Sign in

Doug HS 😶‍🌫️

@doug-hss.bsky.social
297 followers 297 following 2.8K posts

Sometimes comments Reposts and likes when I like what you say Beer chat, writer, music, swimming Dislike of cruel people.

PostsRepliesMedia
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 11h
Is the pod What Went Wrong by any chance?
100 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 11h
There's no place for international conglomerates in our beer industry
020 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 12h
Yeah those pesky provocations
000 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 15h
I've been wondering all week whether she's only been appointed so that she becomes the news and not Iran, Ukraine, Epstein, Ball Room etc?
1170 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 19h
Have you tried a Track Goldtop DIPA?
000 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 19h
How could the Americans go from him to Trump and come back for a second helping? Madness
050 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Lactose job?
100 0
Reposted by Doug HS 😶‍🌫️
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 14/10/2026
I lost my career after refusing to keep quiet about the risks that Palantir poses to our NHS goodlawproject.org/forced-out-of-a-…
goodlawproject.org
Forced out of a job in the NHS for speaking out on Palantir | Good Law Project
I lost my career after refusing to keep quiet about the risks that a US spy-tech company poses to our NHS
10618338 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Who you seeing tonight?
110 0
Reposted by Doug HS 😶‍🌫️
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/10/2026
oh my god
33553151 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Reform vetting procedures blah blah
000 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Spontaneous is best
010 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is all part of a foreign funded campaign to destabilise the UK. Give a load of racist morons a reason to hate, provide them with them means to do it, then see how our society starts to crumble. Russia, anyone?
010 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Cheltenham Fox roams Platform 1 of Cheltenham Spa station. Apparently
000 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
There must be a benefit to missing the train.
110 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Feeling shit about America? Not so much after watching this
000 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
There seemed to be many reasons why he shouldn't have been anywhere near that enclosure
110 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Darwinism indeed
110 0
Reposted by Doug HS 😶‍🌫️
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
NATO SACEUR General Alexus Grynkewich: “The risk of a major attack on NATO territory right now is actually relatively low. “The reason is Vladimir Putin's war is ongoing in Ukraine, and his military is unfortunately engaged in that conflict. “That force is not available to threaten NATO territory.
1320958 0
Reposted by Doug HS 😶‍🌫️
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Liverpool! Thursday! me! Neil Atkinson! book! www.waterstones.com/events/jonn-...
waterstones.com
Jonn Elledge Discusses 31 Inventions That Built Our World | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Jonn Elledge Discusses 31 Inventions That Built Our World today.
0154 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Proud
110 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My first car was a white 2cv. I loved it. Quirky, easy to drive, impossible to keep warm in winter. Roundabouts with the uninitiated were hilarious. Reversing too far down a narrow street and unwinding the gearbox was horrific. I'm sure this new version will be a delight.
000 0
Reposted by Doug HS 😶‍🌫️
The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Exclusive: The Mill can reveal that a former senior member of staff at the University of Manchester is named on a research paper linked to Chinese spies manchestermill.co.uk/uom-academic...
manchestermill.co.uk
UoM academic co-authored paper linked to Chinese espionage
Plus: a rather cryptic request
023 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Aren't some large European countries already buying vast amounts of Russian produced LNG? euobserver.com/199898/four-...
euobserver.com
Four EU states paid more for Russian LNG than they gave to Ukraine
Some EU member states paid more for Russian LNG than they gave in financial support for Ukraine, a new report by Greenpeace Belgium shows. With that €8bn Russia could have bought 270,000 Shahed attack...
101 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Release the suppressed Russia report which Johnson kept secret. Find out how many of the politicians who took money from Kremlin via Russia Today tried to influence public opinion on Brexit. Call out each and every traitor, then let's deal with them all so they can't poison our nation again.
000 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Wait till the buggers breed!
000 0
Reposted by Doug HS 😶‍🌫️
Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Bombing motherboards upsets the rich guy more than bombing actual mothers and children
14810 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ukraine needs to plunge Russia into a tech darkness hitting as many data centres as possible.
000 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We parked in Great Northern Manchester by Deansgate last night, an NCP car park with terrible signage, broken lifts, piss soaked corridors and paid over £16 for 3 hours! The only warning of prices came when we'd already entered the car park and had our numberplate snapped by an NPR camera. Be warned
000 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What a great way to spend a Sunday evening, in the company of Reece Shearsmith as he joked his way through a stageful of curiosities on his live book tour. Also a rare treat seeing Jeremy Dyson with him during the second half.
The stage at Albert Hall Manchester
000 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Blast from the past there
010 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If we are going to build and run more data centres, with public subsidies, at least have them government owned rather than by shills like this guy
010 0
Reposted by Doug HS 😶‍🌫️
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
theferret.scot
The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan
Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.
531131698 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
L easily interchangeable with an N
000 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Absolute piece of shit
000 0
Reposted by Doug HS 😶‍🌫️
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So Trump has been planning to stitch up Ukraine for weeks.
781324262 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Exactly this. And she's just a terrible person.
0170 0
Reposted by Doug HS 😶‍🌫️
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick
A man in a suit, standing on top of a van with loudspeakers on it, flinches as projectiles are hurled at him
6336761016 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is why the city of Liverpool is great and always will be
000 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And it still happens to this day in our wonderful city. We don't tolerate right wing bullshit youtu.be/1RX43xpy90k?...
youtu.be
The EDL getting chased out of Liverpool to the Benny Hill tune! Hilarious!!
YouTube video by Peace Love
000 0
Reposted by Doug HS 😶‍🌫️
The Post @liverpoolpost.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Ten Streets (or 'Ten More Years' Streets) has been issuing a siren call to the council for years, who are convinced that with the right development it could be a sort of second Baltic Triangle. So what’s taking so long? www.livpost.co.uk/are-we-final...
livpost.co.uk
Are we finally getting the 'new Baltic Triangle'?
Eight years and a crushed car later, Ten Streets braces for change
141 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Great article looking at a perennial problem in this city. Since '19 we tried to turn King Edward Triangle into a cool place to visit along with a few other businesses, and there was some engagement from the council initially, but the massive TJ Morris towers project has taken priority over culture
031 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pro! ☘️
110 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Traitor? Liar? Mad?
000 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When you see a 275ml Youngs strong ale in your local Home Bargains (sic) for 69p, it's worth a try surely? Malty, slight hop bitterness, over carbed. Worth the money
000 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I like Ed, he's a good man. However when you remember his stunts over the policies he attaches them to, you have a problem
100 0
Reposted by Doug HS 😶‍🌫️
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shell’s refineries expected to make record profits. Profit margins of $42 a barrel, up from $24 a barrel. Cashing in on global conflicts. Bumper payouts for execs and shareholders. Misery for households and businesses. Millions plunged into poverty. Must levy 100% windfall tax.
theguardian.com
Shell expects refineries to almost double the profit from every barrel of fuel made
Record prices caused by global shortages amid shutdown of war-damaged refineries in Middle East and Russia
38782412 0
Reposted by Doug HS 😶‍🌫️
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Montenegro authorities have arrested the chief of pro-Kremlin military blog Rybar, Mikhail Zvinchuk, as well as four others. A search discovered drones, sophisticated digital equipment and electronic devices, Vijesti reports.
522771 0
Reposted by Doug HS 😶‍🌫️
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Three OpenAI employees who were let go from the company have written an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns about safety: “As an industry, we do not yet know how to safely develop and deploy models that we cannot monitor. The monitorability of frontier models is degrading.”
OpenAl cannot make Al safe on its own
A note on third-party collaborations, open debate, and clear operating procedures Dear Safety and Security Committee, Safety Advisory Group, and Mission Advisory Council:
We are the three safety and alignment employees who were fired from OpenAl last week: Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang, and Mikita Balesni. We are writing to you because you hold oversight responsibility for safety at OpenAl; our firing and the way it was handled bear directly on it.
We have become concerned that internal and external communications around our firing have made our former colleagues afraid to speak and operate in ways that, until last week, were an integral part of working at Open Al. We could raise safety concerns and disagree openly, and were encouraged to draw on the expertise of independent safety organizations.
This is part of what made OpenAl special, and why we are immensely proud to have been part of the team.
Al is not a normal technology, and OpenAl is not a normal company. Those of us who work on safety see risks before anyone else, and we rely on close collaboration with outside experts to work out how to address them. The freedom to do so without fear, and to have well-defined internal procedures that enable this work, is itself an essential safety mechanism.
We do not believe the path to superintelligence can be navigated safely if the people closest to the risks can no longer work in high-trust, high-bandwidth ways with each other and with third parties. It is that culture we are writing to defend.
For those of you who do not know us, each of us has been working on AI safety for years.
• Tomek did his PhD on RL for aligning language models in the GPT-2 cra and then worked on applying those techniques at Anthropic. He joined OpenAl to work on chain-of-thought monitorability, co-authored
Open Al's safety strategy, worked on identifying the root cause of the drop in CoT monitorability in Astra-class models, and was the technical point of c…• Mikita was a founding member of Apollo Research in 2023 where he studied Al misalignment and was one of the first people to notice when Als started to become aware of being evaluated. At OpenAl, Mikita worked on alignment evaluations, science of misalignment and chain-of-thought monitorability. He was involved in the Hugging Face incident investigation.
Before joining OpenAl, we started, and two of us were lead authors on, a cross-industry position paper: Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for Al Safety.
On our dismissals
OpenAI was much more than a job for us. Its mission has been central to our lives.
Throughout our time at OpenAl, we acted in line with OpenAl's mission and within the working norms of the time. Our firing leaves us worried that the norms inside OpenAl are shifting, and that employees are now unclear on where they stand.
Given the significant safety concerns surrounding the development of AI, employees must not be left working in an environment where fear and unclear rules stymie Al safety work and weaken third-party accountability.
Terminations such as ours, executed and communicated so abruptly, are chilling the open culture OpenAl has prized in the past.
If conduct that was considered normal last month now constitutes grounds for sudden dismissal, everyone at Open Al is left guessing where the line is.
We understand there are various versions of events circulating. We'd like you to hear a few things from us directly:
• We were not the source of the leak for The Information article about supposed new, less monitorable architectures. We do not know who it was. We had no reason to leak it; quite the contrary, the article undermined our own work on cross-company limits on the development of unmonitorable architectures.
• At no point do we believe we engaged with external parties outside the mandates of our jobs. As every person on this email thread understands well, the Hugging Face incident investigation was without pr…• Mikita was navigating similar territory while stewarding cross-company work on commitments to prevent loss of monitorability, an effort that can only succeed through extensive communication with external parties.
Mikita was doing this in coordination and discussion with board members and the C-suite, with the understanding that senior members of OpenAl were supportive of this work. Throughout, Mikita checked in with his reporting line and took care to remove sensitive details from materials before sharing them. He acted throughout in good faith and within the company's norms as they stood at the time.
• Jasmine's access to an executive's email was delegated for recruiting purposes, with permission. When it was no longer needed, she asked for it to be removed. IT failed to do so. Jasmine had no ability to remove it or log out herself. The emails were combined in her inbox in a way that did not distinguish which inbox an email was intended for. When she accidentally clicked on a sensitive email, Jasmine reported this to the executive within minutes and flagged the access issue again to IT for removal.
We believe the above explanations are important, because we value the relationships we have with our colleagues at OpenAl. We are also worried by the number of rumors circulating, including allegations about a shared board-level memo. This was never raised with us, so we have had no chance to respond to what we believe is a mistaken assumption. Similarly, we did not share the news of our firings with the media. We would much rather not have been unexpectedly thrown into the spotlight.
Our concern now is that the lack of clarity around our firing, the very public manner in which it was carried out, and the circulating rumors are chilling those who remain at OpenAl, at a time when so much of the world's safety depends on them
Our parting recommendations to OpenAl
1. OpenAl must adhere to last month's public commitments to embed third-party safety auditors within the orga…follow through on Sam Altman's September 12th public commitment to give independent evaluators ongoing, employee-like access.
2. OpenAl must preserve the monitorability of frontier models.
As an industry, we do not yet know how to safely develop and deploy models that we cannot monitor. The monitorability of frontier models is degrading.
As long as we rely on monitorability for safety, OpenAl and other frontier companies should not move forward with developments that further decrease monitorability.
We agree with Jakub's public statements that chain of thought monitorability is "fragile and unfortunately trending in a negative direction" and we "want to prevent a race into unmonitorable architectures." We continue to believe that industry-wide coordination on this issue is important, and hope that OpenAl will support its employees in making it possible.
3. OpenAl must continue to support an open and transparent culture of dialogue between its safety researchers and the rest of the safety ecosystem.
If Open Al's employees no longer feel like they can raise safety issues internally, or work within high-bandwidth channels with external safety organizations, we are all at greater risk that something truly catastrophic will happen.
We urge OpenAl to publicly reaffirm its culture of transparency and openness that allows for concerns to be raised both internally and externally.
Researchers inside OpenAl are a frontline defense against things going wrong, and the open culture that has been a feature of the company since its inception needs to be preserved. We also urge OpenAl to set out clearly how employees may work with external safety organizations, so that no one has to guess where the shifting lines now are. To support this conversation, we request that this letter be shared widely internally.
While we may no longer be part of Open Al, we have the utmost respect for our former colleagues. We urge them to keep holding OpenAl to its mission.
As we know, OpenAl is nothing…
15726 0
Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That's my Halloween outfit sorted
1145 0