#Pseudonymity

Rob Underwood

brooklynrob

1/ Part of DJT's power is he can mobilize many thousands of pseudonymous @Twitter accounts - people afraid to associate their real name w/ their publicly espoused views, along w/

Tomiwa

alephile

If you’re African and can’t code and are looking for how to break into crypto: We’ve generally done a bad job of demonstrating how non-coders can intellectually apply themselves in

balajis.com

balajis

Alternatively, we can try to build a culture that rejects surveillance journalism and uses pseudonymity, encryption, and incentives to defend privacy.These media corporations are just Stasi with stock symbols. They

eigenrobot

eigenrobot

the reporter is rapidly becoming the story hmm@NRO has a piece out, specifically a NYT hit, has some good context around anonymity policy and its history at NYTnothing new to

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

"Wanting it badly is not enough" could be the title of a postmortem on the century's tech-policy battles. Think of the crypto wars: yeah, it would be super cool if

Graeme Wood

gcaw

Scott Alexander of @slatestarcodex is threatening to delete his blog because the New York Times is planning to reveal his real name:https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-safety-by-revealing-my-real-name-so-i-am-deletin

Lucy Powrie

LucyTheReader

So I decided to take a look at the contents of the Women's Prize's Reclaim Her Name eBooks - and it just seems to get worse. Here's George Eliot's introduction,

Alice in training🌿

AliceFromQueens

Notable contrast between the NYT’s blithe plan to doxx Scott Alexander (below) and the media-wide opprobrium visited on Harpers a few years ago for possibly intending to doxx Moira Donegan.

Hanyu

hanyuwho

@michael_saylor bought the http://voice.com domain name when it was dirt cheap and sold it for $30 million in 2019 - the biggest domain sale to date.Registering a .eth today is

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

janeclarejones

How much more desperate ageist toe-curling down-with-the-kids bullshittery could this get?It generally takes 3 or 4 decades for women to develop consciousness of their political condition and start resisting. Plus,

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The nonconsensually compiled dossiers of personal information that @experian_us assembled on the entire population of the USA may currently be exposed via dozens, perhaps hundreds, of sites, thanks to a

Justin Mikolay 💻

jmikolay

A distillation of what @balajis said in conversation with @tferriss on The Tim Ferriss Show: Covering: Financial & Ideological IndependenceProduct, Distribution, & MediaCrypto & Decentralization The Pseudonymous EconomyDigital N