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That’s an excellent move.
Let’s make it national.
Decades ago, my first wife was a librarian and met a lot of people. She was a friendly person. She befriended a guy who seemed to misunderstand friendship. We ended up having to refuse entry to CPS twice in the ensuing 3 weeks. Thankfully, they didn’t deem either anonymous report worth seeking a warrant.

Sources: Reddit is exploring Tools for Humanity's World ID identity system to allow users to verify that they are unique individuals while remaining anonymous (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/20/2025

Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users
Reddit, racing to preserve “humanness and authenticity,” has discussed using Sam Altman’s World ID, sources say.

Der Hochmut von Dudes, die mit unterkomplexen Behauptungen in die Mentions sliden und dann als Abschluss einer kurzen und unerfreulichen Diskussion noch denken, man würde ja lediglich ihre grenzenlosen Weisheiten nicht annehmen wollen, ist immer wieder erstaunlich.

The 60-year-old man lying on the street, as far as anyone knew, was just a janitor hit by a drunk driver.
There was no mention of it on the local news, no obituary in the morning paper.
His name might have been Anonymous. But it wasn’t. 
His name was Peter Putnam.
He was a physicist who’d hung out with Albert Einstein, John Archibald Wheeler, and Niels Bohr,
and two blocks from the crash, in his run-down apartment, where his partner, Claude, was startled by a scr…

Finding Peter Putnam
The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind

Thinking about this 1997 Edmund White quote on Fresh Air today, talking about casual gay sex in the 1970s.
Nor did all this sex preclude intimacy. For those who never lived through that period, and most of those who did, are dead, the phrase "anonymous sex" might suggest unfeeling sex, devoid of emotion. And yet, as I can attest, to hole up in a room at the baths with a body, after having opened it up and wrung it dry, to lie, head propped on a guy's stomach just where the tan line bisects it, smoke a cigarette, and talk to him late into the night and early into the morning about your childhood, his unhappiness and love, your money worries, his plans for the future. Well, nothing is more personal, more emotional.
(This is him reading a quote from his novel The Farewell Symphony)

Analysis of Anonymous User Interaction Relationships and Prediction of Advertising Feedback Based on Graph Neural Network
Yanjun Dai, Haoyang Feng, Yuan Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13787

Analysis of Anonymous User Interaction Relationships and Prediction of Advertising Feedback Based on Graph Neural Network
While online advertising is highly dependent on implicit interaction networks of anonymous users for engagement inference, and for the selection and optimization of delivery strategies, existing graph models seldom can capture the multi-scale temporal, semantic and higher-order dependency features of these interaction networks, thus it's hard to describe the complicated patterns of the anonymous behavior. In this paper, we propose Decoupled Temporal-Hierarchical Graph Neural Network (DTH-GNN), …

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https://open.spotify.com/track/1vi2rArHhaYLu8aU6nyk6H

The Ethics of Generative AI in Anonymous Spaces: A Case Study of 4chan's /pol/ Board
Parth Gaba, Emiliano De Cristofaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14191

The Ethics of Generative AI in Anonymous Spaces: A Case Study of 4chan's /pol/ Board
This paper presents a characterization of AI-generated images shared on 4chan, examining how this anonymous online community is (mis-)using generative image technologies. Through a methodical data collection process, we gathered 900 images from 4chan's /pol/ (Politically Incorrect) board, which included the label "/mwg/" (memetic warfare general), between April and July 2024, identifying 66 unique AI-generated images. The analysis reveals concerning patterns in the use of this technology, with …

Unlearning-Enhanced Website Fingerprinting Attack: Against Backdoor Poisoning in Anonymous Networks
Yali Yuan, Kai Xu, Ruolin Ma, Yuchen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13563

Unlearning-Enhanced Website Fingerprinting Attack: Against Backdoor Poisoning in Anonymous Networks
Website Fingerprinting (WF) is an effective tool for regulating and governing the dark web. However, its performance can be significantly degraded by backdoor poisoning attacks in practical deployments. This paper aims to address the problem of hidden backdoor poisoning attacks faced by Website Fingerprinting attack, and designs a feasible mothed that integrates unlearning technology to realize detection of automatic poisoned points and complete removal of its destructive effects, requiring onl…

Toward Practical Privacy in XR: Empirical Analysis of Multimodal Anonymization Mechanisms
Azim Ibragimov, Ethan Wilson, Kevin R. B. Butler, Eakta Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13882

Toward Practical Privacy in XR: Empirical Analysis of Multimodal Anonymization Mechanisms
As extended reality (XR) systems become increasingly immersive and sensor-rich, they enable the collection of fine-grained behavioral signals such as eye and body telemetry. These signals support personalized and responsive experiences and may also contain unique patterns that can be linked back to individuals. However, privacy mechanisms that naively pair unimodal mechanisms (e.g., independently apply privacy mechanisms for eye and body privatization) are often ineffective at preventing re-ide…