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archive.org is located in the US, therefore it's not safe from purges. Better also backup important data locally and abroad.

archive.org is not a US federal agency, and therefore the US federal government can't simply cut off their funding and fire everyone. What the executive branch is doing is highly illegal and there will be litigative pushback soon, but I digress.

Should we stop donating to food banks just because USAID got cut? No. These are the institutions we have, right now. Let's do what we can with them.

I agree with you, and I support archive.org, but let's be clear.

The US gov could shut them down tomorrow. Illegally, but that's not stopping them elsewhere right now.

So support archive.org, and support backups elsewhere.

The better argument against archive.org is that they have put themselves in a legally precarious position that may result in the destruction of the organization.

I’d love to see it stay around, but maybe we should have competing archivists in different regions

Thanks for the reminder, just set up a monthly donation

For those wondering why this exists: many of the pages that were formerly listed on the CDC website have been disappearing, likely in response to recent executive orders, though this has not been made explicit.

As an example, I checked the Women's Health page and noticed a lot of removals -- the pages on menstrual health and hygiene ([1] vs [2]), or the page summarizing health disease statistics in women ([3] vs [4]). That's just from 5 minutes of glancing through, and there are probably many others.

It is useful to compare the differences between the two sites, but it would definitely benefit from a list of what has been changed. Right now this primarily helps doctors and scientists who need to access data they already knew about (i.e. via bookmarks) but is less useful for observing patterns in what is being censored.

[1]https://www.restoredcdc.org/www.cdc.gov/womens-health/mhh-co...

[2]https://www.cdc.gov/womens-health/mhh-continuing-education/i...

[3]https://www.restoredcdc.org/www.cdc.gov/womens-health/featur...

[4]https://www.cdc.gov/womens-health/features/heart-disease.htm...

Were I rich, I would buy a new tld (.usgov?) where we can recreate all the stuff being destroyed.

It is possible for 1yr TC of many people here. But you need to apply and wait. And the same hostile government, using ICANN, can can your TLD.

Just like browsers can invalidate a root certificate, so can DNS servers replace their root DNS servers, at least for specific TLDs such as this one, thus bypassing ICANN entirely.

Like https://govwayback.com/? It enables trivial access to everything as archived before the current admin took office.

ICANN would likely not grant such a tld due to similarity concerns with .us/.gov.

You can do the same thing without a tld of course: .pubmirror.com (or whatever you want to use) is just about as easy despite an extra dot. My personal fqdn is even shorter than ".usgov"! The hard part is recreating/mirroring all the stuff.

I think if you were rich, you'd do us a bigger favor by just buying the USGov.

Musk already did that. Doesn't seem to be working out that well for the "us".

Right, so at this point the bar for improvement is low.

I know absolutely nothing about xnx, which leads to me believe that he'd probably do a far better job with it.

What has actually disappeared? pubmed went down for a little bit - but it's back now. What is all this about?

See pages 6 to 12 of this declaration: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69608613/6/1/doctors-fo...

I don't think this is exhaustive and things have expanded since this was published, but this[1] somewhat covers this

> CDC webpages currently note that the "CDC's website is being modified to comply with President Trump's Executive Orders." Specifically, the CDC has been purging its website of topics related to diversity, gender identity, and LGBTQ issues. In addition, CDC researchers have been ordered to retract papers submitted to journals that use words or phrases like non-binary, transgender, LGBT, pregnant people, and more.

Ive heard HIV and contraception related information was also removed [2].

> Among the many pages that remain down are Health Disparities Among LQBTQ Youth, Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of Vaccine for Mpox Prevention, and Fast Facts: HIV and Transgender People.

Other government sites [3] had similar purges for different topics:

> The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York alleges the agency illegally scrapped essential webpages without public notice last month, after USDA Director of Digital Communications Peter Rhee ordered staff to archive or publish “any landing pages focused on climate change.”

[1] https://www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/generalobgyn/114078

[2] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-health/removal-pages-cdc-w...

[3] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/climate...

> pregnant people

I'm usually not a bigot but that one is dumb

Let's find out if you're a bigot or not. I'll throw up Webster's definition for reference.

Bigot – a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices.

The capacity for pregnancy is not confined to individuals with a female (46,XX) chromosomal pattern. The real world is complicated, and intersex people can be born with a (46,XY) karyotype or mixed (46,XX) and (46,XY) karyotypes as a result of chimerism. People with Swyer syndrome (46,XY) develop female reproductive anatomy (a uterus and fallopian tubes) but do not produce eggs. However, pregnancy can be achieved with donor eggs and assisted reproductive technology.

So here's the question: Are you devoted to your first opinion, or are you capable of acknowledging that the medical community may have had legitimate reasons, grounded in actual biology, to choose a more inclusive word?

Sex is defined by which gametes are produced, not chromosomes.

What of the people that are born who don't produce gametes?

( For example, no gametes are produced in 85% of individuals with streak gonads )

The whole human sex | gender thing seems superficially clearcut but the real world edge cases are messy AF.

The aspect I personally find confusing is that the exceptions are relatively rare .. human births are straighforward enough for 98% of births, and of the 2% that pose a challenge the really curvy edge cases are rare (but real).

Why then do some people seeming lose their collective minds over real but rare occurrences and attempt to hammer every triangle into either a round or a square hole?

I have a purely empirical observational view of the world at large, forced a priori prescriptiveness at odds with the world seems more than a little flat earthy.

What do you expect for people born without the capability to produce gametes?

it's only dumb if you don't think women are people

And it's not bigoted to point out a completely absurd phrase.

Even if you don't want to acknowledge trans men existing... women are still people. Pregnant women are pregnant people.

Hmm, the invitation link to discord sends me to a blackhole. Are invitation restricted?

I hate that many projects use Discord where anything else (IRC, Matrix, whatever) would work but in this case especially. Tencent owns an undisclosed share in Discord and just generally seems like a bad choice of communication platform if you want to look better than doge

Discord works by clicking a button - you get to signup, you fill in your email, bam you're on the Discord channel in your browser. Zero friction, nothing new to learn for the user.

IRC on the other hand....

Discord is a walled garden that isn’t searchable from outside.

It’s a major contributor to the fragmentation of the internet into information black holes along with the other “social” media.

It’s the wrong tool to organize an effort to maintain an open access repository of information.

I have never had that experience with discord, despite already having an account. It's truly mysterious what the actual link --> my account has the discord path should be.

I find IRC much easier, but I haven't used it in about 15 years.

... has been around and worked perfectly for over three decades?

Discord basically phased out in browser. There is no link to it only the link to get the 500 MB behemoth app. If you manage to open web ui because it is in your browser history it hits you with a captcha and email verification code every time. Etc

... does not even ask for your email?

Current administration doing absolutely everything they can to destroy confidence in federal government. All of this so tho oligarchs can get their tax cuts and pave the way for a fully privatized nation.

Every day seems like the worst day so far. 47 more months to go. Sure would be nice if we had more than one branch of government.

> to destroy confidence in federal government

not only domestic unfortunately. For 3 years Russian trolls were posting everywhere that US will abandon Ukraine like it happened with Afghanistan and Iraq, and today Trump stopped all the military aid to Ukraine, even the stuff that was already in Poland moving toward the Ukrainian border.

Is Trump even allowed to do that? Didn't he get impeached for basically the same thing in his last term?

Impeached but not convicted. Like getting convicted and receiving zero sentence: it has no consequences and therefore might as well not have happened.

If the democrats get enough votes in the house and senate, I imagine they’ll swiftly kick him and hopefully vance out.

For that to happen, the US economy will need to collapse (likely, given the tariffs, dismantling of governments, alienation of all trade partners, and multiple incoming pandemics, including measles, bird flu and ebola).

However, the US will have to be a democracy in 12-24 months, and all of Trump’s actions suggest he thinks that’s unlikely.

Not sure why this got downvoted, this is stating two clearly correct premises. The only people who will vote against Trump are in the Democratic Party, and the only way they'll get enough representatives into power is with economic collapse. Inflation is the only thing voters care about to a very accurate first approximation. Dismantling the institutions and installing autocracy is not something that causes public sentiment to change.

> Inflation is the only thing voters care about to a very accurate first approximation.

And yet there always seems to be a stark contrast between what conservatives state they voted for versus what studies bear out in that regard. Basically every election in my politically aware history has come down to "the economy" and yet conservatives can see all time highs across many metrics and decry something as a "bad economy" and immediately switch positions as soon as their guy is elected even though nothing material has changed around the economy. Just like it was never about the price of eggs in the latest election. The price of eggs is just the most politically correct thing they could latch onto to justify their votes. All talk of egg prices went silent despite the price of eggs continuing to rise. It's almost like something else was the primary issue all along.

https://theintercept.com/2018/09/18/2016-election-race-class...

Metrics are averages that obscure the heterogeneity of base reality. About 100 million Americans own no significant assets. Metrics that show stonks going up is not lived by these people. They hold some fiat which deteriorated in value and a real wage which has declined because housing inflation is a larger proportion of their expenditure than what the CPI basket has weighted. Housing ownership is further out of reach than ever, while inequality has ballooned because asset owners doubled their wealth due to asset price inflation.

So it is accurate that for this subset of people, inflation has been destructive, in an absolute sense but especially in a relative sense. And it's this subset of people that broke for Trump, educational polarization is at an all time high and the racial purity of Trump's base eroded with Hispanics entering the coalition.

The same people will vote for radical conservatives after inflation and prices rises again. And they won't vote for democrats no matter well democrats run the economy.

It is not inflation. Inflation is something they latch on when convenient.

Elections happen at the margins. Most Trump voters are Trump voters regardless of anything. But inflation is what moves the marginal vote. It's what motivates higher turnout on one side vs the other, for example.

Dems performed well among the people that benefited from inflation -- boomers who owned homes and the college educated who own assets.

Republicans performed well among the people who were harmed the most by it. Hispanics, and those without college degrees.

Incumbents everywhere, left or right wing, are falling because of inflation.

He knows this senate wouldn't come close to convicting. Heck, this house wouldn't even impeach.

Trump tomorrow is giving a speech in Congress and we can bet how loud - Very Loud, Very Very Loud or We Love You Ecstatically, Our King - he will be applauded to.

No one is going to stop him, and everyone keeps complying, so yes he is allowed to do that.

He got impeached for withholding military aid to force the Ukrainian government to investigate his political opponent, but that's not a factor in this case.

Broadly speaking, Trump claims that he has the power to tell any executive agency to not do anything under the "unitary executive" theory. Whether this holds or not is up to the courts to determine, but unless and until there is a stay, the executive agencies have to follow the EO.

Tangentially I noticed the Bureau For Justice Statistics site was offline for a couple of days.. seems to be back now.

This was following the deletion of the NLEAD database