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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 15, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Layoffs in Twitter, Facebook, and Microsoft's LinkedIn
    There are silent layoffs at Microsoft this month
  2. We Don't Depend on Google and Don't Care for Google
    We have our own site search and we don't depend on Google to bring visits/visitors to us
  3. Facebook Layoffs Due to Enormous Debt, Nothing to Do With "Hey Hi" Slop
    The lies about "hey hi" in relation to layoffs will only contribute to further public resentment towards: 1) the media and 2) all the slop.
  4. Universities Became Bad Places for Work
    What happened to academia?

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  5. Change of Address at the Hired Guns, Address Removed
    Companies tend to alter their 'shell structure' in anticipation of major action
  6. The Good IBM Managers Have Flown Away, All That's Left is the Book-Cooking Loyalists
    IBM is just cheating the SEC and shareholders. This seems to be the only thing IBM's management is nowadays good at.
  7. Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 12 Out of 200: Months Ahead of Serial Strangler From Microsoft Who Helped Double the Lawsuits (Funded by Third Parties) as 'Revenge' for Exposing Crimes
    In 2024 I sat down and wrote about what had been done to me and to my wife
  8. Crime Comes in Many Forms
    apparently the SRA is OK with stranglers of women in America bullying the media in the UK
  9. commandlinux.com, linuxteck.com, linuxiac.com, and linuxsecurity.com are Slopfarms With "Linux" in Their Domain Name
    once readers realise they read slop they immediately lose interest
  10. Links 14/03/2026: Adoption of Slop Has Killed BuzzFeed, Russia Sees "Economic Gain From Iran War"
    Links for the day
  11. Patriotism is Conditional, If It's Unconditional, Then It's Like a Cult
    My love for Software Freedom is only as strong as my love for Freedom of the Press
  12. Links 14/03/2026: Mass Layoffs at Facebook ('Meta') and Sweeping Layoffs at Twitter (xAI), Social Control Media and Slop Are Only Debt
    Links for the day
  13. Wrong Time, Wrong Place (Digg)
    Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian can relaunch Digg.com, but we doubt it'll work "this time for real!"
  14. Reporting New and Suppressed Information is What Journalism is All About
    In the domain of Free software, there are very few sites out there that offer exclusive coverage on community affairs and there are many gagging/censorship attempts
  15. The Limits of Speech and the Rationale of Limitations
    it seems to be part of an international trend
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  17. IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 13, 2026
    IRC logs for Friday, March 13, 2026
  18. Gemini Links 14/03/2026: Goodness, AD534 Multiplier Module, and Extroverts Online
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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