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Francesca Albanese’s latest report, which is scheduled to be presented at a news conference in Geneva on Thursday, names 48 corporate actors, including #USA tech giants #Microsoft, #IBM, #Alphabet Inc. – #Google’s parent company – and #Amazon. A database of more than 1000 corporate entities was also put together as part of the investigation.
@DrALJONES
Those with some knowledge of history will recognize a sombre example of history repeating itself in the use of Palantir's data manipulation products to emiserate immigrants.
Eye'm referring to the Nazis employment of US company IBM's punchcard systems to round up victims upon whom to visit atrocities.
#Palantir #Nazis #IBM #TuckersBalls
@MelissaBearTrix
47 years till Cook arrives in AU.
Coal mine slavery continued in Scotland.
Colonialisation by Western European powers continues in India, America.
Yongzheng Era of Qing Dynasty begins.
CO2 near baseline of last 8000 years ~280ppm.
Black Act law in Britain introduces death penalty for +350 offences. Similar in focus to laws designed to stop #ClimateChange protests.
#IBM won't begin supplying computer data to help the Nazis for another 210 years.
Recent human cultures!
Dank freundlicher Hilfe aus der Retro Community kann ich nun auch meinen virtuellen IBM PS/2 286 mit dem passenden Windows ausstatten. Manchmal lohnt Fragen eben doch.
Das deutsche Windows/286 2.10!
@mrmasterkeyboard @OS1337 @landley It's the same reason I didn't call it OS/3
or something because I'd not count on #IBM (or rather their licensee #ArcaNoae who maintain the modern OS/2
distro ArcaOS)…
Three further brainteasers:
Is the 80186 The Processor That Time Forgot?
Is the 8088 better than the 8086 because it is 2 higher?
What comes after xmodem, ymodem, and zmodem?
(-:
I remember when the joke was that System/360 "covered all possible angles", and System/370 "covered all possible angles … plus ten degrees".
A Historic Photo: Torvalds and Gates Together
When #Linux met #Microsoft: a historic photo of Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates standing side by side for the very first time.
https://linuxiac.com/a-historic-photo-torvalds-and-gates-together/
From the hell is freezing department. #azure would be not existing without Linux.
And this fuels also the joke that the relationship between #WNT and #VMS is the same as between #IBM and #HAL.
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