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| schestowitz[TR3] | <p align="center"><a href="/i/2025/02/haha-ibm-ceo.png"><img alt="IBM CEO on the Future of the Tech Industry" id="137" src="/i/2025/02/haha-ibm-ceo.png" style="max-width: 60%; float:none;" width="780" /></a></p> | Apr 19 15:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | <em><B>Booster of slop</b>. Someone needs to explain to him that a million-word book only one person reads (the person who produces it using LLMs) won't have impact greater than 10-word messages a million <U>actual humans</u> read. Likewise, with quantum computing/computers (QC), unless they actually do something that traditional [sic] computers are unable to do <b>at the same budget</b>, they won't sell, they will at best beco | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | me a museum exhibit.</em> | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <p class="dropcap-first">IBM has mass layoffs, but <a href="https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Almost_1_000_IBM_Layoffs_Not_Newsworthy_Nobody_Covers_It_Unlike.shtml">the media is not covering this</a>. Sadly this says a lot more about the state of the media than it says about IBM. | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Recently, for <b>political reasons</b>, IBM <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91528241/ibm-just-settled-a-major-anti-dei-case-for-17-million">made some headlines</a>, as <a href="https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/12/Racism_and_IBM.shtml">we noted last week</a>. This got published just over a day ago: | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <blockquote cite="https://www.fastcompany.com/91528241/ibm-just-settled-a-major-anti-dei-case-for-17-million"> | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | In 2025—not long after Trump fired off executive orders that targeted diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in the workplace—the Justice Department announced the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative. Its purpose was to investigate companies and academic institutions that accepted money from the government, by invoking a federal law called the False Claims Act. This past week, IBM agreed to pay $17 million over claims tha | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | t its DEI programs allegedly violated the law—the first instance of an employer settling a case that the government brought under this initiative. | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | In the settlement agreement, the federal government argued that as a federal contractor, IBM was required to comply with anti-discrimination protections under civil rights law. The government identified DEI programs that allegedly took demographic background into consideration when making employment decisions, including a “diversity modifier that tied bonus compensation to achieving diversity targets” and the use of “dive | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | rse interview slates” as part of the hiring and promotion process. The agreement also noted that it was “neither an admission of liability by IBM nor a concession by the United States that its claims are not well founded”—despite the fact that IBM had altered or ended some of the programs that were under fire. | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | </blockquote> | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | They partly relied on (leaked) footage of IBM's CEO proudly stating they were hiring based on race and gender. Many people inside IBM found it offensive because they felt like the RAs targeted them for being of the "wrong gender" and/or "wrong race". | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Now there's this discussion <a href="https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kpg7z4sc">about the CEO selling his home</a> (we are unable to verify is that is indeed his home). | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <p class="center"><img src="/i/2026/04/ak-home.png" alt="Arvind's $2.3M home in CT seems to being sold - what does this mean? Back to the Home Land?" /></p> | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Given his age and the recent layoffs (also stock market performance), it's not unthinkable he'll be replaced. In recent hours we saw many people who said they had left IBM (or got laid off, they're vague about the reasons): | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <p class="center"><img src="/i/2026/04/ibm-last-days.png" alt="It feels incredibly bittersweet to announce that today is my last day at IBM." /></p> | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | IBM is a company in the loo, a firm in a state of rapid disintegration. In the past 2 years we gave many examples where Fedora/Red Hat staff was forced to adopt slop; in recent days the issue <a href="http://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Microsoft_Uses_Slop_to_Bribe_at_No_Cost_Nations_That_Otherwise_.shtml">gathered steam or critical traction</a> because there are employees who openly and publicly complain about it. <a href="#top | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | ">█</a></p> | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > Thanks for getting back Roy, | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > For now I'm good with the technical side, cheers. | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Neat. | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > I'm still interested in how you use Gemini, how you sync the HTML | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > site and how you reach out in gemini space - does RSS work for that? | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | I've not checked who or how and where from, nor how many people check the XMLL files. | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | The conversions are done using our own converters. Our SSG generates both HTML and GemText. | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > What is the role of Kenedy which seems like a crawler/search for | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > gemini space? Any advice welcome. | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | I heard of Kenedy but know nothing about it. | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Lots of gemini traffic might be bots. | Apr 19 15:11 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Br, | Apr 19 15:11 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | " | Apr 19 16:25 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | could have shared this document with you so please, please, please make no reference to me or any suggestion of a link to me. | Apr 19 16:25 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Thank you." | Apr 19 16:25 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | We will cover this shortly. | Apr 19 16:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Thank you. | Apr 19 16:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > Thank you for staying on it. | Apr 19 16:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | > I appreciate that a lot. | Apr 19 16:26 |
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