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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2024-08-27 17:10:09

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I'd have thought the additional meaning was "I've probably already blocked you". You're generous!

2024-08-26 20:54:51

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I have always avoided getting one because I knew it would be fun for a while and then quickly gather dust.
Yesterday I found out about these 3d printable organizing systems and now I want a printer so bad I can taste it:
https://www.multiboard.io/
https://gridfinity.xyz/

2024-08-20 18:49:49

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oh that’s a fascinating observation, and post-2000 Gore fits into a weird post-politician-but-not-business-leader space in the national psyche.

2024-08-20 03:33:30

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or at least consultant’s bad memories of Ross Perot!

2024-08-20 03:21:12

It’s somewhat bizarre how essentially no American corporate leader will ever get on stage *without* a slide deck and no American political leader will ever get on stage *with* a slide deck.
Probably should be somewhere in the middle…

2024-08-18 22:17:54

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me: I want Lego to be creative and not just clones of pre-existing IP!
also me: this set is weird
🙃

2024-08-15 21:22:23

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open networks/standards, not open source/software. Which isn’t great but despite my general nitpickiness about the use of the word “open” I think I’m ok with in this context? (I’d still prefer @npub1lce…6aaz adding Bluesky support; it just does a lot of the little things better….)

2024-08-15 15:07:15

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Hrm, @npub1nwk…dgjz known issue that sometimes QTs just don’t include the quoted toot?

2024-08-15 14:51:56

This does not have the creepy vibes I expect from @npub1736…5cj7 I demand a refund
From: @npub1736…5cj7
https://mastodon.social/@thisemailfindsyou/112966533234835922

2024-08-15 03:43:47

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there is an extensive set of content warnings on the first page of the first and second books (covering everything you mention but the cannibalism, which IIRC is mostly in the fourth book and I don’t have that handy for its warnings) but admittedly those are expressed in “in-universe” terms (included amongst content we might not find objectionable) so one might gloss over them.

2024-08-15 00:30:57

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Also a little sluggish in some views, some minor UX niggles, and can’t (that I can find?) show Bluesky lists.
Still, as good as the official Bluesky client, nearly as nice as Phanpy. Will probably stick with it for a while.

2024-08-15 00:29:36

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Wooops, a little @npub1nwk…dgjz bug(?): appears to apply Bluesky character limits to replies that will post only on Mastodon.

2024-08-15 00:25:57

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Serious question: is there anything else in the sci-fi or fantasy canon that hits you with as much of a firehose of complexity as the first 50-100 pages of Too Like The Lightning?
#bookstodon #scifi

2024-08-14 23:27:31

Openvibe (dual Mastodon/Bluesky client) is very slick in its reading experience. Let’s see about posting?
Here’s a thing both of my follower groups will agree on: if you’re going to put a sticker on a Cyber, it should be a full wrap?
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/962/964/626/247/417/original/7ae218bd53d161bc.jpeg

2024-08-14 19:39:19

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(update: I am rereading Terra Ignota)

2024-08-11 20:27:35

Olympics closing ceremony commentators talking about how the #Olympics aren’t in Antarctica:
Normal humans: haha, funny, penguin joke
@npub1v85…mqcs readers: welp time to re-read Terra Ignota

2024-08-11 20:02:43

Illness and travel meant not nearly as much #olympics posting as I’d expected but just coming on here to say THE WOMENS MARATHON PARTIALLY FOLLOWED THE ROUTE OF THE WOMENS MARCH IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WHAT. Deep history nerd cut. The French commitment to being very French in this Olympics has been pretty amazing; LA will be fun but can’t possibly match this sort of thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_March_on_Versailles

2024-08-06 20:12:24

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Here's a deeper-length article about his interest and long-term usage of maps. I'm genuinely impressed. https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/08/06/former-geography-teacher-tim-walz-is-really-into-maps/
(via @npub16sj…va89 )

2024-08-06 14:49:03

Weirdest, possibly greatest, Tim Walz fact.
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/112915624921601732

2024-08-03 21:01:23

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I’ve considered writing some scripts to find the main themes I was talking about in each month or quarter, and turning those into retrospective blog posts, rather than a whole archive.

2024-08-03 20:59:48

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I have a private backup but nothing private yet.

2024-08-03 20:46:44

I have a tab open on tweetdelete and I’ve been procrastinating on pulling the trigger. I should be able to embrace ephemerality and yet.
https://beach.city/@shoofle/112899244783971438

2024-07-02 22:11:12

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I say it’s related to the institutionalism problem, because the problem you’re talking about here isn’t a problem the institutionalists (including my own rep Pelosi and ex-Sen. Feinstein) can see/process: Bush acted per the Rules of the Institutions, therefore Nothing Can Be Done and (more insidiously) we can’t even hear that there is a problem to be remedied.

2024-07-02 22:09:07

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ugh, there’s a matching great essay I read recently on this but can’t find right now (I thought it was John Ganz but i am not seeing it in his recent archive). The left (broadly) still doesn’t appear to understand this sort of anger, at all—there’s zero theory of how to capture or even just mute it.
That inability to even see a way out is deeply related to the crisis of institutionalism that Hamilton Nolan wrote well about today: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-end-of-liberal-institutionalism

2024-06-21 13:47:03

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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?

2024-06-01 02:39:13

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

2024-05-01 03:02:00

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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.