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Paris Marx🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨
We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!
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WILL SACRIFICE THE PLANET FOR AI vs ARCHITECT OF TECH-FASCIST PROJECT
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USAID DESTROYER vs GENOCIDE ENABLER
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Voting in the Semifinals closes at 9pm ET — so get your votes in early!
The Final Round will start tomorrow morning.
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Edjo@parismarx it looks like South Africa has a lot to answer for
Clockwork ☃️✒️Really unlucky bracket. Would've loved Altman vs Zuckerberg in semis!
Michel Lind 
@parismarx can the TWSU website have a link to this? Probably for the final voting tomorrow
Nick Appleyard@parismarx
Every year the same finalists.
Every year the same finalists.
ralphonse
javigus@parismarx both?
Thorium@parismarx Really tough choice, they are both so unapologetically evil. The rocks in my yard have more humanity than the two of these "people" put together.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@parismarx this was very tough, I had to consult my wife on it, but in the end I went with who is the more direct threat to me.
sonja@parismarx i would focus less on elon musk shuttering USAID as the program was created by the US government to emphasize "communism bad, democracy/capitalism good" worldwide for the last 60 years.
i would be more concerned with the 59,000 layoffs and 78,000 buyouts within the last year.
@parismarx again, both
Zach Leatherman@parismarx I… don’t think y’all want to use the same design treatment as “worst person in tech” for your own photos here 😅
Rihards Olups@zachleat @parismarx Surely that's just engagement baiting to get replies, like I just did ;)
@richlv @parismarx engagement baiting on mastodon is the only recession indicator I trust
@parismarx More diverse "nefarious final four" this year, yay.
We don't need AI. AI needs us.@parismarx
I would ha put all of them ex aequo. There is not one human friendly in here.
I would ha put all of them ex aequo. There is not one human friendly in here.
Wayne Dixon@parismarx can we just call it a 4-way tie?
melon 
none of the final four are indian
Alan Miller 
🇺🇦@parismarx on both sides it's really coming down to "actively malicious vs amorally indifferent," but I think we're reaching the end of the line and it's going to be "which actively malicious one is worse?" #worstpersonintech
Koen 🇺🇦@parismarx strong competition
@parismarx I vote Mark, that guy was always a psychopathic weird asshole
Gilgwath@parismarx just throw them all on into one of Musks Starships and shoot them to Mars. Then donate their fortunes to charity. 😬
Piiieps & Brummm@parismarx This is a tie up to and including fourth place.
If hard pressed I'd say Thiel and Musk, but the runners up are in no way better.
Pawlicker@parismarx why isn't Sam altman winning this man literally fucked ram prices for years
Oblomov@parismarx this is getting REALLY hard.
Ben@parismarx I love that you put the Ellisons on different sides JIC they faced off in the final!
Flaming Cheeto@parismarx EM had a pretty easy draw to the Semi's. He should still take this but now he has to pull out the whole arsenal.
Sashin@parismarx it's going to come down to Musk vs Thiel
Deb Nam-Krane@sashin Musk will win only because he's been in the news so much, but the real winner should be Thiel @parismarx
@dnkboston @parismarx This is roughly how I feel, although there were others in the match ups that I'd never heard of that could plausibly have been worse
@sashin I think Thiel makes all of them possible. But Thiel v Andreesen would make me pause. @parismarx
Guillotine Jones, Flâneur
I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥@parismarx I feel like you could have just started with these four. Or gone full round robin...
Rob@parismarx semi final B is a really hard pick...I'd have to say Zuckerberg, just because he's created an entire ecosystem of shit!
David Fleetwood - RG Admin@parismarx There is no world where it isn't Thiel. All three of the other finalists and many of the others in the running have him to thank at least partially for the positions they hold today. Without him many of these names aren't even here at all.
Edit: Did the math, 12 of 32 names on this chart owe all or part of their current position to Thiel in some way. Crazy.
Peace is Not A Fable 
Simon Walters@parismarx I don't normally use bad language bu that 4 fucking bastards you've got there!
atraidez@parismarx Is it possible to put all of them on a tourist rocket aimed at Sol?
[384992] Ellie Winters 
@parismarx my god altman vs thiel is like impossible both are just as bad as each other atp
though thiel has worse intentions at the same time so
hex@parismarx I think the important thing to remember here, no matter who wins, is that 4 is a small enough number of people to put in a tiny experimental submarine.
Pēteris Krišjānis@parismarx this feels impossible choice, can we get shared first place?
hazelnot 
@parismarx Elon Musk vs Peter Thiel is gonna be a hard one
nai 🖤@parismarx now that I think about it... how come I don't see JK Rowling's name anywhere?
Wenzel Massag@parismarx we can stop here. Crown them all.
Buck@stairjoke @parismarx I second the motion for a shared title
sanguish@parismarx why was JD Vance in tech?
Brian Danger Hicks@parismarx I know it has to come down to just one of them, but in my heart they're all losers.
gbsills@parismarx Wouldn't it be cool if we could get them to battle out the final four with chainsaws? I'd pay to see that!
Dan McDonald<sports-commenter>
Well any complaints I had about earlier-round seeding I'm going to retract. It DID provide us with some less than stellar first and second round matches, I mean nobody cared about Sacks vs. Chesky, but this Final Four is EXACTLY what fans have been seeking. And the committee was right giving these finalists number-1 seeds.
You can hear 'em sharpen their guillotine blades all over the country, folks.
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John Q McDonald@parismarx I think 32 would all fit into that capsule being launched into the Sun…
Michael Bacarella@parismarx that's bullshit the championship title belongs to Larry Ellison by miles
Peter 💙 StevensIt's too close to call, bung 'em all in the wood chipper😀
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘@parismarx #Alt4You The four semi-finalists are: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman and Peter Thiel.
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Ammar@parismarx the fact that Alex Karp isn’t winning this shows America runs on vibes and not facts
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