mmalc<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Nonilex</span></a></span> </p><p>Sorry to post this yet again, but it was frustratingly predictable:</p><p>"It seems likely that the new administration will devastate many government agencies that not only house experts in their respective fields but a treasure trove of institutional knowledge. Once these are destroyed, it will take years to restore them, if they ever can be.”</p><p>"Second Foundation” would be a good name for a coalition of blue states, though…</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalBookBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalBookBurning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
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Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USgovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USgovernment</span></a> is one of the world’s biggest <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/publishers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publishers</span></a>, & its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> on everything from carbon emissions to infant mortality is conducted on a scale that few private institutions can match. Kellam said that she’d participated in a small data-preservation effort during <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s first term, but had never seen anything like the frenzy that ignited in late Jan, when the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a> began removing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>information</span></a>…. (It’s since been restored by means of a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TRO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TRO</span></a>.)</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DigitalBookBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalBookBurning</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Like the Encyclopedists of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IsaacAsimov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsaacAsimov</span></a>’s “Foundation”—who race to compile a collapsing empire’s accumulated knowledge—they’re assembling <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>information</span></a> arks to ride out the chaos.</p><p>“This is how we know about our country,” Lynda Kellam, a social scientist & data librarian, told me. “People who support the ‘drain the swamp’ mentality don’t seem to understand how much the government does.” Kellam… described the vulnerable data as “irreplaceable.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DigitalBookBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalBookBurning</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>It comes from a loose coalition of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/archivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archivists</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/librarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>librarians</span></a>, who are standing athwart <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> & yelling “Save!” They belong to organizations such as the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InternetArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternetArchive</span></a>, which co-created a project called the End of Term Web Archive to back up the federal web in 2008; the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, or <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/edgi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edgi</span></a>; & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> at major <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a> such as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a> & the University of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Michigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Michigan</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DigitalBookBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalBookBurning</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>A recently leaked list of pages marked for deletion on military websites includes…the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnolaGay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnolaGay</span></a>, …the B-29 bomber that nuked Hiroshima.</p><p>Oblivion menaces every scrap of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>information</span></a> that doesn’t spark joy in the Oval Office. “It’s gone,” <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> said of “wokeness,” during his address to Congress, in almost motherly tones. “And we feel so much better for it, don’t we? Don’t we feel better?” But on this front, at least, Trump is facing well-organized resistance.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DigitalBookBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalBookBurning</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Racing to comply w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s executive orders banning “DEI” & “gender ideology extremism,” agencies have cut materials on everything from supporting transgender youth in school to teaching children about sickle-cell disease, which disproportionately affects people of African descent. But they have also axed records having little to do w/the Admin’s ideological priorities, seemingly assisted by AI tools that flag forbidden words w/o regard to context.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DigitalBookBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalBookBurning</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>On Feb 7th, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> sacked the<br>head of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NARA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NARA</span></a>, the agency that maintains the ofcl texts of the nation’s laws, & whose motto is “the written word endures.”</p><p>>110k govt pages have gone dark in a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/purge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>purge</span></a> that one scientist likened to a “<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DigitalBookBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalBookBurning</span></a>,” & which has proved as frightening in its imprecision as in its malice.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whitewashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whitewashing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trumpaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trumpaganda</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The deletions began shortly after <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> took office. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a> web pages on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIV</span></a> prevention, & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ReproductiveHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReproductiveHealth</span></a> went missing. Findings on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BirdFlu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BirdFlu</span></a> transmission vanished minutes after they appeared. The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Census" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Census</span></a> Bureau’s public repository went offline, then returned w/o certain directories of geographic info. The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> expunged the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jan6th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6th</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/insurrection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>insurrection</span></a> from its site, & whitehouse.gov took down an explainer page about the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a>.<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DigitalBookBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalBookBurning</span></a><br><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/news/the-lede/th</span><span class="invisible">e-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge</span></a></p>
Markus Feilner<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPurge</span></a> is happening. <br>We have to start making backups of the US infrastructure and the US-based sources of information, like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webarchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webarchive</span></a>. We better do that fast. </p><p>I am creating <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PriorArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PriorArt</span></a> in technology here. What's happening in the US right now under <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Spacekaren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spacekaren</span></a> is nothing less than <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPurge</span></a>, <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalBookBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalBookBurning</span></a>, <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalIconoclasm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalIconoclasm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalBurningOfBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalBurningOfBooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalDestructionOfEvidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalDestructionOfEvidence</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.global/@S4F" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>S4F</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FLOGW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FLOGW</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/flgw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flgw</span></a></p>
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