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CaSDaR

🚨 You can still get your tickets for the CaSDaR Event Launch: t.ly/yqC93

If you're a Data Steward in the UK, you cannot miss out on this event!

This hybrid delivery townhall will present the current landscape of Data Stewardship in the UK, introduce the mission and goals of CaSDaR, gather your input on what support and recognition you need, and we will be launching our first funding call to support Data Stewardship initiatives!

#DataStewards#UK#openscience
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Nonilex

The judge’s ruling followed a motion for summary judgment from the American Federation of Teachers & the American Sociological Assoc, which challenged the govt’s actions in a Feb lawsuit.

The case centers on 2 #Education Dept memos ordering #schools & #universities to end all “race-based decision-making” or face penalties up to a total loss of federal #funding. It’s part of a campaign to end practices the #Trump admin frames as *discrimination* against white & Asian American students.

#law
Nonilex

A federal judge on Thursday struck down 2 #Trump admin actions aimed at eliminating #diversity, #equity & #inclusion programs at the nation’s #schools & #universities.

In her ruling, US District Judge Stephanie Gallagher in Maryland stated that the #Education Dept violated the #law when it threatened to cut federal #funding from educational institutions that continued with #DEI initiatives.

apnews.com/article/trump-dei-s

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Ms. Que Banh

Ask #BCgovernment #HealthMinister #JosieOsborne : Protect Access to Care for #LongCOVID, ME #CFS & #Fibromyalgia Patients
Thousands of #BritishColumbians living with Long COVID, #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) & Fibromyalgia rely on the BC Centre for Long COVID, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia (BC-CLMF) for care. Many are housebound or live in rural areas. This clinic—accessible only through virtual care—is their only connection to #medical support, education, and physician-guided treatment.

But due to changes to BC’s #MedicalServices Plan coming September 1, 2025, this clinic is at risk of shutting down. If that happens, patients will lose access to essential care. #ERs and #GPs will be further overwhelmed, and there are no viable alternatives. Other programs are too short-term, overbooked, or exclude those with ME/CFS or Fibromyalgia. This clinic is cost-effective, scalable, and already working.

We urge Minister Josie Osborne to act now and secure #sustainable #funding for the BC-CLMF. We don’t need a new program—we need to protect the only system that’s helping. Please don’t abandon BC’s most vulnerable patients. Sign and share to help save the #BCCLMF.

change.org/p/josie-osborne-pro

Change.orgSign the PetitionJosie Osborne: Protect Access to Care for Long COVID, ME/CFS, and Fibromyalgia Patients
#BCpoli#PublicHealth#Healthcare
Karsten Schmidt

Would love to hear migration thoughts & plans (if any) from other FOSS maintainers (and sponsors!) currently using Github Sponsors. Are you planning/supporting to leave? Are you afraid you'll lose sponsors?

Personally, I'd also love to hear from my own sponsors (some of which are also here 👋). I'm considering migrating various public & still private thi.ng repos to @Codeberg (and plan to join as a club member), but would keep GH as passive mirror for now (updated only during new releases). Issue tracking would move to CB...

Would you support such a move? What are your own concerns? Instead of GH Sponsors, I've also started accepting donations via liberapay.com/thi.ng/ and the old patreon.com/thing_umbrella also still exists (though their greedy 8% fee makes it a non-preferred option)

thi.ngOpen source building blocks for computational design. Est. 2006thi.ng is a set of ~350 complementing code libraries & projects, a long-term effort devoted to Computational Design in its many forms.
#ThingUmbrella#OpenSource#Funding
just small circles 🕊

Funding Open Source like public infrastructure

> To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.

dri.es/funding-open-source-lik

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

An illustration of a small wedge propping up a massive block, symbolizing how a small group of contributors supports critical infrastructure.
Dries Buytaert · Funding Open Source like public infrastructureBy Dries Buytaert
#FOSS#FreeSoftware#OpenSource
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Nonilex

But by a 2-to-1 vote, the appeals court panel ruled that under the #Impoundment Control Act of 1974, only the Government Accountability Office [#USGAO], which serves as #Congress's independent #watchdog, could challenge #Trump’s efforts to withhold #ForeignAid funding. The panel found that groups that receive government #funding — in this instance, a number of #global #health nonprofits — do not have cause to challenge Trump’s funding cuts.

#law#AbuseOfPower
Nonilex

Unreal

#Trump Can Withhold Billions in #Aid, #AppealsCourt Rules

In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that #ForeignAid groups who sued to recover funds that #Trump froze lacked the legal right to bring the challenge.

The decision, which centered on Trump’s authority to withhold #funding already appropriated by #Congress, handed the White House a significant victory.

#impoundment #law #AbuseOfPower
nytimes.com/2025/08/13/us/poli

President Trump and his advisers have consistently claimed expansive authority to freeze federal dollars allocated for projects they have endeavored to snuff out.
The New York Times · Trump Administration Can Withhold Billions in Foreign Aid, Appeals Court RulesBy Zach Montague
Random Canuck 🍁😷 💉

I develop national and international standards for Canada, but the Standards Council of Canada plans to cut committee funding by 2/3—from $1.4M to $500K—hurting over 400 committees. This endangers Canada's global influence on vital standards, standards that our economy and trade rely on.

Sign the petition now:

nwmd.social/s/copylink/4A-HaEC

If you are a Canadian expert, please sign the Joint Declaration of Concern:

complianceinsight.ca/declarati

nwmd.socialNew/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
#Canada#CanPoli#Standards
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Karsten Schmidt

Ps. Even of the little income/donations[1] I've been getting for my own open source work, roughly 33% is spent on taxes & mandatory healthcare payments.

Considering I'm working on my 200+ projects almost every single day, this results in ~18 Euro per day (after other infrastructure costs)... Clearly an unsustainable labor of love, and love it is! And, as with @matrix (and many other projects), 95% of the feedback received is only about shortcomings (highly contrasting with the many successes I've been encountering myself on various jobs with these tools)! 😩

[1] Eternal gratitude to my band of sponsors who keep me going!!! 🙏❤️

#OpenSource#Funding
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