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  2. If Your Company Lost About 30% of Its 'Value' in 3 Months, Then Maybe It Was Never Worth What You Claimed
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  3. Pleroma is Dying
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  4. Asia and Social Control Media
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  5. Anonymous Threats Against My Wife and Against Yours Truly
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  6. Decades-Long Microsofter (Darryl K. Taft) and TIOBE Conflate Microsoft GitHub (Proprietary) With FOSS in Microsoft-Sponsored 'News' Site
    We do not intend to do a lengthy debunking because we covered this subject several times in the past
  7. Microsoft Cuts Continue, Visitor Center in Redmond Shut Down
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  8. IBM's Accounting Claims Don't Add Up
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  9. Links 13/02/2026: "Cofounders Fleeing MElon’s xAI" and IOC Opposes Solidarity With Ukraine's Fallen
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  10. Gemini Links 13/02/2026: Square Function with Diode Network and Calls Against Discord
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  11. Links 13/02/2026: SUSE Uses Microsoft Internally, MElon's Company Helps Turn Epstein Files Into Child Abuse (After the Pornography Scandals)
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  12. African Browser Choices Show a Growing Problem in the World Wide Web
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  13. If You Want Digital Freedom, Then Follow Richard Stallman, the "Linux" Brand Has Changed and OSI is Microsoft (GitHub)
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  14. Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and SRA Failing to Curb SLAPPs Against People Who Expose Wrongdoing
    We'll soon show messages that we transmitted to politicians
  15. Beware the Latest IBM SPAM, IBM is Already Down "After Hours"
    After a harsh day in Wall Street IBM's shares area already down again (after trading hours)
  16. Radicalism in Our Communities is Mostly Corporate, Not Grassroots
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  17. Life Gets Better After Social Control Media
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  18. statCounter Suggests Americans Are Dumping Social Control Media
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  19. Back Doors and Fake Security
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  20. Cost-Cutting and Book-Cooking at IBM
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  21. Over at Tux Machines...
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