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@sgillies ooof... your dad joke game is strong!

That's a lot of garlic. Vampire problems?

Eric Kansa boosted:

Unfortunately the #OpenStreetMap wiki is very slow today. We are fighting an aggressive web scraper bot. 10,000 of IPs involved. Randomised User-Agent. Ignoring robots.txt #aibot #ddos

Update: Fixed. We've been able to mitigate the bot traffic. #fail2ban

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Seen elsewhere ...

Someone looking at a reconstruction of Babbage's Difference Engine.

First frame: Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention --

Second frame: ... a machine that would auto-correct his name to "Cabbage" every time.

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Today is Global Accessibility Awareness day! In honor of #GAAD, we're highlighting some of the behind-the-scenes work that Knowledge Commons has done or is doing to assess and improve our accessibility.

🔗 https://about.hcommons.org/2025/05/15/global-accessibility-awareness-day-update/

Quote graphic with text reading "We look forward to continuing to improve the KC experience and create accessible ways to connect, create, share, and experiment.”

Eric Kansa boosted:

The #TeslaTakedown is still going strong. This is the way: keep the pressure on consistently, stay the course.

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Listening to #NJ Rep #RobMenendez interview on MSNBC, the #RasBaraka arrest was even worse than I thought. The 3 congresspeople did not go to the facility to protest. They went to view the facility because the mayor hasn’t been able to gain access. Congress members are legally allowed to visit detention centers without notice to perform oversight. The 3 reps entered , the mayor did not. They were asked to wait. They’d been waiting for 1½ hours.

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#Trump #law #immigration #AmericanAutocracy

SEC. 527. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Depart-ment of Homeland Security by this Act may be used to prevent any of the following per-sons from entering, for the purpose of con-ducting oversight, any facility operated by or for the Department of Homeland Security used to detain or otherwise house aliens, or to make any temporary modification at any such facility that in any way alters what is observed by a visiting Member of Congress or such designated employee, compared to what would be observed in the absence of such modification: (1) A Member of Congress. (2) An employee of the United States House of Representatives or the United States Sen-ate designated by such a Member for the pur-poses of this section. (b) Nothing in this section may be con-strued to require a Member of Congress to provide prior notice of the intent to enter a facility described in subsection (a) for the purpose of conducting oversight.

Eric Kansa boosted:

"Trump Administration Decommissions Sea Ice Data That Sounded an Alarm on Arctic Climate Change."
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07052025/trump-administration-cuts-sea-ice-data-center/

"Cuts at #NOAA are now degrading the datasets used to monitor the most rapidly warming parts of the planet. More such moves are coming."

#Climate #DefendResearch #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Eric Kansa boosted:

Dealing with US federal funding for #research, #education, or anything else worth doing now feels like dealing with Darth Vadar.

darth vader says " i am alteri...

Eric Kansa boosted:

Update. Kudos to the Northwestern University Libraries for training people to take part in the #DataRescueProject. Other #libraries should follow suit.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/24/lateststories/nu-libraries-data-rescue-project-host-training-to-preserve-disappearing-federal-data/

#DefendResearch #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

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Congratulations to all Canadians here on Mastodon.

Thank you Canada for holding the line for democracy. Elbows up!

It seems like someone stole a book about #ethics in #archaeology at the #saa2025 exhibition room.

I guess they really needed it?

@josh

Hah, hah. #dadjoke

Eric Kansa boosted:

Aspire to be “Advanced Registration AF”
#saa2025 #SAA2025Denver

A bearded man standing in front of a kiosk with a sign reading “Advanced Registration A-F”

Eric Kansa boosted:

This is incredible:

“A burgeoning movement among Big Ten universities would create an alliance to counter government attacks…Several faculty and university senates have approved resolutions asking their leaders to sign a NATO-like agreement that would allow the institutions to share attorneys and pool financial resources in case President Donald Trump’s administration targets one of its members.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/24/big-10-universities-alliance-trump-attacks/

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#3081 - PhD Timeline

The comic is titled “US Ph.D. Program Timeline.”

A vertical timeline outlines typical Ph.D. milestones:
- Enrollment
- Meet with advisor
- Research proposal
- Qualifying exams
- Propose dissertation
- Research and write dissertation
- (strikethrough) Submit dissertation
(instead) Get grabbed off the sidewalk outside your home by masked government agents
- (strikethrough) Defend dissertation
(instead) Be whisked out of the state before a judge has time to intervene
- ????

Hidden text: "Rümeysa Öztürk was grabbed off the street in my town one month ago."

@mike

I just tried it! It seems really good! Thanks!

Eric Kansa boosted:

A reminder we've created a search platform with no ads, no tracking and no AI. Just relevant search results hosted in Canada.

https://maapl.net

#ElbowsUp

Eric Kansa boosted:

Update. Bad news from the #NEH for #KnowledgeCommons (and the rest of us).
https://about.hcommons.org/2025/04/17/on-the-neh-and-our-path-forward/

"On April 2, 2025, we received notification that our NEH Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant, awarded in 2020, was terminated effective immediately…On April 10, 2025, we received further…notification that our contract to provide the NEH’s Designated Public-Access #Repository was also being terminated…This loss is devastating…both for the financial impact it represents…but also for the unceremonious end to a goal we’d set for ourselves years ago…Not to mention the bigger picture here: that designated public-access repository is no longer needed, because it is assumed that the NEH will no longer be funding research, and thus there will be no results of research to make publicly accessible."

PS: All the agencies covered by the #OSTP #NelsonMemo must designate #OpenAccess repositories for their OA content. NEH was the only agency to designate a repo not hosted by the govt. All the other agency repos will be hosted by the govt, where they will be subject to political censorship or takedowns.

#Censorship #DefendResearch #GreenOA #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

@findingtangle.bsky.social

I'm relieved Abrego Garcia is alive! Now, bring back the fair application of due process of the law.

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