Naomi Colvin
@auerfeld.bsky.social
Interested in AI governance, renaissance music and pallas cats. Can probably still play a selection of Andy Mackay solos on request.
AISI incident report: "this is the first time we have seen risks around autonomy and deception manifest this clearly, without specific prompting, in the real-world." www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing | AISI Work
During a routine cyber evaluation, AISI identified an incident in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations. We are disclosing what we found, what i...
aisi.gov.uk
Saw the Mad King at the RSC last night. I am sworn to secrecy but I’m sure I can tell you that it’s really good
92% of terror arrests in Britain are now for alleged Palestine Action supporters The cohort has an average age of 59 and an even gender split between men and women, but outside of Palestine Action-related arrests, the vast majority of terror suspects are male with an average age of 31
As it turns out, Matt Damon is a fellow My Private Idaho fan youtu.be/ZCxYGx6ueNM?...
Matt Damon’s Closet Picks
YouTube video by CRITERION
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New blog post - A longish look at Benjamin Britten's Nocturnal after John Dowland for Guitar. heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com/2026/07/come...
Come, Heavy Sleep - Benjamin Britten's Nocturnal after John Dowland for Guitar, Op. 70
BRITTEN AND DOWLAND At a time when some composers were trying to sever links with the past, Benjamin Britten was keen to stress his connecti...
heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com
Open letter from 1000+ AI lab employees: "We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.” www.pacingthefrontier.com
Pacing the Frontier
A statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companies
pacingthefrontier.com
The Palestine Action proscription litigation is still *not* over. Appeal to Supreme Court is on.
Joshua Rozenberg@joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 7d agoThe co-founder of Palestine Action has been granted permission to appeal to the Supreme Court against a ruling by the Court of Appeal that then then home secretary had acted lawfully when she proscribed Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 last year. rozenberg.substack.com/p/palestine-...
New addition to the fam! Have wanted one of Mollenhauer’s Kynseker instruments for a while and this one’s a G-alto dammit.
Bloody hell. Thank goodness that vaping has largely replaced smoking these days or that would already be half of Lewisham and Greenwich aflame
Richard J@preachypreach.bsky.social · 7d agowww.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Blimey, Blackheath
V cool to see that the BFI are showing Take It Or Leave It in September, with that and Dance Craze they've revivied both of the 2-tone flicks I was obsessed with as an eccentric 12 yo.
Also kind of relieved that it looks like I will actually get to see The Mad King next week. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
Despite Cancellations, Company Says ‘Game of Thrones’ Play Is On Track
The Royal Shakespeare Company called off five preview performances of the epic four-hour production last week, including one just hours before its scheduled curtain.
nytimes.com
Just saw the Odyssey. All the "writing as a classics don" criticism seems a bit silly since it's basically a totally mainstream action blockbuster. And in that vein it's really good - in fact I prefer it to a lot of Nolan's films.
Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.
Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.
dropsitenews.com
mildly funny that X is having blazing rows about Nolan’s Odyssey because he cast black people in it and Bluesky is having blazing rows about whether a noted Homeric translator’s LRB review of it misses the point or not
Heading back from the Lute Society’s Dowland 400 Festival and lowkey devastated that it’s all over.
Saw Bor Zuijan playing this evening and he was astoundingly good - frankly one of the virtuosic performances I’ve ever seen.
Back at the Proms (my third of the season!) for Thomas Dunford and his Jupiter Ensemble playing Dowland and Purcell. Not sure why they’re calling it late night baroque but - anyway! Down in the pit for this one
If it's still 0-0 after 120 minutes, can we just agree that the winner of Saturday's match gets the trophy?
surely the first 90 minute no hitter in a world cup final
