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Nishant Kaushik

@nishantkaushik.com
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CTO @ FIDO Alliance | Identity, Security, Privacy.| Solver of Problems | Mentalic, First Class | Recommended by 4/5 Identirati | He/Him

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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 14h
I...uh...wut?
Screenshot of the Financial Times showing the mind-bending headline "Anthropic warns of 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO prospectus"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 23/09/2026
One thing I appreciate from the (currently ongoing) Death of Online Anonymity online conference is the discussion about how LLMs (and widely accessible consumer AI generally) are power tools for deanonymizing people online. This is going to be a major problem for online harassment.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 18/09/2026
Rebellions are built on hope. This is just beautiful.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.
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Uplifting News @upliftingnews.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A $50 million gift will fund Native student scholarships for the next five years and create a permanent endowment to support Indigenous students for generations.
nativenewsonline.net
A $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott is being dedicated entirely to Native students, with $10 million funding scholarships over the next five years and $40 million placed in a permanent endowment to support Native students for generations to come.
A $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott is being dedicated entirely to Native students, with $10 million funding scholarships over the next five years and $40 million placed in a permanent endowment to support Native students for generations to come.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"One more thing Miss Barlow... you were about 14 in 2001, and you grew up in the UK, so why did they dismiss your school at noon on 9/11, when the attacks would have happened around 2 pm your time? I just don't understand how the school knew the attacks would be happening later"
Columbo (Peter Falk) asking one more question
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
i think this is the best epitaph for bin laden i have ever seen
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 11/09/2026
25 years. The days after showed me so much of the good, the strength we are capable of, as individuals, as a team, as a community. The years after revealed the bad, the manipulation that we are capable of. The decades since remind me of all we lost, all we gave up, all that was taken from us.
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 10/09/2026
Google just rolled out a new Android experience that makes it easy for users to securely move their #passwords + #passkeys between #CredentialManagers. A nice step forward for user choice in the credential manager ecosystem, exactly what @fidoalliance.bsky.social Credential Exchange is designed for.
blog.google
Switching password managers is easy and safe on Android
A new Android feature lets you securely transfer passwords and passkeys between password managers.
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 09/09/2026
🖖🏽
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 09/09/2026
🥺 #Sports
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 08/09/2026
Shocked. Shocked, I say.
theregister.com
UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say
Children's Commissioner also furious with Ofcom over a string of failures
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 07/09/2026
The soundtrack to our lives indeed.
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 07/09/2026
I don’t care what @dennycarter.bsky.social says, @bsky.app is not the sports app. It is the *too much sports* app. My NFL feed is overrun with tennis this weekend. Few weekends ago it was overrun with golf. I need my cuts info before draft Monday. Not ideal!!!
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I saw a meme today that said that books are proof that strangers can meet across centuries and still understand each other. That really resonated.
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 31/08/2026
Geneva is ready for #GDC2026. #DigitalTrust #DigitalIdentity #TrustAsInfrastructure #ForAllByAll
Photograph of the Pont du Mont-Blanc in Geneva covered with flags of the Global Digital Collaboration conference
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 28/08/2026
💔
In tribute to the passing of Peter Cullen, an image of a dead Optimus Prime from "Transformers: The Movie". Wish he could return the way Optimus always did.
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 26/08/2026
Short, but very to the point.
eff.org
EFF Statement on Meta Settlement
The settlement enshrines Meta's harmful surveillance into law, and it will compromise users' privacy and anonymity while increasing their exposure to data breaches and government data requests.
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 26/08/2026
#MissYouAndrew
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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thank you Empire State Building. NYC ❤️ Dolly.
Empire State Building lit up in bright pink in honor of Dolly Parton. Beautiful.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NYC street artists work fast….Fulton Street is now Parton Street 🙏 *Work by plannedalism(IG)
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
it's ok to cry
open.spotify.com
I Will Always Love You
Dolly Parton · Jolene · Song · 1974
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indianaarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentuckyarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouriiarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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...
dontrocktheinbox.com
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 ...
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 25/08/2026
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
blog.talkingidentity.com
Exploring Why Trust Has to Become Infrastructure (GDC 2026) – Talking Identity
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 25/08/2026
Hilarious. This "survey" has you in the degenerate 98% if you play online chess, or wordle.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
thelancet.com
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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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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)_/¯
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Heather Flanagan @sphericalcowconsulting.com · 18/08/2026
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…
sphericalcowconsulting.com
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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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 17/08/2026
The number of ways in which this infuriates me cannot be quantified.
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 12/08/2026
AI Agents increasingly challenge (sorta) the notion of “I think, therefore I am”. #Identity
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Tim Cappalli @timcappalli.me · 01/08/2026
www.gsma.com/newsroom/art...
gsma.com
RCS Universal Profile 4.1: Stronger foundations for secure messaging
Tom Van Pelt, Technical Director, GSMA  With end-to-end encryption now rolling out, Rich Communication Services (RCS) is continuing to mature as a richer, more consistent messaging experience across n...
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WIRED @wired.com · 23/07/2026
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...
wired.com
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.
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 23/07/2026
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...
Logo for the Identibeer meetups - Beer optional. People essential.
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 22/07/2026
Ah, the memories. The friday evenings. The hour(s) spent wandering through the aisles....
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 21/07/2026
Take all my money!!!
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
the pain for Spain is mainly on the wane
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 19/07/2026
The Odyssey is absolutely fantastic. I was absolutely entranced from beginning to end.
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 15/07/2026
We can still do good things if we put our minds to it.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Best “remove glasses to look at something unbelievable” in cinema history.
static.klipy.com
Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Surprise
Alt: Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Surprise
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 10/07/2026
Creating a safer online experience, especially for children, cannot require that we sacrifice #privacy, #security, and #inclusion. #ForAllByAll
internetsociety.org
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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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 07/07/2026
Everything he touches, or even looks at sideways, crumbles. In the most embarrassing way possible.
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 06/07/2026
Watching that Mexico-England game was exhausting.
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Nishant Kaushik @nishantkaushik.com · 04/07/2026
Respect. #CaboVerde
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