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🕹️ Interview: The First Descendant Director on the Issues with the Game And How They're Fixing Them
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-09-27/the-first-descendant-director-on-th…

Interview: The First Descendant Director on the Issues with the Game And How They're Fixing Them
We sat down with Director Min Seok Joo at Tokyo Game Show 2025 to talk frankly about the issues currently facing the game and their plans to overcome them.

A Brief Note on Cryptographic Pseudonyms for Anonymous Credentials
Ren\'e Mayrhofer, Anja Lehmann, abhi shelat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05419 https://

A Brief Note on Cryptographic Pseudonyms for Anonymous Credentials
This paper describes pseudonyms for the upcoming European Identity Wallet (EUDIW) architecture from both a cryptographic and an implementation perspective. Its main goal is to provide technical insights into the achievable properties and cryptographic realizations. In particular, we (1) outline the security and privacy requirements of EUDI pseudonyms as the basis for building consensus on the cross-country decision maker level; (2) sketch an abstract cryptographic protocol that fulfills these r…

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on "zero-knowledge proofs" (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier…

A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Fascinating story from a software dev Fedi friend, shared with permission to keep it anonymous:
❝A couple of days ago, I had an experience at work that made me understand one of the reasons why the chasm of opinion about LLMs is so deep and wide.
My department mostly does fiddly lowlevel work, [close to hardware]. A few of us don't use LLMs at all, a few use them sparingly, and one member is absolutely all-in. So during one of our morning meetings he suddenly started going off on a deeply disturbing diatribe about how we need to treat the LLMs “like slaves”.❞
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Harvard Has Identified Another Problem: Its Own Students (Anemona Hartocollis/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/harvard-students-absenteeism.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p140#a251006p140

Anonymous help:
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…