Reposted by Dan BrickleyISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The piss tank on the ISS is now 40% full. 071
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Not sure, maybe ways of rewarding academics for introducing new human talent (that they’ve no direct or traded institutional conmection to). Otherwise things retreat back to familiar faces, “old boy networks” etc. 020
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I am not interested in listening to you relitigate your recent misreading of a bluesky post. Can we just say “good night”? Good night. 100
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Just assume good faith and move on. There are also dual citizenships unrelated to NI, for example. 100
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Knowing Bijan ~20 years I am fairly sure you misread the conversation. 100
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Which is entirely consistent with what @bparsia.bsky.social was saying wrt UK & the “British” terminology. Meanwhile fwiw en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_GB apparently survives as a label by virtue of “UK” not covering Isle of Man, the Channel Islands & UK Overseas Territories dg Falklands, Gibraltaren.wikipedia.orgTeam GB - Wikipedia 100
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I assumed we took this situation as general knowledge 200
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026According to www.gov.uk/government/p... (dredged up by chatbot) anyway. Glanced at bbc www.bbc.co.uk/editorialgui... - doesn’t seem to go there…gov.ukToponymic guidelines for map and other editors, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 000
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I was surprised that “British” is the official citizenship term. But I guess it lines up with news reporting etc where you hear of “British interests” still 100
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Yeah. Maybe for a fish & chips shop in Gibraltar? www.gov.uk/government/p... is quite lucid about the quirks, 000
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Yeah I think in policy, legal, paperwork, govt documents etc it has won. Less so in how people speak. 100
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026GB was always lurking there confusingly in background as I was growing up. Grammatically “UK-ish” doesn’t work like “English, Welsh, British.” And “British” feels odd; if the country isn’t GB (and it isn’t!) why hasn’t “UK citizen” been pushed harder? Not defending the mess, just fishing around. 100
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026How much of this is outsourcing blocklists to the most polarized of participants? 010
Reposted by Dan BrickleyCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/08/2026So 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. 441990
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 17/08/2026@miketuritzin.bsky.social fwiw x.com/vseplet/stat...x.comВсеволод (@vseplet) on XМне 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... 100
Reposted by Dan BrickleyNicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social · 07/08/2026AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors www.nature.com/articles/d4158… #AI #FactChecking 031
Reposted by Dan BrickleySunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/07/2026David 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...aol.comDavid Miliband’s charity: Don’t give up on refugees to chase votes - AOLGovernments must not weaken their commitments to refugees to chase votes, David Miliband’s charity has said. 1449
Reposted by Dan BrickleyArthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Mentioned in Despatches: @markpackuk.bsky.social, @johnlsheridan.bsky.social, @danbri.bsky.social 061
Reposted by Dan BrickleyNicolas Barradeau @nicoptere.bsky.social · 22/06/2026now 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 0203
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Funnily enough I just badgered the computer into making claude.ai/public/artif...claude.aiConsider the Consequences — Interactive 1930s Story GameExplore branching narratives in this interactive visual fiction game set in 1930s society. Make choices that shape your story with stunning art deco aesthetics and multiple endings. 010
Reposted by Dan BrickleyFull Fact @fullfact.org · 29/05/2026Posts 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...fullfact.orgTony Blair’s son does not run a company being paid £100 billion to develop digital ID – Full FactA false claim that Euan Blair’s company has been contracted to develop and monitor digital IDs is recirculating online. 15918
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 07/05/2026He put the time in, lists.w3.org/Archives/Pub... …lists.w3.orgwww-talk from November to December 1992 by date 140
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Pity this wasn’t back in ~2018 when the rest of the company was wrestling with all this 030
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Perhaps, though some achievements don’t have a timeout. LLM coding is the era of former coders remembering why they miss it… 020
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 05/05/2026He might be many things but denying the engineeringness of someone that created the first widely usable graphical web browser is a bit silly, unless we’re applying Canadian standards universally 200
Reposted by Dan BrickleyWendy M. Grossman @wendyg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026This 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...,netwars.pelicancrossing.netTurn left at the robotIt'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 031
Reposted by Dan BrickleyDelta Chat @delta.chat · 02/04/2026Under 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 […]chaos.socialOriginal post on chaos.social 055
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 07/03/2026@miketuritzin.bsky.social fwiw, x.com/love2code/st...x.com 010
Reposted by Dan BrickleyCommon Crawl Foundation @commoncrawl.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Language 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! 1105
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 13/02/2026rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:subPropertyOf . 130
Reposted by Dan BrickleyDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13/02/2026Meta'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...nytimes.comMeta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses 731150534
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Great :) If i understand right, server needs to send some things as headers to lock out some dns tricks. Are the iframe controls coming to ios/webkit et al.? There’s going to be huge demand for running untrusted code sandboxed… 100
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 13/02/2026It sounds like you’re talking about the “knowledge graphs” direction here? Although wikidata is very human and context rich… 000
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 13/02/2026I might have something that’s a good fit for this. In fact it was already giving me Joost widget flashbacks. How tightly can this thing sandbox? eg avoiding dns exfiltration… 110
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 13/02/2026DASL is a great name for … www.webdav.org/dasl/ especially in context of read-write APIs to data stores. Re Solid-esque APIs. Might be good to get Lisa Dusseault’s perspective, having worked on both www.oreilly.com/library/view... and dtinit.org/aboutwebdav.orgDAV Searching and Locating (DASL) Home Page 100
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Rescuing Solid is a poor goal. I continue to believe in the broad mission it articulates including pragmatic use of RDF (which can be nuanced and contextualized). The fundamental issue with Solid is not RDF but the idea that full realtime read-write of shared data files is important and achievable. 211
Reposted by Dan BrickleyMarianne Aubin Le Quéré @mariannealq.bsky.social · 12/02/2026We'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...sites.google.comCHI'26 Workshop on Developing Standards and Documentation For LLM Use as Simulated Research ParticipantsWorkshop Motivation 085
Reposted by Dan BrickleyCraig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I 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.radiolab.orgSong of the CerebellumIs thought just motion in the mind? 363
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 04/02/2026“Digitizing” eg via gaussian splats seems a potential middle ground, where you might mine the ever changing dreamspace for material and then assemble it into a more repeatable experience. Maybe better for backgrounds etc where physics and animation expectations might be lower? 100
Reposted by Dan BrickleyHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026... 171286574
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 28/01/2026I’d suggest @cloudflare.social have a free internet service that might be able to help you, except…. 000
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 23/01/2026FOAF namespace server is back up at xmlns.com. Apologies for the downtime. 050
Reposted by Dan BrickleyLaura Cooper @transitionalform.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Our 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 401146417
Reposted by Dan BrickleyMike Turitzin @miketuritzin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025It'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... 011
Dan Brickley @danbri.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Great video & project! Like many I was drawn into the SDF universe via Shadertoy, & as a standardsy person initially weirded out by each scene/model bundling its own tiny renderer. Do you hold any hope for SVG-ish interop amongst SDF tools & communities? Do you think of your units as metres, for eg? 000
Reposted by Dan BrickleyConor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 13/01/2026@stephencollins.bsky.social made the point best 3415192
