iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

nora @nora.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

(our approach to CGKA is also substantially different, with some different goals in mind)

nora @nora.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

There’s certainly some overlap with keyhive, and automerge especially, but also some stark differences. e.g, we allow servers/any single entity to make decisions about conflict resolutions rather than relying on CRDTs, etc while proving that the decisions are being made correctly.

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nora @nora.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Our ambition is generally to be server agnostic, such that the protocol can work with a centralized backend or a p2p or decentralized backend.

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nora @nora.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

that'd be cool to see. we should chat and get a better sense of the shape of what atproto would need and how well it aligns with what we've built so far

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Developers from Signal (including its protocol's co-creator) along with Microsoft and Harvard unveil Encrypted Spaces, an open-source codebase for a new generation of private collaboration apps. Think Slack, Discord, Google Docs, all end-to-end encrypted. www.wired.com/story/signal...

wired.com

Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps

The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.

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nora @nora.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Instructions are in the repo. It's still early days and not production-ready, but I'd love to hear your thoughts given the stakes of your work. We're trying to learn from real apps and understand where this model works well, where it falls short, and what research remains to make it practical.

github.com

GitHub - encrypted-spaces/prototype: A cryptographic framework for building collaborative applications over an untrusted server. Research prototype.

A cryptographic framework for building collaborative applications over an untrusted server. Research prototype. - encrypted-spaces/prototype

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nora @nora.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

this is terrible, and yet sadly so common. we need a standardized system for ownership over our digital IDs so big tech companies can’t just flip an off switch for your whole digital life (working on it, but it’s a long road). google, microsoft, etc doing this everyday too and users have no recourse

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 26/10/2025

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text.
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Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/09/2025

NASA scheduled a major workshop for early career researchers during the most important week of the Jewish calendar, during two of the most important days of that week and expects me to accept that this was “difficult scheduling conflicts” That’s what casual antisemitism sounds like

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 15/08/2025

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪 The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs. That is *pure fantasy*. Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

Article on BBC news.
Title: AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs
Description: Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

When I die, please do not write an AI obituary of me *or* code an AI replica, however well-intentioned, but feel free to build a shockingly realistic rotini sculpture & then eat it at my shiva

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Rabbi Emily Cohen @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

The fate of ordinary Gazans trapped by Israel in a war zone and ordinary Israelis held hostage by Hamas in a war zone will be one and the same. They are starving. They are buried beside one another. They are cast aside by those with power to save them. For this we weep.

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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Read this in full. I'm short: The ADL has fully given up on its mission to fight real antisemitism. Instead, they are focused on unconditional support towards Israel, including justification of antisemitism if it serves that goal. Plus, working with fascists & antisemitic groups and people.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

🤖 Always on the lookout for potential net positive uses of “AI”, esp for elderly…but the claims here pissed me right off: “There was no way that we could have found enough songwriters out there to be able to create those tracks in an authentic way” 🚫 No. MANY musicians [wc]ould do this. And, 🧵

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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

As a Jewish person who worked at Harvard for 7 years, including much of the period covered by the Department of Ed. investigation, I object deeply to this retaliatory bullshit being laundered as on my behalf. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

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nora @nora.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I hope you’re preserving scraps of wallpaper for a gallery wall some day when this is all finished!

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nora @nora.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We cannot let the AI take our em dashes away! I also use them all the time—so frustrating how it has become such an indicator of ChatGPT!

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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I have been using the em dash for about 10 years (I only learned English 13 years ago, for context). I even got a whole book I published before ChatGPT to prove it. I am not stopping—too useful!

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 06/06/2025

This is just a flat out lie and everyone involved is either malicious or incompetent

Screenshot of a dialog from Twitter. It says:

"Messages are now fully encrypted

End-to-end encryption: messages are end-to-end encrypted across all your devices.

State-of-the-art privacy: There's no way for anyone, including X, to read your messages.

Set up a passcode: In order to secure your messages, you'll need to set up a 4-digit passcode."

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nora @nora.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Ah, to be clear the virtual HSM here is a juicebox implemented version just for testing the code without costly hardware. It doesn’t even attempt any protections. Which one are you talking about?

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