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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 13, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Exposing Corruption and Crimes Against Women Isn't a Crime, It's an Imperative
    When evil and greedy people are so desperate to silence you it typically gives you more motivation - not less - to do more of the same
  2. New EPO Leaks: Replacing Patent Examiners and Classifiers With Deficient Bots (Without Even Asking for Permission)
    Any consultation about it? Any media coverage? No.
  3. Gemini Links 12/04/2025: Sigrblot and Conway Calamity
    Links for the day

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  4. Links 12/04/2025: Tariffs Standoffs and Spam 'Articles' About Patents
    Links for the day
  5. Gemini Links 12/04/2025: Isle Release 0.0.4 (Alpha) and Pokemon
    Links for the day
  6. Links 12/04/2025: Science and "DEI" Dismantled Further in the US
    Links for the day
  7. Links 12/04/2025: "Part of the Problem" and "Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now"
    Links for the day
  8. The Consensus is Changing and Web Sites View LLMs as Evil, a Malicious Force of Plagiarism and a Source of DDoS
    It's not about "AI" but about plagiarism of sorts
  9. Slopwatch: Lots of Fake Articles About "Linux" Infect the Web, Google News Still Promotes These as 'News'
    people who go to a site like google.com or Google News or even social control media (where users get links from Google) will be directed to read slop, i.e. pure garbage.
  10. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  11. IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 11, 2025
    IRC logs for Friday, April 11, 2025
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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