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PS My thinking about LLMs is unresolved. They clearly can be useful in some circumstances and also need intelligent regulation. I continue to use the models in order to better understand their value, limitations and harms. Follow along at www.bricoleur.org/search/label... 7/7

AI is changing how products behave and how they are built. Product lawyering has to change too.

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Made w/ AI Codegen tools, so please use at your own risk. LMK what you think at attnfeed@gmail.com. Your feedback will really help me understand the tools limitations and I’ll write up what I find out. If you have better name suggestions, I am also all ears. 6/

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Booklist: extract the books you’ve read from your Amazon data. Here’s my bookshelf of recently read books (made with Hardcover.app) booklist.attentionfeed.com 5/

A set of book cover images: Children of Strife, On Courage, What We Can Know, Annihilation, A Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, London Falling and Emergency Skin.

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Locations: make a map of the countries you’ve visited from your Google locations data. Here’s mine, converted by Gemini into an 8th grade geography project. locations.attentionfeed.com 4/

Gemini image of a world map with countries colored in a la an eighth grade geography project.

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PEPList: easily create a podcast feed from podcast episodes (PEPlist is for Podcast Episode Playlists). Here’s my AI PEPlist. You can subscribe or make your own. peplist.attentionfeed.com/p/amac/f0384... peplist.attentionfeed.com 3/

ArchiveLiveDead: a Grateful Dead music streamer. Play concerts from the Internet Archive / Etree Grateful Dead collection with preferences for skipping songs, song and year likes and dislikes. Easily play a new concert you haven’t heard. 2/

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Today I’m launching AttentionFeed.com with a Grateful Dead concert streamer, a podcast episode playlist maker, a visited country map-maker, and a way to make a list of books you’ve bought from Amazon. The first two require login, the last two do not. 1/

Tape deck as UI for Red Rocks Grateful Dead Show.

Gigi Sohn @gbsohn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Extremely thrilled to have @amac0.bsky.social joining me and my colleagues on the @eff.org Board! Alex's combination of industry, government and non-profit experience will be a huge benefit to the organization as it writes its next chapter. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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EFF Welcomes Alexander Macgillivray to its Board of Directors

Macgillivray Brings Perspectives on AI, Policy-Making, Social Justice, and Trust and Safety to the Board of Directors

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amac @amac0.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

2/2 The EFF proved that there was important work to do protecting peoples' rights online & the EFF staff proved that you could fight that fight with humor, principle and creativity. I’m very excited to get the chance to work w/ @nicoleozer.bsky.social + the incredible EFF staff as a Board Member.

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amac @amac0.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thrilled to join the @eff.org Board! When I was a law student I read about early EFF legal work and dreamed of developing enough expertise to be able to work there one day. 1/2

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/07/2026

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...

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.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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Jason Shellen @shellen.com · 26/06/2026

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...

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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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Luis Villa @lu.is · 02/06/2026

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?"

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Luis Villa @lu.is · 02/06/2026

"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?

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amac @amac0.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

These are great comments! Thank you @lu.is

amac @amac0.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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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amac @amac0.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"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-...

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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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amac @amac0.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

... Downturns cleanse the economy of unproductive jobs. Companies must make radical changes to survive; weak firms go under; capital and labour moves to more productive ones. Almost all of America’s once-routine jobs have vanished during past downturns." 🎁 www.economist.com/finance-and-... 2/2

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The jobs apocalypse: a (very) short history

Mass unemployment induced by AI would be unprecedented

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amac @amac0.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

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

amac @amac0.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

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...

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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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amac @amac0.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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...

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

My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

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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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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...

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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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Glenn O. Brown @go-brown.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

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/

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Those bits and more are some of the thoughts I wanted to get down based on a bunch of AI coding I’ve been doing. More at: www.bricoleur.org/2025/05/some... 4/4

Some Current AI Coding Thoughts

I've been doing a bunch of coding with AI assistance ranging from souped-up auto-complete to full on vibe coding . I’m learning a ton and am...

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And, LLMs opacity + non-deterministicness make evaluation (including human) even more important, as Lili Jiang effectively argues. 3/4

One-shots & waterfall encourage thinking of software as products not services, which is not good. 2/4

amac @amac0.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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

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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.

Understanding Claude Code Sessions

Claude Code logs a bunch of stuff via jsonl. The logs are a little hard to read but include all the requests a user makes and a bunch of oth...

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tante @tante.cc · 26/05/2025

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.

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amac @amac0.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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).

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GitHub - amac0/ClaudeCodeJSONLParser at main

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

Configuration — Bandit documentation

That seems wrong and typical Claude ("I found a test I don't pass, I'm going to pass by removing the test") but I don't know bandit, so I look online and find out that it is a perfectly smart thing to do and that bandit shouldn't check tests. See bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.3/con... 2/

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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/

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"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...

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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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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13/05/2025

Thank you for your leadership, courage, and example!

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

... What then, is the responsible course of action? For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." time.com/7285045/resi... 2/

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

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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/

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

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...

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

7) this type of coding is a bit like social media scrolling in terms of dopamine slot machine (someone at Coding AI www.oreilly.com/CodingwithAI... said this and I agree but forgot who said it) 4/

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"yes the tests are important, you should still do the tests and not move on if some are failing."; 5) pay attention to Claude Code and intervene; 6) Claude Code will do better in areas that you know because you'll be able to tell when it is not doing good stuff and stop/redirect it; 3/

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3) anything you would want to have at your disposal when coding, make sure Claude Code has and knows it has; 4) stop Claude Code often to point out obvious things -- "that is out of scope for this step", "mocking the test result doesn't mean you passed the test", 2/

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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/