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opa AI safety, digital privacy prev: @brown.edu, @mit.edu / @tppmit.bsky.social, google

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Kevin @paeth.xyz · 01/10/2026
A still from the 1984 movie Dungeonmaster, with a character declaring "I reject your reality and I substitute my own!" (Popularized by Adam Savage)
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Kevin @paeth.xyz · 29/07/2026
When you get to testing @standard.site integration, let me know if isitstandard.site helps! Or please share what _would_ help. I built the validator to debug my own AT proto/standard.site learning.
isitstandard.site
is it standard.site?
Validate a webpage's standard.site AT Protocol records, from the page to the PDS to the .well-known endpoint.
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Avijit Ghosh @evijit.io · 23/07/2026
In light of everything happening this week, I wanted to reiterate that AI Flaws and Incidents should be reported in a responsible, coordinated manner, and crucially, this should be administered by a competent body as opposed to voluntary self governance, akin to analogous systems in cyber (CVE).
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Kevin @paeth.xyz · 07/07/2026
While @standard.site is getting more traction (!), can we get some clarity on a finer detail of the implementation, specifically the recommendation to avoid trailing slashes in URIs? @mb21.bsky.social has a good issue here describing it: tangled.org/standard.sit... cc @aka.dad @evil.brookie.blog
tangled.org
Why recommend avoid trailing slashes on publications? #13
The Standard.site schema currently says about publication.url: "Avoid trailing slashes", and about document.path: "Combine with site or publication url to construct a canonical URL to the document. Pr...
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Kevin @paeth.xyz · 24/06/2026
cc @j4ck.xyz who, if I understand correctly, is kinda a fan
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Kevin @paeth.xyz · 15/06/2026
I got nerd-sniped by this last week and ended up writing a @standard.site validator to debug the .well-known discovery. Maybe it's useful! isitstandard.site?url=https%3A...
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isitstandard.site · https://codetv.dev/blog/multiple-standard-site-publications-on-one-website
standard.site validation for https://codetv.dev/blog/multiple-standard-site-publications-on-one-website
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Kevin @paeth.xyz · 11/06/2026
That's just the angel's share -- a certain volume of baggage is expected to evaporate while it ages in the cargo hold.
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City of Boston Archaeology @archaeology.boston.gov · 10/06/2026
We’ve dubbed the southwestern portion of the trench Fancy Lad Corner due to the concentration of personal adornment artifacts 🎩 (2/2) #digBOS250 #digBunkerHill #archaeology
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Kevin @paeth.xyz · 10/06/2026
No, I will be the Boston Sports Guy.
A scene from the 1960 film Spartacus, one man next to another in a crowd shouting "I am Spartacus."
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Kevin @paeth.xyz · 10/06/2026
Arara-canindé, a.k.a. flying goofballs of the cerrado
Two blue-and-yellow macaws in a tree, with one sitting atop a branch and the other handing upside down from it.
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Kevin @paeth.xyz · 08/06/2026
and pray tell, the context?!
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Kevin @paeth.xyz · 11/05/2026
h/t @jsbarretto.social.coop.ap.brid.gy's blog which sums it up better than I could: blog.jsbarretto.com/post/human-j... General-purpose "personhood credentials" and similar schemes are pretty much inevitable: arxiv.org/abs/2408.07892
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Adding 'human.json' support to this blog
Taking part in an experiment to build a more human web
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Kevin @paeth.xyz · 11/05/2026
TIL of the "human.json" protocol: codeberg.org/robida/human... "human.json is a lightweight protocol for humans to assert authorship of their site content and vouch for the humanity of others. It uses URL ownership as identity, and trust propagates through a crawlable web of vouches between sites."
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Kevin @paeth.xyz · 06/05/2026
Interesting! The only time I ever saw a `nonce=` attribute was for content security policy: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... Any other uses as an attribute to date, or this would be the second?
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nonce HTML global attribute - HTML | MDN
The nonce global attribute is a content attribute defining a cryptographic nonce (
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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Kevin @paeth.xyz · 27/04/2026
There's still some silly HTML/CSS tricks you can do to present a human-accessible email address but thwart some scraping. A nice empirical write-up: spencermortensen.com/articles/ema... Also, are CAPTCHAs now environmental vandalism!?
spencermortensen.com
Email address obfuscation: What works in 2026?
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RJ Yew @r-jy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The Commodification of AI Sovereignty: Lessons from the Fight for Sovereign Oil (with Kate E. Creasey, Taylor Lynn Curtis, and @geomblog.bsky.social), is out now on arXiv: www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.11763.
Left: 1942 "War Map" produced by Esso, now ExxonMobil, charting oil's role in transportation as  "key to victory". Right: 2024 map produced by NVIDIA as part of an investor presentation slide deck describing its involvement in sovereign AI efforts globally. On the left panel: "Nations are awakening to the imperative to produce artificial intelligence using their own infrastructure, data workforces and business networks."
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