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   Chuck Darwin (cdarwin@c.im)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 05:55:56 JST Chuck Darwin

   in reply to

   The White House's National Design Studio has also built or taken control of websites that belong,
   by law or by convention,
   to other federal agencies.

   The sites handle some of the most sensitive personal information Americans give to the government.

   Passports.gov is now run from inside the White House,
   not from the state department.

   The state department operates US passport services through its existing site at travel.state.gov.

   The studio’s version collects identity information from people applying for passports.

   It carries no privacy notice.

   Developer test code was left running on the live page.

   In response to a request for comment,
   a state department spokesperson wrote:

   “The Department of State is working closely with the White House to deliver the best possible service for our passport customers
   while safeguarding US national security.”

   They added:
   “US passport books and passport cards
   – and the programs and websites that support them
   – represent the gold standard in secure international travel documents,
   underpinned by state-of-the-art security and technology.”

   They referred additional questions to the White House.

   Trumpaccounts.gov is the federal website for the children’s investment programme created in last summer’s tax legislation.

   The treasury department, which administers the programme,
   is the registrant of record for the site.

   But the site itself runs through the same White House-controlled commercial account as the studio’s own sites:

   ndstudio.gov,
   the prescription-drug site trumprx.gov,
   the food-policy site realfood.gov
   and others.

   The treasury department did not respond to a request for comment.

   Login.gov is the federal sign-in gateway that more than 150 million Americans use to access services from social security to tax filing.

   The studio’s preview of vote.gov,
   described in the previous post,
   uses Login.gov to verify the identities of visitors.

   The Guardian contacted the General Services Administration (GSA), which operates Login.gov, for comment.

   A spokesperson replied in an email:
   “Login.gov is committed to the highest standards of privacy, transparency, and security.

   Our Privacy Impact Assessment was most recently reviewed in March 2026.

   All personnel supporting Login.gov,
   including detailees,
   are required to comply with applicable GSA policies, security requirements, privacy controls, and governance processes.”

   The NDS, meanwhile, seems to be expanding its footprint across more government websites.

   In late May, three new addresses tied to the NDS appeared in the public records:
   chat.staging.ndstudio.gov,
   onboarding.ndstudio.gov
   and upload.ndstudio.gov.

   #posthog #nds #doge #tracking #surveillance

   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/28/government-website-visitor-tracking-surveillance-fears?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Oct-2025 19:06:03 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   Daily Inspiration - The Future of Work: "The future is not won simply by knowing what comes next, but by how fast you can deploy a team to meet the challenge!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

   A client approached me for a keynote that went into the topic of the future of work.

   He didn't want the typical focus found with the topic, which tends to come from a typical HR focus.

   He wanted to know how to relate future trends to the future skills needed to align with those trends.

   Companies know they must upskill their workforce to deal with the trends that define tomorrow, and yet they believe their team is not ready. This means that while a forward-looking 85% of employers plan to prioritize upskilling for this new reality, their own managers are sounding the alarm, with 64% believing their employees cannot keep pace with future skill needs.

   In other words, the workforce is not ready for the future!

   This led me to create a new structure for a keynote topic - Solving the Acceleration Paradox: A New Playbook for the Future of Work. The full description is over on my Signature Keynotes page.

   In the midst of this, I came across this fascinating Wall Street Journal article late last night. This is precisely the type of path forward that I'm building into the keynote. THIS is the future of work!

   ---

   Inside the Bank Where Almost Every Employee Is a Gig Worker Wall Street Journal, Oct. 6, 2025

   At Standard Chartered, a ‘talent marketplace’ lets workers take on in-house ‘gigs’ to smooth the way for AI adoption. And the idea is gaining traction elsewhere as the technology upends workforces.

   -----

   All of this got me thinking, and I began writing this post - but I originally started with this idea. "The future is not won by what your team knows now, but by how fast it learns what it needs to know next!”

   And then I realized I was on to something!

   Read the rest of the post for more!

   ----

   Futurist Jim Carroll first explored the topic of the 'future of work' in his 1997 book, Surviving the Information Age.

   **#Work** **#Skills** **#Agility** **#Learning** **#AI** **#Talent** **#Upskilling** **#Innovation** **#Flexibility** **#Future**

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/10/decoding-tomorrow-the-future-of-work-the-future-is-not-won-simply-by-knowing-what-comes-next-but-by-how-fast-you-can-deploy-a-team-to-meet-the-challenge/

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   Laurens Hof (laurenshof@fediversereport.com)'s status on Saturday, 19-Apr-2025 02:05:24 JST Laurens Hof

   Bluesky Report – #112

   The main news of this week is about the Turkish government pressuring Bluesky to hide accounts by political dissidents on the network. Yesterday I published an article about the situation, and how geographic-based moderation works on Bluesky. The other news of this week is that custom feed builder Graze raised 1M USD, and a new fork of the Bluesky app.

   Graze raises 1 million USD

   Custom feed builder Graze has raised 1 million USD in a pre-seed adventure round. Graze allows people to build their own custom feed, in a way that makes it accessible for non-coders. The platform also allows for feed builders to include ads into their feeds. The feature has been slowly rolling out recently, and feed operators are starting to use the advertisement options now. One example is the News Feeds by independent ATProto developer Ændra Rininsland, who recently shared plans at the ATmosphere Conference to reinvest the ad revenue back into the development of queer communities on ATProto. Graze is charging 1 dollar per 1000 impressions, a number the team expect to go up as Bluesky grows. Graze takes a 30% cut of this, which goes to hosting, payment processing and the development of the Graze platform. TechCrunch reports further on the revenue sharing:

   “the team is considering doing a revenue share with Bluesky and other apps built on its underlying technology, the AT Protocol (ATProto). Today, Graze is working with other Bluesky ATProto-based apps, including photo and video apps like Skylight, Spark, and Flashes. “We’re very interested in figuring out what is the ethical revenue sharing model that helps everyone involved in the picture, including app developers,” said Graze co-founder and CEO Peat Bakke.”

   Meanwhile, Graze is working further on making their feeds accessible outside of Bluesky as well, their latest update allows feeds to be embedded on any web page.

   In last week’s update, I reflected on comments by Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about Bluesky’s monetisation plans. Graber mentions marketplaces and subscriptions as the main plans for how Bluesky plans to make money. When it comes to marketplaces, Graber’s example is about Blacksky, where Graber imagines that people can subscribe to feeds and that Bluesky will take a cut of the transaction. Last week I already went about how that does not seem to line up well with the direction that Blacksky is taking. But Graze raising 1 million to build their own business also shows that the marketplace for feeds might just happen outside of Bluesky PBC instead.

   In Other News

   Deer is a new client for Bluesky, and it is a fork of the official Bluesky app. What stands out about Deer is it focuses on some specific design choices that Bluesky has made, and giving users the ability to take different choices. For example, Deer allows people to turn various Bluesky features off, such as the go.bsky.app redirect, show posts where two other people have blocked each other (undoing the ‘nuclear block’), remove the geographic moderation labelers, or remove the main moderation labeler altogether.

   An academic paper on Starter Packs: ‘Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs‘. The paper shows how big the impact of Starter Packs on the Bluesky network has been. The authors write: “Their impact [of Starter Packs] on the social graph increases over time surpassing 40 % of all the follow operations in December 2024. […] This represents a remarkable 19.95 % of all follow edges of the network, indicating a large impact of starter packs on the overall social graph. Follows resulting from starter packs are also long-lasting: we observe that by the end of 2024, 93.82 % of them are still present.”

   Bluesky PBC is hiring for another two positions: a Senior Communications Manager and Developer Relations.

   Newsletter platform Ghost has been working on an ActivityPub integration, allowing newsletters to show up in the fediverse. Combined with the Bridgy Fed, the connector software that allows posts to travel between the fediverse and the ATmosphere, posts from Ghost could already show up on Bluesky, but this can be a finicky process. Ghost is working on making this easier, with a simple one-click button to connect Ghost sites to Bluesky.

   Stream.place is a video streaming platform that integrates with ATProto. It is grown out of the Livepeer ecosystem, a crypto DAO that focuses on livestreaming and video decoding. Stream.place has asked the Livepeer DAO for a grant of ~390k USD, with the DAO now voting on the proposal.

   Some more ways and tools to interact with feeds this week. Summarising your Bluesky following feed via an LLM, with an MCP server. Transparant.se is building a Discover/For You type of algorithmic feed that is customisable. 777Bluesky gives 10 trending posts in audio format.

   Bluesky PBC will apply stricter moderation to the usage of list as a vector for harrassment.

   Bluecast is an audio room platform on ATProto, that mainly caters towards the Japanese community. Their latest update allows for recordings to be converted into 3minute videos and to be posted on Bluesky.

   Tangled is a git collaboration platform on ATProto. In their latest blog post Tangled shares how they are building their own pull request system.

   A scientific article on how to use Bluesky and Instagram for science professionals, in the Fisheries journal.

   The International Journalism Festival held a panel called ‘Breaking on Bluesky: live news in a post-Twitter era’, with Emily Liu from Bluesky and Sarah Jeong from The Verge. The session can be rewatched here.

   That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! If you want more analysis, you can subscribe to my newsletter. Every week you get an update with all this week’s articles, as well as extra analysis not published anywhere else. You can subscribe below, and follow this blog @fediversereport.com and my personal account @laurenshof.online on Bluesky.

   #bluesky

   https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-report-112/

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   Sean Murthy (smurthys@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 07:57:12 JST Sean Murthy

   @fu The new link does work and goes to the expected page.

   In case you don't see it for some reason, the link in the OP is this (I've removed https so it does not actually embed a link)

   libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-7865-4043-69dd-cc8043196002