Dan Brickley

GitHub - roostorg/awesome-safety-tools: A curated collection of open source tools for online safety A curated collection of open source tools for online safety - roostorg/awesome-safety-tools

*bird noises*

We heard from many developers and organizations that even finding open source tools that can be used for online safety is a challenge. Our first baby step is putting together this curated list of awesome safety tools.

We welcome contributions and feedback!
github.com/roostorg/awe...

@philarcher.bsky.social do you still have your PICSfail doc online somewhere?

Lots of open positions at GS1 Global Office right now at all levels. Brussels, New Jersey, hybrid, remote... are any of these you or someone you know? www.gs1.org/about/careers

ChatGPT agent: "create a PDF of a novel D&D adventure, add illustrations, make it super interesting and deep, add tables, etc"

"Fix the formatting, build it out more"

Got a 19 page PDF. Agent doesn't do layouts well, but pulls off building a coherent adventure, historically very hard for LLMs.

If anyone can explain to me why this is still such a common occurrence for people with apostrophes, hyphens, etc - please get in touch! I’m going to write about it

I think it’s more the backend systems around airline IT, rather than solely the web form developer. Does the “machine readable” bit of your passport have anything except “A”-“Z” and “<“?

Gephi Lite: a lighter web based version of Gephi | Alexis Jacomy | #DH2025

“contain” is an awkward choice of word. Did you mean “combat misinformation” or “include misinformation”?

Powerful study forthcoming in PETS showing how Apple’s claims that the Apple Watch cannot be made to interoperate with Android are false. arxiv.org/html/2507.07...

There are glimmers of hope aroubd digital Wallets

There's a real paucity of policy discussion on the left about the problems we're going to face if AI does in fact carry on getting better.

“Language that once clarified is now obscuring”: NewsGuard retires the labels “misinformation” and “disinformation” The end of an era? Since its launch in 2018, NewsGuard has been in the business of labels. The company has rated the reliability of online news and information, giving publishers "nutrition labels" t...

Whatever you think of NewsGuard’s approach or the usefulness of its labels, the decision speaks to how the internet, political landscape, and notions of collective truth have polarized beyond recognition since 2018. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/lang...

[DSIT] ‘said Google Cloud … had “agreed to work with the UK government in helping public services use advanced tech to shake off decades old ‘ball and chain’ legacy contracts which leave essential services vulnerable to cyber-attack”.’

Wow. Nobody talks about Google Cloud’s charity work.

Sovereign AI AIRR launch opportunity: call for researchers

Are you a UK AI academic that wants to be GPU rich this summer?

The Sovereign AI Unit has a call out for high ambition proposals in our core priority areas.

Apply by July 7th! www.gov.uk/government/p...

It does at least give AI summaries a reason for existing, although if nobody then engages with the clickbait’s ads maybe there eventually won’t be anything to summarize…?

@jarkman.bsky.social fyi, “fundamental AI research (especially embodied AI)”

Tom Westgarth on X: "Many top academic AI researchers are GPU poor. The Sovereign AI Unit wants to change this story. We are seeking ambitious AI research proposals for UK academics aiming to take their research to the next level. Read below to find out more and apply 🧵👇 https://t.co/A9zYMwuK52" / X Many top academic AI researchers are GPU poor. The Sovereign AI Unit wants to change this story. We are seeking ambitious AI research proposals for UK academics aiming to take their research to the next level. Read below to find out more and apply 🧵👇 https://t.co/A9zYMwuK52

@tomwestgarth.bsky.social can you post x.com/tom_westgart... here?

“Boids Demo Reel” survived as a videotape cassette on my bookshelf for many years, then was digitized for a documentary around 2010. “Breaking the Ice” was on broadcast quality reel-to-reel videotape until 2023 when Tom McMahon and others worked on a remastering for the 50ᵗʰ SIGGRAPH conference.

Craig Reynolds (left) having just received the 2025 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award from Yevgeniy Vorobeychik at AAMAS 2025 in Detroit, Michigan, USA, on May 22, 2025.

I enjoyed being invited to attend AAMAS last week in Detroit to receive the 2025 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award for my 1987 SIGGRAPH paper “Flocks, Herds and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model.”

aamas2025.org/index.php/co...

#autonomous #agents #multiagent #boids #flocks

Excellent nature photos:

“A Photo Appreciation of Life in Our Oceans — A collection of images showcasing some of the incredible marine biodiversity across our blue planet”

#photography #nature

Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

To expand a little, despite @danbri.bsky.social's best efforts I still can't get excited about AI or indeed horrified by the so-called 'hallucinations'. I am, however, fascinated by C-Suite hallucinations when elders and betters start displaying some form of primitive pattern recognition

Maybe there’s more on other planets?

Not all transformations (or reforms) are for the better!

Does the BBC have any public video/audio subtitles for these kinds of experiments or is it all stiill farmed out to commercial partnership? Text data is massively more useful than 5 years ago, seems a pity that so much is locked away!

Screenshot of Youtube ios app showing Rory Stewart responding to a question submitted to him & Alastair Campbell on Rest is Politics podcast. Display shows question, Campbell and Stewart words all run together in YouTube’s public transcript. Text: (omitting timestamps) “… response to an existential threat to the rule of law South Korea: What's happening? particularly when contrasted to recent developments in the US and much older democracy where they've struggled to deal with one I mean South Korea is still going on this thing with the president it's amazing isn't it quick reminder of what what happened over the last couple of weeks so the president of South Korea declared Marshall Law the Parliament and the opposition”…

For example, if podcasts made who-said-what clearer it would be easier to ask a data system for host and guest’s positions on various topics.

Thanks & likewise. There’s this thing going around that modern AI has exhausted all the training data. And that training on model ouputs is eating-where-you-poop bad. But imagine cleaning up podcast subs so we know who said what tied to wikidata id, compared to “all the words in a list”.

Thanks!

That was me playing around, ie requested of it. I haven’t tried provoking it to explain the specifics of its broad or lumpy distributions. My intuition was it could capture ambivalence, ambiguity, multiple interpretations, conflicted “marmite” reactions where 0.5 doesn’t do justice to the love-hate.

Shatwigs Blaboon! ⚖️ ...

@jarkman.bsky.social I have a new hobby, AI catwig-reviewing its own code over MCP. It really didn’t enjoy pacman! codepen.io/danbri/full/...