Mark Zuckerberg got 1,223 votes.

There was only two votes between them.

Oh, my God.

Voting matters, folks.

Voting matters.

You could be the deciding vote in a horse race election.

You know, Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us made in partnership with The Nation magazine.

I'm your host, Sparous Marks, and week, we have a little bit of a different episode.

Usually we're doing interviews or occasionally,

I might do a commentary on a particular topic.

But this week, I'm presenting to you a conversation

that I had with Jason Sudowski and Brian Merchant

to kind of wrap up the year in tech.

So it's going to be a bit more conversational than the episodes that we usually

have on the show, but I'm sure you're still going to enjoy it because we really get into

some of the biggest stories that we think happened this year in the tech industry and

in society more generally, the effects of those things, and also the issues that we will be

watching going into 2026 if you're interested in what might be on the top of our radars.

And of course, if you follow Tech Won't Save Us on social media, you will probably have noticed

that we were running a worst person in tech contest for 2025, something that we do every single year.

And so this live stream happened last week for Patreon supporters, but you will also, you know,

hear us discuss who we think the worst person in tech is and who ultimately won that contest.

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