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Mark Knight-Sands

@mksands.bsky.social

Former journalist. Now in comms. Politics, Sport, Technology.

61 Followers  |  227 Following  |  55 Posts  |  Joined: 19.11.2024  |  2.2016

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Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.

Oh my god

21.08.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1435    πŸ” 436    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 125

Ashamed to admit I knew very little of her story. What an extraordinary woman and a wonderful write-up.

11.08.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The curse of β€˜Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made How the success of a singular video game led to crises for almost all its creators

Excellent long read on the weird, amazing creative folks behind a truly unique game.

on.ft.com/45beFip The curse of β€˜Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made

03.08.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is as close to perfect as an interview can get. Magnificent work.

18.07.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 158    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

It feels like some of these shows are leaning harder into timely short form video on YouTube, and Tiktok and Instagram - could there ever be a future where that is anything other than a marketing channel for them?

18.07.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

TBF, this is basically how the British approached planning for partition.

18.07.2025 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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incredible collection of sentences www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

15.07.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 612    πŸ” 120    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 37
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You cannot tell me that we're not living in an episode of The Simpsons right now.

24.06.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Game That Mirrors the World’s Tech Anxiety In Death Stranding 2, players control a courier who trips over rocks, experiences sunburn, and faces his own possible obsolescence.

On Hideo Kojima’s strange, anxious, grief-stricken science fiction game, which contemplates how our digital interactions are no substitute for the stuff of physical existence β€” and risk hollowing out both ourselves, and our communities: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

23.06.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

I love this country.

20.06.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social's What About Men? is a very kind, thoughtful read, but I'm also struck by the things that others have noted.

This is a section about Men struggling to have meaningful conversations, and 60 separate people have all highlighted it.

Like a quick reference "how to" guide.

16.06.2025 10:26 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

It would be genuinely insightful to get Lisa Nandy on @simonparkin.bsky.social's My Perfect Console podcast.

10.06.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Games will never be a priority for _all_ politicians, but I would love to see the health of the sector being a regular question for the UK's culture secretary. At least while that job still exists.

10.06.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My all-time favourite one of the these is Franck Leboeuf.

I will go to my grave insisting that anyone who doesn't want to call the former Chelsea centre-back Frank The Beef is a damn killjoy.

09.06.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A very merry Switch-mas to all those spending today periodically refreshing a delivery tracker in the hopes of seeing their parcel *eventually* leave the depot...

05.06.2025 07:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure I've ever even seen a duct. Let alone taped one.

04.06.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I did my best "obrigado" in a Portuguese cafe the other day and the lady behind the counter chuckled before saying "that's lovely". πŸ˜’

20.05.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Come outside and play, George!

14.05.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"It's a disgrace," he said.

"A f***ing disgrace."

08.05.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes

06.05.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 20261    πŸ” 6262    πŸ’¬ 402    πŸ“Œ 922

There's a joyful uniformity on social media the morning after a local election.

It turns out that so many people, all of hugely different opinions, were right all along.

02.05.2025 08:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Wired team have been on an absolutely incredible run lately.

01.05.2025 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing - fwiw l think you can split the difference on the verticals, but lower is definitely better than before!

02.04.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These look great! When are you planning to start rolling out the whole catalogue?

02.04.2025 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Christ. What kind of moron does that?

24.03.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Aha. Nothing likely to leak and blow up the internet before April 2, then...

19.03.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When do the first events start happening? And are they going to try to confiscate phones on the way in?

19.03.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh wow. Immediate buy - I didn't know about your book!

19.03.2025 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've started paying for Kagi for this exactly reason. Paying for a search engine is inherently absurd, but the results are genuinely better.

26.02.2025 11:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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