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(Ironically, given Sony sold its TV brand to TCL, it's likely it'll still have a presence at the show, just as a name under which TCL will sell TVs.) But it's clear that, in terms of the vanity booths of central hall, it's going to be LG and Panasonic against all of China.

A few years back, Sony started cutting its space and while LG and Samsung initially held firm, it opened up real estate for Hisense and TCL. This year, the big anchor booths were Hisense, TCL and Dreame (with Changhong a new entrant).

Samsung and LG's booths would get bigger, and more lavish, to try and stick it to the grand old dame. But Sony kept taking up its enormous territory year after year, even as its product lines began to ebb away.

Sony is skipping CES in 2027 as it focuses more on entertainment - Engadget

It's funny, Central Hall has played out the dramatic shifts in power across the tech industry over the last 15 years, but in microcosm. When I started, Sony's booth was preposterous in size, scale and the breadth of the products on show.

engadget.com

End of an era.

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Tally Ho! The Improvised War Movie @tallyhopodcast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'The Pour Escape' drops at midnight, so make sure you're all subscribed ready! And you can catch up on the first four while you're waiting.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I normally love [REDACTED], who can engage me even in subjects I have negative levels of interest in. But I can't get over the whiplash of them ranting about their Lyft driver turning down an uneconomic fare inbetween rants about companies underpaying their workers.

AJRedЯum @ajred.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Everyone's a winner. #SNLUK

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 26/09/2026

do they maybe need someone to play guitar and also shoot fire on top of a truck while being held aloft by some sort of bungee cord, asking for a friend

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Meepy 👻 @floweroflondon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nash and/or Fouracres in every sketch. As the good lord intended. *glares at last week* #snluk

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#SNLUK “Those aren’t shorts, they’re trousers on suicide watch!” is now a thing we all say.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The films are at least able to edit out the fact he spends half a page just on Lisbeth’s MacBook specs. You were spared that!

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's that madness-of-crowds Emperor's-new-clothes thing. I bought all three, and struggled valiantly through the first one wondering who in the hell edited this book and why.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Astounding to me any rock critic ever thought this album was bad. We could've had at least another decade of stuff like this if they didn't fuck with Rivers' head by hunting around for a single. Anyways it's not possible to find a riskier guitar solo on a pop record than the one in The Good Life.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' books are overlong, tedious, badly-plotted, badly-structured and are obsessed with minutae. The fact that Sky is adapting it into a TV series baffles me. There are better books to adapt that haven't been adapted twice already!

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ll be polishing my brass hand in mourning. Thank you, for all the laughs. And for permanently destroying my ability to not want to bellow TAKE OFF YOUR STRIDES at random moments.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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It's Carnivale, quite likely the fourth greatest television show ever made.

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Tally Ho! The Improvised War Movie @tallyhopodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here's a dispatch from Australia, and what regular Australians were up to during the 1940s. When they weren't being held prisoner in a bier keller cellar, of course. Tally Ho!: The Pour Escape, coming September 29, wherever you get your podcasts.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I. Fucking. Told. You. All. Years. Ago.

NME headline: "Muse explain handing over social media handles to Meta AI and conversations with Mark Zuckerberg."
Sub: 'He's alright, he's not too bad,' frontman Matt Bellamy said of the CEO.

Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And what, pray tell, would a data centre need 2,100 people for? What will they be doing on a day to day basis? (Article is paywalled so I have no idea if the story even addresses such a basic question, or if it's just mindlessly repeating a promise.)

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The live audience may cheer for Jack and Ania louder, but the live Reddit thread (and now several splinter threads) is just a tidal wave of people demanding justice for Fouracres.

Irredeemably so, which is sad because Emma Sidi did yeoman work trying to carry every sketch despite everyone else pushing against her.

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Someone hug George, and stop making him hide at the back of the crowd. Just once this series, please. #SNLUK

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He’s normally great, and I’m sure he’s great as a person. But this one has not been it.

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@ajred.bsky.social Looks like we’re heading for a fuck’s sake tonight.

Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have a theory that there’s a George/Al axis, and a Jack/Annabel axis within the cast. And this week, the latter has a sympathetic host who is favouring their material over the former.

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"No, it did not break into your home, steal your money and then lie about it. It merely engaged in a concerning behaviour we didn't expect. After all, if it was breaching things, that would be a criminal act, ha, ha, but, ha, no, to be serious we did nothing wrong."

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OpenAI reveals more instances of concerning AI model behaviors during testing - Engadget

OpenAI says it doesn’t believe the industry has solved its problems ‘to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.’

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Come on SNL UK, put the Gregor J. DuPont sketch up, I need to send it to everyone I know.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Went to see Henry Paker’s ‘Pencil Case’ last night and it was utterly magnificent. To even talk about a single part of it would ruin the show.

The stage at the end of Henry Paker’s ‘Pencil Case.’

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is true, and maybe sunk cost fallacy brain has poisoned them beyond redemption. But it's a good reminder that it's not an unstoppable force that has already been unleashed.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If it was that dangerous, they'd just turn it off.

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Pasted a John Berger quote into Google, just to see. Gemini assured me it was from Downtown Abbey.

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Tally Ho! The Improvised War Movie @tallyhopodcast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Set your calendars for... The Wrongest Day. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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AJRedЯum @ajred.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Let's check the first Fouracres-O-Meter of Season 2! #SNLUK

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And another 45 Seconds!? You are SPOILING US, #SNLUK, don’t stop.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

George in the first pre-tape? As a grand old ham!? Did I win a competition or something? #SNLUK

Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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a typical 'blue' Labour's mistake. Labelling moderate people as insufferable, top knotted, sourdough starter making, lactose intolerant fruitarians, when in fact their stated views on international policy, welfare, education and transport are very aligned with core Labour values

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The proposal would cost $1.2 trillion and raise ethical concerns? Well, I'd be shocked if it went ahead, because they've been so scrup *blowdart noise*

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Scooby Doo Philosopher (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So scary when you reach the end of an LRB article and there's still room to scroll which means someone wrote a Letter about it

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The review embargo for a certain prestige spy fy show is up. I am staggered at how positive it is. Actually staggered.

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Dan Cooper @danielwcooper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No? I could have sworn it was yours, my apologies! I have no idea who else could have made it. Never again will I giggle like a loon at the “Flying Pickets Man” caption.