Mother Bones#Via Arieh Kovler
@ariehkovler
5:06 PM · Feb 4, 2026
"They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely."
https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/spotlighting-the-world-factbook-as-we-bid-a-fond-farewell/
#Via It's ME(Jaime) / exceedhergrasp1
7:07 PM · Feb 4, 2026
"The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives."
#Via Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈 /danifroom
7:30 PM · Feb 4, 2026
"Really can't be stressed enough how badly Republicans want you to be uneducated and incurious, especially about other places and peoples."
#Via Lisa Rabey /pookiebear.net
7:11 PM · Feb 4, 2026
"You can get the final Internet Archive crawl (from February 2) here.
Since each link is linked to a IA page, the data is stil intact; it just won't be updated.
(Interestingly, it's been indexed by IA nearly everyday since 2021.)"
https://web.archive.org/web/20260202175307/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
Lightfighter@_L1vY_ 2020 version available on GitHub https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/the-world-factbook/
