IBM’s mainframes have powered the world’s largest banks, airlines, and retail giants for decades with bulletproof reliability, built-in high availability, seamless data synchronization, and ironclad transactional integrity that keeps multi-billion-dollar operations running flawlessly—exactly the kind of rock-solid fit Gartner flagged for those big fleets of stable Linux VMs that don’t change much. When trouble hits, IBM’s elite engineers are literally on-call 24/7 and will parachute in to fix your crisis in under an hour, no GitHub tickets or crossed fingers required.

Contrast that with the chorus chanting for Raspberry Pi clusters and open-source stacks that come with zero paid support of the class IBM provides, and zero professional engineers on standby. Open source has its place in hobby labs and scrappy startups, sure, but big business, where millions or billions of US dollars count, isn’t running a charity experiment where volunteer heroes might answer a forum post before the next ice age. So keep mocking the “big iron” dinosaurs while the grown-ups at IBM quietly keep the global economy from imploding.

Bring on the hate. IBM won't be paying attention.

LOL and I thought it was just my feed serving up ads like that!

Just wait until South Africa starts writing their history books with AI. They will be filled will references to how the land was liberated from those evil white farmers wielding assault pitchforks and replaced with ultra successful and just saints, providing today's bountiful cornucopia of plenty.

The number of medical misinformation ads is crazy.

That gas is for sale and use on the free market. If it is available, and as long as it is burned to specification, then who are we to say that one big user is not ok, but thousands of tiny users are fine.

Developers, developers, developers, developers!!! Yeahaw:)):!;!(&5@5@4&!4!!!!!!!!

How about B5: Crusade?

This is the exact same government muscle-flexing Biden’s crew pulled to chill speech on COVID vaccines—coordinated pressure campaigns, flagging “misinfo,” deplatforming skeptics, and leaning on platforms until they folded like cheap lawn chairs (as Zuckerberg himself later admitted under oath). Same intent: intimidate critics into silence.

The only fresh entertainment value here is watching Reddit suddenly discover their spines and “review for legal sufficiency” now that it’s Trump’s DOJ instead of Biden’s. We won’t forget how eagerly they greased those palms and handed over data—or just memory-holed dissent—when the previous admins waved the “public health” flag. Free speech absolutism was always conditional, wasn’t it?

Hypocrisy this blatant deserves a slow clap from the grand jury gallery.

This reminds me of the Bitcoin Faucet and AllAdvantage. All it takes is a shift in demand or technology and suddenly your operating model falls apart. Welcome to the Internet.

Now you can smoke yourself silly.

Yep, banks, airlines, and retail are all irrelevant.

Psst. They don't buy it for the compute. They buy it for the crypto card and security.

PC LOAD LETTER

We're trying to make sure that the astronauts feel comfortable in space and not out of sorts so we made it like just another day at the office.

Yeah, let me get out infront of the comments that will be full of the usual “Big Blue is so 1970s” snark, because nothing says “edgy” like dunking on the company that literally built the infrastructure the entire digital world runs on.

But let’s be real for a second. While everyone was busy calling IBM boring, stodgy, or “the company your grandpa still uses,” they were out here creating one foundational technology after another:

    The hard disk drive (1956 RAMAC — the first one ever)
    The floppy disk that made personal computing actually personal
    DRAM — the memory chips inside literally every device you own
    The relational database and SQL that power basically the entire internet
    Fortran, the first high-level programming language
    Magnetic stripe cards (you know, the thing that made credit cards and ATMs work)
    Silicon-germanium chips that make your smartphone’s Wi-Fi, GPS, and cellular actually fast

And while we’re on the subject of “irrelevant old tech”: over 87% of the world’s credit card transactions still run on IBM mainframes every single day. Your salary, your rent, your impulse buy at 2 a.m. — all of it humming along on the same “dinosaur” systems the cool kids love to mock.

So sure, pile on the hate. IBM’s used to it. They’ve been the Rodney Dangerfield of computing for decades: “No respect, no respect at all!” But every time you swipe a card, save a file, run a query, or (now) watch a quantum computer match real lab data on magnetic materials you’re standing on IBM’s shoulders. They didn’t just ride the wave. They built the ocean.

Keep innovating, Big Blue. The haters will be back next week to complain about something else you quietly made possible.

Finally, the untold story of how the Hobbits discovered microaggressions and how the Ring got canceled for being a symbol of systemic oppression. Shadow of the Past? Perfect title â" itâ(TM)s literally the shadow that swallowed Colbertâ(TM)s once-great Late Show, the one that started hilarious and then slowly petered out under an avalanche of politics until half the audience ghosted it for good. Middle-earth just got Colbertâ(TM)d. Hard pass.