Ciaran Martin

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

The first good boomer is absolutely crushing it

Not sure about the specifics of this one but I’m completely here for the idea of a manhattan project but for snacks

I don’t know at this point how to tell cybersecurity people globally who -don’t care- to stop relying on US-based infrastructure and resources (especially government funded ones) for defence.

Yep! 19 SUV motorcade on those roads though 😂

Calls for a "huge nationwide wave" of protests in last 48 hours saw about 300 people attend one locally-organised protest in Nuneaton (serious charges in local case) + 19 protests range from 6 peoole (Wolverhampton) with about four more reaching 100-200 people (Altrincham,Canary Wharf)

Total < 2000

For the uninitiated (& this journo), the “hamlet” of Charlbury has a population of nearly 3,000, a train station with a direct hourly service to London, a school, several pubs, several more restaurants, a small shopping strip, cricket & football pitches etc…

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The complex question of what it is to be culturally Irish in 2025 Ed Sheeran grew up in England but described himself as 'culturally Irish,' prompting debate about what that really means

An interesting reflection from Fergal Keane.

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The binfire ‘debate’ on the other place about whether crime is getting worse or better reminds us that Chris Morris & the Brass Eye team were more than a quarter of a century ahead of their time…

The most anarchic place I saw this weekend was the Wetherspoons at Beaconsfield services off the M40 earlier today. Seemed to be a very large Sikh wedding reception. Odd place for it. But the hundreds of passing families stopping for snacks, fuel & toilet breaks seemed to love joining in

Wolverhampton didn't get the weekend of anarchy memo

A tuxedo cat is stretched out along the floor, looking at the camera as though she has been startled

Excuse me, you could have knocked…

Lammy has said Vance's book "reduced me to tears"

Is this what international relations experts mean by ‘strategic ambiguity’?

I am the worst parent

Big Tech can't be trusted to do the right thing. These companies chose to introduce end-to-end encryption without adequate safeguards.

This person is furious with mathematics.

We need to end end-to-end encryption | Anonymous | The Critic Magazine One need not be a nightwatchman libertarian to fear a state apparatus that sees all. George Orwell literally wrote the book on the dangers of Big Brother, and he was a democratic socialist.

The delicious irony of calling for an end to end-to-end encryption via an anonymous author 🤷

Those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear. But I still won’t put my name to my argument… 🤷‍♂️

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EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS POWDER KEG UK ABOUT TO BLOW UP AS BRITAIN STANDS ON THE BRINK OF THE WHOLE NATION DESCENDING INTO CIVIL WAR by Our Apocalypse Staff HELENA HANDCART THE entire country has turned into a tinderbox, one spark and the whole thing could turn into a raging inferno of hatred and violence. All it needs is one little push - preferably from us - and this once peaceful island will explode. It may not take much, maybe an article with some badly researched facts, maybe some exaggerated and provocative hyperbole, and before we know it there'll be blood on the streets, and flames too, as millions of furious citizens attack each other, the police, and the emergency services, not to mention the armed forces should they tragically be called in to deal with the hate-filled mob rampaging through our cities, towns and villages, armed with burning torches and pitchforks, calling for justice, free speech and the immediate death of everyone they don't like. (Top journalism, Ed). Make no mistake, if Britain even exists by next week, we will run this piece again until someone sparks the tinderbox on the brink of the powderkeg that... (cont. for entire summer).

No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.

Sorry to pollute the feed with technical financial terms, but this is all fxcking nuts
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So this is how it ends:

AI takes all our jobs and enslaves us all…

but just before it presses ‘send’ on the orders for our final extinction…

…we are saved by one heroic professor bringing it all to a crashing halt via the correct spelling of a much loved summer fruit

Great stuff from @theo.io

A Crossroads for UK Cyber Strategy UK cyber strategy is struggling to achieve its resilience objectives – the next iteration of the National Cyber Strategy needs to set out a compelling vision for change.

Good piece by @jamiemaccoll.bsky.social of @rusi.bsky.social on the UK’s cyber security challenges

www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

Maybe he’ll try turning it off and on again, in the best traditions of the industry

Right well this will be interesting

Scattered Spider Threat Actor Profile - New Tactics, Techniques, Procedures and IoCs

Scattered Spider Threat Actor Profile – New Tactics, Techniques, Procedures and IoCs

That’s true. I want that feature for real life

The finest feature ever rolled out in the digital age 😀

Can I come out of my bunker yet?

Well, it looks like we survived Grok Riots Day

(And it's Farage and friends who need to de-escalate)

LinkedIn is the fakest platform of them all It was meant for professionals—but it is filled with chatbots

"AI seems to...have helped foster a genre of LinkedIn-speak which bears all the hallmarks of the worst AI writing on the internet"

Do read @benjamin-clark.bsky.social's excellent portrait of LinkedIn, the social media equivalent of a dull networking event www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

Ex-MP for Clacton, Douglas Carswell, now just openly supporting Britain First, promoting the Remigration rally they organised.

Another person thrilled by the Britain First rally is the racist convict Ant Middleton (part of Nigel Farage's Reform delegation to Washington DC only in January)