An alternative watch from the State of the Union address.
And kudos to Senator Angus King.
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An alternative watch from the State of the Union address.
And kudos to Senator Angus King.
Turns out “They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists…” was Trump introducing his own administration.
Log Files That Describe the #History of the #Internet are Disappearing. A New Project Hopes to Save Them (via @theregister.com) www.theregister.com/2026/02/14/i... #digipres #digitalpreservation #data #LOCKSS
Congrats!!! The Data Rescue Project is the Winner of the 2025 RDAP Work of the Year Award rdapassociation.org/news/13593532 #datarescue @datarescueproject.org @rdapassociation.bsky.social
The future of scholarly communication isn’t just about better tools — it’s about who owns and governs them.
@kcommons.bsky.social offers a community-owned alternative to corporate platforms while supporting diverse forms of scholarship.
Read more: investinopen.org/blog/buildin...
So dark and sad and gross.
Congrats "HOW’S THE PLAY GOING?" by Noel David Taylor, an Honorable Mention in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅
An absurd comedy with a confused main character in disjointed settings.
Full film ➡️ archive.org/details/hows...
#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay
Sign and share this call on CSU to cancel its multimillion dollar OpenAI contract. CSU is in a budget crisis, OpenAI wants to reduce us all into tools of AI, and our public money should be invested in humans!
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So, the filibuster fiasco is going down precisely how @americalabs.org said it would: Facing demands from Luna to kill it, Thune was like "uh, we'll think about it" and that was enough for her
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Publishes Guidelines for Green #Libraries www.infodocket.com/2026/02/02/i... @ifla.org #greenlibraries #environment
Stanford Libraries is doing a TON for #lovedata week. Some events are in-person, some are virtual, all are open to all! Check out the cool events!! lovedataweek.stanford.edu
Tell your stories about why public data matters! ❤️🛟 @essentialdata.us
fas.org/publication/...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Listen to this speech from Mark Carney. Forget making Canada the 51st state; I’m ready for the US to be the 11th province.
Hey who's going to the @archive.org Public Domain Day 2026 celebration? blog.archive.org/event/the-ca...
FYI check out the call for papers for "Secrecy and Society". Should be a really interesting and topical issue. freegovinfo.info/node/14953/
I was honored to meet and work with Deborah Natsios, JY’s partner in the cryptome endeavor. The papers include the documents scanned and available on cryptome.org but perhaps more importantly, the communication between JY and various FOIA offices and agencies (most of which was not digitized).
45 years of John Young's papers and the Cryptome archive have been added to Stanford's archive and is available for researchers to request access to:
searchworks.stanford.edu/view/in00000...
In case you were wondering, Jack Smith's testimony was the *opposite* of "total exoneration."
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Zohran Mamdani being sworn in in the gorgeous old disused City Hall subway station
New York City has a new mayor
NY Times: "NASA's Largest Library is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts" www.infodocket.com/2025/12/31/n... #libraries #science
“We Used to Read Things in This Country”
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack
> For it is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education.
I could nitpick, but the overall argument is horrifyingly compelling
FYI @weatherwest.bsky.social just did a "Special rapid response stream re: proposed dismantling of National Center for Atmospheric Research". A must-watch. www.youtube.com/live/FTKW68R...
Russell Vought moves to destroy government’s leading climate change research institution because Colorado won't honor the illegal pardon of Tina Peters www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/russ...
In case you needed one more reason to loathe Russ Vought, the director of the White House’s office and management budget is dismantling a center praised as a “crown jewel” of climate research.
BREAKING: The Energy Dept's watchdog just agreed to open an investigation into Russ Vought and Secretary Wright’s cancelling of energy grants at my, @padilla.senate.gov and @lofgren.house.gov urging.
Trump's targeting of blue states is unlawful and deserves rigorous oversight.
Snapshot of US EPA's "causes of climate change" webpage as of 12/8/2025. Human causes are no longer mentioned anywhere on the page.
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
Aerial view of a forest in the background of a square image that says "Giving Tuesday: EDGI."
This #GivingTuesday, help EDGI continue:
- Protecting public environmental data
- Defending our environmental right to know
- Building more just environmental governance systems.
Donate here: envirodatagov.org/donate/
Have you seen The Nation's Data at Risk reporting from our colleagues at @amstatnews.bsky.social? It's one of our favorite sources for credible information about data integrity.
And next week they're releasing an update.
Register now for the launch webinar on Dec. 10
amstat.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
