Ciaran Martin

I wrote a personal piece last week about anti-semitism in Britain in the last two years and how it felt to be Jewish. It was repromoted today, on the anniversary of October 7, five days after an attack on a British synagogue in which two Jews were killed.

This is the immediate reply.

Professor Ciaran Martin is quoted in The New York Times discussing what recent cyberattacks reveal about the weaknesses in the UK’s cybersecurity. 👇
https://ow.ly/nSCY50X7EoN

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Huge congratulations Suzanne

Breaking: Jim Gavin withdraws from Presidential Election.

The greater good

The swan is the hero of the final scene

The swan was the hero at the end

This was a truly extraordinary day. I am so grateful to all the fellows of @selwyn1882.bsky.social for electing me and to Bishop Sarah for conducting the installation. We all offer her our warmest congratulations on her appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Sorry. Should have said the Neighbourhood Watch Association rather than the Americanism

The greater good

Rewatching Hot Fuzz (2007) & only just noticed the evil residents’ committee’s motto is Make Sandford Great Again

Ah but we have the retained EU Law Act. And at this point I admit I no longer have any idea what I’m talking about

Genuinely this is probably still in force but with Russia as the continuing state (had to do far too much law of state succession earlier in my career) but maybe we’ve therefore suspended it anyway given it’s Russia

The Board of Deputies’ response to the Israeli government inviting Tommy Robinson to visit

Do it!

I hear they practice sharia economics

We could secede from one treaty per working day, which would keep us going for about half a century:

treaties.fcdo.gov.uk/responsive/a...

I’d start with this one, which sounds like woke nonsense to me. The Royal Navy didn’t build the Empire by worrying about petty things like seaworthiness.

Going to launch a campaign for
British withdrawal from the OECD, just for a laugh

Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...

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After the week they’ve had, Liverpool fans are in no position to knock Ruben Amorin and his one match winning streak

Rishi Sunak to launch an NFT issued by the Royal Mint to help make UK 'global cryptoasset hub' The government plans to introduce a range of measures for the notoriously unregulated cryptocurrency sector, which features incredibly volatile currencies such as Bitcoin.

Brings back memories of perhaps the silliest announcement in recent British government history 2/2

news.sky.com/story/rishi-...

What the hell happened to NFTs? The mad gold rush of the digital art world has come to an abrupt end – and people are losing money fast

NFTs are worthless. Whoever could have foreseen this? 1/2

www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/...

GDPR is a great example of the sort of regulation which (I) creates a bunch of effort for people who want to comply (ii) gets innocently over-zealously deployed (III) becomes deployed as an excuse for orgs not to do things they don't want to and (iv)is fairly easily disregarded by those who want to.

Chefin der Signal-App droht mit Rückzug aus Europa Die Chefin der Messenger-App Signal droht damit, sich vom europäischen Markt zurückzuziehen. Grund ist der Plan der EU, Hintertüren in Apps einzubauen, die eine automatische Suche nach kriminellen Inh...

Signal head threatens to leave Europe if Chat Control is introduced

www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/d...

Genuinely an easy one to confuse!

If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe

cst.org.uk/donate-now

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NEW: Google says hackers associated with the Clop ransomware gang are sending extortion emails to executives at "numerous" organizations after claiming to have stolen their data from a suite of corporate business apps developed by Oracle.

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.