[Meme] Bribing Our Representatives at Our Expense
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-07-05 19:27:44 UTC
- Modified: 2022-07-05 19:27:44 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Gemini Links 26/05/2026: A Year of Composting, Fedora Bricks Itself and Infuriates Users With Slop and Wayland (Not What Users Want, What IBM Wants), Crawlers on Geminispace a Nuisance
- Links for the day
- Good Thing When Home Appliances Are Ancient Antiques
- dealing with the alarm has cost only time
- The Bloating of the Web Contributes to Global Warming and Causes Burnout (Slowdown, Hardware Erosion, Waste)
- This problem isn't limited to weather sites or subsites
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- Links 27/05/2026: Living Without 'Smartphoones' and "Russia’s Biggest Attack on Ukraine in 18 Months"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 27/05/2026: The USA as an "Experiment" and Some Ubuntu Manuals
- Links for the day
- [Video] Full Video of Richard Stallman's Talk in Rome
- It seems inevitable that the official GNU site will have it
- Slop is a Passing Fad, It's About Faking Productivity (Plagiarism, Misinformation, and False Positives)
- Slop is a bubble. Some people accept it later than others.
- Anderon - Like Kyndryl - Could be Far Deeper in Debt Than Its Alleged Worth (Vapourware)
- Time will tell, but it seems like a Federal-enabled (by the Federal Government) accounting scam, nothing more, nothing less
- The Media That Keeps Covering "AI" Because the Pushers of It Pay for Spam
- 23 times in the page they mention "AI"
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 26, 2026
- IRC logs for Tuesday, May 26, 2026
- Codecs and Software Patents - Part XI - The Stance of RMS (Dr. Stallman) Reassured GNU Regarding AV1
- cautioned against software patents since the early 90s if not earlier
- Google: We Are Locking You Out of Your Account (Since 15+ Years Ago) Because You Don't Have a Spyphone We Remotely Control
- Google (GAFAM) is an evil company deep in debt
- Red Hat: Bluewashing by IBM, Followed by RAs (Layoffs)
- We could use some hints or evidence related to this
- Links 26/05/2026: "Making the Digital Physical"; "The Medical System Abandons Women When They Are Most Vulnerable"
- Links for the day
- While US Government Greenlights (or Bluelights) Bailouts for IBM Some Foreign Governments Blacklist It
- "Albany leadership doesn’t know what they are doing but are damn good at pretending they do."
- IBM Bailouts and the IBM People Inside the Administration
- It seems possible/plausible that it is bailout money down the drain or that this money will never arrive at all
- Links 26/05/2026: Lithium Batteries Causing Fires (Even on Planes), 'Timmy' the Whale Dies
- Links for the day
- Why It's Ludicrous to Call Us "Microsoft Haters"
- Even if clustered together, news items still cover a broad spectrum (or spectra) of issues
- Pursuing Facts in an Age of Lies and 'Hallucinations' (Falsehoods Without Anyone Accountable, They Try Calling Computer-Generated Lies or Forgeries "Intelligence").
- Our aim is to relay information while bypassing gossip networks like social control media and slop in "search" clothing
- Computer-Generated Legal Filings Get You Reported to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
- We'll write a lot more about this in the future
- EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part XII - In the Second-Largest Institution in Europe One Can Take Paid 'Sick Leave' for Doing Cocaine, Then Come Back
- Cocaine addicts in the management were bullying colleagues. They're still in charge.
- Sites in Their Twenties
- We currently run concurrently a handful of series and have a lot more in the backlog
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 88 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP is Defaming Trans People in America Because Garrett Pays Hired Guns to Silence Them
- Garrett is scoring many own goals this year
- Sloppy "Resource Action," (RA) or IBM Layoff, Leads to Another IBM Lawsuit, Alleging IBM Tries to Pass Liability to Algorithms
- IBM is meanwhile resorting to slop to gaslight its remaining shareholders
- The Latest IBM Layoff Rumours
- What has happened to the company that invented so much of modern computing?
- Holy See Recognises the Threat of GAFAM and Slop
- Will the Holy See move away from GAFAM?
- The Old Ways of Computing Were Objectively Better
- Not as fast, but certainly much better
- Social Control Media is a Giant Waste of Time (and There Are No Future Remedies for This)
- Social Control Media is considered unhealthy to young people, but it is also collectively unhealthy to nations and nation-building
- Codecs and Software Patents - Part X - Florian Müller Still Muddying the Waters for FOSS, Using Software Patents
- Some things never change...
- Gemini Links 26/05/2026: Slop Bug Reports and Crawlers Considered Evil
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 25, 2026
- IRC logs for Monday, May 25, 2026
- 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