Aiden Walsh
@aidenw.bsky.social
My novel, Catch 2020: The Covid Deliria of Brian Jackson https://amzn.eu/d/5Np49ZH available at Amz on kindle or paper version. Next novel wip is on use of immersive VR in palliative care.
Bio: Wilms survivor / LFC / tech / v slow old jogger
Bio: Wilms survivor / LFC / tech / v slow old jogger
@theguardian.com seems to ignore suggestion from @hcrichardson.bsky.social that the "Trump plan" as leaked is Russian with a clunky English transl - hence reads like a Putin wish list.
"Ukraine’s allies to meet at G20 summit after Zelenskyy warns of ‘impossible choice’ over Trump plan to end war"
"Ukraine’s allies to meet at G20 summit after Zelenskyy warns of ‘impossible choice’ over Trump plan to end war"
hence.it
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
@theguardian.com seems to ignore suggestion from @hcrichardson.bsky.social that the "Trump plan" as leaked is Russian with a clunky English transl - hence reads like a Putin wish list.
"Ukraine’s allies to meet at G20 summit after Zelenskyy warns of ‘impossible choice’ over Trump plan to end war"
"Ukraine’s allies to meet at G20 summit after Zelenskyy warns of ‘impossible choice’ over Trump plan to end war"
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I asked eight cybersecurity and technology experts for their favorite tech-related novels and compiled them in this holiday reading list, adding 2 of my recent favorites. I would love to hear your recommendations as well!
🎄It’s the most wonderful time of the year… to catch up on your cyber fiction reading. 📚 @alexandrapaulus.bsky.social has collected recommendations from cybersecurity experts for books to broaden your understanding of technological potential. bindinghook.com/articles-boo...
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… to catch up on your cyber fiction
Want to take a break from reading about AI, cybersecurity, and digital surveillance for work and instead do it for fun over the holidays? We’ve got you covered
bindinghook.com
December 12, 2024 at 8:42 AM
I asked eight cybersecurity and technology experts for their favorite tech-related novels and compiled them in this holiday reading list, adding 2 of my recent favorites. I would love to hear your recommendations as well!
Hmm. Politician instructs science org to renounce its research and findings as heresy and publicly declare its belief in what politician tells them is true.
I find this aspect of the Far Right particularly creepy because I wrote about it in Gnomon and I really, truly did not expect that to be one of the bits that was real.
November 22, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Hmm. Politician instructs science org to renounce its research and findings as heresy and publicly declare its belief in what politician tells them is true.
A tough watch. These fellas are lugging a lot of baggage this season. Football really not the most important thing
November 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A tough watch. These fellas are lugging a lot of baggage this season. Football really not the most important thing
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The Wind-Up Girl (Bacigalupi)
The Raven and the Reindeer (Kingfisher)
Gnomon (Harkaway)
The City and the City (Mieville)
Exordia (Dickinson)
Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut)
The Raven and the Reindeer (Kingfisher)
Gnomon (Harkaway)
The City and the City (Mieville)
Exordia (Dickinson)
Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut)
July 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The Wind-Up Girl (Bacigalupi)
The Raven and the Reindeer (Kingfisher)
Gnomon (Harkaway)
The City and the City (Mieville)
Exordia (Dickinson)
Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut)
The Raven and the Reindeer (Kingfisher)
Gnomon (Harkaway)
The City and the City (Mieville)
Exordia (Dickinson)
Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut)
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Dune, Frank Herbert
Diaspora, Greg Egan
Gnomon, Nick Harkaway
Vision aveugle, Peter Watts
Terra Ignota, Ada Palmer
[anatèm], Neal Stephenson
Le Goût de l’immortalité, Catherine Dufour
Outrage et rébellion, Catherine Dufour
Accelerando, Charles Stross
Liens de sang, Octavia E. Butler...
Diaspora, Greg Egan
Gnomon, Nick Harkaway
Vision aveugle, Peter Watts
Terra Ignota, Ada Palmer
[anatèm], Neal Stephenson
Le Goût de l’immortalité, Catherine Dufour
Outrage et rébellion, Catherine Dufour
Accelerando, Charles Stross
Liens de sang, Octavia E. Butler...
September 21, 2023 at 1:54 PM
Dune, Frank Herbert
Diaspora, Greg Egan
Gnomon, Nick Harkaway
Vision aveugle, Peter Watts
Terra Ignota, Ada Palmer
[anatèm], Neal Stephenson
Le Goût de l’immortalité, Catherine Dufour
Outrage et rébellion, Catherine Dufour
Accelerando, Charles Stross
Liens de sang, Octavia E. Butler...
Diaspora, Greg Egan
Gnomon, Nick Harkaway
Vision aveugle, Peter Watts
Terra Ignota, Ada Palmer
[anatèm], Neal Stephenson
Le Goût de l’immortalité, Catherine Dufour
Outrage et rébellion, Catherine Dufour
Accelerando, Charles Stross
Liens de sang, Octavia E. Butler...
Am trying to read more female-authored speculative fiction. Just finished:
Woman on the edge of time (1976)
- Marge Piercey
The midnight shift (2021)
- Seon-Ran Cheon
Every version of you (2022)
- Grace Chan
All fab
Up next:
Occupy me
- Tricia Sullivan
Additional #booksky suggestions welcome!
Woman on the edge of time (1976)
- Marge Piercey
The midnight shift (2021)
- Seon-Ran Cheon
Every version of you (2022)
- Grace Chan
All fab
Up next:
Occupy me
- Tricia Sullivan
Additional #booksky suggestions welcome!
November 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Am trying to read more female-authored speculative fiction. Just finished:
Woman on the edge of time (1976)
- Marge Piercey
The midnight shift (2021)
- Seon-Ran Cheon
Every version of you (2022)
- Grace Chan
All fab
Up next:
Occupy me
- Tricia Sullivan
Additional #booksky suggestions welcome!
Woman on the edge of time (1976)
- Marge Piercey
The midnight shift (2021)
- Seon-Ran Cheon
Every version of you (2022)
- Grace Chan
All fab
Up next:
Occupy me
- Tricia Sullivan
Additional #booksky suggestions welcome!
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Who better for the BBC to get to talk about journalistic standards than the man responsible for the S*n front page blaming Liverpool fans for the Hillsborough disaster?
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Who better for the BBC to get to talk about journalistic standards than the man responsible for the S*n front page blaming Liverpool fans for the Hillsborough disaster?
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Hey kids, we are a small Irish family business.
We make lovely things by hand.
Could you buy something so we can pay for our Christmas packaging?
Thanks a mill.
#Boycottamazon
#shoplocal
slated.ie
Reposts would be fabulous.
#SLATED
We make lovely things by hand.
Could you buy something so we can pay for our Christmas packaging?
Thanks a mill.
#Boycottamazon
#shoplocal
slated.ie
Reposts would be fabulous.
#SLATED
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Hey kids, we are a small Irish family business.
We make lovely things by hand.
Could you buy something so we can pay for our Christmas packaging?
Thanks a mill.
#Boycottamazon
#shoplocal
slated.ie
Reposts would be fabulous.
#SLATED
We make lovely things by hand.
Could you buy something so we can pay for our Christmas packaging?
Thanks a mill.
#Boycottamazon
#shoplocal
slated.ie
Reposts would be fabulous.
#SLATED
Both. Liverpool haven't been outplayed like that in a long while. It was a bit PSG away like
Are Liverpool bad or are City good again?
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Both. Liverpool haven't been outplayed like that in a long while. It was a bit PSG away like
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‘As early as 1971, a Toxteth councillor, Margaret Simey, predicted that the police would provoke a “civil war” in the city. In 1981, her prediction proved accurate.’
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite on how Liverpool got left behind.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite on how Liverpool got left behind.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite · Holed below the Waterline: Liverpool’s Losses
Liverpool’s explosive growth followed the construction of a deep-water port in 1715. Soon it was a centre of the...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
‘As early as 1971, a Toxteth councillor, Margaret Simey, predicted that the police would provoke a “civil war” in the city. In 1981, her prediction proved accurate.’
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite on how Liverpool got left behind.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite on how Liverpool got left behind.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Remember when they use to go after kids for downloading songs off of limewire or posting anime music videos on YT? But AI companies scrapping millions of copyrighted materials? OK 👍
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Remember when they use to go after kids for downloading songs off of limewire or posting anime music videos on YT? But AI companies scrapping millions of copyrighted materials? OK 👍
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This is in regard to the Getty Images vs Stable Diffusion lawsuit. The UK has decided to throw creatives and copyright protections under the bus for AI scammers once again despite all evidence of theft 😒
November 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is in regard to the Getty Images vs Stable Diffusion lawsuit. The UK has decided to throw creatives and copyright protections under the bus for AI scammers once again despite all evidence of theft 😒
Just finished #MargePiercey Woman on the edge of time. What a piece of work. Time travel, sure. But early imaginings of ecosystem collapse, racial weaponisation of poverty, infocracy, virtual reality and brain computer interfaces. How come she wrote here about the risk of nitrites in food, in 1976?
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Just finished #MargePiercey Woman on the edge of time. What a piece of work. Time travel, sure. But early imaginings of ecosystem collapse, racial weaponisation of poverty, infocracy, virtual reality and brain computer interfaces. How come she wrote here about the risk of nitrites in food, in 1976?
Anyone who has seen Life of Brian will recall the jail scene where a prisoner jokes that he is up for a free pardon, and the jailer goes along with it...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
HMP Wandsworth admits two inmates released in error in past week - live updates
Police are looking for Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, an Algerian freed in error a week ago, and William Smith, 35, freed by mistake on Monday.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Anyone who has seen Life of Brian will recall the jail scene where a prisoner jokes that he is up for a free pardon, and the jailer goes along with it...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
A friend of my son once coined, in Year 7, the term "detention seeking behaviour". The kid was talking about school, but Joey seems to have been engaged in the adult version, his whole life
Joey Barton X posts ‘crossed the line between free speech and crime’, court told
Joey Barton X posts ‘crossed the line between free speech and crime’, court told
Former footballer on trial over social media posts about pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko and broadcaster Jeremy Vine
The former footballer Joey Barton “crossed the line between free speech and a crime” with social media posts aimed at female pundits, a jury has been told.
Barton, 43, is accused of 12 counts of sending a grossly offensive electronic communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety, related to posts he made between January and March in 2024 on X that targeted Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko as well as the broadcaster Jeremy Vine. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A friend of my son once coined, in Year 7, the term "detention seeking behaviour". The kid was talking about school, but Joey seems to have been engaged in the adult version, his whole life
He's important in this squad
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
He's important in this squad
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Anyone who thinks this isn't deliberate doesn't grasp that racism drives southern politics in particular.
NEW: 12 Mississippi polling places have moved and 4 have been closed ahead of the Nov. 4 legislative special elections, an MFP investigation finds.
Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.
Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.
12 Polling Places Move Before Mississippi Special Elections, 4 Close
County election officials in Mississippi have moved 12 polling places and closed four since 2024, an MFP investigation finds.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Anyone who thinks this isn't deliberate doesn't grasp that racism drives southern politics in particular.
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So whether it booms or busts, AI is terrible for us all.
Cool. Cool. Cool.
Cool. Cool. Cool.
Tech companies are pouring money into AI, and they’re not making it back. Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel on how everything could come crashing down:
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
bit.ly
November 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
So whether it booms or busts, AI is terrible for us all.
Cool. Cool. Cool.
Cool. Cool. Cool.
Got diverted but now back into Woman on the edge of time and about half way through. Just read a passage about civic norms incl a rule which made me laugh out loud
"We have a five-minute limit on speeches. We figure that anything person can't say in five minutes, person is better off not saying."
"We have a five-minute limit on speeches. We figure that anything person can't say in five minutes, person is better off not saying."
Thank you! I'm off to try some Marge Piercey Woman on the edge of time first - looks not for the faint hearted!
November 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Got diverted but now back into Woman on the edge of time and about half way through. Just read a passage about civic norms incl a rule which made me laugh out loud
"We have a five-minute limit on speeches. We figure that anything person can't say in five minutes, person is better off not saying."
"We have a five-minute limit on speeches. We figure that anything person can't say in five minutes, person is better off not saying."
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Great that you came over to support your Countries team, the UK politicians were conspicuous by their absence as were the Royals. It was a great occasion and Womens Rugby was the real winner.
September 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Great that you came over to support your Countries team, the UK politicians were conspicuous by their absence as were the Royals. It was a great occasion and Womens Rugby was the real winner.
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#Womenssport is on fire this year. The #football, #Rugby Union, #Athletics. I also love the men supporting Womens sport instead of running it down like the insecure, triggered trolls. We need more support, more coverage, and more investment to keep this momentum going.
September 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
#Womenssport is on fire this year. The #football, #Rugby Union, #Athletics. I also love the men supporting Womens sport instead of running it down like the insecure, triggered trolls. We need more support, more coverage, and more investment to keep this momentum going.
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England’s Women’s Rugby World Cup winners hope to inspire next generation
https://www.inbella.com/1294810/englands-womens-rugby-world-cup-winners-hope-to-inspire-next-generation-2/
It has been a standout summer for women’s sport. England’s World Cup triumph – their third, following wins in 1994 …
https://www.inbella.com/1294810/englands-womens-rugby-world-cup-winners-hope-to-inspire-next-generation-2/
It has been a standout summer for women’s sport. England’s World Cup triumph – their third, following wins in 1994 …
England's Women's Rugby World Cup winners hope to inspire next generation - INBELLA
It has been a standout summer for women's sport.
www.inbella.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
England’s Women’s Rugby World Cup winners hope to inspire next generation
https://www.inbella.com/1294810/englands-womens-rugby-world-cup-winners-hope-to-inspire-next-generation-2/
It has been a standout summer for women’s sport. England’s World Cup triumph – their third, following wins in 1994 …
https://www.inbella.com/1294810/englands-womens-rugby-world-cup-winners-hope-to-inspire-next-generation-2/
It has been a standout summer for women’s sport. England’s World Cup triumph – their third, following wins in 1994 …
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#nature #science #sport #knowledge #evolution #history #fakehistory #naoleon #mcllroy #women #rugby #rydercup
is history made up? Part 51 - so history is still repeating RIGHT NOW,
the matrix is alive. Womens Rugby World CUP, Ryder Cup
two great events two great players
the Matrix in real time
is history made up? Part 51 - so history is still repeating RIGHT NOW,
the matrix is alive. Womens Rugby World CUP, Ryder Cup
two great events two great players
the Matrix in real time
September 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
#nature #science #sport #knowledge #evolution #history #fakehistory #naoleon #mcllroy #women #rugby #rydercup
is history made up? Part 51 - so history is still repeating RIGHT NOW,
the matrix is alive. Womens Rugby World CUP, Ryder Cup
two great events two great players
the Matrix in real time
is history made up? Part 51 - so history is still repeating RIGHT NOW,
the matrix is alive. Womens Rugby World CUP, Ryder Cup
two great events two great players
the Matrix in real time