Casilli :mastodon:<p>Today, AI is still powered by millions of data workers, both men and women. In Victorian England, many of the same data tasks were performed by "lady computers". Though they were recruited at Cambridge colleges, they got paid as little as £4 per month. Same old story.</p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/womenintech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenintech</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/historiofai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historiofai</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/datawork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datawork</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/digitallabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitallabor</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/steampunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>steampunk</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/retrofuturism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrofuturism</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/historyofcomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historyofcomputing</span></a></p>
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Michael Piotrowski<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@deprogrammaticaipsum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>deprogrammaticaipsum</span></a></span> Speaking of floating point arithmetic, did you know that all of Konrad Zuse’s computers (except for the experimental Z2), starting with the Z1, used floating point?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/HistoryOfComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfComputing</span></a></p>
Michael Piotrowski<p>Judging from my students’ reactions to this exciting program, I guess they wouldn't have bought a home computer in 1977.<br><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/HistoryOfComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfComputing</span></a></p>
Michael Piotrowski<p>Revue ouverte d’intelligence artificielle vol. 5, nos 2-3: Hommage à Alain Colmerauer.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Prolog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prolog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/HistoryOfComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfComputing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://roia.centre-mersenne.org/issues/ROIA_2024__5_2-3/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">roia.centre-mersenne.org/issue</span><span class="invisible">s/ROIA_2024__5_2-3/</span></a></p>
Schneier on Security RSS<p>Adm. Grace Hopper’s 1982 NSA Lecture Has Been Published</p><p>The “long lost lecture” by Adm. Grace Hopper has <a href="h... <a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/08/adm-grace-hoppers-1982-nsa-lecture-has-been-published.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">schneier.com/blog/archives/202</span><span class="invisible">4/08/adm-grace-hoppers-1982-nsa-lecture-has-been-published.html</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/historyofcomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historyofcomputing</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/historyofsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historyofsecurity</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/Uncategorized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Uncategorized</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/videos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>videos</span></a> <a href="https://burn.capital/tags/NSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSA</span></a></p>
Amin Girasol<p>"The Computer Girls", published in Cosmopolitan magazine in April 1967 was originally brought back to public attention during @nensmeng's research for his book "The Computer Boys Take Over". For years only the first page was available online. Now the full article has emerged: <a href="https://archive.org/details/the-computer-girls-cosmopolitan-magazine-april-1967" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/the-comput</span><span class="invisible">er-girls-cosmopolitan-magazine-april-1967</span></a></p><p><a href="http://thecomputerboys.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">thecomputerboys.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/SocialHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialHistory</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/HistoryOfComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfComputing</span></a></p>
Amin Girasol<p>Hi! Time for an <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a>. I've moved from mastodon.social (where I had an account since 2019) to fluidlogic@oldbytes.space.</p><p>I've long been interested in the <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/historyofcomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historyofcomputing</span></a>. Right now <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> and <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/permacomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>permacomputing</span></a> are piquing my interest. I think there are many excellent ideas from the early days of computing that practitioners have discarded or lost, or - worse yet, oblivious to the history of their own field - remain ignorant of.</p><p>I'm appalled by the character of modern commercial computing: how it has been used to maintain and entrench existing power structures; how it co-opts the social good of free software for private profit without giving back; how ubiquitous surveillance is a business model and has become socially normalised; how computation has allowed everything, including human abstractions like attention, allegiance, knowledge, community and more to be captured for corporate profit.</p>
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