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Tessa Brown

@tessa.germnetwork.com

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ceo and cofounder of @germnetwork.com, the secure messenger for the social internet. san franciscan today, chicagoan 4eva 🌱 I'm on Germ DM 🔑 https://ger.mx/A_80PptKcStrvukixhoOHNlRmbCFvr-w7kK7SRO7b_p_#did:plc:ad4m72ykh2evfdqen3qowxmg

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 2d

there really is. it's say less

bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 2d

is there a miasma theory of security messaging

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 1h

I would like to see this chart including Nvidia and OpenAI’s financiers @bloomberg.com

Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 2h

Good luck indeed. What will these men, who've built almost their entire identities on a few companies, do when capital dries up and collapse follows? www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Image from Bloomberg article, 'OpenAI, Nvidia Fuel $1 Trillion AI Market With Web of Circular Deals'. It depicts a collection of circles representing each company, with lines showing investment interconnections between them

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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 2h

During a government shutdown, the Trump administration is bailing out Argentina, whose president is fond of saying, “The state isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.”

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 2h

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 2h

👋📲🤗

Germ Network @germnetwork.com · 4h

Private conversations are the heart of our digital connections. How do you do DMs?

🙅‍♀️ I never DM
😶‍🌫️ I’ll respond… maybe
👋 I send the first DM
📲 DM me! I tell you how to contact me in my bio

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5h

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 18h

Met my wife on tinder
Met my cofounder on twitter
Got a book deal on twitter
Built a career studying what we do on here, and then trying to evolve it

I don’t think any of us doubt the power of convening online. It’s why we care about it

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 18h

Near-zero notifications is the goal

I want Germ's slack and discord, + email, germ DM and imessage, and THASSIT

but i'm in a LOT more communities and platforms than that (as i'm sure you are too!)

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 19h

I find that one of the most persistent glitches across a range of apps--surely because it is systemically deprioritized if not purposely occurring--is me receiving all sorts of visual and audio notifications that I very consistently and intentionally have opted out of.

Have you found this?

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 20h

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 21h

#germwire

SFGATE @sfgate.com · 21h

Levels of enterovirus D68 have been increasing, according to wastewater testing.

Lesser-known virus surges in Bay Area ahead of flu and COVID

Levels of enterovirus D68 have been increasing, according to wastewater testing.

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 23h

Compassion and nonattachment brother, compassion and nonattachment

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 23h

finally some real talk

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 1d

earl grey 4 lyfe

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 1d

went to a great breakfast, drank coffee like it was water, back at my desk feeling totally cracked

y'all really are on a LOT of caffeine

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 1d

lesbian hive more like

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 1d

starting the day with tinashe, in honor of or maybe in gratitude to @soberthots.bsky.social

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 1d

If the 90s are predictive, we’re in the Wild West Napster-and-Kazaa era before Big IP pivots ans figures out how to lock up your deepfake of Mickey Mouse criming behind a $39.99/month subscription

Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 1d

I want an internet IP lawyer to flesh this out better than I could (and let me know if you know where one has), but I kinda can't get over how the IP industries steamrolled tech in the late 90s and early aughts and now tech is steamrolling the IP industries.

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 1d

Ok fine, actual journalism thet matters.

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 2d

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 1d

Journalism that matters.

SFGATE @sfgate.com · 1d

SFGATE columnist @drewmagary.bsky.social offers a deep analysis of 'Wood'

🔗 www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

P.S. I've been updating docs.blacksky.community based on questions and feedback so check that out.

Thanks again to the folks who trust us and contribute the funds that allow to continue pursuing this mission of providing communities with autonomous, safe spaces.

Gonna get back to work now 👨🏾‍💻

Introduction | Blacksky Documentation

docs.blacksky.community

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 1d

👏👏👏

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 2d

Looking for our engineers? Discord Tuesdays 👀👀

Germ Network @germnetwork.com · 2d

Want to check in with Team Germ?

We're always in our Discord on Tuesdays at 1pm PST. Join us there today!

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Join the Germ Network Discord Server!

Check out the Germ Network community on Discord - hang out with 316 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 2d

Great shoutout after a great weekend -- thanks @protocollabs.bsky.social and @web3privacy.info!

Germ Network @germnetwork.com · 2d

Germ lets you find friends in private--or public, on #atproto. We recently made even more friends at the Cypherpunk Retreat for privacy builders in Berlin.

Thanks @protocollabs.bsky.social for highlighting us in your roundup of the event!

Threads From the 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat

Key takeaways from the Cypherpunk Retreat, where 100 leading builders advanced privacy-tech coordination.

www.protocol.ai

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 2d

FWIW I've written to the Irish Minister for Justice - an enthusiastic supporter of Europe's hideous "chat control" phone-scanning proposal - asking him to imagine when that technology is used against him.

If you're German, please, PLEASE write to your justice/interior minister today.

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

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