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Thomas Germain

@thomasgermain.bsky.social

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Tech columnist for the BBC and host of The Interface podcast. I cover how we use technology, and how technology uses us

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

After just five episodes, The Interface is now the 31st top podcast in the US, per the analytics company Rephonic At this rate can you afford not to listen?

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It's not just hipsters, we're talking about a full-blown cultural trend. People told me Bluetooth headphones make you look old

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This is… wild. Palantir has a new internship that’s exclusively for neurodivergent people And apparently they think being autistic makes you right wing? “This is not a diversity initiative” lol

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

People all over the world are using this trick to make AI tell you lies on subjects as serious as medical questions and personal finance From my new BBC podcast The Interface

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

UPDATE: ChatGPT is adding new lore to my hot dog career. Also it says I have a new job at the AP? Here I am slaving away at the BBC, I wish someone had told me

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The fact that this feature exists means OpenAI paid 100s of people to have e-sex with the robot to make sure it doesn’t get weird

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I LOVE that their marketing strategy is literally “we’re making skynet isn’t it sooo scary 😱 ?”

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Saw a rt of your post. We’re definitely not connected via social graph, I think this is just their Facebook description. Crazy coincidence though

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Fun Apple news: when I updated to iOS 18 my iPhone’s sleep tracker mysteriously stopped working. Finally figured out why 😀 Apple removed the built-in sleep tracking feature, even though it worked like a dream. Can’t think of a single reason to do it aside from pressuring people to buy Apple Watches

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

Getting ads my iPhone’s home screen now. Apple and Uber teaming up to make the world cool and good

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 25/06/2023

Like this guy is not supposed to be here. During the revolt, he was also posting audio messages about it on Social Media. The world we live in is crazy

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 25/06/2023

This man lead a mutiny against Putin and is now getting off scot-free. Respectfully, my guy looks like Elmer Fudd. He looks like he should be running a hotdog stand, not leading a band of murderous convicts. And, in fact, he did! Yevgeny Prigozhin used to sell hotdogs on the street with his mom.

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

If Sam Altman doesn’t stop squinting he’s going to get a headache relax dude

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