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MarcD

@marccarno.bsky.social
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Technologist, egalitarian, polymath. Profile picture is me in 1984. Somehow it seemed appropriate.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 16/05/2025
Breaking news: The US has been stripped of its top-notch triple-a credit rating by Moody’s on concerns about rising levels of government debt www.ft.com/content/e456...
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SMR 🎧 Rejoin Radio @smrrejoinradio.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
NEW! This week on SMR, we're joined by special guest, FEMI as we focus on quashing FAR RIGHT FARAGE (with your help!) Listen FREE whenever EU like! Wanna help? Subscribe TODAY for just £5 a month and help us grow! 👉 Link's in bio/graphic!
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 23/04/2025
Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps … yet
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Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps … yet
Government censorship has found its way to Bluesky, but there’s currently a loophole thanks to how the social network is structured. Earlier this month, Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey at the request of Turkish governmental authorities, according to a recent report by the Freedom of Expression Association. As a result, people in Turkey can […]
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The Verge @theverge.com · 23/04/2025
Nvidia’s AI assistant on Windows now has plugins for Spotify, Twitch, and more
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Nvidia’s AI assistant on Windows now has plugins for Spotify, Twitch, and more
G-Assist is moving beyond PC gaming help
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 23/04/2025
Exclusive: Amazon's internet-from-space venture is struggling to ramp up production, jeopardizing its ability to meet a government deadline to have more than 1,600 satellites in orbit by next summer
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Amazon’s Starlink Rival Struggles to Ramp Up Satellite Production
Amazon.com Inc.’s internet-from-space venture is struggling to ramp up production, jeopardizing its ability to meet a government deadline to have more than 1,600 satellites in orbit by next summer.
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Jason Knight @oneknightinproduct.com · 19/04/2025
How it feels logging into LinkedIn every day at the moment
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 22/04/2025
"On the left, calls for mass civil disobedience. On the right, murmurs of a need for dictatorship."
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'A hinge moment': Analyst fears 'season of fever and visions' as Trump clashes with courts
Legal experts have been raising concerns over President Donald Trump's defiance of the court and the administration's continued refusal to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man wrongly depor...
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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
👋 please share
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MarcD @marccarno.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Now, these 2 posts just happened to be next to each other on my ‘Following’ feed and I had to share the dichotomy. Here ‘writ large’ is the fundamental contradiction in the world today, when it comes to #environment issues…
Snapshot shows 2 posts: First  Post Europe Commission asking is to think about planet. Second Post, Reuters reporting on Saudi/India exploring joint petrochemical refineries
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
If you know, you know
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 21/04/2025
Big Tech companies including X, Meta, Apple and TikTok should be aware the bloc is ready to enforce its full digital rulebook no matter who is in charge of these firms, the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen told POLITICO.
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Von der Leyen warns X, Meta, TikTok to play by the rules in Europe — no matter who’s CEO
The European Commission will enforce its digital rulebook without fear, said Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 21/04/2025
Chinese battery maker CATL launches second generation of fast-charging battery reut.rs/3Y7NWAP
Chinese battery maker CATL launches second generation of fast-charging battery
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 20/04/2025
BREAKING
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'Bad at business': Trump lashes out at 'businessmen' critics in 'unhinged' Easter comments
Donald Trump on Easter lectured "businessmen who criticize" his policies. The President of the United States took to his own social media network -- called Truth Social -- on Easter Sunday, first wr...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 20/04/2025
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'The guy with all those bankruptcies': Trump's Easter Day swipe at 'businessmen' backfires
Donald Trump on Sunday took a swipe at businessmen who criticize his signature policy, and observers immediately pounced on the purported irony. Trump over the weekend posted the following statement...
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 18/04/2025
Carr continues to invoke the FCC's rarely enforced news distortion policy to pressure licensed broadcasters that he perceives as biased against President Trump.
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Trump’s FCC chair threatens Comcast, demands changes to NBC news coverage
“Comcast outlets spent days misleading the American public,” Brendan Carr claims.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 18/04/2025
The episode highlights the risks of deploying AI models in customer-facing roles without proper safeguards and transparency.
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Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar
Frustrated software developer believed AI-generated message came from human support rep.
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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Landru79 @landru79.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST A global view of a massive cluster in formation with JWST TARGNAME #G286 Observed: 2024-04-19 pi_name: Andersen, Morten Instrument: #NIRCAM NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger 🔭
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/04/2025
Over the past decade, platforms like Airbnb and Turo have made it simple for people to earn extra cash by renting out their spare bedrooms or cars—but what about a pair of jeans or a lawn mower? It turns out, there’s a market for that stuff too.
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Young People Are Making Up to $36K a Year Renting Their T-Shirts and Speakers
Rental apps like Pickle and Yoodlize are helping millennials and Gen Zers turn their closets and tools into extra cash.
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