Tim Lovegrove

@Emma_A_Webb This is a personal choice, but it affects literally everyone in the country. The NHS spends hundreds of millions treating people with avoidable illnesses caused by that choice. This isn’t interference, it’s an investment in the long term health and wealth of the nation.

I don’t smoke. Never have. I have no skin in the game. But this really is draconian. It should not be within the power of the government to interfere with the personal choices of citizens like this.

@michaelinioluwa The original act (writing a book etc) is rarely inherently bad. But getting paid a few pence per copy doesn’t make you a billionaire, so at some point it stops being about the book and more about wealth creation. That’s the bit that rapidly becomes unethical and exploitative.

When people say, no billionaire has “ethical wealth”? What exactly do they mean? JK Rowling became a billionaire from writing books. George Lucas made his money from creating Star Wars. How is any of these unethical?

@ronin21btc It’s right to use both lanes, people just suck at merging in turn. The people queuing resent those using the freer lane and don’t let them in, the ones trying to merge force themselves in at the last minute. Driving is a collective effort, not a battle.

Can we just normalise using both lanes

@linmeitalks We should introduce a system where people are only allowed to live in houses with n+1 bedrooms. If your kids move out, you have a few years to sell up and right-size to your new family size. If you have a child, you qualify to buy one of those bigger houses being freed up.

There are boomers sitting in large houses who don’t even want to free up equity or sell their house to help their own children get on the ladder. This is the level of selfishness we are dealing with. Thank god for parents like my mother She would sell her house in Tottenham tomorrow if it meant helping me…. And I would do anything to make her life comfortable- that’s what family is about. An eco system of giving. These days many boomers don’t want to help with grandchildren or finacial assistance and children don’t want to help their parents - so much selfishness between recent generations and it will get worse.

@nmatt0 “It’s like aliens handing cavemen a nuclear reactor” is incredibly accurate, to the point where most orgs don’t know what to do with ai strategically, let alone the people on the shop floor being told to use it. No strategy, training or guidance, just keeping up with buzzwords.

If you haven't been at a large American corporation in the last few years you have NO IDEA how true this is. We are SO EARLY. If you are using Claude Code or Cursor you are in the top 1%. There are corporations where the only AI that employees have access to is Copilot or some old and locked down onprem ChatGPT model. They talk to the chatbot like its a toy. They celebrate and report to their management that they used AI to edit an Excel file. They generate 10 line powershell scripts that you could have done by hand. BUT they need to be able to tell leadership that they are "Using AI". They collect AI usage data, make graphs and chart all to make leadership happy. Deep down, they literally have no idea what to do with this technology. It's like aliens handing cavemen a nuclear reactor.

@anon_opin I’d go a step further and say pay them well, but actually measure their performance too: attendance, constituency clinics, debates, readings, votes etc. if they’re not showing up, they get sacked.

People get weirdly irate about MPs salaries and expenses. But by far the bigger issue is that they're allowed to have second jobs and multiple income streams. A recipe for disaster. Pay them significantly more. But no second jobs. Do the job you're elected for.

@anon_opin Tom Bombadil has an impossibly hot wife, therefore counts as a beard.

Lord of the Rings is a homage to gay men. Gandalf is a Daddy, Legolas a twink, Aragorn a soft butch, the dwarves are bears, the Hobbits are cottagecore, Saruman a power top, Boromir a tragic himbo, and the orcs are toxic Grindr. Of course, a precious ring gets destroyed.

@Simon_Ingari Weirdly, this is the boomer position too, and it’s only millennials that just go along with it. Boomers predate smartphones so just outright refuse to use them. Gen Z see through the ruse to make you always available and working. Millennials thought it was neat and did it anyway.

HR Manager: The company is requesting that all employees have their work emails on their phones. Gen Z: Cool, who should I bill? HR Manager: Pardon me? Gen Z: For the portion of my phone they will be using? Unless we're getting new phones — you know I wouldn't say no to an upgrade. HR Manager: No compensation will be provided. Gen Z: Why do they want our work emails on our phones? HR Manager: So you have access to your emails at all times. Gen Z: But I have access during my work hours — that's what my laptop is for. HR Manager: Well, in case we need to get a hold of you outside of those hours. Gen Z: Ohhh, so what the company really wants is for us to work 24/7 and use our personal devices and phone plans to make that happen. HR Manager: (Confused silence) Gen Z: Yeah, that's going to be a no for me, but thanks for asking. HR Manager: (Ends the impromptu briefing.) Gen Z workplace behavior is driving HR absolutely insane. But you know what they are doing? They are saying out loud what the older generation has been thinking for decades. They just don’t care about the consequences yet. And honestly, good for them. Corporate spent decades convincing the older generation that working 24/7 and unpaid overtime using own resources was a sign of loyalty and commitment. Gen Z showed up and said prove it. And corporate can’t, so now they are scrambling. Why don’t they want to commit? Why don’t they care about the company culture? Why are they so entitled? They are not entitled. They just watched the older generation get laid off after 20 years of 'loyalty' and 'commitment' and said, yep, I am not doing that. Gen Z workplace energy is exactly what corporate deserves.

@exQUIZitely Olympic Soccer on PS1 was criminally underrated

One of the biggest game rivalries in the 90s existed between the fans of Kick Off 2 and Sensible World of Soccer. Supporters of Kick Off 2 would argue that it was a great game for its time (1990), and that comparing it to Sensible World of Soccer, released four years later in 1994, isn’t entirely fair - and I think that's a valid point. I always liked both, but the manager feature in SWoS obviously added a whole new dimension. Still, what Dino Dini created with Kick Off and Kick Off 2 impressive. Personally, I preferred the controls and game flow of SWoS (it felt a bit smoother), so it became our default choice for any 1v1 match. What was your favorite soccer game?

@MrPitbull07 I don’t quite buy “fresh out of college” on more money than the 10yr employee, but yes, sticking in the same role and getting 2-5% annual raises will fall behind market rates in just a few years. That’s why people job hop after 2-3 years, even if it’s within the same company.

A coworker of mine has been at the same company for 12 years. They just hired someone fresh out of college for his same position. He makes $68k after a decade of “loyalty.” The new hire’s starting salary? $72k. When he asked for a raise to match, they said “that’s just the market rate for new talent.” So he quit. Now they’re offering $80k to replace him. Make it make sense.

@GingerWildheart I think it's fine, the songs are decent but the production sounds unimaginative and clinical. Could never accuse the Wildhearts of a boring production sound 😂

Listening to the new Megadeth album Man..metal fans never get bored with that E, C, D chord progression do they?

@chrissanders88 “You’re setting up a greenfield site; what tools or logging are you setting up first?”. A newbie will say EDR, maybe FW, not much else. Someone with some experience will add more sources (AD, web filter) and maybe some reasoning. A great analyst will ask “what am I protecting?”

What's the best interview question you've been asked (or used) for a SOC Analyst/Forensic/Hunting/Threat Intel role?

@techspence Turning off the “any-any” rules on the firewall.

What are things that are obviously useful in security but are “tough sells?” - Deception - Application Control What else?

@techspence @KATLGable I’ve seen CISOs who were personally responsible for buying any tool thrown at them while also investing next to nothing on their team’s abilities. Spend millions on software and can’t find a few hundred thousand for skilled people to run it. It’s often their own incompetence.

"Most CISOs have more tools than qualified practitioners to run them." cc @katlgable

@QueenWillRock Add “Great King Rat” and that’s a banging list.

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What’s a “security best practice” that you think is outdated or flat-out wrong? One of the first things that comes to mind for me is “traditional” vulnerability management. The classic way of scanning everything and trying to patch all the critical and high…

@ZackAttackP1 ‘Nutmeg Sez “Bozo the Town”’ specifically.

@ZackAttackP1 Weapon of Choice - the band the Chilli Peppers wish they were.

Let's build the ultimate list of UNDERRATED bands. Drop a band that deserves WAY more recognition, and the one album everyone should here first. Let's share some hidden gems. I'll start: Witherfall - A Prelude to Sorrow

@anon_opin It’s not so much the monthly subscription, which is a reasonable cost for the tools you get, it’s that you have to pay the full year. A subscription model should allow you to cancel at any time without further charges.

The fury I see around Adobe's subscription model is vastly exaggerated. Show me another profession where you get get all the tools you need to do your job for £50 a month? Anyone half decent earns the full years subscription fee in the first week of January.

@GingerWildheart Otoboke Beaver

@GingerWildheart Nova Twins Clt Drp Deap Vally Off! Red Fang Sumac

2000 was a quarter of a century ago 😳 25 years is a long time in music. From Black Sabbath to The Wildhearts. Creating rock, glam, punk, metal and alternative. So who’s the best band of 21st century?