March 2021
@LizaK I need to have a bit more direct experience with emptiness before I feel confident. But yeah, being a hermit, with very few ties to society & living in the desert has caused a lot of the bs to fall from my eyes.
@WisdomInquiry Thanks, that is on my reading list. But also, why silo women to dakinis? I want a female parsing of emptiness from the top! (This is what pissed me off so much after reading the TBOTD. Females were either sitting on a dick (consort) or a dakini. Clearly biased. Fuck that.
@WisdomInquiry Thank you.
@BethanCantrell My goto cheapo red wine is Pinot noir Target box! It’s surprisingly good (IMO) when I’m not drinking the good wine.
Cold night in the Mojave. A storm passed earlier today, no rain on the ground, but the cold metallic smell of creosote breathing in my lungs.
I'm still doing digital identity stuff, I'm just not inspired to tweet about it.
@WisdomInquiry @holochain I was around when they launched and I interviewed Art Brock and Eric Harris Braun like 10 years ago for my research. I had high hopes, but I haven't followed it since it launched.
@WisdomInquiry None. 😢
@WisdomInquiry @holochain probably my notes are somewhere and I know I wrote a blog post about it. They significantly influenced my thinking, now even still. I remember first talking with Art Brock over Chinese I think somewhere in NY or New Jersey over the holidaze.
@WisdomInquiry @holochain yup
To sing the blues you've got to live the dues and carry on.... #lyricsgame
Damn such good organ and psychedelic guitar. I was born in the wrong time.
Ok fine universe, I’ll put force of nature back in my bio. My bad for thinking I could pass as a normal human.
@FrankMcG If you have any questions, LMK. I wrote one of the first books on it. Before MS got into the game even. https://www.amazon.com/Comprehensive-Guide-Self-Sovereign-Identity-ebook/dp/B07Q3TXLDP/
@FrankMcG Awe, thanks. And anyway, ask away. I also co-chair @w3c_ccg which incubated the DID spec. Feel free to join us anytime.
The only thing I missed in Coming 2 America was a Lizzo Soul Glo cameo.
Moved back into my bedroom last night. It’s been in reno since Dec 1. Slept so well, finally feel like myself for the first time in a long time. Confirms the contextual theory of identity, even when a hermit. Also massively upgraded and fixed all the previously annoying bits.
Theme song for 2021? Feels like On Track by @tameimpala, for today at least.
Say hello to the new global power. A whole new series of innovations are being developed under a completely different political paradigm. https://twitter.com/ewhitmore/status/1368276241497939976
If you think the US can compete with China in the future under our current capitalistic system you are mistaken. We need to disrupt our own country to innovate out of today’s global problems & current nation state based identity system.
I've kept a hard copy on my shelf for 10 years. It revolutionized my thinking. https://twitter.com/mzyk83/status/1368278393423355908
@mikko @sternpinballinc What is your favorite pinball machine to play?
@mikko @sternpinballinc I’m partial to Cirqus Voltaire myself!
Is anyone connecting NFTs stuff to digital twins and unique identifiers on IRL objects? Bonus points for non-digital native proof of stake verification. cc @Blazenhoff
Alternately is there a DID-NFT method?
Additionally, is this more than a proof of concept? https://art.art/digital-twin
@JamieXML @Blazenhoff Or a place to park/associate data with a physical object collected by many entities.
@r0b3rta Yay! Hope you enjoy!
First set of signed bookplates with stickers arrived!! #thesecretsofspies #cyberattacksurvivalmanual https://twitter.com/r0b3rta/status/1368696209108475909
Wait, so she's being framed as a manic pixie dream girl?
So glad I've been up since 5:30am, this day has started with a bang! (In a good way.)
On Wed, Mar 10, @w3c_ccg has a 2-part mtg between the CCG & SOLID project. At 4pmCET/10amET/7amPT the CCG will present to the Solid team & At 7pmCET/1pmET/10amPT, The SOLID team with Tim Berners Lee will present to the CCG. Anyone can join: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2021Mar/0027.html #collaborate
@fatemehx2 Seems like they need a new personalization ML algo. Or to tweak their existing one. That's just lazy/creepy and not delightful.
Wine, chocolate, a dog on each side, some British drama, the only thing missing is a crackling fire.
Explanation of NFTs --> "This is so about money & not art." & "The trendiest, hottest, sexiest art market action is a convoluted method of making newer art mediums conform to older art market methods." https://www.facebook.com/art.critic/posts/10160943016423916 #nft
@pacoid Do I count? I’m coming up on my official pandemic quarantine anniversary.
My tax guy is trying to convince me to buy an airplane. So... I’m available for hire for all your decentralized and IoT identity needs. #pilotlife
@Cruftbox Great read. Thanks for sharing and all you do!
RT @Cruftbox: A year in the empty offices https://cruftbox.medium.com/a-year-in-the-empty-offices-c763e24397cc
The coconut scent of my split end mender is the closest I have come to a vacation as I celebrate my 1 year quarantine in the Mojave desert anniversary.
The cold desert wind blew all yesterday and through the night. A calm pause at dawn. But as the sun rises so too does the wind. "And in the air of today, is tomorrow's dust." cc @tameimpala
So I'm editing a json file and using git on a semi-regular basis. Is it time to stop saying I'm not technical? Or do I need to write an MVP VC wallet first?
@novysan You including some actual female futurists?
@novysan I really wish these kinds of things did more proactive outreach discovery vs whomever and everyone can apply...
Really missing @pinkyracr a lot lately. Her memorial is in 10 days. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/memorial-for-susanna-pinkyracer-schick-tickets-145149791935 She was one of my best friends, I guess a till death did us part one, but her strange loop remains inside me.
Cold morning in the Mojave, I play Zuco 103, mentally travel to a remote beach in Northern Ceará, dream of my toes in the sand, a chopp at my side, sun on my skin, the salty air in my lungs.
RT @jamie247: Remember: ‘Want to profit from a gold rush? Sell picks & shovels’ ⛰ #NFTs
@MalwareTechBlog Protip: frozen fruit.
One of my greatest accomplishments is taking a raggy rescue dog with issues, and transforming them into a sleek loved pup with the most luxurious fur. Double impressed with the fur growth in Shoogs bald patches. The power of diet, supplements and love.
Two hours in the sensory deprivation tank and I never want to interact with humans again/have renewed patience for this limited human existence.
Dusk, driving home, grey clouds over a snowy San Jacinto. To the west is San Gorgonio, covered in a layer of its own icing. I head north, this range has an unusual dusting of snow as well. I look at the water up in those mountains, precipitation that fails to fall on my desert.
Can't stop thinking how this is so much late stage capitalism with a side of IDGAF punk... https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1370561168759263233
TFW you made a smoothie but you have to eat it with a spoon.
@TheEmilyDare "When am I not myself."
@usabilitycounts Similar to yours + I feel grateful and privileged to live safely in the desert, & yet utterly livid at yet another interruption of my career trajectory + buying a house + all my other life goals that are challenging for a self-employed single person.
@WisdomInquiry @nori_reed Yup beekeeper life. Super impressed she is doing it with are hands! That’s some comfortableness.
Yesterday I had a table at a local outdoor market to test a new idea. I also brought along my two books and wow it was fun to talk to people about security and espionage in downtown Joshua Tree!! Ps yes I am still doing digital identity, I just can’t talk about it.
Should I even bother to tweet about digital identity/my work or do you prefer to hear more life of vescent/life in the mojave/how vescent parses the world type poetry?
@dgwbirch Oh Dave, you are both *the* digital identity expert *and* the most open to learn new things.
What are the best new wave/80/90s/mashup funeral songs? Asking for me planning one of my best friends memorials...
@twinearthwater 🖤💔💖
@twinearthwater The promise... 😭
@r0b3rta So good. Thank you!
Kiss them for me, if I am delayed. #gothfuneralplaylists
@darrello I need to bust that out in some dirt! Thanks for the reminder!
@chrisrockhacker You've got no choice kustodian!
Clocked a 43 mph gust. A windy day.
Turns out Dead Can Dance is the perfect music for a windy desert day, writing, dreaming, grieving, planning.
Why should I be surprised that I can plan a bestie's funeral when I've single-handedly (before I recruited a leadership team) thrown an event for 500+ drunk unruly Santas? Gonna send you off in your sparkly goth style @pinkyracr! Miss you, love you forever.
OK, so what am I into in digital identity these days? It's sure not humans! PLEASE, let's talk about identity for non-humans! Most systems are woefully prepared for the coming onslaught of 128 billion connected devices in the next decade.
So you see, all my meditation about emptiness and being a hermit with no humans _does_ foreshadow my digital identity work.
Also last year's rejected NSF proposal turned out to be spot on.
I really want to stress/grieve eat, but I'm also trying to lose weight for my granny knees. ARGH.
@AndyMicone well I actually already lost my covid pounds (I barely gained any) but apparently I need to weigh what I did in high school.
I have eaten a half dozen of my patented stuffed dates with dark chocolate chips, chunky almond butter, chocolate syrup, and walnuts. Practically sated and it’s all heathy right?! https://twitter.com/heathervescent/status/1371640298632212481
I would make my (single/divorced) mom breakfast in bed after she’d get home from a late flight & I hadn’t see her in days. I was flying alone at age 9. Later, I would disappear into the woods to escape my evil stepmother. Have lived on my own since I was 16. Now I do what I want. https://twitter.com/ShanelleLittle/status/1371649796558098435
If only there was an entity who created protections. nah we don’t need any rules or regulations.... https://twitter.com/sadisticsystems/status/1371473100789968896
I guess not that many people paid attention to the first DAO hack on the first DAO IIRC.
Fascinating reading.... #electionsecurity #influenceoperations https://twitter.com/RidT/status/1371891564713234432
Just because you’ve been open during the pandemic doesn’t mean I’ve been ready to visit your establishment.
Apparently, I will continue to have mild rage seething just under the surface for the days leading up to her memorial, which is Saturday, which may just explode if you push any "pandemic is no big deal" at me. She'd be alive if not for the pandemic.
TFW you see the real interop you've been yammering about for years. And it's A++.
This cohort of companies blew my mind re: true DID and credential interop. They are building the future of credentials you and I will use for years to come. https://twitter.com/trbouma/status/1372553261278957579
@LeahHoustonMD @mwherman2000 @IdentityWoman @HearroInc @drummondreed @ChristopherA Oh yeah, we spent many hours on calls several years ago hashing out this scenario. I would suspect Vitalik is coming from a non-identity perspective, hence the DID/VC work not registering on his radar.
Good morning! Coyote trotting through my property with rodent breakfast in their mouth. Cycle of life.
So happy to not have to wake up before 7am tomorrow during time change week, which has otherwise been all week adding sleep deprivation to this week's challenge.
@nimakam @LeahHoustonMD @mwherman2000 @IdentityWoman @HearroInc @drummondreed @ChristopherA You can self assert a VC, doesn't have to have an institution sign it, although one could.
@nimakam @LeahHoustonMD @mwherman2000 @IdentityWoman @HearroInc @drummondreed @ChristopherA A scenario: submit a resume with no PII (name/contact info) but the resume details are verified via credentials. E.g. The potential employer can trust the education credential cause it's signed by the educational institution, & you can share it w/out your PII.
@nimakam @LeahHoustonMD @mwherman2000 @IdentityWoman @HearroInc @drummondreed @ChristopherA Also, probably a lot of assumption in your "exactly this" scenario cause it's twitter and limited character, but yeah, the whole point is to be able to safely, share credentials (self-asserted & from institutions/government/etc) w or w/out PII. It's pretty amazing tech.
@nimakam @LeahHoustonMD @mwherman2000 @IdentityWoman @HearroInc @drummondreed @ChristopherA Happy to discuss the exact scenario in detail.
@nimakam @LeahHoustonMD @mwherman2000 @IdentityWoman @HearroInc @drummondreed @ChristopherA Would you want to come to a CCG call and propose this problems and have a community discussion how DIDs/VC might be able to address part/all of this?
@LeahHoustonMD @ChristopherA @nimakam @mwherman2000 @IdentityWoman @HearroInc @drummondreed What wow? She's gone? Any details about that?
@nimakam @ChristopherA @LeahHoustonMD @mwherman2000 @IdentityWoman @HearroInc @drummondreed That was a point of discussion among the authors of that paper. And TBH it was written before a lot of the tech was built. I think we'd have slightly more educated ideas now that we've got 2+ years of DID/VC experience under our belts.
@LeahHoustonMD @VitalikButerin Hey @VitalikButerin happy to chat more, but I also recognize the desire of tech folks to build their own vs collaborate/learn from others. If you are into collaborating, come join us. We're a bunch of identity nerds, mostly don't bite & are more inclusive than crypto community.
@trvisfw well, in some of these cases, there are no human individuals... in supply chain there are agents/companies/governments + products w/ digital (or not so digital) twins.
@trvisfw Gotta change the way you think about identity & ownership when you are dealing with non-human identities.
@SamBendett I love following you. You really find some of the best pieces to amplify & seem to understand complex landscapes. Thank you.
OSINT research skillz coming in handy finding pictures of BFF for tomorrow's memorial. Yes, these are tears on my keyboard.
@trvisfw I don't think you understand. Or maybe you're being funny.
Just posted a photo https://www.instagram.com/p/CMpatnvhdC5/?igshid=nbgc3w5knki2
It has been an emotionally intense day. 3 hour memorial (that I planned & ran) for my bestie @pinkyracr, & I guess I decided this was the weekend to up my empathy/compassion training w @jhalifax 's GRACE course. I'm gonna go lie down in a desert wash now & let it all flow out.
@cillic @pinkyracr @jhalifax Thanks Carl!
@timescanner Try being a futurist!! Time becomes your plaything to manipulate!
I'm reminded of this piece I wrote the compares buddhist selflessness with the supply chain. You heard it here first folks! Blasphemy! https://heathervescent.medium.com/on-being-self-less-cabe86baf6db #selflessness #Buddhism #SupplyChain
@ronmichael 😂😂😂 that’s so good!!!!
Strangely, I was just remember *my* own super weird/creepy/non-consensual experience at this "club". There were a lot of red flags & inauthenticness & I stopped going when it stopped being entertaining. Give me Boardners instead! cc @Ruth666 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-03-21/cloak-and-dagger-goth-nightclub-closed-sexual-misconduct-claims
@fatemehx2 I will clean out and re-organize your fridge if I am your guest (and you consent of course). Although I will query you for your fridge behavior for proper placement. Mine is not that perfect but not far off. 😊
Free pour of Grand Mariner into Orange La Croix. The season is open!
@bobblakley The La Croix opens up the flavors and aromas trapped inside that sticky sweet liquor!
I appreciated this framework which I learned over the weekend. It opened my eyes to daily challenges of care workers - wow what a hard job. & I had fresh ideas to apply it to my tech work which seems so small comparatively. 🙏 https://twitter.com/jhalifax/status/1374006531025346561
@cyriakharris Writing is deleting all the things you previously wrote. Sometimes it’s surgery, sometimes it’s a butcher shop. Enjoy the process and delete your precious words. 🤡
When breakfast is pizza, dinner is atonement. #smoothielyfe https://www.instagram.com/p/CMvoijIBsNo/?igshid=1vvo498nag4wa
@WisdomInquiry That’s not pizza or a smoothie!!! Trickster!!!
Blustery morning in the mojave. Clouds blow in across the basin. Dryness and cold around my oasis, desert willow burst with green sprouts, & pear, peach, apricot, plum blossom. In the greenhouse, long dormant fig unfurls large green leaves. Spring will come.
Why yes, I am updating my presentation on maskirovka/information operations with what we've learned from the QANON situation for my 11am. It's really amazing how much information is available today vs 1 year ago.
FWIW, I have opened slack exactly once in the past year. Now, that's freedom.
Why did I not make the vegan chocolate chia seed pudding for breakfast before now? Protip: Blender. So creamy and decadent, how can this be healthy?!
@WisdomInquiry Super easy & a gazillion online options. 1.5 c soy milk/oat milk creamer (I mixed), 3 tbsp cocoa & maple syrup, .5 c chia, salt, cinnamon, blend all -chia first, then add chia. Put in container & refrigerate overnight.
Apparently I can talk for 2+ hours about information operations and manipulation mostly off the cuff... and just barely get started... glad I know the answer to that question about myself now.
Note to self, do not edit JSON files while providing emotional support to grieving friends. Clearly I am not skilled enough to not make a mistake.
Come to the Mojave.... https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2021-03-25/stunning-california-odyssey-or93-wolf-on-a-mission
@kayaelle You using Unsplash? Also when I am looking for images to illustrate new concepts, I think about what my brain thinks of, and then search on those terms. I personally like a lot of design/architecture. Good luck!
Is there an institution or webinar series that will invite me/sponsor me to do my Maskirovka/Introduction to Information Operations by an OG Cacophonist/Futurist talk? Minimum 1 hour + Q&A, guaranteed to be fascinating. War and art and manipulation and freedom.
I often don't feel my work is successful (I still financially struggle a lot), but I have successfully run my own indie foresight/research consulting company for 15 years this summer (w/ no trust fund or male partner patron). That's more than most of startups. So there is that.
@iramey https://youtu.be/w3qPMe_cCJk
I am here for all the ASMR bread tips and tricks videos.
@galdinopedron https://youtu.be/GV_AWD4erdE!
@CorneliaDaheim Thanks for your kind words Cornelia. But I'd like to have enough $$ to buy a fancy fast car & a garage to put it in one day. 😊
I’m finally feeling some hope. The nightmare is ending and it’s time to create a new normal. I can’t wait to go to the gym in 5 weeks.
@fatemehx2 Thanks for your kind words Fatemeh... I wish it felt like it more often!
"The future lies in who can in fact own the future as it relates to technology, quantum computing, a whole range of things including new medical fields." - Joe Biden #firstturning is coming
Also very eye opening, I hadn't seen it explicitly stated before that Putin & Xi Jinping's focus on autocracy as the governance model to succeed in the future. IMHO, look to the crypto space for your answer, but I am also 100% biased.
@CorneliaDaheim Awe thanks. I am very much impressed by your work as well.
@boxeswithknobs Yeah, just wish as that pioneer it was easier for me to directly monetize...
@PrivacyCDN That is so true! And thank you for pointing it out. Integrity is a financial liability.
We are on watch for a potential emergency vet weekend. Hoping someone gets his energy/appetite back by dinner.
@PrivacyCDN Yeah but translate that into more $$$? I guess some people are willing to pay more for integrity but it’s not always the private sector unfortunately.
RT @FrankMcG: Is the ship still stuck? https://istheshipstillstuck.com
@canislatrans Oh dear...
@PrivacyCDN Expect nothing and you won’t be disappointed!! 😂😂😂
Mild day in the Mojave. Go for a hike or do all the estate upkeep like hive check, gardening, greenhouse maintenance? Why not both and enjoy a nice dry rosé at sunset?
@SamBendett I do. But I am not the best beekeeper. I like the challenge of creating an oasis in the desert!
@_gabecohen Congrats on the concussion count!
Side effect of my covid shot? I have no more fucks to give.
@lpeterman Exacerbated.
RT @nbcsnl: what the hell’s an NFT
imageOK fine, I will try that cinnamon rolls recipe of the year. Wondering if I should do the paint touch up while the dough proofs... #multithreading
Pondering this tweet. The roll out in the US is def to show the good USA is back. But it’s not black/white & the US, democracy & capitalism have matured. I personally think we can learn from all this & evolve towards the US ideals. It’s a moonshot flex. #firstturning https://twitter.com/jilliancyork/status/1376238221525450752
These are baking, so I have 10 min for hot takes.
imageThere’s a reason this is @kingarthurbaking ‘s recipe of the year. I added a pinch of allspice and cardamom to the cinnamon and may have used a healthy amount of vanilla bean paste. #cinnamonrolls #kingarthurflour https://www.instagram.com/p/CM-bB6vBnqd/?igshid=es79ardv3mza
The bitterness of my coffee cuts the sweetness of this vanilla bean icing, accentuating and mellowing the extremes of both. A metaphor for life?
@michaelsherrill 😂😂😂
@michaelsherrill @nhuntwalker Haven't we done that like several times already even with cryptocurrencies? Where is @klout? And what happened to that ?marketplace? out of Edmonton that tied a currency to your social media activity. And every single branded shitcoin out there?
Is anyone tracking the provenance of venture capital?
@michaelsherrill @nhuntwalker PS. Come visit my desert oasis anytime.
@michaelsherrill @nhuntwalker Also thanks. Didn't mean to come across so spicy. LOL
RT @ruppehill: Has the boat tried not being stuck?
@SamLoci Bingo!!!
@SamLoci Yup. All you gotta do is find that one patron with deep pockets to fund your crazy idea.
Gorgeous and warm day in the Mojave. Email can wait while I patch window trim and photograph these grey bees!! I may have also found my aikido weapons and practiced a bit. It may have been decades since I’ve been on the mat, the muscle memory of so much practice remains.
Barely captures this GREY bee with yellow “mouth” on my lavender this morning. I’ve never heard of a grey bee before!! https://www.instagram.com/p/CNBBEagBTAu/?igshid=ip31rrkzem5f
Cracked 80 today. Blustery afternoon. Turning the corner in so many metaphors. It’s the 1 year anniversary of welcoming Shoogy to the family. Here are some of desert blooms. Halcyon on and on and on and on and on and on.
image image imageIf there’s one thing I can replicate without fail, it’s transforming emptiness into our reality. But it’s not that big of a skill, because you do it too, even if done without consciousness or skill.
Freedom has so place in a free society!!1!1
RT @PlanetofFinks: I'm confused by all the posts acting like a new satanic panic is just starting now. what did you think qanon was this wh…
@_gabecohen Never!
@_gabecohen Good luck! Humans have messy diverse contradictory emotions and that’s a feature not a bug. Just gotta learn to roll with it. (Kinda being flippant but last not flippant.)
@ronmichael Late stage capitalism
Another gorgeous day in the Mojave. I have things to write, but I have been on a painting kick. Do both? Let's see.
But seriously the camera assistant! https://twitter.com/LilNasX/status/1377061347725254665
Really enjoying this insta. I grew up in a partially remodeled old Vic so the exposed plaster and lathe and moulding and levels of decay feels like comfort. https://instagram.com/betsysweeny
I have crazy idea to improve inclusion/diversity, but I need some help. I am looking for someone/s to provide a reflection/reaction to digital identity work/definitions from a trans and POC perspective. They don't have to be technical, but digitally literate. Recommendations?
If you can recommend someone, or RT, I can follow-up with more details. I think the trans perspective is particularly important because of inherent gender in a lot of digital identity. The POC perspective is important because I don't have it & thus can't know what I am missing.
Thanks in advance for any help.
@TzviyaSiegman Hmmm.... interesting. I want folks not in/unaffiliated with W3C for this, do you think the PWE could do that? (Also I would totally attend more if the mtg was an hour later, 7am that day/time just never works.) :-(
The town of Joshua tree has ~3000 single family homes. Almost 1000 are short term rentals aka AirBnBs - not all legal. It’s outta control & locals are unable to find housing anymore. https://twitter.com/90mifromneedles/status/1377296782061838337
@TzviyaSiegman Done!
@r0b3rta Thanks Roberta.
@darrello @Hyperledger @trustoverip Sorry I missed this... was this recorded???
@fatemehx2 It’s really bad. I know of at least 3 people looking for housing and there is none. Thank you!
