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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 13, 2026

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IBM Cannot Even Do Payroll, Now a "Legitimate Target" of Iran

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Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 10 Out of 200: Showing Public Tweets is Not a Privacy Violation, But This Isn't About Justice, It's About Censorship

It's time to put a stop to this abuse of process (which is what the Judge deemed it to be last year)

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By Expanding to Advocacy of Ponzi Schemes and Bill Epsteingate (Sex Trafficking), Linux Foundation Revenue Grew to $220,730,594, But Salary of Linus Torvalds Not Even in Top 10 Anymore!

true!
In the Name of Transparency, Today We Show Our Defence and Counterclaim

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Cultification: best candidates avoiding Debian leader elections

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Richard Stallman (RMS) et al Cited in 'Nature' (Journal/Site) Today, "CODE beyond FAIR"

Under Open Access
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Overview of False Narratives and Lies Used to Lower Salaries at the European Patent Office (EPO), Abandoning Patent Quality and the EPC

Many of the latter slides are the same as Munich's
Links 12/03/2026: Atlassian Layoffs, GAFAN Covering up Slop-Induced Outages, "Age-verification in Operating Systems and the Internet"

Links for the day
The EPO's President, Who Covers Up Cocaine Use, is Trying to Suppress Communication Between EPO Staff Under the Guise of 'Privacy' (and in Defiance of a Court Ruling)

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One form of propaganda technique/s involves the systematic suppression of certain topics, or of particular "narratives"
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Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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