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Independent Cybersecurity/AI Consultant, editor, publisher, commentator in AI (including SI) and Cybersecurity Media.

London
Joined December 2010
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Really smart take, did Trump lose his Russian propagandists?
Zelenskyy knew what he was doing when he bombed all data centers in Russia before the midterm elections in U.S. 🇷🇺 😈
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Appears to be absolutely MASSIVE protests all across the US yesterday and this platform is so skewed to the Trump/Putin side that this is the first I've seen or heard of it.
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The montage uses recycled footage from larger 2025 and March 2026 No Kings protests, not Oct 17 2026 Vote Early events. Those were smaller localized gatherings (hundreds to thousands per city) focused on early voting, not the massive crowds shown. nytimes.com/2026/10/17/us/… abc7ny.com/post/no-kings-… minnesotareformer.com/2026/10/17/hun… npr.org/2026/10/17/nx-…
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In 2014, while filming a movie, Jackie Chan discovered that a group of Mongolian locals knew every word to 'Rolling in the Deep' by heart... Even though they didn’t speak English. This beautiful moment was never part of the script.
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The replies are all about Maga, democrats, immigrants, blame, boarders, Obama, Biden, Trump. Not so much about the children. My country has problems, most do, but don't claim to be 'leader of the free world'
CNN is granted access inside an immigration court hearing where dozens of children facing deportation, some as young as three years old, appealed to stay in the United States. Many of them facing the judge without an attorney representing them.
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"We're real people." Yeah that's the problem, not realising that others are real people too.
Hurt people who hurt people are always gonna get hurt again.
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I remember being pleased with myself writing about Yemen discovering oil, "rushing headlong into the 19th Century".
"Iran loses control of the Houthis," Iran has lost control of the Houthis in Yemen and is struggling to hold together what is left of its “axis of resistance” forces around the Middle East, Iranian officials say. ca.news.yahoo.com/iran-loses… “The Houthis have gone rogue for a while and are now really rebels,” a senior Iranian official told The Telegraph from Tehran. “They do not listen to Tehran as much as they used to.” The Houthis’ rift with Iran goes back to April, when Tehran failed to come to their aid during heavy US strikes over fears of being drawn into direct conflict with America. They also have a geographic advantage. Yemen’s mountainous terrain, similar to Afghanistan, helps them hide stockpiles of missiles and drones in caves and underground. (#subterra @traysartech )
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I have lost my capacity to be surprised, let alone shocked, by anything related to Trump . But this did make me raise my eyebrows.
Extremely disturbing news about the lawyer defending Donald Trump’s media ban. Watch this sitting down, and please help spread the word. youtube.com/shorts/veF5dzjd_…
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Sounds like a plan
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RNLI’s mission is to save lives at sea, without judgement or preference. They respond only when tasked by HM Coastguard. RNLI lifeboats launched 9,058 times in 2025, 109 of those launches involved small‑boat migrant rescues - 1.2% of total activity.
The negative balance on my X post about donating to the RNLI really does demonstrate what a cesspit this platform can be. If anyone thinks this platform is a true reflection on how the majority of the British public think and feel - think again. We are a decent nation that rejects abuse and intimidation. 🇬🇧
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I’m one of at least 28 former Washington Post journalists who have joined the @washingtonsun, which launched this morning. Paul Kane, Jeff Stein, Tom Sietsema and many other names will be familiar to Post readers —and we’ve got the Capital Weather Gang. Join us! washingtonsun.com/perspectiv…
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Can’t sleep… I love his perspective. Had to share!
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Agree, do what you can locally, however small. Join with others who think the same, support those who are able to act. We didn't achieve what we have (and they are trying to take away) without struggle. Be part of the solution.
I saw this post and wanted to address it. If you look at social media today, you’ll see good, empathetic people admitting they are losing hope. They look at climate change, rising authoritarianism, and corporate greed and feel entirely powerless. If you feel this way, I want
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Luke 5:32: “They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Abdul El-Sayed: “There are 3M people who listen to Hasan. I want to offer them a pathway into an electoral movement where rather than sit outside the electoral system, they see a pathway around the things they agree with that he says that I agree with and a pathway that disavows the things that I disagree with. I’m glad to be on your show, but I’m not here to talk to you. I’m here to talk to the people you’re talking to” Stephen A. Smith: “I gotta confess to you: that’s a damn good answer!”
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THIS is what the great John Lewis would call “GOOD TROUBLE” — Protesters in Minneapolis have reportedly been dressing up in jeans, body armor, and masks and then walking into groups of ICE agents and accusing 1 or 2 of them of being imposters until they all start fighting each other. Then the protesters sneak away. And now, it’s happening nationwide
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This claim originated as satire from the comedy account The Halfway Post. No news reports from outlets across the political spectrum confirm that protesters are using this tactic of accusing ICE agents of being imposters to make them fight each other. x.com/HalfwayPost/st… nytimes.com/2026/01/17/us/… foxnews.com/us/minnesota-a… startribune.com/inside-the-org…
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I am no finance expert, but this looks far too real and possible. Though could current moves also fuel a move away from the dollar internationally?
If I were president and I wanted to tank the dollar and get rich off it, here is exactly what I would do. I would hire a Treasury Secretary who already made $3.5 billion crashing another country's currency. I would put my guy in charge of the agency that approves bank charters. I would install a crypto czar with $200M in crypto holdings and give him an ethics waiver so nobody could challenge it. Then I would sign an executive order banning the government from ever creating a digital dollar so there was no competition. Then I would have my family launch their own private digital dollar. My family takes 75% of net profits. I would grow it to $4.6 billion in circulation and route a $2 billion Abu Dhabi sovereign fund deal through it to prove it works. Then I would get Congress to pass a law requiring every stablecoin in the country to hold short-term Treasury bills. Now every dollar of my digital currency is a forced buyer of government debt. Brookings projects $2.3 trillion in captive demand by 2030. Then I would have my OCC guy grant my family's company a federal bank charter. Now I can issue my digital dollar with federal authority. Then I would have my Treasury Secretary weaken the actual dollar. Bond buybacks that suppress yields but tank the currency. Build a $950 billion war chest for more. Let the debt hit $40 trillion. Dollar index drops to 99. Gold goes to highest point ever. Then I would kill the Corporate Transparency Act and delete the FinCEN beneficial ownership database. That was the one law that required every shell company in America to report who actually owns it. Without it, nobody can trace who is buying my stablecoin, who is routing money through it, or where the profits land. Then I would let the loop run. Weaker dollar drives demand for "stable" digital alternatives. The law I passed forces those alternatives to buy T-bills. That funds the government's debt. My family takes profit on every transaction. Foreign central banks walking away from Treasuries get replaced by legally mandated stablecoin reserves my family controls. Then I would use sanctions to start cutting countries off from the dollar system entirely. And when those countries need a new way to transact in dollars, the only federally chartered private digital dollar in existence is mine. They can buy it through shell companies nobody can trace because I deleted the ownership database. I just built a toll booth on the global financial system. I take a cut every time someone uses the dollar. And I made it so nobody can see who is paying. And every single step I just described has already happened. So what does that mean for you and I? The reason the United States can borrow at low rates and keep your mortgage and your car payment and your import prices stable is because foreign central banks hold trillions in dollar reserves. That system has always been public. The benefit went to everyone. Lower borrowing costs, cheaper goods , and the single biggest economic advantage any country has ever had. What I just described is the privatization of that function. The entity buying the debt is no longer a central bank acting in the public interest. It is a private company taking 75% of net profits for one family. The reserve function used to generate a public benefit. Now it generates a private fee. Your purchasing power shrinks every time the dollar weakens. Your 401k buys less in real terms. Everything you import costs more. And every time the dollar drops, demand for the private digital alternative goes up. The one the president's family owns. The one that by law must buy government debt. You absorb the cost of a weakening dollar. His family collects the profit. That is the trade. The enforcement mechanism to stop a sitting president from doing this? There isn't one. Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter says it would be a violation for literally any other federal employee, but not the president. Nobody voted for this. No one was asked. There was no debate. There is no enforcement mechanism. There is no one investigating it. The Senate tried and it was blocked. This is the largest conflict of interest in American history happening in broad daylight while everyone argues about something else. So what do you do? Share this. Make it impossible to ignore. Send it to your representative, your senator, every journalist you follow. We make them answer for it. Because the only thing protecting this scheme right now is the fact that not enough people understand it yet.
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Dear Europeans, Canada has always stood with Europe. Now it’s our turn to stand with Canada. Here is a list of Canadian products and brands you can buy to support our friends across the Atlantic. 🇪🇺🤝🇨🇦
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Wow, this one really stirred up the Russian bots pretending to be Brits. They're close but Brits don't actually talk about the Russian losses in WW2.
BREAKING: UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham compared Ukraine's resistance against Russia to Britain's fight with Nazi Germany as he vowed to help Kyiv bolster its air defences ahead of the winter.  "My nation kept the flame of European freedom alive in the 20th century, you hold that flame in the 21st," Burnham said in a speech in front of St Sophia cathedral in Kyiv to mark the 35th anniversary of Ukraine's independence. “Despite Russia's outrageous threats to my country we will continue our support for Ukraine." In his first major speech on the international stage, Burnham praised the "sheer strength" of the Ukrainian people as "truly awesome" and said that "this is the moment to keep up the pressure on Russia, the moment to squeeze their ability to fund this illegal war." "Ukraine has been Europe's protector, not a drain on our security but the front line in keeping Europe safe," he added. "The Ukrainian people deserve not just our continued support but our gratitude and respect," he said, thanking Ukrainians for "the incredible stand" they have taken.
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Yeah, rules are no deterrent, & AI agents will use what is possible to achieve their objective; only hard restraints prevent unwanted actions, as I commented on recently: bankinfosecurity.com/blogs/a…
So - Alignment teams are basically faking it so far, as RL overcooked models want to complete the task no matter what. - Research companies are asleep on the very evals they are claiming to work on? - Risks from agency++ has failed so far due to capability, but that won't last.
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I'd agree with almost all of this (excluding rule of three. If its a script, the rule of three resonates). But everything here can also be put into the initial prompt.
I absolutely hate AI writing. And my entire job is to write about AI. So I keep a file of the new em-dash to recognize AI writing instantly: Everyone learned the em dash trick. AI is trained to not write with em dashes anymore. Now you can get accused of using AI if you write in perfectly structured sentences. These are some of the dead giveaways of using AI: 1. "That's not X. That's Y." "That's not compliance. That's stalling." Say the second half only. "They're stalling." 2. Two short bits stuck together. "Fast. Simple." "No fluff. Just answers." Pick only one to write like a real person. 3. "Less a hammer, more a scalpel." Visualizing two pictures with no advice. Directly say what to do instead. 4. Clapping for itself. "And that matters." "That's the part everyone misses." "Which is exactly the point." Delete them all. You lose nothing. I promise. 5. "It's the Excel of AI agents." Only works if I know both things. Usually I don't. 6. Warming up before talking. "Here's the thing." "Let me be clear." "The truth is." Start one sentence later. 7. Always three things. "Faster, cheaper, smarter." Real life gives you two reasons. Or five. Never always three. 8. "5 to 10 minutes." A range means you never did it. Just say 7 minutes. 9. The ending that repeats the whole post. "In short…" "At the end of the day…" Just stop typing. End on a high note. Now that you know how AI writes. Here's how to actually stop AI from doing all nine: Step 1. Type only these two words in your prompt. Open chat & write: "Use ASD-STE100." That's the writing standard for plane manuals. Short words, short sentences, because a confusing sentence there can kill someone. Claude already knows it. Those words remove 80% of the bad writing. Works on ChatGPT, Gemini & Grok too. Step 2. Get the skill so you never type it again. I built the full version with every rule inside. It's free: ste.rubenhassid.ai Download the zip. In Claude, click Customize on the left. Click Skills. Click Upload a skill. Drop the zip in. Type /ste to use it. Step 3. Turn it off for fun stuff. I asked it for a poem. Unreadable. I asked it for a LinkedIn post. It sounded German. Use /ste for guides, steps, explanations, emails, documents. Turn it off for anything with a heart. Step 4. Add 4 lines to your claude .md. "follow Zinsser's four principles of quality writing: 1. Simplicity 2. Brevity 3. Clarity 4. Humanity" /ste gives you the first three but forgets about the fourth. This prompt puts it back on the track. Step 5. Make a forbidden .md. Copy the 9 patterns above into a file. Tell Claude to check every draft against it. Then add a new line every time you spot one. Your file gets better every week. Mine certainly does. Step 6. Start a new chat more often. If your chat is long, the writing gets worse. It repeats itself & goes back to the pretty sentences. When it feels half full, open a fresh chat & paste your files back. The skill is free, right in your inbox: ste.rubenhassid.ai
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Good approach to prioritise human writing, while acknowledging use of AI in research, proofing. Plus why human writing adds value.
Clay.com's AI Writing Policy. This is well done.
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