Dennis A
@DharmaDog@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
#DEI #censorship
This is some of the art branded 'too woke' by the administration. They have demanded these 2 paintings and sculpture be removed from the Smithsonian.
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A screenshot of a sculpture in the Smithsonian by Brooklyn-based artist Patricia Cronin. Her bronze sculpture "Memorial to a Marriage" is part of the National Portrait Gallery's permanent collection. Her 2002 work depicts two women (herself and her now-wife) embracing on a bed.
A screenshot of a sculpture in the Smithsonian by Brooklyn-based artist Patricia Cronin. Her bronze sculpture "Memorial to a Marriage" is part of the National Portrait Gallery's permanent collection. Her 2002 work depicts two women (herself and her now-wife) embracing on a bed.
A screenshot of a sculpture in the Smithsonian by Brooklyn-based artist Patricia Cronin. Her bronze sculpture "Memorial to a Marriage" is part of the National Portrait Gallery's permanent collection. Her 2002 work depicts two women (herself and her now-wife) embracing on a bed.
A screenshot of a painting in the Smithsonian by painter Amy Sherald showing a trans woman with pink hair and a blue gown, holding a torch. It's called "Trans Forming Liberty." Amy Sherald also painted the famous portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama.
A screenshot of a painting in the Smithsonian by painter Amy Sherald showing a trans woman with pink hair and a blue gown, holding a torch. It's called "Trans Forming Liberty." Amy Sherald also painted the famous portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama.
A screenshot of a painting in the Smithsonian by painter Amy Sherald showing a trans woman with pink hair and a blue gown, holding a torch. It's called "Trans Forming Liberty." Amy Sherald also painted the famous portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama.
Dennis A
@DharmaDog@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
#DEI #censorship
Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art : NPR

"The official White House newsletter has posted an article titled 'President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian.' It calls out some of the institution's artwork, exhibitions, programs and online articles that focus on race, slavery, immigration and sexuality."
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬
@BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#Nonprofit Refuses $1.5M #Science#Grant Due To New Federal #DEI Rules
#TheCarpentries, a nonprofit that has trained over 100,000 researchers in coding and data skills, turned down a $1.5 million #NSF grant after being asked to strip diversity-related content from its programming. For an organization with just three months of cash on hand, it was a decision that threatens the organization’s very existence.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johndrake/2025/08/08/nonprofit-refuses-15m-science-grant-due-to-new-federal-dei-rules/
https://archive.ph/5TVPM
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬
@BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#Nonprofit Refuses $1.5M #Science#Grant Due To New Federal #DEI Rules
#TheCarpentries, a nonprofit that has trained over 100,000 researchers in coding and data skills, turned down a $1.5 million #NSF grant after being asked to strip diversity-related content from its programming. For an organization with just three months of cash on hand, it was a decision that threatens the organization’s very existence.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johndrake/2025/08/08/nonprofit-refuses-15m-science-grant-due-to-new-federal-dei-rules/
https://archive.ph/5TVPM
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Nathaniel Gregory
@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Starting with the repealing of all #DEI policies & specifically attacking #programs & #spaces on #campus meant to promote #diversity, the administration is trying to limit the ability of #nonwhite & #LGBTQ #students to express themselves or feel welcome on campus.

#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#KY#Kentucky

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Cat-in-a-Hat
@Myoldpiano@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

Women, non-whites, lgbtq people:
The dark matter of the universe.

Vera Rubin, the astronomer who pioneered research in Dark Matter (the new Vera Rubin Telescope was named after her)—they just altered her website to remove references to her work in bringing more diverse minds into the field.

So, she pioneered work in dark matter...and now a major tenet of her endeavor becomes...dark matter?

https://www.propublica.org/article/vera-rubin-astronomer-dei-trump

#astronomy #dei #darkmatter #diversity
petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp last month

Wow. University and its president support DEI. Trump admin investigates them. Faculty write a resolution in support of the president and DEI policies. Trump admin investigates those faculty too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/justice-department-george-mason-faculty-senate-investigation.html

"In a letter sent on Friday, the Trump administration said it would seek drafts of the faculty resolution, all written communications among the Faculty Senate members who drafted the resolution, and all communications between those faculty members and the office of the university’s president…Free speech advocates quickly denounced the move as an attack on academic freedom."

#Censorship#DefendResearch#DEI#FreeSpeech #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics
petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp last month

Wow. University and its president support DEI. Trump admin investigates them. Faculty write a resolution in support of the president and DEI policies. Trump admin investigates those faculty too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/justice-department-george-mason-faculty-senate-investigation.html

"In a letter sent on Friday, the Trump administration said it would seek drafts of the faculty resolution, all written communications among the Faculty Senate members who drafted the resolution, and all communications between those faculty members and the office of the university’s president…Free speech advocates quickly denounced the move as an attack on academic freedom."

#Censorship#DefendResearch#DEI#FreeSpeech #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics
Flipboard Tech Desk
@TechDesk@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

What is Donald Trump's plan for AI? @brianmerchant read his Action Plan and executive orders and watched his speech. Here's what he learned. "Broadly speaking, the plan is that the Trump administration will help Silicon Valley put the pedal down on AI, delivering customers, data centers and power, as long as it operates in accordance with Trump’s ideological frameworks; i.e., as long as the AI is anti-woke," Merchant writes for his Blood in the Machine newsletter. "It’s above all a blueprint for consolidated control, a vision where worker power withers, citizens become subservient to AI; to its corporate masters and federal overseers, where fossil fuels are ushered again into prominence at the height of the climate crisis, and democracy is sidelined in favor of automation technologies. It is, in summary, pretty grim!"

https://flip.it/tMtohZ

#Tech#Technology#ArtificialIntelligence#AI#TrumpAdministration#DonaldTrump#Politics#DEI#SiliconValley
Flipboard Tech Desk
@TechDesk@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

What is Donald Trump's plan for AI? @brianmerchant read his Action Plan and executive orders and watched his speech. Here's what he learned. "Broadly speaking, the plan is that the Trump administration will help Silicon Valley put the pedal down on AI, delivering customers, data centers and power, as long as it operates in accordance with Trump’s ideological frameworks; i.e., as long as the AI is anti-woke," Merchant writes for his Blood in the Machine newsletter. "It’s above all a blueprint for consolidated control, a vision where worker power withers, citizens become subservient to AI; to its corporate masters and federal overseers, where fossil fuels are ushered again into prominence at the height of the climate crisis, and democracy is sidelined in favor of automation technologies. It is, in summary, pretty grim!"

https://flip.it/tMtohZ

#Tech#Technology#ArtificialIntelligence#AI#TrumpAdministration#DonaldTrump#Politics#DEI#SiliconValley