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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 21, 2026

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  1. Links 20/04/2026: Chatbots Motivate Manslaughter, GAFAM’s ‘Tobacco Moment’
    Links for the day
  2. The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part II - It's About Politics, Not Science
    Tomorrow we'll discuss what the cocaine proponents (or apologists) deem to be "ethics"
  3. SLAPP Censorship - Part 52 Out of 200: Phil Golding Appointed Bar Standards Board (BSB) Chief, Misogyny Must End
    How many rules will they "bend" or even breach?

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  4. 3,400 Gemini Capsules Accessible and Known to Lupa, A Geminispace Crawler
    We're about to exceed 3,400 some time soon
  5. When and Why I Quit Writing "Classical" GNU/Linux Advocacy Articles
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  6. IBM Had Mass Layoffs Every Month This Year (Including at HashiCorp, Confluent, and Red Hat), 'Results' Due in 2 Days' Time
    IBM's "media partners" seem to be engaging (propaganda and puff piece) ahead of the serenade to Wall Street
  7. Dr. Andy Farnell on Privacy Failings and Shallow Media Coverage
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  8. Gemini Links 20/04/2026: Fahrenheit 451, Small Web Advocacy, and Offgrid Holdout
    Links for the day
  9. Debian Has a New Project Leader (DPL)
    We plan to upgrade Debian some time this month
  10. This Morning The Register MS Published SPAM With "AI" 36 Times in It. This is What The Register MS is Paid to Publish.
    It's selling out to Ponzi schemers
  11. Throwing Rocks in Houses of Glass
    Lots of "virtue-signalling" against ICE
  12. Links 20/04/2026: Brave Origin Nightly, Scuttling USAID Gives 'Soft Power' to China, and White House Gives Money to Russia (Through Oil Sales)
    Links for the day
  13. EPO Cocainegate Escalates - Part II - "Cocaine Communication Manager" Luis Berenguer is Back Without Punishment
    Latest on Luis Berenguer
  14. Gemini Links 20/04/2026: "I Hate Computers" and "Why I de-Googled"
    Links for the day
  15. Over at Tux Machines...
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  16. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 19, 2026
    IRC logs for Sunday, April 19, 2026
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