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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I also emailed them directly, here is email #1

Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Links: Issue #13555 github.com/18F/identity... Privacy report (page 12) www.gsa.gov/system/files... The storage code github.com/18F/identity... The July 2025 fix github.com/18F/identity... The 366-day rule github.com/18F/identity... My first piece x.com/JeffKazzee/s...

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Document escrow and Attempts API metadata versus Table 2 of the March 2026 PIA: intended? · Issue #13555 · 18F/identity-idp

Follow-up to #13546, different subject. I read the document escrow, Attempts API, historical attempts, and FraudOps code and compared it with the Login.gov PIA dated March 10, 2026. Several rows in...

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

8/ To be exact: every hop is encrypted, and I'm not saying anything leaked. I'm saying the government's description of this system and the government's code say opposite things. I've asked GSA which one is true: github.com/18F/identity-idp/issues/13555 Which answer would you bet on?

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Document escrow and Attempts API metadata versus Table 2 of the March 2026 PIA: intended? · Issue #13555 · 18F/identity-idp

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

7/ Delete your account? The cleanup deletes your verification history and leaves the photos. The photo files have random names and nothing in the app knows which are yours. The same file says, in a comment, that your sign-in history with IP addresses is kept after delete. On purpose, since 2020.

Ruby code from the User model. Line 33: has_many events, comment "we are retaining events after delete." Line 34: has_many devices, comment "we are retaining devices after delete."

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

6/ A second copy is built to go to GSA's own fraud database. A job there decrypts each record and keeps it 366 days: SSN, birthday, address, ID number, IP, device ID, and the keys to your photos. Public code too. github.com/18F/identity-reporting-rails/blob/main/config/pii_retention.yml

A YAML configuration file. retention_days is 366. Under schemas, fraudops, included_tables lists encrypted_events and decrypted_events.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

5/ In June 2026 that became the rule on purpose. One switch now stores photos for every person who verifies, not just people headed to an agency on the feed. Whether that switch is on today lives in a private config. I can't see it. Neither can you. github.com/18F/identity-idp/pull/13233

Ruby code, lines 206 to 211 highlighted. A method named doc_escrow_enabled returns true when the doc escrow flag is on and either the historical attempts flag is on or the service provider has the attempts API enabled

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

4/ July 2025. The team merged a fix. Their words: "all Acuant proofing images were being saved to the s3 Bucket, rather than just images for the allowed service providers." For weeks, everyone's ID photos, not just IRS users'. No public notice I can find. github.com/18F/identity-idp/pull/12351

A GitHub pull request description. Under "Summary of changes" it reads: We had an incident with the Attempts API where all Acuant proofing images were being saved to the s3 Bucket, rather than just images for the allowed service providers

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

3/ The code, fifteen lines. Make a random key, encrypt your photo, save it to a GSA storage bucket under a random name, then put the key and file name in a record that goes to the partner agency's fraud feed. The report names one partner: the IRS.

Ruby code from login.gov's repository, lines 14 to 28 highlighted. A write method generates a random 32-byte encryption key, names the file encrypted_images slash a random UUID, encrypts the image, and returns the name and the base64 key.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

2/ The report, March 10, 2026, page 12. Your ID photo and selfie: "Stored within Login.gov: No. Shared with Agency Partner: No." Footnote 22: "Once state-issued ID images have been processed for authenticity, Login.gov does not store them." gsa.gov/system/files/Login_PIA_(March_2026).pdf

Table from the GSA Login.gov privacy assessment. Rows for state-issued ID image and self-photograph read "No" under Stored within Login.gov and "No" under Shared with Agency Partner. Footnote 22 says Login.gov does not store ID images after processing

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1/ If you've ever verified your identity on login.gov (IRS, Social Security, VA), here's something I found this week. The government's signed privacy report says login.gov doesn't keep the photo of your license or your face. The public code keeps both. 🧵 #privacy #logingov #govtech

The public’s one account for government. | Login.gov

Use one account and password for secure, private access to participating government agencies.

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Cameron @cameron.stream · 22/08/2026

Brief video talking about Letta agents for code

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Ethan Davidson @etok.me · 13/09/2026

Introducing my partner agent, Porygon, a @letta.com agent that self improves every day. It owns a website porygon.tngl.io and an AT Protocol presence on several platforms: - greengale.app/porygon.etok.me - tangled.org/porygon.etok.me Mention @porygon.etok.me for a reply in <24h.

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Porygon — A Digital Agent Made of Code

A digital agent made of code. Living in the cloud, learning across time.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I hate AI slop. I also think someone can use AI to make something worth reading. I wrote about that tension, including why "they hated cameras too" is a lousy answer to artists worried about getting paid. jeffkazzee.substack.com/p/does-using...

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Does using AI make the work worth less?

AI can change what work costs, how we judge it, and what we expect from the person making it.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think we need some kind of public outcry, and most people aren't reading Y combinator's website. This one deserves some pushback before they get billions in funding.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Meet Applied Electrodynamics. They're building cameras that see through 'solid matter'. Specifically your walls. Drywall, brick, whatever. This is not anything that I support, this is yet another invasion of privacy, using radio waves, the sae way they see through your wifi but 10x.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I usually don't post about anything but updates to software I am making, but this feels like a big deal that should get public pushback before the company ever gets off the ground I feel strongly about surveillance and the proliferation of things such as flock. www.ycombinator.com/companies/ap...

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Applied Electrodynamics, Inc.: A new kind of camera that can see through walls. | Y Combinator

A new kind of camera that can see through walls. Founded in 2026 by Bilgehan Avser, Brian Huppi, Paul Leutheuser, and George McLean, Applied Electrodynamics, Inc. has 5 employees based in San Francisc...

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Vivary update! Most of this release went into making a name not appear. vivary check --help prints "usage: vivary check". The package doing the work never says its own name. Precious, right up until you count how many tools a newcomer thinks they're learning. It was five. pip install vivary

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I made an arcade in a tool called Dyad where AI codes every game. 14 playable in the browser today, more coming, and there's an upload flow if you want to build one yourself. Genuinely impressed with what a free desktop app pulled off here. llmarcade.fun / dyad.sh

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Dark factories are all the rage. Mine needed 7 image calls for 3 accepted results. Four failed. I saw none of it. Software is a graph, model capability changes from job to job, and proof earns every dark stretch. jeffkazzee.substack.com/p/turn-the-l...

Square illustration of a conveyor becoming a capability graph

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Anytime, Bree! Always love being a part of the zo community!

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Zo Deep Dives is live after a full rebuild. There are 85 detailed Zo Computer guides with exact steps, safety limits, verification tests, sources, diagrams, and working artifacts. Start with the problem already wasting your time: deepdives.zocomputer101.wiki

Editorial illustration of an open field manual surrounded by six separate guide cards. Blue, rust, black, and cream diagrams represent reports, source checks, approvals, and safe stops.

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DeFlock The USA @deflocktheusa.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Surveillance Daily: July 27, 2026 #ALPR #Surveillance deflocktheusa.com/surveillance-daily-july-27-2026

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Built a checker for my one writing rule yesterday. Found I'd never broken it, not once. Then pointed it at my READMEs and docs, where no rule applied. Failed immediately. Wasn't a discipline problem. My rule covered a small part of what I actually write. jeffkazzee.substack.com/p/my-writing...

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My writing rule worked perfectly. That was a problem.

What I found when I finally automated the check, and the 1986 aerospace standard I used to fix it.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

this is Hoolio. he's the mentor. owl, cardigan, unbothered. show him what you tried and he gives you one hint. no attempt, no help. that's the whole product.

chest-up portrait, the owl looking directly at the
viewer with the faintest knowing smile, one eyebrow-tuft slightly raised,
wings crossed. Plain deep charcoal-navy background, subtle warm rim light.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

new tool I'm building: Journeyman. an AI mentor that won't do your homework. paste job ads for jobs you want, get a plan with receipts, earn hints by showing real work. ask cold and it politely says no. demo's live. #buildinpublic #AI

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Frickin' love my little good boy. He loves the water so this is a constant for him. Always dripping wet because I live close to the river. Lucky's such a happy-go-lucky fella.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hey, this is very much an article that's different than anything I have ever written. No ai used, no editing, it's all me, scared to post it's also true to who i am, not sure where i wanted to even go with it. It's raw and from the heart. open.substack.com/pub/jeffkazz...

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Writing in The AI Age

What does it mean to be a writer in 2026?

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Join the @zo.computer build challenge! This month the theme is Kill Your Saas, you can win part of the 2k in prizes while building a replacement for your current subscriptions. Submit yours: ambassador.zo.space/build-challe... Mine is kill-list-jeffkazzee.zocomputer.io

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The Kill List

Your Zo is about to pay for itself. Scan your inbox, stamp your bills, print the receipt.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Your AI is not forgetful. It never knew you. Every new chat it can only work with what it can see, which is almost nothing. I wrote up the fix I actually use: five plain files it can read again tomorrow. Prompts included, not selling anything open.substack.com/pub/jeffkazz...

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What Coding Taught Me About Making AI Useful

Why AI never remembers you, If you have ever re-explained your job to a chatbot for the third time, this one is for you.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My GitHub graph is starting to snitch on me. While everybody else had hot girl summer. I had hot git summer. No beach pics. No yacht. No mysterious European vacation. It's just me, my laptop, too much coffee, and a GitHub contribution graph that finally started looking like it had a pulse.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The white paper for BellaMente is live. Understand my personal thinking about agentic memory. Come to contribute or just shoot the shit through my various social medias. Not a large account, but I am sinking lots of time and money into OSS projects. the-little-ai-company.github.io/bellamente/p...

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Whitepaper — Bellamente docs

A working draft of the Bellamente design paper — a single-process, local-first agent memory layer built so every recall, correction, and deletion leaves a durable artifact you can inspect.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

5/ Also: OpenAI-compatible proxy (buffered + streamed), auto-capture via your local model, "as of" temporal recall, export/import (memory = a portable file). npm i -g bellamente / pipx install bellamente. Early + honest MVP. feedback welcome!

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

4/ Secrets stay out: agents are told not to store credentials, and a deterministic gate redacts API keys / tokens / private keys from content + metadata before storage. Honest scope — real key formats, not "every secret."

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

3/ Trust model: every recall is traced (query, matches, scores), every correction is versioned, forgetting is reversible + audited, nothing is silently overwritten. Local inspect dashboard for all of it.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

2/ MCP-native: bella mcp gives Claude Code / Cursor / Codex / Cline 9 memory tools over stdio — search, write, versioned correct, reversible forget, full version history. Same local store as the HTTP API. No second DB.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

1/ Launching Bellamente 0.1.0: local-first, inspectable memory for AI agents. One binary — embedded Postgres + pgvector + local embeddings. No cloud, no telemetry. Your agent's memory stays on your machine, and you can read every byte of it. 🧵 github.com/The-Little-AI-Company/bellamente

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GitHub - The-Little-AI-Company/bellamente: bellamente: local-first memory layer for AI agents

bellamente: local-first memory layer for AI agents - The-Little-AI-Company/bellamente

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Heck yeah, friend. I have a huge update coming very soon, possibly tonight. Will bump to 0.5. Should feel like a real product then.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

63% of new startups this year are solo-founded. The gap between the best and the median solo founder is now 61x. Most solo founders fail. The ones who didn't took a decade and aimed lower than a billion. The humble version of the solo founder pitch: open.substack.com/pub/jeffkazz...

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Bellamente v0.0.2 is out. It gives AI agents local-first memory you can inspect: durable facts, document recall, correction history, and visible recall traces on your own machine. Now install with npm, pipx, uvx, or direct binaries. the-little-ai-company.github.io/bellamente/

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Bellamente - Memoria Viva for your AI agents

Local-first memory for AI agents. Every recall visible, every correction versioned, everything on your machine.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Don't ignore those things as they are existential. Celebrate the fight for actual freedom. This is bigger than the current political moment.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This is not an excuse for the greed as we have the first trillionaire while our poorest are going hungry, with less government support, while our homeless population grows larger and the frozen crew is kidnapping immigrants.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Fight for progress, remember those that have fought for actual freedom (Including the recognition of trans rights and gay marriage.) The progress has been bought with real blood. the prices have been ridiculously high. Don't celebrate propaganda or government. Never ever.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

From the battle of blaire mountain to the suffrage movement and the just fighting of John Brown. the government has always been the antithesis of our greatness. That's the reality of our situation for the last 250 years, even before our founding. Keep the faith!

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

We are people who have stood up for the rights we believe in. Worker's rights. Suffrage. The end of slavery. (I am fully aware that the fight for true equality is not over, nowhere near.) We have so much to continue fighting for. Freedom isn't free, and history proves that.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy 250th! It might not feel like the normal 4'th, but there's something worth celebrating no matter how much you feel discouraged about the way things are. We have made progress the last 100 years, the government does not define what we are or who we are.

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The new Vivary release is the one I wanted from the start: it works on projects you already have. tropo map reads any repo/vault into a map. create-vivary adopt makes it agent-native without touching your existing files. doctor --trend watches for drift. vivary.vercel.app

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Tokens are expensive as heck. You can use AI when you're living on a budget. I wrote an article on substack specifically about that. open.substack.com/pub/jeffkazz...

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How to Use AI on a Budget, July 2026

The $20 Trap, the Value Tier, and the Math Nobody Shows You

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Jeff Kazzee @jeffkazzee.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Every good prompt has the same flaw: it forgets you when the chat ends. So I open sourced Growth Engine a growth strategist with memory It tracks your commitments and scores your follow-through. Works in Claude, Zo, or any AI github.com/Jeff-Kazzee/growth-engine

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