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Dan Brickley

@danbri.bsky.social
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data standards technologist. w3c, schema.org etc.

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ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The piss tank on the ISS is now 40% full.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/08/2026
So many of the norms underlying academic culture relied on frictions associated with writing. It was entirely predictable that academia would be profoundly harmed when a machine came along to remove those frictions by making (insincere, inaccurate) communication effortless.
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Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
@miketuritzin.bsky.social fwiw x.com/vseplet/stat...
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Всеволод (@vseplet) on X
Мне удалось нащупать сочетание разных методов бросания лучей, которое рисует в реальном времени воксели, объемные гауссианы и сложные гладкие поверхности (SDF) — все сразу, в одном кадре, с отражениям...
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Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors www.nature.com/articles/d4158… #AI #FactChecking
Sebastian Pios, a theoretical chemist at Zhejiang Lab in Hangzhou, China, was using an Al system to predict the boiling points of' several molecules when it began producing values that clashed with long-accepted entries in a 75-year-old reference database. At first, he thought the model was wrong. But when he manually checked the original literature, he found that the reference data were wrong, not the Al model.
In two other cases, Pios's Al model spotted errors in older papers and reference books - mistakes that have made their way into the scientific canon. One was a typo in a paper; another was incorrect values of century-old boiling-point measurements. Both errors are likely to have caused researchers using the database "a lot of trouble"
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Pios is one of a growing number of scientists using Al as a tool for auditing scientific knowledge. As well as checking databases, researchers are using specialized Al tools to hunt for errors in papers published in journals and conf
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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
One more time!
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
David Miliband says 75th anniversary of refugee convention should be about defending core principles & fixing what does not work in practice "We’ve seen what works: giving refugees legal certainty, investing early in integration, and sharing responsibility fairly" www.aol.com/articles/dav...
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David Miliband’s charity: Don’t give up on refugees to chase votes - AOL
Governments must not weaken their commitments to refugees to chase votes, David Miliband’s charity has said.
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Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Mentioned in Despatches: @markpackuk.bsky.social, @johnlsheridan.bsky.social, @danbri.bsky.social
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Nicolas Barradeau @nicoptere.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
now working in glorious WebGL !! added the morph target and wasted a lot of time trying to *ahem* _improve_ the avatar generation ; I noticed the tooth & back were poorly reconstructed so my idea was to synthesize and use multiple views to inject them at fitting time, not my finest idea
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 29/05/2026
Posts claiming that Tony Blair’s son’s company is being paid £100bn to develop digital IDs are going viral again. But as we’ve explained before, there’s no truth to this. And plans for new digital ID mandatory for Right to Work checks have been abandoned. fullfact.org/politics/ton...
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Tony Blair’s son does not run a company being paid £100 billion to develop digital ID – Full Fact
A false claim that Euan Blair’s company has been contracted to develop and monitor digital IDs is recirculating online.
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Wendy M. Grossman @wendyg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This week's net.wars, "Turn left at the robot", goes to the Human-Robot Interaction conference and finds that in robots versus kids the kids win every time: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/03/20/t...,
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Turn left at the robot
It's easy to forget, now that so many computer interfaces seem to be getting more inscrutable, that in the early 1990s the shift from the command line to graphi
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Delta Chat @delta.chat · 02/04/2026
Under the hood, we are using IETF Internet Messaging specifications commonly tagged as "email". Sounds old, right? Actually there is a lot of new stuff going on! For example, #chatmail apps now fully support: - RFC9788 ("Header Protection") to achieve minimal metadata - RFC9580 ("OpenPGP") to […]
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Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
@miketuritzin.bsky.social fwiw, x.com/love2code/st...
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Common Crawl Foundation @commoncrawl.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Language identification still proves to be a challenging task, especially for web data. In collaboration with @mlcommons.org @eleutherai.bsky.social @jhu.edu and 97 community members, we created CommonLID, a new benchmark for LangID for 100+ languages!
Examples of mislabeled web text by existing LangID systems. A full text version is available on the blog post below.Examples of mislabeled web text by existing LangID systems. A full text version is available on the blog post below.
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Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:subPropertyOf .
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13/02/2026
Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
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Marianne Aubin Le Quéré @mariannealq.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
We've extended submissions for our #CHI2026 workshop on Developing Standards and Documentation For LLM Use as Simulated Research Participants. Submit a short position paper by Feb 20th and let's think through some thorny issues together! sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...
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CHI'26 Workshop on Developing Standards and Documentation For LLM Use as Simulated Research Participants
Workshop Motivation
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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I was shocked to learn 80% of our neurons are in the cerebellum—that little bit of hindbrain—vs ~20% in the big fancy neocortex. (Like learning ~55% of our cells are non-human!) Evolved perhaps for motor control/coordination, the cerebellum became the controller for many abstract mental activities.
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Song of the Cerebellum
Is thought just motion in the mind?
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...
X Posts about London Crime - large growth in number of likes after monetisation introduced
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Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
FOAF namespace server is back up at xmlns.com. Apologies for the downtime.
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Laura Cooper @transitionalform.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
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Mike Turitzin @miketuritzin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
It's cool that Chrome's new renderer/rasterizer (Graphite) is using Dawn (Chrome's WebGPU implementation) as its GPU abstraction layer. "Dogfooding" it like this means they're going to be extra-serious about perf/features/etc. blog.chromium.org/2025/07/intr...
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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
@stephencollins.bsky.social made the point best
Stephen Collins comic on Twitter addiction
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Doremus Schafer @doremus-schafer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Jules Verne was a prophet: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pur...
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Well, it’s the day after Wallace and Gromit rode again – and it’s the 31st anniversary of the first appearance of the greatest sound effect in the history of the motion picture, so here’s the story of how (I found out how) they made it...
Plasticine dog Gromit lies slumped against a (plasticine) kitchen cabinet, holding a milk bottle. Trapped up to his neck in the bottle is Feathers McGraw, notorious criminal penguin
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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
My colleague Sanjay Ghemawat & I have done a fair bit of performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document ~2 years ago as a way of identifying some general principles & we've recently published a version of it externally. Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...
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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Loving this. "Antirender" engine converts architects presentation drawings into the likely reality of the designs :) antirender.com
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Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Hi @w3c.bsky.social - do you know who wrote www.w3.org/blog/2016/do... ?
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DOI/DONA vs. the Internet
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 03/10/2025
I’m half Chinese, but the most tiresome type of person on here wants me to apologize to asians for calling an anti-toxicity feature “zen mode.”
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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 15/09/2025
The flute is older than the wheel. A flute fashioned from the bone of a vulture was discovered in a cave in Germany and thought to be 35,000 years old, making it tens of thousands of years older than the wheel. Don’t reinvent the woodwinds.
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Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
“making improvements to the software's quality” #busted #breaking #latecapitalism
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Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
One of the most level-headed commentators about AI is apparently blocked by 146,000 bluesky users. Decentralised blocklists are important and useful but also a way of outsourcing decisions to someone who may be angrier and more polarised than you. x.com/emollick/sta...
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Ethan Mollick on X: "I have gamely kept posting a little on BlueSky, and I think the X commentary on BSky ignores a feature that shapes that site a lot nowadays: you can subscribe to a blocklist from someone else. People do this a lot It basically turned BSky into a bunch of separate Discord servers https://t.co/OiMtJyPsks" / X
I have gamely kept posting a little on BlueSky, and I think the X commentary on BSky ignores a feature that shapes that site a lot nowadays: you can subscribe to a blocklist from someone else. People do this a lot It basically turned BSky into a bunch of separate Discord servers https://t.co/OiMtJyPsks
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ROOST @roost.tools · 05/03/2025
*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...
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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
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Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
@philarcher.bsky.social do you still have your PICSfail doc online somewhere?
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Phil Archer @philarcher.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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
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GS1 Careers | GS1
Find here all GS1's job openings and how it is like to work with GS1.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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.
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 17/07/2025
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
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Martin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Gephi Lite: a lighter web based version of Gephi | Alexis Jacomy | #DH2025
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michael veale @michae.lv · 14/07/2025
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...
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WatchWitch: Interoperability, Privacy, and Autonomy for the Apple Watch
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 10/07/2025
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...
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“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...
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Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
[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.
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Tom Westgarth @tomwestgarth.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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...
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Sovereign AI AIRR launch opportunity: call for researchers
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Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
@tomwestgarth.bsky.social can you post x.com/tom_westgart... here?
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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
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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
“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.
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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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
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.
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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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/...
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Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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
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Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
@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/...
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Shatwigs Blaboon! ⚖️
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
i might be looking for a new role, staff developer, remote uk/us tef.computer i am pretty good at the whole "fixing distributed systems" stuff but i'm also pretty good at the "levelling up a team" stuff too
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