He/Him. Head of Real-Time Coverage @samdeskofficial. OSINT, news, tech, video games, coffee, beer. Reformed civil engineer. Previously at Storyful.
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If we hire anywhere else, I'm going to need a bigger clock widget so sticking with UK or Ireland this time! Come join @samdeskofficial's European crisis intelligence team. Remote role. DM with questions. samsters.bamboohr.com/jobs/v… #aiforgood #jobfairy #nowhiring #remotejobs
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I described the @Glenisk situation as a "national disaster" for this reason to a colleague in the UK. Toddler's calcium intake is through the floor.
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This is a really powerful visualization of 30 minutes of tweets from India's Covid crisis in late April.
.@ReutersGraphics looks at how India’s hospitals, COVID-19 patients and the public inundated Twitter with pleas for help reut.rs/3h8i2zi via @SimonScarr @AlbusJitesh @manshar_
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One of the most affecting and intriguingly crafted pieces of storytelling I’ve seen - in any medium - banned in Australia for offending “standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults.” 🤷
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Listen to the designer talk to @lucyjamesgames about how they structured the dialogue system, and then think about how people engage with the world via thier screens. Think about how Trump, for example, grabbed attention on Twitter. youtu.be/9X0-W5erEXw?t=156
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Great to see familiar faces from @DCU_SoC and @storyful reporting on the rise of the far-right in Ireland over on @noteworthy_ie.
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Crisis alerts from @SAM_Desk get a brief nod in this @derspiegel report from @glocalreporting on the teams using technology to track and investigate war crimes and abuses. #osint #AIforgood #AI
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The contents of the old blue shed were about 50% spiders by weight, making today one of the most traumatic of my life.
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You’ve lost me, Facebook.
Today we’re sharing our vision for a new type of interface—a human-centric interface—our research teams at Facebook Reality Labs are building to interact with all-day wearable AR glasses: tech.fb.com/inside-facebook-…
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It’s possible that T+6:00 to T+6:10 was the best 10 seconds of my life.
Live feed of Starship SN10 flight test → spacex.com/vehicles/starship teapaw.org/i/broadcasts/1ZkKzeyrP…
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I’ll be speaking at this @ASIS_Intl event in mid-March. Samdesk is your early warning system, but how can you analyse and verify the information at your fingertips to take strong decisions in real time during a crisis? #ai #osint #security asisonline.org/professional-…
I had no idea Android was this flexible! Since lockdown is never going to end, I'm shipping a hopefully foolproof smartphone to my dad. Don't think this could get simpler.
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Imagine 10k. 😔 I could reach the sea.
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Like peanut butter and chocolate when these two podcasters get together.
I went on a conversational ramble with Adam Buxton and it was very nice, even the bit where I talk about my existential fear of alienation and peering into the abyss 😀 (There were laughs too, I promise).
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I would pay for Tweetdeck… in return for stability improvements and new features. It’s felt basically the same for five plus years.
Twitter is looking into adding subscription options:
- “tipping system” in which you'd pay people you follow for exclusive content
- a charge to use dashboard app Tweetdeck
-Offering extra features like "undo send" and profile customization for users cnet.com/google-amp/news/twi…
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I’ll be presenting at this event later in the month. Samdesk is your early warning system, but how can you analyse and verify the information at your fingertips to take strong decisions in real time during a crisis? #ai #ml #osint
Is your team leveraging open-source intelligence? Learn how in our upcoming free webinar on February 17! zoom.us/webinar/register/501… #OSINT #ai
It’s been fun listening to normal consumer-facing video game podcasts try to grapple with this story this week. (Admittedly, they're doing a better job than I would.)
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