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@Pirat_Nation Google is probably the most evil company out there, but it's not so obvious until you go down the rabbit hole.

A Japanese manga artist lost his entire Google account forever after he uploaded private files from an old comic he drew to Google Drive. Google’s AI checked the files and flagged them as not allowed. He asked Google to review it again, but they rejected his appeal and banned the account immediately. He can no longer access years of his private drawings and lost access to many websites and services that used his Google login. The artist said this is very embarrassing and causes him a lot of trouble. He warned that it might not happen to people who always follow every rule, but others should be careful. So Google is scanning files that people upload to its cloud storage even if they are supposed to be private. I wonder how long they have been doing this.

@WatcherGuru I bet everything is peanuts to the Epstein's friends

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump says the rise in gas prices is "peanuts" and "very temporary."

@Bitcoin_Teddy First thing I would do is rename it from YouTube to AdTube.

YouTuber Marques Brownlee says if he were YouTube CEO the first thing he would do is bring back the dislike button

@esjesjesj Elon is an opportunist and profiteer to say it nicely. He successfully played billions of people who look at him as some kind of messiah. He presents himself as humanity first, but the only thing he cares about is his bottom line.

When Elon bought Twitter he slashed maternal leave to just two weeks. Two weeks.

@CasuallyGreg Where is the cancel culture when it actually matters. These places should be pushed into bankruptcy.

“Pay our employees, because we won’t.”

@jmkettle This feels like removing the dislike button from the apps. Now they will keep 4 and 5 stars for ratings. Ridiculous.

Giving a restaurant a three star review is illegal in Germany.

@ThrillaRilla369 With interest, that is higher than inflation.

I’m gonna piss off a lot of people saying this again but If a man pays child support, and later find out that the child isn't even his, the mother should have to pay all of it back

@BRICSinfo While western countries are yelling "you will own nothing and you will be happy", China is protecting their people and preserving their purpose. Western empire is going to implode and AI will be their final nail in the coffin of greed.

JUST IN: 🇨🇳 Chinese court rules companies cannot legally fire employees simply to replace them with cost-saving artificial intelligence.

@aakashgupta A chain of scammers doing everything to scam each other. Perfectly describes the current world order.

VEVO was the only reason YouTube didn't get sued out of existence in 2009. Universal and Sony were ready to pull every music video off the platform. The labels argued YouTube was generating billions on their content while paying back almost nothing. Eric Schmidt's solution: let the labels build a parallel platform where they controlled the ad sales, the curation, and the branding. They called it Video Evolution. VEVO. The deal was simple. Every "official" music video would route through a VEVO-branded channel. The labels owned the inventory. They sold premium ad slots that regular YouTube videos couldn't access, charging advertisers top dollar to run alongside Beyoncé instead of a random gaming clip. The leverage was real. In 2010 when MTV.com tried to renegotiate licensing, UMG pulled every Universal video off the site. MTV's online platform collapsed. The labels had figured out something the platforms hadn't priced in. The platforms needed the labels far more than the labels needed any one platform. JustinBieberVEVO had 33.6 million subscribers. His personal YouTube channel had 4.2 million. TaylorSwiftVEVO had 27.3 million. Her personal channel had 2 million. The VEVO suffix marked the most valuable real estate on the platform. Then YouTube counter-punched with Content ID. Every fan upload using a licensed song could now be monetized directly for the labels. By 2016, YouTube had paid labels over $2 billion through Content ID alone. The labels stopped needing a parallel platform to get paid. YouTube was already paying. In 2018, YouTube started "consolidating" VEVO channels into Official Artist Channels. Artists could not opt out. The 33.6 million Bieber subscribers got auto-merged into a single channel without VEVO branding. Vevo.com shut down the same year, despite generating 25 billion monthly views. The VEVO logo still sits in the corner of every official music video. That's the only thing left of the last time a record label cartel had real leverage over a tech platform.

@anishmoonka Any loss for Sony is a win for humanity

Sony spent up to $400 million making a single video game. It sold 25,000 copies in 14 days before Sony pulled it from sale. Cost per copy sold: about $16,000. The studio shut down two months later. The executive who warned them had already been fired for saying no. The game was Concord. The executive was Shuhei Yoshida, who ran Sony's in-house game studios for 11 years and helped ship some of the biggest PlayStation hits ever: God of War, The Last of Us, Uncharted, Ghost of Tsushima. These are games you buy once and finish. Sony made billions on that model. Spider-Man alone generated $315 million in digital sales. The Last of Us 2 pulled nearly $250 million. God of War Ragnarok sold 15 million copies, with $279 million from digital downloads alone. Then in 2019, a new CEO took over PlayStation. Jim Ryan wanted Sony's studios to stop making those kinds of games and chase a different model: live service. Live service is Fortnite's model: games designed to keep you playing and paying forever, earning money through endless small purchases instead of one-time sales. Ryan told his team to ship 12 of these by 2025. Yoshida refused. Ryan removed him from running the studios and gave him a choice: take a smaller role working with indie developers or leave the company. Yoshida took the role and stayed at Sony for another six years. At an industry event in Australia last weekend, he finally said plainly that Ryan fired him from running the studios for refusing to do the 'ridiculous things' Ryan had demanded. Of those 12 live service games, 8 were cancelled before they ever came out. Naughty Dog killed a Last of Us multiplayer game in late 2023. Bend Studio's sci-fi game died in January 2025. Twisted Metal and a London fantasy game were both scrapped in early 2024, and the London studio was closed. Insomniac's Spider-Man multiplayer was abandoned. A God of War live service game was cancelled, then the studio making it (Bluepoint) was shut down this past February. A Destiny spin-off was scrapped. Deviation Games, a studio Sony had partnered with, was shut down before shipping anything. Only one of the 12 actually worked. Helldivers 2 was a big hit. But the studio that made it, Arrowhead, isn't owned by Sony, and they've already said they won't partner with Sony on their next game. The total damage under Ryan: $3.7 billion spent buying Bungie (the studio behind Destiny), up to $400 million written off on Concord, and roughly 1,500 jobs lost across studios that got shut down. The PS5 generation is now short on the kind of games that built PlayStation in the first place. Yoshida was pushed out in 2019 for saying no to one strategy. Five years and a few billion dollars later, Sony's current CEO says the new plan is to 'fail early and fail cheaply.'

@Jeremybtc Greed is hell of a drug

The man who said NFTs would be part of culture within five years just quit crypto. > In August 2021, Steve Aoki told CoinDesk that NFTs would be "part of culture" within five years. > Almost exactly five years later, he sold what was left and moved the money to Gemini. > In March 2021, Aoki dropped his first NFT collection, Dream Catcher, on Nifty Gateway. > It brought in over $4 million. A single piece sold for $888,888.88 to the former CEO of T-Mobile. > At a private Gala Music event in California, he told the crowd that single drop had made him more money than every album advance from ten years of music combined. > Six albums. A decade of work. Beaten by one afternoon of digital art sales. > He went all in. > Built a Solana-based NFT marketplace with Todd McFarlane. > Launched A0K1VERSE, an NFT gated membership club designed to bridge Web2 and Web3. > He once stopped a live DJ set mid performance, pulled out his phone and yelled to the crowd: "NFTs make me feel like a kid again." > The NFT he was showing them cost 270 ETH. Around $800,000 at the time. > He also holds seven Bored Apes he paid over $800,000 for. > Eminem had one. Snoop Dogg had one. Justin Bieber had one. > At peak mania the BAYC floor hit $434,000. Individual apes sold for millions. > Owning one meant you were inside the room where the future was being decided. > He also funded Dominion X, an animated NFT TV show with Seth Green's studio. > 500 NFTs sold out in 30 seconds. His manager told CoinDesk it "barely covered" production costs. > The show never aired. > This week, Arkham Intelligence tracked his wallet. > 1.785 billion $SHIB sold for $10,300. > 7.25 $ETH swapped for $15,900. > $29,650 in USDT routed straight to Gemini. > Two weeks earlier, 4.155 billion $PEPE liquidated for $14,700 through 1inch. > The 7 Bored Apes are still sitting in his wallet. Worth $13,800 each today. 88% down from what he paid. > He hasn't sold them. There is almost nothing left to sell. > The man who made more from one NFT drop than a decade of music is now cashing out $44,000 in pocket change and calling it done. The five years came. The culture never did.

@RussianSpoof What else do you expect from a low IQ nation. Countries should ban entry to US citizens. Force these subpar humans to act against their terrorist government.

🚨 BREAKING 🇺🇸🇮🇱 U.S. and Israel strike Iran petrochemical facilities. Massive explosions, fires reported a direct hit on Iran’s energy sector. Tensions rising fast 🔥

@AyakaMods I hope I see the day when Sony is done. One of the most evil companies in the world.

- Crunchyroll launched in 2006 as a pirate anime streaming site - After a $4M investment in 2009, they went legal and abandoned the fansubbers who built them, no credit, no compensation - Crunchyroll betrayed fansubbed - Fansubs gave you karaoke OP/ED lyrics, translator notes, colored dialogue per character, and honorifics, none of which Crunchyroll has ever consistently offered - Crunchyroll shut down its Games division in 2024, quietly killing it with little notice to users who had invested time in it - Crunchyroll manga service was shut down in 2016, then relaunched recently, but folded into the subscription fee with a limited catalog - Sony bought Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion in 2021 - Crunchyroll has raised subscription prices multiple times since the Sony acquisition, while delivering less - Crunchyroll acquired Funimation in 2022 and shut it down in April 2024, eliminating the last major competitor - Crunchyroll actively fights anime piracy - Disabled comments section on all anime under episodes and news posts in July 2024 - Crunchyroll streams censored TV broadcast versions of anime, but piracy is an uncensored anime scene - Crunchyroll denied switching to OOONA when asked by Anime News Network, refusing to confirm whether they'd used Aegisub, despite multiple staff leaks confirming the change - Crunchyroll subtitles typesetting was gutted/downgraded - Crunchyroll used AI translation a German subtitle (ChatGPT said: Wenn ich die Welt von hier an weiter genießen kann) - Crunchyroll raised subscription tiers again by $2 in February 2026 - Crunchyroll stayed silent, made no public disclosure, as data was breached on March 12, 2026

@elonmusk @grok There was a time when people actually believed the things you said. Now we know you are a compulsive liar. In retrospect it should have been obvious, you even compared yourself to Edison.

With @Grok, we keep the honest versions and kill the bad transformers (I believe they are called “Decepticons”)

@elonmusk Courage and honor is gone, if it ever existed. Hard times ahead.

The New York Times is utterly disgusting

@BRICSinfo EU is gonna collapse. I don't see any other way.

JUST IN: Russia says "the British & French elites are actively exploring ways to supply Kiev with a nuclear bomb, or at least a so-called dirty bomb."

@elonmusk Says a trillionaire. What an irony.

Whoever said “money can’t buy happiness” really knew what they were talking about 😔

@elonmusk But if you give it away you can make many people happy and simultaneously improve the image of yourself. Of course you won't do that. Because you hate humanity. And everything is just part of your game to gain more wealth.

@BRICSinfo Funny how 1 braincell idiots were saying a couple of months ago that the EU is weak to accept the trade deal, art of the deal, genius Trump and now those same idiots are saying bad move EU. This is the first time that the EU said fuck you to US. US making enemies left and right .

JUST IN: 🇪🇺🇺🇸 EU officially suspends trade deal with the United States, Bloomberg reports.

@GeneralMCNews Even those people from Idiocracy are laughing to us