the AlephBET-(c)dEE-FG&^iJ

Borges could write a short story about all my fucking devices and passkeys

help I’m traveling and fell for the discourse let me open this novel again…

40% of Americans cannot afford an unexpected $1000 expense. (10% of Americans do 50% of consumer spending. White Americans are the most segregated racial group.) I can’t fathom these households are not very aware of their food spending amidst rising grocery prices www.usnews.com/banking/arti...

the human brain: use it or lose it

im surrounded by overthinkers

Good news on the Bluesky front: @germnetwork.com now lets you send end-to-end encrypted DMs to your Bluesky friends!

Say something nice about someone today: @tessa.germnetwork.com committed to communication, and the work it takes to maintain that. A Writer that wants enable others to write, to tranform thoughts and feeling into words for othere to read and hear.

Eva Chen is all over him Instagram’s head of fashion partnerships iykyk

Build it and link to Germ

Wish Waymo could say the same

Happy Valentines Day

Be my valentines ❤️🩷💚

🤗💞

No, and we forget them when we talk about social media. But Apple has deployed the largest private social experience in the world to over a BILLION people and it runs perfectly every day. With Signal, they are the blueprint for what is possible in this space. Germ frees that from phone numbers.

No, web for e2ee messaging is uniquely hard. Securing the “ends” of the conversation is all about ownership of keys. An app on your device is easy (relatively) ownership. That’s why eg setting up Signal or WhatsApp on multiple devices involves linking *devices,* not just signing in. Contd

i really am sorry to the android users who have been ignored by companies with a lot more resources than us. that's not us. we're basically two ios devs in a trenchcoat. you probably wont believe me when i say that serving you secure local-first software is actually our mission. hold tight 🙏

Totally private DMs for any atproto user on iOS, on Germ DM now.

Germ DMs are completely private, so only you and the person you're talking to can read them. And they're built on atproto, so whether you're friends from Bluesky, Blacksky, Skylight, Flashes, Leaflet, Popfeed or more, you can chat securely in Germ from your handle.

I am hereby declaring myself GermBoy™.

Honest to god my 5th grade fantasy

Germ DM link in bio OUT, Leaflet link in bio IN My latest: rhosf.leaflet.pub/3me3kcylgzk2k

The engineers answer your questions better than I do tbh!

Bluesky now spreading germs

Also crying For real though, we’re a tiny preseed team that’s made a lot of sacrifices to build this the right way for the long haul. Everything you want, we want. And we’re going to get there, together. 💚

I HAVE THE GERM BUTTON!!

hmu

Major Make friends!!!

I had to try twice and then it worked fine

AMA

we just rolled out an experimental integration with @germnetwork.com, an E2E encrypted chat app that integrates with atproto. Germ users can add a button to their profile so others can message them from Bluesky. we're exploring ways to connect your profile with other apps in the Atmosphere.

Thank you to @alexbenzer.com and the whole Bluesky team, and of course my amazing Germ team - @markmx.bsky.social, @anna.germnetwork.com, @katherine.germnetwork.com, @msbellagraham.bsky.social, and @thisismissem.social - for bringing Germ's E2EE DMs right to your Bluesky profile. In public beta now!

we did it joe

🪂🪂🪂🪂🪂🪂🪂🪂🪂🪂

Yes

🍴🍔 🔪

I can’t

I love this for us The For You feed already has be liking stuff a lot more. It feels good to *contribute*

Like I said…. E2EE is hard!!! dholms.leaflet.pub/3meluqcwky22...

👀👀👀

Meanwhile Dana championed all the diverse new Disney stories you love. Some people create IP, some people exploit it. We know which era we’re in.

when i QA germ i just send affirmational girl talk back and forth to myself ✨🌈☎️

Becky is giving us another amazing Bad Bunny explication! This time it's on his song "El Apagón"—THE BLACKOUT—and the history of Puerto Rico's energy woes

Just starting to dig into this but let me say that I love how many of us are *writing,* not just documenting The software we’re all building is for culture & connection and it comes out in every leaflet that falls 🍃

🙌🙌🙌

I really am sad it’s not Dana

If you’re trying to Germ DM me, refresh my card ♻️

This is why I don't want companies like Discord having my IDs for age verification. Trust no corpos

New resource for repro privacy: a digital safety zine from NIRH & OTI! nirhealth.org/resources/di...

This is a really good bug I weirdly love QA