Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 01, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. SLAPP Censorship - Part 29 Out of 200: Violent Language Won't Go Away When You Use It in Your Site, Blog, and Social Control Media

   abuse began in 2012 because I had politely and accurately criticised Red Hat

2. Lacking Business Model, Bluesky Has Become Slop and Gravitates Towards Plagiarism, Bots

   LLM slop/plagiarism under the guise of "Artificial Intelligence" (AI)

   New

3. In Time for April Fools (and Easter), 30,000 Oracle 'Pink Slips' While People Are Asleep

   Oracle probably has no choice but to fire a ton of people

4. Gemini Links 31/03/2026: Five Years on Gemini (Rob's Gemini Capsule), OFFLIFIRSOCH 2026, and More

   Links for the day

5. Slopfarms Persist, But Google Seems to Have Delisted Many

   We are still checking

6. Links 31/03/2026: More Energy Shortages Noted, Taylor Swift Faces Trademark Infringement Suit

   Links for the day

7. Chaff, Slop and Spam Help Distract From Parallel Crises at IBM

   IBM seems very eager to undermine discussion about what goes on inside

8. IBM-Spawned Lexmark Sold, Then Came Mass Layoffs, Now the CEO Who Did This is Leaving

   IBM is really not a magnet for talent at this point

9. Not April Fools But April First: Red Hat Staff Becoming "IBM"

   claims of mass layoffs set to kick off at IBM some time soon

10. Gemini Links 31/03/2026: Antenna Packed Up, AuraGem and AuraSearch Maintenance

    Links for the day

11. Links 31/03/2026: More Social Control Media Bans, BBC Now Run by GAFAM (US) Executive

    Links for the day

12. 'Broligarchs' Don't Want Science, They Want Entertainers to Entertain Them (and Make Them Richer)

    Of course this will result in things getting worse in the sciences and everyone who relies on the sciences

13. When Republics Turn From Democratic Governments Into Imperialistic Dictatorships

    What goes on in the US would require talking about politics

14. Companies That Have Nothing Except Buzzwords and Promises Will Perish

    Dishonest media will perish along with the companies it is covering up for

15. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to be Grilled in Two Weeks' Time by the British Government for "Recent Regulatory Failures"

    we escalated to our politicians

16. GNU/Linux Will Thrive as Long as It's Modular, Not Monolithic

    To IBM, it's all about money. Nothing else matters.

17. EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part X - People Are Leaving

    "I was happy to be at the EPO in the beginning, but since I realized it's all a big mafia"

18. IBM's 33 Years as a "Financial Engineering" (Accounting Tricks) Company

    In relation to Red Hat, this "financial engineering" involves culling many workers and trying to replace them with slop

19. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

20. IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 30, 2026

    IRC logs for Monday, March 30, 2026

21. Links 31/03/2026: Rising Costs, Cyberattacks, Novo Patent Expiry

    Links for the day

22. Gemini Links 31/03/2026: American Spring, Distributed Systems Simulator, and Calculus for Electronics

    Links for the day

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