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Nico Orru

@itadinanta.bsky.social
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European, British, Sardinian, Italian. Avid current events observer. Outspoken gametech veteran. Liverpool, UK.

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Nigel Pugh @nspugh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
French satellite company Eutelsat is replacing Starlink and plans to send approximately 40,000 communication terminals to Ukraine. Their stock has rocketed 390% in the last 3 days as #Tesla $Starlink #SpaceX and #X continue their freefall. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/busines...
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A European Starlink rival's shares skyrocketed 390% in a week — here's why
Shares of French satellite operator Eutelsat gained over 550% in a three-day rally last week.
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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
America's Slide into Authoritarianism, as seen from TED 2025 The main message from TED 2025 wasn't the talks, but America's rapid slide into authoritarianism. #ItsACoup @davetroy.com @carolecadwalla.bsky.social america2.news/americas-mel...
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America's Slide into Authoritarianism, as seen from TED 2025
The main message from TED 2025 wasn't the talks, but America's rapid slide into authoritarianism.
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Nico Orru @itadinanta.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
How bad will it get? youtube.com/watch?v=qUnd...
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angelthegrey @angelthegrey.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Science finds a way 🧪 gizmodo.com/europes-new-...
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Europe’s New AI Weather Model Is Faster, Smarter, and Free—Here’s What to Know
The European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts has debuted its own forecast AI model on the heels of a cutting-edge Google model released in December.
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 25/02/2025
🌍 Golf vs. Green Energy 🏌️ A new study finds that countries like the US and UK use more land for golf courses than for wind or solar energy. Repurposing this space could significantly boost renewable energy capacity. 🔗 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #SciComm #Renewables 🧪
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Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy - IOPscienceSearch
Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy, Weinand, Jann Michael, Pelser, Tristan, Kleinebrahm, Max, Stolten, Detlef
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Nico Orru @itadinanta.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Jonathan Pie on top form. Standing ovation! Could have pulled his punches a bit less on Farage, but it's ok. youtu.be/Jk0nUUqG_Ag?...
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The Art of The Deal
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Nico Orru @itadinanta.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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ThePotLab, PhD 🧠🧪🏴 @thepotlabphd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
History will remember those who gingerly edited their grants into compliance with a Nazi regime. 👀🤣😳🧪
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Australian scientists: something we can do to help. Download NOAA data, especially climate data. It's all there on the website. 🧪
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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Banning phones in schools isn't linked to pupils getting higher grades or having better mental wellbeing, a new study suggests. Sleep, classroom behaviour, exercise or how long pupils spend on phones seem to be no different for schools with/without phone bans. 🧪📱 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Phone bans in schools don't help grades or health, study suggests
It is the first study to look at school phone rules, alongside measures of pupil health and education.
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Mikey @mikeymo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Oh heerlijk dit. "This is not what I voted for" Congratulations, you played yourself. #DonaldTrump edition.cnn.com/2025/01/19/u...
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‘Catastrophic’ education cuts could hit Trump’s base | CNN
Some low-income communities that voted for Trump worry about GOP efforts to cut education funding. CNN’s Kyung Lah reports.
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Bart Verheggen @bverheggen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Self-proclaimed defenders of free speech are busy suppressing information that they consider to be at odds with their ideology of concentrating power and wealth among the few. Censorship, propaganda and disinformation are the tools to keep the public docile. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
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nurseroxy@ramblinroxy#DontTolerateTheHate @handle.invalid · 04/02/2025
24% of Americans have a positive view of MAGA. Just 15% of Americans IDENTIFY as MAGA Republican ONLY 0.0000058% of America are FASCIST OLIGARCHS - One of them is the 'child' of an immigrant; The other is an ILLEGAL immigrant. Who's BIGGER America? #Revolution www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/sho...
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Trump's ‘MAGA movement’ widely unpopular, new poll finds
President Donald Trump is still unpopular and so is the political movement created in his image, according to a new national NBC News poll.
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Gene Bryant @genebryant.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Trump’s era of retribution has begun, and he and Musk are remaking government. A wave of legal resistance is next. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Donald Trump is remaking the government. It will set up a legal showdown.
All eyes are now on federal courts, where challenges to these decisions are slowly starting to take shape.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Perfectly captured.
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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 02/02/2025
BREAKING: Wanker supports other Wanker. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Nigel Farage hails Donald Trump 'inspiration' at Reform UK rally
Nigel Farage holds a rally in North West Essex as his party targets Kemi Badenoch's seat.
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Lane Sharman @lanesharman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o... No Exit?
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Opinion | The Six Principles of Stupidity
I define stupidity as ignoring the question: What would happen next? By that definition, the Trump administration has produced volleys of it.
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Laura @laurafran.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System (Gift Article)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
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CNN新闻摘要 非官方 @cnnnewscn.nzcow.com · 02/02/2025
📢 [AI摘要] 美国总统特朗普宣布对墨西哥、加拿大和中国商品加征关税,引发广泛关注。他表示,此举虽可能导致美国民众承担一定成本,但为了实现“美国再次伟大”,这是值得付出的代价。加拿大和墨西哥已表示将采取报复措施。新关税将于周二生效,具体影响尚待观察。特朗普强调,此举旨在解决美国贸易逆差,并鼓励国内生产。
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With tariffs signed, Trump warns of ‘pain’ to come for Americans | CNN Politics
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The Next Last Resort @thenextlastresort.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
So how do we inspire mainstream media outlets give a crap & take a different approach to hold Trump to account instead of just kissing his ass? @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @apnews.com @bloomberg.com @cnn.com @msnbc.com @cbsnewsconfirmed.bsky.social
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carpenter22.bsky.social @carpenter22.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress | Marina Hyde
If China has done to Sam Altman what his OpenAI has been accused of doing to creatives, it would take a heart of stone not to laugh, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Nico Orru @itadinanta.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The only way to win is not to play youtube.com/watch?v=m6lO...
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Bob @rciernik.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This happened last week, just before a Coast Guard helicopter and a passenger jet collided yesterday.
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Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee
President Trump fired the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard and eliminated all the members of a key aviation security advisory group
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Ram Ramgopal @raminnews.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
FAA chief had stepped down after pressure from Musk, leaving vacancy during deadly crash www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
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Live updates: American Airlines plane, Black Hawk helicopter collide near Washington, DC; no survivors expected | CNN
A massive search operation is underway after a passenger aircraft carrying 64 people collided midair with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, DC, accord...
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RØb€rtO #FBPE #USoE #BanX @robertolamela.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The “Fourth Reich” with #Trump/#Musk in the USA and the “Fifth Reich” in #Germany with #Merz/#AfD!? The serious problem is: who will be able to oppose this multiplication of #Nazis? #FBR #Resist German parliament backs resolution on migration with far-right votes www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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German election frontrunner risks breaking taboo on working with far-right
The man tipped to win Germany's election next month is set to propose plans on Wednesday to restrict migration that could pass with the help of votes from the Alternative for Germany (AfD), potentially breaking a taboo on cooperation with the far-right.
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Sascha Simon @saschasimon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“Europeans paradoxically feel insufficiently anxious. They cling to the conviction that the storm will pass. Waiting translates into silence, a complacent wish that Trump’s threat to Europe will wither away or that his attention will inevitably turn elsewhere.” …
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Greenland is testing Europe's willingness to stand up to Trump. It's failing | Nathalie Tocci
There are rational explanations for the continent’s muted response to US threats – but that’s not how you deal with this president, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci
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Alice Rothchild, MD @alicerothchild.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
And this. If Trump’s actions feel delusional….well they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/opinion/…
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Opinion | If All This Sounds Delusional, That’s Because It Is
All the king’s men is back with a vengeance.
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Dr. Travis Langley @drtravislangley.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
In other words: detention camp . . . internment camp . . . concentration camp. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru... #OrangeOgre #FOTUS #GuantanamoBay #Dolt45 #Felon47
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Trump says he will instruct Homeland Security, Pentagon to prepare migrant facility at Guantanamo
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he will sign an executive order instructing the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
In case it isn’t clear, this is a concentration camp. Please call your reps, tell them to demand complete stoppage of the use of Guantanamo Bay as a Trump’s concentration camp, and use that language so there’s no mistaking what we’re talking about here.
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Nico Orru @itadinanta.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Is this... ...fair use?
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Jonx @jonxpillemerphoto.com · 29/01/2025
😂😂
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GenXJamerican🇯🇲🇺🇸 @genxjamerican.com · 29/01/2025
If they treated your model the way you treated everyone else’s copyrighted material, some might say what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Not only is the collective schadenfreude delicious, let's not forget that anything OpenAI's lawyers have filed in defense of the NYT lawsuit is considered a "judicial admission" that can be cited to defend any lawsuit OpenAI might want to file in the future.
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“Uncopyrightable” is the longest word in English to use each of its letters no more than once. —Christian Bök
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This shows that pushing back legally and politically when the would-be dictator crosses the line can succeed. His power has limits. Resistance pays off. Onward! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
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Trump Administration Rescinds Freeze on Federal Grants and Loans: Live Updates
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bcshelby.bsky.social @bcshelby.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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Danish PM says Europe must ‘stand together’ as Trump threatens Greenland
Mette Frederiksen calls for greater cooperation as she visits Berlin, Paris and Brussels to shore up unity
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Nico Orru @itadinanta.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Anybody, somebody, everybody, please listen to Gary. Really good insights on why the economy is so hard to fix. youtube.com/watch?v=Civl...
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Chris Arundel @chrisarundel.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
45% of the population supporting hard-right nationalist parties. Conceding ground to them doesn’t work. It seems to give them more credibility.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
As in term one, competence is the weak point for the Trump administration. Medicaid was supposed to be excepted. This isn't some cunning plan.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
He's 92 in a few months. Incredible that he's still politically active.
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
…that his sole motivation for visiting the Nazi death camp was to exploit the experience as a photo-op. Following the tour, Gray turned to Facebook to post scathing assessments of Musk — whom she described as something “worse” than an antisemite. In fact, Gray said Elon Musk is a “sociopath,…
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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Deepseek, how do you say ‘Trojan horse’ in Chinese?
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Javier Mares @javiermares.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
We need Blue Note (eurotok) and EU built LLM services. Yesterday
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PuckFutin @bastardanglosaxon.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 27/01/2025
Sam Altman taking a huge swig of kambucha, doing a line of ketamine, locking the door to his office and looking around to double check he's alone before muttering a prayer and slowly typing, "How can I make ChatGPT good?" into Deepseek.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
OpenAI: China stole our tech!! Luddites: Oh weird how'd you make your tech in the first place OpenAI: 😡
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
“Move closer to Europe – not Trump” Huge UK poll shows Brits overwhelmingly want Starmer to prioritise trade with EU not US. Even in Farage’s constituency! Excellent work by @bestforbritain.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social. 👏👏👏
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‘Move closer to Europe – not Trump’ voters tell Starmer in major UK poll
Pressure growing on Labour to improve trade with EU as Rachel Reeves admits Brexit damaged UK
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