The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (August)
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)

Votes in the seeding round coming in: Pretty Obvious, Resolved and Unresolved & Police Are Scrambling off to an early lead, with a tight battle for 16th.

Top 16 qualify! Voting counts likes & reposts (and comments on IG) across platforms. Round of 16 starts December 27.

STANDINGS UPDATE

It's Pretty Obvious who is in the lead so far, but there's a tough fight for the 15-18 seeds to determine which 16 make it through to the Round of 16. Votes will be counted until the morning-ish of the 27th.

HEADLINE OF THE YEAR SEED ANNOUNCEMENT

Seeds are set -- round of 16 voting starts in the next few hours to determine the 2025 Headline of the Year!

@paulisci
Je aanbeveling heeft nog niet genoeg effect @ionica
@paulisci I'm a little sad about Poundland. Go Poundland Go. (Possibly a statement that has never been said before).
@paulisci I find it funny that bluesky and mastodon are voting in more or less the same proportions for most, with the notable exception of mastodon voting the anti-AI ones up at a much higher percentage 😄

@paulisci You've got some belters in there!

I think the resolved/unresolved one just made me laugh the most though.

@paulisci Vaugely remember a quote that some people don't understand certain things because their salary depends on not understanding it.
@madengineering @paulisci rising to their level of incompetence. that one?
@sharquaydius @paulisci No, that's the Peter principle. This quote was easily a hundred years older.
@madengineering @sharquaydius @paulisci Upton Sinclair "it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it"
@flexasync @madengineering @paulisci
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair
Nice. i gotta read this fellas work. thanks for the ref.
Upton Sinclair - Wikipedia

@paulisci Replace AI with Clippy and the headline gets ~20 years younger.
@paulisci I suspect that he does understand why but is pretending to not understand, because Microsoft.
@paulisci “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
—Upton Sinclair
@paulisci Hi. I dont know who Suleymon Microsoft is talking to but he really needs to get out of the echo chambers of #Apathiistas ; The mainstreet person might use AI as offered but isnt among niche early adopters. They are device adopters (smart phone, Amazon Echo).. I'd more guide the convo to say people dont like pitchmakers who say AI as quickly as " its the fundamentals" to fill in gaps they really dont have mainstreet words for to explain "profiteering> civil utility worth"
@paulisci
But if Satya likes and uses it then everyone else has to be stupid or ignorant ... don't they?
@paulisci Because AI has the IQ of a cat turd, my big toenail has more fucking intelligence than most AI bots
@paulisci the eyes of Upton Sinclair's corpse just popped open