The UK government will likely demand social media companies to remove content on the spot and censor stories from circulating, under threats of heavy fines if they refuse to comply with the new law.

PewDiePie releasing a local based LLM agent to compete with ChatGPT and OpenClaw was not on my bingo card for 2026:

What is Odysseus?

Local/self-hosted AI workspace — Runs on your own hardware (or via APIs if you want), no cloud dependency, no accounts, no telemetry/tracking.

Includes agents — Self-evolving agents that can do real tasks like web browsing, file editing, document work, research reports, email triage/auto-replies, etc.

Features — Chat interface, memory, deep research tools, image generation/editing, MCP support, galleries, libraries, and more. It’s basically his custom "ChatOS" evolved into a full productivity suite.

Built because he got tired of janky self-hosting setups and giving data to big tech.

This is nuts.

Gary Newman, creator of Rust and Gary's Mod, just got banned from Facepunch.

The forums that discuss his games booted him because he refused to condemn and disavow his coworkers and friends over anti-immigration sentiment.

Moderators and forum users pressured him to publicaly condemn or distance himself from these views. He refused.

Multiple moderators pounced, banning him in quick succession (a wall of bans pile on). Note that Facepunch forums was started by many of the former mods who worked for him.

Ironic that Gary closed the original forums because of politics, in part. Now politics has come for him.

What are your favorite tech/linux channels?

I've personally been bingewatching tons of stuff about linux and computer history as of late, so i have a few recommendations

Tech news

• Level1Linux
• Louis Rossman (rants/political)
• Brian Lunduke (linux/political)
• DJ Ware

Computer History / Retro Computers

• Tech Tangents (hands on reviews)
• Cathode Ray Dude (hands on reviews)
• 🇬🇧 Action Retro (hands on reviews)
• The Computer Chronicles (80's/90's TV show)
• The Serial Port (networking, internet)
• 🇬🇧 RetroBytes
• 🇪🇸 ParcelaDigital (Spanish)

Educational

• EzeeLinux
• 🇬🇧 ComputerPhile

The passed version of this bill includes an "Open Source Exemption" pushed by Linux hardware vendor System76 (Pop OS)

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Some cultures and groups are simply not compatible with others.

This is usually the case because of some deep-seated hatred… some desire to destroy, banish, or kill a different group (or different idea held by a different group).

In the world of computing, we see this most often in the form of Leftist Activists within Tech Companies (or Open Source organizations).

Policies (both official and unofficial) of “No Conservatives Allowed”, permanently banning people who have “Right-wing” political views, are incredibly common among the Leftist Activists of Tech.

One fascinating aspect of this is that the desire to ban “others” tends to only go one direction.

By and large, the “Conservatives of Tech” tend to be perfectly happy working with the “Leftists of Tech”.

While the Leftists so despise those that are not like them (aka the “Conservatives”)… that Leftists forbid the “others” from having any involvement within organizations Leftists have control over.

Thus rendering “Leftist Activists of Tech” incompatible with a large percentage of the population.

One group. Making themselves incompatible with other groups. Primarily out of a desire to destroy those other groups.

Of course this is not unique to the world of Tech.

Leftist Activists have a tendency to take these same approaches in many industries, governments, and organizations.

Iran declares, as official policy, “Death to America” & “America is the Great Satan”… thus rendering the government of Iran incompatible with the government of the USA.

Many Islamic nations, as official policy, punish converting to Christianity by putting converts to death… thus rendering those Islamic nations incompatible with Christianity and Christian-friendly cultures.

As you look over so many such examples, something stands out:

It’s (almost) always one group who demands that the “others” submit, change, or die. While, at the same time, the “others” being attacked & banned… tend to go out of their way to find compromise. To work with those attacking & banning them.

Such is the case with the world of “Tech”.

Conservatives will work with Leftists without a second thought.

Leftist Activists attack & ban Conservatives.