April 2022
@nichochar @RaphaelRoullet Thanks for sharing your thoughts & feedback. Would you want to come share some of your experiences & frustrations with the community who built VCs and DIDs? This would help them understand how to improve things for people like you to more easily implement them. LMK.
@KateRoseBee Super functional here, a good selection of pilot g-2 07s, & a bunch of fun composition notebooks I buy in bulk during school supply time. Stationary? http://moo.com high end custom & pick up nice ones in art museum gift shops. Planners are digital: calendar & scrivener
@KateRoseBee I was a big moleskin fan in the past, including their planners, but I find I prefer the composition notebook, especially when I switched to creating my own GTD notebooks: https://youtu.be/oHRcnbe2LA8 (this is very OG productivity)
At first, I was like, their account has been hacked, and then I looked at the calendar. https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1509951255388504066
@owocki I'd invite you to deep explore Spiral Dynamics as a methodology for your evolutionary categorization of web3.
@owocki @bitcoin4bernie Could also be useful to explore/understand technology replacement theory, & technology replacement as series of stacked s-curves with adoption c-curves under them. You may also enjoy some k-wave theory.
A++ thread https://twitter.com/steak_umm/status/1509942357256515585
@owocki From a broad perspective, web3 seems very green & maybe sometimes red IMO, while web2 is very orange/meritocracy. Could be a fun exercise to slot web3 projects into the spiral!
Q: Who, other than a vet, owns a canine tonometer? A: Quite possibly me, after yet another stressful appointment at the vet. Is it time to level up my rescue dog momness? ps. LMK if you have a good line a used canine tonometer.
@voretaq7 A tonometer takes eye pressure readings.
If I was king of the universe, I would remove jargon from everyone communication and force them to utilize the Heilmeier Catechism.
Web3 is antifragile and that’s the point and attraction rn. At some point it will stop being antifragile and that’s when the VCs/etc will get their ROI.
People sharing hot takes of war crimes in my TL, use an f-ing content warning. You are contributing to the glorification of pain & suffering & not helping anything. Like anyone is surprised there were war crimes? You RTing the horrors of war has no positive outcome. Stop it.
@Cruftbox
image@ronmichael Noooooooooooooooooooooooo 😭 (but ok, you do you)
Double Heather, Instagram Live on NFTs, tomorrow! https://twitter.com/flashidentity/status/1511373606701391872
@ronmichael Also, you were here first.
RT @k8em0: So who’s going to buy 9.2% of Russia to get them to change direction too?
Today I played my favorite Satin Jackets playlist at the beginning of a meeting to get everyone into the mood of the audience I was presenting.
T-minus 17 minutes until @sphcow & I go live on Instagram talking about #NFT #Identity. https://www.instagram.com/heathervescent/
@sixwing Oh no!
Totally still a chaos theory religion. https://twitter.com/heathervescent/status/479145938041049088
TIL that the event discounts for @idpro_org members for @idworkshop or @Identiverse more than pay for your membership. @idpro_org individual membership is just $150 for a year! HMU if you want to join or visit https://idpro.org/membership-individual/ #BossLady #IDPro #identity
This really isn't supposed to be an advertisement, I'm just seriously blown away at the benefits that I think you should know!
Even the "sharing economy" must be regulated when it has been taken over by for-profit entities & lacks a positive feedback loop to sustainably strengthen the community it is exploiting. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/travel/joshua-tree-california-airbnb.html
Excited to announced our NFT Identity session at the next @w3c_ccg on Tuesday, April 12 at 9amPT/NoonET. With presentations by @taykendesign @psykoreactor @provenauthority @walt_id @elinacadouri @sgershuni https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2022Apr/0049.html #NFT #identity #credentials
@CryptoMarquis Sharing economy was not originally for profit. The free market can't exist w/out commons to exploit. Also the free market sucks at including the cost of externalities. Until it does (which it can't bc not everything can be reduced into $$$) it needs to be appropriately regulated.
@CryptoMarquis 🤷♀️ I have read it. FTR, I am a recovered Randian, but don't hold it against me. I have some pretty strong feelings about libertarianism, as a recovered libertarian.
OK, where is that infosec captioned video about the lizard running through the field of snakes.....
Very few people know that I have a full size disco ball on my patio that scatters the light of the rising Mojave sun on the interior of my geodesic dome every morning. If you have a morning call with me, you might see the polka dots of light. ht @boxeswithknobs
@psykoreactor @boxeswithknobs @provenauthority @discoxyz @w3c_ccg I use a metaphor to explain identity from a buddhist perspective of selflessness as the dance floor with flickering lights. So I am v protective of the metaphor of disco balls applied to identity. I am curious to learn what is meant. #whenaminotmyself #blissandemptiness
Only took a mere 2 days to eat a pound of custom ordered dark chocolate @seescandies. Good thing I ordered two pounds.
imageRT @psykoreactor: @_tessr @csuwildcat Discussing it (NFTs and Identity) @w3c_ccg on Tue April 12th 12pm EDT - drop in if you like ! (DM for…
@kimdhamilton I await your reply
Boys are at bombing practice again, windows rattling, gamble quail calls echo the upper range. 6 hummingbirds & a couple pairs of orioles at the feeder. At least one wood pecker getting to work & occasionally I'll see the cooper hawk with breakfast in her claws. #lifeinthemojave
Feeling so granny punk being RTed by @seescandies 🥰 https://www.heathervescent.com/heathervescent/2012/11/granny-punk.html
Feeling poetic, might delete, a memory My city lights twinkled like the universe below me. I grabbed my bag from the overhead compartment. The smell of the city, of Los Angeles' moist cool jetfuel tinged air curled into my nostrils & my lips curled into a smile of pleasure.
The sound of fine shoes echo through LAX's underground tunnel to baggage claim. The wind whipping the palm trees on my street. Rustling the palm fronds.
Clear night like the blackness of the desert. The wind swirls around me as I walk Mr Dog in this misplaced desert night blowing through this city. I think, smiling, if you can't go to the desert, the desert comes to you. I am thankful for these strong, cold, clear Santa Ana winds
At night, I bundle from their chill, remembering times around a sole flickering campfire. During the day, I strip down to t-shirts and hike the heat warmed creosote chaparral. Sweet dust desolation.
I think of empty Mountain Ranges. Full fat moons rising in a pink sky. Black and white lunar surfaces of rock. Hot black cracked pavement. These memories evoked by these swirling winds of the desert.
Penetrating my heart, finding the pain, drying it's wet bloody crying to dust, blowing from my heart to join with dust in these Santa Monica Mountains, the San Gabriels and beyond.
A reflection 👁️👁️ A decade later, I sit in the origin point of these Santa Anas: clear desert sky space. I return to that Hollywood street in my mind. The present then is now the past, the future then, is now the present. I am still the time traveler & the future never arrives.
Intriguing concept for digital provenance. #warcrimes #NFT https://twitter.com/ronmichael/status/1513189017545691140
@k8em0 I find the wisdom as I age is worth the wrinkles. It's also cool to be able to reference trends that I lived through/started. Enjoy non-linear time! 🎂
365 days ago, I replied to this tweet. Little did I know, that an innocent twitter conversation about furniture would be so life changing. A year later, @ronmichael is sitting on a couch across a CB2 coffee table from me & we're celebrating our twitter anniversary. 💕 you babe! https://twitter.com/ronmichael/status/1380938494349049863
@timescanner Bumper sticker I never made “My other car is a Shai-hulud.’
@provenauthority @w3c It's actually tomorrow - Tuesday April 12, unless Monday morning has time morphed into Tuesday.
@provenauthority @w3c No worries! See you tomorrow!
@ronmichael A++ solid idea.
A++ Idea It annoys me that many people don't understand how Elon used gov funding (critical infrastructure) to fund his companies. Gov does lots of this kind of funding bc the the "free market" thinks in short term ROI. Free market would have closed Tesla, SpaceX years ago. https://twitter.com/ronmichael/status/1513582912070828032
@busynessgirl Please don't get me started...
@Rachelwolf00 What kind of person do you want to talk to? Someone who is fresh from the energy of discovery? Someone who has been there from the beginning? I'm the latter & was in the first conversations we had at IIW about DIDs & wrote the first book/report on the tech in 2018.
@Rachelwolf00 Intro to SSI: the standard intro deck I innovated & presented with 5 different co-hosts: https://www.slideshare.net/heathervescent/introduction-to-self-sovereign-identity & https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44774620-a-comprehensive-guide-to-self-sovereign-identity where I was writer, editor, publisher.
@Rachelwolf00 And I might add, these were the days when there was a lot of pushback from people who are now realizing how revolutionary this tech can be.
New to #DID & #VC and Self Sovereign Identity? Curious of a futurist's view of the space? Following, a thread of presentation you may find interesting. Note, these aren't that technical, they track the socio-cultural impact of #crypto #SSI #credentials.
New folks to #DIDs and #VCs (& even those into #NFT #Identity) may find this (4/2018) presentation on #SSI intriguing, and if I may say, spot on. https://www.slideshare.net/heathervescent/selfsovereign-identity-an-analysis-using-appreciative-inquiry
& I already Tweeted this Introduction to Self Sovereign Identity (DIDs & VCs) I spearheaded & co-hosted in 2019. https://www.slideshare.net/heathervescent/introduction-to-self-sovereign-identity
Here's a reprise of the same deck with different co-hosts. I was/am a firm believer of helping new to the community get visibility of their work. https://www.slideshare.net/heathervescent/introduction-to-self-sovereign-identity-iiw-october-2019
While I'm at it. Here's a deck I did on Information Operations aka Maskirovka early 2020 which shares some of my 90s counter-cultural activities & at that time light-hearted creative misinformation activities. https://www.slideshare.net/heathervescent/an-introduction-to-maskirovka-aka-information-operations
Here's my deck on deep fakes and digital identity with every image taking from the original Ghost in the Shell (yes, one of my favorite films of all time, see the original Anime version). https://www.slideshare.net/heathervescent/deep-fakes-digital-identity-and-democracy-237593482
And almost 10 years ago today, I presented on The New Age of Money or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Economic Collapse. So I've kind of been studying & talking about this new economy for a while now. Also who doesn't love slim pickins. https://www.slideshare.net/heathervescent/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-economic-collapse
Got questions? Want advice on what you should do (with your product? your life?) ask away.
Hmmm, Defcon 2022... are we going? Is @dcskytalks back?
ooooooo YES! SkyTalks is back! The only swag that is worth having (IMHO). https://twitter.com/dcskytalks/status/1511493894856495106
@EricaJoy Cultural tribalism. It's showing you are a member of an (elite and obscure) club. This makes one feel even more bonded with those who are part of their tribe, but can alienate those not in their tribe. e.g. The tribe of ETH. Hidden in plain sight.
@EricaJoy Yes basically. Web3 (IMO) is very much a cultural movement, looking to execute its values through new tech. (The new tech embeds those values into the DNA of the tech.) Same as using NFTs as profile pics.
Reminder: NFT Identity preso & discussion W3C Credentials Community Group (@w3c_ccg) w/ myself & @psykoreactor @taykendesign @provenauthority @walt_id @elinacadouri Tues 4/12/2022: 9am PT, Noon ET Anyone can attend: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2022Apr/0049.html #NFT #identity #credentials
image@jivesx @bluknight @dcskytalks @boneheadsanon @quadling @Csp3r OMG you guys, I was talking about the water bottle. Also, as a first year noob (years ago) I failed to buy the badge the first time I got in line & got in because IDK and then I was kicked out and had to wait in line again. 😢 Still, skytalks is my favorite part of Defcon.
@bluknight @jivesx @dcskytalks @boneheadsanon @quadling @Csp3r Yes, I remember that. That was the year I was even conscious of skytalks badges. I wanted one of those so bad and I hate hate hate swag. I also think skytalks spy notebooks would be cool. Oh, maybe I should do a talk about spies....
Oh, if I was only inspired to submit my 12 interesting futures of infosec again... IDK, maybe the failed infosec future of the past is the future of the present???? https://twitter.com/Niki7a/status/1513578696740773889
The big question is can I convince my fiancee, who was a teenage phreaker but now is a very upstanding and morally sound adult to join me @defcon.
@bluknight @jivesx @dcskytalks @boneheadsanon @quadling @Csp3r Oh yes, pen selection is very personal!
@bluknight @jivesx @dcskytalks @boneheadsanon @quadling @Csp3r Ooo, I love Pilot pens.
@quadling @bluknight @jivesx @dcskytalks @boneheadsanon @Csp3r I think I used those in high school drafting class...
@Cruftbox @defcon Hahah. See you there??
A++ & this is the motivation behind covering #NFTIdentity @w3c_ccg today, t-minus 23 minutes. https://twitter.com/psykoreactor/status/1513888579986075652
@provenauthority we lost your audio. Are you able to reconnect?
@provenauthority Perfect timing hmmm? No worries. We'll have you go when you're back.
Woohoo context shifted 4 times before 11am. I love Tuesdays.
Whew, today was a firehose, 8 context shifts could have given me whiplash, but it was a pleasure. The way to do it is be fully present. Thank you Dalai Lama & pandemic for the crash course in presence, fluidity and attention.
A++ Well written Johannes. https://twitter.com/Johannes_Ernst/status/1513642327046123522
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Living in a new gilded age. Gilded age 3.0 perhaps.
Oh sweet bliss, no meetings the rest of the day.
Looking through the @Identiverse agenda and I've already had 3 jaw drop OMGs. I mean, really floored by some folks talking about DIDs and VCs so beneficially when they were so skeptical 4 years ago. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised, cause I'm a cassandra futurist.
Adoption of a new technology is a long and winding road.
@spacemandev Yes! What kind of swag is most interesting to you and your doge? #internetofdogs!
@NikolasFuturist But what speakers?
@chrisrockhacker @Identiverse I think you mean, curmudgeonly seen it all before and no one believed me the first 10 times & now all ya'll late-r adopters are gonna monetize it like you invented it. le sigh.
RT @MerriamWebster: When the takeover bid is so fraught That you don’t want your stock to be bought The poison pill may Cause sufficient di…
Wondering how many people building/working on the #metaverse have seen eXistenZ.
I contain multitudes 🤣
image@Sbryen Oh no!
@pjohanneson @MadelineAshby Yeah, saw them both in Berkeley, and I still have a visceral reaction to Cronenberg that the dry ice cyberpunk coldness can never touch - but there's horror for you.
@SallyDanger @weredawgz @MartiniGiant Oh interesting - what was their reaction?
@robtow Feels like a good double feature with Naked Lunch too. And yeah that whole pistol Chinese restaurant scene was something!
@atara_xyz @SallyDanger Oh yes, another totally under rated film, Dark City. Unfortunately released around the Matrix as well.
Can not believe the number of times I've explained OG, but there it is. https://twitter.com/CryptoDoc20/status/1515720764695191554
@ashigupta People who didn’t experience the 90 IRL.
My latest for @BiometricUpdate #biometrics #ethics #policy #regulation https://twitter.com/BiometricUpdate/status/1516097195258306565
RT @TheOnion: Airlines Announce It Safe To Fly Planes Indoors Again https://bit.ly/3vuEw35
imageRT @evacide: If you think I will not be using this example when I talk about how bad people are at threat modeling, you would be wrong.
Had 2 cortisone shots this am, cried all the drive home. Took a breather and then did 2 presentations on web3 knocking them out. Best moments of my day, other than now, when I will have @ronmichael open this bottle of wine & pretend my body doesn't exist.
So I guess they really are just going to throw bodies at the situation.
@SpeedSportLife Is that ice or a weird paint job? IMO needs smoke colored tail lights, but you may then want to ban me. 🤣🏎️
@SpeedSportLife smokin hot!!
RT @MalwareTechBlog: Once did this with an actual botnet. Picked up 5.3 million infected computers by sniping an expiring C2 domain.
There's no code repo that tracks contributions to the evolution of ones ideas. Where is the culture of attribution to those who have planted the seeds in your mind, from the decades of their experience/research/insights?
What does OG mean? It's from Ice-T's 1991 hit, which I <3ed. OG became shortcut slang for someone who was ORIGINAL, around before the hype & popularity, & someone who wasn't gonna sell out. OG means original with integrity. https://youtu.be/scILa5iPBcg
@decentralgabe Maybe that's because your ideas are actually valued and compensated for, because you work in a different business model. How would you feel if a big company borrowed/stole your idea & put your company out of business?
@decentralgabe Also see open source community where devs not safe in corporate spaces (paycheck) contribute to key working code & have trouble being compensated. It's a failing of current business models & laziness in acks & value.
@decentralgabe Also check your power dynamics. Where do you freely give credit, vs kinda forget or not even notice how you were influenced. Could be ripe for some self reflection Gabe.
@decentralgabe @gitcoin @teaxyz_ Successful outcomes stand on the shoulders of everyone else - especially learning from others mistakes & applying insights gleamed from outside one's brain. There's nothing wrong with execution, & I'd like to see more transparency & value to the input that lead to the success.
I've been working w/ @storj for months. Storj is a secure, reliable & decentralized #web3 storage layer that just works. Today we extend that security & reliability to #NFT storage. Pin your NFT w/ #IPFS & store it on Storj DCS... forever. Beta is open. https://landing.storj.io/permanently-pin-with-storj-dcs https://twitter.com/storj/status/1516751025121730562
#dependentarising https://twitter.com/paulmadsen/status/1516883418386161664
@MakeIDbetter This looks really great, do you have a non-image version available to read? Thanks!
Good morning, blustery all night. Barometric pressure down. Resulting in at least one 60+ mpr gust between 4am and dawn. #lifeinthemojave
@dgwbirch Sure is! #vaguetweeting
@SIOllenburg @changeist Female futurists are called Cassandra
🔥🔥🔥Walmart Lex Luthor 🔥🔥🔥 https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/1518441382192451584
I thought it might be crazy to bring an espresso machine with me on this roadtrip, but gotta say, it's pure pleasure to make my own espresso this morning so many miles from home. ht to @rightfuture ☕️
Deleted so many tweets about that thing today. Going to make another espresso & move to an island in Maine w/ @ronmichael.
Kim Cameron was a brilliant and influential thinker & influenced everyone building digital identity products the past 15 years, whether they knew it or not. A poignant reminder on the eve of #IIW --> My latest for @BiometricUpdate on the Kim Cameron Award. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202204/kim-cameron-scholarship-commemorates-a-digital-identity-legacy-still-growing
Unlocking emergency vet travel edition. On hold.
Clothes dryer with a meditation bell, A++ feature product team.
Back wall of #IIW #kimcameron #legacy #rip
imageCan we just go back to tweeting about our food?
Gotta credit this man for pointing out how the web2 dream was as decentralized as the web3 dream is now. And yet, we embraced centralization. I think this is part of the transition from antifragile to resilience. https://twitter.com/ronmichael/status/1519143041214255104
@sixwing OMG I had tiramisu with this gorgeous cabernet for desert!! And yes!
Skinnypop was A++ snack selection for #IIW.
"[H]is idea to colonize Mars with a million people is an obscenity. We should look after the well-being of our planet, rather than make an inhospitable place livable. You don’t have to be a scientist to know a colony on Mars is not going to happen."
"As for this race with Bezos & other billionaires, I think it’s a marketing design. It gives him the label of being & I say it in several times quotes a “visionary,” meaning if you want to buy an electric car, don’t buy it from the Germans, Chinese, buy it from the “visionary.”"
& more from Werner Herzog https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/werner-herzog-has-never-liked-introspection
@NikolasFuturist You can read a lot of insight from that comment & likes of it & now all this dumbass idiotic dripping ego driven behavior makes sense.
Case in point for the work we are doing @idpro_org. Companies need knowledgable identity professionals yesterday. Want to increase your pipeline of knowledgeable IAM professionals? Join us. #idpro #IAM #CIDPRO https://twitter.com/RuffTimo/status/1519701066136268804
These are typical temps for Mojave/Palms Springs/Indio in a couple months, so it's not like this isn't a US problem and we can ignore it. https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1519476769337659392
@robtow Exactly correct.
Nothing like producing a video thing the first week you are traveling IRL again, but the piece is now FILED!
