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Jason ScottIt was only a matter of time - a contracted, approved grant to the Internet Archive was cut with no warning.
Giles Goat@textfiles The question is "all this money they save by cutting this and that" .. WHERE / FOR WHAT does it go now ?? 🤔
Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑@gilesgoat @textfiles somewhere musky
Pomegranate_Stew
Matti Järvinen@gilesgoat @textfiles tax cuts for the rich.
🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳@nemeciii @gilesgoat @textfiles
not even that.
They're cutting things that are a fraction of a percent of the federal budget. Not even saving pennies in the dollar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNg98tezbE
not even that.
They're cutting things that are a fraction of a percent of the federal budget. Not even saving pennies in the dollar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNg98tezbE
DOGE Is Not Cutting Government Spending
Nini@gilesgoat @textfiles I don't think they save anything, probably costs a lot more in slashing departments but the cost reduction isn't the point, destroying the social pillars they represent and often very much are is the point. And cruelty, it's usually cruelty.
wb x64@gilesgoat @textfiles war and Elon Musk's pocket
petmac@textfiles @gilesgoat I don’t think it’s about redirecting the money. It’s ideological.
Danni Storm 🇺🇦 🇺🇦@textfiles These grant pulls undermine the very reasons the Federal Government funds research and projects. If no one trusts grants will live past the current administration they become useless. Utterly useless. It's why the money is appropriated by Congress, not the Executive. 🤬
Though that's the point. He plans to reign forever.
Annie Gerard@danni_storm and he wants no reminders for his subjects of what they've lost.
Joxean Koret (@matalaz)@textfiles Move to Europe. For real.
notthatkindofdoctor@joxean @textfiles
Where is safe from this? Like Germany, growing their own Nazis again? What happens when Russia infiltrates more EU countries and pushes them to the right? Or the ones that are already compromised get motivated to kickstart the same funding restrictions bullshit as Trump?
Where is safe from this? Like Germany, growing their own Nazis again? What happens when Russia infiltrates more EU countries and pushes them to the right? Or the ones that are already compromised get motivated to kickstart the same funding restrictions bullshit as Trump?
Gauss 
@notthatkindofdoctor @joxean @textfiles Honestly, most EU countries are safe from BS like this. Even in Germany, the AfD might be a thing that's rising, but at the end of the day, they're in opposition, and all the political parties actively distance themselves from it.
Even looking at a country like The Netherlands, where Geert Wilders technically won, he didn't even get to be the prime minister, cuz the idea of that was so outlandish to all the coalition parties.
I'm not saying this is true in all countries (ehm Hungary ehm), but most have many different political parties, all of which are below 50%, meaning that they're forced to compromise and work together all the time. I'm also not saying everying is nice and rosy - quite the opposite - but it's not batshit insane, unlike in the US.
@notthatkindofdoctor @Textfiles @Gauss people in US have a hard time understanding that political plurality (ie, more than 2 parties taking turns in governing alone) actually exists outside of USA...
Cameron 💙🏳️⚧️🦌@joxean not really a very helpful suggestion. moving to a new continent is a massive financial undertaking. it assumes one has the privilege of both having the resources to fund said move as well as having had the privilege to get academic credentials in sought after job skills. it also falsely assumes most European countries have not been cracking down on immigration to keep war refugees out. Right up there with "if you don't like it leave it."
@old_angry_queer staying mostly only in USA is a high risk for the project. No country is 100% 'free' or 100% safe from this or that, but chances of survival are higher outside of US. Perhaps it should change to be a global project like wikipedia, instead of a (mostly) US funded and in (almost) US soil only project. Actually, since 2016 it also has a backup, or had, in Canada because of this very same reason.
DoomsdaysCW@textfiles Ugh. The same grant money also went to the #MaineHistoricFilmArchive.
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #DestroyingHistory #DestroyingCulture
seachangedSo 175 people giving a thousand apiece could make up that loss.
@seachanged @textfiles Do we have 175 people with that sort of money spare and happen to be civic minded?
Feoh@textfiles Not surprised but very sorry to hear.
They are destroying America's scientific, cultural, and academic future all to provide bread and circuses (And that's ALL it is!) for the MAGA crowd.
mkj
Kierkegaanks regretfully@textfiles can it be relocated outside the US?
jan Anja();@Kierkegaanks @textfiles there is no planet B
ideaPDish@textfiles
Not just a global warning?
Not just a global warning?
Snowshadow 🇨🇦@textfiles I.A. needs to move out of the US, NOW.
punIssuer@textfiles seriously, people should stop posting taxes...
Richard K 
@textfiles Donald Trump doesn't keep his word. Donald Trump doesn't pay his bills.
Tod Beardsley@textfiles The linked article doesn’t appear to mention the Internet Archive.
It doesn’t make the NEH cancellations any less tragic, but I don’t see the linked article drawing a link between the San Francisco Art Institute, which does perform archiving functions, and The Internet Archive.
Are they connected?
Update: Yes! From the article:
The Internet Archive, the SF-headquartered nonprofit best known for its “Wayback Machine” archiving tool, was halfway through an NEH grant of $345,960 when the funding was cut
@todb scroll further down
@textfiles ah thanks! editing.