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Jamie Walker retweeted
I’d like to apologise to Aston Villa, the owners & their fans.
My language this week was clumsy & wrong.
I can assure Villa fans it was tongue in cheek but I can understand it’s not come across that way, so apologies.
Good luck today UTV!
Jamie Walker retweeted
Patrick Stewart. Turned up so early and so unobtrusively to be a star in the reasonably priced car, we mistook him for a delivery driver and asked him to go round the back. Took his hat off and said, “But I’m the captain of the Enterprise”. Fucking nice guy.
Jamie Walker retweeted
Since 2005 Premier League clubs have had a total interest cost on borrowings and financial debt of £3.5bn.
One club and one set of owners is responsible for 35% of the total.
#Glazernomics
Figures per @valuball
Jamie Walker retweeted
Michael Carrick will doubtless pay the price with his job for this deserved defeat to an excellent Bournemouth side and another lifeless display by his Manchester United team. Some of his selections and tactics have been questionable, United were again so open in the centre. But Carrick was not responsible for recruiting Youri Tielemans, who lacks physicality and mobility (and Aston Villa haven’t missed him) and Andrey Santos, a Chelsea reserve.
Carrick was not responsible for the board’s damaging failure to strengthen at centre-back and left-back. Carrick was not responsible for his main striker Benjamin Sesko being injured and the board’s failure to provide him with cover. Carrick was not responsible for the club he loves being in the grip of co-owners like the Glazers whose priorities are focused more on business than the sport. The direction from the top has been negligible, arguably negligent. No real leadership. No expertise.
Carrick may be out of his depth but many United fans sang his name during the painful demise to Bournemouth because they know he cares and they know the problems lie elsewhere. The Stretford End again sang in protest at the wretched Glazers.
Noticeable that there were few songs in support of Bruno Fernandes. He is supposed to be captain, rallying the players, Footballer of the Year, Player of the Year, not arm-waver of the year, underachieving and complaining. Yet Bruno will be at United longer than Carrick.
Carrick was praised for United finishing third last season and getting in the Champions League. But he will doubtless go partly for his own failings and mainly the failings of others. And United will be trapped in this doom loop again. And again until the core problems are addressed in the boardroom - and the Glazers sell up - and flaws in the recruitment department. #MUFC #MUNBOU
Jamie Walker retweeted
🚨 WATCH: Green MP Ellie Chowns attacks Andy Burnham for approving Jackdaw gas field instead of keeping fossil fuels "in the ground"
Burnham: "Can I just say that the gas would still be needed? It would just be imported from somewhere else if we didn't use our own"
#PMQs
Jamie Walker retweeted
One-click mitigation for php2shell vulnerability:
If you have Cloudflare in front of your PHP website, please login to the dashboard and click this button to make sure you are protected.
dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:ac…
This reduces your risk but doesn't fix the vulnerabilities in PHP. We recommend updating PHP to a patched version.
Jamie Walker retweeted
The NCSC has issued an update to the PHP alert reflecting the release of mitigations.
We encourage UK organisations to take immediate action.
For more information on the issue as well as our guidance, head to⬇️
ncsc.gov.uk/news/critical-se…
Jamie Walker retweeted
The new capability that we built to help defend php2shell is live.
The @Cloudflare WAF now has full transaction detection that evaluates the request and the origin response together, and response rules block a match before it reaches the requester.
Example from the post: unauthenticated hit on /admin that comes back 200 text/html. Block it. Auth failures and redirects can then pass through untouched.
blog.cloudflare.com/full-tra…
The Cloudflare's writeup on our php2shell response is up.
Rules went live at 03:02 UTC, about 9 hours before disclosure. Unfortunately the vulnerability leaked early, so we were already watching attackers mutate payloads against the rules and updating as variants appeared.
New rules keep landing in the WAF changelog.
Expect updates through out the day. We will have a more thorough post of what we had to build to better protect people coming shortly.
PHP runs almost 70% of websites. The flaw is in the runtime, so updating plugins won't fix it. Patch PHP.
blog.cloudflare.com/php-vuln…
Jamie Walker retweeted
YES! It's out it's out, I am SO excited for this! #AWSLambda Web Functions are a game changer! A true HTTP request handler and Each execution environment handles multiple requests simultaneously (up to 128 concurrent requests per environment). Multi-region deploy, and so much more! -> aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ann…
Jamie Walker retweeted
Back in 2014, there was a man who was already aware of the irregularities involving Manchester City. That man now runs FIFA. The infamous Gianni Infantino, then UEFA General Secretary, abused his authority, shared confidential documents and, in short, outmanoeuvred the Investigatory Chamber, doing everything in his power to ensure that both Manchester City and PSG would merely receive a fine, avoiding a deeper investigation that could have led to a Champions League ban. All of these details were also revealed through Football Leaks.
Given his actions as UEFA General Secretary and, more recently, as FIFA President, I can only say, in my humble opinion, that Gianni Infantino has become a cancer on football and should have no place in the future of the game.
Jamie Walker retweeted
Enough is enough.
For years, people have been expected to put up with Avanti’s cancellations, delays, overcrowding, and a service that has failed them time and time again.
So my Labour government is bringing Avanti West Coast into public ownership at the earliest opportunity in March next year.
That means passengers, not shareholders, will come first.
More investment, fewer delays, and a renewed focus on getting the basics right.
We're putting essential services back in public hands and building a railway that actually works for the people who use it.
Jamie Walker retweeted
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
Jamie Walker retweeted
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
Jamie Walker retweeted
'We'll find way to save Jodrell Bank,' Burnham says bbc.in/4x1imTO
Jamie Walker retweeted
Kobbie Mainoo again a joy to watch so far - inventive passing and strong work ethic, plus he reads danger. A midfield of Mainoo and Carlos Baleba (when fit) behind Bruno Fernandes surely offers the best balance. #MUFC
Jamie Walker retweeted
🚨 Carlos Baleba to join Manchester United from Brighton & Hove Albion on 5+1yr contract; personal terms verbally agreed & 22yo to do #MUFC medical on Saturday after deal struck with #BHAFC at £65m + £5m + sell-on clause @TheAthleticFC post @FabrizioRomano nytimes.com/athletic/7523511…
Jamie Walker retweeted
It’s with deep sorrow and unimaginable grief we announce the passing of Darren (Webby) yesterday on 12th August after a long battle with cancer. Darren absolutely loved life, his family, friends, followers and his beloved United 🇾🇪
Jamie Walker retweeted
Marcus Rashford hasn't even returned to training with Manchester United & the targeting of him in the media has begun. These stories stopped at Barcelona, but now that he's back, so are they.
This fits a long standing pattern of paparazzi driven, sensational lifestyle reporting of black footballers. There is a documented pattern in English media of differential language & links to racial stereotypes.
Rashford himself has spoken about a distinctive tone in coverage of his salary, jewellery, cars, tattoos, body language & nights out that he does not see applied equally. This is another example.
Unconscious bias & residual cultural tropes are real patterns truly deserving of scrutiny. Leave him alone.
🚨📸 Marcus Rashford enjoying his time off as he prepares to join the squad later on for pre season in Dublin.
[@TheSunFootball]
