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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 20, 2026

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1. IBM Behaves Like a Company Looking for Loose Change Between Sofa Cushions

   Chasing laid-off workers for dollars and even pennies, making excuses and devising loopholes (such as PIPs) to flout severance obligations

2. EPO Union Leaders in Rijswijk Explain Where EPO Strikes Stand and How to Prepare for Next Week's

   We have some revelations to share in a few days

3. Microsoft's "AI CEO" (Slop Propagandist) is Projecting, Many Microsoft "Jobs to be Replaced With All-Indian Low-Paid Staff in 12 Months"

   Windows is perishing

   New

4. Gemini Links 19/02/2026: "Towards a Gemini Famicom Resource" and Dumping Microsoft

   Links for the day

5. Microsoft Found Another Bailout Opportunity: Killing People

   Good thing that Nadella is not racist!

6. No "Smart Mobs" (Social Control Media) in BRIC?

   It looks like the "Social" "Media" sites tracked by statCounter see little from (or of) BRIC, and moreover it is declining fast

7. The Few Slopfarms We Saw Today

   The sentiment has changed a lot

8. Links 19/02/2026: Protecting Framework Laptop 13, Hardware Drive Shortages

   Links for the day

9. In Africa's Second-Largest Nation, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Opera 10 Times Bigger Than Firefox (and GNU/Linux Now at 5%)

   This will become an accessibility problem

10. Links 19/02/2026: "A.I.pocalypse" Inevitable and "Butlers to LLMs"

    Links for the day

11. An Inherently Royal (Monarchs') Legal System Where Size Matters (Big Capital Eats the Small)

    This reinforces the notion that justice is only for those who can afford it

12. These Statistics Should Keep Microsoft Shareholders Awake at Night

    Windows is, in general (all versions collectively), declining over time

13. Economic Failure and Other Harsh Realities Have Nothing to Do With Slop 'Innovation'

    Advanced propaganda, not advanced 'AI' [...] They attack workers while insulting their intelligence

14. Spaniards Shutting Down MElon's Digital Weapon of "Smart Mobs"

    Are the Spanish people already acting based on gut feeling and shunning/shutting out the provocation vector?

15. Bitcoin: government engagement contradictions

    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

16. Richard Stallman in the United States - Part II - "Haters Gonna Hate"

    we shall carry on with this series at the right pace

17. Typical! Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Tells Victims of Fraud to Wait 10 Weeks

    justice delayed is justice denied

18. statCounter: Only One in 350 Iranians Would Use Microsoft for Web Search

    Microsoft is trying to fake "demand"

19. Slides Shown a Week Ago by the EPO's Staff Committee Ahead of the Second Very Large Strike

    This coming weekend we'll drop a 'bombshell' of sorts

20. EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part II - Illegal Drug Addicts Mobbing the Wrong People, This Will Definitely Backfire

    This year may well be the last year of Team Campinos. Nobody will hire them after that.

21. Mass Layoffs (But Silent Layoffs) Still Happening in IBM, You Need Only Look Closely (There Are NDAs, PIPs, 'Early Retirement' Sweeteners and IBM - Like Microsoft - Skirts the WARN Act)

    the layoffs are definitely happening

22. Very Little Slop

    We are not finding much slop anymore

23. Links 19/02/2026: Illegal Kangaroo Court for Patents Attracts Aggressive Firms, Public Domain Review Grows

    Links for the day

24. Gemini Links 19/02/2026: Taxing the Rich, Raspberry Pi 4 Tinkering

    Links for the day

25. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

26. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 18, 2026

    IRC logs for Wednesday, February 18, 2026

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