Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 13, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. The Energy Crisis Will Likely Carry on and Kill the Slop Industry

   To the slop charlatans, "this is the end, my friend..."

2. SLAPP Censorship - Part 44 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley 'Copypasta' Sunday (Copy-Paste, Add One Word, Change 'T' to 't')

   recycling text

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3. Links 12/04/2026: Climate, Conflict, and Change in Hungaristan

   Links for the day

4. Gemini Links 12/04/2026: Passports, Science, and Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology

   Links for the day

5. EPO on Strike This Past Friday (All Major Sites), Massive Strike Continues Tomorrow

   strikes have trebled, not trembled, compared to last month (in Munich)

6. Links 12/04/2026: SLAPPs Against Thai Journalists Who Expose High-Level Corruption, Maharlika (Philippines/Marcos) Threatens to Lawyer Up Against GAFAM to Demand Censorship of Critics

   Links for the day

7. Racism and IBM

   at IBM and Red Hat people who are hard-working and proficient are now being fired based on their ethnicity and nationality (or either)

8. When Cruelty is the Point (American SLAPPs in London, the United Kingdom, Europe)

   Consider the following

9. Resistance to SLAPPs in the UK: Coalition Growing

   thankfully awareness of SLAPPs in the UK is improving

10. Links 12/04/2026: Mass Rebellion Against Slop, UK Crackdown on Nudification by Slop

    Links for the day

11. Gemini Links 12/04/2026: "Objective Truth" and Flutter

    Links for the day

12. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

13. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 11, 2026

    IRC logs for Saturday, April 11, 2026

14. Red Hat: We Kill People, But Please Obey the CoC or We'll Banish You

    From Red Hat's own site

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