Like others have said, it's mostly about the DE, with Plasma and GNOME being the front runners. As much as I love it, but steer clear of Cinnamon DE. It's developed with desktop use in mind, and no fun if you use it through touch.
Corrupt right-wing egotists with little to no respect for human rights or democracy praise corrupt right-wing egotists with little to no respect for human rights or democracy. Who would have thunk?
This. "The right" didn't do jack shit. It's Epstein class has consolidated power enough to warrant a more direct, less covert exertion than before. And if liberal democracy stands in the way of that - go it must.
Does it really matter? These people were detached from reality long before AI was a thing. These are the people who swallowed horse dewormer to fight off a virus, stormed the capitol to hang their own party's VP over election fraud that never happened (but that they are now actively preparing themselves), and attacked a pizzeria to save children from the clutches of pedophiles (all the while ignoring their idol's ties to, and probably involvement with the crimes of, pedophile child trafficker Epstein).
We must come to grips with the fact that a significant part of the U.S. population is living in an alternative, media-generated universe. Baudrillard would be laughing his arse off if he could see it. The question is: how to deal with that.
Not an American, but I hear you make good blood clots. Bigly good blood clots. Some people say: the best. So let's put our hope in that. Let's make the blood clot great again.
Americans did know oppression. First the Native Americans, then the European settlers seeking refuge from all kinds of persecution in Europe. Finally (at least that's the story they told), the American revolutionaries tried to shake off what they portrayed as oppression by the British.
But unfortunately, illiberalism, autocracy, fascism and genocide seem to behave on a macro level like viruses behave on the micro level: like them, a society can - by way of surviving a previous infection - acquire a certain level of immunity. But over time, the pathogen can mutate and transform, and the concentration of antibodies in the organism can degrade over time so the defensive response is weakened. I fear this is where we are now: our societies have started to forget or deny the horrors of where this road has led us in the 20th century, and are becoming susceptible to the trappings of autocracy again. Let's hope we don't have to go through the natural process of immunisation again - because the pathogen is deadly and has the potential to kill its host.
All of your links (apart from the PDF) are broken, mate.