Luis Villa

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

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social

Anthropic has been “unnecessarily antagonistic to open weight models [and] open research. [The company] has a specific view of AI, but such a powerful technology will never have its final equilibrium be one of singular control by a private company.” - @natolambert.bsky.social …

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This is the coolest summer of the rest of our lives. I mostly don't care what sci-fi has to say about AI; instead read @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social 's Water Knife and KSR's Ministry for the Future. And then asking yourself what *systemic* change you're making. www.bbc.com/news…

Heatwave: Indians warned to stay indoors as temperatures soar bbc.com
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Or maybe stay stable. Jevon's paradox: sometimes when a thing gets much cheaper, we use much more of it. LEDs are the paradigmatic recent example: LEDs reduced electricity use in lighting, but in many uses we just ended up with a lot more lighting. www.npr.org/sections/pla...

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