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  2. "Victory Day" - Part I: That is the Day Microsofters Who Assault Women Pay for Their Actions in Foreign Land (Using "Guns for Hire" Who Attack Their Own Country for American Dollars)
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  4. Links 08/05/2025: "Slop Presidency", US Government Defunds Public Broadcasting
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  5. Lasse Fister, Organiser of Libre Graphics Meeting, Points Out the Code of Conduct is Likely Violated by the Same People Who Promote Codes of Conduct (and Then Bully Him Into Cancelling a Keynote)
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  6. LLM Slop Attacks Not Only Sites of Free Software Projects But Also Bug Reporting Systems (Time-wasting, in Effect "DDoS")
    Microsoft, the leading purveyor and promoter of slop, is a cancer
  7. The Richard Stallman (RMS) "European Tour" Carries on In Spite of the Nuremberg Incident
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