Dan Brickley
@danbri.bsky.social
data standards technologist. w3c, schema.org etc.
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The piss tank on the ISS is now 40% full.
August 31, 2026 at 1:33 PM
The piss tank on the ISS is now 40% full.
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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.
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.
1. Recently I’ve received lots of emails from people I don’t know personally, asking for my feedback on their books or papers. They explain the connection between my work and theirs and ask me to take a look.
The catch, of course, is that the emails are transparently, obviously, written by AI.
The catch, of course, is that the emails are transparently, obviously, written by AI.
August 17, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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.
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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AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors www.nature.com/articles/d4158… #AI #FactChecking
August 7, 2026 at 2:18 PM
AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors www.nature.com/articles/d4158… #AI #FactChecking
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One more time!
Causal Inference friends: I am looking for the most up to date, interesting, cpe, short-course, in -person causal inference training currently available. I have attended a few, but seeking additional recommendations....
Please share to help me find the widest set of options. Thanks!
Please share to help me find the widest set of options. Thanks!
July 27, 2026 at 1:03 PM
One more time!
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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...
"We’ve seen what works: giving refugees legal certainty, investing early in integration, and sharing responsibility fairly"
www.aol.com/articles/dav...
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.
www.aol.com
July 17, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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...
"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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July 1, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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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
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
June 22, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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
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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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...
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...
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.
fullfact.org
May 29, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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...
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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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...,
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
netwars.pelicancrossing.net
March 20, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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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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 […]
- RFC9788 ("Header Protection") to achieve minimal metadata
- RFC9580 ("OpenPGP") to […]
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chaos.social
April 2, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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 […]
- RFC9788 ("Header Protection") to achieve minimal metadata
- RFC9580 ("OpenPGP") to […]
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March 7, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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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!
February 10, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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!
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February 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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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...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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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...
Submit a short position paper by Feb 20th and let's think through some thorny issues together!
sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...
CHI'26 Workshop on Developing Standards and Documentation For LLM Use as Simulated Research Participants
Workshop Motivation
sites.google.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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...
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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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.
Evolved perhaps for motor control/coordination, the cerebellum became the controller for many abstract mental activities.
Song of the Cerebellum
Is thought just motion in the mind?
radiolab.org
February 3, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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.
Evolved perhaps for motor control/coordination, the cerebellum became the controller for many abstract mental activities.
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Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced…
economist.com/britain/2026...
economist.com/britain/2026...
January 31, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced…
economist.com/britain/2026...
economist.com/britain/2026...
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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
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
January 21, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
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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...
"Dogfooding" it like this means they're going to be extra-serious about perf/features/etc.
blog.chromium.org/2025/07/intr...
July 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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...
"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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@stephencollins.bsky.social made the point best
January 13, 2026 at 8:11 AM
@stephencollins.bsky.social made the point best
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Jules Verne was a prophet: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pur...
January 7, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Jules Verne was a prophet: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pur...
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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...
December 26, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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...
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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...
Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...
December 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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...
Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...