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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 13, 2026

Telepathic Transference of Numbers Between Two People

Updated This Past Day

  1. IBM Lost Nearly 33% in "Value" in 3 Months (Shares Down $100), But Nobody Held Accountable
    This is a truly dysfunctional company
  2. Google "Hey Hi" (Slop) Having a Stroke, Thinks I am Married to the Grandmother of My Grandfather
    Seriously!
  3. Beehiiv and Substack Are Platform Lock-in (Similar to Vendor Lock-in), Don't Use Beehiiv and Substack (and the Likes of These)
    Proprietary platforms are a problem. Some people "get it" sooner than others.
  4. Jim Zemlin/Linux Foundation Selling Anthropic Slop After Getting Bribed for Slop Marketing ('Linux' Foundation is a Pay-to-Say For-Profit Marketing Company That Buys and Manipulates the Media Based on False Pretences)
    Look what they've done to Steven Vaughan-Nichols (SJVN)
  5. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XX - EPO Management's Unified (One) Voice or Policy is, Doing Cocaine is OK When You're a Friend and/or Family of President Campinos
    The management needs to resign to save the Office

    New

  6. Techrights at 19.5 (We Started in 2006, Days After the Microsoft/Novell Deal)
    When Novell bought Ximian (run by the "best friend" of Graveley) it brought trouble to all of us, not just to Novell
  7. In Croatia, Microsoft Windows Share Sank From 98% to All-Time Low of 67% (or 28% If One Counts Android)
    statements made last week (and last month) by Microsoft's CEO confirm that Windows is rapidly losing users
  8. SLAPP Censorship - Part 75 Out of 200: All True, All Verifiable, Unlike Garrett and Graveley Lying to at Least Three High Court Judges About What They Did
    A lot of what I said a year ago not only turned out to be correct; it was moreover affirmed by Garrett after he had sworn on the Bible and put himself at risk to his liberty
  9. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XXI - EPO President Campinos Bribing to Buy His Seat, But Cautions Staff Against Bribery
    This isn't a democratic institution
  10. Gemini Links 12/05/2026: Spring Cleaning and New GemText Software
    Links for the day
  11. Links 12/05/2026: Samsung Sued by Dua Lipa (Publicity Rights), ‘Savage Love’ Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
    Links for the day
  12. IBM Falls to One-year Low
    At one point or threshold does the Board (controlled by the CEO) sack the CEO?
  13. Gemini Links 12/05/2026: On Astronomy and Stargazing, Coyote Time, and Freenom
    Links for the day
  14. Links 12/05/2026: Data Centres Destroying Neighbourhoods, "Care Workers Are Saying No to 24-Hour Workdays"
    Links for the day
  15. Richard Stallman to Give Public Talk in Erlangen, Germany (Next European Tour)
    Seems like a large room
  16. If IBM Suddenly Vanished in the 1980s, There Would be Chaos. Not Anymore.
    IBM's management has rendered IBM more irrelevant than ever before
  17. Gitlab is in Trouble and Its Shares Have Collapsed
    Down almost 80% since it began [...] The real issue has nothing to do with slop, it is a lack/loss of customers and erosion of the company's theoretical "value"
  18. Microsoft: Mass Layoffs Are "Offers" (Like "Job Offers"), Culling Experienced and Highly-Paid Staff is "Softer Workforce-reduction Strategy"
    Media sites that play along with those lies don't do journalism, they're in the PR industry
  19. Under IBM, Mass Layoffs at Red Hat No Better Than Oracle Under Larry Ellison (Treating Workers Like Disposables - Even Enemies - Overnight)
    under IBM the respect for the worker (or peer) does not exist
  20. The Slop-Amplified Fear of Privilege Escalation (Local, Not Remote) in Linux, the Kernel
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  21. GitLab the Latest Company to Do Mass Layoffs and Use Slop as the Go-to Excuse (GitLab Users Should Worry Too)
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    A society apathetic towards declining production (or manufacturing) standards will end up ripped off
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  24. SLAPP Censorship - Part 74 Out of 200: The Basis of My Lawsuit Against Alex Graveley, Who Helps Garrett Stack the Docket in Another Continent
    claim against the Serial Strangler from Microsoft
  25. Update on Slop About "Linux"
    "Linux" is a term many people are interested it, so it's not shocking that slopfarms target it
  26. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  27. IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 11, 2026
    IRC logs for Monday, May 11, 2026
  28. GAFAM (Microsoft) "Cloud Computing" Means Another Country's Military Accesses All Your Data
    reminder that confidentiality and Clown Computing are complete opposites
  29. Another Discrimination Lawsuit Against IBM and Workers Say IBM Culls Older Workers (Just Like Microsoft)
    If IBM fails to retain some of the smartest people, then what is the future of IBM?
  30. Gemini Links 12/05/2026: Android Nostalgia and Switching to Guix
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