Asparagus quiche!

engineering.fb.com/2019/03/01/s... is a useful primitive for a range of notification cases. looking forward to seeing this integrated into more privacy protocols.

There's something in play I don't fully understand for why AI crawlers aren't contributing back to common crawl. There would be a clear win if we could have a commons - mitigating some of the 'AI bot over-run' concerns. Instead we see fear that coordination is slower than re-building a new silo.

Common Crawl Foundation@commoncrawl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

As an early experiment in distributing Common Crawl data through another channel, the April 2026 crawl archive is now available in a Hugging Face Storage Bucket, alongside its existing home on AWS S3. commoncrawl.org/blog/april-2...

When do we get a Privacy-Preserving CDN? The surveillance-capitalism business model that defines the Internet today is only going to get more imposing. The vast majority of our online requests today are serviced and logged by... https://wills.co.tt/2118/when-do-we-get-a-privacy-preserving-cdn

The cancellation of Rightscon is a huge setback for the organization of human rights given the state of the world today. I hope we can make up for it in the coming months at dwebcamp.org, petsymposium.org, and hopefully others!

Gina Romero / Special Rapporteur FoAA@unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#Zambia Deeply concerned by gvt’s "postponement" of @rightscon.org Requiring "disclosure of topics" for an "alignment with national values" is a clear violation of the rights to freedom of assembly, association and expression, and a deliberated attack on civic space. 1/

#Zambia Deeply concerned by gvt’s "postponement" of @rightscon.org Requiring "disclosure of topics" for an "alignment with national values" is a clear violation of the rights to freedom of assembly, association and expression, and a deliberated attack on civic space. 1/

Yes plz discussing decentralization on discord is like plotting direct action on a Google doc

新年快乐！

Apropos of nothing, I watched 'Listers' last night, and enjoyed it a lot more than I had expected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

We're having an AT Proto gathering at FOSDEM, on the Friday right before, at 17h00. Come! It'll be nice and fun. luma.com/jj7nths0

@proto @fosdem · Luma

The AT Protocol is an open, decentralized network for building social applications. https://atproto.com/ Start your FOSDEM with a convivial evening of casual…

luma.com

I’ve had many conversations in the last months about the future - political and social - that we hope to see in the future. The current global events are a disappointing degradation to non-cooperative greedy optimization, but have led to a more engaged discourse - particularly in young people.

2026 promises to be if nothing else fascinating. Wishing for curiosity and positive outcomes!

Now the days get longer again!

Baking bread is an immensely gratifying persuit

Announcing the location and date of the next global DWeb Camp >>> ✨ July 8 - 12, 2026, near Berlin! ✨ We can’t disclose the exact location yet, but it'll be a more DIY camp like in 2019 at the Mushroom Farm. Please answer these questions to help co-design Camp 2026: airtable.com/appO6XXgm4TU...

Thankful for friends and family

I’m surprised how little progress has been made in the last year on p2p network structures. We have economic games, much advanced network simulation tools, and additional cryptographic building blocks, but at a p2p level we seem stuck on DHTs

With Norse discontinuing Berlin flights, and Delta's limited to the summer, we're back to only a single daily united flight connecting Berlin with the United States (and Newark at that)

Has anyone connected up remotestorage.io with a PDS?

friction.observer/digital-huma... is a great synthesis of what digital human rights can mean concretely.

Digital Human Rights

Let's make open, secure, personal, independent, trustworthy, selective, resilient, portable & safe systems the default.

friction.observer

Mushrooms from a morning walk in the woods

中秋节快乐

Last week we assembled a bunch of people to talk about what technical interventions can move the needle on privacy. I’ve written up my take on the projects the group conglomerated around. www.protocol.ai/blog/threads...

Threads From the 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat Draft

Key takeaways from the Cypherpunk Retreat, where 100 leading builders advanced privacy-tech coordination.

protocol.ai

Consider submitting to www.ccc.de/en/updates/2... The need for pro-social tech is only growing, and CCC is one of the best venues to organize around that work.

Great end of summer bike riding out of Berlin today.

A great conclusion to the ride today. After a bit of wading in sand, we got the majority of the day on a not busy service road for the train. After a large steep hill into Nairobi we got a final chaotic ride through traffic on a dual carriageway to complete the loop.

A slog in the morning, though interesting to see kfc and a more built up narok than any city yet on this trip. Then a payoff in the afternoon with a big downhill ride to suswa.

A day of skynet, corn, empty gas stations, and open road

Started the day with a big climb out of kisii. The road quality degraded a bit in the middle of the ride, but never felt too bad. Cooler temperatures and much of the climbing behind us now.

Had a hilly day from the Kenyan border to Kisii 90 km north. Easy to stay distracted from the work by the regularity of villages we got to pass through.