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Across Europe, some countries are reducing fuel taxes to ease pressure on consumers and businesses.
Germany is taking a different approach, maintaining high fuel taxation — including CO₂ pricing — to accelerate the shift toward electric mobility.
A clear policy trade-off: immediate cost relief vs structural transition.
#Energy #Mobility #EV #Policy #Climate

Xavier Mareca 1d ago

Frohe Ostern — a small reminder that simple rituals (painting, creating, slowing down) still help bring clarity and rhythm back into life.
A good day to pause and reconnect.

#Easter #Ostern #Spring #Rituals #Mindfulness

Xavier Mareca 1d ago

The tricky part of machine learning isn’t training the model, but putting it into production.
The serverless pattern using Docker, FastAPI, AWS Lambda, API Gateway and ECR offers a clean, scalable architecture with no servers to manage.

A modern approach to deploying models as real, reproducible and easy-to-maintain APIs.
#MachineLearning #MLOps #AWS #Serverless #Docker #FastAPI #DataEngineering #FediTech

Xavier Mareca 1d ago

While much of the discussion about billionaires and media is speculative, one thing is already happening:
Oracle and TikTok are backing financing moves tied to Paramount Global / Warner Bros. Discovery.
That’s real capital shaping media ownership.
Tech is no longer just distribution — it’s positioning itself at the ownership layer.
#Media #BigTech #Power #Infrastructure #AI

Xavier Mareca 3d ago

Amazon will pay $20.5M to settle groundwater contamination claims in Oregon.
Experts say data center activity may have accelerated existing pollution, while the settlement will fund water cleanup and infrastructure.
A reminder that digital infrastructure also has physical and environmental costs. The hidden cost of the cloud isn't compute. It's water.
#DataCenters #Sustainability #Tech #Environment #Infrastructure
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/data-center-water-pollution-amazon-oregon-1235466613/

Xavier Mareca 5d ago

In China, AI is no longer a creative support tool.
It's the primary engine driving advertising, entertainment, and design — at scale.
What Europe still debates, China already deploys industrially.
Speed of adoption isn't just a metric. It's the competitive advantage itself.
#AI #GenerativeAI #FutureOfWork #Tech #China

Xavier Mareca 5d ago

Young workers aren't running from ambition.
They're running from systems that confuse presence with performance.
Endless meetings. Opaque objectives. Growth promised but never defined.
Burnout isn't weakness — it's a rational response to a badly designed environment.
#WorkCulture #FutureOfWork #Burnout #MentalHealth

Xavier Mareca 6d ago

Economic pressure is already visible in German retail. Higher energy prices and uncertainty around food costs are pushing many consumers toward discounters. Aldi is gaining visits, while major supermarket chains are seeing noticeable declines.

#Economy #Inflation #Retail #Germany #ConsumerTrends

Xavier Mareca 6d ago

For 80 years, the US dollar has dominated global trade and finance. Today, confidence in it is faltering—could it fall even further? 📉 #USD #Finance #GlobalMarkets #DollarDecline

Xavier Mareca 6d ago

Diving into S3 Event Notifications with Amazon EventBridge.
It’s impressive how flexible the architecture becomes: JSON-based filtering, routing to 18+ AWS services, and the ability to archive or replay events.
A solid foundation for modern data pipelines.

#AWS #Cloud #DataEngineering #EventBridge #S3 #Serverless