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Mike McCarver

@mikewmccarver.bsky.social
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AdTechie| Ex-Microsoft/Samsung/VideoAmp/TTD | Current Agency Executive | All tweets are solely my opinion.

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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
@bruinreportonline.bsky.social Dave if you build
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday. We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.
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404 Media @404media.co · 09/07/2025
ICE is searching a massive insurance and medical bill database to find deportation targets 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-is-searc...
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ICE Is Searching a Massive Insurance and Medical Bill Database to Find Deportation Targets
The database, called ISO ClaimSearch, is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills.
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
And we wonder why legacy media is declining
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YouTube Pirates Are Cashing In on Hollywood’s Summer Blockbusters
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Anyone else going full energy vampire mode today?
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Really fascinating read. "The massive right-wing network you've never heard of," a network of dozens of sites controlled by a handful of guys who collectively get billions of views on rightwing propaganda headlines per day www.chaoticera.news/p/the-massiv...
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
USvGoogle 1: Two big “tells” at end of CEO Sundar Pichai’s direct this morning: Judge Mehta asked - if Google can keep paying for defaults, how could anyone, even MSFT, compete given its capital edge for this purpose? Then Google’s lawyer asked if best product always wins. 1/12
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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 10/04/2025
So uhhhh the Republicans are setting up a group who will decide who is living or considered dead? Is that what you call a death panel?
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Offer. Any press in DC planning to cover FTC v Meta (4/14-7/3!!!), I’m happy to be paid with free ☕️ per 30 minutes to walk through the complaint, why it matters so much, Meta’s likely defense. With US v Google running concurrently a lot to track. Just DM me. Thx.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the *names of individuals* to be killed. That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF. I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I just published story on secretive NYPD unit led by Eric Adams buddies Things they've done: Purposely crashed into motorcyclist, killing him Punched unarmed driver in head then kicked him Shoved a man into a car window after he protested stop WE HAVE VIDEOS www.propublica.org/article/eric...
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How Eric Adams Has Backed a Secretive NYPD Unit Ridden With Abuses
After NYPD officials warned about a unit’s aggressive policing, the mayor boosted the team led by his allies. “The unit effectively reported directly to City Hall,” a former police official said.
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Shann @leshann.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
CEOs, maybe submitting to a kleptocracy is a bigger issue to your bottom line than having a Chief Diversity Officer.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
As a Jewish faculty member at one of these institutions, I am saying right now, in the clearest tones possible: not in my name. This violent exploitation of Jews as an alibi for achieving Fascist ends is itself textbook antisemitism.
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Shann @leshann.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Trump wants things to go back to the 1930s, including the stock market.
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Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy now Zuck? META Board Member embraces Trump buddies that are accused of rape and human trafficking in the UK ↘️
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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 06/03/2025
The thing about clandestine operations is that they probably look like waste fraud & abuse if all you have is a spreadsheet and an order to sell off the country for parts.
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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 06/03/2025
Fellow Americans: If you haven’t lately, use your login dot gov account to download your social security statement and review how much of your hard earned retirement money they’re going to steal. It helps to put a real dollar sign on it.
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
And that’s the problem of Crony capitalism where everything’s for sale: you might think you bought the politician out, but then you realize there’s a higher bidder with more money than you who snagged him at the last minute after you’ve spent 10 years on him. World’s Smallest Violin and all….
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Hello from the SaMos.
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
That’s a lot of sensitive categories. I’m not sure this problem is unique to DV360 though. I don’t know of any DSP which actively monitors the custom segments uploaded to the platform.
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Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases
Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Wife: Murder documentary or one about a conartist? Me: Too dreary Her: You’re watching Dino-bird evolution. That’s dreary Me: The attainment of knowledge is inspiring Her: Its inspiring they caught the con artist Me: Hmm getting data from 100M years ago or that bitch is lying? Yeah not the same
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
For all that is sacred, will a journalist please research just how chronically understaffed Tesla operations are and how terrible customer service in autos and solar is as a preview for how poorly the federal gov will be run after he under-estimates how much staff are necessary?
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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
NEW: Google, Amazon and Microsoft's ad systems funneled money to a site that hosts images of child sex abuse www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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How big tech's ad systems helped fund child abuse online
Some of the biggest tech companies in the world served ads on a website featuring images of child abuse, helping to fund its operations.
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"You wouldn't let us be racist monopolists so we're overthrowing the country."
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/01/2025
Begging the political press to stop just reporting on what Trump says he's done, and actually investigating what has *actually* happened. The focus on rushing out stories to be first is letting the MAGA world play you over and over and over again.
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AdExchanger @adexchanger.com · 27/01/2025
Transparency is a growing issue in CTV ad buying. 🧐 Networks like Paramount & NBCU bundle inventory, making it unclear where ads are running. Could this limit CTV growth? 🚫📈 #CTV #transparency
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Buyers Say CTV’s Transparency Problem Remains A Roadblock To Investment | AdExchanger
Some buyers are vocalizing their frustrations that the lack of transparency in CTV ad buying could impact the channel's growth trajectory.
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
You mean this is the first time for you guys? I’ve had it tell me straight up a request I made for some data collection on the web would be “exhausting” months ago.
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AdExchanger @adexchanger.com · 21/01/2025
Data brokers, take note: California’s Delete Act requires registration by Jan 31, 2025. 📅 Don’t assume you're in the clear—if you use third-party data for targeted ads, you may be subject to the law. Expect more enforcement across multiple states. #PrivacyLaw #DataBroker #Compliance
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Pay Attention To The Delete Act (Even If You Don’t Think You’re A Data Broker) | AdExchanger
Data brokers that operated in California last year need to register with the California Privacy Protection Agency by the end of this month.
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I have choices in life I look back on and would like a do over for. However, waiting to watch Severance until Season 2 was released will never be one of them. I probably would have thrown my remote at the TV with the ending to Season 1 had I watched when it was originally released.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
TikTok is back up. This is all such performative nonsense by the kleptocrats and hypocrites who run DC. And we look like idiots to the CCP. Bluff called and we are flaccid.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Wow. DC Court just extended trial for remedies in U.S. v Google I (search) to fourteen days. A reminder the entire U.S. v Google II trial (imminent decision) in EDVA took fifteen days. Fireworks in court today, mostly around Apple’s intervention needs -> wants which it doesn’t seem likely to get. /1
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
“County taxpayers could bear the risk of costly damages caused by any failure in the system from a downed power line to a destructive wildfire, he said” As if that’s not already the case?How many fees are taxed onto our bills to pay for maintenance that never happens? www.vcstar.com/story/news/2...
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Ventura County supervisor calls SoCal Edison 'unaccountable, arrogant, unresponsive'
Ventura County supervisor says problems with Edison were “uniquely highlighted” during the recent wind storms. Here's what to know.
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Thank goodness a major news outlet pulled their heads out and realized we don’t have to be stuck with a capped number of House Reps. I’ve been saying this for years. It’s a made up limit not in the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem (Gift Article)
Proportional representation could help restore American democracy.
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Wynter @wynter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 13/01/2025
A win.
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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
“The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, in which a prosperous Black neighborhood in Oklahoma was destroyed and up to 300 people were killed, was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...
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Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says
The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black residents were killed.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Huge gratitude for our neighbors, Mexico and Canada have sent fire fighters and army to help us.
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I am loathe to share a LA Times article right now, but these guys have the dynamics dead on. Controlling wildland isn’t the answer to the increasing wildfire problem faced in the US west. We have to renting the urban part as well. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Inconvenient truths about the fires burning in Los Angeles from two fire experts
For years, renowned fire experts Jack Cohen and Stephen Pyne have tried to shift the conversation on fire prevention strategies. This week’s destruction, they say, could have been minimized.
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I’m at my first musical. I didn’t realize how much Sunny’s Dayman wasn’t a satire.
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
@adtechgod Based off tonight’s events, I’m going to venture that this is the first thing every ad tech company sees in their minds eye when they find out they are going to be in an Adalytics report regardless of the topic or level of culpability:
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Shann @leshann.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Let’s be very clear, if Meta, X and co were liable for what’s said on their platform the way legacy media could be, they would NEVER consider community was a good enough solution. We know that with these platforms, we were the product. Now we’re finding out we are the liability.
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
@karaswisher.bsky.social to your point on pivot about news operating under a trust
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I want to give a shout out to how amazing the people in AdTech are on a personal level. I’m fortunate to live west of where the current fires are at, but have dealt with fire evacs in the past (Woolsey). I’ve heard from colleagues and former coworkers I haven’t spoken to in months asking if I’m ok.
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Haven’t heard of MediaGo DSP before, but they may want to vet their buyers a little closer. Pretty sure this is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy Bonoween to all who celebrate
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
A button to download a PMP site list! My kingdom for a button to download a PMP site list on this Xmas Eve!
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Mike McCarver @mikewmccarver.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
As I’m deciding which whiskey to drink and my wife asks me about the Blantons:
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