Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You had three chances and you blew it. 08210
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Liberal Amigo 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🌮 @liberal-amigo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sorry to interrupt, OT did you see this? thehill.com/policy/defen...thehill.comHegseth to cut 20 percent of admirals, generals in major Pentagon overhaulDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce a 20 percent cut to slots slated for admirals and generals at the Pentagon as part of his push to overhaul the outlook of the department, two Penta… 259463
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥jeffreyhf.bsky.social @jeffreyhf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Every ICE story thus far has been fraudulently concocted. The fact that they had no body cameras on, by choice, creates a de facto presumption of obstruction of justice and malicious prosecution by ICE. 0346
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026I rarely ask for favors. All our content is free. But we are nominated for an award, and it would mean a lot if you’d vote for the Daily Beans podcast. I’d be eternally grateful 🙏🏻 vote.signalaward.com/publicvoting...vote.signalaward.comThe Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOUI just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too. 83617231
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out. 5440631098
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk · 29/09/2026🆕 When AI can draft a briefing in seconds, what are policy schools for? @ninajorden.bsky.social, @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, @michaelkenny.bsky.social & @terzibus.bsky.social explain why knowledge, judgement & human relationships matter even more in this age of AI. 🔗 bit.ly/4dbSJbR 0136
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Out with #sophiefromromania on an exciting safari where we had encounters with a fox, a squirrel and three dogs 17102030
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Is every author getting several spam AI emails a day pretending to be from book groups which want to feature your marvellous book? I think it's been six so far today. There's no hope of any serious inquiry getting through now, it's instant delete. 9697
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026#SophiefromRomania is so happy that #strictly is back and her favourite people are here 1680815
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Off to the park early with @sociabledog.bsky.social and #sophiefromromania before the roads close for the Ealing Half Marathon- we deserved a #bigbreakfast but runners are advised to just have a banana 1271316
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Housework time - #sophiefromromania likes to keep an eye on me 105838
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedlemonde.frAmnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedIn a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States. 384198156339
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Come work at the IFS! You’ll get to work on the big issues facing the country with colleagues whose passion, smarts and helpfulness humble me every day. Deadline: 8 November. 033
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026When #sophiefromromania Is on border patrol we remember why we got the garden fence heightened 2387828
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is not AI agents going rogue, but OpenAI. This hack took the company months to notice and then they notified a public email address rather than the appropriate government agency. www.ft.com/content/5613... OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked an Australian health service websiteft.comOpenAI ‘agent’ hacked an Australian health service websiteAI lab took months to spot the problem, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called ‘obviously unacceptable’ 913945
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Our project on Mapping AI Safety needs a research assistant for six months. Please do pass on to anyone you think would be interested www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...ucl.ac.ukUCL – University College LondonUCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021). 11324
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Apparently I'm giving an inaugural lecture - all very welcome! Thurs October 8th, 5pm, drinks to follow. 1329
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Pat Blair @patblair.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If the American Press had any integrity, none of them would go. 2639
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026They steal billions from us to give themselves tax breaks and then kick the crumbs out of our mouths. 1061855676
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk · 21/09/2026📢 We’re hiring We're looking for a Research Assistant/Associate to join a research project exploring the relationship between wellbeing & productivity at work, in a Cambridge University-wide partnership with KPMG. Apply by 8 October 2026: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/57112/ 069
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I’m so proud of the team that made this strange, funny, furious, very ambitious package happen. We'll have more stories rolling out all week, so start at the link below and stay tuned...wired.comWelcome to the WIRED Women IssueNo one wants to talk about women in tech. So we will. 1305
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Today, @wired.com is launching our latest issue: WIRED Women. This issue started at an office happy hour. What if our publication, which spent years putting powerful men on its covers, made an entire edition about women? We thought, we talked, we laughed. We got mad. And then we went for it... 110619
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Sociable Dog @sociabledog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A Dog Is Never "Just a Dog": How to Form Deep and Kind Bonds | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...psychologytoday.comA Dog Is Never "Just a Dog": How to Form Deep and Kind BondsIn "More Than Just a Dog," Simon Wooler stresses compassion, kindness, and the importance of demystifying the science of dog behavior to understand what they are asking of us. 212817
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Now & then: Amsterdam landmark church & tower Zuiderkerk 1603-1614, designed by Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch Mannerist architect, born 1565; worked in England with Inigo Jones; buried at Zuiderkerk 1621. It was later associated with Rembrandt; & painted by Monet in 1874. ALT @philamuseum.bsky.social 18511
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026'Instead of asking business leaders what society needs going forwards, political leaders should be doing a better job of stress-testing their claims and making sure that their businesses and products contribute to society-wide success.' giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comStop asking AI CEOs what society needsImagine inviting oil companies to design climate policies or car companies to make traffic rules 15218
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Anil Madhavapeddy @anil.recoil.org · 22/09/2026We also realised that we might be one of the few UK academic teams to have used Intel (Dawn), AMD (Vultr, Zenith) and NVIDIA (Isambard) GPUs at this petabyte scale. Our experiences are in this short paper, in the hope we can compare notes. www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~avsm2/tesse...cl.cam.ac.uk 062
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Uncle Si @sociabledog.bsky.social and #Sophiefromromania were out playing in the garden before 7 and then took me for a frisky walk 975717
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026NEW: The Trump Administration is planning to slash human subject research regulations by redefining informed consent. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-plan...muellershewrote.comTrump Plans to Redefine Informed Consent for Human Research SubjectsThe Department of Health and Human Services has noticed a forthcoming rule on the OMB regulatory information site to redefine what undue influence means for vulnerable human research subjects 1881622872
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Yes, all of this. I’ve had to reregister every time, it operates differently everywhere, and the system often seems to have glitches/need rebooting. I am now turning down some travel because of the 2+ hours needed each way. 88118
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Heard the ominous sound of a brick falling from the top of our food bin in the middle of the night and woke to find a major fox crime and a prime suspect legging it… 2260914
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026First eyewitness accounts from this afternoon’s ICE shooting in Austin is here, from freelance reporter Emiliano Tahui Gómez. 371599677
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 20/09/2026#sophiefromromania is helping cook Big Breakfast 1492726
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥spindoc627.bsky.social @spindoc627.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Could be on opposite sides of the building, right? 031
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/09/2026Erection interference? 91161691266
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥justdeirdre.bsky.social @justdeirdre.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Google's Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company's AI systems autonomously committing such an act. cnn.it/4762qFbcnn.itGemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google’s AI | CNN BusinessGoogle’s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company’s AI systems autonomously committing such... 22300154
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026That’s what he said. bsky.app/profile/acyn... 014434
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Time for some turquoise loveliness. Icebergs in Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon in south-east #Iceland, taken with the drone (during allowable hours/season!) last November. 312617
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥katiekaboom79.bsky.social @katiekaboom79.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I went to France alone when I was 16 to stay with the family of an exchange student who stayed with us. Don’t recall drinking any alcohol, but I brought back a bottle of champagne. Still have it. Wonder if it’s still good? 151
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb 76869711124
🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥 @deborahobrien.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The orange man is getting angry that the EU market may be opening up to Canada. Petulant child having a tantrum. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caCanada and the EU are getting cosy. These charts show how our economies stack up | CBC NewsCanada is likely to strengthen trade ties with Europe. Here are some charts that show how Canada’s economy is faring compared to its (perhaps future associate) peers in Europe. 000
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026##Sophiefromromania hears a lot of economics and is thinking of taking an Open University 1784117
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026BREAKING: EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says she wants to open the door for Canada to become the bloc's first associate member. 461969259
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Tough morning: bad back, hardly slept despite new drug meant to sort that, and found #sophiefromromania had left a little puddle on the hall carpet . Despite that, pleasant walk, and in a little while, I've got a very jolly piece on my Substack about how Hitler's diary ended up in my BBC notebook. 2170316
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026RIP Bob Mackie. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/s... 805458877
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026#Sophiefromromania was on high alert this morning after reports of cats and squirrels in the area 22141237
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The big news today is that I have an armchair (“reading chair”) in my new office now. Still some settling in to do - I’m not allowed to build the Billy bookcases myself. 142732
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026A busy, tiring family and friends weekend #Sophiefromromania still a bit scared of the grandkids but joined us on the sofa, then was downright cheeky with our friends 1282810
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Tonight at 6pm @sociabledog.bsky.social and I will be talking about what #Sophiefromromania has taught us about anxious dogs and how to treat themus06web.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Our Relationship with Dogs with Rory Cellan-Jones and Simon Wooler at Bark! Fest, the book festival for animal lovers. After registering, you will receive a...Explore our love for dogs and the importance of treating them with kindness. Sophie From Romania: What a rescue dog taught me about love, patience and hope by Rory Cellan-Jones tells the real story of... 120017
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Michelle.cat @michelle-cat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026But what if there is nothing for them to harvest, you can’t prevent all surveillance it’s too integrated into our society but if you can slow data harvesting open.substack.com/pub/heestheb...open.substack.comThe Axiom of Relational CoherenceIntroducing Information Reconstruction Theory 001
Reposted by 🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 13/09/2026On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, DHS posted a contract notice most people will never see. ERO ONE would give ICE the military intelligence apparatus that ran the war on terror, aimed at people in the U.S. I did this job for 20 years. Here's why it could be the next chapter of the deportation engine.projectsaltbox.comOP-ED: The $100 Million Hole in ICE's Deportation MachineA procurement notice describes the one capability ICE doesn't have yet: a standing near-real-time intelligence enterprise to turn its surveillance into target lists. 5160119
