Update 2: This is the audio that Leo thinks will win his case. Listen and tell us what you think.
Update 1: Linus Tech Tips addressed the conflict, saying “I don’t personally think most people even know what TWiT is.” (58:21)
When Leo Laporte showed his inbox Sunday, we wondered what a message from his lawyer stating “We will file the complaint Tuesday since the courts are closed on Monday” was about.
We started searching the Northern District of California Courts and the federal PACER system, but we found nothing.
Unfortunately, TechCrunch scouped us.
TWiT sued Twitter for trademark infringement.
The chat room was/is muted for hours, of course. Ycombinator discussions are happening — including saying TD is “made by a hateful obsessive” and “run by an ex-employee”.
Leo Laporte is alleging that some reasonable person would confuse Twitter for TWiT’s useless trademarks. Nobody knows what TWiT is!
As one Total Drama chat room member put it:
“One shows NFL games, one shows a fat man’s stubby pecker“
Leo’s lawyers wrote, without irony:
“The TWIT mark is a strong, distinctive mark, in which substantial goodwill has developed to the benefit of plaintiffs Laporte and TWiT.”
Wow.
Leo — probably Lisa — wants a settlement. That’s how desperate they are for money. They even enabled monetization on their YouTube videos recently. They want that Twitter money to keep going on cruises since their actual business is toast.
The embedded Scribd version is below, but here’s the PDF if you want to read the complaint at your leisure.
TWiT vs. Twitter on Scribd
You nailed it, Leica. This lawsuit is about one thing; securing a settlement large enough that Leo can close up the Shithole Studios, not worry about the lease, and host 1-2 shows a day via his home office.
I’d love to know TWiT’s financials in relation to ad buys and the viewer/listenership numbers. For them to sue Twitter, a move so desperate and vain, they must be in BIG trouble.
Thurrott Legend» Quote comment
I believe the end-game that Leo & Lisa are hoping for is that Twitter decide to buy out TWiT just to make the lawsuit go away giving Leo the chance to walk away and focus on podcasting (using YouTube live streaming from his retirement cottage they are looking at purchasing in Hawaii.
LLS» Quote comment
Nobody wants to buy TWiT because the network isn’t sustainable post-Leo. This isn’t CNN or FOX, once he goes TWiT ceases to exist.
He and Lisa are praying for a settlement, and they might get it depending on Twitter’s desire to fight this. If you’ve watched TWiT over the past 18-24 months you know that Leo doesn’t give a damn, that he’s more concerned about his next vacation than producing a worthwhile show.
The problem is he’s locked into a lease on the Shithole Studios that runs $9k/month. When I first read about this lawsuit I figured Leo would be shooting for the moon. My guess is he’d settle for mid to low 7 figures, enough to write off the lease and retire comfortably while doing a show a day from his home.
My, how the mighty have fallen. The real shame of it all is that the Brickhouse Studios never got turned into a pub. That building gave TWiT an aura of legitimacy. Now it’s a sad joke.
Thurrott Legend» Quote comment
I would expect that any buyout would include a non-compete clause preventing Leo from doing podcasts.
Looking forward to that Makerspace» Quote comment
If they offered Leo low 8 figures I bet he’d fold TWiT instantaneously.
This is about the lease. He constantly laments the fact that they’re locked into the Shithole Studios. With Padre leaving for the Vatican and his or Lisa’s inability to attract mid to high level talent, the network is beginning to show cracks.
He doesn’t need a studio if it’s just him and guests via Skype. $108k/year on the lease, employee salaries, miscellaneous costs. If he worked from home, had Lisa do the books, and kept along 1 idiot engineer he’d pocket 8 figures annually.
We’ve all joked for years about the end being nigh for TWiT. This lawsuit is the deathknell. He either wins and rides off into the sunset, dabbling in tech on his own time, or Twitter wins and things get really nasty.
Viva la Dvorak Troll Army!
Thurrott Legend» Quote comment
Low 8 figures? 500 k and he’s out of there.
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
Naw needs at least a cool million. Enough to pay off the lease and bail.
Logan Paul» Quote comment
Twitter’s user base is flat (and half of those are bots or Russian trolls), they consistently lose money, and all of their executives keep jumping ship. I can’t see why they would want to blow money on a high settlement when it’s clear Leo would never win in a million years.
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
Beginning? This has been in the making for a couple of years now. 😛
Esch» Quote comment
Hasn’t Leo bragged many times in the past about how he came up with the name first, and he knows Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey (he is also friends with Steve Martin and once spent the weekend at Steve Jobs house!) and how he’d never sue blah blah blah?
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
” he came up with the name first”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-1j5HPfgLk
https://www.facebook.com/TheTWITShow/
https://books.google.ca/books?id=B5HcBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA279&lpg=PA279&dq=tucson+western+international+telethon&source=bl&ots=At6UC6k0Ko&sig=kTw1VzBRsb3hku9ESmhCG0IGi4c&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYvr-I3u7YAhXjlOAKHbO0D58Q6AEIOjAF#v=onepage&q=tucson%20western%20international%20telethon&f=false
Leo STOLED the name from Tucson Western International Telethon (aka TWIT) who was using it 20 years before Leo did!! If anyone should sue for diluting and stealing a name, it should be Tucson Western suing Leo!! Leo’s venture into video has totally and completely confused the public on whether “TWIT” means either Leo’s stuff or Tucson Western International’s content. Wonder if any “prior use” argument can be made that nullifies Leo’s legal “ownership” of that word/acronym. I also have always wondered if the small letter I in TW i T means something in legalese.
And what about TWITch.tv??? Doesn’t that totally video site encroach on TWiT’s domain of business?? Come on Leo, sue Bezos for a few billion or so!! You have to enforce trademarks evenly. You can’t enforce for one significant breach and not for another!!
Just ramblings from a guy who look 1 legal class in business school throwing stuff up against the wall!!
Benny Hill» Quote comment
Because he thinks he can win against Twitter because of the audio at the top of the post and that weakly worded terse email saying “we aren’t going into video” meaning present tense. He’s got nothing. Listen to that audio and read the email in the complaint.
He’s hoping for a payout, not to have them stop “using” his trademark.
Leica Lens» Quote comment
Leo and Lisa are such sad sacks at this point, that if Twitter threw a couple hundred grand in fuck off money at them, they would probably settle.
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
Seem to remember a lot of coverage on TWiT shows back in the day about “patent trolls”, companies that just exist to shake down more successful businesses for cash.
I’m surprised Leo still has money left for the lawyers.
President Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip» Quote comment
I’m guessing this is an ambulance chaser working on contingency. The big irony here is the “New Screensavers” and that conflict!
Twit Insider» Quote comment
To me, it’s a desperate act to get some money. I bet less than 1% of Twitter users have even heard of TWIT. Twitter is not hurting Leo…Leo is hurting Leo
James Harris» Quote comment
Lisa is hurting Leo & TWiT… When there was the Twit Cottage and needed minimum cash flow to stay running, Twit was a really good network…It started to suck when the bookkeeper was named CEO and decided to run it like a Fortune 500 company and decided they needed the Brickhouse…
Before Lisa took control, Leo wanted to build a presence on the East Coast (maybe could have partnered with GFQ)…With modern technology many of the shows could be done from home studios, etc, and the cottage could have been adequate going forward..
Beer Freak» Quote comment
Since so many of the shows have at least one person on Skype, having a million dollar studio has never made a whole lot of sense to me. ScreenSavers is the only show that I can think of that probably needs a space. …A space….not a million dollar studio!
I don’t know if was always a prick and just hid it well but he’s a prick now.
James Harris» Quote comment
With Skype and The Cottage, Leo showed you could put out profitable programing without the million dollar studio, so naturally the next step is to build the million dollar studio.
Looking forward to that Makerspace» Quote comment
That’s unfettered arrogance and stupidity for you
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
Lisa’s fatting up Leo for an early demise, so that she and her spoiled brat can sail off into the sunset with all of the assets, laughing all the way!
She’s running TWiT straight into the ground like G4 did with TechTV.
Leo’s epitaph will read:
“Here lies Leo Laporte – what a great TWiT!”
Mac en Tosh» Quote comment
I think this needs to be made into a tee shirt ” Twitter is not hurting Leo…Leo is hurting Leo” Best comment ever!!!
JoeMama» Quote comment
They waited to long to do this… It should of happened years ago. They don’t have a chance in hell of winning this.
d» Quote comment
Leo has often worried in the office about Twitter when it first appeared, but decided not to sue because it might hurt someone’s feelings and never did shit when he should have. All this oral agreement BS and the rest are lies. They would probably settle until they saw that Leo, a fucking liar, made up bullshit agreements. So they’ll fight it out of spite now.
Hopefully they will sue HIM for fees and more.
Twit Insider» Quote comment
I kinda hope Twitter calls JCD as an expert witness. Leo’s head would explode.
Scott» Quote comment
That would be rich. At this point Dvorak would love to skewer Leo.
Twit Insider» Quote comment
It’s time for Snubs to come out to skewer Leo. There is no better time (hint hint).
dalepoco» Quote comment
PocoRadio is a Sham!
Ken Sintek» Quote comment
Lisa has been stroking me all day…she is very excited about this!
Lisa Laporte’s Cock» Quote comment
Greedy fuckers hired a brown lawyer, nice job. Don’t see w single Jewish name in the whole document.
I’m guessing Twitter has better lawyers than whatever strip mall idiot Lisa hired. Soup would probably settle for a lifetime supply of Leo. Wait, I got that backwards.
Jimmy Jam» Quote comment
Someone from TotalDrama should scour the archives to help find statements Leo made that would help Twitter’s case against him. I’m sure Twitter would appreciate it.
UsedToBeAFan» Quote comment
Leo is just envious of the guys who built something people use rather than just creating a ~network~ of boring shows to allow self aggrandizing.
On one hand, this could be the deathblow for TWiT if they really decide to fight and lose. But maybe they will get a payoff and Leo can sail off into the sunset.
I’m not jealous he likes my brother better» Quote comment
Twitter will win if they go all they way. Big question is do they want to ?
KnowEverything» Quote comment
1 – Let’s file an Amicus brief supporting Twitter.
2 – Let’s try to get on the jury to vote against that fat fuck.
Steve» Quote comment
Let’s all write that ambulance-chasing, 100-year-old lawyer and let her know the truth about her scumbag, sexual -harassing client:
http://www.smlaw.com/attorney-profile/365576-beam
Steve» Quote comment
Hope Leo and Yoko lose and are forced to pay for Twitter’s legal fees.
Hugh Jassole» Quote comment
Ironic that the guy who blatantly stole the Screensavers name is now suing for infringement.
Dd» Quote comment
We have now gone from rearranging deck chairs to trying to climb into someone elses life boat.
Esch» Quote comment
Rearranging *dickchairs
Don T. Raff» Quote comment
Oh touche! 😀
Esch» Quote comment
Pulling the ‘ole SCO UNIX business model. This is *the* definition of a patent type troll, going after the money like this. Schmucks.
Goof Ball» Quote comment
Looking forward to seeing Leo pay Twitter’s legal fees when he is laughed out of court!!!
Hugh Jassole» Quote comment
Lawsuits you love from people you don’t trust.
D Howell» Quote comment
I am certain that Twitter is more than up to Lisa’s annoying scheme. It’s pretty funny when you think about it. Ultimately, “TWIT” will reap what it sowed and more of it. Stay tuned.
M» Quote comment
I just looked over the complaint. It’s a joke and the wordage at the beginning DEMAND JURY TRIAL is the ultimate in hubris. Leo and Lisa actually think that they’d get sympathy from a jury? Really?
Furthermore, how is Leo going to explain the Calicanis situation where Jason stole the whole “This Week in…” nomenclature? No suit there. This is an obvious money grab. Who cannot see it?
Twit Insider» Quote comment
I’ve never ever thought of TWiT and Twitter being the same or closely related by name or business model. I guess next the Netcast (that somebody must love) will go after Netflix because they distribute video and have Net in their name. Pretty sad.
This will be dismissed as frivolous or the Jury will penalize TWiT for taking their time from them that they’ll never ever get back.
ScooterX» Quote comment
kiiilll meeeee… *BARF BARF* kill me nowwwwww.
Lisa’s Dildo» Quote comment
This so called “lawsuit” will never go anywhere. Twitter has the ball the run the time out. Time is something Leo and TWiT have very little of. If only Leo wasn’t such a dick.
Wesley» Quote comment
Lol I like how the guy grabs his head in the first video after hearing the news.
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
Leo was forced to read extra ads on the radio show today and will be filing a lawsuit on Monday against 23 and me for breech of contract.
D Howell» Quote comment
Oh boy, my Leo’s on twitter today!
👵🏻 Geriatric Tech Granny» Quote comment
This is bad for journalism in any case. One of the important things about Twitters nature is that is a really significant web service which is also questionable from a business perspective.
The ability for TWiT to offer any serious commentary or reporting on the state of a service like that given they have open interpersonal and legal issues with it is really questionable, and then that could spread to questions about objectivity in reporting on TWiT’s competition, which includes names such as Google and Facebook.
That said, TWiT’s quality level has fallen to such a low level no one will probably care about an issue like this anymore.
QuickSilverHints» Quote comment
Remember that the entire Twit Network was Leo’s “proof” that TechTv did everything wrong and he could do everything better.
Twit Insider» Quote comment
He was right to an extent. It’s just that he turned into a self absorbed sex maniac in the process.
Joel Osteen» Quote comment
Uhh, no on the “recently enabled monetization” Leo’s been double dipping on TWIT Yourube reruns for the past year. I even threw a comment or two on the videos calling it out for as much good as that does.
I’m so fucking sick of people and organizations like this running rampant over the little guys. I hope Twitter countersues TWIT out of existence. Leo managed to destroy one of my YouTube channels a year ago for a vidcap I did of his show. Not in violation of any of his Version 3 creative commons copyright either but he sicked the YouTube police on me anyway.
I want this bastard to burn and I want to watch it happen.
digital dynamic» Quote comment
Please, tell us how you really feel. 😀
Esch» Quote comment
Yeah, just read the suit. Leo’s gonna get his ass handed to him. Want a jury trial? Fine! Ask the average guy on the street what Twitter is and everyone from a CEO to a homeless guy will know. Ask about TWIT, and they’ll tell you it’s something you call a stupid person.
Which is completely accurate on many levels.
digital dynamic» Quote comment
I don’t think you understand trademark law, because it doesn’t work that way.
But Leo will lose. Often, the lawyers have a fee agreement. Leo will pay 5K and they’ll file the case and if the lawyers want to take the case farther based on Twitter response they will do it on their own dime but get 50% of proceeds. The big companies face a lot of little claims, mostly class action, and basically dole out cash based on merit of claim. Vast majority get nothing and give up. Very few make an impact or get to the papers/trades. Leo’s case should not have been picked up by media, that story was an ignorant and friendly journalist. Probably has been on twit before.
Dumb Ass» Quote comment
Yes, it is as if (and I’d use this argument) Twit has benefited from Twitter more than anything else.
Twit Insider» Quote comment
Getting to a jury trial will cost TWIT big bucks, $250-$500K easy. The civil courts are packed wilth bullshit cases like this one and judges hate the plaintiffs who bring these complaints.
CasyC» Quote comment
To be fair, nobody knows who Linux Media Group is either.
MarkPugnifer2.0» Quote comment
Wrong
Joel osteen» Quote comment
Twitter’s lawyers need to interview Amber from net@night . Seeing as Leo dumped her, I’m sure she would be willing to help with testimony.
Dd» Quote comment
Does TWiT even produce the viewership they claim? I’ve always wondered if Leo has scammed his way to success by lying to advertisers, considering the network isn’t even discussed or ranked among other popular tech media.
Twit» Quote comment
Numbers are probably inflated. As someone mentioned before, Leo probably hates that Apple put in analytics for podcasts now because his numbers are shit.
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
I think at one time it was. When they were in the cottage up until sometime moving into the brick house. There is no way enough people watch his crap. Look at his Twitter, nobody is even engaged with him there
Joel osteen» Quote comment
Zit popping videos get more YouTube views than his shows lol
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
Is that Dr Mom (don’t know the guy) video?
Joe» Quote comment
TNSS gets thousands of views on YouTube, thousands!
Never more than 10k views though. Fuck you Leo, how do you like that??
Jimmy Jam» Quote comment
This is true. During the cottage days, there was some very real momentum. I’d even go as far as to say the beginnings of his “CNN of tech” vision existed.
But then Narcissism, banging and marrying the help, chasing the talent away, etc, etc….
ManBaby» Quote comment
Of course he lies to advertisers. They should demand to see his lowly Apple numbers. It’s those numbers that have him freaked out. The blow chunks. He has no audience. He lost them because he’s an a-hole with a fake laugh.
Twit Insider» Quote comment
Adverts seem to be lacking these days in the podcasts. Nice not to have to listen to Rocket Mortage for the umpteenth time but not a good sign for the network.
Sam» Quote comment
Advertisers should demand to see the Apple podcast numbers for Twit.
Twit Insider» Quote comment
Leo is a Sponser Whore, and it hasn’t saved Twit. How many sponsers has he dissed after they stopped paying for worthless ads on his network?
He’s been reducing his presence on shows, while increasing vacations. He’s just looking to cash out. And I’m sure Lisa is the reason. He seems to love that wrinkly sagging pussy.
Dan» Quote comment
If he hadn’t hooked up with Lisa, he probably could have blew his money on good looking hookers. Blows my mind you’d want to sink your business and savings on someone who looks like Herman Munster.
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
Hey, that’s my dad you just shit on… take that back or I’ll tell my ugly sister to block you.
Eddie Munster» Quote comment
There is another Laporte girl?
Myriam Joire’s Penis» Quote comment
The end is nigh for The Tech Guy show. iHeartRadio bankrupt soon?
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/radio-giant-iheart-faces-costly-reckoning-on-debt-10-years-after-buyout-1517567406
Oath Doge» Quote comment
Can you image a Twitter lawyer deposing Andy Ihnatko? The poor bastard would be insane after five minutes of listening to his babble. They might have to set a suicide watch if the interview lasted an hour.
CasyC» Quote comment
Hahahahahaha omg Andy has turned into the biggest blowhard ever. When I first started listening, I thought “hmm he seems like an interesting guy” .Not anymore. I don’t understand why he’s on macbreak. It seems like he doesn’t like Apple products anymore and says the dumbest shit like he prefers the Pixel because it has an orange button.
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
Inside TWiT baseball… Andy isn’t paid. I’d also hazard a guess he sends his skanky used under shorts over to Lisa so she can blend her once used panties and Andy’s shorts into Leo’s favorite bedside aroma therapy treatment.
Abby Laporte: . I don’t understand why he’s on macbreak.
Leo’s Sister» Quote comment
On this week’s This Week In Google Leo decides to tell Stacey and Jeff about taking cocaine with an old friend. “Family friendly” doesn’t merely mean not swearing (although he swore multiple times in this episode which were bleeped in the final edit), but it also means not talking about snorting drugs.
SpongeBobTrianglePants» Quote comment
Leo Lasnort
cubetube» Quote comment
Hmmmmm what friends did he have in the past? I mean real people not his delusional friends conjured up like Steve Martin.
Arfo» Quote comment
Uh, he once spent a weekend at Steve Job’s house I’ll have you know
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
And that’s how Steve Job got AIDS…
Kyl Josh» Quote comment
BUTTSLAMMMMMEDDD.mp3
Don T. Raff» Quote comment
The only thing I hate worse than Faggy Andy is Trump and anybody who looks like him. ie White people.
Shalom Bitches!
Dr_Mom» Quote comment
BaZinga!
JungleBunnyJim» Quote comment
Wow, when I don’t like a company’s product I just don’t pay them any mind. I used to like Leo in the Teech TV days but stopped paying attention to Twit like a decade ago. You all are waaaaaaaaay too bitter and angry over trivial things. Or more likely, the site owner is holding on to some petty grudge like a petulant child.
It doesn’t matter» Quote comment
It I had a dollar for every time comments like this get posted, I could buy a brick.
Dd» Quote comment
I’m sure Leo would be glad to sell you one
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
Another boring This Week with a Z-list lineup. Bad when Mike Elgan is the most interesting one there. Leo did bitch about Squarespace when talking about Super Bowl ads, “Squarespace said our ads are too expensive but they can afford to do Super Bowl ad”. But Leo….people actually watch the Super Bowl.
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
Probably chump change for them in reality, but not worth it for what you get (an anemic, geriatric audience.) Also maybe they were being nice but actually want to not be associated with Leo, scandals, douchbaggery and megalomaniacal tendenies aside… he’s just fuckin’ boring, parroting websites, talking over people. Shit just ain’t good.
Jason Blabbis Fitness» Quote comment
Not to mention Leo shit on Squarespace after taking WordPress on as a sponsor.
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
He acts like a low class just off the farm Chinaman. Go for the quick cash no matter if you fuck the relationship.
Arfo» Quote comment
Leo… you dolt!!! Of course your ad sales are over priced and non producing. Only a net work that is growing new listeners will produce positive ad impressions. Your base is the typical Tech Guy listener… clueless and old.
Leo’s Sister» Quote comment
https://youtu.be/xeqKLM5ssxA
The way they were
Justthisguy» Quote comment
Barely watchable then, now just junk mail, trash.
2 bit punk» Quote comment
If you want to read about Lisa’s obsession for money here it is in her blog http://www.lisalaporte.ceo/2018/01/how-do-you-think-about-money.html
Drama Llama» Quote comment
Why is she stressing out over money? Leo stated that TWIT had net revenues of $9.8 million which means her Artisanal agency made around $2.3 million: 20% commission on gross revenues of $12.1 million.
TWIT has around 15 employees. If they average $100.000 in salary, that would be $1.5 million.
Leo stated that the rent on the studio was $8000 or $9000 a month for a total of around $96000 to $1.8 million a year.
Throw in $100.000 for utilities and other expenses and you are at around $3.4 million.
As for the hosts, Leo told a visitor that TWIT no longer pays them a percentage of revenues the shows produce: TWIG hosts receive $250 a show and his “major” show hosts are paid $500 a show. TWIT guests are no longer paid anything; they are usually on once a year and the publicity they receive by appearing on the show was enough compensation.
Do the numbers and you know why Leo blurted out that he was protecting his millions, only to immediately to say not really.
Heybelle» Quote comment
Apparently the going rate for debasing yourself and driving your career over a cliff is $250-500
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
He is paying $250 for the insights of a public intellectual? I had no idea they were so affordable for the average man and woman.
Jibbering Jeff Jarvis» Quote comment
If Leo is pocketing $6.3 million a year for this shit I’m in the wrong business.
Thurrott Legend» Quote comment
I too can cluelessly bumble through a couple podcasts a week for a cool $6.3 million a year. Where do I sign up?
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
I’ve been suspecting for a while now that she’s been fabricating the revenues to Leo.
By her own words things are not going well. There’s no way those numbers are reality, or she wouldn’t be stressing about it.
ManBaby» Quote comment
What is stupider?
1) Believing Leo’s boasts about how rich he is as he downsizes
2) Thinking anyone at Twit makes 100k a year. Not even close
3) Leica
Dumb Ass» Quote comment
“Money is a stressor for me as it feels good when it’s flowing, but when it’s not, it’s the source of my anxiety and stress in my life. Lately, I am anxious all of the time, and I am trying to reflect on why and what I can do to relieve my tension.” <– IT'S BECAUSE YOU'VE RUN THAT COMPANY INTO THE GROUND, YOU IDIOT.
Headdesk» Quote comment
That sure sounds like the money isn’t coming in.
Just supports my idea that she’s a gold digger from the start.
Also wouldn’t be surprised if this lawsuit was her idea as a cash grab. Can’t wait for Twitter to win.
Lisa Laporte’s Penis» Quote comment
Artisanal agency….if you have a business and it only has yourself as a client, is it really a business? That’s like a TWiT koan right there.
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
You know for the longest time, probably because of Leo’s pervy nature, I read that as Art-is-anal.
Dd» Quote comment
SpinRite Update
More bad news sorry. SpinRite is waiting on SQRL to be finished. Steve was working on SQRL when the Spectre vulnerability became news. He knew that he needed to keep working on SQRL so he decided that he would wait for someone else to write a utility that could provide all the information that most people don’t understand wrt the Spectre problem in an executable that is less than 125KB. Twenty four hours later, NO ONE HAD DONE SO which sadly for us meant that Steve needed to drop SQRL to write InSpectre.
Jibbering Jeff Jarvis» Quote comment
He’s been working on SQRL forever. It sounds like Steve is just puttering now, putitng off SpinRite 6.1 What could be left to do?
Lisa Laporte’s Penis» Quote comment
Is Steve retarded?
Wesley» Quote comment
Autistic
JungleBunnyJim» Quote comment
He became severely ill from his ketosis experiment a few years ago. Serves him right – I remember when he on live talking about it for an hour or so one day – Leo (and most of the viewers) thought he was nuts.
WiBB» Quote comment
Yes
Bobblehead Priest» Quote comment
hahahahhaha. John C. just said on yesterdays No Agenda Show that veronica belmont got offended because he told her she wans’t a nerd one time. It was his #metoo moment
Joel Osteen» Quote comment
She larps as a nerd and cashes in from beta orbiters.
This Week in Testicles» Quote comment
She’s still around? I don’t follow her on Twitter (never have), but I haven’t seen or heard from her in years
Inquiring Mind» Quote comment
She got frumpy and weird looking when she married baldie Ryan
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
Interesting how so many of these alleged “superstar tech babes” (Belmont, Lane, etc.) sort of fizzled out over the years…moving up to supposedly high profile jobs, only to bounce around, never staying in one place too long and never making it big.
WiBB» Quote comment
It is interesting. I agree. As much as TWiT doesn’t matter. Sarah Lane was nothing without Leo, and after Leo, she is nothing. She isn’t interesting, she is just a blah woman.
Joel Osteen» Quote comment
They’re old now. No betas beat it to them anymore which makes them valueless.
Arfo» Quote comment
Sarah Lane fell off a cliff after she left TWiT, so much so that she had to saddle up with Tom Merritt on his DTNS (which is worse than anything that airs on TWiT.)
Veronica Belmont seems to have moved behind the scenes. I’m not sure what her husband is up to, but I think he makes enough money that she’s allowed to indulge in the typical SF/Silicon Valley startup BS.
Sarah never should’ve left TWiT, she should’ve doubled down, demanded a bigger role, and moved closer to the studio. God knows Leo would’ve given her whatever she wanted.
Belmont, and I hate to say this, is a dime a dozen. Every 6 months a new ditzy tech obsessed woman pops up that everyone goes crazy about. One year it’s Veronica, the next iJustine, then Naomi Kyle.
Thurrott Legend» Quote comment
Leo may have given her whatever she wanted, but I’m sure Mrs. Laporte would have felt otherwise.
WiBB» Quote comment
I haven’t watched TWiT in forever but Leo was always talking about football. Is that still happening or does he have a new “hobby”.
Jay» Quote comment
His new hobby is waking to Megans hairy winterbush and swollen labia.
Smeebush» Quote comment
Better than waking to that dusty old crypt otherwise known as Lisa’s vagina
Abby Laporte» Quote comment
How long until Lapork suckstarts a shotgun?
Arfo» Quote comment
Clip of the day!
NativeInExile» Quote comment
Leo, please help… I’m looking for Maxwells House, not sure about this site redesign… It’s a bit, off-putting, your comment sections a so unhinged. I use your shows to help me fall asleep, Thanks!!!
👴🏻 Geriatric Great Grandpa» Quote comment
TWiT is like a car crash. You know you should just move along, nothing to see here.
But you just can’t help slowing the car down to stare at the carnage.
Brutal
iJustines Shoelaces» Quote comment
TWiT is the biggest waste of time EVER. Why would anybody subject themselves to the idiotic banter between morons who know nothing about anything? Podcasts like The Joe Rogan Experience, NoAgenda and dozens of personal improvement podcasts on any subject you can image are just a click away. TWiT isn’t a tech show. It’s a no show…anyone listening gets dumber and less informed.
Brenda» Quote comment
No Agenda? Two arrogant egotists who denied the Parsons Green UK terrorist bomb was real.
Disgusting
Never -forgive-them» Quote comment
Neck yourself.
Yeah you» Quote comment
Site is dead
Joel osteen» Quote comment
The problem is TWiT is so bad that nobody is watching to pull clips. I’m sure Leo has fucked up hundreds of times over the past 12 months, but the people who used to monitor TWiT and curate content for this site are long gone.
Thurrott Legend» Quote comment
True. We’re keeping an eye on the lawsuit though. Many documents going back and forth. It doesn’t look like they’re settling, so far. Twitter has 3 lawyers officially on the case in the court documents.
Leica Lens» Quote comment
Leo is too fucked up to realize that he and only he is responsible for the shitcan the rating are in now. He started that ridiculous political diatribe almost two years ago and still hasn’t gotten the message that he, Bernie, Hillary and the two people left in chatroom are completely wrong in their opinions about the president and The USA.
He fucked himself in so many ways beginning with letting Lisa make any programming decisions at all. All he does anymore is just virtue signaling to the ugly broads wearing pussy hats and their cuckold husbands.
The definition of mental illness.
Smeebush» Quote comment
Speaking of that, is Jeff “let me shill for something retarded” Jarvis still on shows?
He would not be not be admitted to the #nocuckzone …
Oath Doge» Quote comment
The one balled, limp dick, self important, twaddling fairy geezer?
Smeebush» Quote comment
I tip over dead asleep after more that a minute.
LOL Leo fishing for a payout… twit vs. twitter — like twitter’s doing any harm to them, deep in denial smh.
Perturbed Baby» Quote comment