Bodo Tasche
You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all.
We don't want to be on any list.
And now the US Gov and Musk are trying to get access to all data they have about every person and put them into a big fat DB and run AI over it.
I am afraid what they will do with that.
Bodo Tasche
Since this gets tons of boosts:
Trans rights are human rights. Asylum is a human right.
Go vote whenever you can. Vote for parties who support migrants, protect climate and help people of all genders.
Jakra
@bitboxer Today's lecture... asylum seeker != illegal immigrant. Also Illegal Immigrant == fascist re-definition of human rights. Never again == doing it right now.
Tobias Fiebig
@bitboxer Actually; Even more so in the Netherlands. The Dutch had migrated to a fully IBM/Hollerith Machine backed public administration ('digital' first, bedenken second oder so) before the invasion. After the invasion, the German's were just like "uuuuh, we know these machines! Got a query to run, let's call our IBM consultant!";
This is why (by %/population) so many more were murdered in NL; And why the Dutch resistance burned archives:
https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/128/the-resistance-attacks-the-population-register-of-amsterdam/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_Amsterdam_civil_registry_office_bombing
Aurora 🐌
@bitboxer Can you give some souce
Frank Nord
@MrLaCave @bitboxer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
MrLaCave :verified_coffee:
@bitboxer With the help of IBM? Do you have a source for that?
Florian 'floe' Echtler
@MrLaCave @bitboxer For an overview, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM#1910s%E2%80%931950s
Also some more details: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/29/humanities.highereducation
Tobias Fiebig
@burningTyger @bitboxer Well, the underlying truth is that the holocaust was fundamentally enabled by what we call "IT people" today.
And for some reason, nobody in IT got that memo and happily collects (meta) data without thinking about the possible dire consequences.
You can't lose data you don't have.
The gallant knight
@tfiebig @bitboxer Fascinating, I see the Auschwitz posts here on Mastodon and there are some many deported from The Netherlands. But also France and Norway stand out.
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
@tfiebig @burningTyger @bitboxer
35 years ago, when I finished high school I drifted apart from my friends/classmates who were into tech and science as they had 0 problems with bootlicking Thatcho and working for big USA tech companies, including the military-industrial/surveillance complex (which was a major employer in UK even decades ago, our tech industry is built on it). I see some of them on LinkedIn, they are still working for those corporates and are unrepentant..
huntingdon
IBM's Tom Watson took a recurring fee on every one of those machines, and all the ones used by Nazi Germany throughout the Reich.
Born in 1874, he was IBM's chairman 1914-1956. His machines and their punch cards (millions, only available through IBM) were site and use specific. He knew where each was and the commission due on it. They kept the Nazi railroads running, and managed the "throughput" at Nazi labor and death camps.
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