I gave an opening keynote at the FIDO Alliance’s “Authenticate” conference a few weeks ago! Although it featured timely strategies and tips for professionals deploying passkeys, my primary goal was to explain, as clearly as I can, why passkeys are important and how we should use them to reduce the harm that passwords cause.

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otObbUSxcqs

I’m really proud of this talk and I hope you’ll watch it and share it with others. I put care in to making it approachable while still delivering my perspective and insights to security professionals. If you don’t get the “why” behind passkeys, this talk will help fill that gap.

"Here’s why you’re getting enshittified: we deliberately decided to stop enforcing competition laws."

@pluralistic on why it's good and personally useful to fight enshittification on a personal level -- i.e. use RSS, pro-privacy tools and services, open-source OSes and warez, etc. ...

... the only thing that can *end* enshittification is systemic change, which is to say, better policies and laws and regulations

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems

Andor actor Diego Luna's speech for Jimmy Kimmel's show was SO AMAZING.
You have to watch it! 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7726WoO7mTM

#USpol #DiegoLuna #Andor

I only need to know 2 things about the Wisconsin Supreme Court election:

1) Judges are the last reasonable roadblock slowing down the Project 2025 plan.

2) Elon Musk and the Project 2025 crew don't want Susan Crawford to win. They're scared.

Susan Crawford. That's the only name I need to know.

https://www.crawfordforwi.com/

The other person's name doesn't matter. Their platform doesn't matter.

So resist the very human urge to talk about that person and why they are bad.

Because name recognition affects judge elections more than you think. A lot of people are just going to vote for whichever name they've heard most. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Elon is dumping in millions to make sure that as many people have heard that other name as possible.

You can't fight that by also saying that other name.

Talk about this name instead.

Susan Crawford.

That's who they don't want to win.

If you want to see leadership in the face of metastasizing American fascism, watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3_SLAzHMmc

Leading edge independent internet journalism you should be subscribing to, immediately:

Garbage Day -- https://www.garbageday.email
Today in Tabs -- https://www.todayintabs.com
404 media -- https://www.404media.co

There are many, many more, but these are top of mind for me. Sorry for those of you doing good work on Substack; I can't support that platform. Actions have consequences.