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  1. Watching #JohnOliver #LastWeekTonight ranting for 25 minutes about the annoying subscriptions to only end with #HboMax screen promoting their own subscription is just le-cheff-kiss level of irony.

  2. "Cell-site simulators are a mass surveillance tool, and police can get a lot from them, from who you are calling, to what you are texting. And the thing is, we don't know how often they do that because generally, law enforcement keeps a tight lid on its usage of these devices."

    #JohnOliver, 2026

    youtube.com/watch?v=lnBPhelCdWE

    (1/?)

    #MassSurveillance #surveillance #LawEnforcement #LastWeekTonight #US

  3. Sterk stuk bij #LastWeekTonight. Laat het een waarschuwing zijn dat we ook hier niet overal camera's moeten neerpoten. youtu.be/lnBPhelCdWE

  4. Not wild about lame copyright law abuse? BUY JOHN OLIVER'S BUC-OFF MERCH!

    (Watch Devin's explanation)

    ▶️ Everyone’s Wrong About John Oliver’s Trademark War - LegalEagle
    youtube.com/watch?v=VzlLbYH4_V
    ✅ Last Week Tonight’s Buc-Off Shop
    buc-off.com/
    #bucoff #LastWeekTonight #JohnOliver

  5. CW: CN: Polizeigewalt

    “We’ve got essentially Big Brother on steroids” (sic)

    In den USA sehen wir, wie Cops die Gesellschaft überwachen können. Die Last-Week-Tonight-Folge vom letzten Sonntag zeigt auch, wie Menschen darunter leiden.

    youtube.com/watch?v=lnBPhelCdWE

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    #dala #dala2026 #lastweektonight

  6. #USA all the time I think "wow that is a democracy in such a bad shape" i get suprised how worse it even is, like in the latest episode of last week tonight

    youtu.be/lnBPhelCdWE

    #lastweektonight about some #shitholecountry with #surveilance

  7. #HashtagGames
    #CookiesAMovieOrPlay

    The Nutter Butter Professor

    ...and speaking of which, #LastWeekTonight plugged a squirrel of the same name whilst in a rant against the copyright gestapo, then in turn featured the squirrel in a line of merch called Buc-Off. Priceless! #JohnOliver #BucOff

  8. I liked Buc-ee's. They had to go and ruin that by being litigious ass-hats. Good on John Oliver for taking them on!

    Buc-ee's #lastweektonight - YouTube
    youtube.com/shorts/J6OzxDLdnZ0

    #JohnOliver #bucees

  9. Everyone’s favorite cartoon animal who doesn’t sue small businesses!

    #lastWeekTonight #bucOff

    🍜 Last Week Tonight’s BUC-OFF SHOP buc-off.com/

  10. Today we started to pay for #MakerTube, since #Vimeo is on its path towards #Enshittifaction

    You can see our latest lectures here makertube.net/@lttrspc or follow our account @[email protected]

    BTW: did you know, that there is a mirror of #LastWeekTonight on #PeerTube?
    tube.fede.re/@lastweektonight_

  11. Screenshot of Last Week Tonight segment on “McKinsey” (at about 25:36)

    John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight with its well-researched and in-depth segments of journalism in satire’s clothing regularly manages to escape the 24-hour news cycle and instead set the agenda themselves. And if John Oliver takes on large consulting firms in general and McKinsey in particular, it is a must-watch for any student and scholar of management and organization studies. Check it out:

    I would have enjoyed this piece very much, hadn’t it been all too accurate a depiction of systemic deficiencies in our contemporary corporate world. And while I really applaud the way the segment demonstrates that the problem with McKinsey is not one of “bad apples” but rather systemic, indeed, it does not really offer suggestions on how to improve the situation.

    So what could be done to at least contain some of the systemic problems associated with large management consultant firms in both private and public sector contexts:

    • Size and market concentration matter. Among the key reasons why conflict of interests become ubiquitous is the market dominance of the Big Three consultant firms (similar to the problematic dominance of the Big Four accounting firms). Aside from breaking up those firms entirely (which seems difficult under current antitrust regimes), a first step could be waiting periods after consulting projects are finished before these firms can be re-hired, as well as self-commitments to only contract with non-Big-Three firms after any contract with one of those. (In the case of accounting firms, switching the auditor every five years is already good corporate practice.)
    • Special rules for particularly large consultancies: For consultancies above certain revenue thresholds, additional transparency regulations should apply, such as full and real-time client and project lists, including names of assigned consultants.
    • Limits on public sector consulting: Introducing restrictive limits for consulting services across the public sector, together with legally mandated transparency for any consulting contract awarded there. Today, it is often easier to outsource whole operations to ridiculously expensive consultancies than to invest in building in-house capacities for fulfilling even basic public services. Of course, this would require acknowledging that public sector solutions can – and often will – be more efficient than purchasing ready-made market-based solutions.
    • Tax and cap excessive earnings: Measures affecting both Big Three consultants and their top management clients would be higher taxes on the top one percent of top earners and restrictions on bonuses, which reward short-term orientation of consulting projects.

    In addition to these rather structural measures, segments such as the one embedded above are important reminders of the limitations of the knowledge even the most reputable consulting firms are able to command – and of the conflicts of interest inherent to the fact that expensive management consultants are only hired by members of top management teams. So it should not come as a suprise that they first and foremost serve those people that have the power to hire them, with employees, shareholders and the public at large paying the price.

    https://osconjunction.net/2023/10/24/capable-of-anything-culpable-for-nothing-last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver-on-mckinsey/

    #JohnOliver #LastWeekTonight #managementConsultants #McKinsey