Here's an acronym that's new to me - CRINK. It stands for China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and IMHO has a nicely villainous ring to it

Pro tip - don't leave the CCTV running while you do crime www.abf.gov.au/newsroom-sub...

Current musical obsessesion: The Bug Club. Gorgeous pop fun from Wales! open.spotify.com/album/0Ue9J5...

This is good - an argument for pervasive use of digital public infrastructure thepolicymaker.jmi.org.au/safeguarding...

If you've got 90 minutes to spare over Easter, this is the most bonkers documentary ever made and you will enjoy it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgIh...

Currently making hourly checks of US news websites in case of changes to tariff policy

I do a weekly thing called #lastweekatwork over on LinkedIn. here's this week's missive - about the closure of a tech newsletter I really liked and how I think that reflects on the business environment for media www.linkedin.com/posts/simon-...

I may have missed the biggest item of tech news in history. www.linkedin.com/pulse/did-i-...

I think I see an AI #bubble forming in my inbox I'm getting daily daily pitches from AI startups I’ve never heard of, from PR peeps and agencies I’ve never worked with before. The crypto version of this sputtered out a year back. Now we start on AI

Hello, World of BlueSky. Yeah, I'm that Simon Sharwood who writes for The Register. Still @ssharwood on X but rarely active there. A bit more alive at theblower.au/@ssharwood Figuring out how/when to be active here. LMK if U should be cos TBH the socials are exhausting me ATM