kottke.orgFeb 5
The CIA has deleted the CIA World Factbook (a popular almanac about the countries of the world) from the web. Fuck this. All these assholes do is pillage & destroy. https://apnews.com/article/cia-world-factbook-ratcliffe-trump-fbec61ce16c4b3db59db9cefce0da043
The CIA World Factbook is no more

The CIA is ending the publication of its popular World Factbook reference manual. The agency announced the decision Wednesday but gave no reason for it. It comes as CIA Director John Ratcliffe has promised to return the agency's focus to its core missions. First launched more than 60 years ago as a classified reference manual for CIA officers, the Factbook went on to be a reference manual cited by journalists, trivia experts and college essayists alike. A message seeking comment from the CIA about the decision to end publication of the Factbook was not immediately returned.

AP News
Show threadMichel PatriceFeb 5

@kottke

I hope that libraries and universities around the world have downloaded and saved copies of Wikipedia.

And universities should download as much as they can from the MedLine and PubMed websites.

Show threadMichel Patrice

@kottke

This makes me think about the Foundation in Asimov's Foundation. A kind of library to save human knowledge from the coming dark age.

Feb 5 at 1:00pmWeb