mhoye

We've all seen the IBM presentation saying, a computer can never be held accountable therefore...

but if you rotate and adjust the gamma settings on the best versions of that image on the internet you can see further text through the page.

https://cohost.org/a-hungry-mouth/post/4039145-chosting-my-reply-be

The header is called THE COMPUTER MANDATE and it is incredible reading.

May 18, 2024 at 12:02amWeb
Show threadmhoyeMay 18, 2024

THE COMPUTER MANDATE

AUTHORITY: WHATEVER AUTHORITY IS GRANTED IT BY THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT WITHIN WHICH IT OPERATES.

RESPONSIBILITY: TO PERFORM AS PRE-DIRECTED BY THE PROGRAMMER WHENEVER INSTRUCTED TO DO SO

ACCOUNTABILITY: NONE WHATSOEVER.

Show threadmhoyeMay 18, 2024
"A MANDATE WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY IS AN ELEGANT FORM OF SUICIDE" is a hell of a sentence.
Show threadmhoyeMay 18, 2024
Here's are other pictures from that set, originally from Twitter user "Bumblebike".
Show threadmhoyeMay 18, 2024

If you flip the first one over and jack up the gamma levels you can clearly see:

SOME TRAVESTIES:

1) COMPANY AS OGRE
2) COMPANY AS IDIOT
3) COMPANY AS CROOK
4) SALESMAN AS LAUNDRYMAN
5) CUSTOMER AS EMPLOYEE
6) COMPUTER AS MANAGER
7) COMPUTER AS GOD

(... and the compelling title for a page we can't make out, "THE AFFECTER HEIRARCHY")

[corrected from 'affected', thanks Abie.]

[edit - #3 deciphered by Siderea, thank you.]

Show threadSiderea, Sibylla BostoniensisMay 18, 2024

@mhoye

3 starts "COMPANY AS" as well.

Show threadSiderea, Sibylla BostoniensisMay 18, 2024

@mhoye The missing string is I think 5 characters long, three and four of which are "O". I think the last character may be "K", so I'm going to guess that it's

3) COMPANY AS CROOK

Show threadmhoyeMay 18, 2024
@siderea Good eye. I've corrected the post to that effect.
Show threadJonty WareingMay 18, 2024

@mhoye I spoke to the IBM archives a year or so ago. They've fruitlessly tried to track down the document several times.

Sadly without more detail than we already have it is probably lost. They said it was common for branch offices to produce material that never even made it into the archives.

Show threadPaul Graham RavenMay 18, 2024
@jonty @mhoye It may not have been a firm-wide document, but the stuff it's talking about was IBM dogma; my old man worked for Big Blue in the mainframe era, and he drilled shit like this into me as a computer-obsessed kid in the mid-Eighties.
Show threadSiderea, Sibylla BostoniensisMay 18, 2024
@mhoye
...scripture!
Show threadPixel PurritoMay 18, 2024
@mhoye the second one describes Web standards and work on web engines quite accurately 
Show threadjlongmanMay 18, 2024

@mhoye oh I worked there. TLDR layoffs.

So I guess ultimately there was accountability. But the Bad Kind.

Show threadJaycieMay 18, 2024
@mhoye Tattoo-worthy, easily.
Show threadCypherSMay 18, 2024
@mhoye it sounds like modern poetry and also as terrifying prophecy.
Show threadClaudius LinkMay 18, 2024

@mhoye
Nice 😁🙏🏻

Some time ago a tried to identify the source (was it really an IBM presentation, what was it about, ...)

I neither did finde the uncropped version nor were as successful at reading the text shining through the pages.

https://infosec.exchange/@realn2s/111717179694172705

Claudius Link (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image From time to time i stumble onto this slide (allegedly) From a 1979 IBM presentation. Does anyone have a plausible source for it? I tried finding one but failed Edit: a better image and some more slides can be found in @[email protected] thread https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/112459155499812117 #BoostWelcome #WisdomOfTheCrowd #IBMSlide

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Show threaduoxcMay 18, 2024
@mhoye that single slide has probably done more for IBMs reputation among my peer group as a place where smart people used to work than the rest of its history combined
Show threadlampsofgoldMay 19, 2024
@mhoye I reached out to the IBM archives a couple years ago and they unfortuantely didn't find any extra material :(