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1 readyJulian Assange on Fake Activists in Silicon Valley (updated)

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2 readyEPO People Power - Part VI - Criticism Not Permitted, Media Subjected to Contempt by Cocaine Addicts Who Manage the Press for the EPO (updated)

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3 ready"Smart" or "Intelligent" Agents and "Vibe Coding" Deletes Everything You Have (updated)

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4 readyIBM Layoffs in Europe as Well

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5 readyEPO People Power - Part IX - Insiders Say the EPO's Chief Propagandist Effectively Ousted (on Fake 'Sick Leave') Because of Reporting by Techrights

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6 readyLitigation Transparency Until 2030 or 2031

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7 readyLinks 12/12/2025: Thunderbird Adds Proprietary Plug, "Catch-22 of Canadian Digital Sovereignty" Explained by Michael Geist (About GAFAM/US)

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8 readyDeveloping Some New Software for the Sites

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9 ready"In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice."

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10 readyEPO People Power - Part VIII - The Chipmunk on Cocaine, Now Deleting Videos

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11 readyWhat If the Economy Isn't "Down" But Mostly Diverted? (While "AI" Fills a Gap for Capital That No Longer Exists in Tech)

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12 readyTechrights Site Search Was a Success After All

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13 readyValve's SteamOS, Microsoft Canonical's Ubuntu, and Other Platforms That Only Leverage Free Software (But Won't Protect It)

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14 readyThe Free Software Foundation (FSF) Paid Respect to Its Founder This Year, Now It Wants You to Join

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15 ready2026 Guaranteed to Give Us Compromised Media Funded by "AI" Boosters to Promote "AI" and Sometimes be Composed by "AI" (Chatbots)

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16 readyUnder IBM, Things Culminate at "AI-Equipped Customer Experience Transformation" at Red Hat

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17 readyAndy Farnell and Helen Plews Now at the Wheel in Cybershow

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18 readyMicrosoft Trims More Jobs

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19 readyEPO People Power - Part VII - The Corporate Media and the Reference Sites (e.g. Wikipedia) Are Already Compromised and Complicit

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20 readyNew Paper Shows That EPO "Growth" is Dictated From Above, Not Earned (More Monopolies Granted by Breaking Rules, Laws, Conventions)

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21 readyEPO People Power - Part V - The European Media is Practically Dead When It Comes to Covering European Patent Office (EPO) Corruption

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22 readyDatacentre and Server Maintenance Next Week

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23 readyAfraid of Words, Not Afraid of Actions

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24 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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25 readyIRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 11, 2025

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26 readyIBM Workers Still Blast IBM Management for Firing Loads of Workers While Overpaying to Buy Useless Companies

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27 readyLLM Slop About Linux Still Seems Scarce

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28 readyLinks 12/12/2025: Oracle Shares Collapse After Slop Bubble Inflated (Circular Funding/Financing One's Own 'Clients'), "Trials by Jury" in UK Considered

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29 readyGemini Links 12/12/2025: 'Kinetic Energy' and Browsing Geminispace With a GUI, TUI, or CLI Client

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30 readyLinks 11/12/2025: Escalations Around Japan, Software Patents Found Invalid

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31 readyKilling the IBM Cash Cow, Raising Massive Debt Instead

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32 readyLinks 11/12/2025: Dangerous Flukes by Slop and Bottled Water as 'Placebos'

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33 readyGemini Links 11/12/2025: Repairs, Wisdom of the Crowds, and AC Explorations

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34 readyThose of Us Who Grew Up Playing Doom Must Remember What Microsoft Did to Its Creator

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35 readyWe Need Your EPO Insider Stories

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36 readyYes, IBM is Also Laying Off Indians (Even in India)

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37 readyAt The Register MS, Fake 'Articles' Sponsored by WIntel (Windows+Intel)

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38 readyMicrosoft-Sponsored Wikipedia Spam About "AI", Added by Microsoft Operatives

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39 readyKeep on Pushing, EPO Management is in a State of Panic This Week

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40 readyIn Addition to National Delegates, Contact the French or Portuguese Governments (Politicians) Regarding António Campinos

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41 readyEPO People Power - Part IV - Sexism, Chauvinism, and Lines of Cocaine at Europe's Second-Largest Institution

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42 readyIf You Want Freedom, Follow Richard M. Stallman (RMS)

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43 readyEPO People Power - Part III - Challenging Corruption

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44 readyThe Flawed Notion of Criticising for Criticism's Sake

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45 readyA Lot More Than Techrights

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46 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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47 readyIRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 10, 2025

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48 readyThe Web Has Become Extremely Rude

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49 readySlopfarms Parrot Any Number That GAFAM Throws at Them, Even Totally Fictional Figures That Merit Fact-Checking

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50 readyMicrosoft Lunduke Tailors His 'Content' for 4Chan

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51 readyRichard Stallman Was Also Right About Microsoft GitHub (It's Becoming a Botfarm)

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52 readyDemocracy and Buzzwords

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53 readyFive Years in Gemini Protocol

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54 readyKeeping Up the Pressure on EPO Management

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55 readyLike Clickfraud Spamnil (Swapnil Bhartiya) But for Hate Mongering: What Twitter Has Become

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56 readyFor New PCs and for Old (or Retro) PCs the Increased Cost of System Memory Benefits GNU/Linux and BSDs

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57 readyGemini Links 10/12/2025: "Thousand Mile Journey" and The Art Of Chilling

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58 readyMoving Away From Content Management Systems (CMSs) and Flocking to Static Site Generators (SSGs)

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59 readyIBM is Laying Off Workers in India (While Spending a Fortune Buying a Company for Buzzwords, a Box-Ticking Exercise)

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60 readyEPO People Power - Part II - Talking About Corruption

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61 readyJust a Little Slop About "Linux"

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62 readyLinks 10/12/2025: McDonald’s Latest Slop Gaffe (After Dumping IBM's Slop) and "Scam Altman’s Panic Sweats"

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63 readyCircular Funding

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64 readyLinks 10/12/2025: Ransomware (Windows TCO) Has Crippled Economies, Slop (Fake) "Videos Have Flooded Social (Control) Media"

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65 readyY Combinator (YC) Funds Scams, Run by Scammers

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66 readyEPO People Power - Part I - Identifying Corruption

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67 readyIBM Has Become a "Plantation"

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68 readyIt's Not Too Late to Send an E-mail to Your European Representative Regarding European Patent Office Abuses

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69 readyAlmost a Thousand EPO Workers Have Voted for Industrial Action

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70 readyWhy So Many Software Projects Are Quitting Microsoft and GitHub

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71 readyMany of the Attacks on Us Apparently Boil Down to Jealousy

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72 readyOver at Tux Machines...

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73 readyIRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 09, 2025

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74 readyValuing One's Work by the Effort or Budget Taken to Undermine It

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75 readyIBM Says It Buys Another Company for "AI", So Why Does IBM Fire Its Own "AI" Experts?

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76 readyThe Boundaries of Criticism

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77 readyNew EPO Series: Mafia Culture, Mobbing, Nepotism, and Illegal Drugs

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78 readyRichard Stallman Was Right About "AI"

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79 readyWith 3 Weeks Left (Sans Extensions) the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Already Raised About Half of the Money Set as Fund-Raising Goal

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80 readyGemini Links 10/12/2025: Cranberry Juice and Gramophones

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