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.
Sure, it’s not easy but also no one even seems to be trying? So maybe “balls” is not a useful term, but just politely waiting for Hungary to fix itself is not working and also is crippling the EU in the meantime.
January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Sure, it’s not easy but also no one even seems to be trying? So maybe “balls” is not a useful term, but just politely waiting for Hungary to fix itself is not working and also is crippling the EU in the meantime.
Right but why is Hungary still allowed a veto. It’s been openly fascist for a decade now.
January 12, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Right but why is Hungary still allowed a veto. It’s been openly fascist for a decade now.
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I continue to live out certain corny countercultural ideals like the value of technology sourcebooks for education and empowerment. so, also just to say: there are still copies of the second printing of #othernetworks shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898... 1/2
Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.
Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.
shop.mexicansummer.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:14 PM
I continue to live out certain corny countercultural ideals like the value of technology sourcebooks for education and empowerment. so, also just to say: there are still copies of the second printing of #othernetworks shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898... 1/2
In a league whose revenue is dominated by TV money, over ticket sales, I do not understand why they chose to increase the number of games instead of just increasing the number of weeks.
January 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM
In a league whose revenue is dominated by TV money, over ticket sales, I do not understand why they chose to increase the number of games instead of just increasing the number of weeks.
Ditto France: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's...
Women's March on Versailles - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 11, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Ditto France: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's...
The Russian Revolution basically starts with a women’s march on International Women’s Day: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/russ...
Russia’s February Revolution Was Led by Women on the March
How the downfall of the Romanovs finally came about 100 years ago
www.smithsonianmag.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:53 PM
The Russian Revolution basically starts with a women’s march on International Women’s Day: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/russ...
But it didn’t make sense to do that rethinking when writing your own code, or heavily customizing someone else’s, was hard. If the code part is now easy… someone should re-envision freedombox.org for a post-Claude, post-Tailscale world.
FreedomBox - Personal Server at Home
FreedomBox is a personal server running a free software operating system, with free applications designed to create and preserve personal privacy.
freedombox.org
January 11, 2026 at 4:20 PM
But it didn’t make sense to do that rethinking when writing your own code, or heavily customizing someone else’s, was hard. If the code part is now easy… someone should re-envision freedombox.org for a post-Claude, post-Tailscale world.
It’s still a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Even with Claude’s help, compare setting up fly.io + backups + access controls to your atproto account to installing the default Bluesky client.
A ground-up rethinking could permanently eliminate a lot of that.
A ground-up rethinking could permanently eliminate a lot of that.
January 11, 2026 at 4:20 PM
It’s still a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Even with Claude’s help, compare setting up fly.io + backups + access controls to your atproto account to installing the default Bluesky client.
A ground-up rethinking could permanently eliminate a lot of that.
A ground-up rethinking could permanently eliminate a lot of that.
Is Vulture public somewhere?
January 11, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Is Vulture public somewhere?
Unless there’s polling data out there (and as far I know there isn’t any), all this tells us is the emotional alignment of users of gambling sites.
January 11, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Unless there’s polling data out there (and as far I know there isn’t any), all this tells us is the emotional alignment of users of gambling sites.
This bet is wrong, but in an interesting way. Enshittification is in large part about maintaining and hosting software, and network effects. Making it easy to write new apps doesn’t fix that.
(So: NEW-GNU moonshot to make self-deploy and atproto social easy when?)
bsky.app/profile/tach...
(So: NEW-GNU moonshot to make self-deploy and atproto social easy when?)
bsky.app/profile/tach...
how much do you want to bet (yeah, you) that anyone who unironically uses the word enshittification won't touch a tool like Claude Code or its descendants to build any alternative, non-shit, software
January 11, 2026 at 9:29 AM
This bet is wrong, but in an interesting way. Enshittification is in large part about maintaining and hosting software, and network effects. Making it easy to write new apps doesn’t fix that.
(So: NEW-GNU moonshot to make self-deploy and atproto social easy when?)
bsky.app/profile/tach...
(So: NEW-GNU moonshot to make self-deploy and atproto social easy when?)
bsky.app/profile/tach...
But that’s why a Free Software movement with actual vision (GNU2?) would be frantically building better, human-centric deploy infrastructure right now.
January 11, 2026 at 9:26 AM
But that’s why a Free Software movement with actual vision (GNU2?) would be frantically building better, human-centric deploy infrastructure right now.
Definitely not unique. But yeah, the premise of the bet is busted—rolling your own non-enshitiffied software is only a small part of the game; deployment and maintenance are also expensive even post-Claude.
January 11, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Definitely not unique. But yeah, the premise of the bet is busted—rolling your own non-enshitiffied software is only a small part of the game; deployment and maintenance are also expensive even post-Claude.
40%. But my point is that ASML can’t just stop selling to US chipmakers; if they do that the US pulls out all the stops and no one makes chips. And in that game of chicken the EU blinks first. (The EU doesn’t even blink; it does the game theory and quietly hands over Greenland.)
January 11, 2026 at 9:11 AM
40%. But my point is that ASML can’t just stop selling to US chipmakers; if they do that the US pulls out all the stops and no one makes chips. And in that game of chicken the EU blinks first. (The EU doesn’t even blink; it does the game theory and quietly hands over Greenland.)
Trump admin’s response to a threat from ASML:
a man in a dark room with the words none of you seem to understand behind him
Alt: a man says, ominously: “none of you seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you.” Police then surround and attack him, while he says “you’re locked in here with me”
media.tenor.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Trump admin’s response to a threat from ASML:
Should have run a stop sign or stolen a bicycle, guaranteed to make them invisible to SFPD.
Air Force members were running around SF for 3 days "evading capture."
San Francisco streets became a simulated battlefield in 3-day Air Force drill
Air Force members were running around SF for 3 days "evading capture."
bit.ly
January 11, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Should have run a stop sign or stolen a bicycle, guaranteed to make them invisible to SFPD.
Yeah, we’re talking about 10s or 100s of millions at a time. And these guys looooove talking about how wealthy they are: www.forbes.com/billionaires/
(If any of that wealth stays in California; wealth at that level is pretty mobile, unlike the mere millionaires who threaten to leave NYC.)
(If any of that wealth stays in California; wealth at that level is pretty mobile, unlike the mere millionaires who threaten to leave NYC.)
Forbes 2025 Billionaires List - The Richest People In The World Ranked
Forbes presents the 2025 World's Billionaires List. View the richest people in the world and learn their net worth, age, country of residence, source of wealth and more.
www.forbes.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Yeah, we’re talking about 10s or 100s of millions at a time. And these guys looooove talking about how wealthy they are: www.forbes.com/billionaires/
(If any of that wealth stays in California; wealth at that level is pretty mobile, unlike the mere millionaires who threaten to leave NYC.)
(If any of that wealth stays in California; wealth at that level is pretty mobile, unlike the mere millionaires who threaten to leave NYC.)
Now I’m wondering about comparing Marin to Hong Kong. Thin mega-dense strip + green space + connection to the mainland?
Sadly “Maring Kong” doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as cleanly as Sanhattan. Gotta workshop that.
Sadly “Maring Kong” doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as cleanly as Sanhattan. Gotta workshop that.
January 10, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Now I’m wondering about comparing Marin to Hong Kong. Thin mega-dense strip + green space + connection to the mainland?
Sadly “Maring Kong” doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as cleanly as Sanhattan. Gotta workshop that.
Sadly “Maring Kong” doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as cleanly as Sanhattan. Gotta workshop that.
I’d like to throw them a liferaft by making Sausalito as dense as Star Trek thought the Headlands would be. But that would require building a new BART line and lol/sob.
January 10, 2026 at 9:59 PM
I’d like to throw them a liferaft by making Sausalito as dense as Star Trek thought the Headlands would be. But that would require building a new BART line and lol/sob.
“Once people stop falling for”… so, never? we’re a species of pets, pet rocks, religious fanatics, and conspiracy theorists.
January 10, 2026 at 9:54 PM
“Once people stop falling for”… so, never? we’re a species of pets, pet rocks, religious fanatics, and conspiracy theorists.
Other parts of the state are also going to their requests to mitigate “oh shit I am on fire, please rebuild me” in the political queue before the sea level rise requests really hit.
January 10, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Other parts of the state are also going to their requests to mitigate “oh shit I am on fire, please rebuild me” in the political queue before the sea level rise requests really hit.
Multiple ones in my neighborhood. Which is great, got me listening to Alice out of curiosity, now pretty regular in my rotation (though Turiya and Ramakrishna is the fav)
January 10, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Multiple ones in my neighborhood. Which is great, got me listening to Alice out of curiosity, now pretty regular in my rotation (though Turiya and Ramakrishna is the fav)
Want a browser that if I visit a site more than once, and it has a feed, just opens my feed reader
January 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Want a browser that if I visit a site more than once, and it has a feed, just opens my feed reader
if we hurry up we can blow up Marlins Stadium and rebuild the Orange Bowl in a week, right #gocanes
January 10, 2026 at 3:46 PM