March 11 - Knight of Swords

The Knight of Swords, represented by International Business Machines. Their first logo is a sphere in the center of the image surrounded by the title of the book IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black. Above is a portrait of Thomas Watson, and a sphere with the contemporary IBM logo on it, surrounded by grey flames or maybe falling missiles. Below is a portrait of Herman Hollerith, and a description of the tabulating machine, which was based on the Jacquard Loom. The three spheres are surrounded by descriptions of IBMs other connections (to John Von Neumann and Harvard) and inventions (FORTRAN and the IBM 701 defense calculator)

A card of action and determination, potentially to the point of being rash or warlike.

And here is IBM, along with all of its dirty laundry. The ultimate disruption of creating an international information society that didn't consider the worst possible effect, that it could be used in the administration of the holocaust.

Of course we're seeing it now in Farce Mode: useless startup and crypto tech grifters with no principles lining up to kiss the ring regardless of who is in the seat of the chief warmonger, ie, the US government... but it is the protean mercinariness of the idea that tech must both develop at any cost -and- be considered neutral, purpose ambivalent, and not the responsibility of its creators and boosters (or, then, anyone?) that got us here.