Technology Liberates Us... Inside Golden Cages With Golden Chains

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2020-08-16 13:26:14 UTC
Modified: 2020-08-16 13:26:14 UTC

Technology is marvellous Endless in scope Data it can process More than humans can cope

Pick up your "smart" phone In case there's an emergency The government can rescue you It can also make calls, you see?

Technology is marvellous It helps you "like" things Of course others can see it So upload things and sing!

"Likes" are the currency of popularity What's not to like? You get two likes immediately Provided you reciprocate with Jennifer and Ike

All technology is marvellous More means "smarter" Mightier, merrier Sure, it'll make you happier

Screw real-life relationships You can make more Facebook friends One in five of which you've met But that's not the message it sends

Circuses are marvellous A show with frightful animals And then you get some clowns CIOs and CTOs who champion "clown computing"

Give up all your data Rewards you shall receive Loyalty cards track your purchases Sometimes even your fridge

Cash is so disgusting It's for people who beg for change Display your ID everywhere Or they'll put you in a cage ⬆

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Under Scrutiny Today in the British Government's Meeting, Grilled for Its Failure to Regulate Rogue Law Firms: Things are not improving
The Deleted Article About Mass Layoffs at IBM (April 2026): Resurrected
Lots of Positive News Lately, Microsoft GitHub in Trouble: it's not too crazy to speculate about GitHub being the next Skype (or CodePlex)
The Register MS Has "Webinars" (Marketing); They're Promoting Ponzi Schemes or Slop But Disguised as "Intelligence": These "webinars" are just spam displayed to people as if it contains real information
It Was Always About Freedom and Sovereignty (or Self-Determination): About 24 hours from now Richard Stallman (RMS) will be giving a talk in Texas
Mass Layoffs at IBM Again, Just in Time for the Fake "Results" Next Week: Slopfarm will issue some chaff to give an illusion of journalism
Windows (Microsoft) in Botswana Falls to Another New Low: Botswana is a fairly large country
SLAPP Censorship - Part 47 Out of 200: British Courts Are Not Censorship Offices for Americans Funded by Affluent Third Parties: Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) was scrutinised by our government
More Than 6 Months After a Very Close Friend of António Campinos and EPO Official Caught With Cocaine Campinos is Cracking Down on - or Stealing From - EPO Staff: Now they go after the "Education and Childcare Allowance"
Links 14/04/2026: Data Breaches and LLM Slop in Courts: Links for the day
Gemini Links 14/04/2026: Mastodon in the Terminal and a Voxel Engine: Links for the day
Links 14/04/2026: Against US Monopolies in UK, Legal Action Against Twitter: Links for the day
The Series About SLAPPs Funded by Third Parties: All Parts Thus Far: index for today
SLAPP Censorship - Part 46 Out of 200: Alex Graveley's Attorney Rick Cofer Did Not Deny That Graveley Had Strangled Women; He Did, However, Pay Local Officials: some background about SLAPPs that began in 2021 very shortly after I wrote about corruption at Microsoft GitHub
The EPO's Attitude Towards Women and Media Silence on EPO Unrest: There's media blackout about very critical matters
Gemini Links 14/04/2026: Greed Versus Stability; Board and Card Games: Links for the day
Links 14/04/2026: Cheeto Loses Defamation Lawsuit Against the Media, "France Takes Its 129 Tonnes of Gold Uut of New York": Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 13, 2026: IRC logs for Monday, April 13, 2026
IBM Agrees With Microsoft That Slop is Just for "Entertainment" and "at Your Own Risk": So what can IBM sell now?
Microsoft Windows "Market Share" in USA Down to 40% According to Government Sites or 31% Overall: The world is changing, so do Americans
SLAPP Censorship - Part 45 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Cases Inherently the Same, Their Legal Team Can Barely Even Distinguish (Full Timeline): "million-dollar men"
Gemini Links 13/04/2026: Pronouns for an LLM, Fakecoins Promotion Piggybacking Iran, "Your Face is Now a Search Query": Links for the day
Links 13/04/2026: Higher Costs Hurt Both Rich and Poor Country, a "Landslide Win to Oust Orban": Links for the day
Tens of Thousands of Days of Strike at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, Nobody in the Media Has Mentioned It: Since the "extraordinary general meeting"
SPAM That Mentions "AI" 16 Times (in "Security" Clothing, But Selling Back Doors), a Paid Placement in The Register MS: This will doom the reputation of the publication, The Register MS
At Least 23 Days of EPO Strikes: Why does the media not deem this newsworthy?
Links 13/04/2026: Impersonating ProPublica Reporter, More Attacks on the Press (Occupation With Little and No Compensation, Only High Risk): Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 12, 2026: IRC logs for Sunday, April 12, 2026
Gemini Links 13/04/2026: Freiburg, GUIX, and Announcing Satellite Antenna (SA): Links for the day
Links 12/04/2026: Climate, Conflict, and Change in Hungaristan: Links for the day
Gemini Links 12/04/2026: Passports, Science, and Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology: Links for the day
The Energy Crisis Will Likely Carry on and Kill the Slop Industry: To the slop charlatans, "this is the end, my friend..."
SLAPP Censorship - Part 44 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley 'Copypasta' Sunday (Copy-Paste, Add One Word, Change 'T' to 't'): recycling text
EPO on Strike This Past Friday (All Major Sites), Massive Strike Continues Tomorrow: strikes have trebled, not trembled, compared to last month (in Munich)
Links 12/04/2026: SLAPPs Against Thai Journalists Who Expose High-Level Corruption, Maharlika (Philippines/Marcos) Threatens to Lawyer Up Against GAFAM to Demand Censorship of Critics: Links for the day
Racism and IBM: at IBM and Red Hat people who are hard-working and proficient are now being fired based on their ethnicity and nationality (or either)
When Cruelty is the Point (American SLAPPs in London, the United Kingdom, Europe): Consider the following
Resistance to SLAPPs in the UK: Coalition Growing: thankfully awareness of SLAPPs in the UK is improving
Links 12/04/2026: Mass Rebellion Against Slop, UK Crackdown on Nudification by Slop: Links for the day
Gemini Links 12/04/2026: "Objective Truth" and Flutter: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 11, 2026: IRC logs for Saturday, April 11, 2026
Red Hat: We Kill People, But Please Obey the CoC or We'll Banish You: From Red Hat's own site

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