Jamie Watts

England

Deputy Editor at Thred

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Articles

The Gen Z lawyers and students reforming big law firms

1 week ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

The rigid and overtly traditional business of law is subtly being reshaped by Gen Z lawyers and law students. Billable hours and a culture of overworking are ebbing away in many organisations, as work-life balance and an emphasis on personability come into play. The business of law is serious for a reason, but is there room to make the industry lighter and less reticent for workers and clients alike? Gen Z lawyers and aspiring professionals reckon so.
The horror game anthology exploring the dark side of social media

1 week ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

This story within an overarching ‘mega lore’ puts players in the shoes of Anne, a young woman trapped in a Freddy Kruger-esque nightmare shaped by the toxic influences of social media. The trailer shows creature manifestations of issues like cyberbullying, body image, and dissociation while a YouTube personality provides what we presume will be rare moments of comfort.
Universal Music Group’s ties to abuse scandals in West Africa

2 weeks ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

Waves of divestment from Vincent’s businesses continue to crash, recently including a complete shutout from Switzerland’s largest pension fund and Norway’s $1.7trn sovereign wealth fund, citing a number of concerning allegations including human rights abuses in Liberia, Cameroon, and Sierra Leone.
Xbox to integrate Steam according to industry insider

2 weeks ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

Months after initial rumours Microsoft was plotting to support Steam on Xbox, a gaming insider has made fresh claims that internal testing is taking place. What would this integration mean for console gaming going forward? All signs still point to Xbox becoming more service than hardware in the near future.
Trump trying to roll back decades of vital energy efficiency standards

3 weeks ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

Despite this decisive obstacle, the Trump administration is trying to circumvent red tape by going after water standards. Claiming that these specific limits weren’t set in Congress, the agency wants to target appliances like washing machines to make more energy-hungry versions that are less ‘burdensome and costly’ to manufacture. A proposed rule for commercial washing machines could, if passed, bring water conservation standards back to a ‘statutory baseline’ set in 2007.
vanity space flights + minecraft theatre mayhem

1 month ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

do you ever feel like a plastic bag? Happy hump day everyone!If you’re bored of the relentless hamster wheel that is modern life, don’t get in your feels too much. Easter weekend is rapidly approaching, which means we have another 48 hours to sit on our arses watching football, gorging on e numbers, and palming our children off on our other halves… oh, just me then.
A Minecraft Movie’s meme-shaped success

1 month ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

Whether by design or not, the community feel engendered by Minecraft as a game has translated directly into the movie realm. According to those who’ve seen it, the movie essentially plays out like a big fan service almost inviting excitable fans to indulge and partake in the least appropriate of settings.
Gen Z is done with legacy media

1 month ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

Research shows that Gen Z is avoiding traditional news due to an innate scepticism for the institutions delivering it. They also see the constant stream of negative content as being at loggerheads with a need to maintain good mental health. Legacy media is panicking, and rightly so. Blissful ignorance or doomscroll-induced anxiety? Pick your poison. Given how bleak a daily peruse through mainstream news has become, it genuinely feels like these are the only viable options.
Gen Z are officially the UK’s gym generation

2 months ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

One in six Gen Zers now subscribe to a gym membership in the UK. A desire for physical fitness isn’t the only reason why. Guinness or gains? More young people are choosing the latter than you’d expect. A record 11.5 million people aged 16 and over are now subscribed to a gym in the UK, according to UKActive’s latest report. The key demographic behind the boom, is Gen Z.
News avoidance has become huge internationally

2 months ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

The percentage of people who selectively avoid news has reportedly reached 39% globally. This is an increase of 10% in less than a decade. Blissful ignorance or doomscroll-induced anxiety? Pick your poison. It’s no secret that the state of the world is causing mass panic. Cost of living is on a continual ascent, the climate situation is perilously grim, war crimes are occurring on a daily basis, the threat of terrorism keeps simmering, and youth violence remains rife.