Aaron Williamson

Open source lawyer. Budding entrepreneur. Transformative Justice facilitator. Effing the ineffable.

Pronouns: eh/hem

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2026-10-18 02:49:15 UTC

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I’m as serious as you are.

2026-10-18 02:46:48 UTC

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Seems like you’ve got it all figured out. You should bring the lawsuit that takes down OpenAI, you’ll be a fediverse hero.
@npub1p8f…tcuc @npub1urx…v0z4

2026-10-16 13:37:48 UTC

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I expect the world looks very different from where you’re sitting than from where I am. Every time I look at my (FOSS-heavy) fedi feed, I’m struck by the contrast between the AI pessimism & skepticism here versus everywhere else I look.
LLMs have become part of everyday life for vast swaths of ordinary people. Skilled software developers routinely use them to produce code that’s far from slop. And probably most importantly, the AI industry is widely viewed as the most significant driver of U.S. economic growth and competitive advantage going right now.
All of those things surely sound negative to you, but they’re descriptively true. And against that backdrop, I see very little possibility that US courts will cut OpenAI et al off at the knees, even though we’ll surely see adverse rulings in cases of obvious misappropriation (Anthropic’s trove of pirated books, Sora reproducing entire songs from its training data).

2026-10-15 14:19:44 UTC

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unfortunately, we’re behind quickly, just in terms of the regulatory impact on who can afford to build competitive models. The CLAIM Act (just introduced) is basically designed to compel anyone who trains a model to either: (1) make it impossible for that model to accidentally cause harm, or (2) buy expensive insurance to cover the damage from inevitable harm.

2026-10-15 14:10:40 UTC

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IMO the real challenge to FOSS enforcement against LLM producers is the same one everyone else has: if the training is fair use because the resulting model is transformative, the producer doesn’t need a license (and doesn’t have to respect the terms of any existing license). It’s still early early days in terms of court decisions, but this looks like the direction we’re headed in the US (though the outcome will likely vary depending on how much memorization a model can be shown to do).

2026-08-03 17:36:42 UTC

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Cuban sandwiches are popular, but if they’re associated with a town, it’s Miami or Ybor City. Crab is ubiquitous, and stone crab is pretty Floridian, but I’m not sure there’s a crab dish that’s especially local otherwise.

2026-08-03 14:59:25 UTC

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I feel like the closest thing where I live is the grouper sandwich, but that could be called the signature dish of half of Florida, I think.

2026-07-06 01:50:57 UTC

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☘️☘️☘️

2025-11-23 00:11:33 UTC

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Doctor of Infernal Medicine
Doomatologist
End O’Crinologist
Thothamologist

2025-10-08 16:49:42 UTC

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I can’t really explain it, I assume it’s chemistry, but a dish salted during cooking tastes different (better, to me) than the same dish salted to an equivalent level of saltiness after the fact.
By all means avoid oversalting, but not salting till after is no solution in my book.

2025-09-30 01:30:57 UTC

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This looks counterproductive, at least if that ball is mobile

2025-08-05 01:07:53 UTC

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take hope, there are a thousand little ways to uproot capitalism every day. keep your eyes peeled. the work starts at home.

2025-04-12 10:40:04 UTC

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I love this and feel it deeply. I have learned so much about human beings and humanity through massage and bodywork and seeing the way that physical and psychological trauma mirror one another.

2025-02-26 20:47:09 UTC

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as I read it, you give them a limited license to use that content as needed to do what you’re using Firefox to do. I.e. if you’re uploading an image to a website, you authorize them to do so as you directed.

2025-02-26 20:13:12 UTC

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not seeing what’s objectionable about the quoted section