UPC Fake News Watch (and Tough Reality): Same Familiar Talking Points and Talking Heads
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-05-02 01:28:59 UTC
- Modified: 2022-05-02 01:28:59 UTC
Summary: We take stock of the most recent propaganda from Team UPC; notice how there's not even one single case of objective journalism on the matter (we've searched and tracked this very closely), it's just a bunch of law firms (patent litigation profiteers) and their operatives -- in sites like JUVE -- quoting them
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Slop Causes Global Warming
- in some parts of the world people die from overheat (heat strokes) as temperatures reach almost 50 degrees as early as May in the northern hemisphere
- Vatican Speaks Out Against Slop, Promoting Instead "Truth, Dignity of Work, Social Justice, and Peace."
- Religion (no matter which) does not oppose machines, but LLMs aren't useful machines
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 87 Out of 200: Access to Justice
- this part will be short
- A Promise IBM/Red Hat Could Not Keep
- "all about control, not so much optics."
- Links 25/05/2026: Russia Lobbing Oreshnik Ballistic Missile Again, Slop Comes Under More Fire
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 25/05/2026: Injury in Gym and Abusive LLMs DDoSing Software Developers While Misusing Their Code
- Links for the day
- A 'Bank Holiday' When National Debt Doubles in a Decade
- Maybe it's time to rename "Bank Holidays"
- Links 25/05/2026: Lingering Environmental Concerns and Domain Registrars Targeted for Unmasking
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 24, 2026
- IRC logs for Sunday, May 24, 2026
- Gemini Links 24/05/2026: Impressions of Auckland, the Age of Left or Right Extremism, and .zim files
- Links for the day
- Microsoft's 'Hiring Freeze' (Layoffs) and Salary Freeze (While Inflation Approaches Double-Digit Rates)
- If they get replaced by anyone, it'll be low-paid folks in low-salary regions [...] workers' stress levels shoot up, compensation goes down
- Slop Will Not End Humanity, The Pushers of It Do (Artificial Scarcities and Global Warming)
- Causing hunger and poverty in the name of "computation"
- How Can the 'Broligarchs' Love Us When They Don't Even Love Themselves?
- Their SLAPPs have their limits
- Death at IBM Due to Overwork
- Dying for IBM is never worth it
- We Publish Less, We Get More Exposure
- UbuntuPit is coming to realise that quantity isn't what comes to matter or truly "count", especially when quantity comes at expense of authenticity
- Codecs and Software Patents - Part IX - GNU Project Has Chosen to Adopt AV1 for Its Videos, Conversion and Additions Underway
- One of our readers is working to help GNU through the maze of software patents and maze of patent lawsuits, which aren't the same thing but are somewhat overlapping issues
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 86 Out of 200: The Position of Courts on Computer-Generated Lawsuits and Filings From Another Continent (Made by Two Men Who Work for Slop Companies)
- Lawsuits by proxy from California
- Links 24/05/2026: SoftBank CEO Getting Conned by Scam Altman, Hotter 2026 and El Nino With Growing Impact
- Links for the day
- Links 24/05/2026: Ebola Outbreak and "Journalists Identify Murder Victims Of Trump’s Boat Strike Program"
- Links for the day
- IAM Magazine is in Effect Dead, It's Now Fused Into Microsoft's Patent Troll (Which It Has Promoted All Along)
- Microsoft-connected patent trolls in Europe [...] Now, in his new job, Wild can use his 'expertise' to help guide blackmail/extortion to better harm Europe's industry
- A Huge Proportion of 'Articles' in The Register MS Are Actually Paid Spam of the Communist Party of China, Selling Compromised (for Wiretapping) Technology
- The Register MS is having a go at becoming a marketing company or "B2B"
- Top Officials Have Just Left Microsoft, Layoffs in Anything But Name
- Microsoft's debt is very fast-growing
- Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH) Meets "Alicante Mafia" at the European Patent Office (EPO)
- Report on meeting with VP1 and his team on 21 April 2026
- UbuntuPit (ubuntupit.com) Has Deleted Slop Pages, Its Slopfarm Experiment Has Failed (Like Always!)
- Turning one's site into a slopfarm is a death knell
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 23, 2026
- IRC logs for Saturday, May 23, 2026
- The "Next Big" Bonus for IBM's CEO Apparently Comes From American Taxpayers While Veteran IBMers Are PIP'd and RA'd (Laid Off)
- the next big thing will be the CEO's bonus
- Links 23/05/2026: Starbucks Scraps Disastrous Slopfest, Colbert’s Final ‘Late Show’
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 23/05/2026: Poetry, Hobbies, ROOPHLOCH, and More
- Links for the day
- Government Bailouts Won't be Enough to Save IBM
- Bailouts from taxpayers in the US
- Links 23/05/2026: Social Media Bans and Demise of Userbase of LLM Chatbots
- Links for the day
- Legal Letters Are Not Postcards
- It seems like intimidation, nothing more
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 85 Out of 200: The United Kingdom's Rating for Press Freedom Has Improved, But We Can Do Even Better
- we see the US at #64
- Sites Realise That Becoming More Active by Using Bots (LLM Slop) is Self-Destructive
- We'll soon (maybe next year) also show that some of the 85+ KG of legal papers sent our way are computer-generated garbage, which might run afoul of some rules
- European Patent Office (EPO) Strikes Persist, EPO Management Tries to Give False Impression of "Happy Staff"
- EPO is trying to broadcast to the world a totally phony image of itself
- Gemini Links 23/05/2026: Patience, LLM Chatbts Being Bad, and Unexpected Computer Surgery
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 22, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, May 22, 2026
