Zach Graves

From left to right: moderator Luke Hogg of FAI, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, TCP/IP co-author Vint Cerf, Electronic Frontier Foundation exec director Cindy Cohn, and Ars Technica co-founder Jon Stokes.

Quite the lineup of speakers at this Foundation for American Innovation event celebrating the open Web at Georgetown University's Riggs Library. luma.com/cfxt621v

On the Internet, No One Knows You're a Dog: Examining the Feasibility of Privacy-Preserving Age Verification Online | The Foundation for American Innovation The Foundation for American Innovation.

Age verification has become a real policy flashpoint, but this paper from @fai.bsky.social's @lehogg.bsky.social and Evan Swarztrauber is a worthwhile nuanced read: www.thefai.org/posts/on-the...

Hello Bluesky, I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.

This thread is staggeringly naive about what China is and what it wants, as are the people retweeting it as if it's some sort of cogent analysis.

The 2024 Transformer Gift Guide The must-buy items for the AI policy people in your life

Links and a bunch more stuff to buy (including a $350,000 treat for those you *really* love) on Transformer

Thanks to @timhwang.bsky.social and @zgr.bsky.social for the inspo

Ferguson, then Virginia Solicitor General, spoke at @knightfdn.bsky.social Informed conference in 2022.

And thanks for valuable feedback from early reviewers:
@mchrisriley.com
@ethanz.bsky.social
@chandrn.bsky.social
@daphnek.bsky.social
Francis Fukuyama
Aviv Ovadya
@zoelle.bsky.social
@zgr.bsky.social
@lehogg.bsky.social
@noupside.bsky.social
@mmasnick.bsky.social
...

Back to see how things are on this site 👀

“In Ayn we trust”

@fai.bsky.social party last night

Favorite Oregon Pinot?

My staff don’t have invite codes yet, AMA.

One Clause to rule them all, One Clause to find them, One Clause to bring them all and in the SCOTUS bind them.

National Constitution Center in Philly

Had a blast at @calebwatney.bsky.social / @alecstapp.bsky.social / EIG conference in Lancaster, PA

It seems like people are identifying a few things about bluesky that feel to be working:
-Quote tweet function
-Exclusivity of invite codes
-Intangible culture of “posting”

Honestly it just sort of feels like how twitter *used* to be. Is that just bc of similar aesthetics?

Interpretability Research

Anyone have a spare invite code?

EFF’s Gennie Gebhart is hiring!
She’s amazing and looking for a full-time, U.S.-based (remote friendly!) Director for the Public Interest Technology team.

Have an outsized impact on digital rights through your management skills + technical knowledge

#JobAlert

Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a giant geothermal power plant? It’s become fairly common knowledge that Yellowstone National Park, in addition to being incredibly beautiful, is sitting on top of an enormous supervolcano that catastrophically erupts every few hundred thousand years. Unlike normal volcanoes, which tend to produce large cone-shaped mountains made of ash and lava, supervolcano eruptions (defined being at least an 8 on the

Excellent post from Brian Potter on one of my favorite topics.

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/could-we-stop-yellowstone-from-erupting

Getting excessively involved in local politics

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Bluesky - Apps on Google Play See what's next

📢 Android is finally here! 🎉

Google takes a while to update their search so here’s the direct link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.blueskyweb.app&hl=en_US

Porto’s in LA

Facebook did this at one point

The AT Protocol A social networking technology created by Bluesky.

How it’s going:

Welcome to the first app built on atproto!

https://atproto.com/

How it started:

It’s like kind of a cool clubhouse vibe