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Clinton Bowen

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Infosec, climate change, memes, and whatever strikes my fancy on torrho.com blog Also founder of @slavecodes.org Maybe one day will get to @jimcrowlaws.org former handle - @torrho.com Maker of @tektite.cc

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FRIENDS is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults - Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe - living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

26.02.2026 11:30 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 5

US Women’s Hockey forever

25.02.2026 02:26 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

What.

24.02.2026 21:29 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
How to Cuss Out a Ship Captain from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - YouTube
How to Cuss Out a Ship Captain from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - YouTube https://slavecodes.org/slave-trade-map/

Happy Black History Month Y'all!

I made a video to show you all on [how to cuss out a shop captain from the Trans-Atlantic slave trade](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQdGqds2D8)

24.02.2026 01:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s giving middle passage

20.02.2026 15:36 πŸ‘ 2560 πŸ” 785 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 22

I need people to understand that "AI" used in moderation isn't necessarily the "AI" of ChatGPT + friends or synthetic text extruding machines, or LLMs. There's stuff lumped under "AI", as the term is a marketing term, that is actually useful and important for flagging stuff on social media.

20.02.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 712 πŸ” 234 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 19
Willie Colón - Ausencia (Visualizador Oficial)
Willie Colón - Ausencia (Visualizador Oficial) YouTube video by Fania Records

β€œAusencia” is one of the deepest, nastiest grooves ever recorded. (That tempo, holy hell!)

youtu.be/gVv136d9ZlM?...

22.02.2026 03:38 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Actually asking the people how they feel about AI in their products, what a concept.

Thank you πŸ™πŸΌ @blackskyweb.xyz @rude1.blacksky.team

20.02.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So I participated in this survey and as of right now the majority of the comments are sincere and thoughtful. And many want clarification on the difference btwn machine learning and gen-AI. Part of democratizing technology is clear communication that dismantles harmful opaque marketing terminology.

20.02.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why we need this (my opinion); a bit of repeating what was there with metaphors

20.02.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3

I remember the second number we had. The first number, I remember 366-....

21.02.2026 02:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI and Media Moderation for Blacksky-Only Posts Blacksky-only posts are coming. The community uploads 100K+ media monthly, too much for human review alone. Any AI moderation would run on our own infrastructure. No third party gets access to Blacksk...

πŸ—³οΈ Blacksky-only posts are coming.
- The community uploads 100K+ media monthly, too much for human review alone.
- Any AI moderation (if we used it) would run on our own infrastructure.
- No third party gets access to Blacksky data, period.

Please weigh in using the below survey by Feb 28th πŸ‘‡πŸΎπŸ‘‡πŸΎπŸ‘‡πŸΎ

20.02.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 500 πŸ” 186 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 72
Bad ass Leila Edwards, in a blue USA jersey holds a hockey stick. A quote from Laila Edwards about leaving a legacy and inspiring young Black girls is displayed beside her.

Bad ass Leila Edwards, in a blue USA jersey holds a hockey stick. A quote from Laila Edwards about leaving a legacy and inspiring young Black girls is displayed beside her.

A Black woman won an Olympic gold medal today! Her name is Laila Edwards. She's is the first Black woman to win an Olympic hockey gold medal in Team USA history. πŸ‘πŸ–€

19.02.2026 22:41 πŸ‘ 1595 πŸ” 379 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 25
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It's up

16.02.2026 17:41 πŸ‘ 1316 πŸ” 220 πŸ’¬ 89 πŸ“Œ 76

I did a similar move from the 818 to just off la cienega little over a decade ago. Absolutely loved it in the wood.

19.02.2026 06:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
β€œRIP Alcorn State at Mardi Gras… Texas Southern Did It TWICE 😭⚰️ (Full Funeral Sermon)”
β€œRIP Alcorn State at Mardi Gras… Texas Southern Did It TWICE 😭⚰️ (Full Funeral Sermon)” YouTube video by BougeeTvLive

youtu.be/6B2uBev1wfw

RIP Alcorn

19.02.2026 06:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

is that the same as atproto touchers?

19.02.2026 05:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Millennial- Alcohol
Gen X - Rain
Boomer - Boogie

19.02.2026 05:07 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

is this still maintained? or just time?

19.02.2026 05:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Okay I'm sold!

The PRs will flow

19.02.2026 05:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

also for anyone reading this, if the HPKE + sealed macaroon idea pique any interest, please updoot this skeet. maybe i will write a follow up blog post. no promises.

19.02.2026 05:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

E.g. instead of having many pieces of private data, can we just have one for a bunch of private data (or an empty set of private data!)?
That way the metadata is somewhat of a fuzzy indication that you may have private data but not guaranteed??
That way there is "some" protection against metadata.

19.02.2026 05:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Okay all of that said to really say these two things:
1. i really like the idea around having a metadata only CAR/stream however,
2. is there something that we can do to limit the metadata leakage for private/secret data?

19.02.2026 05:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

for this use case i had in mind, PDSes would just need a well known HPKE endpoint to publish their public key details + key's purpose for this!

Without loss of generality, this could be extended to beyond PDS to PDS operations.

19.02.2026 05:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

At a high level:
1. sealed macaroons prevent further attenuation to simplify the verification process (i.e. a macaroon cannot be further attenuated beyond the issuance).
2. HPKE would allow for a way for services to have third party caveats (e.g. "PDS1: PDS2 please verify auth of this admin")

19.02.2026 05:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Thought on PDS Administration - Clinton's Other Blog PDS_ADMIN_PASSWORD needs a lift

torrho.leaflet.pub/3mbcw32nbrs2e

and @bnewbold.net's comment about UCAN T-Rexes haunted me while I began writing this proposal.

19.02.2026 05:15 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I had been looking at sealed macaroons + HPKE as an authN/Z mechanism to compliment OAuth for ATProto. I went so far as to begin writing a PR for the bluesky-social/proposals repo but stopped as I worried the solution was overcomplicated.

My use case was to simply have RBAC for admins...

19.02.2026 05:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
ATProtocol Record Hydration: Building Privacy-Aware Views ATProtocol Record Hydration: Building Privacy-Aware Views posted by @smokesignal.events on 2025-08-01 18:00 UTC

blog.smokesignal.events/posts/3lvehx... - your other post has a key point in here:
The inter-service JWT approach is just the beginning. We could extend this with richer authorization frameworks like UCANs or OAuth RARs.

19.02.2026 05:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning

18.02.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Funny enough I played with UMAP this weekend looking at data from slavevoyages.org!

18.02.2026 04:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0