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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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so maybe i do know who needs to hear this, but if you're convening an event focused on AI guardrails, data #privacy or sovereignty, open source, rights to personal data, etc., maybe vet your platforms?
attendees should not have to consent to a third party platform to infer #identity, train their AI with participation content, or use NIL for their adverts.
srsly - crowdcast, whatsapp, discord, telegram are not private channels, and they do harvest data. walk your talk, folks.
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so maybe i do know who needs to hear this, but if you're convening an event focused on AI guardrails, data #privacy or sovereignty, open source, rights to personal data, etc., maybe vet your platforms?
attendees should not have to consent to a third party platform to infer #identity, train their AI with participation content, or use NIL for their adverts.
srsly - crowdcast, whatsapp, discord, telegram are not private channels, and they do harvest data. walk your talk, folks.
ends rant....
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“Scottishness is not some pedigree lineage. This is a mongrel tradition!”
William McIlvanney (1936–2015) – author & poet (& provider, at a rally in Edinburgh in 1992, of our profile header, as quoted in Neal Ascherson’s 2002 book STONE VOICES) – was born #OTD, 25 November
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#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #Scottishness #identity
“Scottishness is not some pedigree lineage. This is a mongrel tradition!”
William McIlvanney (1936–2015) – author & poet (& provider, at a rally in Edinburgh in 1992, of our profile header, as quoted in Neal Ascherson’s 2002 book STONE VOICES) – was born #OTD, 25 November
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#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WilliamMcIlvanney #Scottishness #identity
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An #AI slop farm stole my #identity - https://algorithmwatch.org/en/an-ai-slop-farm-stole-my-identity/ fascinating and troubling tale... #journalism
An #AI slop farm stole my #identity - https://algorithmwatch.org/en/an-ai-slop-farm-stole-my-identity/ fascinating and troubling tale... #journalism
User identity and Activitypub
Greetings to the Activitypub.space community. I have a question. Is it possible to use Activitypub protocol to define a unique identity on a single account across the various federated platforms, valid for the entire Fediverse?
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Some thoughtful stuff about passkeys and the identity system, includes a few angles I hadn’t thought of: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/2/passkeys/
Some thoughtful stuff about passkeys and the identity system, includes a few angles I hadn’t thought of: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/2/passkeys/
The act of entering the temple through spatial and psychic layers moves the compass of identity from Australian-ness to Chinese-ness. It is a subtle movement of layers and reveals that identity is not monolithic but is a function of its environment. In this case the built environment of the temple. Although the temple is a physical, tangible part of the urban street, its influence on the visitor is more than that, the journey into its heart pulls at all our human senses.
More writing today #AsianDiaspora #architecture #identity
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My understanding is that work done in FEPs informs the SocialCG task forces working on various aspects of social web applications. I imagine they're also watching Nostr architecture and NIPs for ideas, as well and ATProto and wherever their protocol experimentation happens.
Then the work done at SocialCG will feed into getting a charter for an updated version of ActivityPub itself. Locking in a bunch of experience from practice, and moving experimentation to new frontiers.
"That's the irony of what Blaine did when he created WebFinger. It was supposed to support multiple! It wasn't supposed to just be this is your fediverse address, it was supposed to be, here's how you find all the different account of information about me, and different things."
@rabble, 2025
https://wedistribute.org/podcast/s2e3-rabble-from-nos-social/
So ... WF is meant to facilitate something like Libravatar, where all roads lead back to a canonical profile? Hmm ...
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Digital Identities that Benefit Humans
Today I’ll be traveling to Geneva to attend the Global Digital Collaboration Conference which seeks to “foster wallets, credentials and trusted infrastructure for the benefit of all humans.” I want to make sure that whatever comes out of this discussion really does benefit humans, and is therefore rooted in human rights. I have spoken publicly about how we incorporate ethics into our standards and specifications in order to make sure we ground them in human rights and “avoid dystopia.” The notion of storing a government-supplied digital credential on your personal device has great potential, but could also lead to harm through increased surveillance, centralisation of trust, and widening of the digital divide. We need to design these systems carefully in order to prevent misuse and overreach and to protect privacy and dignity.
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Digital Identities that Benefit Humans
Today I’ll be traveling to Geneva to attend the Global Digital Collaboration Conference which seeks to “foster wallets, credentials and trusted infrastructure for the benefit of all humans.” I want to make sure that whatever comes out of this discussion really does benefit humans, and is therefore rooted in human rights. I have spoken publicly about how we incorporate ethics into our standards and specifications in order to make sure we ground them in human rights and “avoid dystopia.” The notion of storing a government-supplied digital credential on your personal device has great potential, but could also lead to harm through increased surveillance, centralisation of trust, and widening of the digital divide. We need to design these systems carefully in order to prevent misuse and overreach and to protect privacy and dignity.