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Mental health
fromSlate Magazine
18 hours ago

This Group Has Helped Millions Recover From Addiction. TikTok Is Rewriting Its Rules.

Alcoholics Anonymous enshrines strict member anonymity to protect the fellowship from publicity, exploitation, controversy, and to preserve principles over personalities.
Music
fromSocial Media Explorer
2 days ago

DSAI and the Movement That Will Last 1,000 Years

DSAI builds a timeless electronic-music legacy through hypnotic visuals, cross-cultural influences, viral reach, and anonymity turned mainstream validation.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
3 days ago

Talking to AI helped her be a calmer, better mom - so she vibe-coded a web app to help others emotionally reset

Crash Out Diary uses an AI chatbot to provide a single-message pep talk and guided grounding activities for anonymous emotional regulation.
Books
fromBustle
6 days ago

Even In The Wild World Of Fanfic, 'Manacled' Is Special. So Is Its Author.

SenLinYu transformed a serialized fanfiction into a bestselling, heavily promoted dark fantasy novel while navigating anonymity, intense fan devotion, and expanded public visibility.
fromScary Mommy
3 weeks ago

"I Love My Kids, But I Hate Being A Mom" & 25 Other Mom Confessions

Whether she's dealing with the growing pains of raising children or just really struggling with her own identity, there's a lot happening in a mom's life that she can't always share out loud. Not all of it is bad or super secretive, but releasing things usually means someone's going to have a reaction - and moms will do just about anything to keep everyone happy and safe and free from her worries and thoughts.
Parenting
Careers
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Share your experience of getting your dream job and it not working out

Invitation to share experiences of dream jobs gone sour via an encrypted form; data used only for the feature and deleted when no longer required.
LGBT
fromBuzzFeed
3 weeks ago

15 Extremely Dark Secrets That Were Kept In A Vault And Hid From Loved Ones For Years

Sharing secrets anonymously can reveal unexpected and complex family histories.
fromFortune
1 month ago

The Tea app was intended to help women date safely. Then hackers leaked 72,000 images online, including users' selfies

Tea founder Sean Cook, a software engineer who previously worked at Salesforce and Shutterfly, says on the app's website that he founded the company in 2022 after witnessing his own mother's "terrifying" experiences. Cook said they included unknowingly dating men with criminal records and being "catfished" - deceived by men using false identities.
Privacy professionals
Health
fromwww.esquire.com
1 month ago

What It Feels Like to Donate a Kidney to a Stranger

Donating a kidney can be an emotional journey, highlighting both anxiety and fulfillment in the act of giving anonymously.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

A new Irish writer is getting rave reviews but nobody knows who they are. That gives me hope | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Liadan Ni Chuinn published their first collection, Every One Still Here, under a pen name to protect their privacy.
Miscellaneous
fromIrish Independent
1 month ago

'I'll still be eating ham and cheese sambos' - family syndicate comes forward to claim 250m EuroMillions jackpot

A family from Ireland won the largest EuroMillions jackpot of €250 million and chose to remain anonymous.
London music
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Two Shell Surprise-Release New Album IIcons

Two Shell released IIcons, a new album that collects unreleased music, marking the end of a chapter for the electronic music duo.
fromBitcoin Magazine
2 months ago

How CoinJoins Achieve Anonymity In A Crowd

Anonymity is the end goal when studying privacy, and de-anonymization is likened to a guessing game where an adversary attempts to identify individuals from a set of candidates.
Privacy professionals
fromBitcoin Magazine
2 months ago

The Scroll: A Brief History Of Wallet Clustering

Fergal Reid and Martin Harrigan's study introduced the "User Network" to model the relatedness of a single user's coins based on the common input ownership heuristic (CIOH). This model evaluated the anonymity of Bitcoin donations, specifically critiquing WikiLeak's claim of accepting anonymous donations.
Cryptocurrency
Privacy technologies
fromHackernoon
1 year ago

How Confidential Are Your Blockchain Transactions, Really? | HackerNoon

Anonymity in blockchain protects user identities, but many systems expose sensitive information, risking confidentiality.
Digital life
fromIrish Independent
2 months ago

The Indo Daily: 'Tattle Life' exposed - When gossip ends in court

Tattle Life is a toxic gossip platform that can lead to serious reputational harm, but victims can fight back successfully.
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

It's all fan-driven. People are in absolute raptures': how mysterious masked rockers Sleep Token took over metal

Sleep Token has emerged as a top metal band through unique branding and anonymity, achieving commercial success unexpectedly.
NYC food
fromwww.nytimes.com
3 months ago

Video: Meet Our New Restaurant Critics

Ligaya Mishan and Tejal Rao are new restaurant critics at The New York Times, breaking anonymity tradition to connect with readers.
Black Lives Matter
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Protesters have a right to wear masks despite Trump's double standard | Jan-Werner Muller

Protesters have a right to anonymity, which contrasts with demands for identifiable faces in civil disobedience, highlighting a complex legal and moral discourse.
fromTheartnewspaper
3 months ago

Is Banksy getting personal? New lighthouse mural prompts speculation over its philosophical meaning

Banksy's latest mural, featuring a black lighthouse and the words "I want to be what you saw in me," marks a rare moment of self-reflection.
London politics
#youtube
fromBusiness Insider
4 months ago
Social media marketing

I hid my identity from my YouTube followers. Revealing my face sparked some backlash, but I'm glad I did it.

fromBusiness Insider
4 months ago
Social media marketing

I hid my identity from my YouTube followers. Revealing my face sparked some backlash, but I'm glad I did it.

Privacy professionals
fromPoynter
3 months ago

Student reporters are under pressure to protect sources - and still tell the truth - Poynter

Student journalists increasingly face challenges in source attribution due to a rise in demands for anonymity among interviewees.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Tell us: have you ever made a drastic decision after a breakup?

Many individuals experience life-altering changes post-breakup, like relocating, changing careers, or altering their appearance, spurred by the emotional weight of a romantic split.
Graphic design
#4chan
fromThe New Yorker
4 months ago
Online Community Development

How the Internet Left 4chan Behind

4chan was a pivotal space for early internet culture, influencing perceptions of anonymity and community dynamics.
fromWIRED
4 months ago
Online Community Development

Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins

4chan's recent outages spurred speculation of a data breach, jeopardizing user anonymity and exposing sensitive information.
fromWIRED
4 months ago
Online Community Development

Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins

fromBusiness Insider
4 months ago

'Wednesday' actor Jenna Ortega says she loved hustling and struggling to succeed in Hollywood, and misses anonymity

I hold so much more pressure and weight in my body than I ever did, and I think it's just kind of the expectation of it all.
Mental health
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