CEO of BECKSTROM, Former Dir. U.S. Natl. Cybersecurity Center & ICANN CEO, Silicon Valley tech IPO founder, Geopolitical Expert, Author, Economist
Santa Cruz, California
Joined August 2008
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As I tell @alansmurray here the o&g methane agreement is the most important action announced at any COP in terms of the near-term effect it will have on temperatures. @MethaneSAT will provide the data needed to track follow-through. fortune.com/2024/03/11/space…
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Powerful talk with @kimbal & @RodBeckstrom about the power of DAOs and the reinvention of philanthropy on the Main Stage @consensus2022 👏
Truly inspiring to witness such a pivotal moment in decentralized governance.
@CoinDesk @BigGreenDAO #Consensus2022
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"It's a small world. It's a fragile world. And on one is safe, until everyone is safe" @RodBeckstrom, Author of Starfish & Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations #Consensus2022
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GM/GA/GN #RodBeckstrom Bitcoin downturn? It's all roses and blue skies at Consensus 2022, Austin's 'SXSW of crypto' - mySA dlvr.it/SS1Frk
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1/ #COVID19 took the life of a great man today. Former Stanford President, and former FDA Commissioner Donald Kennedy.
This thread is a personal one though, as Don was profoundly influential in my career.
news.stanford.edu/?p=33639 via @Stanford
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This seems like a credible timeline
The next 6 months, per Morgan Stanley's head of biotech
By May: Peak in new cases nationally
By June: Testing capacity hits 1M/day
By July: Serology testing widely available
By Aug: Wave 1 returns to work
By Oct: Potential vaccine for healthcare workers
(via @RobinWigg)
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Nature is taking back its space. Amazing scenes from South Africa right now. #Birds #Nature #LockDown #COVID19 #CoronaViruspandemic 🇿🇦🤷♂️
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WHO director-general on global response to novel coronavirus: "Our greatest enemy right now is not the virus itself. It's fear, rumors, and stigma. And our greatest assets are facts, reason, and solidarity." abcn.ws/39aKHNc
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Critical points raised by Rod Beckstrom about the proposed sale of .ORG. ISOC has a duty to the .org registrant community, but is choosing to sacrifice .org registrants to benefit itself and its other areas of focus. Is ISOC really acting for the public benefit? #SaveDotOrg /1
Former ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom commenting on .Org deal domainnamewire.com/2020/02/2…
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To help residents and emergency personnel stay connected in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, Comcast has announced it is opening its network of almost 200,000 Xfinity WiFi hotspots throughout Florida to anyone who needs them, including non-Xfinity customers, free of charge.
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“The thermodynamic arrow of time...entropy of a closed system can only increase or remain constant, but never decrease,” Micadei said. “By creating in the lab an isolated system where the entropy decreases, in the system the arrow of time should point to the opposite direction.”
ICYMI: The second law of thermodynamics is fundamental to the way our world works. This new experiment has created what appears to be an exception to the rule.
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Remembering Jon Postel. Jon passed away 20 years ago today and we remember his long service to the Internet community he helped to create. tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468
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“Technology is agnostic - it just is. It is human intentions that determine what happens with it.” - @RodBeckstrom at the Nightcap Session “Rebooting Arms Control” of our MSC Cyber Security Summit #CSS2018 #MSCcyber
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Congratulations to our “Tenacious Ten” @StanfordCISAC Honors students on their graduation! Wishing you all the best as you enter the real world, and don’t forget that we will be here cheering you all along the way.
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4.5 magnitude #earthquake. 3 km from ##Berkeley, CA, #UnitedStates earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2… – at Oakland, CA