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lu.is
Programmer-turned-lawyer, trying to build human(e) futures. Current: Sonarsource, Creative Commons, OpenET (open water data), California Housing Defense, 415, dad. Past: Wikipedia, Mozilla, 305 Also: https://lu.is and https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief
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Perhaps the problem that undergirds all others. Support the journalism you care about—even if it’s not perfect. Less of it is not the answer

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

This was an excellent cruise vacation read. Tea, soup, saunas, Jupiter. Also crime. Highly recommend squeezing it somewhere into your summer.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

stories about reverse engineering and selling the 30 year old PS1 motherboard illustrate the kinds of innovations that can happen when copyright-length protections don't keep things out of the public domain for a century arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I got to write a piece with my dad on making it easier to build in California. calmatters.org/commentary/2...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Today I dropped it. The company has apparently gone MAHA so sadly I’m in the market for a new Android e-reader yet again. Suggestions?

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

This is fascinating and I fear runs counter to the commercial incentives at play.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

These guys would have melted at the shit directed at British officials in 1760s and 1770s Boston. Highly recommend finding a copy of “In A Defiant Stance” by John Reid.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The early Internet cyberlibertarians did have it right that a moderation toolkit is also a censorship toolkit. The next generation of scholarship in this genre is going to have to grapple very directly with the memory of this moment.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

have you talked to a neighbor for at least as many minutes as you’ve spent reading substack posts about bluesky

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

At some point you have to pick whether you will defend immigrant communities as they actually exist or will only defend them if they shape up and start acting American enough, and frankly the rhetoric about these protests is telling me that too many liberals are picking option 2

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

submitted 6 days ago • 381 comments

Same for scientists, researchers, doctors, etc. Indeed, anyone who works within a value-based profession... what is more trustworthy? People who tell you their values and explain how that leads them to advocate and/or communicate? Or people who pretend to be value-neutral?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

People who are (re)discovering the utility of LLMs, very much including me, have a responsibility to also highlight the problems.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Lots of abundance-haters who are worried that “it might get hijacked for other purposes” (fair! valid!) need to take a moment and consider whether modern environmentalism has primarily been hijacked for other purposes.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Me: it’s not allllll racism Me, five minutes later: nope, wait, sorry, it’s all racism, all of it

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Willie Brown Middle School is a San Francisco 6-8 in the Bayview District. For the entire ‘24-‘25 school year, I have been driving the 44 O’Shaughnessy bus that stops there right after school gets out. That trip has been the busiest and most challenging part of my working day.

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments