Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 14, 2026

Updated This Past Day

1. General Assembly Covers EPO Strikes on Thursday, September 17th (2026)

   The EPO's staff representation at The Hague has asked people to join an upcoming online session about industrial actions

2. SLAPP Censorship - Part 182 Out of 200: UK Dockets With Machine-Generated Applications to the Court (From American Slop Companies)

   Earlier this year Garrett was using machine-generated output as legal papers and submissions

   New

3. Microsoft is Laying Off All Year Long (It's Just Keeping Quiet About It)

   The issue here is also the media. It's complicit.

4. MElon's Twitter Takeover Was Meant to Amplify People Like Himself or David Heinemeier Hansson (Slop Pyramid Schemes and Bigotry)

   Social control media is not neutral

5. Microsoft Lunduke of 'Linux Sucks' (and Microsoft Corp.) Tries to Replace GNU/Linux With Toxic Discussions About Toxic Politics

   Poisoning the well people drink from

6. Links 13/09/2026: Republican Campaign Aide Uses Nazi Photo and Convicted Felon is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech

   Links for the day

7. Gemini Links 13/09/2026: Never Settling, Plain Text Digital Life, and Newsgroups

   Links for the day

8. Efforts to Cancel Matt Mullenweg Have Made Us More Sympathetic Towards Mullenweg and More Sceptical of the People Who Run Automattic (Named After Mullenweg)

   Mullenweg, unlike Automattic, is not "in it for the money"

9. Boosters of Omarchy Are No 'Underdogs'

   There are many Arch derivatives that do not rely on "viral" marketing in MElon's child porn-pushing social control media and are instead relying on real development, not slop

10. PIPs Are a Setup: They Set Workers Up to Fail While Working Their Arse Off Before Getting Kicked (Out) in the Arse

    Malicious and exploitative

11. SLAPP Censorship - Part 181 Out of 200: This is Really More Like Brett Wilson LLP v Schestowitz (Using Money From American Slop Companies, Plagiarism Pushers)

    We approach the parts where we explain that the Application to the Court with Garrett's name on it was instead complaining about fair criticism of the combative law firm (irrelevant to any injunctions) as if it was impermissible to explain what it had done - and still does - to my wife and I

12. It Sometimes Feels Like Slop Companies Are Committing Online/Digital Crimes

    "GPT" out of control

13. Gemini Links 13/09/2026: Why Omarchy is "Plain Disgusting" and "AI Slop" and Why "Plain Text To Do List" Rocks

    Links for the day

14. Links 13/09/2026: Scam Altman Admits Issues (Financial), Rival Says Stop Slop (Plagiarism)

    Links for the day

15. Windows Down to New Lows as Switzerland's Federal Government Abandons Microsoft (Where Feasible for Now)

    That's how it starts...

16. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

17. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 12, 2026

    IRC logs for Saturday, September 12, 2026

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