Liam Robertson
@liamfrobertson.bsky.social
Idiot father of four and stepdad to three
Cyber Security & Technology Consulting at EY (UK & Ireland)
@[email protected]
Cyber Security & Technology Consulting at EY (UK & Ireland)
@[email protected]
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Aughnacliffe Dolmen • Longford
Aughnacliffe is one of the most remarkable and distinctive of all of Ireland’s portal tombs.
Despite looking somewhat precarious, it has stood here for more than 5,000 years.
#Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm
Aughnacliffe is one of the most remarkable and distinctive of all of Ireland’s portal tombs.
Despite looking somewhat precarious, it has stood here for more than 5,000 years.
#Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm
January 14, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Aughnacliffe Dolmen • Longford
Aughnacliffe is one of the most remarkable and distinctive of all of Ireland’s portal tombs.
Despite looking somewhat precarious, it has stood here for more than 5,000 years.
#Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm
Aughnacliffe is one of the most remarkable and distinctive of all of Ireland’s portal tombs.
Despite looking somewhat precarious, it has stood here for more than 5,000 years.
#Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm
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A new documentary reveals how the comedian overcame her insecurities to reach the top in a male-dominated industry: ft.trib.al/cCvDbzB
How Victoria Wood turned maternal neglect into brilliant wit
A new documentary reveals how the comedian overcame her insecurities to reach the top in a male-dominated industry
ft.trib.al
January 11, 2026 at 5:08 PM
A new documentary reveals how the comedian overcame her insecurities to reach the top in a male-dominated industry: ft.trib.al/cCvDbzB
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In light of the Royal Society's continued inaction on Elon Musk, it seems appropriate to share this again.
I wrote it last March when I resigned my position as associate editor at a Royal Society Journal.
Things haven't got better since then.
I wrote it last March when I resigned my position as associate editor at a Royal Society Journal.
Things haven't got better since then.
Why I’m resigning my editorship at a Royal Society journal
It’s time to take a stand, small as it may be, and to distance myself from the Royal Society
kityates.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:00 AM
In light of the Royal Society's continued inaction on Elon Musk, it seems appropriate to share this again.
I wrote it last March when I resigned my position as associate editor at a Royal Society Journal.
Things haven't got better since then.
I wrote it last March when I resigned my position as associate editor at a Royal Society Journal.
Things haven't got better since then.
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After years in limbo, NASA’s groundbreaking Mars Sample Return (MSR) programme, which was supposed to ferry Martian material collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth, looks set to be cancelled.
go.nature.com/4aTLe9i
go.nature.com/4aTLe9i
NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost
A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples already collected on the red planet.
go.nature.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:24 PM
After years in limbo, NASA’s groundbreaking Mars Sample Return (MSR) programme, which was supposed to ferry Martian material collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth, looks set to be cancelled.
go.nature.com/4aTLe9i
go.nature.com/4aTLe9i
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Status. My teams and I have been fighting Sentinel One Antivirus which marked a utility application on our machines and servers as malicious.
No only is it ignoring my whitelisting, it's rolling back HOW to address the threat. It's locking down machines.
How??? It's fucking AI. It's not listening
No only is it ignoring my whitelisting, it's rolling back HOW to address the threat. It's locking down machines.
How??? It's fucking AI. It's not listening
January 2, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Status. My teams and I have been fighting Sentinel One Antivirus which marked a utility application on our machines and servers as malicious.
No only is it ignoring my whitelisting, it's rolling back HOW to address the threat. It's locking down machines.
How??? It's fucking AI. It's not listening
No only is it ignoring my whitelisting, it's rolling back HOW to address the threat. It's locking down machines.
How??? It's fucking AI. It's not listening
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In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I.
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future
Seamus O'Reilly warns of AI maximum bubbledrive this year.
www.thegist.ie
January 2, 2026 at 10:25 AM
In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I.
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
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Interesting post on why manufacturing mania is misguided, but an idea that never really dies if you don’t believe too much in markets. Some lessons for Blue Labour here open.substack.com/pub/rbaldwin...
Is China misthinking manufacturing?
China’s problem isn’t just overproduction in manufacturing, it’s also underproduction of advanced services.
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Interesting post on why manufacturing mania is misguided, but an idea that never really dies if you don’t believe too much in markets. Some lessons for Blue Labour here open.substack.com/pub/rbaldwin...
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"What is certain is that prior terrorism classifications have been rendered obsolete by a fast-moving, freewheeling, and spectacularly cruel online community that glorifies violence and targets a broad spectrum of victims, including young children," writes @jacobware.bsky.social.
A Terrorism of Vengeance
Understanding incels, school shooters, and the new category of terrorism, “nihilistic violent extremism.”
www.lawfaremedia.org
December 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"What is certain is that prior terrorism classifications have been rendered obsolete by a fast-moving, freewheeling, and spectacularly cruel online community that glorifies violence and targets a broad spectrum of victims, including young children," writes @jacobware.bsky.social.
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My latest. Moscow’s effort to suborn Trump is the most successful covert influence campaign in decades.
tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
A tempting mark—why is Trump behaving in ways that benefit Moscow?
Moscow appears to have used these vulnerabilities to influence Donald Trump, and, unfortunately, has done so with considerable success
tomorrowsaffairs.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
My latest. Moscow’s effort to suborn Trump is the most successful covert influence campaign in decades.
tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
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DXC: 5 lessons we learned from our ransomware attack:
-Know your infrastructure
-Involve sr. leadership from the start
-Engage authorities & experts early
-Gain as much leverage as you can & don’t pay
-Be transparent
H/T @ecrime.ch cc @gate15.bsky.social dxc.com/ca/en/insigh... #cybersecurity
-Know your infrastructure
-Involve sr. leadership from the start
-Engage authorities & experts early
-Gain as much leverage as you can & don’t pay
-Be transparent
H/T @ecrime.ch cc @gate15.bsky.social dxc.com/ca/en/insigh... #cybersecurity
5 lessons we learned from our ransomware attack
Time is of the essence in a ransomware attack, as one of the real impacts is downtime. Learn how DXC responded to an attack over a holiday weekend to keep the business running.
dxc.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
DXC: 5 lessons we learned from our ransomware attack:
-Know your infrastructure
-Involve sr. leadership from the start
-Engage authorities & experts early
-Gain as much leverage as you can & don’t pay
-Be transparent
H/T @ecrime.ch cc @gate15.bsky.social dxc.com/ca/en/insigh... #cybersecurity
-Know your infrastructure
-Involve sr. leadership from the start
-Engage authorities & experts early
-Gain as much leverage as you can & don’t pay
-Be transparent
H/T @ecrime.ch cc @gate15.bsky.social dxc.com/ca/en/insigh... #cybersecurity
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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Sometimes I think back on all the financial geniuses who swore Trump would be good for the economy. Geniuses, they were. In their own minds.
My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
They Really Don't Care, Do They?
Trump and the billionaires don't even live on the same planet as the rest of us.
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Sometimes I think back on all the financial geniuses who swore Trump would be good for the economy. Geniuses, they were. In their own minds.
My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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‘Here’s a snide way of summarising modern British history: a 400-year campaign by the propertied classes to make the English forget about the 1640s.’
Neal Ascherson on England’s monarchism problem, from the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Neal Ascherson on England’s monarchism problem, from the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Neal Ascherson | No Kings
England doesn’t know how to say: ‘No Kings.’ Instead, it says: ‘Not this one, but perhaps his brother or his son...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
‘Here’s a snide way of summarising modern British history: a 400-year campaign by the propertied classes to make the English forget about the 1640s.’
Neal Ascherson on England’s monarchism problem, from the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Neal Ascherson on England’s monarchism problem, from the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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Reup: White Man's Burden: Trump Is Failing Six of Ten Metrics on His Own Open Book Test
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/w...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/w...
White Man's Burden: Trump Is Failing Six of Ten Metrics on His Own Open Book Test - emptywheel
The self-imagined competent boys who wrote Trump's National Security Strategy effectively wrote a list of standards they're affirmatively failing to meet.
www.emptywheel.net
December 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Reup: White Man's Burden: Trump Is Failing Six of Ten Metrics on His Own Open Book Test
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/w...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/w...
If you want to improve the character of a nation or an organization, you have to change its culture so that it nurtures basic decency.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Neocons Were Right
Not about Iraq. But the moral tenor of their political writings could be an antidote to Trumpism.
www.theatlantic.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If you want to improve the character of a nation or an organization, you have to change its culture so that it nurtures basic decency.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum
www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.
www.readtheline.ca
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum
www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
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Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked fix for React2shell vuln
Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked fix for React2shell vuln
Security community needs to rally and share more info faster, one researcher says
Amid new reports of attackers pummeling a maximum security hole (CVE-2025-55182) in the React JavaScript library, Cloudflare's technology chief said his company took down its own network, forcing a widespread outage early Friday, to patch React2Shell.…
dlvr.it
December 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked fix for React2shell vuln
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TALLINN, Estonia — NATO this week challenged around 1,300 participants in a cyberdefense exercise to guard against major attacks on critical infrastructure including power plants, fuel depots, commercial satellites and military networks.
Amid rising threats, NATO holds its largest-ever cyberdefense exercise
About 1,300 participants from around the world dealt with the complicated and multi-faceted threats that have been seen in recent global conflicts.
therecord.media
December 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
TALLINN, Estonia — NATO this week challenged around 1,300 participants in a cyberdefense exercise to guard against major attacks on critical infrastructure including power plants, fuel depots, commercial satellites and military networks.
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The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Europol announced the seizure of Cryptomixer’s official website, as well as 25 million euros and 12 terabytes of data from the mixer's service.
European cops shut down crypto mixing website that helped launder 1.3 billion euros | TechCrunch
Europol announced the seizure of Cryptomixer’s official website, as well as 25 million euros and 12 terabytes of data from the mixer's service.
techcrunch.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Europol announced the seizure of Cryptomixer’s official website, as well as 25 million euros and 12 terabytes of data from the mixer's service.
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In car-boot Britain, “petty crime” has turned professional. Robert Jenrick is wrong – the problem is organised crime.
🖊️ @anooshc.bsky.social
🖊️ @anooshc.bsky.social
In car-boot Britain, it’s every man for himself
Robert Jenrick is wrong – the problem is organised crime
www.newstatesman.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
In car-boot Britain, “petty crime” has turned professional. Robert Jenrick is wrong – the problem is organised crime.
🖊️ @anooshc.bsky.social
🖊️ @anooshc.bsky.social
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Very good piece this by John Harris about Labour’s distaste for their squeezed middle class voter base. Connects to a lot of what I said a few week’s back in my Substack piece.
benansell.substack.com/p/british-po...
benansell.substack.com/p/british-po...
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Very good piece this by John Harris about Labour’s distaste for their squeezed middle class voter base. Connects to a lot of what I said a few week’s back in my Substack piece.
benansell.substack.com/p/british-po...
benansell.substack.com/p/british-po...
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Nobody could accuse #RecipeOfTheDay of being a looker but who cares when this Burnt Onion and Aubergine/ Eggplant Dip tastes so good? (Please note: it’s a rhetorical question!) There’s a reason my last book has a chapter in it called ‘A Loving Defence of Brown Food’. www.nigella.com/recipes/burn...
Burnt Onion and Aubergine Dip
I get many requests for this decidedly brown dip of silky savouriness, the first recipe in my chapter A Loving Defence of Brown Food in Cook, Eat, Repeat, so creamy that you would never guess it’s act...
www.nigella.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Nobody could accuse #RecipeOfTheDay of being a looker but who cares when this Burnt Onion and Aubergine/ Eggplant Dip tastes so good? (Please note: it’s a rhetorical question!) There’s a reason my last book has a chapter in it called ‘A Loving Defence of Brown Food’. www.nigella.com/recipes/burn...