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1. Ω 🌍 Gus Posey (gustodon@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 03:35:29 JST Ω 🌍 Gus Posey

   I think #IBM made a mistake because my first thought was, "Is that related to Elon's bullshit?"

   #WatsonX

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 03:35:28 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Gustodon Don’t know about the X but the Watson refers to their CEO who was decorated by Hitler for services to the Third Reich.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 16:40:54 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Gustodon Yeah, starting with “Oops, we helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust.”

     “Everything IBM did was custom, specific, and tailored to the precise Nazi need.” – https://www.jns.org/spotlight/ibm-and-the-holocaust-twenty-years-of-corporate-denial/

     As Edwin Black writes in his book: “It was never about the Nazism; it was never about the antisemitism—it was always about the money. Business was its middle name.”

   • Ω 🌍 Gus Posey (gustodon@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 16:40:55 JST Ω 🌍 Gus Posey

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral Goddamn. So a series of missteps, then.