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Joe Uchill

@joeuchill.bsky.social

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Potential game show contestant. Former Axios, The Hill, Passcode. Founder of the Codebook cybersecurity newsletter. Once got lost in a Starbucks.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 21h

So, why do this multiplatform, multiroot thing? Well, what I'm proposing here is essentially a decentralized verification system. That solves a bunch of problems!
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 22h

So, next week I'm presenting this concept on expanding Bluesky's limited form of certificate authority verification into a multi-root, multi-platform system. Still revising a final draft.

I'd love it if everyone took a look and gave me comments.

(PDF) From root to Sky: Bluesky's certification authority verification as basis for sustainable multiplatform verification system

PDF | Bluesky's recent announcement of a certi icate authority/chain of trust veri ication system for high-impact accounts is, potentially, a cheap and... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

www.researchgate.net

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Institute for Security and Technology @istorg.bsky.social · 2h

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 2h

Excellent metro photo, too.

Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2h

A nice write up in @usa.streetsblog.org!

usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/08/t...

This Newsroom Is Looking For Its Next Big Tip on the Train — Streetsblog USA

Investigative journalists at ProPublica are betting that the next big tipster is riding the rails right now — and reaching out to find them.

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2h

A nice write up in @usa.streetsblog.org!

usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/08/t...

This Newsroom Is Looking For Its Next Big Tip on the Train — Streetsblog USA

Investigative journalists at ProPublica are betting that the next big tipster is riding the rails right now — and reaching out to find them.

usa.streetsblog.org

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 2h

Cool. Let me know as the paper comes into fruition. In the meantime, if I describe it as a web of trust, I'm doing you justice?

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 2h

What's the best written/recorded description on the site? I'll link back to that.

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 3h

So, there are two things going on here. One is a refusal to accept the kayfabe of politics - that politicians may be focused on slow change at the cost of a bully pulpit. Another is a desire for a move-fast-break-things person rather than a schoolhouse-rock-sacred-institutions person.

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 3h

Huh. I tried a bunch of words I'm confident I've used before, and from:me wasn't working.

from:me sleater turns up nothing

I'm sure I've talked about Dig Me Out at least once.

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 3h

Let me check.

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 3h

In general, systems with a lot of safeguards move slowly. One of the things that came up a lot in 2020 was a lot of leftists wanted to expedite change by ignoring the institutions that served as safeguards - essentially, a Donald Trump of the left.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 3h

There are strategic reasons politicians may think the fastest way to a progressive goal is incrementalism, compromise, or not wasting political power when they don't have the votes. You can confuse any of those with "pretend to be happy"

But, after 2020, I think there's something else at play.

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Maxim Dorky, the Delaware Disparager @maxim-dorky.bsky.social · 2d

Some people are really, really invested in the idea that Democratic politicians will betray their ideals and constituents at the slightest whim, all in the name of "let's all get along and pretend to be happy", and I really want to know where this comes from.

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 3h

Can I be the adjudicator of the one true blow-up date and time?

I'll take 0.5% of the pool.

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 3h

Interesting. So, it's less a hierarchy and more a circle with a bunch of lines? That's different, but I like it.

Is there a white paper or something I can site in my paper?

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 18h

I need to roughly double the size of this paper. You'd be doing me a favor by telling me what isn't clear (so I can write more about it), what is wrong (so I can be less wrong), or what would be interesting to add (so I can add it).

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 22h

So, next week I'm presenting this concept on expanding Bluesky's limited form of certificate authority verification into a multi-root, multi-platform system. Still revising a final draft.

I'd love it if everyone took a look and gave me comments.

(PDF) From root to Sky: Bluesky's certification authority verification as basis for sustainable multiplatform verification system

PDF | Bluesky's recent announcement of a certi icate authority/chain of trust veri ication system for high-impact accounts is, potentially, a cheap and... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

www.researchgate.net

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 14h

Wasn’t this an adult swim bit?

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 17h

Better than what I was afraid of, but I still don't like it.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 18h

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 17h

I'm hoping I'm reading your post wrong.

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 18h

Are these related?

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 18h

I need to roughly double the size of this paper. You'd be doing me a favor by telling me what isn't clear (so I can write more about it), what is wrong (so I can be less wrong), or what would be interesting to add (so I can add it).

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 22h

So, next week I'm presenting this concept on expanding Bluesky's limited form of certificate authority verification into a multi-root, multi-platform system. Still revising a final draft.

I'd love it if everyone took a look and gave me comments.

(PDF) From root to Sky: Bluesky's certification authority verification as basis for sustainable multiplatform verification system

PDF | Bluesky's recent announcement of a certi icate authority/chain of trust veri ication system for high-impact accounts is, potentially, a cheap and... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

www.researchgate.net

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 20h

The conspiracy is that a group I don't know are using words I don't like in ways I don't really understand.

Bossett @bossett.social · 21h

wait so the conspiracy is that content moderation is a play to train AI in a sneaky illegal fashion, taking an absurd risk in storing pre-moderation originals, and feeding them into a genAI model... for the purposes of capturing image data before it's posted unprotected to a public social network?

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TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 20h

The Bob Ross Estate has agreed to sell 30 of his paintings at auction, with all proceeds going to local public television stations. [AP]

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations. The Bonhams auction is to begin Nov. 11 in Los Angeles with three of the paintings.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, was appointed to a senior DHS position in which she’ll help oversee election security.

“DHS now appears poised to become a primary amplifier of false election conspiracies pushed by our enemies,” one expert said.

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.

Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

www.propublica.org

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 20h

We would solve the big problem at the center of Twitter's old blue checkmark system: Verification means a bunch of different things. Sometimes, you want a checkmark to mean "this is the person they say they are." Sometimes you also want it to mean "this account is trustworthy."