Weaponized Design and the Digital Identity Event Horizon with Cade Diehm

I spoke to Cade Diehm (shiba.computer), Head of Research at the World Ethical Data Foundation (worldethicaldata.org) and founder of New Design Congress (newdesigncongress.org/about), an independent research group confronting the gap (ruinedby.design/?ref=ndc+says+nein+danke) between (longnow.org/?ref=ndc+says+nein+danke) what (humanetech.com/?ref=ndc+says+nein+danke) is (ideo.com/?ref=ndc+says+nein+danke) said (ribbonfarm.com/?ref=ndc+says+nein+danke) to (eff.org/cyberspace-independence?ref=ndc+says+n…) be (waymo.com/?ref=ndc+says+nein+danke) happening (antikythera.org/?ref=ndc+says+nein+danke) and what is actually happening (newdesigncongress.org/everything) in digital societies. His career also involves working at Deloitte Australia, as leading design for CoinJar, the largest crypto exchange in Australia and Tactical Tech.
I had him on to talk about his work on Weaponised Design (ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/30-on-…) (when an interface or system harms its users whilst performing entirely within its expected behaviour), his recent alarming research (newdesigncongress.org/en/note/2024/identifying…) on the brittleness of digital identity (newdesigncongress.org/en/note/2025/digital-ide…) and his experience with crypto.
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