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Daragh @ Castlebridge

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CEO at Castlebridge (https://castlebridge.ie). Also on Mastodon (https://mastodon.ie/@CastlebridgeChief) Talks about data from the business perspective. Doing a doctorate in #DataGovernance because life just wasn’t busy enough. Also: Aikido keeps me sane.

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Daragh @ Castlebridge @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · Oct 23

Obligatory #HelloWorld.
Mothballed things on #Birdsite a while ago, active on #Mastodon (mastodon.ie/@Castlebridg...)
Once I find a decent client for posting from multiple accounts across multiple platforms normal service will resume.

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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 27m

Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 566, requiring all browsers to offer a setting that sends an OOPS signal, letting Californians opt out of third-party data sales as per CPPA.
www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/08/g...

Governor Newsom signs data privacy bills to protect tech users | Governor of California

www.gov.ca.gov

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 2d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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dylan @dylnbkr.bsky.social · 1d

Saw this article linked by @wonkish.bsky.social in the replies here and wanted to expand on it a little, because this really does feel like a place where a tech solution *is* warranted to help address a major problem. 🧵

www.theverge.com/2024/8/21/24...

A screenshot of the title of an article from The Verge. It reads:

This system can sort real pictures from AI fakes — why aren’t platforms using it?
Big tech companies are backing the C2PA’s authentication standard, but they’re taking too long to put it to use.

by Jess Weatherbed
Aug 21, 2024, 6:00 AM PDT

A screenshot from the linked The Verge article. It reads:

Step one: the industry adopts a standard
A body like C2PA develops an authentication and attribution standard.
Parties across photography, content hosting, and image editing industries agree to the standard.
Step two: creators add credentials
Camera hardware makers offer to embed the credentials.
Editing apps offer to embed the credentials.
Both hardware and software solutions work in tandem to ensure creators can confirm the origins of an image and how / if it’s been altered during edits.
Step three: platforms and viewers check credentials
Online platforms scan for image credentials and visibly flag key information to their users.
Viewers can also access a database to independently check if an image carries credentials.

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Daragh @ Castlebridge @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · 22h

fozzie bear is sitting at a table with other stuffed animals and says seriously ?

Alt: fozzie bear is sitting at a table with other stuffed animals and says seriously ?

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Daragh @ Castlebridge @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · 2d

@tupped.bsky.social’s Electoral Numberwang post must have touched a nerve…

(That and the fact the candidate bore a resemblance in recent days to Sideshow Bob navigating a pile of rakes)

a red car is parked next to a trailer that says u-tow on it

Alt: a red car is parked next to a trailer that says u-tow on it. sideshow Bob is walking around beside the car standing on a large number of rakes that hit him in the face each time

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: Jim Gavin withdraws from Presidential Election.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 3d

Ys a Werewolf Astronaut alwayes yn werewolf forme if thei go to the moone?

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Daragh @ Castlebridge @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · 3d

Particularly when the King just needs to point to the large and well equipped army he already has and disown this shower of clowns.

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Daragh @ Castlebridge @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · 3d

My third thought is this is a great sales lever for MS to get organisations buying the expensive add on licences to deter the blurring. But most organisation’s underlying SharePoint landscape is not fit for this new purpose so pain will be felt either way.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.

Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

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Daragh @ Castlebridge @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · 3d

And I’ll ponder that at a bit of length tomorrow. When I am at work and not trying to hide from work for 48hrs.

But this will be a #DataGovernance shit show.

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Daragh @ Castlebridge @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · 3d

Personal GenAI accounts are already likely in scope for FOI (after all, WhatsApp messages in a personal account on personal devices are).

Potential application of National Archives Act is one that needs to be considered when a personal CoPilot chat used to create/process a departmental records.

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Daragh @ Castlebridge @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · 3d

My first thought when I read it was: Shit, meet Fan.

I do hope employees in bodies subject to FOI or National Archives Act are ready to have their *personal* copilot chats in scope for FOI requests or preservation as departmental records.

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Daragh @ Castlebridge @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · 3d

My first thought: I hope employees are ready to have their personal copilot prompts / responses in FOI scope.

My second thought is: Bugger, another slide to add to the materials I am delivering later this week for a client.

Daragh @ Castlebridge @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · 3d

Oh boy.. things are about to get “complicated” for regulated industries or entities subject to FOI - @microsoft.com dropping the wall between Personal CoPilot licenses and the workplace. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microso...

Employees can bring Copilot from their personal Microsoft 365 plans to work - what it means for IT | Microsoft Community Hub

Today, we made some exciting announcements for Microsoft 365 Personal, Family and the new Premium plans. Among them is how employees can use Copilot from...

techcommunity.microsoft.com

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Daragh @ Castlebridge @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · 4d

I have several American friends regretting not buying here when they had the chance during the last property crash. Irish heritage, some Irish passport holders.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 5d

I’m a father of three, I’ve been doing creative work with kids for over twenty years, and the idea that parents are letting young kids use LLMs, especially unsupervised, is absolutely chilling. And believe me, you don’t develop a child’s imagination and creativity by having something do it for them.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 6d

I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it.

"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 6d

I know it would have to be a smaller dose and all but I'd love someone to randomly shoot me with one of the tranquiliser darts that knock out rhinos and lions for hours at a time. I reckon it'd be the first decent kip I'd have in 20 years.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 6d

People who coax chatbots into sensible answers are basically opening and closing the fridge until it contains something you wanna eat, yes, eventually you get hungrier & eat the stuff in there. But what changed was your cognition. The fridge stayed the same. You changed your mind about the contents.

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Daragh @ Castlebridge @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · 6d

Oh god… not the Hamsters..

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Daragh @ Castlebridge @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · 7d

Ok. Another few slides now have to be added to a keynote I’m doing in 2 weeks.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 7d

Setting the table for vibe paychecks

www.theverge.com/news/787076/...

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

www.theverge.com

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 7d

Esp when you consider all legal drones have a warning that launching in the park is not permitted.

Someone ignored that, had to click to launch the drone illegally or else the drone it's self is an illegal make and not permitted to fly here at all.

#speirgorm

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 7d

Fianna Fáil has said it was an "oversight" that it used a drone to shoot footage of a park run by presidential candidate Jim Gavin in an area where drones are not allowed to be flown without being given the all clear for safety

Gavin drone flight without permission an 'oversight' - FF

www.rte.ie

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 8d

To date I have found 54 of my paintings being used by different sellers on Temu, each painting being on any number of items. You have to list every single item when filing the copyright infringement. So far I've had 41 of my paintings removed, of every instance of them I can find. I'm getting there.

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