Now. Who are the absolute units who told me they couldn’t -possibly- erase Grace Hopper, like a week ago? https://www.newsweek.com/military-remove-enola-gay-photos-dei-rules-2041029
Military to Remove 'Enola Gay' Photos for Violating DEI Rules

A photo of Army biologists was on a list of images to be purged, seemingly because it mentioned they were recording data about fish that included their gender.

Newsweek

@hacks4pancakes I changed the cover photo to her as soon as the bullshit started.

Knowing they would absolutely erase her given half a chance.

@jb @hacks4pancakes

Well, when our new building was being outfitted, a question on what to name the six conferences rooms came up. I suggested Curie, Ride, Hopper, Ada, Lemar, and Harris. Unfortunately, they just call them by their room numbers. 😕

@guamwatt @hacks4pancakes

When I worked for a U.S. national lab, the main supercomputers (massive Crays) were named after chemists. The newest at the time was MCURIE.

With the advent of parallel computing and distributed workloads in clusters, the naming doesn’t get as lovely anymore. You only give pets names, after all, cattle are numbers or identifiers.

@jb visiting those was hugely significant to my youth.

@hacks4pancakes mine was getting a punchcard with my name on it as part of my sister’s Girl Scout Troop tour of the USAF base data processing space.

It’s a specific experience.

@jb @hacks4pancakes JFC are they really that stupid? I've heard of "military intelligence" but it's supposed to be better than this.

@T2R

Fascist ideology requires stupidity, and erasure of conflicting ideas and people.

So, yes, the dumbest shitheads you know are in charge.

@hacks4pancakes

@hacks4pancakes

I wasn't honestly expecting them to do that in the stupidest possible way, but the administration has been eminently predictable on that front, so I'm not sure what exactly I was thinking.

@hacks4pancakes

So ending WWII is woke now

@Lana @hacks4pancakes

Sure. Starting a war is strong and MANLY, ending a war is weak and woke. That's how the brain cell operates, right?

@Lana @hacks4pancakes it turns out, that nuclear bombs have a very dangerous side effect even worse than radiation-sickness. Nuclear hellfire is gay, and so must be stopped by the manly men.
@Lana @hacks4pancakes And so is Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, as a collateral, I suppose
@hacks4pancakes Am I the only one who thinks they're using AI to do this?
@MaQuest @hacks4pancakes It’s probably just find and delete.
@MaQuest @hacks4pancakes annoyingly an LLM could probably (by accident) do a better job of this, what we are seeing here is a simple no-context search for words like ‘gay’ and flagging everything that has those characters in that order
@zbrown @MaQuest I hate LLM and it could have avoided this mistake, yea
@MaQuest I think AI would do a better job. @hacks4pancakes
@Pineywoozle @MaQuest @hacks4pancakes The generic crapness is the point - they want the broadest brush of censorship, to set precedent.
@Dss Oh absolutely. It was a mistake becomes, we’ve done it before, quite easily. @MaQuest @hacks4pancakes
@hacks4pancakes Yet another case of white men insecure about their own masculinity.

@hacks4pancakes

We are not a serious country.

@rk @hacks4pancakes We are a compromised country. We've been hacked by fox news and the alt-right braindead mindset.

@rk @hacks4pancakes

Yes, you are a serious country. You are a very, very serious country. You are serious the way the Unabomber was serious.

You even have a manifesto. Unlike the Unabomber though, the people who should have stopped you failed to do their one job.

Now there will be death and misery until someone else stops you, though there is some hope that your own citizens will. Either way it will be difficult, because although you are insane, you are very strong.

Many of the people to whom the job now falls - inside and outside your country - are weak. Perhaps they can find enough strength and commonality of purpose to do their job. I hope they do not wait as long to recognise the threat and join the fight as you waited, 86 years ago when the last strong insane nation lashed out.

I hope they are acting now, and I hope that they are also keeping an eye on your enemies, because in your sickness you are confusing friend and foe. If you are lucky, your friends will fight for you, insane as you are, knowing that the madness must pass.

Your insanity causes you to do a lot of things that weaken you. This is good.

We can but hope that it all ends sooner rather than later. When it is over, you may be weak and if so, you will need friends. Try to remember that in your madness.

#USPol

@hacks4pancakes USAF museum quickly painting over the nose art to call it the Enola Straight.
@TranshumanBlues @hacks4pancakes wait till they learn of Amelia Earhart's personal life...

@TranshumanBlues @hacks4pancakes

So they aren't just going to call everything TRUMP?!

@TranshumanBlues @hacks4pancakes would be less work to change Gay to Guy

@hacks4pancakes I tried using this to explain to a conservative that this was intentional.

Pretty sure they tuned out after I sent the keywords DOD was given.

@hacks4pancakes

Some rules are meant to be broken...

@hacks4pancakes Wait. Did they come for the Admiral and I missed it? Or are we, rightfully, concerned they will?

@sng They’re purging lots of noteworthy women historical engineers and military members from physical and digital records, and a lot of indignant people told me that would never happen to her.

They just purged a WWII aircraft because it had the word gay in it. They don’t care. She’ll go too.

@hacks4pancakes Saw the Enola Gay thing. Expect them to come for her at some point, yeah.

@hacks4pancakes

There is a dead Moth inside the administration.

@hacks4pancakes Nazi Germany was as bad! Only slightly more intelligent, competent and efficient than the Musk-Trump presidency. Unitedstatians are now at the same level of citizens of North Korea or maybe Iran but much less educated!
@armando sadly it’s easier to digitally delete history than make big book fires.
@hacks4pancakes @armando I think it's largely the opposite. All the stuff they want to delete exists in countless archives distributed physically around the world. It's not easier to delete. Just easier to disrupt normal folks' easy access.
@dalias @armando @hacks4pancakes Way easier to move around too.

A single pigeon can easily carry a 2TB microsd card, which can fit quite a few books & archives.

Attempting to move trainloads of library books is neither subtle nor cheap.

@hacks4pancakes @armando

The ENTIRE CDC website has been copied off-site, and out of country. So much of what's helpful is available. Part of fighting back.

Research has been cancelled by the Russian agents, helpful people fired, and the rights removed, and checks gone missing. Its a lot of hate.

@armando @hacks4pancakes the thing is the power of the American Exceptionalism myth - you're indoctrinated with it intensively in so many ways from the moment you can understand words. It's only when you travel outside of the US that you really get to see how the rest of the world views the USA. And today it's anything but admiration.
@hacks4pancakes They’re gonna rename that airplane the Enola No Homo 🤦🏾‍♂️
@hacks4pancakes this is a silent disaster, they’re erasing history. like burning down a library with no smoke or rubble
@giantspecks you could see the smoke from the Nazi book burnings. This time they’re just using a document repo and some paint.
@giantspecks @hacks4pancakes they are attempting to do that. They are failing hard. They are weak. We will crush them.
@hacks4pancakes Trump is responsible for this embarrassing anti-constitutional witch hunt, performed to factually Make America Petty Again, in service of satisfied Putin.

Those waging war against DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) are insurrectionists & enemies of the Constitution's Reconstruction Amendments 13, 14 & 15 and should therefore be naturally disqualified for holding any office under the United States — says the Fourteenth Amendment's Section 3.

No government office should be in the hands of any revisionist & revanchist rebels.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/03/07/enola-gay-aircraft-and-other-historic-items-inaccurately-targeted-under-pentagons-anti-dei-purge/
#RuleOfLaw #EnemiesOfDEI #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #ConstitutionalOrder #Constitution #DisqualifyALLRebels #ProsecuteALLRebels #USPol #USPolitics

World War II Enola Gay Aircraft Targeted By Pentagon DEI Purge

References to the aircraft—which dropped the first war-time atomic bomb—were flagged for removal from Pentagon photos and online posts as part of a DEI purge, presumably because of the word “gay.”

Forbes
@hacks4pancakes What did I miss, where was the memory of admiral #GraceHopper erased a week ago?

@hacks4pancakes
Remember when those same Very Serious People®™ told us that they couldn't possibly kill Roe v Wade?

Feels like a lifetime ago. Many people's lifetimes, actually...

@jargoggles those were the good old days, when we just living in a late stage capitalist hellscape, and not a full blown fascist dictatorship hellscape.
@jargoggles @hacks4pancakes I feel like some of the Very Serious People not only couldn’t consider the possibilities before, they’re trying hard to downplay and sanewash all this because surely it’s not so bad… [morgan freeman narration: “in fact, it was that bad and getting worse”]
@rmd1023 @hacks4pancakes
Neoliberalism is such a "business as usual" ideology that they will go to absurd lengths to pretend that everything is fine as long as extraction capitalism continues unabated.

@hacks4pancakes to me this is all a consequence of their experience of philosophy extending only to a few paragraphs from stoicism (and maybe mouldbug if we stretch the term philosophy). Conservatives seem at best a few steps away from object permanence let alone compreneding that the use of words, like everything change (imagine their deep shock when they learn boys were once adorned in pink and girls blue 🤣😤)

Donkey brains the lot of them. Dangerous donkey brains who can keep their sticky fuckin hands off Grace.