Is America great again yet? Asking for a friend.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/ibm-cuts-thousands-in-cloud-classic-other-units-report
ibm
Nice. Now will IBM, who helped him with surveillance technology, be held accountable also or will they get off scot-free like they did after helping Hitler carry out the Holocaust?
(Spoiler alert: it’ll likely be the latter.)
#IBM #Duderte #Hitler #Holocaust https://social.coop/@raph/114142113764427545
La #Iași va funcționa primul Centru de Inovare Cuantică 💻#IBM din țară.
FreeYa Mind va forma profesioniști care vor efectua simulări complexe în cercetarea medicală și criptografie și vor crea algoritmi avansați de 🧠#inteligențăArtificială.
#Știri #România #Tehnologie #InteligențaArtificială #AI
I know this story is a few weeks old at this point, but given that just yesterday I was chatting with someone in my own life who was completely unaware of it, I thought I might take a moment to highlight why it's not being reported well in our media, and most importantly talk about what Google's open signal that they'd love to collaborate with Downmarket Mussolini and our fascist Pork Reich government on whatever nightmare bullshit these nazis want to do, actually means.
Amid Other Pro-Trump Moves, Google Maps Makes “Gulf of America” Name Change
"In the U.S., the gulf will be displayed as the “Gulf of America.” In Mexico, it will remain the “Gulf of Mexico.” From anywhere else in the world, the body of water will be labeled as “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America).”
Although the change is consistent with the Google Maps policy on names for geographic locations elsewhere, the move comes as Google has made numerous attempts to endear itself to Trump over the past several weeks.
The company, for example, gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. It also opted to end its diversity hiring targets following Trump’s executive order terminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and funding across the federal government. And along with the changes to its maps this week, Google removed Black History Month and Pride Month from its list of annual celebrations on Google Calendar.
Google also announced earlier this month that it would abandon its Responsible AI pledge, which included a promise not to use artificial intelligence to develop tech that could cause “overall harm” — including weapons and surveillance systems."
In terms of media coverage and how for-profit news orgs have treated this story, we're legitimately talking about a catastrophic failure to connect the obvious dots and ominous historical overtones in this situation. Most outlets are hell bent on covering Google's desire to collaborate with a fascist US government as a pathetic private sector attempt to curry favor with Trump, or story about Downmarket Mussolini's laughable obsession with names on maps. The sinister reality however is that it is in precisely HOW Google is choosing to curry favor with Trump, that how far they're willing to go reveals itself. Eliminating Black History Month from the calendar is objectively supporting a white supremacist regime objective, just as eliminating Pride Month from the calendar supports a heteronormative, anti-LGBTQ agenda. Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico on its maps, even if it's just for American users, is an open signal of support for the Trump administration's hyper-nationalist, and increasingly expansionist agenda. This isn't currying favor with fascists; Google is signaling to the fascist administration, that they're ready to HELP THEM literally do fascism, presumably for profit.
All of which leads us to Google's abandonment of the responsible AI pledge, and why history doesn't repeat itself but often rhymes. In the lead up to the literal Holocaust, IBM (yes, THAT IBM) designed and supplied the Nazi Party with a punch card computing system that made it possible to identify and catalogue Jewish people and other targets of the Nazi regime for extermination; and they made a handsome profit doing so - as detailed in Edwin Black's groundbreaking work "IBM and the Holocaust: How America's Most Powerful Corporation Helped Nazi Germany Count The Jews." The fact is mass deportations, incarcerations, and exterminations are a data-centric activities, you simply can't undertake that kind of (repugnant) project without a way to organize, categorize, and easily access information about your targets; a task that becomes considerably easier if you can automate collection and analysis through say, fake AI programs. At its heart, Google is ultimately a data collection and organization company, which *already* maintains vast amounts of information about the populations and groups the Trump administration is threatening. And now that company is openly signaling to Downmarket Mussolini that they are not only "down to fascism" but are both equipped to help conduct various types of mass surveillance and organized purges, as well as prepared abandon ethical guidelines that would prevent them from doing so if the price is right - just like IBM did in the 1930's and the lead up to the Holocaust.
Of course you're not going to find that kind of analysis in the pro-capitalist, for profit media because those folks are just as busy trying to figure out how *they* can turn a profit from Trump's fascist agenda too; and that is a big part of why this modern fascist movement is winning, and easily.
#Fascism #Google #Collaboration #Data #AI #onlinesurveillance #IBM #TheHolocaust #NaziGermany #BlackHistoryMonth #PrideMonth #MassDeportations #EdwinBlack #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #Media
Germany’s cyber agency is funding development of world’s first mobile quantum computer. Four startups are tasked to miniaturize quantum technology for defense, security, and civilian use by 2027.
https://www.news-cafe.eu/?go=news&n=13563
#quantum #computing #research #science #security #google #ibm
Me, up at 4am, reading about #IBM’s major role in the holocaust for the first time ever in life, after still being angry over what they did to #Turing:
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A USD 1,500 open-architecture machine became an industry standard and brought computing to the masses https://www.ibm.com/history/personal-computer #IBM #IBMPC #IBM5150 💙💪
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🌐 ■ El español más cercano a Trump no es Abascal, sino el murciano Darío Gil: será su subsecretario de Ciencia e Innovación ■ Nacido en El Palmar en 1975, hasta ahora era el vicepresidente sénior y director de Investigación de IBM Research.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/global/el-espanol-mas-cercano-trump-abascal-murciano-dario-gila-subsecretario-ciencia-e-innovacionbr.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD
#ciencia #innovacion #murcia #donaldtrump #ibm #global #espana
haha! it's alive!
If you're wondering: It's a 1993 IBM PS/1 Essential. It was in good condition when I got it at a yard sale earlier this year but had a bad hard drive (which also meant it was lacking the original software) and no sound card. It's now completely up and running the original PS/1 image and the sound card (and ES1868) works great
InstructLab offers a new way to make community contributions. anyone can get involved InstructLab https://github.com/instructlab #AI #opensource
#IBM #RedHat | #AllThingsOpen2024
Someone in Riverside, California needs to get rid of a big, heavy IBM 5630 today, or it's going to scrap. Contact them via reddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1g6l445/free_today_ibm_5630/
Update: looks like someone can help from VCF: see https://infosec.exchange/@timjclevenger/113329259396802611
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Visited #IBM and #Salesforce tower today in #SanFrancisco
Mal ein allgemeiner Rundruf in die Retro Community hier auf Mastodon:
(Boosts wären nett für die Reichweite)
Hat von euch zufällig jemand eine digitale Fassung des PC DOS 7.0/2000 Handbuchs in deutscher Sprache? Oder weiß, wo man eine bekommen kann? Das einzige, was ich bisher finden konnte, ist die englische Fassung des Handbuchs aus dem Jahr 1995..
Ich hab das Handbuch in Papierform hier, aber bevor ich knapp 700 Seiten einscannen muss, dachte ich, ich frag mal.
Gruß und Danke an euch alle!
Seeking an experienced IBM Business Process Management (BPM) Developer for locations in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, or the option to work remotely.
If you are interested in this opportunity, kindly reach out to hr@digitalcube-cs.com or apply via shared link - https://buff.ly/47g0fOJ
#IBM #BPMDeveloper #JobOpportunity
Never exposed myself much to IBM OS/2 and maybe it was better before the warp era compared to other operating systems at the time. But it hasn't aged that well like the BeOS/Haiku experience.
I prefer running an OS natively on the hw but in this case I wasn't that committed. Not yet at least. But maybe #ArcaOS is the modern alternative to Win98SE for #DOS and early Windows Gaming and I should install it on some computer as the only OS.
Oh, thank goodness not having a fully functional screen reader isn’t a blocker for Fedora 41. We wouldn’t want them to miss their 10th anniversary of shipping an operating system without a fully functional screen reader, after all.
#Fedora #RedHat #IBM #a11y #accessibility #screenReader #orca #linux #openSource #FOSS #ableism https://masto.ai/@phoronix/113078851664286833
"How open source can democratize AI" - Red Hat's Mo Duffy (@mairin) discuss the benefits of #opensource technology with Malcolm Gladwell in an episode of ⟪Smart Talks with IBM⟫
https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/smart-talks/open-source-democratize-ai
PLM als integraler Bestandteil von agiler Produktentwicklung: Was machen die Hersteller?
PLM muss zu einem integralen Bestandteil von agiler Produktentwicklung werden, um wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben.
https://www.se-trends.de/plm-integraler-bestandteil-von-agiler-produktentwicklung/
#Analyse #Werkzeuge #Aras #Autodesk #CAD #DassaultSystmes #DigitalThread #FlowEngineering #IBM #JosVoskuil #OlegShilovitsky #Oracle #PLM #PTC #SAP #Siemens #SpreadAI #SysLM
To understand Fedora decisions, remember how the old children’s song goes: 🎶 Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream… 🎶
#Fedora 🚣 #RedHat #IBM #OpenSource #OpenForBusiness #Linux #OS
THIS is a single bit - on a card
for the IBM 7094 🤩
MORE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7090
... courtesy of my Dad 🤓
Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for NINE YEARS but the real problem is me
#fedora #accessibility #a11y #ableism #RedHat #IBM #Linux #OpenSource
“Buh, Aral, #Fedora is a volunteer project… you a nasty bum-bum criticising us for shipping an operating system without a functional screen reader by default for EIGHT YEARS…”
Meanwhile, in reality: “The Fedora Project is not a separate legal entity or organization; Red Hat retains liability for its actions.”
Who owns Red Hat?
#IBM.
What is IBM? A 150 billion-dollar corporation.
Cut the “we’re volunteers” bullshit, acknowledge your ableist culture, and do better.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Project#Governance
“Just because we don’t consider lack of accessibility to be a blocker doesn’t mean we’re ableist.”
– Open Source folks in my mentions.
#openSource #linux #accessibility #a11y #ableism #fedora #gnome #redHat #IBM #wayland