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BSides London @bsideslondon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The best of luck to our Northern Irish cousin @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social , with their 2026 event being held today! If you would like to know more about this great event, visit bsidesbelfast.org #BSides #Belfast

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BSides Belfast @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

GOGOGO! #bsidesbelfast26 bsidesbelfast.org/register/

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BSides Belfast @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

To accommodate some reviewers availability, we're extending the #CallForProposals for #BSidesBelfast26 that was due to end tomorrow until NEXT SUNDAY THE 14TH! bsidesbelfast.org/speak/ #infosec #bsides #securitybsides #bsidesbelfast

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Bolster @bolster.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

With both Early Birds tickets all gone, the next and last opportunity to get tickets to @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social will be the GA on the 14th of July.... <hint>Sponsors can purchase additional tickets BEFORE THE GA</hint> bsidesbelfast.org/sponsor/ #bsidesbelfast26 #bsidesbelfast #bsides

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BSides London @bsideslondon.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

News about our Northern Irish cousins @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social! Their call for papers is open. 15 minute lightning talks, 35 minute talks, and 90 minute workshops. Get you ideas in to this great event in an amazing city! sessionize.com/bsides-belfa... #Security #BSides #Belfast #CFP

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BSides Belfast 2026: Call for Speakers

Hey! We are Security BSides Belfast, a security conference based in Northern Ireland. ...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/04/2026

Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I’m joined by Cal Newport to talk about Anthropic’s Mythos marketing scam, the lies around AI job loss, and why we need to stop building anthropomorphized LLMs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

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Cal Newport

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BSides Belfast @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

3 days until Early Bird Tickets open at 11am on Tues! Expect a welcoming atmosphere, real-world insights, and plenty of hallway-track conversations that make #BSidesBelfast special. Join the community that keeps cybersecurity human. bsidesbelfast.org/register/ #bsidesbelfast26

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Bolster @bolster.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Here we go again... 🎉🎉🎉

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Bolster @bolster.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Same as it ever was, @edzitron.com , IMO LLMs are "mediocre software engineering firehouses" which is going to be "fun" to safely engineer over the next few years... open.spotify.com/episode/6NLB...

I'm getting worried that there are software engineers out there that can't read code and just copy paste it from place (to place), or that they're willing to ship code that kind of looks right but they don't really understand

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Bolster @bolster.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Another quotable from @edzitron.com (well, technically, @author-calnewport.bsky.social ). > Claude Code is like model trains for engineering-minded people #chefkiss #yoink open.spotify.com/episode/3F9d...

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Hater Season: Cal Newport on AI Reporting

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BSides Belfast @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

In the last act of #BSidesBelfast25; we've published our "Financial Transparency Report", where we lay out what it costs to run the conference. #BSidesBelfast26 will return on the 10th of September! bsidesbelfast.org/2026/bsides-...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/02/2026

Did an episode with @davidgerard.co.uk that goes out tomorrow about Clawdbot/openclaw/whatever that crap is. It’s more LLM bullshit that the media is scarfing down because some people made a fake social network for LLMs to post to. Nobody will care about this in a few months

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BSides Belfast @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Sponsors needed! #BSidesBelfast26 wouldn't be possible without the support of local employers and organisations that make #BSidesBelfast the centerpiece of the Cybersecurity calendar in Northern Ireland. bsidesbelfast.org/sponsor/ #securitybsides #infosec #communityconference

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Bolster @bolster.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Putting the finishing touches on to this years @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social sponsorship, transparency, and most importantly, logo discussions this week. #bsidesbelfast26 #securitybsides #belfast #conference #infosec #watchthisspace bsidesbelfast.org/sponsor

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Bolster @bolster.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Before anyone else ventures into the @niauditoffice.bsky.social #NICS report; Data gets mentioned 44 times (1 every 2 pages) Transpar(ent|ency) gets 5 Open gets just one. 🤷‍♂️ /c @OpenGovNI www.niauditoffice.gov.uk/publications...

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Bolster @bolster.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Hell of a quotable from @edzitron.com this morning "It feels like the dot com bubble was created by the excitement about the beginning, and this is people trying to pretend that something's happening, and that we're not at 'the end'"

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Polite Vulgarian @politevulgarian.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The greatest metaphor in print this year, courtesy of @edzitron.com

$Analysts have, on some level, become the fractional marketing team for the stocks they’re investing in. When Oracle announced its $300 billion deal with OpenAI in September — one that Oracle does not have the capacity to fill and OpenAI does not have the money to pay for – analysts heaved and stammered like horny teenagers seeing their first boob:$

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BSides Belfast @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

🎉 BSides Belfast 2026 IS GO! Writing this from @bsideslondon.bsky.social ; the community energy is INCREDIBLE and #BSidesBelfast26 will be epic! 📅 Sept 10, 2026 | 📍 Belfast 🤝 Sponsors wanted! 📽️ 2025 on YT #BSidesBelfast #CyberSecurity #Community #securitybsides bsidesbelfast.org/2025/an-earl...

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"Scream Man" Cam @malaiseforever.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

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Bolster @bolster.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

What prey tell is the point of a bus lane when I've been lurking here for over an hour and only 1 (full) bus has passed by? 2 miles of single lane traffic wasted. I'm not grumpy you are.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/09/2025

Number go up, number go up, no think about number number always good number always up number up number up number up

Nvidia's Al Deals Might Be
'Circular! They're Also Smart Business.

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Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

My latest newsletter is about how Internet culture died, and why the centralization of the web around a handful of large platforms is responsible for making the web a duller, more boring place. whatwelost.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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The Death of Internet Culture

It's not just you. The web is boring now.

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Bolster @bolster.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Never change, @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social , never change open.spotify.com/episode/2zIR... (Also featuring Beauty and the Beast, which I didn't know was originally written by a woman)

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UK Hacker Charity Sticker Stall @stickerstalluk.github.io · 15/09/2025

Last week the new ‘second-box’ got its first outing at @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social and the folks there used it to raise a cracking £407 for Marie Curie ! Next up, @bsidesncl.bsky.social ! As ever, new stickers into the supply are every bit as welcome as donations for the stickers already there!

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/08/2025

Here's part 2 of this week's two-part episode of Better Offline. I walk you through how America’s economic growth has become dependent on Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta’s AI capex - and how this will harm both our economy and markets. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... linktr.ee/betteroffline

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The AI Money Trap, Part Two

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 08/21/2025 · 42m

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Bolster @bolster.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Random weekend pondering while listening to @edzitron.com / #BetterOffline, if Agentic AI was any good, buying Labubus at scale avoiding all the gamification shit would be a great eval...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/07/2025

Good piece on the rationale behind charging $200 a month for a subscription, though I’d add the other reason is that power users are costing these companies so much money and $200 a month is *closer* to making actual money, even though they’re still unprofitable www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-is...

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Anthropic Is Bleeding Out

Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at ez@betteroffline.com if you're ever feeling chatty. And if you're not one yet, please subscribe and support my independent brain madness. Also, t...

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BSides Belfast @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

With GA just over a week behind us, and Sponsor Close just over a week ahead of us, it's a great time to talk about how we fund and operate #BSidesBelfast; so we're trying out a "Financial Transparency Report"! Let us know what you think! #securitybsides bsidesbelfast.org/2025/bsides-...

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BSides Belfast 2024 Financial Transparency Report – BSides Belfast

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Bolster @bolster.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

We dropped the @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social transparency report yesterday, and we spend far too much on coffee and lunch! 🤣😭🤣 bsidesbelfast.org/2025/bsides-... #bsidesbelfast25 #bsidesbelfast24 #securitybsides

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Greta Thunberg makes a statement upon arrival in France after she was kidnapped and abducted by the Israeli regime in international waters.

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BSides Belfast @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Early Bird 2 SOLD OUT! Last tickets are going to be released in July so the best way to get access to #bsidesbelfast25 is to speak! bsidesbelfast.org/speak/ #bsidesbelfast #bsidesbelfast25 #securitybsides #infosec #cybersecurity

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Bolster @bolster.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Heading down to @bsidesdublin.bsky.social and find myself in possession of a couple of spare tickets! Free to a good home, if you can repost with a quotable about what #securitybsides means to you & I'll pick winners. Disclaimer: my decisions are personal, arbitrary, and final 🤣

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BSides Belfast @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Thanks to #Cytix for supporting the #BSidesBelfast25 conference as a Giga Sponsor! #bsidesbelfast #securitybsides #infosec

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BSides Belfast @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Thanks to @BlackDuck_SW for supporting the #BSidesBelfast25 conference as a Giga Sponsor! #bsidesbelfast #securitybsides #infosec

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BSides Belfast @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Thanks to @cmegroup.com for supporting the #BSidesBelfast25 conference as a Giga Sponsor! #bsidesbelfast #securitybsides #infosec

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Bolster @bolster.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

These generally sell out within 2 minutes, so get those F5 fingers flexed and ready for Monday Morning!

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Bolster @bolster.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Tonights @infosecni.bsky.social devolved into getting #nerdsniped by www.timeanddate.com/sun/@2655985 I was originally looking at it for "excuses to party" with the "first day of the year with sunset after 5pm" etc, but then got holed by the varying difference between Belfast Solar Noon and GMT

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Bolster @bolster.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Bit of geekery this week; @infosecni.bsky.social started as a lockdown movie night where we'd chat along in real time watching hacker-movies. Post COVID we didn't put much effort into more movie nights & settled in to the monthly #locksport sessions, but now the new crop are bringing them back!

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Bolster @bolster.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Lol, there's a blast from the past; I think I still have one of the #NI21 facebook pages somewhere :D

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Hedge @angiemckeown.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Still debating the name and venue, but our first Infosec night in Cheltenham is a Go 😎 (waves at @infosecni.bsky.social buds 👋)

Wooden pub table with a couple of drinks beside signs saying Infosec GL every 3rd Thursday 7-9pm, surrounded by some locks, picks and sheets with crosswords and how to diagrams for locks

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FactCheckNI @factcheckni.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Housing in Northern Ireland: is housebuilding at a sixty-year low? Yes, according to evidence. According to the ONS, the total number of new homes finished in 2023 was 5,380 – the lowest number of completions since 1959, when the figure was 4,890.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/02/2025

Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all. www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

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The Generative AI Con

It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st ...

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