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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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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 1 day ago • 375 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 1 day 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 7 days ago • 27 comments

Summer reading, some of it even quite enjoyable, all of it interesting. Feat. @older.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social and more. lu.is/2025/06/book...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

✈️ to 🇨🇦 to 🚢 for actual vacation so maybe I should stop poasting about ©️

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

All of the “we are doing training on permissively-licensed materials” sets have this problem, because permissive != no obligations. I have thoughts on how to comply (eg every data provider of this sort should be looking to @gbif.org’s use of DOIs) but it isn’t solved.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

One of the under-appreciated reasons that my coalition has been winning is that we don't talk like this. We don't say NIMBY legislators have paymasters, we don't repeat untruths about legislation, and we don't punch hard at legislators who share 99 percent of our views. We build coalition.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Probably we’re going to need several Sumners. (puts this on the to-read pile)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

There had better be enough WiFi on my family cruise to download this, because it will be a perfect first Summer Book of the summer.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments