Massive congratulations to Margaret McDonald, winner of the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing, for her debut novel GLASGOW BOYS.
The Carnegies are the UK’s longest-running children’s & YA book awards. McDonald’s GLASGOW BOYS explores mental health, trauma, inequality & identity through the friendship between two boys who have grown up in foster care.
https://carnegies.co.uk/2025-winners-announced/
#Scottish #literature #kidlit #YA #Glasgow #mentalhealth #trauma #inequality #identity #fostercare
❤️🔥 ❤️🔥 TEASER IS OUT ❤️🔥 ❤️🔥
📽️🍿 https://vimeo.com/1094417358 🍿
Have a look to our 10 YEARS programation :
https://homografia.com/edition/brussels-2025/
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!Can't wait to share, can't wait feel you with us!
#fight #diversity #gender #body #identity #creation #video #performance #talk #livemusic #workshop #djset
How do you link Verifiable Credentials to a human?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/06/how-do-you-link-verifiable-credentials-to-a-human/
Verifiable Credentials are a brilliant standard to help... well... Verify Credentials. How do you know that someone has an MBA from Harvard? It's pretty easy to fake a degree certificate, or to change your name to George W. Bush, or simply lie. The same is true with any attestation - it's often hard to contact the issuer of a claim and check that it is genuine.
Verifiable Credentials aims to solve that. The standard describes a document which includes the claim (this person is an airline pilot), the person's identity (name, DOB, etc), the party making the claim (Name, ID, date of issuing), and a digital signature to tie it all together. (It is a lot more complicated than that, obviously.)
Let's take a look at the data inside COVID Vaccine "Passport". I've removed some of the metadata for simplicity, but you can read the full spec if you're interested.
{ "ver": "1.0.0", "nam": { "fn": "Smith", "gn": "Jo", }, "dob": "1984-02-29", "t": [ { "tg": "840539006", "tt": "LP217198-3", "tr": "260415000", "ma": "1232", "sc": "2021-04-13T14:20:00+00:00", "dr": "2021-04-13T14:40:01+00:00", "tc": "GGD Fryslân, L-Heliconweg", "co": "NL", "is": "Ministry of VWS", "ci": "urn:uvci:01:NL:GGD/81AAH16AZ" } ]},"YR/yMsyE3AOysWLCXuDc/Rlu507gH0/wgok+P8dxJtCwy0ydsIE2J5MeMxbynynU3n//zgOKSTB20FN0Fs1bgQ=="It tells you the person's name, date of birth, when they had the vaccine, which vaccine it is, who administered it, some administrative codes, and then gives it a digital signature which can be verified without needing an Internet connection. Nifty!
The same is broadly true with academic qualifications. It lists your names, birthday, university, level obtained. Or your employment history can be encoded with your employment dates, salary, references.
So you can show the above - encoded as a QR code - to anyone. They can scan it and verify that it is authentic! AWESOME!
Except...
How do you prove that you're the person mentioned in the credential?
You could show your passport or driving licence at the same time. Assuming you can afford either of those documents. But that still leaves the same problem. How do you prove that the passport belongs to you? Perhaps you grabbed it at the same time you stole the certificate.
Humans are not very good at recognising faces from photos. So comparing the picture of me in my passport (young! clean shaven! well lit!) with the person in front of you (old and tired! beardy! under a street lamp!) is always going to be error prone.
This isn't a problem which can be solved by adding more digital signatures. Even if I co-signed the credential with my private key - you have no way of linking that key to a corporeal human being.
A Verifiable Credential could also contain a hash of biometric data like a fingerprint, for example. But that leads to further problems. Are people comfortable giving away their biometrics to lots of different organisations? Do verifiers want the extra expense of getting fingerprint readers? That might work for an airport, but is probably prohibitive for a café. You could use proxies - did I see this person unlock their phone to present the claim - but these are weak ties at best.
To be clear, this problem isn't limited to vaccine certificates. It applies to any Verifiable Credential. Whether it is an academic qualification, a health certificate, employment status, or any other claim.
This isn't something which can be solved by putting a claim on a blockchain (lolsob) - it is a fundamental limitation of the fact that humans don't come with built in, irrevocable, digital signatures.
#технологии #искусство #соцсети #феминизм #экология #кибербезопасность #философия #AI #opensource #privacy #decentralization #art #climatecrisis #digitalfreedom #интернет #решилаона #саморазвитие #жизнь #женскаясила #внутреннийголос #молчатьнельзяговорить #digitalfreedom #feminism #identity #storytelling #Mastodon
Destroy the Avatar. Find the Core.
You’re not your title.
Not your following.
Beneath it all — there’s essence. Touch it.
#identity #truth #core #realness #soul
→ https://bereznev.gumroad.com/l/insider
P.S. Made by a madman — Kirill Bereznev
https://bereznev.gumroad.com/l/insider
Your Ego Wears Costumes
You killed your ego?
Or just gave it a cooler outfit?
Look deeper. Peel again.
#ego #truth #selfawareness #identity #growth
→ https://bereznev.gumroad.com/l/insider
P.S. Made by a madman — Kirill Bereznev
https://bereznev.gumroad.com/l/insider
Western University to ask for proof of Indigenous citizenship for some jobs, awards
Western University could soon ask Indigenous scholars, staff and students to prove their connection to First Nations, Inuit or Metis communities or nations as academia continues to reel from a series of high-profile identi...
#university #identity #fraud #News #Canada #London
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/western-university-to-ask-for-proof-of-indigenous-citizenship-for-some-jobs-awards-1.7563423?cmp=rss
A graph that I designed (as part of my talk last week at Women+Data) shows my labels: y-axis the level of identification with a certain label, x-axis my age / No. of years. I explain the labels one by one in the talk (23:26) #dataviz #labels #identity www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD7f...
Was at a munch last night where we got to taking about labels, roles, assumptions, and perceived versus personal identity around those. For me an example is where guys see my age and appearance and assume I’m their daddy and a top.
I am a dad but not your dad and I’m about as far from a top as one can be. 🤣 Sometimes i like to have fun with these guys. Use my pics for porn, fine. Don’t assume I’ll just play along in real life.
"The emotional signature of having a confirmed #identity is feeling comfortable and in control."
Australia Explained
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/settlement-guide/
#GreatAusPods #AusPods #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #Podcasters #Australia #Society #Culture #Identity #Government #Law #News #Commentary
Alice Austen’s body of work is considered among the earliest and most prolific by a female photographer.
Now recognized for her significant contributions to the canon of American photography and her heretofore ignored yet influential role in LGBTQ+ history, the pioneering photographer's archive returns to her ancestral home in New York.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/alice-austen-photographs-repatriated/
You want to see me on the why and how labeling myself and having created this graph on it to show my process explaining the level of identification on each label, from 23:25 #dataviz #mentalhealth #labels #identity graph alert 😘 3/4
The one thing that I do wish to label myself with and how I try to make sense of my #dataviz future, which is the last part of the talk from 36:26 4/4 #dataviz #mentalhealth #labels #identity #activism
I look back on what I have achieved in #dataviz and my experiences that were not that glamorous, starting 21:05 2/4 #mentalhealth #labels #identity
A short #thread on my Recalibrate talk at Data+Women.
Be welcome to listen to the complete talk if you aren't familiar with my work and/or if you want a recap on my projects.
#dataviz #mentalhealth #labels #identity 1/4
Do let me know what think/feel 🙏
youtu.be/RD7foA0naK8?...
Data Art - Recalibrate
Identity Is Optional
You can change the script.
You’re not your past. Not your brand. Not even your name.
What if you chose again — right now?
#identity #reinvention #freedom #truth #reset
→ https://bereznev.gumroad.com/l/insider
P.S. Made by a madman — Kirill Bereznev
https://bereznev.gumroad.com/l/insider
Hey Fediverse! 👋
We just wrapped up an amazing FediForum June 2025 a week ago, and BadgeFed was right in the thick of it! Here’s a recap of what we did, what we learned, and what’s next for decentralized badges.
BadgeFed at FediForum: Unconferences & Speed Demos
BadgeFed had the honor of presenting and hosting two unconference sessions and showing off our work in one speed demo slots (watch the demo). The energy was fantastic; lots of curiosity, sharp questions, and a real hunger for open standards in the credentialing space.
Community Feedback: Standards, Docs, and Openness
A big theme at FediForum was specs and open standards. We’re right there with you! That’s why we’ve enhanced our technical documentation to explain exactly how BadgeFed uses ActivityPub and OpenBadges together:
Read more in our DETAILS.md.
Making BadgeFed Easier to Try
We heard you: people want to try BadgeFed! Right now, it’s a solo setup (one admin, one Docker container), but we’re working hard to make it easier for others to deploy, configure, and even federate their own instances. Stay tuned for updates on multi-admin support and streamlined onboarding.
Feedback: Discoverability vs. Spam
One of the most important pieces of feedback we received was about badge discoverability vs. timeline spam (see the issue). We want badges to be easy to find and share, but we also don’t want to flood the Fediverse with unwanted posts. This is now our top priority, we’re rethinking how verbose BadgeFed should be, and exploring opt-in/opt-out models for badge visibility and hashtag use.
What’s Next: Embedding & Profile Badges
We’re also working on ways to let you embed badges in your blog or add them to your Mastodon profile. More news on that soon!
FediForum was a fantastic experience, huge thanks to everyone who attended, gave feedback, and showed interest in decentralized credentials. Let’s keep building a more open, verifiable, and user-empowered Fediverse!
Badge up, and see you in the timeline! 🏅
You can read the article "BadgeFed @ FediForum June 2025: Unconferences, Demos, and Community Feedback" by @mapache here as well.
#activitypub #badgefed #fediverse #dotnet #decentralization #open-source #openbadges #identity #fediforum #recap
