Daniel Fernandes

@danielfernand.es

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Software Engineer interested in chip design, compchem/bio, crypto & DWeb tech. B4: Illinois ECE / Stanford EE Also on Farcaster! (https://farcaster.xyz/dfern.eth)

An XKCD-style webcomic featuring a horizontal line with several stick figures representing different decentralized social protocols, labeled from left to right in order of increasing "purity."
The title at the top reads: "PROTOCOLS ARRANGED BY PURITY" with an arrow pointing right labeled "MORE PURE."
From left to right, the protocols and their accompanying dialogue are:
ActivityPub: A stick figure stands at the start of the line.
ATProto: A figure with glasses says, "ActivityPub is just federated ATProto."
DSNP: A figure holding a small octopus says, "ATProto is just federated DSNP."
Farcaster: A figure holding a bubbling flask says, "DSNP is just Polkadot-parachain Farcaster."
Nostr: A figure looking back toward the others says, "Which still requires BFT consensus. It's nice to be on top."
Urbit: Located far to the right, separated by a large gap, a figure waves and says, "Oh, Hey, I didn't see you guys all the way over there."
The comic satirizes the "purity testing" and elitism within decentralized tech communities, ending with Urbit positioned as the most extreme and isolated outlier.

A satirical medieval‑style cartoon showing two opposing factions. On the left, banners labeled with phrases like ‘Our Blessed DID:PLC’ and names such as Swiss Shellco, ATScan Mirror, PLC BFT POA, and Bluesky PBC appear on castles and ships. On the right, an opposing group labeled ‘Their Barbarous Snapchain’ features Delaware C Corp, Quilibrium Fork, Tendermint POA, and Neynar, Inc. The scene exaggerates the rivalry between two tech ecosystems by depicting them as warring kingdoms.

Ray Kurzweil Apology Form

To:

Ray Kurzweil

the Internet

Date:

1/22/2025

Reason for behavior:

The media convinced

☐ me that deep learning hit a wall

☐

I was biased against

people who gave TED

talks

I was jealous of your hair

I thought the

I thought you were too into the Turing Test

nano stuff was weird

☐Mercury was in

retrograde

☐ I will hereby respect the Singularity and I will NOT talk down on exponential improvements in computing power

A preview of the link attached

Me making two Clover Club cocktails and handing them out

Tesla Cybertruck wrapped with Kuffiyah and the flag of Palestine on the top in support of Palestinians. (San Francisco in front of Los Hermanos Taqueria)

[ created by Bluesky ]
/home/dfern/atproto/packages/bsky/src/index.ts:120
: new BasicHostList(config.dataplaneUrls)
^

TypeError: client_1.BasicHostList is not a constructor
at Function.create (/home/dfern/atproto/packages/bsky/src/index.ts:120:11)
at Function.create (/home/dfern/atproto/packages/dev-env/src/bsky.ts:106:37)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at Function.create (/home/dfern/atproto/packages/dev-env/src/network.ts:66:18)
at run (/home/dfern/atproto/packages/dev-env/src/bin.ts:17:19)

Node.js v18.20.8

Orange Dreamsicle Negroni

A golden orchard negroni with a negroni menu

Persian dinner combo with kebab rice salad and grilled jalapeño from Taste of Persia SJ

A Farcaster post from amadon.eth
Worldcoin opened a LA location and somehow thought it was a good idea to have me speak. Spent 25 min calling out proof-of-person as a spoofable scam, warning about the surveillance state they’re helping to build, and telling everyone why they should never give up their biometric data. The looks on the Worldcoin staffers’ faces were priceless.

A popup from the washington post that says: "GIFT FROM A POST SUBSCRIBER, Create an account to redeem your FREE article"

browser screenshot of deer.social login page

A screenshot from ecashact.us that says: "Importantly, E-Cash is not:
1. A CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency). Although E-Cash is a form of digital dollar, it is issued by the Treasury, not the Federal Reserve, and accordingly is not a CBDC.
2. In competition with a CBDC. E-Cash is intended to complement and be developed in parallel to other forms of digital public finance, including CBDCs, FedAccounts, Postal Banking, and Public Banking."

A house finch feeding a newborn hatchling

A collage showing a finch nest, the finch nesting and 3 small finch eggs in the nest.

A house finch nesting on a patio overhang

A chart of bluebird bio's stock price over it's lifetime, down 97.50%

Screenshot that says: His pain never let up. One day he said to Deborah, “Mommy, I’m in pain every single day.”

Kendric wants to be like other kids, but fear of pain crises has held him back. He became increasingly sedentary, spending his days on his iPad, watching anime or building elaborate Lego structures.

Despite his many absences, Kendric kept up in school, maintaining an A average.

Deborah and Keith began to hope for gene therapy. But when they found out what it would cost, they lost some of their hope.

But their insurer approved the treatment in a few weeks, they said.

Now it has begun.

A Bike Fall meme where the first panel of a man riding a bike says: *creating an opensource, open data, decentralized social media protocol with composable moderation*, the second panel of the same man putting a stick through his front wheel says: force-detach quote posts & break thread contexts, and the final panel with the man who has fallen of the bike holding his knee in pain says: everyone screenshots instead

Two punch bowl containing orange liquids (punch) with a hand holding a glass of punch

A poster from ZCash that says:
Privacy is normal. Privacy is for good guys. It's for moms and bike messengers and foodies. Privacy is for business meetings and voting booths. It's why we have shower curtains It's why we have that little padlock icon in our browser bar. Privacy protects you from discrimination and from identity theft, and it keeps your food-delivery history under wraps. It can also shield you from those creepy somebody-has-definitely-been-listening-to-my-thoughts ads on social media apps. Privacy isn't about shutting out everyone and everything, Instead, privacy gives you the power to choose what and with whom you'll share. It provides safety, control and the right to grant access Privacy gives you the ability to express yourself, to be creative, to spend your time and your money in whatever manner you like, without the scrutiny of others. It protects our intimate moments, our most embarrassing ambitions, our radical ideas and the ability to be our true selves. Privacy is freedom, consent, dignity and security. Privacy is normal.

A cartoon of our blessed homeland, their barbarous wastes

A tweet from @nima_owji on X that reads: "BREAKING: X is about to remove the current block button, meaning that if an account is public, their posts will be visible to the blocked users as well!"

A screenshot of the Title & Abstract for the paper "How to Timestamp a Digital Document" by Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta in the Journal of Cryptology 1991