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Silona

@silona.bsky.social
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OpenSource, CitableAI, Blockchain, OpenWork@RIT, OpenData, Privacy, OpenHardware, GlobalStandards, Privacy legislation

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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Love to chat!
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MetaBrainz @metabrainz.org · 05/10/2026
Coming up: Silona Bonewald (@silona.bsky.social), our new Executive Director, will be hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on our forums starting in around 20 minutes! (17:00 Central European Summer Time). If you have any questions to ask, please come and do so! community.metabrainz.org/t/ama-with-s...
community.metabrainz.org
AMA with Silona Bonewald, MetaBrainz Foundation Executive Director
Welcome to the AMA (Ask Me Anything) of @Silona, MetaBrainz’ new Executive Director! The thread is open for your questions! It’s open a bit early - Silona will be online and answer your questions o...
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Come Chat!
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MetaBrainz @metabrainz.org · 22/09/2026
We are very pleased to announce that the MetaBrainz Foundation has appointed Silona Bonewald as Executive Director, following the unfortunate passing of our Rob. Read the blog post for more about @silona.bsky.social and to comment and give her a warm welcome! blog.metabrainz.org/2026/09/22/w...
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Welcome Silona Bonewald, new MetaBrainz Foundation Executive Director! – MetaBrainz Blog
We are very pleased to announce that the MetaBrainz Foundation has appointed Silona Bonewald as Executive Director, following the unfortunate passing of our Rob at the beginning of the year.
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have such mixed feels because every time I donate my text messages increase greatly.
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
now I need to find a VERY similar pic of my Aunt Jewel with her siamese that she took for walks on a leash! pink dress and silver tree and ALL!
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
sad part - it might work on them since it works on low self-esteem individuals
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I remember when we had legislators that would write laws against such behavior... too bad about #citizensunited destroying that
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
heh heh same on solar but not surprising to you i'm sure that I am a very early hardware adopter :-)
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Tina Davis (she/her) @sweettinad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is genius.
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
to feed meta's ai apparently...
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æva black @aeva.online · 12/08/2026
Hardware scarcity is our new reality — and spells growing difficulty for mid-sized businesses, managed hosting providers, and many open source communities.
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
love to catch up!
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
so guilty here. i regret the X... and uh it was 140k so um yea...
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
yea!
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
When i get a new place - I'm going to PICKLE all the things. So tasty and so good for the gut!
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Lol something something Apple tree something something :-)
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I'm in NYC for UN's Open source week. Hope to see some of you? Love to chat! ping me on signal - it's my phone what hasn't changed in 30 yrs sooooo.
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I'm here for UN open source week also!
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
worse - trump signed a contract for using pegasus... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus... yep do NOT trust your phones. (biden did an EO to cancel it of course)
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Pegasus (spyware) - Wikipedia
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Fun video on poisoning audio AI files www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYm... from @bennjordan.bsky.social
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The Art Of Poison-Pilling Music Files
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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Command Prompt @cmdpromptinc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Blockchain ≠ Crypto. Smart contracts? 1994. @nytimes classifieds? Part of early blockchain. Listen in to @chronicallyjd.bsky.social as he chats w/ Blockchain & Open Source Leader @silona.bsky.social on "10 Things You Didn’t Know About Blockchain" www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHDY... #Blockchain
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MTAR Presents: T3D Sessions with Silona Bonewald, Blockchain Innovator
YouTube video by Command Prompt, Inc.
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
So accurate it is scary
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amnesiologist @courtneyhenley.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Department Of Greedy Evildoers resonates
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...
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Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Step 1 get rid of citizens united
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Thomas Kiehne @tkiehne.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The Cultural Revolution, but make it AI ("first" is banned?)
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Kia Ora Aotearoa! Looking to move here and join my sister's family (kids were born here) and my parents. Have anything that needs getting done? I'm a hard worker. Here for a month hit me up ;-) #newzealand #opensource #opendata #CitableAI #teacher
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
In case you were thinking of not paying taxes... Those weren't the people cut from the IRS. It was the corporate auditors that were... www.propublica.org/article/how-...
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How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save
The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would y...
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I think with AI - the data is going to get crazy bad. And it will be algos vs algos arms race.
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I mean it takes a LONG time to build that trust and we have lost it big time.
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Plus we are letting all these unvetted people having unfettered access to systems. Who is their right mind would trust anything here anymore. I'm flying to NZ today. Tea? Coffee?
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
100%
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
So if I was an intelligence agency that used to share information with the US... I wouldn't anymore. Expect more terrorism in the US.
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Please don't go to this website and report your local Christian private schools. And definitely don't use a LLM to generate fake reports for this form. And absolutely don't upload random large files that might fill up disk space on their server. That maximum 10mb file limit is a lie. enddei.ed.gov
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Department of Education FormLock
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
But let's chat on signal?
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It's a sad tale of greed and lawsuits as to why I was unable to release all of that work. But as soon as I have removed all parasitic claims ...
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Fantastic idea!
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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I am so sad that we are living in my worst case scenario for 21yrs ago
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Wow nice!
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Terminated federal employees they are tracking y'all here. Not sure but assuming it is for a class action lawsuit www.employmentlawfederal.com/who-we-are/k...
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Kristin D. Alden - Alden Law Group, PLLC
Biographical information about Kristin D. Alden, a federal employment attorney at the Washington, DC law firm Alden Law Group, PLLC.
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is what I've have worked against for 20 yrs and here we are. I'm devastated.
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The same p2173 ♿️ @p2173.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
a great graphic of the many ways #Trusk are violating laws and the constitution christinapagel.substack.com/p/so-this-is... #democracy #fascism #oligarchy #trusk
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"So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks
Where I categorise 76 Trump administration actions from the last 3 weeks and show how they align with the authoritarian playbook
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
They don't watch any true crime shows and it shows. I mean it's a trope of hiding the dead body to keep getting the checks!
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Pics?
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
🔥🔥🔥 Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was arrested for civil disobedience after speaking against a MAGA display that the city council of Huntington Beach agreed to put up at the public library…..that’s what’s up….every word👇
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
For awhile I used to do tic marks during senior leadership meetings for every time this occurred. It actually became a joke for my teams because many times we already had started working on it.
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Silona @silona.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Let's talk about some unsung champions. @archive.org and the #dweb community working on open source tools to enable people to be free and not dependent on the major platforms
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