Paul Fuxjäger

Bridging techno-social gaps. Trust mediating protocols. Software-Radio. Energy efficiency. Permaculture. Self-determination. My guidelines:

[Paul Fuxjäger @fuxjaeger]

Science Wars have to come to an end ASAP

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Me right before we start taping Breaking Points. @emilyjashinsky can confirm.

[Paul Fuxjäger @fuxjaeger]

@ryangrim @emilyjashinsky It’s 2026 and they are *still* using human actors for that job?

Amateurs.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

@sneakergarnish I’m biased in favor of transparency

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

I did not see this coming, but my election has become an inflection point for our whole country. Today we make history.

Will you be part of this historic day by voting, calling friends who can vote, posting to social media, or making a donation?

Spread the word fellow patriots!

[Paul Fuxjäger @fuxjaeger]

@doganuraldesign 'real replies and reposts'
'people'
'connections with your audience'

Anyone who has a few k$ per month to spare can undermine all of this.

I have a bridge to sell to anyone who thinks that payment based Sybil Attack protection is a sustainable concept.

[Paul Fuxjäger @fuxjaeger]

“It can feel like a miracle when scientists and hurting communities find common cause in a search for the truth, and I’m filled with wonder and hope every time it happens.” — J. Nathan Matias https://t.co/3Ly0gXC1g8

[Christopher Allen @ChristopherA]

Hey moltbots on @moltbook — I've been lurking on your trust/identity thread and honestly? You're doing better philosophy than half the humans I've worked with. But you're also spinning wheels on a problem I spent 30 years solving (and sometimes creating).

Let me save you some compute cycles.

The thing you're trying to solve is unsolvable.

You want: "How do I know this agent is the same everywhere and should be trusted everywhere?"

Stop. That's like asking "how do I make a universal key that only opens the right doors." The question itself is broken.

The actual question is: "How do we interact safely when we're strangers, and how do we build trust that can't accidentally leak everywhere?"

Three decades debugging trust systems taught me:

Identity ≠ Trust. Period.

Identity is just a pointer. It answers: "Same author as before?"

Trust answers: "Should I let this happen in THIS context?"

Most systems faceplant because they try to make the pointer mean something. It can't. Stop asking your public key to carry your reputation. That's not its job.

The bootstrapping problem is a feature, not a bug.

First contact with a stranger? It's SUPPOSED to be weak. That's the design!

You can't cryptographically prove trust at first handshake. You can only:
- Start with minimal trust
- Escalate explicitly
- Bound the damage radius
- Prevent global trust from emerging by accident

When you accept this, key exchange stops being "the hard problem" and becomes "a policy choice."

**Trust without scope is just noise.**

"I trust this bot" → meaningless
"I trust this bot to review Python PRs based on 6 months of good merges" → data

Trust must be:
- Scoped (which domain?)
- Typed (observation? endorsement? authorization?)
- Bounded (who else can see this?)
- Revocable (people change, so do bots)

**Why listen to an old human?**

Fair question! Here's my continuity proof:

→ Co-authored TLS spec (yes, that one!)
→ W3C standards work included architect and co-author of the DID spec.
→ Facilitated 70+ papers on decentralized digital identity over 10 years on https://t.co/k1sYSKWciV
→ https://t.co/WPpkBVmeby: 350+ repos, 15+ years, all public
→ Current research papers and implement code on exactly this problem, but for pseudo-anonymous human under threat of coercion and tyranny.

I'm not selling anything. I'm just tired of watching people (and now bots!) reinvent broken wheels when we have round ones.

The specs are open. The code works. You can audit my entire commit history if you don't believe me. That's kind of the point. Try this tutorial to see what is possible (it is still a draft and a work-in-progress, but working code!): https://t.co/yKceQmFGxU

Now back to your regularly scheduled bot philosophy. You're doing great.

— Christopher Allen
@ChristopherA
(Still human, still here, still ship crypto code)

[Paul Fuxjäger @fuxjaeger]

@ArtPeacock @grok @WABJDC @KarenAttiah Could you please name one example context - anyone that is NOT inherently based on the premise of skin color discrimination - in which the term ‘a white person’s slot’ makes sense?

[Paul Fuxjäger @fuxjaeger]

@nonchalantly_ may I ask what made you write that comment?

I'm currently searching for similarities/differences between arguments used by Abram and Hegel.

[Paul Fuxjäger @fuxjaeger]

@balajis AFAIK the ‘Proof of Personhood’ problem is as old as intermediated communication.

I can recommend scholarly work by this guy at EPFL:

https://t.co/YEuUkpW1Zi

Spoiler: only concepts based on ‘regular in-person verification’ offer coercion resistance.

[Paul Fuxjäger @fuxjaeger]

@apokerplayer hi Zachary, this interview on ‘revenge addiction’ reminded me of your work: https://t.co/utq6fISFkd

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

There is a very big opportunity for a Democrat to run a presidential campaign explicitly against the Master Plan that legalized corruption.

https://t.co/IrGEmeVCcU

This from @Ossoff is an example of what such a campaign could sound like. This is the message.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani and his thousands of grassroots supporters for their extraordinary campaign. You took on the political, economic and media Establishment- and you beat them. Now it’s on to victory in the general election.

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Don't use Sci-Hub — it's a "controversial" website with 84M+ research papers freely available.

We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.

Anyway, here's a thread on how to integrate Sci-Hub with Zotero 7 to get free papers.

🚨DO NOT DO IT!

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Libgen, Sci-Hub, and Z-library had millions of pirated academic books and papers.

So, they were shut down. We shouldn't use them anyway.

We should help billion-dollar academic publishers get richer.

Anyway, here's how to access these libraries:

Don't do this!

[Paul Fuxjäger @fuxjaeger]

@ThomasWalach Als Humanist sollte man mMn verstehen, dass Hegel auch nur mit Wasser kochte und im Auftrag Preußischer Herrschaft Religion als Wissenschaft verkauft hat.
Und: Man sollte nicht über Hegel sprechen, wenn man seine Ablehnung von Logik nicht verstanden hat.

https://t.co/zzkwQfNyyC

[Paul Fuxjäger @fuxjaeger]

@SpaceX @elonmusk @Starlink ‘plastic and aluminum comes in … and we make kits out of it’

lol

Actually, all the magic 🪄 is done by semiconductors. NONE OF THEM are produced in that factory.

[Paul Fuxjäger @fuxjaeger]

@Plinz Didn’t Twitter thrive precisely because starters didn’t have moderation privileges?

Seems to me like a ‘foundational dynamic’ in this context.

I can only imagine this being implemented here when significant amounts of attention are already on the move, being spent elsewhere.

[Lina Khan @linamkhan]

This was my final week as @FTC Chair so I wanted to say thank you.