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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 26, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. Slop Causes Global Warming

   in some parts of the world people die from overheat (heat strokes) as temperatures reach almost 50 degrees as early as May in the northern hemisphere

2. Vatican Speaks Out Against Slop, Promoting Instead "Truth, Dignity of Work, Social Justice, and Peace."

   Religion (no matter which) does not oppose machines, but LLMs aren't useful machines

3. SLAPP Censorship - Part 87 Out of 200: Access to Justice

   this part will be short

4. A Promise IBM/Red Hat Could Not Keep

   "all about control, not so much optics."

5. Links 25/05/2026: Russia Lobbing Oreshnik Ballistic Missile Again, Slop Comes Under More Fire

   Links for the day

6. Gemini Links 25/05/2026: Injury in Gym and Abusive LLMs DDoSing Software Developers While Misusing Their Code

   Links for the day

7. A 'Bank Holiday' When National Debt Doubles in a Decade

   Maybe it's time to rename "Bank Holidays"

8. Links 25/05/2026: Lingering Environmental Concerns and Domain Registrars Targeted for Unmasking

   Links for the day

9. Over at Tux Machines...

   GNU/Linux news for the past day

10. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 24, 2026

    IRC logs for Sunday, May 24, 2026

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