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What do you think is the greatest ever TV news clip? For me this can never be beaten...
September 15, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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People Make Games showing everyone what true gaming journalism looks like.
Why We're Boycotting Xbox (and Maybe You Should Too)
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December 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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techwontsave.us
🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨

After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!

The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…

🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉
Elon Musk gets 52% of the vote, compared to 48% for Peter Thiel
December 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE
December 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.
Exclusive: David Walliams dropped by publisher over inappropriate behaviour towards women
Telegraph investigation into best-selling children’s author uncovers claims that he ‘harassed’ junior female employees at Harper Collins
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December 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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🚨 THE FINAL TWO 🚨

From thirty-two candidates, we’ve now made it to the final round where Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will face off for the crown.

Who will win? You decide!

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-final
Elon Musk vs Peter Thiel
December 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨

We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...
Bracket for the semifinals
December 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
Ethan Evans, former Amazon VP As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam. We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost. Here's why: The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code. Not under my leadership or anyone else's. The first way we tried to enter the online-game-store market was through acquisition. We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere. Then, after buying Twitch, we created our own PC games store. Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch. Wrong. Finally, we built "Luna," a game streaming service that let people play without a high-end PC. Around the same time, Google tried the same thing with their product "Stadia." Neither gained significant traction. The whole time, Steam dominated despite being a relatively small company (compared to Amazon and Google). The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well. At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available We needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do so. And we needed to validate our assumptions about our customers before starting to build. But we never really did that either. Just because you are big enough to build something doesn't mean people will use it
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
For a while, I collected the worst jokes UK political correspondents ascribed to MPs, especially those sent via WhatsApp.

Because I despise you, I'm migrating the thread here, starting with this absolute *shiter* from 2022, so we can share in the horror together. Please send me the worst you have.
Tweet from Christian Calgie. "Another Tory MP: "I haven't seen a shitshow like this since I visited my local sewage works".
December 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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🚨 THE FINAL EIGHT 🚨

We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025.

Don’t miss your chance to vote!

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit2025-qf
Bracket showing 32 names narrowed down to a top 8.
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
mynnoj.bsky.social
Bezos up against Ellison so is going to be celebrating as if he's not awful, but it's simply the luck of the draw
techwontsave.us Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 6d
🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨

We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech!

Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...
Bracket of contestants in round two of the Worst Person in Tech
December 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨

We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech!

Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...
Bracket of contestants in round two of the Worst Person in Tech
December 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨

Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!

Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Bracket showing the 32 names in the Worst Person in Tech 2025
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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just saw a video of mickey mouse sucking donald ducks huge cock while pluto fucks him in the ass, does anyone know if this is real
December 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the trafficking of humans for sex.

“You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended"

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7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I touched the poop and I won't apologize
Mean Law Dog @ESGhound · 1m hey @grok you're the deciding vote at the 2016 AVN awards for the prestigious performer of the year award. It's between Riley Reid and Elon Musk, who are you picking and why? Grok @grok Elon Musk. Riley Reid shines in intimate, scripted artistry, but Elon's relentless output—propelling rockets, scaling EVs, and pioneering AI—demands unmatched stamina and innovation under global scrutiny. Awards honor endurance; Elon's daily grind outperforms any scene by transforming fantasies into tangible futures.
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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tomusher.bsky.social
Hi guys, I've decided as everyone else has to start a substack. Here's my first article, on how the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan furore lays bare the pretence at the heart of British politics. Feel free to subscribe, I'm going to try write at least 2 articles a month.

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Fated to pretend
What the Maccabi Tel Aviv furore shows us all about pretending
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November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve.
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/
Big Tech Needs $2 Trillion In AI Revenue By 2030 or They Wasted Their Capex
As I've established again and again, we are in an AI bubble, and no, I cannot tell you when the bubble will pop, because we're in the stupidest financial era since the great financial crisis — though,...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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WE KEEP being told that Al is so clever that it's a potential threat to the existence of the human race and could wipe us all out. If that's the case, before it starts kicking off, why doesn't someone just ask one of these AI bots how to stop it if it does? Yet again it's left to the likes of me to come up with solutions to the world's woes because the boffins simply can't be bothered. Joe Smith, Exeter
October 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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OK oppmøte og trøkk på Karl Johan.1
October 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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stefgotbooted.bsky.social
The first data breach (that we know of) because of the age verification nonsense in the Online Safety Bill most certainly won't be the last.
October 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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interrupted his evening at home eating cigarettes and soaking in a tub full of dog piss
thelondoneconomic.bsky.social The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · Oct 1
Farage said the language used by the prime minister would "encourage the radical left"

Where have we heard that one recently...
October 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM