Of course! Tethics & Chill, and our upcoming Agentic Tech summit. @chadfowler.bsky.social and I sent you an email!

Why it be this way? And can you draw skiing instead?

I'll post episode one as soon as Apple and Spotify let us out of podcast feed submission purgatory! 💀😬

The topic is complex but this episode definitely isn’t.

Elena breaks it down with her characteristic humor, laying the groundwork for the rest of the season by showing why privacy is the pragmatic choice – not just for individuals, but also for democracy, business, and society.

12/ If this thread resonates, there’s an entire season of podcast episodes like it coming this summer.

Please RT so that others can find out about what we’re building at @agency.bsky.social.

11/ We hope you'll come away with a holistic and interdisciplinary appreciation of privacy's foundational role in defending neural sovereignty, cognitive consent, and agency amid exponential technology.

Everything is still under wraps, but follow @agency.bsky.social to stay informed.

10/ Together with our guests, my co-host
@chadfowler.bsky.social and I approach privacy through a "cross-functional" looking glass.

We explore the intersection of privacy and AI, jurisprudence, finance, regulations, cryptography, philosophy, democracy, and national security.

9/ Our first public artifact, The Privacy Podcast, will be released this summer, exploring why privacy forms the bedrock of a free, healthy, and functional society.

8/ This is a gap I hope want to bridge with the hush-hush work I've been doing at @agency.bsky.social, an off-the-record discourse community of founders, investors, and operators working at the intersection of privacy, crypto, and ethics.

7/ Worse, there are few wise teachers in the space because crypto doesn’t like “boomers” and “boomers” act dismissive and disengaged instead of curious and accountable.

6/ It's galling to see the persistent pull of the panopticon in crypto.

But I understand it:

Crypto builders are 20 years old, have the attention span of horny teenagers, and zero historical memory because they’re, well, 20.

5/ It’s weird to me that people don’t feel alert and mindful when we talk about ID, or worse — get excited about the novelty of negative on-chain reputation.

Yes, please tell me more about taking the worst excesses of web2, but make it immutable.

4/ Or Russia, where my Christian mother didn’t take my father's name in order to keep my government identity documents pristine and free of any whiff of Jewishness.

3/ Identity-based persecution has very much been a global norm.

To wit: Rwanda was not a tribal genocide (the dominant Western narrative) but the result of identity cards issued by a colonial government.

That one feels very real to me because I lived in Rwanda for six years.

2/ And therefore, conversations about dystopian identity outcomes seem theoretical and distant.

There’s no appetite to engage these realities.

Tho I don’t understand why Americans have so much optimism (or complacency?) about the endurance of benign government. Foolish. Anyway.