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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 11, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Gemini Links 10/04/2025: "Secret of Happiness" and Overthinking POSSE

   Links for the day

2. Microsoft's "Linux" Foundation Pays Writers to Publish Propaganda and Then LLM Slop Sites (Slopfarms) Repeat the Propaganda, Using Microsoft LLMs

   consider the latest LLM slop

3. Alleged Layoffs at IBM Consulting in Australia

   IBM loses many government contracts these days

   New

4. Links 10/04/2025: NNCPNET Email Network, RSS Readers, and IRS as 'Immigration Enforcer'

   Links for the day

5. IBM Layoffs in Markham (Canada) Apparently Still Happening

   "Still going on... Got laid off today. TEL Canada, Band 9, 19 years with IBM."

6. Links 10/04/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) Perils and Internet Shutdown

   Links for the day

7. Once You Slop You Can't Stop and If You're a Serial Slopper Nobody Will Believe You Really Wrote an Article (Even If You Did)

   It's a lot like, "if you're a serial liar people won't believe you even when you say some truth" (or "once a cheater, always a cheater")

8. Pressing Against SLAPPs (From Americans Who Strangle Women While Microsoft Pays Their Salaries) is a High Priority for Us

   We also need to ensure that greedy firms/people that facilitate the SLAPPs get "disbarred" or "struck off"

9. Mozilla Firefox Already Down to 1% in Brazil

   Don't people crave the surveillance and the slop?

10. Links 10/04/2025: Hardware, Politics, and Internet

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 10/04/2025: Creativity and Agitation, Life in the USA, CSS Naked Day 2025

    Links for the day

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 09, 2025

    IRC logs for Wednesday, April 09, 2025

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