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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It was amazing to see these two legends perform during the Power to the People festival yesterday @joancbaezofficial.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

'The Techlash' - established Jan 20th, 2025

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

While we're dreaming of a single-payer healthcare system, we should also consider moving away from fee-for-service towards an alternative payment model; paying for better outcomes, not simply more services ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/06/2026

Surprise, Surprise! Indivisibles in Arizona won't give up fighting to protect their community from the Trump regime.

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Do these vendors who are baking in their own agentic AI solutions and forcing customers onto consumption-based pricing models realize what they're headed for? The latest model isn't even necessary to build something better than anything they could offer.

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I've had this same realization and it can't happen soon enough @0x0.svpn.com. In healthcare tech; a small physician practice could now have a viable custom EHR built instead of paying a vendor subscription for a bloated cookie cutter platform, which doesn't meet their needs.

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

@abigailspanberger.com - Why the lack of posts since Virginia elected you? You seem to have plenty of activity on X, despite having more followers here. Was it all for show?

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Fair point. If GS does that, I'll be cancelling my Pro membership. eBay is more important to me than GS is. Hopefully others will feel the same way.

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

So long as Amazon remains awful, eBay will have a place in this world. I make weekly purchases with them after quitting Amazon last year.

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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

www.cnbc.com/2026/04/20/c... Amazon pressured major brands like Levi Strauss & Co and Hanes to inflate prices of listings on rival online marketplaces as part of wide-ranging price-fixing scheme, according to California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

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Amazon 'strong-armed' Levi's, Hanes to hike prices on rival sites, California DA says

Amazon allegedly coerced major vendors into convincing rival retailers like Walmart, Target and Home Depot to raise prices

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/04/2026

ChatGPT is a website. Claude is a website. I will never respect a website. You cannot convince me to treat LLMs as anything different to any other technology. If a website only gets things right sometimes, it's a bad website. I will not be told otherwise. www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never...

I think the most enlightening thing about Al is that it shows you how even the most mediocre text inspires some sort of emotion. Soulless Linkedin slop makes you feel frustration with a person for their lack of authenticity, but you can still imagine how they forced it out of their heads. You still connect with them, even if it's in a bad way.
Al copy is dead. It is inert. The reason you can spot it is that it sounds hollow. I don't care if a website says stuff on it because I typed in, just like I don't care if it responds in a way that sounds human, because it all feels like nothing to me. I am not here to give a website respect, I will not be impressed by a website, nor will I grant a website any extra credit if it can't do the right thing every time. The computer is meant to work for me. If the computer doesn't do what I want, I change the kind of computer I use. LLMs will always hallucinate, their outputs are not trustworthy as a result, they cannot be deterministic, and any chance of any mistakes of any kind are unforgivable. I don't care how the website made you feel: it's a machine that doesn't always work, and that's not a very good machine.
I feel nothing when I see an LLM's output. Tell me thank you or whatever, I don't care. You're a website. Oh you can spit out code? Amazing. Still a website.

Truly useful technology isn't described in oblique or hyperbolic terms.
For example, last week, IBM's Dave McCann described using a series of
"Al agents" to Business Insider
The agent — it's actually a collection of Al agents and assistants
— scans McCann's calendar for client meetings and drafts a list of 10 things he needs to know for each one. The goal, McCann told Business Insider, was to free up time he and his staff spent preparing for the meetings.
Sounds like a website to me.
The agent reviews in-house data, what IBM and the client are doing in the market, external data, and account details - such as project status and services sold and purchased, McCann said. It can also identify industry trends and client needs by, for example, reviewing a firm's annual report and identifying a corresponding service IBM could provide.
Sounds like a website using an LLM to summarize stuff to me. Why are we making all this effort to talk about what a website does?
Digital Dave also saves McCann's team time, he said, because the three or four staffers who used to spend hours pulling together insights for the prep calls are now free to do other work.
"It's not just about driving efficiencies, but it's really about transforming how work gets done," McCann said.
My friend, this isn't a "series of agents." It's an LLM that looks at stuff and spits out an answer. Chatbots have done this kind of thing forever.
These aren't "agents." "Agents" makes it sound like there's some sort of futuristic autonomous presence rather than a chatbot that's looking at documents using technology that's guaranteed to hallucinate incorrect information.

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Randall Gross @randallgross.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Google, being evil again.

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

He's not quite awake yet but I'm sure Figgy wishes you all a happy #caturday. #catsofbluesky

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

One year anniversary. Still feels creepy.

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Another company using RTO so they can avoid layoffs/severance payouts. Pressuring your people to leave instead of owning your poor decision-making is not good leadership. I won't buy another game from a company that uses such tactics.

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Last Amazon order: Jan 19, the day before the Inauguration. Choices have consequences. I won’t fund companies that are morally bankrupt and you shouldn't either — especially on Black Friday. #weaintbuyingit @indivisiblecville.bsky.social @indivisible.org

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Wishing all a Happy #Caturday - Sent with mild displeasure by the Notorious FIG (Figgy). #catsofbluesky #cville

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Abigail Spanberger @abigailspanberger.com · 19/11/2025

The Trump Administration launched a direct attack on The University of Virginia — and on academic freedom. It’s time Virginians have a Governor who stands up for our students.

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Politico @politico.com · 05/11/2025

BREAKING: Democrat Abigail Spanberger has won the Virginia gubernatorial race. She will be the first woman governor of Virginia, flipping the seat as voters rebuked Trump. Read more: politi.co/4nCFq6w

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

At last night's rally for the VA governor race, #abigailspanberger brought some friends along! #cville #billnye #petebuttigieg #vote #generalelection

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

California is stepping up in a big way on an issue critical for all Americans right now. Hopefully we soon see other states follow suit, and perhaps one day, the Federal government.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 29/09/2025

We are witnessing the rise of two very separate and distinct Americas: One for the billionaire class. One for everybody else. Our country is not supposed to be run by a handful of wealthy oligarchs while a majority of people struggle to afford the basic necessities. youtu.be/3I_f1DkMddU?...

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There are Two Americas

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

To clarify, Engineering may be responsible for the solution but Product is ultimately accountable and needs to be involved. Have you been on a team operating with complete separation? I've never seen that and agree it sounds like a nightmare.

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

@spavel.bsky.social - As a Product Manager, we should own the problems to be solved (sizing, cost of delay analysis, prioritizing), while engineering owns solutions. It always bugs me when I see product people operating as you've described.

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

"If we license one single book, we won't be able to lean into fair use strategy" - Meta Director of Eng. The lack of ethics is staggering but highlights why Meta, Amazon, etc. are in bed with the administration. Was a 4yr pass of no regulatory oversight for sale? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Definitely better than using 'refactor'.

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

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Dutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and Meta shares, CEO tells newspaper FD

ABP, the Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in tech companies Meta and Alphabet , its CEO told Dutch newspaper FD in an interview published on Monday.

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

@bsky.app and @flashes.blue ready for you to show everyone a better way exists.

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Google's out here acting like my cat when he poops on the welcome mat and tries to cover it with my shoes.

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

True colors shown. Does anyone know why you can't trade-in a Pixel 9 on Apple's site yet? It's only allowable up to the Pixel 7. FYI @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Can't wait to jump to this once android version is available!

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Hard to see past what's unfolding in front of us to consider the unknown. Hope whatever it is, it's incredible and good.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 30/01/2025

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Great points. I guess it's a matter of picking your poison? Hoping more orgs like @bsky.app are established, as I'm through with deciding based on the least evil option.

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

No word from Google yet? Trying to determine if I will be trading in my Pixel and going back to iPhone.

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