Cassidy James Blaede

We need more developer-centered industry third spaces that don't cost an arm and a leg to get to or participate in.

If you run one or know one, now's a great time to bring attention to it.

Here at ROOST, we have a saying. "Less words. More code."

Welp, I unplugged my laptop from my desk to catch up on some things from the couch aaaaaand the battery went from 80% to 6% charged, then completely died in about 10 minutes. 💀

Time to look into replacement batteries…

My life gets so much easier when I realize there’s a human behind things

I’m mostly a kind person, just sometimes things rub me the wrong way

When I step back and realize that everyone’s imperfect, or that how someone’s acting rn may not be who they REALLY are

I usually feel a lotbetter! (❁´◡`❁)

Quick internet safety PSA: as Halloween approaches, a reminder: please don't post photos of other people's children on social media without their and/or their caregiver's consent! It's our responsibility to help safeguard children's privacy until they can decide for themselves. Happy Halloween! 🎃🎃🎃

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Check out everyone who opted into being listed at donate.gnome.org

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#GNOME #GNOMEfoundation

The perfect scenario would be just pasting rich text into a text field and it immediately converts it and spits out the Markdown into the text box.

Google Docs has a handy “Copy as Markdown” feature where you can paste rich text, and then copy it out as (mostly reasonable) markdown. Handy for quick and dirty conversion of a web page’s content, e.g. to quote in a blog post.

Is there some native app on Flathub I can use to do something similar?

A new milestone for open source safety infrastructure and transparency: gpt-oss-safeguard Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

At the Paris Peace Forum earlier today, we announced the release of gpt-oss-safeguard in partnership with OpenAI. Now, we’re announcing the launch of the ROOST Model Community (RMC).

roost.tools/blog/a-new-milestone-for-open-source-safety-infrastructure-and-transparency/

There's tried and true ways for how OSS applies to software, but that doesn't fit squarely with the realities of AI development.

That's why I'm grateful OpenAI is trying something new with @roost.tools, openly releasing weights with a commitment to work with the ROOST Model Community to iterate

ROOST.tools has been building against the DIRE framework for online trust and safety: Detection, Investigation, Review and Enforcement. ROOST's Coop and Osprey tools address I, R, and E, but Detection is best addressed by classification models.

Enter gpt-oss-safeguard from OpenAI

Excited to announce here at the @parispeaceforum.bsky.social that, after months of joint technical work together, OpenAI will open source through ROOST one of its main internal models that handles detection and moderation. This will allow anyone or any company to use, test, and study the model.

TikTok, Amazon, and Google haven’t yet provided comment to The Verge about C2PA support. Meta told The Verge that it is continuing to implement C2PA and evaluating its labeling approach as AI evolves. OpenAI simply directed us to its scant blog posts and help center article about C2PA support. Meta, like OpenAI, has an entire platform for its AI slop, complete with dedicated feeds for social and video content, and both companies are pumping AI-generated videos into social media. X, which has its own controversies regarding nude celebrity deepfakes, pointed us to its policy that supposedly bans deceptive AI-generated media, but did not provide any information about how this is moderated beyond relying on user reports and community notes. X was notably a founding member of the CAI back when it was still known as Twitter, but pulled itself from the initiative without explanation after Elon Musk purchased the platform.

The Verge exists to print this huge cowardly stack of no-comments from huge companies which spent years pretending they would develop a wonky content authentication metadata standard only to have it come to nothing when Sora was released www.theverge.com/report/80635...

Looking forward to a great panel tomorrow at the @parispeaceforum.bsky.social Forum, hosted by ROOST President, @camillefrancois.bsky.social. Stay tuned for more!

#onlinesafety #AI #AItransparency #opensource #trustandsafety #techforgood

Bluesky's post button but with subtly simulated chromatic aberration.

I usually wear contacts, but sometimes when my eyes are dry or irritated I switch to glasses. More than once I’ve come across a website and wondered, “Why the heck are they doing some weird liquid glass effect on all of their buttons??”

…Just to realize, no, it’s IRL chromatic aberration. 👓

Good advice from Stavvy. www.vulture.com/article/stav...

Is anyone else tired of the song Fireflies by Owl City? Please stop

@wjt.me.uk and I were chatting the other day and my jet-lagged brain could not think of any gender-neutral replacements for “gentleman’s agreement”. I think “handshake agreement” works??

If I said “handshake agreement,” would you understand what I was talking about? Is there a better term for a legally non-binding but mutually understood agreement between multiple parties where it would mostly just be super uncool to break it?

Amazon’s Ring now works with video surveillance company Flock The partnership allows police agencies who use Flock software to request footage from Ring users in the Neighbors app.

Flock works with other massive for-profit companies to convince people to put up their own cameras to spy on themselves and their neighbors!

www.theverge.com/news/801856/...

Every time I tell someone about this, I feel like a conspiracy theorist—except it’s true, and they’re not hiding it.

#flock

Flock cameras are the most late-stage American capitalism spin on 1984. Of course it’s not the government who puts up cameras to keep an eye on the public; it’s a for-profit company who charges the government for their services.

www.404media.co/tag/flock/

#flock

Bridgy Connects your web site to social media. Likes, reposts, mentions, cross-posting, and more...

The result for now is that I have two separate accounts… but I really don’t want to manage two different accounts. 😭

Last time I checked into brid.gy, I didn’t love how my Mastodon posts showed up here on Bluesky; they were often truncated and then linked to the post on which just felt spammy.

I largely prefer the architecture and experience of the fediverse/Mastodon over ATproto/Bluesky, but there are a number of accounts I care about that are over here and not bridged to the fediverse. And even with bridging, it's not the best experience.

How are other people handling this?

I’ve Joined ROOST Building community around open, scalable, and interoperable online safety tools

It’s official: I’ve joined ROOST!

cassidyjames.com/blog/ive-joi...

I’m stoked to dive into building a sustainable contributor community around open source trust & safety tools, and help improve the understanding of open source in the trust and safety world.

#ROOST #OpenSource #TrustAndSafety

I’ve Joined ROOST ⋅ Cassidy James Blaede Building community around open, scalable, and interoperable online safety tools

I am SO excited to share that the fantastic @cassidyjames.com is joining @roost.tools as our OSS Community Manager! Hear from Cassidy on this (very) exciting news


cassidyjames.com/blog/ive-joi...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

We 👏 need 👏 more 👏 design 👏 in 👏 open 👏 source 👏

#UbuntuSummit2510 #UbuntuSummit

It's lightning talks time! @cassidyjames.com explains how @gnomefoundation.bsky.social is _really_ funded

#UbuntuSummit2510 #UbuntuSummit

I’m pleased to share that I will be joining another awesome open source nonprofit org in a few weeks.

For now, I’m focusing on wrapping things up at Endless and then heading out to the Ubuntu Summit. If you’re going to be in London for that, be sure to say hi!