Full Disclosure

Being an ace reporter for #TotalDrama means I am responsible to answer my critics. Unlike Gum and #soupguzler who deafen their ears to criticism, I will not not only hear mine but I will act on it.

I done see this message quite a few times
I done seen this block message on quite a few accounts

Apparently I have been accused of a bias, a word I despise. There are those who think I show preferential treatment to the lovely and talented Sarah Lane, that I am incapable of turning the high powered microscope of analysis on her. This article should quell that disruption for awhile as I explain why Sarah should not have accepted the $75. That is right folks, here I go. #deepbreath

My kinda slave
My kinda slave

The year was 2011 and head chat mod/head sleaze visited his idol in Petaluma California. He brought some other mods with him. They seem to travel in packs, a gaggle, a flock, a school, a pride, I am unaware of the technical term. As part of the slave-masters training he treated the slaves, who serve him free-of-charge for thousands of hours, to a steak dinner. [A practice used in training dogs which was outlawed in 1988 by the ASPCA incorporates oscillating between treat and punishment. Yet this banned practice is still used by Laporte]  The mods had one request, bring Sarah.

It was a night Sarah had no plans but as you can imagine, many an excuse was concocted to avoid this. The obvious strategy of drinking herself into a stupor was unavailable because she needed to drive herself home. This meant she would have to sit there sober with the mods and Laporte. Finally, #soup offered her $75 and a free dinner and she took it. She sat there listening to that boy-child telling tales of being head mod. “I barely listen to TWiT anymore, I am so busy.” “I just check in the chat once in a while and kick some people.” “Those guys cry about getting kicked, get a life.” On and on he went about how above IRC he was. uuuugggghhh Sarah unexpectedly left early.

This should muffle the smell
This should muffle the smell

Should Sarah have taken the $75? After all, these freaks of nature in some way serve her too. They kick anyone who is remotely complimentary towards her appearance or half as creepy as the mods themselves. I condemn her for taking this money. It was a night-out for the mods. They put pants on and got dressed up and she should have done it free.

Ok, no favoritism here.
I hate you all for what you made me do.

Why Ello might succeed

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(Follow me on Ello: https://ello.co/mikeelgan )

Gigaom founder Om Malik tweeted: “The obsessive coverage of Ello is less about Ello. Instead, it really is about our growing dissatisfaction with the state of social networks.”

In fact, we tend to love new social networks and hate older ones. The reason, I believe, is that both popularity (here comes everybody!) and monetization (ads, algorithmic noise filtering, personal data harvesting) are the qualities that spoil the fun private club aspect that new social networks have.

Does Google’s, Amazon’s and Facebook’s personal data harvesting do a good job customizing ads and content?

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Oct 1, 2014

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Do the ads you see on Google sites and Facebook match your interests?

Is your Google+ notifications filled with posts you want to see?

Does Amazon.com offer you products you want to buy, or is it more about products you have already bought or decided not to buy?

Have you found that personal data harvesting does a good job of customizing what you see online?

35 minutes of tech news awesomeness!

Join our all-star cast, including me, +Jason Howell, NPR’s +Elise Hu, ReadWrite’s +Selena Larson, Bank Innovation’s +Ian Kar, The Wall Street Journal’s +Lisa Fleisher, Variety’s +Todd Spangler and the Boston Globe’s +Hiawatha Bray!

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next week join us for every one on the planet as a guest host.  We live to make Jason Howell’s job that much harder.

Calling all TWiT Moderators.

We at TotalDrama.org would like to encourage the TWiT Moderators to express their inner feelings at the sight of their Führer living in such gluttony and opulence in London.

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Leo loves me

Do you [TWiT] Mods set a value on your time and livelihood? or are you simple half-baked slaves who merely lap at your masters heal in the hope that he may one day toss you a bone.

 Now that you have experienced and savoured Leo’s, effluence, sorry should have been affluence; which was made on the back of your misguided support. Do you now think you should be paid a minimum wage for your pathetic efforts rather than being repeatedly exploited by Leo and Dan? Perhaps it may be time to consider getting a real moneymaking job, hobby or even a girlfriend and thereby accomplishing something of your lives and adding value to all society.

Leo is so funny
I hope Leo says my name today on air

TWiT Moderators please feel free to express your thoughts and aspirations so that all the silenced TWiT fans (you continually choose to insult) can understand your motivation for living.

Fans, we would also ask you to give examples of overzealous TWiT Mods you have had the misfortune to have known.

Interlude

While we all wait for a more extended video to drop it may be time to sit back, think, and throw shit against walls.  See if anything sticks.

I watched Night Attack on Tuesday night. I am a Patreon supporter, 94¢ as memory serves.  I don’t always watch but I do support them. They are trying to push boundaries and enable us to let go of some bindings that wind us up.

They talk in this video of what they wanted to achieve at TWiT™, were suppressed and perhaps banned.  Maybe.

And we see what sort of idiot has appeared to replace Tom Merritt.  We have Jason Howell, wonder TD and editor, and Mike Elgan (Gum, GumBot, mykyGum, ElGum) idiot at large. Clickbait artist.  Someone who has no purpose in life other than to get you to click on one of his headlines.  “Apple screwed the pooch at WWDC…”

Brian and Justin wanted to build something, look at what it has become.

Exposing The Dark Underbelly of TWiT, Leo Laporte, and Failed CEO Lisa Laporte