James 🔒 = 🕊️
@jamesfarrell.me
Impact focused product leader fundingthecommons.io exponential.im
Can you control the hair in your arms?
Lewi Whalberg@anno1540.bsky.social · last mo.1/2 Wow, she received four years prison sentence for singing in public in Iran! Now Hiva Seifizadeh decided to risk everything to record this video from inside Iran. Enough is enough. For 47 years, the Islamic Republic has treated a woman’s voice like a crime.
Claude tells me: "Amusingly relevant: this repo itself has two 0055-*.md ADRs — even the single-repo "clean sequence" collides. The problem is real at N=1."
It feels so cringe how excited everybody is that Fable is back.
I can't believe the US government only suspended access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 2.5 weeks ago... Feels like an age!
Job alert! The Open Tech Fund (OTF) is hiring program managers: www.opentech.fund/jobs/working...
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1/ The DoC just handed Anthropic back their users. But a lot of those users are gone. Not gone-gone. Different-gone. The export control pause didn't just delay access to Fable 5. It rewired how serious builders think about AI dependency. Thread. 👇
@flo-bit.dev hope to meet you at the @atproto.berlin event coming up
@charlesblumenthal.com hope to meet you at the @atproto.berlin event coming up
@watwa.re hope to meet you at the @atproto.berlin event coming up
“The decisions we make today really could commit us to a future where any valuable work done by any human being will become fair game for a tech company to hoover up into its AI model and monetize, while that human being gets nothing.” - Joseph Gorden Levitt www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
On AI and Copyright, Trump Is Groveling Before Big Tech and Selling Out Working Americans
It’s not just creatives threatened by Silicon Valley’s ethically questionable business model.
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🧵 When looking into privacy preserving note taking apps you'll find there are 2 different data approaches taken by different tools. database vs markdown — what’s the real difference? If you care about privacy, ownership, or long-term control, this matters 👇
Sometimes it feels like life is just one big caption competition.
Ethereum's @vitalik.ca an @torproject.org's @RogerDingledine A powerful conversation from FtC Buenos Aires where they dig into what “privacy” really means, the tradeoffs behind it, and how incentives can warp communities. 🌐 Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=MDyU...
Privacy and Public Goods: Vitalik Buterin & Roger Dingledine - Buenos Aires 2025
YouTube video by Funding the Commons
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Penguin Padlock Party – Open meeting place for digital self-determination The Penguin Padlock Party is a regular get-together held every third Thursday of the month from 7 p.m. at c‑base. It is aimed at anyone interested in free software, data protection and digital security.
Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal. Privacy = Freedom - there's a reason why your vote is private Please take 3 mins follow the form which emails your local politicians: fightchatcontrol.eu
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
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icebreaker.xyz allows you to export your Social graph using zkTLS on @reclaimprotocol.bsky.social, and imports it as a graph of EAS attestations opening up your graph as well as that of your contacts. Can someone please do this for x.com so we can import into something on ATProto like bsky!? 🙏
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Some excellent notes on what was worked on by @wills.co.tt at the recent CypherPunk retreat held by @protocollabs.bsky.social and @web3privacy.info www.protocol.ai/blog/threads...
Threads From the 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat
Key takeaways from the Cypherpunk Retreat, where 100 leading builders advanced privacy-tech coordination.
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Much love to @web3privacy.info @protocollabs.bsky.social for the Cypherpunk Retreat. Easily the most valuable event I’ve attended—connecting with thought leaders, deep thinkers & builders creating the privacy-first tech we need to preserve & expand freedom. 🫶
@piss.beauty I'm currently creating bounties for our hackathon - www.fundingthecommons.io/hackathons Do you have any cool ideas at the intersection of Ethereum and AT Proto? I'd also love to share more about our upcoming residency - please follow me for dms if you want to know more
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Explore this unique collective experience to propel your project forward. We build a bridge between builders and researchers focused on transforming the funding mechanisms for public goods with the d...
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