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Leander Herzog @leanderherzog.ch · 3d

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 4d

The Danish Presidency is pushing a dangerous proposal in the EU that would allow the government to scan all our private communications. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped

The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat

www.eff.org

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · Aug 3

ebook via @metalabel.bsky.social

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · Aug 3

just finished, recommend

exocapitalism is a germ which produces worlds

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Exocapitalism: Economies with absolutely no limits (2025) by Marek Pol

Authored by Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo Foreword by Charles Mudede Afterword by Alex Quicho Featuring illustrations by Avocado Ibuprofen What are people saying about Exocapitalism? "Th...

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · Aug 1

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Simon de la Rouviere 🇿🇦🇺🇲 @simondlr.com · Aug 1

Wrote about my feelings about Ethereum a decade later. Not entirely happy with where the crypto space has gone in general. We need more cypherpunk and we need people to just, be better.

sceneswithsimon.com/p/a-sober-re...

A (Sober) Reflection on a Decade of Ethereum

It's not just about protocols. Nothing is inevitable.

sceneswithsimon.com

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · Jul 31

if you are not loud does not mean you are complicit

recommend to go see!

misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · Jul 30

RSS is great! use it everyday .. also yours

actually if people find out how great RSS actually is it will create a revolution on the web lol

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · Jul 11

Bsky is NGMI

so much for decentralization

> Bluesky will perform age verification through Kid Web Services (KWS), an Epic Games-owned tool that developers can use to implement age verification and parental controls on their platforms.

misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · Jul 10

generativebynature.mishaderidder.com

generative by nature

the unreal reality of spring https://generativebynature.mishaderidder.com

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · Jul 10

opening tomorrow @noorderlichtphoto.bsky.social

generative by nature on view at Museum Belvédère
noorderlicht.com/en/whats-on/...

poster Machine Entanglements Noorderlicht International Photo Biënnale 2025 - photo misha de ridder, generative by nature

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · Jun 27

prelude #0188

on view in Caroline O’Breen Gallery Amsterdam
opening Saturday 16-19h
carolineobreen.com/artist/3133/...

photo lush winter forest in Flevopolder Netherlands by misha de ridder

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Noorderlicht @noorderlichtphoto.bsky.social · Jun 19

📍 Museum Belvédère during the Noorderlicht Biennial 2025: Machine Entanglements

🗓️ On view from 12 July to 7 September 2025
🔗 More info: noorderlicht.com/zien-en-doen...

(Image: misha de ridder, generative by nature, 2022–2024)

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · Jun 24

👀 Available for pre-order!

U N B O U N D
by Karel Martens
ROMA 492

www.romapublications.org/Roma251-500....

misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · Jun 19

in depth

docs.fileverse.io/0x22c3e3290b...

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · Jun 19

A SAPPHIREPUNK MANIFESTO

"We build in plurality, and in parity, but not in purity or with impunity."

sapphirepunk.com

meme w/ frame from blade runner movie: all those moments are together in time, like tears in rain

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Jun 3

You can’t scan private messages before they’re encrypted without destroying end-to-end encryption. The EU’s new “encryption roadmap” gets that wrong.

The EU’s “Encryption Roadmap” Makes Everyone Less Safe

EFF has joined more than 80 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts in signing a letter urging the European Commission to change course on its recently announced “Technology ...

www.eff.org

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · May 29

try farcaster.xyz/miniapps/pKt...

Farcaster

A decentralized social network

farcaster.xyz

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Kim Asendorf @kimasendorf.com · May 29

Pixel Deck 18 / 12k $PXL

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · May 28

haha I live in Europe, have nothing to do with US tax

but talking about that, the whole thing, if it’s X, but still also Fc or Bsky it’s all so very American, all out of context for us.

also Fc pro sale was at an inconvenient time for Europe, just when everyone is going to sleep, well …

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · May 28

Yes yes yes

don’t think they can sell the data though since it is all open, there’s nothing to sell, you could just aggregate it I think :) … same as here on Bsky

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · May 28

hope they put that money to good use :)

anyway storage fees alone weren't sufficient for the platform's sustainability, that was like an anti-spam thing, they needed a more robust revenue stream

nothing is free, glad to they’re in the open instead of secretly mining and selling my data

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · May 27

lol

didn’t read properly, somehow read that you were leaving to go back to Vancouver :)

anyway always in for a good party

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · May 26

is that in Berlin? that’s where I am on the 13th coincidentally

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misha 🪨 @mishaderidder.com · May 24

universal basic income built on mutual trust 🌀 humans only

@aboutcircles.bsky.social just launched v2 - join here app.metri.xyz

if you need trust - and i trust you ;) let me know

read more aboutcircles.com/manifesto

youtu.be/x_RUVF2DQlk

Circles: Money, Reimagined

YouTube video by Gnosis

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