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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 14, 2025

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  1. Richard Matthew Stallman, or rms (RMS), Turns 72 This Coming Weekend
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  3. Links 13/03/2025: Further Assaults on Science and Education in the US
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  4. Expect XBox to Be Shut Down Like Skype
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  5. Truth Hurts (Especially Some Dishonest and/or Greedy People), But Reporting Truth is What Makes Journalism Valuable to the General Public and Helps Protect Society From Abuse by Sociopaths or Pathological Liars
    When it comes to reporting, we're on the side of female victims, not the men who strangle them.
  6. New Paper Reveals the Web (and Net) Drowns in LLM Slop, "Linux" is Impacted Too
    It will be getting harder to trust anything on the Web
  7. Links 13/03/2025: RIP, Carl Lundström; Tesla (the Company, Not Scientist It Piggybacks) Besieged by Public Backlash
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  9. Links 13/03/2025: COVID-19 Legacies and "Modern" Cars as Spying Machines on Wheels
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