Open any AI app you choose & have it really dig in on a subject that you know inside & out. Watch for how many errors it produces. Now imagine that at Pentagon scale, where the AI has no guard rails & is only guided by vibes and whiskey. Anthropic, $200M, & no legal framework. What could go wrong?

📍 Gaza | We share our heartfelt condolences to the family, colleagues, and friends of Hussein Hasan Hussein Al-Sumairy, who was killed today while providing emergency medical service in Khan Yunis. Medical personnel and humanitarian workers must be able to carry out their work safely.

No no no. Catherine O’Hara. 💔

The casual violence of Teams only recommending positive answers to tasking requests

If you haven’t already, go back and listen to the ICRC’s Intercross podcast, whose final episode is available today - and is a fantastic trailer for the series. Heartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measure, it’s a rare look behind the scenes of the ICRC’s work. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Sometimes a TV show or a movie that's intended to be satirical hits like a tragedy because it's too real. For me, the IT Crowd is that show. With that caveat, and a quizzical eye re: CSI:Cyber as @thegrugq.bsky.social notes, endorse this list of hacker movies and shows github.com/k4m4/movies-...

@icrc.org has updated our Commentary to the Fourth Geneva Convention, translating 1949 protections into today’s realities. Protecting civilians in the hands of the enemy, in occupied territory - the 4th Geneva Convention remains more relevant than ever.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXd41pXzQuY

Deep State Radio is carrying ICE recruitment ads. Questionable targeting abounds

Interesting! But on the RCT design: will households who get cash spread benefits with neighbors? If they don't, some preparedness activities won't be possible without tackling risk community-wide. Hope the report is released @give-directly.bsky.social...

This liver transplant journey from @asimovpress.bsky.social is absolutely fascinating and beautifully written: www.asimov.press/p/liver

Public interest tech leaders: check out this opportunity to lead Upturn, a wonderful organization that is doing critical work monitoring and advocating for better use of tech by the state in the US. #jobs @harlanyu.bsky.social congratulations on your tenure! Look forward to hearing what you do next!

It was a privilege to represent the @icrc.org debating the role & limits of human agency in AI-enabled warfare with @opentodebate.bsky.social last month. We took a scary, heady topic out of boomer/doomer hype and into practical opportunities & challenges opentodebate.org/debate/warti...

Finally watching Downton Abbey so that I can take my grandmother-in-law to the movies and now I say things like 'are you on the telephone'.

Today! See you at noon.

I needed to listen to this excellent podcast episode today: on the productive discomfort of conflict at work. Encouraging to think it can strengthen relationships! Thanks @morra.bsky.social

Joining SCSP's Jeanne Meserve and a fantastic panel at next week's AI Unlocked event to share the ICRC's views on the opportunities and risks of AI in crises, including conflicts. Friday 3rd, 12pm, Alamo Drafthouse theater 3 in Crystal City. Come and say hi! www.scsp.ai/ai-unlocked

Fantastic glimpse into life on board an undersea cable repair ship from @restofworld.org restofworld.org/2025/africa-...

The latest episode of the ICRC's InterCross blog breaks down the principles that guide humanitarian action, with interviews with the Washington delegation's leadership team and Paul Spiegel @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social. traffic.libsyn.com/d19a74fa-ef4... congrats to @dbonessi.bsky.social!

Croissants in America are just bread in shapes. It’s a hard lesson every time. 🥐

I built a Mastodon bot that reports on Covid wastewater levels, which gives me weekly updates on how cautious to be depending on where I'm going. It turns out that @wvgg.co ported it to Bluesky and improved it, with twice weekly updates! Insta-follow for me. Recommended.

This was a really sobering rundown on the current humanitarian situation in Gaza. As measured as possible, and you can hear the self-control that required.

Does artificial intelligence make wars better or worse? At the SCSP AI Expo in June, we asked Mark Montgomery at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and his answers may surprise you. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... #autonomy #UAVs #humanitarian

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

Discovered the @lawfaremedia.org Chatter podcast recently. Their thread of space settlement episodes is food for my little nerd heart. This one is at the sweet spot of my profession and my geekiness: Governing Space Settlements Ethically with @erikanesvold.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

It's a privilege to work at the ICRC, but the volunteer-driven, community help that a National Society provides is beautiful. Catch this great InterCross episode on American Red Cross' disaster response work. blogs.icrc.org/intercross/2... #DisasterResponse #RedCross #FirstResponders

1 in 5 Americans open to the idea of the British King as their head of state. We knew they’d be back eventually. They’ve got the wristwatches, we’ve got Greenwich Mean Time.

We all depend on connectivity - calls, texts, radio, internet: if those lifelines are cut in a crisis, how would you reach your loved ones? Get help? Find out where is safe? ICRC colleague Clea Thouin on these impacts for people affected by armed conflict. blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...

Great visual piece from @restofworld.org on our increasingly cluttered low earth orbit, #satellite internet and the price of connectivity in less-connected countries.

Happy Debbie Harry day to all who celebrate

This piece has everything: Science. Existential crisis. Tungsten cubes. @Anthropic let Claude (AI platform) run a snack stall. What happened next is a great teaching study of AI behavior in the real world - and the limits of what we understand. www.anthropic.com/research/pro... #ai #tech

20 pages into @realhopejahren.bsky.social’s book and already teared up twice (we are all scientists! Your work habitat is yours because you built it!) and loled ruefully once (budgets) in deep recognition. And hopefully another seed of commitment to libraries sown in my little bookworm’s soul

New InterCross episode! Syria, May 2025: Stephen Sakalian, head of ICRC's delegation in Damascus, on the country's complex journey toward stability, needs and opportunities; and how sanctions and lack of funding continue to hamper operations. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... #humanitarian #syria

The thing about not having another adult in your house all the time is that no-one else follows the petty victories in your life. Gratitude to my office parking staff who noticed and celebrated my having added a front license plate to the car a mere two years after purchase 🎉

Another podcast rec from my weekend listening: "TrumpConLaw" is back with a monthly episode and a constitutional book club! Takeaway from this episode: the US constitution is no longer the warm blanket it might have seemed 8 years ago, but something to fight for and preserve.

Whole-heartedly recommend season 7 of @sceneonradio.bsky.social, on capitalism. Just riveted by the episode on moving away from growth. Crucial to understand how we got here with the tech industry.

1/ 📚 Today we're sharing something we've been working on since 2019: an oral history of how the U.S. Digital Service came to be. Nearly 50 conversations with the people who were there from 2009-2015, telling their stories in their own words. 🧵

Worth catching this April 2025 @techpolicypress.bsky.social pod: tech that makes things better is first in service of an outcome. The US government is quietly continuing to implement technologies and capture data as if those things alone will help. They will not. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Weird how the strategy is to get everyone using it and then figure out the use cases. Seems inverted. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Friday shout out to all the parents of young babies out there who think they might be going mad and are certain everyone else has it under control and it’s only them that doesn’t. This reminder of Rosie‘s first day at daycare just popped up on my phone. Solidarity!

This is one of the more beautiful and true pieces I’ve ever read about caring for a child with a disability. I need to read this again later and think about it. But I wanted to share this snippet, which in my own story, changed the course of my life completely. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

On 15 May the first state consultation of the ICT workstream under the #GlobalIHL Initiative brought together over 100 States and key organizations — in Geneva and online. A few key takeaways 🧵

An important contribution.

I bet I'm setting a record with how many times I've reheated this one cup of coffee today. Each time, in front of colleagues. No shame.

Live now!

At #RSAC2025 20 mins and already mentally recommitting to #LWT2025 #iykyk

Off to RSA today to talk cyber trends in conflict for the ICRC with @jonathanhorowitz.bsky.social. Come say hi! www.linkedin.com/posts/lauraw...

@catherinebracy.com do you fancy a chat about venture and conflict some time? Happen to be in SF next week but can travel or chat online or something. Would love to talk over how to translate some of your thinking for the ICRC

‘You’re asking me to dream into my nightmare here’ - powerful episode asks whether death and destruction really has to precede the society we actually want? @newhumanitarian.bsky.social and @carlosmenchaca.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Every time I meet someone who doesn't remember Google Reader I get a bit sad.