In today's installment of "Darwin Awards: TikTok Edition," a driver goes full influencer mode, live-streaming a vehicular manslaughter incident. 🚗📱💀 Because what's a little manslaughter if it's not shared with your followers, right? 🙄
#Prioritieshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/tiktok-live-stream-fatal-crash-chicago #DarwinAwards #TikTokInfluencer #VehicularManslaughter #SocialMediaFails #Priorities #HackerNews #ngated
Driver livestreams herself on TikTok as she apparently hits and kills man in Chicago
TikTok video shows woman speaking into camera and reacting to a loud thud before she says ‘I just hit somebody’
Ah, the classic tale of "I know better than the internet" 🧐. Our brave hero, armed with a half-baked understanding of robots.txt, valiantly blocks all crawlers only to realize LinkedIn isn't clairvoyant. 🤦♂️ Surprise! Breaking your own social media presence isn't exactly a power move. 🎉
https://evgeniipendragon.com/posts/i-was-wrong-about-robots-txt/ #internetwisdom #socialmediafails #robotsdottext #LinkedInblunders #digitalpresence #HackerNews #ngated
I was wrong about robots.txt
Recently, I wrote an article about my journey in learning about robots.txt and its implications on the data rights in regards to what I write in my blog. I was confident that I wanted to ban all the crawlers from my website. Turned out there was an unintended consequence that I did not account for.
My LinkedIn posts became broken Ever since I changed my robots.txt file, I started seeing that my LinkedIn posts no longer had the preview of the article available. I was not sure what the issue was initially, since before then it used to work just fine. In addition to that, I have noticed that LinkedIn’s algorithm has started serving my posts to fewer and fewer connections. I was a bit confused by the issue, thinking that it might have been a temporary problem. But over the next two weeks the missing post previews did not appear.
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