August 2025
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YouTube Censorship – When Content Creators Bleep the Truth
I get proper pissed off by this, and I can’t be the only one noticing it. You watch these long-form interview channels on YouTube, the ones where someone sits down for an hour or two with people who’ve got genuinely important stories to tell. Prison officers, social workers, police officers, people who’ve lived through awful…
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The Outrage Machine Never Wants The Story To End
The modern internet doesn’t want resolution. It wants seasons. Pick any headline that has dominated the UK over the last few years. Lucy Letby. Jeffrey Epstein. Keir Starmer. Lucy Connolly. Search YouTube. Or don’t, if you value your sanity. What you’ll see isn’t reporting. It’s manufacturing. “Bombshell update.” “Everything changes today.” “Starmer is FINISHED.” “They…
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Criticising the Machine Algorithm Game While Feeding It
There’s a pattern I can’t unsee anymore. It’s so flipping common. Plenty of tech commentators on YouTube and podcasts love to rant about algorithms. About AI. About attention. About how recommendation engines are rewiring us, shortening our focus, spoon-feeding us ideas instead of forcing us to think. They’ll ask the big questions. All valid questions.…
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The YouTube Audiobook Circle of Slop
If you feel like YouTube has quietly filled your recommendations with soulless “audiobooks” read by lifeless robot voices, you’re not imagining it. You’re watching a new content racket evolve in real time, and it runs on low effort, AI tools, and platforms that pretend to care about “authenticity” while cashing the ad cheques. This is…
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Why I Don’t Trust Freemium Security Plugins
Freemium broke my trust long before AI ever had the chance. A client messages me in a panic. Their WordPress site is apparently under “security risk”. Red badge, urgent tone, classic drama. The culprit? A freemium security plugin they’d installed themselves. It fires off an instant alert… then refuses to show what it’s actually found…