time to break out the negative vspace, amirite?
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@lea aw that's comforting.
Just finished (manually) writing the coding documentation for a new toolkit project. Had the depressing realization that I am probably writing something more likely to be ingested by a model than read by a human.
people are paying attention.
Electronic Frontier FoundationThe men who run Big Tech have always wanted to “enshittify” their services—to shift as much as they can from users, workers, suppliers, and business customers to themselves, EFF’s @pluralistic writes in Communications of the ACM. Unions are an antidote. https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/tech-workers-versus-enshittification/
@mjk That sounds like a good Saturday [Friday] night.
@andresmh and they’re apparently kicking them out of their offices now: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-ousts-national-science-foundation-from-headquarters/
@andresmh Yeah. They've proposed cutting the CAREER program entirely. CISE is reduced by 65%. https://cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2025/06/president-releases-devastating-nsf-budget-request-proposes-to-turn-back-the-clock-more-than-20-years-on-nsf-funding-join-the-discussion-and-take-action/
President Releases Devastating NSF Budget Request; Proposes to Turn Back the Clock More than 20 Years on NSF Funding. Join the Discussion and Take Action!
On Friday, the Trump Administration released the details of its Fiscal Year 2026 (FY2026 budget request to Congress – a budget we already knew was disastrous from the release of the President’s “sk…
John OverholtTrump Admin Revokes Harvard’s Authorization To Enroll International Students https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/23/trump-admin-revokes-sevp/
Trump Admin Revokes Harvard’s Authorization To Enroll International Students | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Trump administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll international students on Thursday, dramatically escalating the administration’s fight with the University and threatening thousands of current students.
And this isn't just a problem for researchers. To state what should be obvious, this is going to hurt our economy massively in the long term.
