Cyber hygiene is one of those terms that sounds good but doesn’t work. Because we all have different ideas of what hygiene is. Some people wash daily, other people wash their towels and sheets once a year. There is no “standard” and so how do people keep tech “clean”? They don’t.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 11h ago

Their conclusion about what this all means is better cyber hygiene. I would suggest policymakers might also wish to come back to questions of agent liability and who is responsible when things go wrong

metro.co.uk/2026/08/03/m... I want mum bloggers/any sharenting to be banned. By all means share your children privately. But who does this benefit? It is creating a humiliating profile for the child, who cannot consent. If Molly wants to be relatable to parents she could donate to charity.

Molly-Mae Hague reveals daughter Bambi, 3, 'put someone in a headlock'

'Honestly, it was bad.’

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Want a laugh? www.cognitivesecurityinstitute.org/cognitive-se... This is why tech and cyber has such an issue with being taken seriously and also with integrity. The desire to hold events and imply that “psyop” people will attend. It is pathetic, embarrassing and also disgusting

Teams and sharepoint are the only software apps I know that have given coworkers actual trauma. And I don’t use that term lightly at all. I swear sharepoint is a psyop to see how we cope under torture

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 6d ago

suggested slogans for annoyingly popular but inherently terrible bits of software, number #1 in what promises to be a very long series: "Adobe Acrobat: why don't YOU go fuck yourself?"

I think we’d move tech harm reduction forward a lot if we didn’t obsess over academic style work. Sometimes people on the ground have maybe 5 others supporting them, no time to do peer reviewed research, but what they know and do is just as valuable.

It is depressing in 2026 to look around and find so many of the “tech harm reduction” people being pro AI, doing performative “AI ethics” work, or taking up space in consultations and silencing the people who supported them into that work. And I am older than a lot of them. Power breeds contempt

Hyperscalers: "We're investing more than $1 trillion in AI capital investment". Smug AI adopter: "I'm completely in charge, I just use it for brainstorming ideas". AI isn't a consumer toy, it's a push for systemic transformation that amps up alienation and climate harm.☣️

I am told that my abusive ex husband was called an “overbearing crispy” by his nieces and nephews yesterday. Kids these days, exacting my revenge for me. Love it.

A solar eclipse the day before A level results…. I claim good energy from that.

uk.news.yahoo.com/london-teach... Why is a teacher on Snapchat for a start? I’m so shocked he kept his job. The rest of us would not.

London teacher who ‘stupidly’ added ex-pupils on Snapchat avoids ban

John Taylor a former head of sixth form, was involved in ‘inappropriate and unprofessional’ exchanges with two teenage girls

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I have taught “how to use tech” to adults for the last several years. No one teaches you how to use common office software. You self teach. That’s the issue in schools. Staff and students lack the ability to confidently use anything other than a phone. Texting isn’t typing, isn’t emails.

I’d love for “back to school” teacher ideas to be less about sketchy edtech apps and more about time saving on excel/data, how to make accessible resources, or even better: book lists from a range of authors.

England has a huge problem with harm reduction work: it has to be white led and comfortable. You can’t make people see themselves as the issue. You see this in schools where really harmful practice exists. From 💯 attendance in “inclusive” schools to hair and uniform, to curriculum or world book day

I have said this before but one thing I despise is the “hold a small mic while talking”. The BBC has teams of sound engineers,and there are many reasons why you don’t hold a mic, and why it should be pinned in a particular place. Why emulate shitty podcasters? Why not model excellence?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I think it is sad that it down to parents to complain, that teaching staff are too afraid, or conditioned to harm to do anything. And the government advisor, Tom Bennett quoted here as saying zero tolerance helps ADHD children - schools can be catalysts for harm.

How parents and pupils took on 'cruel', 'authoritarian' schools - and won

Discipline at an academy trust went too far - parents, pupils and former teachers tell BBC Panorama.

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Me, staring at the microwave :

Ned Pyle@nedpyle.com · 3d ago

When the treato takes too long

Great thread as usual from Professor Pagel. I’d love us to admit that young people have suffered because they DID BETTER remotely or hybrid, and they also saw death and sickness and the world upside down. Then we pretended it never happened. We could have changed education for the better.

Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

They are calling Wicker “50 shades of Hay” and sharing screenshots of the wicker man’s …body parts. What a world

Tempted to create a LinkedIn account just to flag all the cybersecurity accounts as “AI slop”

Blocking everyone I see being paid to promote the Meta Pervert glasses. Also kinda desperate to be paying random Brit influencers who do not have an audience with the income or desire to purchase pervert accessories.

I will never understand the “we need to be on social media argument. Every single company that tells me “oh but we use Facebook/ insta/twitter for xyz” already knows their fundraisers/ audience and could absolutely communicate with them in other ways. Such as in person, mailers or email.

I feel like the @metoffice.gov.uk is breadcrumbing us with these rain reports. Last time I had my hopes dashed this often, I was dating an emotionally unavailable man.

Sadly this ends at secondary where there are endless screens and worksheets, rarely a book in a room, and children are told to use websites and -horror- LLM to research, refine and read around. I have seen one summer reading list in five years.

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · last wk.

But for real progress the report stresses that single days are not enough and reading for pleasure needs to be threaded through school curriculums.

Every time I see some new AI rubbish, I wish we could instead have nice accessible technology that doesn’t confuse or isolate older people.

www.valueaddedresource.net/cia-to-silic... The court records show the horror that James Baugh and others did to the bloggers AND their own colleagues. I have to say, it reminds me of some lower level harms I saw in tech and cybersecurity. Too many horrible people without integrity.

From CIA To Silicon Valley: Intelligence Roots Of eBay Cyberstalking Scandal

Recently released court documents reveal new details about the eBay cyberstalking scandal, Senior Security Director Jim Baugh's CIA past and how the revolving door between Big Tech and the US national...

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This tech fundamentally alters the way people are able to express their basic human rights, and is incompatible with any society that claims to be free. As people understand the capabilities of the tech and how widespread it is, the backlash is entirely understandable.

Why Flock surveillance cameras are drawing fierce backlash across Massachusetts - The Boston Globe

People tolerate Ring cameras, cellphones, and CCTV cameras — but Flock Safety has some filling city council meetings in protest.

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2 weeks to a level results and we are calming the nerves by planning what Halloween decor/bedding to take for the room. Follow me for more unhelpful parenting advice

If the DfE can be hacked, why are we ok with schools holding fingerprints and other data? Just asking

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d ago

'Hackers have obtained about 607,000 records in a cyber-attack on the Department for Education (DfE) in England.' Not good, for anyone.

Really disappointed in so many tech conferences lately: I guess the right wing pushback against advocacy and harm reduction has worked. Barely a talk on harms, public work, how to help the public. Lots of “AI can be good” rubbish too. A real shame

Why I went back into education- I can earn more than I would in most of the tech or cyber roles I saw. And I doubt I would even get interviews now at my age. Even my freelance rate is half what it was. The economy is the issue and it is all by design

Marcus 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧@marcusjdl.bsky.social · last wk.

They’re advertising the role I did in 2000 for £35k, when I earned £30k back then! Adjusted for inflation it should be £60k.