Nishant Kaushik

Nishant Kaushik

@nishantkaushik.com

CTO @ FIDO Alliance | Identity, Security, Privacy.| Solver of Problems | Mentalic, First Class | Recommended by 4/5 Identirati | He/Him

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Dave Vetter
@davidrvetter.bsky.social

Kudos to NBC New York for saying it without equivocation: "The US is to blame for the world falling behind in the fight against climate change."

Nishant Kaushik
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Just lost one of the greatest. All the respect.

Esther Schindler@estherschindler.bsky.social

RIP. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

news.mit.eduMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMargaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
Nishant Kaushik
@nishantkaushik.com

OK. Finally a proposal about "installing" cameras in public spaces that I can get behind. #Urbanism #UrbanDesign #ForThePeople

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org

Drivers blocking bus lanes and bike lanes... beware! buff.ly/zFLfJfm

buff.lyFinally: City, MTA to Test-Run Bus-Mounted Cameras On Bike Lane Blockers - Streetsblog New York CityThe city and state are gearing up to use the MTA's existing bus-mounted cameras to ticket drivers who park in bike lanes, more than three years after state legislators gave the Department of…
Nishant Kaushik
@nishantkaushik.com

Driving under-16s out of all public spaces, followed by driving them out of all online spaces, where they can find mutual support, is not going to end well. More pointedly, this allows platforms to abdicate their responsibilities to create moderation and safety features. Effectively victim blaming.

Sarah McLaughlin@sarahemclaugh.bsky.social

UK officials admit that they will do "hard checks" to enforce the under-16 social media ban after Australia's failures and will require platforms to verify via passport, license, or credit.

thetimes.comSocial media users face passport checks to enforce under-16 banMinisters seek harder line on ID verification after concerns that screening measures used in Australia have proved too easy for children to circumvent

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app

for reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?'

Marty Lederman@martylederman.bsky.social

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

cbsnews.comThe Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justiceJustice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.

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Randall Munroe
@xkcd.com

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social

Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:

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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.

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Uplifting News
@upliftingnews.bsky.social

A $50 million gift will fund Native student scholarships for the next five years and create a permanent endowment to support Indigenous students for generations.

nativenewsonline.netA $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott is being dedicated entirely to Native students, with $10 million funding scholarships over the next five years and $40 million placed in a permanent endowment to support Native students for generations to come.A $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott is being dedicated entirely to Native students, with $10 million funding scholarships over the next five years and $40 million placed in a permanent endowment to support Native students for generations to come.

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sarah jeong
@sarahjeong.bsky.social

i think this is the best epitaph for bin laden i have ever seen

eb99@eb99.bsky.social

I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia

Nishant Kaushik
@nishantkaushik.com

25 years. The days after showed me so much of the good, the strength we are capable of, as individuals, as a team, as a community. The years after revealed the bad, the manipulation that we are capable of. The decades since remind me of all we lost, all we gave up, all that was taken from us.

Nishant Kaushik
@nishantkaushik.com

It’s a complicated day. Never forget means so much more than just that one day. Changed my life, changed our lives and trajectories, changed the country I called home. All I can wish for today is peace and love. For everyone. #ThorTechnologies #Family #NeverForget

Nishant Kaushik
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Honestly fascinating how my thoughts today are both a distillation and an amplification of this blog post I wrote 15 years ago, on the 10 year anniversary. Glad my blog, neglected, untended, broken links and all, is still around to remind me of this. demerzelsechoes.com/post/5882600...

demerzelsechoes.com10 Years Later, I Miss…I miss the World Trade Center. I loved those towers, and that Manhattan skyline they created along with the Empire State Building. I wish I hadn’t kept putting off going up to the observation deck. I ...
Nishant Kaushik
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Google just rolled out a new Android experience that makes it easy for users to securely move their #passwords + #passkeys between #CredentialManagers. A nice step forward for user choice in the credential manager ecosystem, exactly what @fidoalliance.bsky.social Credential Exchange is designed for.

blog.googleSwitching password managers is easy and safe on AndroidA new Android feature lets you securely transfer passwords and passkeys between password managers.
Nishant Kaushik
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It’s essential to give users the freedom to choose and switch credential managers — so they aren't locked into a particular provider or platform — while avoiding the security risks of exporting credentials in an unprotected file. It's great to see the standards work moving into real-world platforms.

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🖖🏽

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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The soundtrack to our lives indeed.

Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social

94yr old JOHN WILLIAMS delivered a surprise performance of ‘The Imperial March” from Star Wars in front of 13,000 people at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night. He is the soundtrack to our lives.

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Natalie Weiner
@natalieweiner.bsky.social

Here are a series of essays I wrote about Dolly tied to albums at the beginning, middle and end of her vast, prolific career, if you're looking for a little themed reading. www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-dolly-par...

dontrocktheinbox.comOn Dolly Parton, Brilliant In Every EraToday marks an unfathomable loss: Dolly Parton has died. Brilliant artist, devoted philanthropist, remarkable human; to list her achievements here feels redundant, as the cult of Dolly has long since ...

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David Roberts
@volts.wtf

I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.

thelancet.comEvaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysisUSAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

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Heather Flanagan
@sphericalcowconsulting.com

After IETF 126, I’m thinking about what one standards contributor can still do when geopolitics gets bigger than the room. The answer is not heroic: participate thoughtfully, read proposals for what they enable, name the assumptions, and keep asking what kind of Internet this helps create. Still…

sphericalcowconsulting.comStaying Useful in a Geopolitical Internet: Reflections from IETF 126Learn why nation state politics are increasingly shaping technical standards and the future of the Internet. Drawing on reflections from IETF 126, Heather examines how regulatory pressure, geopolitical interests, and competing views of privacy, security, openness, and interoperability can influence standards development and individual contributors. Explore how to participate thoughtfully when larger forces enter the standards process. Heather considers practical ways to evaluate proposals beyond who submits them, recognize patterns, question architectural assumptions, and protect global interoperability while acknowledging legitimate policy concerns and the real harms the Internet can create.