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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 23m

It's cute that he even thinks that would be the main reason for a "cover-up" of the breach, to keep China on side.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 24m

Reluctance to relinquish Chinese investment is very different to protection of security assets, and these are core factors that would be considered separately.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 25m

So if the breach, and subsequent mitigation weren't more broadly shared, those security implications would have likely been of higher consideration than what he has chosen to frame it as which is, let's say, pithy.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 25m

Or perhaps he isn't aware, not being a security SME. But generally speaking, it isn't good practise to advertise security weaknesses to hostile state actors and adversaries.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 27m

Of course, Dominic Cummings is also acutely aware of the fact that political point-scoring - in fact any political considerations at all in the national security context - fall far short of being the only core factor in this breach being "buried". www.thetimes.com/article/a0e5...

Dominic Cummings: China ‘stole’ classified state secrets

Boris Johnson’s former adviser claims that Beijing harvested hugely sensitive data for years and that senior officials deliberately ‘buried’ the breach

www.thetimes.com

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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Kate Devlin 🎃👻🍂 @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 1d

My 15yo child, unexpectedly: “Yeah, I have at least 3 LinkedIn accounts. All fake. I use them to check on my teachers’ qualifications. I keep getting job offers because I ticked something that said I used to work in middle management for Asda.”

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 5h

Consider this as much a biennial appraisal of markets' FOMO behaviour around crypto and AI as much as contemporary commentary of a bubble forming around the latter. www.thetimes.com/article/e02c...

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 1d

"C‘est normal", shrugs the worldly and contrarian diplomat/ columnist, demonstrating his superior mind by never, ever being surprised or shocked.

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Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 1d

While I understand the realpolitik reasons for doing it, watching my country's Prime Minister fawn over this man makes me want to chew the carpet.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "You have Canada. That's so great to have, in fact. The president called and he wanted to know if it's worth -- well he knew exactly what it is. He knew the importance. Where's Canada, by the way? Where are you? He knew the importance of this."

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 3h

Felt my partner wasn't giving me enough attention, so feigned an illness, moaning all the time coughing, pretending to shiver. Worked a treat got two days of laying around unlimited cups of tea and food on demand. Not even sorry

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1h

bubba... you not unhappy... you insecure

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 23m

It's cute that he even thinks that would be the main reason for a "cover-up" of the breach, to keep China on side.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 24m

Reluctance to relinquish Chinese investment is very different to protection of security assets, and these are core factors that would be considered separately.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 25m

So if the breach, and subsequent mitigation weren't more broadly shared, those security implications would have likely been of higher consideration than what he has chosen to frame it as which is, let's say, pithy.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 25m

Or perhaps he isn't aware, not being a security SME. But generally speaking, it isn't good practise to advertise security weaknesses to hostile state actors and adversaries.

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 27m

Of course, Dominic Cummings is also acutely aware of the fact that political point-scoring - in fact any political considerations at all in the national security context - fall far short of being the only core factor in this breach being "buried". www.thetimes.com/article/a0e5...

Dominic Cummings: China ‘stole’ classified state secrets

Boris Johnson’s former adviser claims that Beijing harvested hugely sensitive data for years and that senior officials deliberately ‘buried’ the breach

www.thetimes.com

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Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 53m

I've never known anyone speak so self-effacingly and eloquently about addictions and gradual, eventual recovery as Charlie Sheen. www.thetimes.com/article/81c4...

Charlie Sheen: The day that Clint Eastwood sent me to rehab

He was the highest-paid actor on TV until a drug and alcohol-fuelled public unravelling. In a new memoir Charlie Sheen reveals the truth about his implosion

www.thetimes.com

Usagi @usagi3939.bsky.social · 5h

Consider this as much a biennial appraisal of markets' FOMO behaviour around crypto and AI as much as contemporary commentary of a bubble forming around the latter. www.thetimes.com/article/e02c...

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 1d

Most poetry is a complete waste of effort

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s Times gives “urged” the entirely new meaning of “a lukewarm mention in the middle of a 66 page report”.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 1d

I am old enough to remember the "charm offensive".

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 1d

Rocked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Beijing’s support for Moscow, a wildly unbalanced trading picture and a diplomatic dynamic where the European side feels it's ignored by Beijing, Porter said it was “hard to disagree” with the suggestion that ties were at an all-time low

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 2d

I wish I was as diligent, steadfast and committed to anything as much as the media is committed to NOT saying or writing "the president lied" in the face of the most obvious flat-out lies.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 2d

I wish the Green party would drop their new slogan of "Let's make hope normal again". Hope is nothing, it's not even an empty promise, it's a childish wish for something without lifting a finger to achieve it. It's like thoughts and prayers whenever there's an American mass shooting.

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 18h

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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