween costumes, today in San Francisco.
October 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Great moments in Halloween costumes, today in San Francisco.