The Parable of the Locksmith Photo CC-BY Will Folsom. The parable of the locksmith presented here is based on a thought exercise proposed in the 1960s by Edmund Berkeley, early computing pioneer and founder of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). “One day, a mysterious stranger walked into a locksmith’s shop. The locksmith had never Read More| Model View Culture
The Open Source Initiative is doing … something again, now it’s working against regulation protecting people from certain uses of AI systems: In particular, previous drafts of the Code of Practice mandated acceptable use policies, and a prohibition of certain uses of the AI system. But having these restrictions conflicts with the freedom of use […]| Smashing Frames
I'm starting a podcast on the broad, cutting edges of open.… Continue reading Announcing the Upstream podcast→| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
I’ve been doing a lot of writing elsewhere of late. Some links: I don’t love (mostly) leaving Twitter; as I’ve said a few times, the exposure to different people there helped make me a better person. But one of my primary political concerns is the rise of fascism in the US, and that absolutely includes… Continue reading Writing elsewhere; the pain of moving platforms→| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy