It’s amazing how much all Twitter users want is just Twitter circa 2021 and how unwilling anyone, especially including Twitter, is willing to provide that product

Touched on this a little bit at #Identiverse. There is a circular dependency showing up in many places, and the inadequacies of national digital #identity initiatives are causing real harms. biometricupdate.com/202307/report-…

I did a thing. #Security #Identity

Every initiative from the National Cybersecurity Strategy is covered *except* digital identity. The Brits invented the word “gobsmacked” to describe things like this. 🤦🏻‍♂️

So this is here now. This is why, going forward, you see a blue check tweeting inflammatory nonsense, you don’t engage. Don’t reply, don’t quote retweet, nothing. Block and move on. People now have a financial incentive to piss you off.

As someone so succinctly put it on reddit:

Challenges and ethical conundrums abound in dealing with #privacy. Preventing tragedies requires multiple changes in how we build products, starting with team #diversity (bring those who live the threats in), #abusability testing, and applied #ethics. people.com/man-allegedly-…

I posted a few days ago about this incredibly bad bill that will have negative implications for #privacy and #E2EE. Please use this tool from the EFF to let your Reps and Senators know to oppose it. #NoBackdoors act.eff.org/action/tell-co…

Weinstein is providing the best argument in favor of the reliability of wikipedia: he is showing that cranks and loonies can't easily post fake news and unrigorous crap there. Jimmy Wales

So does this mean we refer to all bluechecks as x-rated? #xitter

Friends, hop on over to mastodon. Or let me know if you want to come over to bluesky. Still testing the waters in both places. Nothing exists today that is perfect, but it won't go in that direction unless we are there as a collective to make it work.

TFW you pass a tow truck on the drive home, and then do a double take when you realize what is being towed. I guess they do still need roads. Or there’s no trash around to feed that Mr. Fusion.

Also, #FUCKCANCER!!!

Breaking my twitter exile to share my grief at the passing of Vittorio. Because this site was so beloved to us both, brought us into the #identirati community together, and we mourned its loss together. Farewell Vittorio, my dear, dear friend. blog.talkingidentity.com/2023/10/and-ju…

Many of you asked about the Vittorio t-shirt I made for #Identiverse, so I created a fundraiser in Vittorio's honor. With #Authenticate2023 starting, thought it would be a nice way to show our love for him while also doing something in his memory. customink.com/fundraising/in…

$2,630 raised so far. All of you in the #identity community are awesome. Please note that if you cannot or do not want to buy the t-shirt, the fundraiser page does (now) allow you to just donate to the fundraiser without having to actually buy the t-shirt. Thank you so much!

$3,430 and counting. So grateful for the support this community has shown for this campaign. Still 6 days left if you want to support (either by ordering a t-shirt, or just donating). All money raised donated directly to Pancreatic Cancer Action Network®. customink.com/fundraising/in…

Thanks to everyone who supported my fundraiser in Vittorio's memory. Your generosity raised $3,867.38 for PanCAN. A whole lot is happening spurred on by his memory, and this is but a small thing. But I am grateful you helped me do something to help. blog.talkingidentity.com/2023/11/thank-…