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Podcast Guest Booking Is Broken and the Data Proves It

🔥BurningAug 25, 2026

AI Is Answering Millions of Questions Every Day Using Content From Blogs and Publishers Who Are Getting Paid Almost Nothing For It

🔥BurningAug 12, 2026

Two Indigenous Languages Disappear Every Month and the Oral Knowledge Recorded Only in Those Languages Disappears With Them

🔥BurningAug 12, 2026

Starlink Costs $599 Before You Know if It Will Actually Work at Your Address

🔥BurningAug 12, 2026

Sports Betting Has Been Legalised Everywhere and the Research Shows Every Dollar Bet Is a Dollar Not Invested

🔥BurningJul 22, 2026

Star Ratings Are Broken and the AI Shopping Agents Replacing Them Are Not Trusted Either

🔥BurningJul 22, 2026

The Hiring Process Is Now a Bot Fighting Another Bot and Real Candidates Are Losing in the Middle

🔥BurningJul 15, 2026

Healthcare Was Designed Around a World Where Someone Was Always Home. That World No Longer Exists

🔥BurningJul 13, 2026

You hit your AI token limit mid-task and the platforms will not tell you exactly why or when it will happen again

🔥BurningJul 7, 2026

AI summaries let viewers extract the useful part of a YouTube video in 30 seconds and leave, and the creator earns nothing from that interaction

🔥BurningJul 7, 2026

People are being secretly recorded by strangers wearing Meta smart glasses in public and there is currently no law that gives them any recourse

🔥BurningJun 21, 2026

AI tools are supposed to free up your time but workers using them report working more hours, not fewer, and nobody has fixed the incentive that causes it

🔥BurningJun 19, 2026

Companies have replaced human customer service with AI chatbots designed to exhaust you into giving up rather than resolve your problem

🔥BurningJun 16, 2026

You save posts, screenshots and content every day with the intention of going back but the volume makes everything impossible to retrieve

🔥BurningJun 16, 2026

Amazon's star rating system is broken and the fake reviews propping it up cost consumers $770 billion in bad purchases last year

🔥BurningJun 9, 2026

Elderly people lose $7.7 billion to scams every year and their families have almost no way to know it is happening until the money is gone

🔥BurningJun 9, 2026

Contractors won't come out for small home repairs and the gap hits elderly homeowners hardest

🔥BurningJun 1, 2026

Mobile game ads show completely different gameplay from the actual game and regulators have barely touched it

🔥BurningJun 1, 2026

Evaluating B2B software means filling out a lengthy form and sitting through multiple sales calls before seeing anything

🔥BurningMay 26, 2026

When your food delivery order is wrong the restaurant never finds out and the problem keeps happening

🔥BurningMay 25, 2026

Submitting a short film to festivals costs hundreds or thousands of dollars with almost no transparency about what your money actually buys

🔥BurningMay 20, 2026

Nobody knows when they are supposed to tip anymore and the iPad turning to face you was designed to exploit that confusion

🔥BurningMay 19, 2026

Every clothing brand uses different size charts making online shopping a guessing game with no reliable standard

🔥BurningMay 12, 2026

Four in ten companies post job listings with no real intention of hiring anyone

🔥BurningMay 12, 2026

Buying concert tickets from resellers has become a genuine gamble with no reliable way to verify authenticity before the show

🔥BurningMay 6, 2026

Renters have no reliable way to verify a landlord's reputation before signing a lease

🔥BurningMay 6, 2026

Crypto taxes across multiple wallets and exchanges are nearly impossible to calculate without paying an accountant who also does not fully understand them

🔥BurningMay 4, 2026

Budgeting apps are complicated enough that most people abandon them within a week of downloading

🔥BurningMay 3, 2026

The App Store review process takes so long that developers lose momentum, revenue, and users waiting for Apple to approve basic updates

🔥BurningMay 3, 2026

Builders who share projects made with AI assistance face public backlash with no clear standard for what disclosure is actually expected

🔥BurningMay 2, 2026

Facebook Marketplace has no safe way to pay, meet, or arrange delivery and fraud is the predictable result

🔥BurningMay 1, 2026

Streaming services have fragmented so much that watching what you want now costs more than cable ever did

🔥BurningMay 1, 2026

People with chronic conditions re-explain their entire medical history to every new doctor because records do not transfer properly

🔥BurningApr 28, 2026

Job applicants have no way to know which companies are known for ghosting after interviews

🔥BurningApr 17, 2026

Managers can't tell if their remote team is actually working without resorting to surveillance tools that destroy trust

🔥BurningApr 15, 2026

You're paying for subscriptions you forgot about and companies make it deliberately impossible to cancel

🔥BurningApr 14, 2026

Small landlords can't track maintenance requests without paying enterprise software prices

🔥BurningMar 24, 2026