Nishant Kaushik
@nishantkaushik.com
CTO @ FIDO Alliance | Identity, Security, Privacy.| Solver of Problems | Mentalic, First Class | Recommended by 4/5 Identirati | He/Him
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Thank you Empire State Building. NYC ❤️ Dolly.
NYC street artists work fast….Fulton Street is now Parton Street 🙏 *Work by plannedalism(IG)
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
Here are a series of essays I wrote about Dolly tied to albums at the beginning, middle and end of her vast, prolific career, if you're looking for a little themed reading. www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-dolly-par...
On Dolly Parton, Brilliant In Every Era
Today marks an unfathomable loss: Dolly Parton has died. Brilliant artist, devoted philanthropist, remarkable human; to list her achievements here feels redundant, as the cult of Dolly has long since ...
dontrocktheinbox.com
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
My time in Geneva next week for the #GDC2026 conference is one of the most ambitious sprints I've ever done, primarily because the nature of it is so complex and far-reaching. I blogged about @fidoalliance.bsky.social involvement: blog.talkingidentity.com/2026/08/expl... #Trust #Identity #Wallets
Exploring Why Trust Has to Become Infrastructure (GDC 2026) – Talking Identity
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Hilarious. This "survey" has you in the degenerate 98% if you play online chess, or wordle.
Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 6d agoguy who's in the 2% because he's too busy smoking crack
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
After IETF 126, I’m thinking about what one standards contributor can still do when geopolitics gets bigger than the room. The answer is not heroic: participate thoughtfully, read proposals for what they enable, name the assumptions, and keep asking what kind of Internet this helps create. Still…
Staying Useful in a Geopolitical Internet: Reflections from IETF 126
Learn why nation state politics are increasingly shaping technical standards and the future of the Internet. Drawing on reflections from IETF 126, Heather examines how regulatory pressure, geopolitical interests, and competing views of privacy, security, openness, and interoperability can influence standards development and individual contributors. Explore how to participate thoughtfully when larger forces enter the standards process. Heather considers practical ways to evaluate proposals beyond who submits them, recognize patterns, question architectural assumptions, and protect global interoperability while acknowledging legitimate policy concerns and the real harms the Internet can create.
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The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!
The number of ways in which this infuriates me cannot be quantified.
Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2w agoWe put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
AI Agents increasingly challenge (sorta) the notion of “I think, therefore I am”. #Identity
The risks are real. But banning children from the internet could create new problems without solving the ones that really matter. www.wired.com/story/bannin...
Banning Social Media for Kids Is a Bad Idea
The risks are real. But banning children from the internet could create new problems without solving the ones that really matter.
wired.com
Hey fellow #Identirati, if you're around NYC today then come by the #IdentiBeer event today at Slattery's Midtown Pub around 5:15pm. Let's talk all things #Identity (or not). www.linkedin.com/events/74784...
Ah, the memories. The friday evenings. The hour(s) spent wandering through the aisles....
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · last mo.Someone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol
The Odyssey is absolutely fantastic. I was absolutely entranced from beginning to end.
We can still do good things if we put our minds to it.
jentrification@jentrification.com · 2mo agoTwo Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans
Best “remove glasses to look at something unbelievable” in cinema history.
Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Surprise
Alt: Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Surprise
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Creating a safer online experience, especially for children, cannot require that we sacrifice #privacy, #security, and #inclusion. #ForAllByAll
Safety Over Bans: Internet Society Challenges App Store Age Verification - Internet Society
The Internet Society led an amicus brief filing on a case challenging Texas age verification requirements for app stores.
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Everything he touches, or even looks at sideways, crumbles. In the most embarrassing way possible.