[Meme] When Tyranny Has No Race or a Political Wing Diversity Alone Cannot Tackle the Deeper Issues

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2020-12-06 21:13:33 UTC
Modified: 2020-12-06 21:13:33 UTC

Jorge Campinos knew Dictatorship, so what would he think of his son António?

Summary: A shuffle between dictators is not what the EPO needs; Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos have more or less the same policies, so deeper inherent issues aren't being addressed

Image source: Funeral de Jorge Campinos

The 'Culture Wars' in Free Software Have Gone Out of Control: Social control media amplifies such utterly infantile discourse
10 Out of 10: RMS Attracts Massive Audience in Göteborg, Sweden (All Seats Occupied, Some People Standing): a 55-second clip of his talk
The Lawsuit by Clients of Brett Wilson LLP Against Brett Wilson LLP is Officially On, It is Progressing, The 'Experts' Pick Outside Law Firms (RPC and Mills & Reeve) to Spare Them From Litigants in Person: So it is probably quite potent
Slopwatch: Plagiarism and "Linux" Articles by Bots: Sites that do this won't survive; many of them rely on slop services (suppliers) that will cease to exist after the bubble bursts
Geminispace is Very Large: The word continues to spread and the number of participants grows
Teaser: To Compensate for the Fact Our Clients Are Terrible Human Beings Who Strangle Women (While on Microsoft's Payroll) and We Get Paid by Mystery Parties We Bombard You and Your Wife With Almost 10 Kilograms of Legal Papers: If you can't win an argument, then drown the other side with papers?
Another Wave of Microsoft Layoffs, This Time During National Day Holiday: This time it's China again
Staying Happy in Times of Crackdowns on Civil Society: Optimism in this sort of "new reality" or "new normal" seems like something for the irrational person
"Nobel" Exploited Posthumously for "AI" Hype, Now They Do the Same With "Quantum": ere have been many jokes about "Nobel" for peace (often granted to pro-war people) and a fake one for "Economics" (establishment propaganda)
Distinguished Lecture by Richard Stallman This Coming Monday in Rome: After "Free software, Crucial for Freedom in a Digital World"
Links 10/10/2025: Putin Admits Russia Downed Azerbaijan Airlines Jet, More New Heat Records: Links for the day
Noteworthy Claim That IBM is Firing a Lot of Lawyers This Week (RAs in the Legal Department): A lot of what they do is patent 'trolling' or lawyering up against their own staff (e.g. HR disputes)
Links 10/10/2025: US Judge Bars Attacks by ICE On Journalists and Protesters; “We Took The Freedom of Speech Away” Says the President: Links for the day
Slopwatch: Serial Sloppers, Google News Gifting Slopfarms, and Fake News/Plagiarism About "Linux": Google itself is a slop pusher these days
Qualcomm, the New Owner of Arduino, Blasted for Its Software Patents Tax on 'Smartphones': A lot of Qualcomm's patents are on software. We wrote about this in prior years.
XBox Layoffs Rumours, Downtime, and Criticism From XBox Co-Founder: "everyone is ditching the xbox."
Links 10/10/2025: Honoring The Legacy Of Robert Murray-Smith, Many Articles on the Hey Hi (AI) Bubble: Links for the day
Gemini Links 09/10/2025: October Gothic and Reading Middle Earth Role Playing; C and Ada: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 09, 2025: IRC logs for Thursday, October 09, 2025
Links 09/10/2025: Farewell to Jane Goodall, California Bans Algorithmic Price-Fixing: Links for the day
Gemini Links 09/10/2025: Lost Wages and a Saga Of Continuing To Use Palm PDAs: Links for the day
Richard Stallman's Talk in Helsinki is Done. Tomorrow Göteborg.: There are scarce details in Finnish about Dr. Stallman's talk
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The Slop Song: The train wreck marches on
LLM Slop/Advanced Plagiarism Flooding the Zone With Capital That Does Not Exist: Many publishers out there still participate in this bubble instead of calling it what it is
Links 09/10/2025: Sacked Microsoft Workers Make "Sackbird", IBM Taps CockroachDB for PostgreSQL: Links for the day
"Happy Hacking Day" Richard Stallman Talk This Afternoon (From 14:00 to 16:00) at Haaga-Helia University in Pasila: Richard Stallman in Helsinki, Finland
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 08, 2025: IRC logs for Wednesday, October 08, 2025
Links 09/10/2025: Impact of Microsoft Layoffs, More Data Breaches: Links for the day
Gemini Links 09/10/2025: Autumn Blues and C IRC Bot: Links for the day
Slopwatch Appreciated by Real Authors of GNU/Linux Articles: We do try to keep on top of those things
Upgraded R.R.R.R.R.R. Today: The Web of 2025 is full of garbage, not limited to slopfarms
Freedom From Proprietary Prisons: Forking always an option
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Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, UbuntuPIT, and Google News: We've also just noticed more slop from UbuntuPIT
Microsoft Says That Constant Mass Layoffs Are Success, the Media Isn't Buying This Microsoft Narrative Anymore: If people in the media feel an obligation to repeat whatever lies Microsoft tells, what point will there be to the media?
Links 08/10/2025: "Mali Puts Free Speech on Trial" And Apple Enforces Dictatorship: Links for the day
Links 08/10/2025: ‘Death to Spotify’ and Law to Ban Loud Commercials on Streaming (Dis)Services: Links for the day
Links 08/10/2025: Real Innovation and Nina.chat is Dead: Links for the day
Links 08/10/2025: Y2K38 Bug is a Vulnerability, Chat Control in Europe a Threat: Links for the day
Microsoft Windows is No Longer an Operating System, It's Surveillance Project: Why is this even legal to preload on PCs outside the US?
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Slopwatch: Linux Journal and Other Slopfarms: GAFAM needs to go the way of the dodo
Gemini Links 08/10/2025: "Seek Seek Revolution" and Gradient Backgrounds: Links for the day
Qualcomm Arduino Takes Aim at Raspberry Pi: Qualcomm is a Microsoft partner
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 07, 2025: IRC logs for Tuesday, October 07, 2025
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[Meme] When Tyranny Has No Race or a Political Wing Diversity Alone Cannot Tackle the Deeper Issues

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