all these fireworks are actually for the new madonna album 💅
Meg Marco
@meghann.bsky.social
Director of the Applied Social Media Lab, Harvard Previously: ProPublica, WSJ, WIRED, Consumerist (RIP) The cat's name is Elenore (like The Turtles song) and this is mostly about her. https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/meg-marco
To spell it out, this has the potential to be a really big deal. It could help make end-to-end encryption the default for a new generation of collaboration apps the same way the Signal protocol has end-to-end encrypted Signal and WhatsApp conversations on billions of phones.
Andy Greenberg@agreenberg.bsky.social · 2mo agoDevelopers from Signal (including its protocol's co-creator) along with Microsoft and Harvard unveil Encrypted Spaces, an open-source codebase for a new generation of private collaboration apps. Think Slack, Discord, Google Docs, all end-to-end encrypted. www.wired.com/story/signal...
Honored that the legendary @agreenberg.bsky.social wrote about our project for @wired.com. Read his story and then go to www.encryptedspaces.org to learn even more. 😎
WIRED@wired.com · 2mo agoThe group of cryptographers behind the open-source Encrypted Spaces project say it could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance. www.wired.com/story/signal...
f'ed around and made a last minute '90's live band karaoke costume
Live footage of me avoiding bedtime as a child
simi@simifresh.bsky.social · 6mo agothe bushes were people 😂
Let’s be clear: if people sworn to enforce the law can tell you to get out of your car and then kill you if you just try to drive away, none of us are safe. None of us.
This is your seasonal reminder that due to being a resident of the outskirts of Whoville, which is itself located on a speck of dust, the Grinch is actually quite tiny.
It looks like the producers of this football game could only get the rights to Buffalo.
✨Very pleased to share that our podcast The Race to Superintelligence has been awarded a gold and silver medal for Limited Series or Special and Individual Episode respectively in the Science category by The Signal Awards. The brilliant Jennifer Strong strikes again. 👏👏👏
Signal Award Winner - Signal Awards
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yes, this is cool
bryan newbold (⛱️ sabbatical mode)@bnewbold.net · 10mo agohe hasn't cross-posted here yet, but @tinysubversions.bsky.social built a pretty cool piece of protocol ecosystem tooling for ActivityPub. AT lexicons are stricter/simpler for interop than JSON-LD (IMHO), but there are still corner-cases, and I could see things like this being helpful for atmo
1 in 5 Americans now regularly get news on TikTok, up sharply from 2020
More Americans are getting news on TikTok, bucking the trend seen on most other social media sites
In just three years, the share of U.S. adults who say they regularly get news from TikTok has more than quadrupled, from 3% in 2020 to 14% in 2023.
pewresearch.org
you didn't ask but yes, they should remake Guardians of the Galaxy with Seth Rogen