Ed Taaffe
@etaaffe.bsky.social
Retired Computer Scientist, CTO, Business Change.
Writes on tech and business topics, free for charities.
Free press, Free speech, No spooks. (Free comes with responsibility)
Not a lefty, but despise Tories and Neoliberals.
Support Palestine, not Ukraine
Writes on tech and business topics, free for charities.
Free press, Free speech, No spooks. (Free comes with responsibility)
Not a lefty, but despise Tories and Neoliberals.
Support Palestine, not Ukraine
'74% of COVID deaths linked to mRNA vaccines': Dr. McCullough stuns Senate youtube.com/live/4Ji0L3F... via
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'74% of COVID deaths linked to mRNA vaccines': Dr. McCullough stuns...
On May 21, the US Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a powerful
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'74% of COVID deaths linked to mRNA vaccines': Dr. McCullough stuns...
On May 21, the US Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a powerful
'74% of COVID deaths linked to mRNA vaccines': Dr. McCullough stuns Senate in explosive testimony
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June 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
'74% of COVID deaths linked to mRNA vaccines': Dr. McCullough stuns Senate youtube.com/live/4Ji0L3F... via
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'74% of COVID deaths linked to mRNA vaccines': Dr. McCullough stuns...
On May 21, the US Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a powerful
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'74% of COVID deaths linked to mRNA vaccines': Dr. McCullough stuns...
On May 21, the US Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a powerful
I just published, Why High Interest Rates Are Hurting Families — What We Need to Do About It and Why We Should .
It's too important a subject for a Tbsky post alone. I'd love to hear your thoughts
medium.com/p/why-high-i...
It's too important a subject for a Tbsky post alone. I'd love to hear your thoughts
medium.com/p/why-high-i...
Why High Interest Rates Are Hurting Families — What We Need to Do About It and Why We Should
In recent years, many of us have felt the sting of rising interest rates — from mortgage payments stretching household budgets for many of…
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June 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I just published, Why High Interest Rates Are Hurting Families — What We Need to Do About It and Why We Should .
It's too important a subject for a Tbsky post alone. I'd love to hear your thoughts
medium.com/p/why-high-i...
It's too important a subject for a Tbsky post alone. I'd love to hear your thoughts
medium.com/p/why-high-i...
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A protester picks up a tear gas canister and throws it back at police. The rest of protesters attempt to fan the gas back at police
June 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
A protester picks up a tear gas canister and throws it back at police. The rest of protesters attempt to fan the gas back at police
Ask Ryanair to run the British train network.
May 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Ask Ryanair to run the British train network.
Possibly the most important speech of this century. Bernie Sanders in Ireland.
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May 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Possibly the most important speech of this century. Bernie Sanders in Ireland.
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Widespread theft other peoples content and private information is at the root of everything that is bad abut the Internet and www.
Chat GPT is NOT a form of AI, its a clever plageurisation machine, cleverer than its predecessor, Google.
Google, Spotify, etc,etc,etc. Now AI?
Time to end it.
Chat GPT is NOT a form of AI, its a clever plageurisation machine, cleverer than its predecessor, Google.
Google, Spotify, etc,etc,etc. Now AI?
Time to end it.
“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
May 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Widespread theft other peoples content and private information is at the root of everything that is bad abut the Internet and www.
Chat GPT is NOT a form of AI, its a clever plageurisation machine, cleverer than its predecessor, Google.
Google, Spotify, etc,etc,etc. Now AI?
Time to end it.
Chat GPT is NOT a form of AI, its a clever plageurisation machine, cleverer than its predecessor, Google.
Google, Spotify, etc,etc,etc. Now AI?
Time to end it.
Reposted by Ed Taaffe
Keir Starmer is being advised to urgently pause the Government's plans to cut disability and health benefits by Parliament's work and pensions committee.
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May 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Keir Starmer is being advised to urgently pause the Government's plans to cut disability and health benefits by Parliament's work and pensions committee.
www.itv.com/news/2025-05...
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Smarter than us too.
May 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Smarter than us too.
This was just a sham to placate MAGA.
May 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This was just a sham to placate MAGA.
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Its great to finally see a few people highlighting the great scam. It will be in history books for a thousand years,.
The Cambridge Analytica method creates a club of racists and Conspiracy theorists with no interest in services, education, economy, but looks after bankers and billionaires.
The Cambridge Analytica method creates a club of racists and Conspiracy theorists with no interest in services, education, economy, but looks after bankers and billionaires.
"Doing nothing about the real issues behind people's struggles, politicians like Starmer create & trap us on an 'island of strangers' – a place not only of 'alien foreigners' but of Brits alienated from themselves & a political system of no use"
My long read on how complexity/humanity is missing 👇
My long read on how complexity/humanity is missing 👇
How Our Politicians Created an ‘Island of Strangers’ So They Don’t Have to Make Our Lives Any Better
By presenting tougher immigration as a solution to people’s discontent, Keir Starmer and others sidestep the real reasons why people feel estranged in their lives – it’s a cynical and simplistic polit...
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May 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Its great to finally see a few people highlighting the great scam. It will be in history books for a thousand years,.
The Cambridge Analytica method creates a club of racists and Conspiracy theorists with no interest in services, education, economy, but looks after bankers and billionaires.
The Cambridge Analytica method creates a club of racists and Conspiracy theorists with no interest in services, education, economy, but looks after bankers and billionaires.
How can a government simply ignore a perfectly legal FOI request?
Surely that is blatant law breaking.
Surely that is blatant law breaking.
~ UK government withholding details of Palantir contract ~
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-government-withholding-details
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-government-withholding-details
May 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
How can a government simply ignore a perfectly legal FOI request?
Surely that is blatant law breaking.
Surely that is blatant law breaking.
People should change their minds. Without that we'd have ceased to exist long ago.
The top image:
The Guardian, July 2016
The article:
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The bottom image:
The Guardian, May 2025
The article:
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The Guardian, July 2016
The article:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The bottom image:
The Guardian, May 2025
The article:
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May 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
People should change their minds. Without that we'd have ceased to exist long ago.
Democracy is this annoying system where ordinary people tell the government what they want and government attempts to do it.
Fairytale, perhaps, but we haven't signed up to anything else, just yet.
Fairytale, perhaps, but we haven't signed up to anything else, just yet.
it’s so funny when people on social media feel like they have to make A Statement. why do you have to be condemning anything you’re a dental hygienist
May 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Democracy is this annoying system where ordinary people tell the government what they want and government attempts to do it.
Fairytale, perhaps, but we haven't signed up to anything else, just yet.
Fairytale, perhaps, but we haven't signed up to anything else, just yet.
How much would a US built iPhone cost the customer?
NOBODY WANTS APPLE BUILDING IPHONES HERE YOU IGNORANT FAT TODDLER.
Good God you exhausting sloppy goon
Good God you exhausting sloppy goon
May 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
How much would a US built iPhone cost the customer?
These are not acceptable statistics.
It happens because we allow it to happen.
Easily distracted with a bit of racism or a royal at a party.
UK and US are heading down the same schute fast.
It happens because we allow it to happen.
Easily distracted with a bit of racism or a royal at a party.
UK and US are heading down the same schute fast.
UK’s 50 richest families hold more wealth than 50% of population, 34m people.
16m people live in poverty. Average real wage unchanged since 2008.
Rich buy political parties and legislators; weaken democracy; pollute more.
Must reduce inequalities, redistribute. Tax the rich.
16m people live in poverty. Average real wage unchanged since 2008.
Rich buy political parties and legislators; weaken democracy; pollute more.
Must reduce inequalities, redistribute. Tax the rich.
UK’s 50 richest families hold more wealth than 50% of population, analysis finds
Equality Trust says billionaires getting ‘ludicrously’ richer, with top two now wealthier than whole of 1990 rich list
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
These are not acceptable statistics.
It happens because we allow it to happen.
Easily distracted with a bit of racism or a royal at a party.
UK and US are heading down the same schute fast.
It happens because we allow it to happen.
Easily distracted with a bit of racism or a royal at a party.
UK and US are heading down the same schute fast.
We live in a country that destroyed its future with Brexit because the Football fans wanted it. (Us v them).
Now the most popular man to those fans has surrendered the Ministry of Truth.
We really are utterly *****d.
Now the most popular man to those fans has surrendered the Ministry of Truth.
We really are utterly *****d.
Why would you be sorry for fake outrage that only exists within the Right Wing Media?
Don't be, no one is outraged, no one even cares.
Don't be, no one is outraged, no one even cares.
May 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
We live in a country that destroyed its future with Brexit because the Football fans wanted it. (Us v them).
Now the most popular man to those fans has surrendered the Ministry of Truth.
We really are utterly *****d.
Now the most popular man to those fans has surrendered the Ministry of Truth.
We really are utterly *****d.
This is disappointing, He must have been to one party too many with the wild bunch.
Why would you be sorry for fake outrage that only exists within the Right Wing Media?
Don't be, no one is outraged, no one even cares.
Don't be, no one is outraged, no one even cares.
May 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This is disappointing, He must have been to one party too many with the wild bunch.
Problem is this. Silicon Valley empowered every clown with a few million to do the same wherever he lives.
Nobody's safe anymore.
Nobody's safe anymore.
MAGA, here's some news you probably didn't get from Fox entertainment.
May 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Problem is this. Silicon Valley empowered every clown with a few million to do the same wherever he lives.
Nobody's safe anymore.
Nobody's safe anymore.
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All of it came straight from Steve Bannon.
They never had a plan.
They just lied and lied and lied.
Both Brexit and Immigration are the most dishonest and ruinous policies going. A Tory/Farage conspiracy of deceit that Labour seems to want to protect rather than challenge.
As for Chris Philp - get in the bin.
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They just lied and lied and lied.
Both Brexit and Immigration are the most dishonest and ruinous policies going. A Tory/Farage conspiracy of deceit that Labour seems to want to protect rather than challenge.
As for Chris Philp - get in the bin.
news.sky.com/story/leaked...
Top Tory caught admitting Brexit drawback in leaked clip
In response on Wednesday night, the Tories insisted that Chris Philp was not saying the Tories did not have a plan for how to handle asylum seekers post Brexit.
news.sky.com
May 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
All of it came straight from Steve Bannon.
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President Paul von Hindenburg of Germany thought he could reach out to the Far Right and move them to the centre by making Adolf Hitler Chancellor.
Look how that turned out, you can see Hitler smirking, he can't believe they are helping him.
Look how that turned out, you can see Hitler smirking, he can't believe they are helping him.
May 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
President Paul von Hindenburg of Germany thought he could reach out to the Far Right and move them to the centre by making Adolf Hitler Chancellor.
Look how that turned out, you can see Hitler smirking, he can't believe they are helping him.
Look how that turned out, you can see Hitler smirking, he can't believe they are helping him.
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How did we get to the situation where the #IDF can murder people with total impunity??
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Gaza fisherman 'killed by Israeli navy'
Doctors in the Gaza Strip say a fisherman has been shot and killed by the Israeli navy off the northern coast of the territory.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
How did we get to the situation where the #IDF can murder people with total impunity??
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-m...
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I don't read or listen to lectures about Economics very often for all the reasons Professor Murphy gives in his wonderful video.
I never expected to find anyone with the courage to tell the truth about Economics like he does here.
youtu.be/uYyalJMXROw?... via @YouTube
I don't read or listen to lectures about Economics very often for all the reasons Professor Murphy gives in his wonderful video.
I never expected to find anyone with the courage to tell the truth about Economics like he does here.
youtu.be/uYyalJMXROw?... via @YouTube
Neoliberal economics is based on absurd assumptions and fantasies
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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May 14, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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I don't read or listen to lectures about Economics very often for all the reasons Professor Murphy gives in his wonderful video.
I never expected to find anyone with the courage to tell the truth about Economics like he does here.
youtu.be/uYyalJMXROw?... via @YouTube
I don't read or listen to lectures about Economics very often for all the reasons Professor Murphy gives in his wonderful video.
I never expected to find anyone with the courage to tell the truth about Economics like he does here.
youtu.be/uYyalJMXROw?... via @YouTube