Trump looks at Gaza and sees condos, Elon looks at the government and sees the need for pre-IPO rightsizing. Neither one sees the people.
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So even when a white person is clearly at fault, the real fault lies with people who aren't white.
Convenient! And really fucking racist!
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#JDVance uses DEI to cover for a potentially white male pilot being at fault: "When you don't have the best standards in who you're hiring, it means, on the one hand, you're not getting the best people in government, but on the other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are already there."
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The account connected to Mr Elez - first reported by the Wall Street Journal - posted a variety of inflammatory comments that were verified by the BBC as authentic."Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool," read one post from the pseudonymous account in July.
Another post, in September, said: "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
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Vice-President JD Vance had said the young employee should be given a second chance.Holly Honderich (BBC News)
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An interesting story about a man's discovery that he is intersex.
I'm probably beating a dead horse. I assume my readers do know that even sex is not a binary.
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Proud Boys can no longer legally use their own name and logo and are barred from selling any merch with either its name or its symbols without the consent of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Black church in Washington that Proud Boys targeted and vandalized.
Enrique Tarrio and several other Proud Boys attacked the church in December of 2020. The church won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys and their former leader. After they failed to turn over any money, lawyers for the church sought to satisfy the judgment by seizing control of the trademarked name and by enjoining the group from “selling, transferring, disposing of or licensing any merchandise using the words “Proud Boys” or any of the organization’s symbols.
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For a racist misogynistic boys club fueled by ego, this is hilarious
this is EPIC - love this. Play stupid games win stupid prizes as my partner always says😆 VERY satisfying to see even some petty comeuppance hit these bastards
This is a big win!
unfrotunately, i feel like there is no longer any enforcement mechanism for these judgements.
the entire government (and every cop in america) is essentially on the side of these fuckwads right now.
It’s genius and also annoying that often the way to slow down fascism is to use tactics that affect commerce and financial gain.
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Proud Boys got OWNED!
Ahahahaha, oh that fucking perfect.
Love that. Fucking brilliant.
Enforcement may be iffy, but hey, the middle finger is self-enforcing. Well done.
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Damn! Now they're gonna have to go by their unofficial name: Cuck Boys.
Make sure the cops know.
Oh, I love the smell of karma in the morning. :)
It's gonna be fun when they show up with their weapons and their Proud Boys hats and T-shirts and nobody does anything about it.
There are may good judges out there. We desperately need them.
finally, that should have happened years ago
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"It seems like the trick to negotiating with Trump is to realize he doesn’t have any idea what the current facts are.
"Oh you want 10,000 troops?" says world leader who already deployed 15K. "Great 10k it is""
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Trump's little trick with the tariffs was probably just to distract from the fact that a South African immigrant is raiding (and making changes to) the software systems and databases that keep the US government running.
However, it has provided fodder to make fun of Trump's non-existent negotiating skills.
#Tariffs #TrumpTariffs #Joke #Meme #Trump #ElonMusk #Canada #Mexico #US #USA
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maple syrup, honey, lumber, coffee, fresh vegetables and fruit, electricity.
I could think of more but I just woke up.
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There is nothing illegal about naming inexperienced people currently accessing sensitive government data at the behest of Elon Musk.
They are:
Akash Bobba
Edward Coristine
Luke Farritor
Gautier Cole Killian
Gavin Kliger
Ethan Shaotran
This is a major security breach.
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We would be remiss not to credit the journalists who broke this story at @WIRED: wired.com/story/elon-musk-gove…
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.Vittoria Elliott (WIRED)
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out of curiosity what do you think the public will do with this information?
@RebeccaSlatkin it will be useful someway even if we don't know why yet
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@sycophantic @RebeccaSlatkin nerds have ripped their linkedin and been a bit of shitposting. They're 18+ so it is fair game.
Just one of them:
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And let's find out where their families are at...
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There was a Montana Congressman that tried to hang with the proud boys, apparently people found out where he lived and his family got some threats so he decided to quit...
When these people become afraid... they go back to where they belong and keep their mouths shut.
There was a Montana Congressman that tried to hang with the proud boys, apparently people found out where he lived and his family got some threats so he decided to quit...
When these people become afraid... they go back to where they belong and keep their mouths shut.
I can't believe that I am saying this, but I think they should be doxxed. These kids now have at their fingertips my highly personal information and the personal information of every American. I think it's my right to know who they are.
@2600. "Musk, Trump Prosecutor Targeting People Who Divulge Identities of DOGE Staff
The self-described free speech champion is not pleased that the public has learned the identities of his young henchmen"
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I think their mommies and daddies should be politely contacted and asked what they thing of their children’s behavior. Not being sarcastic about being polite.
Gee, I hope we can get their contact info too.
Do you think any of these wet-behind the ears bozos know any COBOL?
"I found myself upon a lonely path, with only the truth in hand. A barren and desolate trail devoid of food, water, shelter, and company lay before me. Yet I continued my journey, filling my voice with the only song I knew, the truth I beheld.
Soon, a fellow traveler appeared exclaiming 'You look thirsty, let me give you drink'. So I drank, and we talked of the truth. And then another appeared exclaiming 'You look hungry, let us share this bread'. So we ate, and talked of the truth. And yet another appeared exclaiming 'You are drenched and chilled, let me offer you shelter'. So together we huddled in new comfort, and talked of the truth.
And so it was that from hour to hour, and day to day, the truth was passed from soul to soul, until its denial was wholly forfeit."
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Has anyone called their parents & asked how they feel about their kids boogering up social security, medicare, & sharing their personla data with the world?
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Yeah...and we can boycott all of their family owned businesses...
Thanks for pointing that out !
Yeah...and we can boycott all of their family owned businesses...
Thanks for pointing that out !
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about time we reduce the size of government and stop sending foreign countries trillions of our tax dollars.
We went from a President who was always in a coma to a President that speaks his mind, takes action, and puts America First.
I realize I’m on a highly liberal platform here and you all will shame me for being exited for all these changes. Such is life.
There it is!
So glad to be in this together with ya’ll.
may the trust they've violated hinder their ability to be professional computer touchers.
@gothodile I heard one of them isn’t even being paid.
Poor kid could have been a traitor who made a trillion dollars. Now he’s just a traitor.
Who knows these schmucks?
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I wonder if the Musk/Trump grift is 1) get rid of inspectors general and defang the detectives at FBI, 2) take over the government payment system, then 3) steal the people's funds.
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They don't even have security clearances. Their identities are not secret and they are plotting to dissolve the government of the United States, FFS.
Share the names with some encoding on X if you still have an account
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Love the new cover art shirt. Fight every day.
These young engineers may not fully understand what they've gotten themselves into.
Although I am sure Musk only picked his true believers to carry out these tasks.
Trump has immunity. He can give illegal orders.
It does not mean future POTUS cannot prosecute the breach.
Musk has the money to hire the best lawyers to protect himself. Will he spend money on these enginneers? Very likely not. Just take a look how he treated his employeers in the past.
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Interesting reddit discussion regarding these weasels:
I realize they're all technically adults, but I doubt they really get what they're doing. If Musk succeeds, they all benefit - but if not, if there ever are consequences, odds are they take the brunt of them because they're the ones with hands on keyboards.
don't forget Marko Elez.
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Trump to Musk: Canada is mining and selling too many minerals.
Musk: What are you going to do?
Trump: Order tariffs to make them mine less.
Musk: *Mine fewer.
Trump: Shhh, don't call me that yet.
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CW: misogynistic content online
I pulled up YouTube for the first time (I was signed out of google too) on my work computer to watch one funny video at work, and this is what autoplayed immediately afterwards. I’m fully switching to peertube now. It’s turning into a hate platform like meta and Twitter.
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Why Signal and not Matrix? 🤔
this being the Fediverse, I initially thought this was a networking thing, then a Fet thing, then a Nintendo thing 🤣
How good is Frendica? Is it wife/girlfriend ready?
@mwguy nah. I am all for it but my wife said “meh”. I joined this month and it’s… fine. But no one I know in real life is on it, there is no mobile app, and the setup can be a little off-putting. The fedi platforms have an incredible opportunity right now to take in a lot of social media refugees, but the ones without apps (friendica, loops, etc) are going to struggle to get traction with a population that is accustomed to convenience.
@Chris Geoghooligan @mwguy There are already a few mobile apps especially for Friendica: #Raccoon and #Relatica . But I have no experience with them, the best is always the web app because it has all the functions. However, I wouldn't really recommend Friendica to people who only want to use it on their smartphone.
@mwguy @Daniel Supernault Interface is a bit clunky, but it's otherwise good, what are you looking for from it?
@vextaur Facebook Groups replacement that allows a private group to share photos, articles and the like.
@mwguy @Daniel Supernault Looking at wiki.friendi.ca/docs/groups-an… the answer is yes, but it doesn't look like it's as easy to use as FB Groups by any means.
@vextaur Hmm, that's not the greatest. No federated private groups which means we'd have to get her whole family on **our** friend.ca server.
Signal is not federated, Matrix will be the right place to be 💯👌🏻
Alexa, Google Home, Nest -> @homeassistant
It is not fair to put Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friedica, Peertube and Loops as analogous to Signal. Signal is centralized, Signal relies on closed source libraries, Signal is only distributed through PlayStore, Signal is not a federated platform.
If we want to have a messaging platform on that image, it should be XMPP.
I wish it gets some actual traction this year though.
release them app updates so people don't bounce off 😭
will try tomorrow to install pixel on my VPS. But struggling with docker how to.
it would be good if first of all pixelfed don't delay accepting new accounts, losing the momentum it is getting. also there is the usual bug where scrolling the home sometimes it freezes. it would be good to have a smooth pixelfed before of improving loops. but, instead of this, a third app is being developed. wish you all the best tackling things in a triune way.
I will install Peertube tomorrow.
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For people to really make the switch, it would be helpful to give them an article explaining what to do exactly.
In German there is one by @blog - do you know of other languages?
#GlobalSwitchDay
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Mach mit beim globalen Wechseltag
Wechsel zu echten sozialen MedienDu kämpfst täglich für Klimagerechtigkeit? Und bist noch auf Plattformen, bei dem Klimaleugnung, Frauenverachtung und die Verfolgung von queeren Menschen offen zum Geschäftsmodel gehört? Das muss nicht sein!
Komm dahin, wo Menschen soziale Medien aktiv und dezentral gestalten. Komm ins Fediverse, hier ist die bessere Party. Mach mit beim global switch day am 1. Februar 2025 und bring Deine Freund*innen mit. Empfohlen u.a. von @janboehm
So einfach geht das – probiere mal eins davon aus:
Finde ein Pendant zum jeweiligen antisozialen Medium
Kurznachrichtendienste mit Zeichenlimit und bis zu vier BildernTwitter (heute: niX mehr) –> Mastodon
Besuche social.cologne, das ist eine Mastodon-Plattform und erstelle Deinen Account. Eine detaillierte bebilderte Anleitung und Deine ersten Schritte haben wir Anfang des Jahres vorbereitet.
Teile ein bis 10 Bilder pro Beitrag und schreib dazu einen Begleittext. Instagram –> Pixelfed
Serverempfehlung: pixelfed.de/
Plane und teile Beiträge, pflege Termine, finde EventsFacebook –> Friendica
Serverempfehlung: anonsys.net/
Teile VideosYouTube –> PeerTube
Servervorschlag: tube.tchncs.de/
Die Liste ist unvollständig, um Dir den Einstieg zu erleichtern haben wir pro Dienst nur eine von vielen dezentralen Servern angegeben. Weiteres findest Du z.B. im Beitrag Das Fediverse : Unendliche Weiten.
Es reicht, wenn Du Dich auf einen Fediverse […]
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Friendica could suck less.
can't login to pixelfed on Android for weeks... I really want to use it but can't.
I might do the other apps, I might not. I actually don’t find myself using Pixiefed at all.
I don’t think all those other apps are gonna replace anything (including this app and I don’t think rednote is gonna replace TikTok either) but they might be worth giving them a shot
but also Spotify --> Tidal
@dausacker olha que legal essa imagem. (Pessoalmente não gosto tanto da ideia de uma plataforma de vídeos verticais federada... Mas a imagem não deixa de ser legal, não.)
is there a SponsorBlock for PeerTube yet? That's the one thing keeping me from switching
Could you say a bit more about friendica?
@Sanne Bjerg Here are some insights into Friendica :
video series "Friendica tutorial Pt 1 of 6: Explaining Friendica/Facebook comparisons and how to join." by @anubis2814
Blog "The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: Friendica)" by @Elena Rossini ⁂ @FOSDEM
Blog "When to use Friendica over Mastodon" by @Greenpepper
Or if you have specific questions about Friendica, feel free to ask here...
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@caos @Daniel Supernault @ericbuijs1 @anubis2814 @Elena Rossini ⁂ @FOSDEM @Sanne Bjerg I actually spent an entire afternoon myself compiling this comprehensive post about Friendica. It was initially designed to be a megathread with resources, but I decided to also add an FAQ and, as a bonus, the list of all human-readable color names that are supported when formatting your text to be colored (because yes, you can format your text in whichever way you want).
Feel free to Ctrl+F anything in your browser to quickly jump to what you need, check the links as well if I did not cover it, and also ask on the forum (@helpers@forum.friendi.ca) if you still don't find what you need. Or you can ask here. I'm all ears :)
Friendica tutorial Pt 1 of 6: Explaining Friendica/Facebook comparisons and how to join. Ver 2023.12
Since the internet was severely lacking it, This is a comprehensive tutorial on how you can do pretty much anything in friendica that you can on facebook. T...anubis2814 (YouTube)
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i really dont want to spoil the fun here. I appreciate the effort.
But although #signal is much more popular than #matrix their relationship is like #mastodon to #bluesky. Both bluesky and signal have a #proprietary backend. although their frontent is #OpenSource they technically have a single point of failure. server/cluster down == service down
Mastodon and matrix are actual fediverse services which are undestroyable since they are many federated, independent servers.
why signal when you can XMPP
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I pulled up YouTube for the first time (I was signed out of google too) on my work computer to watch one funny video at work, and this is what autoplayed immediately afterwards. I’m fully switching to peertube now. It’s turning into a hate platform like meta and Twitter.
Adding Alt-Text to the image would be much appreciated: perkins.org/resource/how-write…
How to Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions for the visually impaired – Perkins School for the Blind
Making your website and social media accessible to people with blindness and low vision.Perkins School for the Blind
Please, do add #AltText to your image perkins.org/resource/how-write…
How to Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions for the visually impaired – Perkins School for the Blind
Making your website and social media accessible to people with blindness and low vision.Perkins School for the Blind
Wir sind noch #neuHier auf #Mastodon. Unsere Accounts auf X, Facebook und Instagram haben wir gelöscht.
Wir sind unseres Wissens der erste #AnwaltVerein im #Fediverse, aber bestimmt nicht der letzte.
Wir würden uns freuen, wenn noch mehr #Rechtsanwälte den Weg hierher fänden. Sprecht Euren Lieblings-, Haus-, Familien- und Unternehmensanwalt einfach auf's #Fediversum an. Es gibt ja für jede große kommerzielle Plattform eine freie Alternative, siehe die grafische Übersicht oben.
Signal should not be on this graphic.
This is super helpful! Thank you! I just got on Mastodon! I have been off social media for a minute but wanted to get back in, just not on Meta apps!
Dunno how well this is going to go - decentralized kinda misses the point of social networks, one of these requires you to run your own servers, and one is closed to new signups
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I recommend #DeltaChat as alternative to #WhatsApp, Delta Chat is decentralized, no phone number required etc.
The Fediverse needs better branding. Don't use 'Tube', it was already outdated when YouTube launched. Pixelfed sounds like it's a federal agency. Friendica? What? And don't get me started on 'Mastodon' which I think would have way more users if it wasn't called 'Mastodon'
HMM…THIS IS GREAT AND I’M SHARING IT ON OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA SITES! HOPE YOU DON’T MIND.
anyone using SimpleX?
neither Friendica or Smithereen are in the apple App Store.
hmm, I'll try the TikTok one. TikTok is out of control with the censorship now. They kissed the orange ring.
I can't seem to find it. I highly recommend Neptune but it's just starting beta now. You can sign up for beta but you might be placed on a wait list.
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@brawnybunkbedbuddy With Friendica you can also communicate with Diaspora users (+ and with Bluesky, Tumblr, ...). With Diaspora you are only in contact with other #Diaspora users and with Friendica and Hubzilla, but not with the rest of the Fediverse.
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I've been slowly converting family and friends over to #Signal for years now. Here's how usually I do that these days. When a conversation gets into some rather intimate topic - say talk on emotions, or psychology, or other highly private details - then I set a boundary, saying "I'd be willing to discuss this topic further, but only in a more private app like Signal." So I leave them an "out": I'm willing to stay on, say, WhatsApp, *but the conversation has to stay more shallow*.
I also run an #XMPP server (Prosody), but I've had very limited success in getting people to join. Frankly, XMPP is *only* for intrepid geeks at this time, who are willing to put up with several papercuts in usability. Apps like WhatsApp and Signal have "raised the bar" *a lot*, and apps like #Conversations and #Gajim have their work cut out for them to try to catch up to people's sky-high expectations - they've been spoiled.
*A ton more testing and bug-fixing is still needed to iron out quirks that the different XMPP clients have, in talking to each other.*
This goes especially for #iOS or #iPadOS offerings for XMPP.
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should SimpleX app wouldn't be better than Signal?
WhatsApp for DeltaChat
Hi Dansup, first of all, you are a ⭐ thanks for everything you do!
I have a quick question... I applied to pixelfed.art a couple of days ago, but no answer yet. Shall I wait more or resend the application? Please let me know if there is anything wrong. My username in the application was "skamu". Thanks!!
I have a quick question... I applied to pixelfed.art a couple of days ago, but no answer yet. Shall I wait more or resend the application? Please let me know if there is anything wrong. My username in the application was "skamu". Thanks!!
Signal should not be there at all.
Never was on Xitter, but I'm here. Never been on "insta," or What'sApp, or TikTok. Debating leaving FB and not switching to anything. YT with ad blockers and a VPN for now.
I'd swap out PeerTube for Odysee, personally. I like the concept of PeerTube but in my experience, it's nowhere near as viable as Odysee is.
Long interesting discussion! Another idea, while we’re at it, might be to buy a Fairphone with /e/os and resist the temptation of installing the ‘wrong apps’. They also sell tablets. Reasonably locked down Linux on your computer and you’re set. Am I the only one who sees the irony of choosing ‘safe’ apps but still using the machines and os’ of the beast? 
. If you have to use them at work, wait till you get home to socialize online, or take your Fairphone on your pee break.
. If you have to use them at work, wait till you get home to socialize online, or take your Fairphone on your pee break.
apart from Mastodon and Signal i don't think other alternatives are as polished yet.
Loops.video is closed for new users, unfortunately
signal :ferrisAware:
I prefer Hubzilla to Friendica.Especially because it is one of the few (the only one?) that supports “nomadic identity”.
@Juancho @Daniel Supernault Not the only one.
Mike Macgirvin, the creator of Friendica and Hubzilla, has made a whole tree of at least (...counts...) nine forks after Hubzilla, eight of which were nomadic. Two of them still exist.
One is intentionally nameless, intentionally brandless, intentionally not a project and intentionally released into the public domain. Since the community needed to address to it by something, they took the name of the code repository (which needed a name), put parentheses around it and called it (streams).
It's a fork (2021)
of a fork (Roadhouse; 2021)
of three forks (Osada, Mistpark 2020 a.k.a. Misty, Redmatrix 2020; 2020)
of a fork (Zap; 2018)
of maybe another fork (Osada; non-nomadic; 2018; if Zap was forked from Osada rather than directly from Hubzilla;)
of Hubzilla.
(streams) is reduced in features and connectivity in comparison with Hubzilla, but so were the first Osada and Zap. However, in terms of permission control and nomadicity, it's at least up-to-par with Hubzilla. In fact, it isn't quite as difficult to use as Hubzilla because permission handling has been adapted what the Fediverse of the 2020s actually requires as opposed to what a hypothetical Fediverse of the mid-2010s centred around the Red Matrix would require.
I've made a series of tables that compare Mastodon, Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams). You can find them here.
The other still existing fork is Forte from August, 2024. Forte is a direct fork of (streams). It's highly experimental because all support for the Nomad protocol was removed, and it has to rely on ActivityPub for nomadic identity. Thus, it is not officially released yet, it does not have public instances, and it is not recommended as a stable, reliable daily driver yet.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte
forte
Consent based social networking compatible with ActivityPub and Mastodon; which have no concept of consent and online safety.Codeberg.org
@jupiter_rowland ngl, Mike Macgirvin is one of those generational forces that really changes things.
I know he doesn't like me, but I stan his eloquent ingenuity, devs like him are rare, and I hope we can work together one day!
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How do I get Loops? Not on Google Play as far as I can see
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but I can't go to loopsvideo 😥
@P0llyticks @MxVerda the great bluesky to fediverse migration will happen once BS introduces ads, just watch
I made a website to help people explain what's happening and how they can move as well if they want:
meta-morphosis.nl/
meta-morphosis.nl/
why not quit with social media? (I know, asking this on Mastodon....)
@stux I miss Vine ☹️
I have to say that I just really paid attention to the logos for Loops and Peertube and I think they’re brilliant. I have no idea if you intended for Loops to reference/riff Peertube’s design language, but it’s very good either way (Peertube evoking federation through the “play” triangle pointing in multiple directions while also itself being a “play” triangle; almost the same sized triangle in the negative space with the looping graphics for Loops).
I think it's a good idea to give some of these products up.
Stop recommending Signal
My eyes have recently opened for the great FOSS migration options out there. =)
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CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. (Including gender, transgender, pregnant person, LGBT, and more)
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.Jeremy Faust, MD (Inside Medicine)
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This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data.
lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/…
"In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal #Github repositories, and #PubMed...."
#DataGov #DefendResearch #Libraries #OpenData #Preservation #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
#trump
#USPolitics
#uspol
#github
#libraries
#opendata
#preservation
#pubmed
#datagov
#defendresearch
#trumpvresearch
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Related: Also see the End of Term Web Archive, which routinely scrapes and preserves US govt web pages before new presidents take office. Launched in 2008 and still going strong. To supplement its archive, it welcomes URL nominations of sites to save.
eotarchive.org/
#OpenData #Preservation #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
End of Term Web Archive
The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative initiative that collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations.End of Term Web Archive
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Related: "As Data Goes Off-Line Under #Trump, Environmental Researchers Are Uploading Backups"
insidehighered.com/news/facult…
"In the first few days of Donald Trump’s second term as president, the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s #Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (#CEJST, for short) disappeared from government websites. It was an interactive map of U.S. Census tracts that are “marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution,” as the pre-Trump federal government put it—something researchers and the public could use to quickly locate and zoom in on specific communities and analyze the problems they face. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine stored a copy of the webpage, but even there, the map was gone. However, thanks to a team of researchers from multiple universities and other organizations, a new working version was posted online Friday."
#OpenData #Preservation #USPol #USPolitics
As data goes off-line under Trump, researchers upload backups
A team of scholars has worked since November to archive resources that are valuable to themselves and the public—just in case they were taken down.Ryan Quinn (Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs)
Related: "The #Trump administration is scrubbing the #CDC’s website of documents on #ReproductiveRights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. We’re saving them. 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘺 will publish and host these vital documents for as long as necessary. To share deleted documents with 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘺, email tips@abortioneveryday.com. "
jessica.substack.com/p/cdc-bir…
#Preservation #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.Jessica Valenti (Abortion, Every Day)
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Related. Also see the Safeguarding Research project.
safeguarding-research.discours…
"You know of any publicly available material that needs safeguarding? Please post about it here!"
#Preservation #USPol #USPolitics
Safeguarding Research ✊
Organizing to safeguard as much publicly available research, GLAM-collections, etc. pp. as possible.Safeguarding Research ✊
Related. "Researchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websites"
journalistsresource.org/home/r…
"Tips for preserving websites:
* To find the missing websites, go to Wayback Machine and type in the website’s URL in the search bar.
* If you’re concerned that certain websites or web pages may be removed, you can suggest federal websites and content that end in .gov, .mil and .com to the End of Term Web Archive.
* You can suggest federal climate and environmental databases to Environmental Data and Governance Initiative.
* You can suggest databases to The Data Liberation Project, which is run by MuckRock and Big Local News.
* Tell science journalist Maggie Koerth what CDC data you've downloaded and whether you've made them publicly available...."
#Preservation #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Researchers rush to preserve government health data
Journalists have long relied on federal health data for their reporting. We include several tips that they can use to help researchers preserve the data.Naseem S. Miller (The Journalist's Resource)
I honest to god, even in my most fevered worries about the future, (and as someone trained in bioethics, I had plenty of them), dreamed that one day we would be playing whack a mole with the American Stasi to keep science data safe.
My goodness, it's going to be ironic if Piratbyrån is what saves science.
@astroPug
It might be possible to set up a Signal account to send these, anonymously encrypted.
It might be possible to set up a Signal account to send these, anonymously encrypted.
I was just thinking, with all of the badly worded edicts that King Don has been firehosing us with, if I were a sysadmin I would engage i malicious compliance just to wake people up and not sugarcoat the awfulness. Let the whole website return errors, take the whole thing down rather than hide info. Make people mad.
"Just doing what you told me to do…”
Backup the backups too.
He'll come for the university libraries next.
He'll come for the university libraries next.
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Duplicate the data sets at multiple sites, several of them public.
Thank you so much. I don't pretend to know that much about it all, but that folks are working on this is a comfort.
Bücherverbrennung im 21. Jahrhundert.
Wir sind schon mittendrin.
Burning books in the 21st century.
We are already in the middle of it all.
Support for usa's people.
From france.
From france.
Update. "Today we [Harvard Law School @harvard_law Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil] released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov. This is the first release in our new data vault project to preserve and authenticate vital public datasets for academic research, policymaking, and public use."
lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/…
#DataGov #Libraries #OpenData #Preservation #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...lil.law.harvard.edu
the most interesting, and compelling, snippet "sign as authentic" .
Right before the new administration tried to rewrite history as well as ignoring its lessons.
Update. "This is Version 2 of the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, released by the Council on Environmental Quality [#CEQ] in December 2024. Although the tool remains unchanged, public access through the White House was discontinued on January 22, 2025. We re-created Version 2 and made it publicly accessible."
screening-tools.com/climate-ec…
Update. "The Public Environmental Data Partners [#PEDP] are committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data. We are a volunteer coalition of several environmental, justice, and policy organizations, researchers across several universities, archivists, and students who rely on federal datasets and tools to support critical research, advocacy, policy, and litigation work. To gather insights on what data to preserve, we reached out to our networks, which consist largely of environmental justice groups and networks, state and local government climate offices, and academic researchers. We compiled a large list of federal databases and tools, and prioritized them based on their relative impact, our confidence that we could archive them, and the relative effort it would take to obtain and archive them."
screening-tools.com/
Continuously updated.
#Climate #Data #Environment #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. "Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites"
technologyreview.com/2025/02/0…
Surveying a range of initiatives with good clarity on the obstacles.
"There are questions about whether scraping the data will really be enough. Restoring websites and complex data sets is often not a simple process.…'The repairs and attempts to recover are sometimes insurmountable where we need continuous readings of data.' 'All of this data archiving work is a temporary Band-Aid,' says Gosnell. 'If data sets are removed and are no longer updated, our archived data will become increasingly stale and thus ineffective at informing decisions over time.' "
#Climate #Data #Medicine #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites
Amid takedowns of various government sites and databases, several organizations are working to preserve vital climate, health, and scientific data before it’s gone for good.Scott J Mulligan (MIT Technology Review)
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Update. "How the Wayback Machine is preserving outdated government websites."
cbsnews.com/video/how-the-wayb…
"The #WaybackMachine is helping preserve the record of government websites before they were changed by the TTrump administration. CBS News Confirmed's Rhona Tarrant reports."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #InternetArchive #Preservation #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics
How the Wayback Machine is preserving outdated government websites
The Wayback Machine is helping preserve the record of government websites before they were changed by the Trump administration. CBS News Confirmed's Rhona Tarrant reports.CBS News
Update. "The fight to preserve federal government data."
muckrock.com/news/archives/202…
"Despite the Trump administration restricting access to these government sites and its underlying data, organizations and individuals have been working to preserve this data. Here are just a few of the efforts that part of an ongoing effort to preserve public information."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Preservation #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics
The fight to preserve federal government data
Multiple organizations are fighting to preserve access to government data and websites that have been removed after President Donald Trump took office.MuckRock Foundation
Update. "Federal data is disappearing. Meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help."
youtube.com/watch?v=hiZuKA-o4V…
"Since the start of the new #Trump administration, hundreds of federal data sets and government websites have gone offline without warning, sometimes returning with major changes and sometimes not returning at all. On February 13th, #MuckRock hosted an event with organizations that are helping lead the efforts to preserve the public’s data."
This is a video of the event.
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Federal data is disappearing. Meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help.
Since the start of the new Trump administration, hundreds of federal data sets and government websites have gone offline without warning, sometimes returning...YouTube
Update. "The cost of losing government webpages and public data"
marketplace.org/shows/marketpl…
"Jack Cushman, director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil], has been preserving sites and data that went dark after executive orders from President #Trump. He underlines the importance of keeping digital copies or risk parting with “our cultural memory.”
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Podcast #Preservation #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics
The cost of losing government webpages and public data - Marketplace
Jack Cushman of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab has been preserving sites and data that went dark after executive orders from President Trump.Marketplace
Update. The Data Rescue Project spotlights 13 college and university #libguides on projects to rescue scientific and govt data from #censorship or deletion.
datarescueproject.org/librarie…
#DefendResearch #DRP #Libraries #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Libraries supporting data rescue
Librarians are great at quickly pulling together resources to support their patrons, and in the face of recent data loss, this need has become more urgent. Our patrons rely on access to public government data.Lynda Kellam (Data Rescue Project)
Update. "A Renewed Call for Preservation of At-Risk Government Data"
icpsr.umich.edu/web/about/cms/…
"The directors of the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research (#ISR) and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (#ICPSR) are emphasizing the critical need for preserving government data that may be at risk due to recent policy shifts....Through #DataLumos, an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources, ICPSR is helping the data community to preserve, document, and disseminate thousands of files from agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control [#CDC] and the Department of Education [#DOE]."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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#USPolitics
#uspol
#censorship
#cdc
#preservation
#doe
#isr
#takedowns
#defendresearch
#icpsr
#datalumos
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Update. "While we at the #PEGI Project [Preservation of Electronic Government Information] have been aware of the potential for a crisis like this since the start of our project in 2017, both the pace and extent of the removals and changes have been astonishing to witness. What has also been astonishing (and heartening!) is the willingness of a broad community to join together in quick action to save content, particularly data that cannot be easily captured as part of the End of Term Archive. The Public Environmental Data Partners, a project launched by the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI), has been working on collecting and preserving hard-to-crawl environmental data for the past couple of months. In the past two weeks, a coalition has formed to launch the Data Rescue Project, which then debuted its Data Rescue Tracker. They also have a helpful (and well-vetted!) list of Resources that can guide individuals and organizations wanting to contribute to this work."
pegiproject.org/blog/2025/2/14…
#Censorship #DefendResearch #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
PEGI Project Urges Preservation of Public Federal Data
Rapid political events have led to an upheaval in access to data and other information resources produced by the U.S.Deborah Caldwell (PEGI Project)
Update. "Here’s why and how Public Environmental Data Partners [#PEDP] and others are making sure that the #climate science the public depends on is available forever."
theconversation.com/how-to-fin…
#Censorship #DefendResearch #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see
Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data – some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.The Conversation
#trump
#USPolitics
#uspol
#climate
#opendata
#censorship
#preservation
#takedowns
#pedp
#defendresearch
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Update. "As the US government removes health websites and data, here’s a list of non-government data alternatives and archives"
journalistsresource.org/home/a…
"There’s no perfect alternative to the government databases, but some non-governmental organizations have their own datasets, which can be useful to journalists. Several #journalism associations have also been downloading government data and making them available to their members. To help journalists with their continued reporting, we have curated a list of non-government websites that have health data, although some use government data to create their reports. We’ll continue to update this list. If you have a suggestion for a database, please email us."
h/t @kdnyhan
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A list of non-government database alternatives and archives
We have curated a list of non-government websites with health databases. We'll continue to update this list.Naseem S. Miller (The Journalist's Resource)
Update. If you're following this thread, you should also follow the Data Rescue Project by visiting its web site and subscribing to its email list. It aims "to serve as a clearinghouse for #data rescue-related efforts and data access points for public US governmental data that are currently at risk." And it's #crowdsourced, which gives it fighting chance to be comprehensive and up to date.
datarescueproject.org/about-da…
If you're on #Bluesky, also follow its B account.
bsky.app/profile/datarescuepro…
I'm very aware that a solo effort, like this Mastodon thread, doesn't scale to the size of this task and I welcome the arrival of a crowdsourced effort. I will use it and refer people to it.
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About Data Rescue Project
The Data Rescue Project is a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, including IASSIST, RDAP, and members of the Data Curation Network.Editor 1 (Data Rescue Project)
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A list of non-government database alternatives and archives
We have curated a list of non-government websites with health databases. We'll continue to update this list.Naseem S. Miller (The Journalist's Resource)
Thanks for the resources. I'd encourage everyone to think locally, too -- it may not just be Federal data at risk. For instance, at a certain university, I understand there's a footer applied to each email sent out to students, staff, or faculty that includes the words "diversity" and "inclusion". That same university, I understand, also has pages about resources for LGBTQ+ people, and climate change, on their university web site. No doubt that university gets a lot of Federal money for research, etc, and so...
Update. "Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help. Join the Internet Archive [@internetarchive] and the Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] on Feb. 13, 3pm Eastern for a special event exploring the terabytes of data they have already saved and how to access it."
muckrock.com/news/archives/202…
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Federal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help.
Since the start of the new Trump administration, hundreds of federal data sets and government websites have gone offline without warning, sometimes returning with major changes and sometimes not returning at all. On February.MuckRock Foundation
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thank you Peter.
I've donated to the @internetarchive because retaining factual data is critical to ever restoring a normal, post-fascist world.
At this rate, Trump's pardon list will be a one liner: "Every employee and contractor I ever hired, but none of the ones I fired."
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Update. "Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump"
democracynow.org/2025/2/28/int…
"Thousands of informational government webpages have been taken down so far in the second #Trump administration, including on public health, scientific research and LGBTQ rights. Amid this mass erasure of public information, the #InternetArchive is racing to save copies of those deleted resources."
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Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump
Thousands of informational government webpages have been taken down so far in the second Trump administration, including on public health, scientific research and LGBTQ rights.Democracy Now!
Apparently it is standard practice for them to do this with every administration change. Just this one is so mission critical.
Update. "Safeguarding Research & Culture — Distributing Cultural Memory"
safeguarding-research.discours…
"The destruction of knowledge and cultural heritage has happened, and therefore it can happen again. We are in the middle of that happening, whether it is caused by human action or natural causes…Safeguarding Research & Culture (#SRC) is creating an alternative #infrastructure for archiving and disseminating of cultural heritage and scientific knowledge…Together, we can ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear. Our archive is built according to the principles of #FAIR and #CARE, based on open technologies and standards, and resilient against loss via meaningfully distributed storage…Everyone, from individuals to institutions, can participate by accessing, contributing, and supporting these archival infrastructures."
#Censorship #Crowdsource #DefendResearch #OpenInfrastructure #OpenSource #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
About - Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC)
Organizing to safeguard as much publicly available research, GLAM-collections, etc. pp. as possible.Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC)
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interesting, way back machine was highly targeted prior to that …
Update. "Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump #CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe"
404media.co/archivists-recreat…
"A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe."
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Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe
The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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Update. From @kfitz: "Digital Preservation in a Time of Disorder"
about.hcommons.org/2025/03/19/…
"#KnowledgeCommons has applied for a significant grant from Lever for Change to build, implement, and sustain a digital preservation network that will be free from the US government’s, and any other single government’s, interference…KC is a #nonprofit, community-governed, #OpenAccess platform for creating and sharing knowledge world-wide…But, in the present moment, our US-centeredness is a significant threat to that mission. We propose to establish three linked but independent nonprofit public-benefit companies incorporated in the US, Europe, and South Africa, all dedicated to the social and technological processes of gathering, preserving, and ensuring the public accessibility of academic research."
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Update. "SAFE-Track: Secure Anonymous Federal Evidence, Data and Analysis Tracking"
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"The Data Foundation's SAFE-Track portal provides a secure, encrypted channel for documenting changes to federal evidence and #data activities. As a trusted, non-partisan authority on government data and evidence policy, the #DataFoundation maintains this platform to systematically understand and analyze impacts on America's evidence infrastructure…SAFE-Track enables confidential reporting through:
* Complete #anonymity for submissions
* End-to-end #encryption of all data
* No requirement for email or personal identification
* Option for secure follow-up communication through anonymous conversation codes
* Protections against collection of personally identifiable information."
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Update. "The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge. Can #librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from #DOGE.
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"Lynda Kellam, a social scientist and data librarian,…who’s served in leadership positions at two Ivy League universities, described the vulnerable data as “irreplaceable.”…Kellam told me that she’d participated in a small data-preservation effort during Trump’s first term, but had never seen anything like the frenzy that ignited in late January, when the #CDC began removing information from its website. Kellam was encouraged, but worried about a lack of coördination. What if the backups languished on private hard drives? What if archivists duplicated one another’s work? She created a Google Doc to centralize information about preëxisting initiatives—an archive of archives, with detailed instructions on how to contribute to each…Kellam met with the heads of other data-librarian organizations, and together they founded the #DataRescueProject."
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Update. #CoherentDigital launches Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection.
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"It's our contribution to the ongoing effort to rescue, preserve and make open endangered government materials at risk of disappearing…Our focus will be on policy and technical reports, papers, documents, blogposts, videos, and podcasts but we're open to suggestions for other content types - except for datasets. There are a number of excellent ongoing efforts to rescue data so there's no need for us to replicate them…Our goal is to make these materials easy to find and permanently available…We’re calling on librarians and researchers to help identify endangered materials from government agencies and suggest at-risk websites and repositories. We're also inviting those who have been working closely with agencies to send us copies of previously open materials they may have on their hard drives and laptops."
Also see the project home page and FAQ.
coherentdigital.net/open-2025
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Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection | Toby Green
After some weeks of scrambling after government content that's either disappeared or is now at risk, we're very pleased to announce the Policy Commons 2025…Toby Green (www.linkedin.com)
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Awesome! Thx!
Update. "ERICA is a rescue catalog which preserves over 500,000 Open Access publications originally hosted by the US Department of Education in the #ERIC research repository. ERIC was defunded on the 23 April 2025 and the maintenance contract is set to expire soon, meaning that ERIC is likely to shut down. The PDFs were rescued using the Internet Archive's #WaybackMachine by a volunteer of the #DataRescueProject. When you click on one of the publication ID links, you will be redirected to the archived PDF in the the Wayback Machine. Feel free to host your own copy of ERICA by simply cloning this source code repo, which also includes the metadata for the catalog."
erica.datarescueproject.org/
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Update. "With the recent announcement that numerous datasets — such as those from #NOAA — are scheduled for decommissioning in May, #PANGAEA has opened its archive to help safeguard these valuable resources. If you become aware of any endangered datasets, please don't hesitate to contact us. PANGAEA data!"
pangaea.de/
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Update. "#SciOp is part of Safeguarding Research & Culture (#SRC). The bits must flow: let us resurrect the ancient art of #Bittorrent to ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear."
sciop.net/
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Update. Speak up to help #AED reduce the odds that valuable public US govt datasets will be taken down.
essentialdata.us/
"Demonstrating the broad real-world value of federal data is the most strategic path to ensuring its continued flow. The goal of America's Essential Data is to make it easy for: … federal agency data stewards and their leadership to better understand the true value of their data, especially as it relates to administration priorities. Do you use a federal dataset that delivers important benefits for the American people? Help us tell the story of that dataset!"
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America's Essential
Highlighting examples of how our essential public data serve the American people.essentialdata.us
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Update. "Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it"
theguardian.com/environment/ng…
"#TheGuardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by #FEMA but then deleted."
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Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deletedOliver Milman (The Guardian)
Update. "As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them"
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"After President Trump's inauguration in January, some federal web pages vanished. While…were removed entirely, many came back online with changes that…officials said were made to conform to Trump's executive orders to remove "diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies." Thousands of datasets were wiped — mostly at agencies focused on science and the environment…Information about climate change, reproductive health, gender identity and sexual orientation also have been on the chopping block…The #InternetArchive [@internetarchive] is among the few efforts that exist to catch the stuff that falls through the digital cracks, while also making that information accessible to the public. Six weeks into the new administration, #WaybackMachine director Graham said, the Internet Archive had cataloged some 73,000 web pages that had existed on U.S. government websites that were expunged after Trump's inauguration."
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Update. "A group of US researchers funded through federal grants who wish to document the damage to our scientific #infrastructure. Our #data #archive is for use by journalists, academics, and the general public."
theresearchwelost.com/
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Update. "US anti-terror legislation must not be weaponised against libraries"
timeshighereducation.com/opini…
"Scholars have attempted to safeguard their work by turning to sites deemed to be beyond the reach of the US government…However, even these safe havens may be at risk if a seemingly innocuous tax bill completes its course through Congress. H.R. 9495, the “Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act”, was passed by the US House of Representatives in November 2024 and is currently before the Senate. It proposes…to strip non-profit status from organisations deemed to be “supporting terrorism”. But its broad language, lack of evidentiary requirements, and potential for political weaponisation should send a chill down the spines of all higher education professionals. After all, who is to define terrorism? History is filled with examples of liberation movements and resistance groups initially labelled 'terrorists' by powerful states. And who is to define 'support'?"
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US anti-terror legislation must not be weaponised against libraries
The terror financing bill’s broad language may require international efforts to defend academic freedom, says Caroline BallCaroline Ball (Times Higher Education (THE))
the Nazis burned the books, too. It all makes sense
I think this new law would apply to Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 as well,ie, domestic *terrorist* groups.
Update. Kudos to the Northwestern University Libraries for training people to take part in the #DataRescueProject. Other #libraries should follow suit.
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/…
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NU hosts training to preserve disappearing federal data
To the average person, “data recovery” might sound like something best left to hackers in basements or thriller movies.campus (The Daily Northwestern)
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very good to see all those dark green full text publications safely archived and made available, including over 3000 historical ones going back to 1792.
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Update. "Because of #Trump: [The German] Central Library of #Medicine builds alternative to US database."
heise.de/news/Wegen-Trump-Zent…
From Google's English: "The German National Library of Medicine (#ZBMed) has announced its intention to create an "open, reliable, and sustainable alternative" to the #PubMed database, one of the most important and comprehensive resources for biomedical literature worldwide. The meta-database, with references to relevant articles and over 38 million citations, is operated by the National Library of Medicine (#NLM), a division of the National Institutes of Health (#NIH) in the United States. ZB Med is responding to concerns that the US administration under Donald Trump is cutting funding for the NIH. There are also fears that political influences could compromise PubMed's scientific integrity."
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Wegen Trump: Zentralbibliothek Medizin baut Alternative zu US-Datenbank auf
Ein deutsches Informationszentrum will eine Alternative zur PubMed-Datenbank in den USA entwickeln, um die Informationsversorgung in der Biomedizin zu sichern.Stefan Krempl (heise online)
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Northwestern's Storymaps platform gives people without Omeka access or servers and thus without GIS software an opportunity to build important data narration tools. Northwestern's info work seems exceptionally community-minded. Kudos to them.
Is there some place to see this training? I'd love to help rescue data but haven't found a good intro to the project. Everything seems to be aimed at people already up and running--coordination rather than bringing people on board.
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It's all gone. They've taken down all the CDC datasets from data.cdc.gov/
"Do not fear those who tell the truth. Fear those who try to hide it. They are willing to sacrifice other things."
EDIT at 18.43 CET - the website seems to be BACK UP - looks like for about an hour, from my notifications.
It was done when I posted the original. I wouldn't have posted if it was not.
What may be removed to become 'in compliance', I do not know.
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It's not gone. Us data hoarders have been really really busy and lots of us have downloaded everything. The entirely of the US gubment, Wikipedia, and more, all on our spinning rust
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I'm reminded of this:
"I learn with great satisfaction that you are about committing to the press the valuable historical and state-papers you have been so long collecting. Time and accident are committing daily havoc on the originals deposited in our public offices. The late war has done the work of centuries in this business." (cont.)
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@alessandro t/y. The data hoarding community is quite large. Our mission is more important than ever
@Lydie "The lost cannot be recovered; but let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use, in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident."
— a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Ebenezer Hazard, 18 February 1791
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GitHub - end-of-term/eot2024: End of Term Web Archive 2024
End of Term Web Archive 2024. Contribute to end-of-term/eot2024 development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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The good folks at DataHoarders (sub reddit) have been archiving many GOV websites over the last few weeks.
It's a real shame that it takes an army of regular people to retain important data that all of us paid into, instead of the government keeping it on the records.
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> It's a real shame that it takes an army of regular people to retain important data that all of us paid into, instead of the government keeping it on the records
This is why Open Data matters. Relying on any one data steward - governmental or otherwise - creates a SPoF that invites attack from people whose interests or ideologies are threatened by that data.
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Universities and other scientific institutions could use BitTorrent to maintain synced copies of datasets, and distribute them freely.
@strypey Agree - open data!!!
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Cis people: the more of you that speak out, the better I feel that we can survive this. Please familiarize yourself with why transition related care for trans teens is so important and how it is safe, effective, and literally life saving: transequality.org/news/get-fac… #TransRights
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As extremist lawmakers in state after state try to attack our transgender community’s basic health care, the misinformation is rampant.A4TE
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WA lawmaker defends bill making priests mandated reporters: I can't "make a compromise for you anymore"
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WA lawmaker defends bill making priests mandated reporters: I can't "make a compromise for you anymore"
Sen. Noel Frame has once again sponsored a bill requiring priests to report confessions of abuseFriendly Atheist
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Enjoy the higher drug prices. Y'all got what you voted for. The rich get richer and the sick get sicker.
But hey, you got a damn Gulf name changed! Hope that helps with mom's diabetes.
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I just read sad news that a 10-year old boy pointlessly died of #diphtheria. He was not vaccinated. Althrough vaccines were readily available. This is obviously the parent’s fault. 10-year olds have different problems.
Please check if your vaccinations and those who are close to you are up-to-date: If not, or if you don’t know: Go see a doctor NOW. I’m not a doctor, so ask them, not me. :P
And fuck #antivaxxers!
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Good job! 😁 👍 No tear amphora 🏺 needed for this! Got what he deserved!
We're all safer with MAGAs in jail. Even the MAGAs.
it's tragic, but I believe some felt that they were above the law after their pardon.
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Montana Democrats want to require priests to report confessions of child abuse
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- “Trump raises prices on goods from Colombia — average Americans to foot the bill…”
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People need to get these headlines right:- “Trump imposes tariffs on Americans who buy Colombian products…”
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- “Trump forces Americans to pay higher prices for coffee, flowers…”reuters.com/world/americas/col…
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Elon did exactly the hand on chest followed by salute gesture neo nazis do. Ain't no way that wasn't intentional.
Elon is scrambling to convince everyone he’s not a Nazi while links to X are being banned on other platforms. Schadenfreude!
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Elon did exactly the hand on chest followed by salute gesture neo nazis do. Ain't no way that wasn't intentional.
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Hello to everyone! I am a mycologist, working on revision and ecology of fungal communities in Western Siberia fungariumysu.org. I am also keen on open data, GBIF, biodiversity informatics and pay some time developing a site biodiversitydata.info. I want to join this community to share thoughts and information about biodiversity informatics, open data, biodiversity portals, biodiversity data analyses, data standards, biological collections digitization, TDWG, and related.
Hello to everyone! I am a mycologist, working on revision and ecology of fungal communities in Western Siberia fungariumysu.org. I am also keen on open data, GBIF, biodiversity informatics and pay some time developing a site biodiversitydata.info. I want to join this community to share thoughts and information about biodiversity informatics, open data, biodiversity portals, biodiversity data analyses, data standards, biological collections digitization, TDWG, and related.
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They want the government so small it can’t tax billionaires, but big enough to tell you which bathroom to use.
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They hate government overreach unless it’s reaching into your Pornhub history.
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Training materials obtained by @theintercept include specific examples of permitted hate speech that “demonstrate that Meta’s policy changes are political in nature and not intended to simply allow more freedom of expression,” EFF’s @jilliancyork said. theintercept.com/2025/01/09/fa…
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”Sam Biddle (The Intercept)
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Well this certainly aged like a glass of milk left out in a swamp during the dead of summer:
"We applaud Meta’s efforts to try to fix its over-censorship problem but will watch closely to make sure it is a good-faith effort and rolled out fairly and not merely a political maneuver to accommodate the upcoming U.S. administration change."
- @eff
I don't know that I got out of Meta's clutches "just in time"... but I got out. So... yeah, go ahead and die in a fire, Meta.
Bigoted mindsets never stop at just hating *one* minority. Prejudice is basically nazi Pringles.
I'd like to say that @zuck has lost his way but the fact of the matter is, his way has always been the wrong way.
#facebookexit After more than 12 years, bye MFer Right-Wing cocksucker #zuckerberg
I am just shocked by this please observe my shocked face here it is WHOA.
Surely you mean the documents were "intercepted" by the Intercept.
Yeah, backlash against all that enforced political correctedness, I presume. If you think the language is hurtful just wait until you see what they have in mind legally & physically.
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At MacStories, we won't stand for Meta's dehumanizing, harmful moderation practices.
Fuck them and everyone who builds their business upon a semblance of "free speech" to ostracize minorities and all kinds of humans.
For this reason, we're leaving Threads and Instagram behind.
You can read about our decision here, and find some links to support different organizations today: macstories.net/stories/macstor…
MacStories Won’t Stand for Meta’s Dehumanizing and Harmful Moderation Policies
Just over two years ago, MacStories left Twitter behind. We left when Elon Musk began dismantling the company’s trust and safety infrastructure, allowing hateful speech and harassment on the platform.John Voorhees (MacStories)
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I just wanted to say that I'm so incredibly thankful for the *hundreds* of encouraging messages we've gotten from readers – old and new – regarding our decision to take MacStories off Meta platforms.
I'm even more grateful to see people signing up for the @club or upgrading their subscriptions to support us. Now more than ever, an independent site like @macstories depends on its readers to keep growing after 16 years.
Thank you. 💛
And it's not just that we've taken MacStories off Meta platforms:
For the past year, I've been planning how to go all-in with the Fediverse and ActivityPub for MacStories 5.0.
The future of @macstories' social infrastructure will be based on open, decentralized standards.
I'm so excited to build this with @johnvoorhees, @robb, @alex and the rest of the team.
@club @macstories What you have all built/building at MacStories is really great and i’m so happy to support the journey. It’s a fantastic community.
@johnvoorhees @club @macstories Yep, this decision of yours alone finally convinced me to subscribe. If only I thought of that when there were discounts 😇
@club @macstories as soon as I have an income again, I’ll be signing up. As it stands, adding extra outgoings right now would be a little foolish (although I’m by no means broke!)
thanks Federico. It’s your right to take a privileged stance and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Bravo! Just got rid of my threads account. Reconsidering Instagram as well.
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☺️🙌thank u !
I deleted both accounts and apps today.
I applaud you 👏🏼
I never had an Instagram or Threads account and I put my FB account to sleep.
The real test is WhatsApp, of course. It cannot be ditched. Without it, we cannot communicate with anyone. I tried for a full year and fold.
Now, what…?
bravo! Impressed with your speed on this
Bravo gang!
i am so glad to see the seemingly broader backlash against this
Very much applaud this decision.
MASSIVE respect to you and @johnvoorhees 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 thank youuuu
I salute your decision! I have to say that I am an infrequent visitor to your site, but that is definitely going to change
thank you for standing up to this Meta BS! 🙏
amazing! thank you
Outstanding. I’m already a subscriber but am about to upgrade to the Plus version. Thank you for putting principles above profit.
Thank you for doing this! 👏
Thank you, Federico and John. Not a lot of people in media will have the spine (or the financial independence) to take such a step. Believe me when I say that doing this means a lot to your queer followers. ♥️
I really like how your Mastodon presence is on the macstories.net domain itself. “Fediverse done right”. Kudos.
Nice!!! I love that you are giving the finger to Meta. I run a social network that has clear rules against hate speech and made to be a safe space, so we would love you have you. hey.cafe
Thank you for your strong stance. I’ve never patronized your content before, but this post persuaded me to subscribe to your RSS feed.
nose-body cares about your Apple circlejerk or your support of heckin’ wholesome trannies. Your Facebook grandstanding is retarded, and nobody will miss your absence.
Good on you, all!
Thank you for taking the only reasonable stance.
So … when will you leave Apple behind?
good stuff. You’re on the right side of history.
good for you! I am ashamed that i worked there. It was like 10 years ago, but i think we’re seeing that this is always who Zuck was.
(It was a blast hosting you and the guys though!)
From a post 6 years ago.
“Facebook once again demonstrates that like the scorpion, it can’t help but do what it does. … They bend rules, break rules, and lie or mislead about what they have done with regularity and with no evidence of true remorse.“
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Facebook as the scorpion
There is a famous parable called the Scorpion and the Fox. Facebook is clearly a scorpion. Central to their business is the collection of as much information as possible about people, so Facebook can help their customers optimally manipulate you.Todd Heberlein
it’s interest hearing people say what you say. As a gay person we have had to fight for our rights and the freedom to have what we have. Free speech is important and if people can’t stand up and call out homophobia then we let them win. Free speech should and is important for everyone no matter what views. Many people would call someone racist for standing up to migration but that’s just their opinion. More progress gets made when hate speech is loud gay right prove that
Thank you for taking a public stand. ❤️
I want to also thank you for grouping in Threads and (especially instagram). I don't know why, but so many people are treating instagram as if it's somehow separate from Facebook/Meta.
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@davidgerard I appreciate you for this.
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you’re making a subscriber out of me
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It's disturbing how quickly some people with somewhat of a voice against Trump are now kissing the dictator ring
Do not bow, do not give in, fight against fascism
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Pre-teen desire to be "in with the in crowd" like Zuck and his $$$$$$$ watch
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When a liberal area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “God is punishing them.”
When a conservative area suffers a climate change disaster, Republicans say “Democrats control weather machines.”
Must be hard going through life as a full-blown idiot.
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