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Preparing for Potential Pre-Christmas Staff Strike at the European Patent Office (EPO)

The General Assembly unanimously mandated the Local Bureau Berlin of SUEPO to coordinate and organise, together with the ...
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Links 01/12/2025: Dumping Microsoft GitHub, "Files Expose Britain’s Secret D-Notice Censorship Regime"

Mark’s neighbors found out that he’d been diagnosed with ALS in July, and it was very aggressive. They knew he wouldn’t be able to harvest his sugar beet crop. His sons would harvest, but would most ...
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Let's Hope Slopwatch Has Become Obsolete

If the "AI" (slop) bubble is silently bursting, or if slopfarms have come to accept they have no viable future, then that is a big thing! It'll not only be good for the Web but also for people who ...
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Silent Layoffs at IBM: Still Using PIPs to Hide Full Scope and Extent of Layoffs

October 2025: IBM Allegedly Found New Tricks for Silent Layoffs: LPI, Then MIS (Not PIP) ...
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Infatuation With GUIs is a Misguided Fool's Errand

GUIs are nice in brochures and demos, but in many contexts this mentality does not quite stand out or make clear if: 1) they improve productivity; 2) any changes made don't have a considerable toll at ...
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An Almost-Depressing Lack of Reliable News Sites

An Almost-Depressing Lack of Reliable News Sites. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 01, 2025. Whilst it's empirically provable and hence likely true that - at least in the area of ...
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Gossip or Rumours Say Another Large Wave of IBM Layoffs Starts in the New Year

Quoting that latest (and at the moment most informative) message: "Next round of IBM layoffs will most likely be in 02/2026.
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Disconnected From 'Cyber Monday' and Other Fake Holidays

Disconnected From 'Cyber Monday' and Other Fake Holidays. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 30, 2025. Fake holidays come in ...
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Links 30/11/2025: China’s Pooh-tin to "Crack Down on Online Misconduct", Tragedy in Hong Kong Leaves Hundreds Dead and Many Critics Censored

A new survey from Pew Research finds that most adults in the US use YouTube and Facebook, while only half report using Instagram and fewer use TikTok. The social control media habits of American ...
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The Control of Twitter (Now X.com) and of Its Userbase Used to Fake 'Demand' for the Failed, Stagnant Chatbot of MElon

MElon has "Ponzi envy" because Scam Altman stole the show and the limelight/thunder with a huge Ponzi scheme that will soon lead to bankruptcy but leave Altman with fame (or infamy). These people are ...
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Tomorrow We'll Explain How the Media in Europe Failed EPO Stakeholders, Including EPO Workers Victimised by "the Mafia"

Tomorrow, the last day of the month, we'll begin focusing on the failure of media in Spain and elsewhere. The only site in Spanish that covers EPO blunders seems to be a blog which translates our work ...
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Vista 11 is 11 (Percent) and a Lot of Metrics Are Frauds

Vista 11 is a massive failure. It'll never recover. It'll never pick up and "version inflation" (a "Vista 12") will worsen things by giving Microsoft more things to maintain with even less staff than ...