Simon Sharwood (@ssharwood)

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This is a very good album IMHO open.spotify.com/album/5SssMn...

24.11.2025 02:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

China is in real trouble now

17.11.2025 21:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

BSides Pyongyang 🇰🇵 \#BSidesPyongyang2025 - A community cyber conference on Nov 18 2025 (Missile Industry Day)

This is pretty funny bsidespyongyang.com

14.11.2025 04:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why is the NSW mens cricket team so bad at batting?

12.11.2025 05:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

IMHO most of the Australian electorate sees political parties' support for Net Zero as a proxy for the ability to think about the nation's long-term needs.

11.11.2025 23:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The less hair I have, the shorter I want it to be. Once it gets past about 2cm, I start to get serious Rick Sanchez/Art Garfunkel/Unkempt acadamic vibes

05.11.2025 22:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all : If you want your First Amendment rights, make money the Palantir way

This is absolutely bonkers IMHO - never read comments like this from a CEO before www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/p...

04.11.2025 04:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

01.07.2025 22:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pro tip - don't leave the CCTV running while you do crime

www.abf.gov.au/newsroom-sub...

27.06.2025 02:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pure Particles The Bug Club · Album · 2021 · 9 songs

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

30.04.2025 07:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Safeguarding Australia’s sovereignty with public digital infrastructure Digital technologies are evolving rapidly, offering enormous potential – but the platforms shaping this future are driven by profit, not necessarily the public interest. Securing Australia’s sovereign...

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

24.04.2025 01:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

17.04.2025 08:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Devil at Your Heels YouTube video by NFB

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...

15.04.2025 05:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

10.04.2025 22:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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-...

08.04.2025 00:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Did I miss possibly the biggest tech story in history? I don't think so ..

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

01.04.2025 04:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

PRs love to follow dumb money

31.03.2025 22:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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

31.03.2025 09:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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

28.03.2025 05:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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