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  • Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant from NSF with "no-DEI" strings

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  • If the article is to be believed there's also a provision there saying that they cannot engage in any programs that advance or promote DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion). That part's new, and it's honestly not well defined. What is DEI? Racial quotas and discrimination? Cultural acknowledgements? Anti-discrimination? All these things have been called DEI. Some of these things have been called the other. Without clarity, the likeliest definition is "whatever annoys the administration".

  • Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant from NSF with "no-DEI" strings

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  • This exemplifies why the provision is so bad. DEI is a term of art, not a specific thing. Everyone is proud of PyPI for standing up for whatever they think DEI means, but they don't define or explain it so it doesn't actually mean anything. Or rather it can mean anything at all. That's the danger to the organization.

  • Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant from NSF with "no-DEI" strings

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  • The way it's written it's impossible to know if you're complying or not. They might have just said "don't be woke" or "don't piss us off".

  • Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant from NSF with "no-DEI" strings

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  • An administration that uses LLMs and Ctrl + F and vibes for policy decisions that don't sound good even before you realize they don't make sense, and ignores courts and due process... it's a hazard to touch.

  • Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’

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  • Yet another horrible thing that apparently exists. Boooo.

  • Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant from NSF with "no-DEI" strings

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  • Especially in light of how incompetent this administration is, and how bad it is at clearly communicating ideas, they made the only sensible choice. Maybe there's more details in the grant terms itself, but from the article it looks like it just says "don't advance or promote DEI", and without explicitly defining what they mean by that they are setting up a trap.

    PyPI is smart not to take the money.

  • Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results

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  • Is this consistent misunderstanding of his more indicative of his IQ or his dementia?

  • Impossible Foods CEO Says The Plant-Based Sector Became Too 'Woke And Partisan'

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  • Whatever, as long as people are eating less meat.

  • What's a service you’ve been using forever that hasn’t enshitified?

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  • The risk is real, but it depends. If it goes pubic it's all over. If it stays private or worker-owned it stands a chance.

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  • I will see people do this for other FLOSS developers, and I think it's bad in those cases too. I don't want to name them because I feel like that's not worth the effort and frankly we shouldn't give any attention to complaints about a dev's personal opinions or character.

    By contrast, I respect the critiques of his actual software, which mostly seem to be fair. I do wonder how much people would even be looking into it if they didn't have strong opinions about his opinions, but as long as it's accurate that's what matters.

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  • Dhh has bad politics. Not sure about the software though.

  • What's up with FUTO?

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  • That's fair. Only "free as in beer "

  • What's up with FUTO?

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  • I'm going to stop using good free software because I read a blog post by a sketchy guy saying the guys that wrote the software are sketchy. 🙄

    No material harm is described in the post. This is a drama blog.

  • What's up with FUTO?

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  • I trust Immich and the AGPL more than this blogger.

  • What's up with FUTO?

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  • In the last thread he posted in they're already talking about the author/article in the OP.

    Internet drama truly is a flat circle.

  • Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more

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  • The milestones have become outcroppings on a sheer rock face. Gripping like hell to one while searching for the next one. Stretching, grasping, searching, missing.

    No rope.

  • The road to Vibrant Visuals on Java

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  • Can anyone explain if or how this might be better than shaders with Iris?

  • But why

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  • Same? Like does no one remember being 12, or did they just block it out?

  • Cisgender Boy Forced to Play on Girls' Sports Team Because of Birth Certificate Error

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  • Yeah that seemed pretty steep.