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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 17, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Links 16/05/2026: Climate Issues, Free Speech, and Monopolies/Monopsonies
    Links for the day

    New

  2. Links 16/05/2026: Cuba Plunges Into Darkness (Energy Wasted by Nonsense), Googlebooks as Slop Nonsense (Energy Waste and Time Wasted)
    Links for the day
  3. Gemini Links 16/05/2026: Retreat and Devuan Manuals
    Links for the day
  4. SLAPP Censorship - Part 78 Out of 200: Slandering Me for Saying the Truth About Graveley and Garrett's Abuse of Processes, Stacking Dockets
    These are the sorts of things British taxpayers ought to talk about
  5. "AI" Became a New Name or Placeholder for Debt
    Because they will only ever lose money for this thing with "tokens" or "potential"
  6. "Microsoft Goodwill and Intangible Assets" Down Two Years in a Row, According to Microsoft
    Microsoft cannot sell these, so what is their real relevance?
  7. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  8. IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 15, 2026
    IRC logs for Friday, May 15, 2026
  9. IBM: Shares Down 30%, Mass Layoffs, IBM Says "Goodwill" Grew by 10% to Over a Third of the Company's Total "Worth"
    According to IBM
  10. Microsoft LinkedIn Layoffs "Very Likely Higher" Than 1,000 People
    Microsoft is bleeding
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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