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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 10, 2025

Updated This Past Day

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Google Still Promotes Plagiarism From WebProNews and Prolific Slopfarms

Google News seems lost and hopeless sometimes

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Linux Foundation Has Found a New Business: Pyramid Schemes

Linus Torvalds should have known better

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IBM's Total Debt is About to Hit Almost 80 Billion Dollars, the Company Can Only Raise $14.8 Billion Within 3 Months

Route towards insolvency, not just irrelevancy

New

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IBM: We Lay Off Tens of Thousands of People the Very Same Week We Spend 11 Billion Dollars (Debt) on "AI" Fantasies, Hiring About 8,000 People at Cost of 1.3+ Million Dollars Per Employee

Seems like IBM is run by fools

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Links 09/12/2025: Tariffs Causing Great Harm and "How to Leave the U.S.A."

Links for the day

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Links 09/12/2025: "After the Bubble" (of Slop), "The Internet Forgets"

Links for the day

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Gemini Links 09/12/2025: Lunar Observations and Programming

Links for the day

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They Won't Tell You This ("Revolution Won't Be Televised"), But the Slop Bubble Already Burst

We already wrote about it twice this morning

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UbuntuPIT Started Experimenting With LLM Slop and a Month Ago It 'Died'

This is the typical trajectory of slopfarms

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LibreWolf Will Turn Six in March, It Already (Probably) Has Millions of Users

It's not possible to know the number of users LibreWolf has

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The Year of the New Dark Age

Something isn't right

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Slopwatch May be Doomed

Slop isn't changing the world, certainly not in a good way anyway

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BetaNews Still a Dodgy Site, It Seems to be Partly Run by Chatbots

The company that took over apparently tries to "monetise" the domain with slop

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Tomorrow the EPO Administrative Council is Meeting to Discuss the EPO, Contact Your National Representative Today

Final versions of the EPO Administrative Council photo gallery

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Over at Tux Machines...

GNU/Linux news for the past day

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IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 08, 2025

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