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@m4mac.bsky.social
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AKA Dave Edwards, Dave the Mac, Computer Dave ... I've been solving problems with Apple stuff since the 20th century. Formerly London, now Okehampton, little Devon town by the A30 you whiz past on the way to Cornwall. Do feel free to say hello.

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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 9h
"Some bad things" = total dislocation of society, for example? I think I'd like to pass, thank you. What do you mean that's not an option?
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Paul Hindley 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳 @paulhindley2210.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a very important idea. I am really glad to see Ed Davey and the Lib Dems taking the political lead on highlighting the existential risks to humanity posed by super-intelligent AI. The negotiation of such a non-proliferation treaty won’t be easy, but it is an absolute necessity. 🔶👏 #LDconf
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Halt super-intelligent AI with non-proliferation treaty, Ed Davey to say
At Lib Dems’ conference in Brighton, leader will accuse Andy Burnham of relying on Donald Trump and ‘tech bros’ to solve problem
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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Unfortunately, this is not shocking at all.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
President Obama Shows Us What Leadership Looks Like.......
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So, another year and another golden master OS release from Apple for all devices – Macs, iPhones, iPads, TV – yada, yada. But before you all rush to install, just hold off a couple of days. Remember the old adage – never install software with a point zero version number. You know it makes sense.
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I can quite see how 'sudden death' could occur. One slip, head hits pavement ... They walk among us.
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PlanetSlade.com @planetslade.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"The digital system they’re working on to reject ballots would toss out every ballot mailed in large batches through USPS, even if just one ballot was ruled invalid." "The new system [...] effectively [gives] the Trump regime veto power over who gets to vote." gizmodo.com/heres-how-tr...
gizmodo.com
Here's How Trump Plans to Steal the Midterm Elections, According to a Whistleblower
The plan sounds chaotic, but the chaos may be the point.
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Norway – behave yourselves. This the sort of thing I'd expect from some soulless American multinational. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
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Norway: Stop the flooding!
Norway calls itself a champion of Indigenous rights -- yet its own state-owned energy company is about to drown a sacred Mapuche territory in Chile for profit.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Anytime someone online calls themselves an “independent thinker” or “independent researcher,” you know you’re about to read some of the stupidest shit imaginable from someone spectacularly detached from reality. Their “independent” means independent of a functioning frontal cortex.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“Is Kemi still anti-net zero?” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If anything requires a Public Inquiry then it's this sorry affair. Signed. #JasonArday goodlawproject.org/petition/jas...
goodlawproject.org
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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PlanetSlade.com @planetslade.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My new book is out this week!
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Well that was a dramatic sunrise from Glastonbury Tor! More photos to follow later as it went from a very dark inky blue with flashes of red appearing in the clouds to this beautiful golden sunrise. Put it this way, I had to move quickly to capture it all 😂
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PlanetSlade.com @planetslade.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Here's some more details. www.planetslade.com/moshpit-memo...
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Moshpit Memories | Paul Slade - Journalist
Moshpit Memories - one music fan's diaries from the peak years of UK pub rock, punk and ska, covering gigs by the Clash, the Damned, the Ruts, Stiff and 2 Tone, plus later encounters with Tom Waits, N...
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
One of the many brilliant jokes in this weeks issue of Private Eye Make sure you get your copy now at all good newsagents (and not so good ones too) or subscribe at www.subsonline.co.uk
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PlanetSlade.com @planetslade.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Kindle & paperback editions available here. www.amazon.com/Moshpit-Memo...
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Moshpit Memories: One fan's diaries from the peak years of UK pub rock, punk rock and ska. (PlanetSlade): Slade, Paul: 9798196258237: Amazon.com: Books
Moshpit Memories: One fan's diaries from the peak years of UK pub rock, punk rock and ska. (PlanetSlade) [Slade, Paul] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Moshpit Memories: One fan's ...
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Hooray!
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DianneSpiritlight @dpfrazier22.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
spot.fund/v42c2rtsb Please don’t forget Jason and please help if you can🙋‍♀️💙😇💙
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Several of these I might reasonably expect to find on a maps app. I guess Apple's way of telling everyone to go use another app. www.macworld.com/article/3192...
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Apple Maps ads won't include plumbers, crypto, or bail bondsmen
Newly announced rules for advertising on Apple Maps prohibit plumbing, roofing, electrics, and pest control, as well as crypto ATMs, bail bonds, and the usual sex and violence.
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 12/07/2026
Behold… the Arc de Trump. Finally, a monument that captures the scale of the ego… and the size of the insecurity. 😏 #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance #TrumpIsNoHero #TrumpIsADickhead
Behold… the Arc de Trump.

Finally, a monument that captures the scale of the ego… and the size of the insecurity. 😏 

#SheShed 
#ViVaHerAlliance
#TrumpIsNoHero
#DickHeadTrump
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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Give this video a watch! It is sadly true! Credit: Seattle Indivisible
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Musk. One Trillion. Very uncomfortably numb.
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PlanetSlade.com @planetslade.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
BBC News found this lady in the crowd outside yesterday's Mexico v South Africa game. The character of La Catrina was created by Mexican print-maker José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) to make fun of his country's wealthy elites.
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I live these days in Devon, consequently a captive customer of South West Water – fortunately not in the Brixham area but nonetheless... Now ask me why for the first time in my life bottled water is a regular buy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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South West Water fined £1.85m over parasite outbreak in Devon
Utility company pleaded guilty to criminal offence of supplying water unfit for humans
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PlanetSlade.com @planetslade.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I always love the Paul Foot awards saluting the year's best investigative journalism - often involving young reporters on smaller publications. Check out all the shortlisted stories on Private Eye's Page 94 audio podcasts.
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
AI: "It's not progress". www.thenerve.news/p/interview-...
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‘It’s not progress, and we can stop it’: journalist Karen Hao on big tech, protest and the preventable AI future
The US reporter and bestselling author was one of the first journalists to get inside OpenAI – and was alarmed at what she found. Six years on, she tells Carole Cadwalladr, a coalition of resistance i...
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PlanetSlade.com @planetslade.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Here's a New Yorker cartoon for the computer professional in your life.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2026
As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We await with bated breath. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25 - Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence, will be released on May ...
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PlanetSlade.com @planetslade.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The excellent Muleskinner Jones has just announced all his music's now available on streaming platforms. I like his stuff a lot, so do yourself a favour and check it out. muleskinnerjones.bandcamp.com
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Muleskinner Jones
Deconstructed swamp-gothic from the Wyrd West of England. "The British Johnny Dowd" The Independent **** "Sci-fi B movies soundtracked by gonzo country" Q **** Also records as Faceless Mule Corpora...
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A life-defining moment for me too. I started my own consulting business concurrent with System 7's release. Upgrading clients to the new system was a core part of what I did way back in 1991. Funny how things haven't really changed after all! www.macworld.com/article/3136...
macworld.com
35 years ago, the Mac got an era-defining upgrade
System 7 is mostly forgotten today, but we're all still using many of its innovations
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PlanetSlade.com @planetslade.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
PlanetSlade's song of the day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9i8...
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T-Bone Walker - Tell Me What's The Reason
YouTube video by Jazz Everyday!
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A beauty! Banksy is a national treasure, unlike Farage who is a nation disgrace.
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Which? is suing Apple over iCloud. Fancy joining in? Just click here cloudclaim.co.uk
cloudclaim.co.uk
iCloud storage Claim | iCloud storage compensation UK - Which?
Which? alleges Apple abused its dominant position by not giving iPhone and iPad users a choice of cloud storage provider. Instead, it steered them to its own iCloud service, and this led to Apple char...
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Glad someone's fighting back against the AI apocalypse. Well done Taylor Swift. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Taylor Swift files to trademark voice and image after AI concerns
Star lodges applications for a photo and two audio clips in apparent attempt to protect her image and voice.
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PlanetSlade.com @planetslade.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
@dumteedum.bsky.social We've established in the past few years that Ambridge resesidents receive Radio Four broadcasts of both The Food Programme and Farming Today. Presumably, that means they can tune in to the rest of the Radio 4 schedule too. So what do THEY hear at 7:02pm each weekday? 1/3
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Unimprovable headline From the latest Private Eye, out now.
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The unemployed actors will definitely care. This is beyond belief. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...
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‘In two years, nobody will care’ if actors are AI or not, predicts La Haine director
Mathieu Kassovitz, who is currently working on an AI-enabled film, also dismisses concerns over copyright
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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish, says, "The time is long overdue for members of Congress to listen to the American people and end US military aid to the extremist Netanyahu government." No pay wall.
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No more US military aid to Israel | Bernie Sanders
The time is long overdue for members of Congress to listen to the American people and end US military aid to the extremist Netanyahu government
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
What a surprise. Seems UK govt has just discovered Altman has form for being economical with the truth. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI shelves Stargate UK in blow to Britain’s AI ambitions
Artificial intelligence company cites high energy costs and regulation for putting landmark project on hold
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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
A perfect word for something that's been deliberately made difficult and/or complicated for no good reason. Commercial software I worked with was often this way, in order to sell training courses.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
😂
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Attie haters ... hopefully I made it onto that list – badge of honour. #No2AI
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Okay ... who said “We are unlocking trapped value through a growth-led separation of foods, creating a scaled, global flavour powerhouse” ?
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Mark Bechtel @markymark757.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
@fireeyebooks.bsky.social @waysideleslie.bsky.social @packers1.bsky.social @cathyhadenough.bsky.social @j1j2.bsky.social @markymark757.bsky.social @blue-is-better.bsky.social @alphacentauri53.bsky.social @be4dawn.bsky.social @sarabethr85.bsky.social @dragonfire1964.bsky.social @gwenie.bsky.social
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m4mac @m4mac.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Jesus wept. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
theguardian.com
Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion
One minute, Dennis Biesma was playing with a chatbot; the next, he was convinced his sentient friend would make him a fortune. He’s just one of many people who lost control after an AI encounter
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Bluebird (BB) 🐦 🌼💫🎶🫶 🐦 @bluebird4us.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
We need to have this song playing Saturday at the No Kings Protests, "All You Fascists Bound to Lose."👏👏👏
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judithbolyard.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
lol. .
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