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serene ❄️🎹

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Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 + EEG + AI model pre-trained on my auditory cortex to generate visuals from my brainwaves live as I perform in front of ~8000 people

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@keroserene

2 years

TFW code you wrote years ago is now a critical comms route in a warzone. #HappyInternationalWomensDay Snowflake gives everyone access to the full & open internet, even when blocked 😇 @torproject #snowflake #torproject

On Internet Freedom: Snowflake & Tor

The story of how Snowflake was created for the Tor Project.

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1 year

Loved chatting with Vienna's classical radio station! We also covered tech/ @snowstormnet ❄️ & other things- classical music radio being a very reasonable place for this I'm sure😇 It's being translated/dubbed into German for the air but here's some excerpts from transcript

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@keroserene

4 months

Paganini Vision Pro 🙃

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@keroserene

2 years

Since the war, snowflake's network capacity went up by an order of magnitude. Huge thanks to everyone, each and every person who volunteered as a snowflake proxy to help keep the internet free & open ❄️

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@keroserene

1 year

Liszt on Liszt's piano in Liszt's home

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@keroserene

5 months

It was a good solstice. Thanks @palladiummag

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@keroserene

1 year

Threw together a prototype global visualizer of the snowflake network... lots more to do, let me know your thoughts and we'll make it better <3

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@keroserene

7 years

Graduated CMU 1yr early, hired by Google at 20. Then, internet freedom & Tor. Now a concert pianist (just got invited to perform in Vienna!)

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@keroserene

4 months

Playing with Apple Vision Pro 👁️🎹💜

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@keroserene

1 year

First time at the Vienna Konzerthaus seemed reasonable to project my brain onto the walls

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@keroserene

2 years

Current mood

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@keroserene

1 year

I saw the best minds of my generation de-fanged by FAANG

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@keroserene

5 months

I'm glad snowflake has helped many bypass online censorship globally, including unblocking Tor. It's remarkable that the prototype I threw together years ago is what has now been working for internet freedom globally; thanks for highlighting my work ❄️💜 #CCC #C37C3 #snowflake

The Tor Project

@torproject

5 months

If you weren't able to watch it live, @RogerDingledine 's Lecture on Tor censorship attempts in Russia, Iran, Turkmenistan at #C37C3 is now available to stream online:

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@keroserene

11 months

been busy

Snowstorm

@snowstormnet

11 months

Excited to announce we've raised our seed round of $3M - Techcrunch

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3 years

Good evening

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1 year

It was a fun concert

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@keroserene

6 years

This piano waveform visualization tho... My favorite installation from #NAMM2018 . Clip taken by #YAMAHA

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@keroserene

7 years

Self-taught coding at 9. I'm the only person on 🌎 (afaik) who has both written a kernel & performs Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos? #WITBragDay

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@keroserene

3 years

Feels amazing to play live again — after everything

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1 year

Hi

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@keroserene

8 years

Snowflake is inspired by and combines the advantages of flashproxy & meek. Hoping it will be useful for many :)

Nima Fatemi 🍉 mrphs.bsky

@mrphs

8 years

"Snowflake" is a Pluggable Transport that takes advantage of WebRTC protocol to bypass censorship / @kiserene @arlolra @torproject

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@keroserene

2 years

TFW code you wrote years ago is now a critical comms route in a warzone. #HappyInternationalWomensDay Snowflake gives everyone access to the full & open internet, even when blocked 😇 @torproject #snowflake #torproject

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@keroserene

1 year

Excited to debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus with the orchestra next month /

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@keroserene

3 years

A quintet experiment (rach2) As I complete another orbit

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@keroserene

1 year

Honored to join the advisory board of the World Ethical Data Foundation @WEDF_forum

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@keroserene

5 years

Hi Twitter! It's been a while. Been on lots of adventures. Enjoy a #piano clip from Golden Gate Park

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@keroserene

5 months

Scriabin Concerto in F# minor Op. 20 ~1896 They did good neurotech back then💫 Full concert now on YT:

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@keroserene

1 year

feeling cute with avery fisher's 225 (via )

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@keroserene

1 year

Excited to debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus with the orchestra next month /

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2 years

We’ve raised $35k so far🇺🇦 Thanks everybody

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@keroserene

2 years

Giving a benefit concert for Ukraine this Saturday in SF. 2pm at the Golden Gate Bandshell

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@keroserene

2 years

It was fun to give a concert at the Masonic Temple #HappyWomensDay

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@keroserene

3 years

Happy Birthday Liszt! Here’s some Liszt, on Liszt’s piano, in Liszt’s house 💜 #piano

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@keroserene

10 months

it was fun

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@keroserene

10 months

tonight's venue

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tonight's venue

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@keroserene

1 year

Today is the 10 year anniversary of: curl -s -L | bash you're welcome

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@keroserene

3 years

hi

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3 months

From Szilard's 10 commandments - "Do not destroy what you cannot create"

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@keroserene

2 years

Accompanied by a 1724 Stradivarius… Love visiting friends in Vienna 🎶

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@keroserene

8 years

In 2015 I lived 3 months in Thailand, sold my boat, rode motorcycle across the US, became a concert pianist, etc...

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@keroserene

4 months

Experimenting... more shenanigans incoming 👁️🎶

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@keroserene

2 years

Suite on Ukrainian Themes: Song 🥀 #piano

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@keroserene

2 years

Found a wild piano at ⁦ #IETF

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@keroserene

3 years

Tonight’s venue

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@keroserene

2 years

Happy Valentines 💜 #piano

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@keroserene

1 year

It's World Piano Day - the 88th day of the year. Enjoy

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@keroserene

1 year

Thanks Forbes @snowstormnet

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@keroserene

2 years

As founding engineer for Google Ideas (now Jigsaw), very glad to see Google finally standing strong on internet freedom. Hope they continue... Should improve and move beyond wrapper around big tech services as we've had more decentralized methods from the beginning 💁🏻‍♀️

Jared Cohen

@JaredCohen

2 years

To help break the information blockade, @Jigsaw has a free tool called Outline that is easier to use and more reliable than VPNs. Allows anyone to set up a cloud server anywhere in the world and proxy for large numbers of individuals. @McFaul @juliaioffe

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@keroserene

6 years

Solo'd with a symphony for the first time... Can confirm, feels good when dreams become reality 💜🎶 #Prokofiev #PianoConcerto No. 2 (Not bad for never having gone to music conservatory, right?)

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@keroserene

3 years

The internet archive has a pipe organ

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@keroserene

7 years

Oh Liszt, you're too fun. Here's an excerpt, full piece now on yt:

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@keroserene

1 year

definitely not a Linked Liszt

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3 years

Thanks San Francisco #piano #goldengatepark

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@keroserene

2 years

Giving a benefit concert for Ukraine this Saturday in SF. 2pm at the Golden Gate Bandshell

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@keroserene

3 years

It is fun to play Russian Jazz

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1 year

More Liszt - at the train station

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3 years

Tonight’s venue

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@keroserene

2 years

This was on one of the world's first carbon fiber pianos. Another lens from which to attempt the future

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@keroserene

7 years

If you'd like more fun music adventures in your inputs, follow me on Instagram for all my 🎹 updates :)

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@keroserene

2 years

Today Scriabin turns 150 years old… So I got inspired to try one of his crazy “piano poems” about taking wing and crashing into a star ☄️ Full recording: #piano

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@keroserene

2 years

There's much more to do to scale this former research project into a real production system: global censorship circumvention infrastructure A core team is already forming. I'm hiring. Ping me if you have the chops & want to help protect internet freedom & our future

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@keroserene

3 years

In memoriam Nikolai Kapustin, who died one year ago today 🥀 Here's one of his fun pieces I've been learning #piano

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@keroserene

2 years

Seems this little project has had some real impact on many folks who'd otherwise be left in the dark, especially in the past month and half with iron curtain 2.0 and such situations...

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@keroserene

3 years

Tonight’s venue

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@keroserene

4 months

Enjoying the low latency, but proprioception offset is noticeable by a few millimeters... adds an extra layer of "fun" 🫨

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@keroserene

3 years

Excited to return to Golden Gate Park this September #piano #concert

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@keroserene

8 years

Wrote a tiny bit of code - #WebRTC for #golang : Please help make it better! :) (Also, missing everyone at #32c3 )

GitHub - keroserene/go-webrtc: WebRTC for Go

WebRTC for Go. Contribute to keroserene/go-webrtc development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@keroserene

2 years

The Tor Project

@torproject

2 years

We're very happy to see that Twitter is now offering an .onion address. 🐦🧅 For many years Tor users have been looking for such a feature. Thank you Twitter! Now is a vital time to help people stay connected and .onion services help to do this.

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people keep talking about schelling points

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3 years

@DanielleFong the gifted program I was in as a 7yr old - where we had fun doing things like designing Mars missions - doesn’t exist anymore now I play piano concerts… despite no formal training, because of the serendipity of an old bookstore in Amsterdam, & paying attention, not institutions

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1 year

@snowstormnet we can debug code, and we can debug our brains

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@keroserene

8 years

Coding, you're so fun these days I accidentally a 100 day github streak

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@keroserene

2 years

Just released my first sample pack, with @splice ! 232 riffs, loops, one shots, generated from this carbon fiber piano: #piano

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@keroserene

8 years

According to my bot, I'm now over 9000!! ...days old

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@keroserene

8 years

Decided on "Snowflake" due to the "ICE negotiation" involved and abundance of ephemeral (and special) volunteer proxies ;) @mrphs @arlolra

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@keroserene

7 years

New recording! Ondine: of Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit... one of the most gorgeous & difficult pieces of all time

Ravel - Ondine (Gaspard de la Nuit)

Serene plays Ravel's Ondine, from Gaspard de la NuitRecorded at OCTAGONMay 14th, 2017♪♫♪♫♫♪♪♪♫♫♪A new era, a new piano. Over the last year, I built a new mus...

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@keroserene

5 months

the dress was a gift from Ukraine 💜 brilliant team of hackers from 🇺🇦 now working with me on Snowstorm ❄️

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@keroserene

6 months

Hyperbaric oxygen chamber 🌬️

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@keroserene

3 months

@bilawalsidhu Yup, been doing some piano experiments...

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@keroserene

4 months

Paganini Vision Pro 🙃

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@keroserene

2 years

As we hit initial scaling limits, the dip is from the server switchover / upgrade on the tor-snowflake bridge. Another upgrade happened recently, as we stabilize & prepare for *really* scaling this thing up, and expanding to many more use-cases...

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@keroserene

6 months

music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music --рахманинов

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@keroserene

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Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 + EEG + AI model pre-trained on my auditory cortex to generate visuals from my brainwaves live as I perform in front of ~8000 people

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Last month I fractured my foot. This morning, ran first ½ marathon with @nicoles ! #kaiserhalfmarathon

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@keroserene

2 years

@TylerAlterman @NathanpmYoung Snowflake is by definition a concerted effort, by everyone on the internet, to keep the internet free. I did conceive & build the original version of snowflake during an OTF research grant, demo'd it at a tor dev mtg in Valencia, and got it deployed in Tor Browser years ago

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@keroserene

2 years

We can help prevent the splintering! Most users circumventing censorship in Russia are now using snowflake. Any internet user in an unfiltered region can form part of this decentralized bridge, by leaving a tab open or installing the extension 💁🏻‍♀️❄️ See:

MIT Technology Review

@techreview

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If Russia disconnects from—or is booted from— the internet’s governing bodies, the internet may never be the same again for any of us.

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@Grimezsz

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2 years

We've upgraded the bridge... videos via snowflake work again (which hasn't been the case for a while given the crazy demand) Please run more snowflake proxies & help the internet stay up over there. More updates soon

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@keroserene

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New experiments #piano #synesthesia

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@keroserene

9 years

I'm performing piano. Moon viewing platform- SF botanical gardens at noon, today and tomorrow! http://t.co/12IDCoV5kw #flowerpiano

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10 years

So Stallman's birthday involved knish, DJ-ing gamelan from my laptop, compile-your-Free-cake and... gnutella. http://t.co/UcABhowrbd

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Also, seems this is the first time a pianist without formal training is performing there

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2 years

Good morning ✨ Instead of artillery strikes, here is some Liszt— “Un Sospiro” (a sigh) Full:

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@keroserene

2 years

It’s not only webrtc, but a giant ephemeral network of volunteer proxies making it very hard to block. Rendezvous will need some upgrades soon though

George

@georgejrjrjr

2 years

@TylerAlterman Snowflake from @kiserene works! It’s a WebRTC proxy. (I’m reposting from the NYC dmg). I still haven’t dug into whether domain fronting, domain hiding, or eSNI-based techniques are working in Ukraine, but I’m curious if anyone else has.

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Enjoy a fun moment from rehearsal w/ #Concerto #Budapest Love how this thing ends 🚀 #piano

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2 years

Piano logistics quest

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3 years

Been averaging 1 tweet per year lately. Here's my 1st this year:) Since last tweet, I composed for #Kanye 's Opera, played #piano concertos, survived pandemic fires, stopped having phone for 5mo, ended up in Vegas working with the Blue Man, wrote some GLSL, have concert tonight/

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@keroserene

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Let's see if a full 35 minute concerto video will work on this platform... Meanwhile, full video is now on YT here:

Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 with BRAINWAVES & AI | SERENE

Performing RACH2 while I wear an EEG (electro-encephalogram), processing my brainwaves live through an AI model pre-trained on my auditory cortex as a signal...

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Revolutionary etude, opening