Tom Andrews

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Tom Andrews @tmndrws]

Favourite tweet of the year

[That’s So Village @ThatsSoVillage]

So another wonderful season of cricket comes to an end here in the UK.

Time to recap a few of the most village moments of the year. A thread —

[Tom Andrews @tmndrws]

@christheowl Good luck mate!

[Dr Chris Whitaker @christheowl]

Interesting train journey home. Kings Cross is a no go. No step free access to platform at St Pancras. Having to go to Farringdon to come back again?!

[Viz Comic @vizcomic]

subscriptions >>> https://t.co/Ufr2YPWsMu

[Tom Andrews @tmndrws]

@Chandler_Rome do you think Astros would be in the market for Keuchel, even for minor league depth? Would be great to see him back

[Reuters @Reuters]

Brewers designate Dallas Keuchel for assignment https://t.co/TjCQE6HokY

[long since dead @1899INE]

England - Somewhere Only We Know

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

IF YOU'RE JUST WAKING UP 🧵

LABOUR LANDSLIDE.

THE WORST TORY DEFEAT IN HISTORY. COLLAPSE EVERYWHERE

LIB DEMS REVIVE BEST RESULT FOR THIRD PARTY SINCE 1923

SNP IMPLOSION. LABOUR DOMINANT IN SCOTLAND AGAIN.

MUSLIM VOTE FOR LABOUR COLLAPSES

INDEPENDENTS ELECTED IN SAFE SEATS

[Sport for Development Coalition @SFDCoalition]

"Sport is increasingly recognised as having an important role in prevention and early intervention..."

@APPG_SPACJS reports how #YouthJusticeSportFund from @StreetGames @AllianceOfSport @MoJGovUK ‘reached communities that needed it most’ 👉🏽 https://t.co/qSd9xmG8AR #OpenGoal

[Sir Michael Marmot @MichaelMarmot]

In the decade 2010 on, government policy made poor people's lives harder, with little improvement for those in the middle. It is hardly a surprise that health inequalities increased and life expectancy for people in the most deprived areas went down. https://t.co/hPX3ReeNeY

[Tom Andrews @tmndrws]

@batflips_nerds Non-playing staff shouldn’t be wearing full kit. You’re not John Terry.

[Sport England @Sport_England]

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.
Our deepest sympathies go out to the Royal Family and her loved ones.

[Sport England @Sport_England]

Great to see a national conversation happening on how we can all support more women and girls to play football & the other sports and activities they love or might fall in love with, all inspired by our brilliant @Lionesses. #WEuro2022 (1/7)

[Tom Brooke Bullard @Tbrookebullard]

🚨Today @CitizensAdvice are launching our first cost of living data dashboard, which gives people insight into the problems people are facing. You can look into the data here: https://t.co/fmghNZ828G

[Sport & Recreation Alliance @sportrectweets]

Important report released today by @LondonSport, illustrating the impact of the cost of living crisis on exercise 🏃

The report reveals that 45% of Londoners and over a quarter of the UK population cut back on exercise due to financial constraints 👇

https://t.co/wRJLliS9wm

[Sport England @Sport_England]

We’re investing a further £360 million of National Lottery and government funding into 78 more partners to help tackle long-standing inequalities within access to sport and physical activity. #UnitingTheMovement Find out more ⬇️

[Sport for Development Coalition @SFDCoalition]

🌍🏀 What's your role in #OpenGoal?'

Today (April 6) is International Day of Sport for Development & Peace. Tell us how your organisation uses sport to build a fairer, more equitable & sustainable future https://t.co/KLIfmokP91

#IDSDP #IDSDP2022
#SportForDevelopmentCoalition

[Tom Andrews @tmndrws]

@christheowl Take care of yourself mate

[Cricket on TNT Sports @cricketontnt]

The greatest to ever do it 🐐

No one played the game like Shane Warne and no one will ever come close.

You had to see it to believe it.

Legend doesn't do him justice as a cricketer.

[KyivDeclaration @KyivDeclaration]

100 Ukrainian leaders of civil society organizations have come together to urge leaders around the world to act on six urgent appeals. Find out more here: https://t.co/mdmTuT1SW1 and please share #KyivDeclaration #StandWithUkraine