‘Proof of life’

n a matter of ~2 weeks Wikileaks (not Wikipedia) is turning 20. I used to write a great deal here about Wikileaks and some accounts associated with Wikileaks wished to replicate some of my posts.

Over the years many pro-Wikileaks accounts perished in Twitter (now X) and Wikileaks’ Twitter handle has been dead for months. I wonder if Wikileaks will bother saying anything at all on the day it turns 20.

Silent layoffs

here are LOTS of Microsoft layoffs right now. Insiders know it, but they cannot speak about it (too risky). Media does not report these. It’ll conveniently – in an arse-covering fashion – dismiss that as “rumours” and say, no WARN notices. But Microsoft bypasses the law. It says, “we’ll fire you unless you agree to this ‘voluntary exit’ agreement, then sign an NDA to keep quiet and outwardly happy about it.”

Same for PIPs and LITE.

IBM and Microsoft have TENS OF THOUSANDS of layoffs this year. Unlike Oracle, they hide these.

Below are articles from 2026:

Not laptops

began my school days with a notebook. Then notebooks. Pupils like myself learned how to read and write. We used notebooks. We had a blackboard, later a whiteboard (for health reasons). It generally worked. It can still work.

Earlier this year I used a notebook extensively to take notes. This week I begin turning those notes into digital articles. It’s not about copying the thing word by word. Typing is faster than writing and gives more time to consider one’s choice of words or which words are most important to capture.

Nostalgic. Yes, but it works.

Across several areas

am very proud to say that our persistent ‘activist’ writings (journalism) have worked. This is paying off. We also earn positive publicity (press) for it.

Techrights, for example, is making strong progress this year regarding much-needed SLAPP reform. To be clear, this is NOT about a single incident, it is about changing the whole system.

Days ago I also resumed coverage regarding patents. We are making the public aware of important issues. I say “we” because we began working with other publishers. They recognise this cannot go on.

Impact in retrospective

he newspaper of 5 years ago is not read today.

The newspaper of today will be read today.

The newspaper of 5 years ago had impact 5 years ago.

What happened 5 years ago impacts what happens today.

5 years ago there were many days, many newspapers, and each thing reported each day impacted and still impacts the present.

So just because people no longer read newspapers from 5 years ago doesn’t mean the articles in them are of no impact.

If only more people did the same…

t is fair to say that this blog is a lot more active this year than it has ever been. This was a conscious decision and one that I regret not making sooner. I still have many old PDFs and documents of a personal nature – ones that I wrote two decades ago. I estimate that the combined total of these is 200-300 pages. The plan was to revisit them some time in the future, maybe turn these into something publishable.

At the moment I try to focus on exposing wrongdoing, or use writings to illuminate to a large audience things they ought to be aware of.

Yesterday, for instance, I learned from reliable sources that cuts and mass layoffs at Microsoft are massive and under-reported. They still go on next month, but where is the media?

Prepaing for next year’s publication already

t’s already autumn (by some calendars) and today we resume a series about the EPO and another about the SRA over at Techrights.

We expect this coverage about these scandals to last well into next year. We have patience and resilience.

These are matters of public interest.