Court calls bullshit on Marco Rubio blocking visas for those who study disinformation or work in trust & safety. It finds that while MAGA people claim trust & safety is "censorship by another name" it's actually the State Dept engaging in 1A violations storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

.Order AND Memorandum & Opinion – #54 in COALITION FOR INDEPENDENT TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH v. RUBIO (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-00815) – CourtListener.com

MEMORANDUM OPINION re 53 Order on Motion for Protective Order and Motion for Stay and Preliminary Injunction. Signed by Chief Judge James E. Boasberg on July 14, 2026. (lcjeb4) (Entered: 07/14/2026)

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Sad to hear about the passing of @om.co. He was a wonderful person to be around, and it was a privilege to share this little Valley with him. My inbox won't be the same without his insightful, clear words but his photos were a lens into the beauty he found in life. RIP friend. om.co/2021/11/09/t...

That Boat in the Bay

This past weekend, along with my friend Naveen and his family, we drove up to the Point Reyes region. We wanted to enjoy the nice fall weather and have lunch at Saltwater in Inverness, one of my fa…

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Lions playing, #nature #GrainSocial https://grain.social/profile/did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/gallery/3mnknodu4pk2m

Leopard, Leopard with hare. #nature #GrainSocial https://grain.social/profile/did:plc:shzwxt4dylelme3eksq4wwoi/gallery/3mnhyksefon2q

Beyond "thanks", my first comment: "Perhaps LLMs would have allowed finer-grained determinations... Rule-based algorithms struggle with that[...]" Yes, and: new key role for PC is to know how+when to adjust that line. "we used LLM for X"->"did you consider pre-screening X with deterministic rules?"

"Testing and Evaluation" this is all very good. The only thing I might add is that there's now the potential for *continuous* testing of legal concepts. CI/CD became best practice in the industry for good reason. What does it mean to integrate containerized legal knowledge into CI/CD?

AI is changing how products behave and how they are built. Product lawyering has to change too. Here's my attempt to describe how. I'd love to hear if this rings true to folks who are still product counseling. www.bricoleur.org/2026/06/prod...

Product Counselling in the AI Era

AI is changing how products behave and how they are built. Product lawyering has to change too.  Product counsel have always needed to unde...

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If you are considering a lens for Safari, I'm a big fan of the new NIKKOR Z 70-200mm. More photos at share.google/mikgGTfYqJAK...

Safari + NIKKOR Z 70-200mm f/2.8 VR S II

If you are considering a new lens for taking pictures on safari, I highly recommend the new NIKKOR Z 70-200mm. I took it along with a 400mm ...

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My current AI codegen setup www.bricoleur.org/2026/05/my-c... What am I doing wrong? What's your setup?

My Current AI Codegen Setup

This is as of May 2026, it’ll likely change. Models: I mostly use the Anthropic models (a mix of opus , sonnet and haiku ). At this p...

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"The AI Race Isn't Real" by @mtokson.bsky.social and Yonathan Arbel argues that the "race" metaphor in AI is neither a good description nor helpful. Good article, worth a read. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The AI Race Isn’t Real

Why the “AI race” with China isn’t a race and isn’t worth running.

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This long "I don't know" on AI + Jobs in the Economist is OK but, like many other pieces, it fails to talk about the human costs in human terms. Jobs vanish in passive voice. "History holds a final lesson. If disruption is coming, it will show up in a recession. ... 1/2

Enjoyed Bill Gurley's Runnin' Down a Dream. Non-conformity pushes are always good. I'd add: Have the same calculus when you get to your dream, don't then run away from it up the ladder. Too many folks take promotions that replace what they love with management. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/runn...

Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Thrive in a Career You Actually Love

How to Thrive in a Career You Actually Love

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Am a little late to this but @eff.org's Cindy Cohn's memoir is wonderful. A great description of a fight well fought and a life well lived. bookshop.org/p/books/priv...

Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance

My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance

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Made a bot that posts an old "Suck.com" article every day. It tries to use one related to today's news. Follow it at @barrelofsuck.bsky.social Read about it www.bricoleur.org/2026/01/fina...

Barrel of Suck: A bot to surface relevant old Suck.com articles

Finally finished up a bot for posting an article from Suck.com everyday through Mastodon and BlueSky (I would have done Threads too, but ...

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Florida #AIBillofRights meets the Blueprint for an #AIBillofRights 🤝 Safe and Effective Systems 🤝 Algorithmic Discrimination Protections 🤝 Data Privacy 🤝 Notice and Explanation bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/ai-bill...

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ICYMI: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed an artificial intelligence “bill of rights” to stymie unfettered AI growth. The legislative proposals come in sharp contrast to the pro-tech push marking President Donald Trump’s second term. via @floridaphoenix.com floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/04/a...

Call for Papers! 🧵 The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz) Abstract Deadline: Sept 19 www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

Public Science

Call for Papers Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceThe Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy

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As you may have heard, there’s an important birthday this weekend. We can only hope that people across the nation — nay, the globe — engage in tribute and fanfare proportional to the occasion. 1/

AI vibe coding best practices look a lot like waterfall development, with all of its pitfalls. 1/4

Quick blog post about a tool I wrote* to help understand Claude Code sessions. www.bricoleur.org/2025/05/unde... *mostly this was guiding o3 and Claude Sonnet 4.

The narrative that #AI will do all routine and we can just focus on important/strategic/big picture things works because it tell us that we are oh so smart and special. WE DO THE BIG STUFF. Newsflash: If your big picture decisions are not grounded in real experience they are gonna end up bullshit.

Claude Code logs a bunch of stuff via jsonl. The logs are a little hard to read, so I made a rough and ready parser that can also show git commits in the log timeline: github.com/amac0/Claude... All coded via LLM, mostly o3 & when o3 had trouble, switched to Claude 4 Sonnet (in Claude Code).

GitHub - amac0/ClaudeCodeJSONLParser at main

A parser for Claude Code's json logs. Contribute to amac0/ClaudeCodeJSONLParser development by creating an account on GitHub.

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A good example of Claude Code teaching me stuff. Claude code says: "Let's try a different approach - instead of using a .bandit file, let's update the pre-commit config directly to skip bandit checks for tests:" 1/

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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Thank you for your leadership, courage, and example!

Alondra Nelson (@alondra.bsky.social‬) is a beacon, as usual. "To watch these changes unfold without naming them for what they are is to participate in a collective amnesia about how knowledge infrastructures shape power relations. ... 1/

Saw An Oak Tree last night at the Young Vic. Most unusual play I've seen in a while and I don't really know what to think of it -- which I'm enjoying a lot. Anyhow, I'd recommend it if you get a chance to see it. www.timeout.com/london/theat...

An Oak Tree, Young Vic review: Tim Crouch’s experimental classic returns for its twentieth anniversary

Starring a different celebrity each night, Tim Crouch’s experimental meditation on the nature of grief remains a thing of wonder

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Published a short thing on one of my Claude Code experiments. www.bricoleur.org/2025/05/clau... Key takeaways: 1) be prepared to throw everything out (also, learn & incorporate git); 2) make the spec and the prompts simple -- no, simpler than that; 1/

Am angry and sad about this: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... Carla Hayden is a wonderful public servant and has been a great Librarian of Congress.

President Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden

President Donald Trump has abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the president and his agenda

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One sad (?) learning from this great @timoreilly.bsky.social conf on AI Coding (www.oreilly.com/CodingwithAI...) is that I finally have to really learn git and use it (including pre-commit hooks). If anyone has good resources to suggest, please do.

Claude Code continues to get better. The update that allows Claude to manage a todo list within a task set is great. Keeping that todo list as well as the first line of your last prompt visible while working would be a good upgrade.