This generally means that "best of XYZ" (e.g. "best patent law firms in Germany") is little but corruption or veiled advertising that misleads people by failing to disclose the sleazy business model.

Futurism has established itself - more so in the past year or so - as a loud critic of slop. The majority of its articles are about how much slop sucks. Like "Pivot to AI", it correctly spots the BS, ...

LLMs do not have any real understanding of anything. They rely on scanning of many texts and assigning probabilities ...

A new release has been announced to users of L A T E X and its omission from Planet Debian is glaring because of all the work ...

Today is Monday. On Friday night, exactly a week after the "controlled media" about XBox, it became known that Microsoft datacentres were experiencing mass layoffs. Where's the media?

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal judgment on the agreed outcome states that between January 2020 and September 2023, Niaz operated as a sole practitioner without authorisation and had held client ...

Commonhaus Foundation has collaborations with companies like Microsoft. It moreover outsourced to Microsoft (NSA), which means security is not its true goal. It boasts about a CoC in every page of ...

What triggered my final departure from Twitter was the Ukraine war and how Twitter handled it. Twitter became more of a weapon or "war porn". After the "Arab Spring" we should have all bothered to ...

This term is not new: Will Lockett's Newsletter: Microsoft became Microslop and Windows users are "flocking" to GNU/Linux "to escape the mess" | Microslop is Slop, Slop is Considered "Quality" Some ...

Having already killed CentOS and mostly killed Fedora (not much going on there anymore; it's just IBM staff, no community ), IBM also made RHEL proprietary and continues turning it into slop - same as ...

Terrorists linked to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State are ramping up their attacks on the borderlands between three West ...

Free Software Foundation Needs to Become More Active in Europe to Avoid Impersonation by Microsoft-Sponsored Groups. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 02, 2026. Published yesterday ...