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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 25, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. 24/7 Wall St. Editor-In-Chief and CEO Calls IBM Is "America’s Worst Big Tech Company", Talent is Leaving, Supposedly Strategic Units Culled

   21 hours ago by Douglas A. McIntyre

2. IBM's Debt Increased Over $5 Billion in 3 Months While IBM Laid Off Many in Europe, US, Confluent, HashiCorp, and Red Hat

   An increase of $5,000,000,000+ in debt in just 3 months!

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3. EPO Cocainegate Escalates - Part VI - The Strikes Go On and On (Major Strike Today)

   We'll be covering this later today in relation to what the Office dubs "ethics"

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4. Links 24/04/2026: Zelenskyy Says Ukraine's War Position "Most Stable", Samsung Workers on Strike Due to Pay

   Links for the day

5. Dr. Andy Farnell on Why Calling Slop or Chaff "Hey Hi" (AI) Harm Us All, Except for "Ten or Twenty Rich Industrialists"

   "words to avoid"

6. Recent Happenings at IBM Reaffirm Rumours About the CEO; He Might be Resigning (or Pushed Out) Soon

   If the rumours are true (no, we did not check those tax records for ourselves), it's not unthinkable that IBM is already doing what Apple did months ago

7. Gemini Links 24/04/2026: Public Reticulum Gateway Node, Smol Computers, and Old E-mail

   Links for the day

8. Links 24/04/2026: Intel Abandoning Computer Freedom (Even Further), Iran Reports That American Software and Hardware Remotely Sabotaged/Hijacked During War

   Links for the day

9. The Great Wonders of Slop "Efficiency"

   Thankfully nothing was lost in the transmission and lots of work (datacentre emissions) got "done"

10. IBMers Expect Another Giant Wave of Layoffs, Talk (and Sing) About the PIPs

    The media won't be covering the key facts

11. As We Predicted, Francophonie Countries in the EU and Outside the EU Dumping Microsoft for National Security Reasons

    We expected Belgium or some other Francophonie place to do so next

12. Even to Microsoft Insiders It Seems Like XBox Has Already Died or Surrendered to the Japanese Companies

    Now the Microsoft layoffs are evident for people to see

13. Absolutely Terrible Journalism About Microsoft Layoffs This Week

    7 hours ago by Leila Sheridan

14. SLAPP Censorship - Part 56 Out of 200: 5RB and Brett Wilson LLP's Copy-Paste Machination for Garrett and Graveley

    Here is another straightforward example of their junior barrister overusing copy-paste on his Mac

15. Getting Aggressive Suggestive of Loss - Part II - Lawyers Are Not "Hired Guns" (and Should Never Act Like Ones)

    The matter is being investigated

16. Nadella is Killing Microsoft. Slop Kills It Even Faster.

    A decade from now we'll look back at slop like we look back at skateboards

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17. Gemini Links 24/04/2026: Data Breaches and Unofficial Gemini Protocol Specification Archive

    Links for the day

18. Microsoft Offers About 10,000 of Its Senior American (Read: Expensive) Workers to be Laid Off

    How many slopfarms and media parrots play along?

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 23, 2026

    IRC logs for Thursday, April 23, 2026

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