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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 · 3d

there really is. it's say less

bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 3d

is there a miasma theory of security messaging

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S.T.O.P.—Surveillance Technology Oversight Project @stopspyingny.bsky.social · 29m

Family Surveillance apps, like #Life360 and #FindMy, are replacing traditional ankle monitors in some courts. Read STOP's latest report: www.stopspying.org/big-brother-...

white background with black text. Phone with location tracking app.

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 10h

Beckyyyyy

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 10h

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE’ is now playing in select theaters before releasing on Netflix starting October 24.

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 10h

That article is a rich text

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 11h

nomorefeaturesonlyQA!!!!!!!

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 11h

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 12h

Very Bolaño

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 16h

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 15h

You claim to be a player but I…

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 19h

"The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content."

The forum here is a music recording, in particular a rap “diss track,” with accompanying video and album art. Diss tracks are much more akin to forums like YouTube and X, which “encourag[e] a freewheeling, anything-goes writing style,” than journalistic reporting. Sandals Resorts, 86 A.D.3d at 43 (quotation marks omitted). The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content.

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 15h

And for the child who never had cable, tell her…

It is because you had overprotective parents, that you don’t have any friends

Clitasaurus Rex 🦖 @naiijah.bsky.social · 19h

Cartoon network kids most likely grew up with depression but amazing sense of humor

Disney Kids have terrible main character syndrome and were most likely theatre kids who grew up to be obsessed with musicals

Nickelodeon Kids most likely got some type of arrest record and a more than 1 BM/BD

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 15h

Entrepreneurs 4 Medicare 4 All

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 15h

Important point from @Warnock.Senate.gov: The rising cost of healthcare also puts a strain on small businesses & hurts our economy. This is a problem Trump & Congressional Republicans can easily fix by protecting care & funding the government. #TrumpShutdown bsky.app/profile/warn...

Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 1d

Washington GOP tripled Shannon's health care premiums.

Now, she has to close her small business.

We don't have to choose: we can fund health care AND reopen the government.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 15h

kendrick lamar flashes a smile after a brutal takedown of drake aka dj cries-a-lot

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 19h

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

Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

👋📲🤗

Germ Network @germnetwork.com · 22h

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 · 23h

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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

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Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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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 · 2d

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
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