Francesco Carollo
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Francesco Carollo
@francescocarollo.bsky.social
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Mediterranean, Sicilian, European, Italian, Londoner. Runner: 2x42k 1x60k Hate those who divide. Love those who get people together. Non-linear paths are the most fascinating ones.
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La cover in acciaio per iPhone che pesa tre chili: l'ultima frontiera per combattere la dipendenza da smarthone www.corriere.it/tecnologia/2...
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We often assume the places we love in cities were “always that way.” But even in European cities, cars got in the way for decades. Torino’s Piazza San Carlo was a parking lot from the 1970s until 2005, when it was made a people place again for the 2006 Winter Olympics. HT @modacitylife.com for pics.
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You can judge any city by the quality and vitality of its places for public life. Here in Torino Italy it’s the many piazzas, the pedestrian streets, & the public market. Many cities had to claim these places back from cars.

Don’t have those kinds of places in your city? Are you sure you’re a city?
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Holding govts to ransom.

Billionaire owner of Betfred says if UK govts raises tax it will close gambling shops.

Wants someone else to bear social cost of gambling.

Less tax on gambling means more for shareholders, execs.

Any big business not holding govt to ransom?
Betfred says gambling tax rise in budget will force it to shut all its UK shops
Levies thought to be under consideration will kill profits, say bosses, as gambling firms ramp up lobbying efforts
www.theguardian.com
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AI is trash. AI is a bubble. AI makes you dumber and gives you frequently wrong answers.
half a trillion dollars incinerated on a product we only use because it is unavoidable. Watch as techbros lean harder on “education” - exploiting children and young people - to monetise their slopaganda machines. Like big tobacco, or religion. And rapists.

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Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it
Venture capitalists Menlo Ventures have released what purports to be a survey: “2025: The State of Consumer AI”. That is, chatbots. [Menlo Ventures] The subtitle is: “AI’s Consumer Tipping Po…
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half a trillion dollars incinerated on a product we only use because it is unavoidable. Watch as techbros lean harder on “education” - exploiting children and young people - to monetise their slopaganda machines. Like big tobacco, or religion. And rapists.

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/04/o...
Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it
Venture capitalists Menlo Ventures have released what purports to be a survey: “2025: The State of Consumer AI”. That is, chatbots. [Menlo Ventures] The subtitle is: “AI’s Consumer Tipping Po…
pivot-to-ai.com
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I remember describing the whole effective altruism thing to someone and they just stopped me and said “are these rich cokeheads? This is rich cokehead stuff”
it's not clear how this leads to a course of action, but everything the silicon valley techfash do and say makes much more sense when you realise everyone in SV over $10m is macro-microdosing every fucking chemical you can think of

every one of them is off their fucking trees
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Un caso da manuale: la sorveglianza digitale di massa dei migranti diventa sorveglianza di massa di chiunque dissenta dal regime.

Se ti disinteressi dei diritti di qualcuno ti disinteressi dei diritti di tutti, sempre.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa
Iris scanners, facial recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.
www.washingtonpost.com
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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
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Il trauma di 738 giorni sarà duro da scacciare. Spero si riprendano.
Israele, i racconti degli ex ostaggi: «Nel tunnel ho dovuto scavarmi la fossa». «Incatenato al buio». «Operato alla mano senza anestesia» www.corriere.it/esteri/25_ot...
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Assurdo!😭
La maratoneta vicentina Anna Zilio trovata morta in casa dai genitori: aveva 39 anni corrieredelveneto.corriere.it/notizie/vice...
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