I kind of struggle with describing what I do (there's quite a bit), but I had a go:
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I am a product and program and people manager with a proven track record in building product and program teams in mission-driven organizations. I also am an AI ethicist and researcher who is interested in collaborating on anything that moves the needle on AI and its impact on the world.
My interests and expertise center entirely on the question, 'what happens to people when computers happen to them?' Some selected recent published work: (1) a report for the Department of Defense on the challenges and risks of using LLMs in clinical / medical settings (Dec 2024) (2) a report co-authored with Humane Intelligence and IMDA on how 2024 LLMs manifest bias outside of a Western perspective, specifically in 9 different Asia Pacific countries and in their languages (Feb 2025, launched at the Paris AI Safety Summit).
I have been a startup founder, early stage startup employee, open source contributor, public servant, and more. I currently lead the product management team at Monterey Bay Aquarium, advise Humane Intelligence on algorithmic red-teaming, sit on the GSA Acquisition Policy Federal Advisory AI Committee (DOGE-d), and work as a research team member with the Center for AI & Digital Policy on California legislation and policy.
I am writing a book about product management in government and non-profit, coming soon.
@element is the pro version still open source, just with a price tag?
That's fine IMO. I think open source should be paid for by those that can, if the product is good. This is the approach @futo are taking and I see nothing wrong with it. Open to contrary opinions though, as I'm relatively new to the open source world.
My angle is that I want to see money diverted away from #bigtech and towards privacy-respecting open source products we can trust.
The police work for billionaires.
They’ll attack a strike, they’ll arrest protesters, and they’ll devote themselves to making CEOs feel safe.
Not only do cops defund our cities, they work overtime to stop us from building a better world.
My latest: https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-cops-work-for-jeff-bezos.
@Sophistifunk There's a twitter mob forming claiming that octopus images have been an been a well-known anti-Semitic trope, and they are including images of octopuses with Stars of Davids covering the world.
My personal research... I searched for it and found octopus imagery used with all the differing tentacles labelled with different Jewish groups, covering the White House.
Interestingly, when I limit the search results to a time prior to this week, none of the same images appeared.
Day 001: Hello world.
My order is on the way so i thought i'd start this challenge by playing around with the Playdate (an indie handheld game system) and their SDK.
So i've made a small hello world example using the Odin language (via their C API) and i'll keep going from there for a couple of weeks and see where this goes, nothing huge planned for now 😉
If anyone is curious, here is the hello world code: https://github.com/colinbellino/playdate-odin-hello-world
Stop the world.
My @smh cartoon.
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