Ed Taaffe
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
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JUST IN: The 30-year US Treasury yield just surged to 5.18%, its highest level in 19 years. The last time it was this high was 2007, right before the financial crisis. Back then, the national debt was $8.4 trillion. Today it’s $39.4 trillion. Same interest rate. Almost 5 times the debt.
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How does anybody justify this? "Amazon cant afford a minimum wage." Imagine trying to convince the stupidest person you ever met on this one.
Ending superrich bosses Government subsidies and making them pay decent wages and fair share of taxes is a better way of ending poverty than cutting minimum wages or reducing worker rights "The outrageous reason employees receive benefits is they're not being paid enough" via The UK Against Hate
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DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI "standards body" modeled after FINRA, to test frontier models and develop best practices for their release.
Isn't it time that we all grew up and started behaving like sensible adults again. This current scene is what you'd expect to find if every politician was replaced by a son or daughter under 12 years old and given free reign for a year or two.
Exclusive: A new bill that had been championed by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham would give President Trump fresh authority to impose tariffs on the largest importers of Russian energy, in legislation designed to punish Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine.
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This is a fast growing theme. Softare began as something you bought and implented if you were small or hired contractors to implemnet if your were big, then it was yours. AI right right now means trusting your life to a foreigner. Theres a lot to learn and to change.
Well done Coventry, let's hope the rest of the UK follow
Instead of playing into the hands of Trump and Musk to embarrass Europe, the leftovers of the Nazi past, which are indeed dead, should now be put to rest officially and Trump and Putin invited to a ceremony to burty them for the last time.
⚡️ In joint appeal, Ukrainian and Polish media sound alarm over crisis in relations. Six Polish and Ukrainian media outlets issued a rare joint appeal on June 23, warning that escalating tensions between the two countries risk playing into Russia's hands.
Sales of yachts and expensive cars should enjoy a substantial jump in the next few weeks.
The wait is over: six months after EU leaders agreed on the €90 billion support loan, Ukraine has received the first payment, worth €3.2 billion. A second tranche of €6 billion, destined for drone production, is expected in the coming days.
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Delighted to be hearing more and more about the idea Fartage is finished. He needs to be consigned to the bin of political history along with his ilk; Enoch Powell, Truss, etc. There is no room for them in a democracy. www.facebook.com/reel/1550086...
Every commentator Ive heard or ead sounds incredibly nailve. American pushed Starmer out and anyone that threatens total power of American Social Media platforms over European and British politicis will get the same treatment. And the plan is ?
Starmer waged war on our human rights, aided a genocide and has destroyed Labour's credibility – don't let the door hit you on the way out!! By @skwawkbox.org
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Just what you are effectively faced with.
One of the Wigan cllrs who posed with the Jimmy Savile poster in Wigan (which @bylinetimes.bsky.social first reported) has admitted the picture was real after all. After ignoring our calls and emails, and Reform figures cast doubt on it. She admitted this after Makerfield's polls closed last night.
The French newspaper Le Monde described the February 2025 speech by U.S. Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference as a declaration of “ideological war” against Europe. edwardtaaffe.substack.com/p/the-us-eur...
My research shocked me a little to learn just how far apart Europe/UK and the US have drifted. Todays and recent posts on many platforms suddenly make a lot more sense. bit.ly/4uAwYs4
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The digital ID saga is a story with a twist. kame sure you are informed and avoid handing over your basic rights without clear vision. medium.com/p/digital-id...
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The death of the fourth estate over two decades has disempowered voters. Those that feel enfranchised are the least so. Voters in UK especially, have no power over government. Today, there is really not a single moderate, reasonably honest and reasonably capable candidate. Pretty hopeless.
Is the UK ungovernable again with a healthy portion of maybe it's the voters fault on the side. Well, whoever is at fault it sure as fuck isn't the cheerleaders and courtiers in the press who brute force shitfested yet another gang of grasping tory bastards into power. Is it? Heavens no. Imagine.
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Well spotted James. The numbers reduced dramatically and now theres a deal with France to genuinely tackle it now that we are renewing relations with Europe. Enough said about that awful embarrassment and what Brexit has cost us. Farage is hungry rat looking for a corpse to scrape something off.
Apart from the actual stats, the most reliable indicator that immigration is plunging (to our obvious economic detriment) is Nigel Farage turning his dishonest attentions to the mythical millions of benefits claimants.