Found this in my cartoon archive, made during the previous shutdown of the US government in 2019.

#USgovernment #shutdown #Trump

Found this in my cartoon archive, made during the previous shutdown of the US government in 2019.

#USgovernment #shutdown #Trump

@theintercept
Deliberate destruction of potential evidence of human rights violations and war crimes, and blocking those engaged in their documentation... doesn't that suggest YouTube is complicit, and merits sanctions?

#Palestine #YouTube #IsraeliGov #HumanRights #USgovernment

@hipsterelectron That's terrible. In the beginning, #Gmail won plenty of people over with, at the time, great spam filtering and 2GB storage. It was a much different time in 2005, however.

Fast forward 20 years and Google's mail service isnt innovative. It doesn't stand out and isn't competitive. Now fully entrenched in the #NSA #PRISM program and the company completely in bed with the #usgovernment everyone has every reason to run away.

I pay for my new provider but it's a HELLUVA lot cheaper than trading #privacy for "free" email.

PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html

#HackerNews #PSF #USGovernment #Grant #Funding #Python #Community

I would have preferred the #WhiteHouse not to be demolished, but if we are going to let the #fascists destroy the #USGovernment and #democracy in general, it is nice to have a tactile metaphor of the wanton damage to point at.

And speaking of #USGovernment and #BigTech #fuckery

> Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/ by @pluralistic

#Internet #privacy#CivilRights#SocialMedia

And speaking of #USGovernment and #BigTech #fuckery

> Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/ by @pluralistic

#Internet #privacy#CivilRights#SocialMedia

I trust #InternetArchive with government documents more than I do the government! (Or #AI for that matter...)

Internet Archive is now an official #USGovernment document #library

by Steve Dent
Fri, July 25, 2025

"The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library network that gives the public access to government documents, #KQED reported. The designation was made official in a letter from California Senator Alex Padilla to the Government Publishing Office that oversees the network. 'The Archive's digital-first approach makes it the perfect fit for a modern #FederalDepositoryLibrary, expanding access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape,' he wrote.

"Established by Congress in 1813, the Federal Depository Library Program is designed to help the public access government records. Each congressional member can designate up to two libraries, which include government information like budgets, a code of federal regulations, presidential documents, economic reports and census data.

"With its new status, the Internet Archive will be gain improved access to government materials, founder Brewster Kahle said in a statement. 'By being part of the program itself, it just gets us closer to the source of where the materials are coming from, so that it’s more reliably delivered to the Internet Archive, to then be made available to the patrons of the Internet Archive or partner libraries.' The Archive could also help other #libraries move toward #DigitalPreservation, given its experience in that area.

"It's some good news for the site which has faced legal battles of late. It was sued by major #publishers over loans of #DigitalBooks during the #Coronavirus epidemic and was forced by a federal court in 2023 to remove more than half a million titles. And more recently, major music labels filed lawsuits over its #Great78Project that strove to preserve #78RPM records. If it loses that case it could owe more than $700 million damages and possibly be forced to shut down.

"The new designation likely won't aid its legal problems, but it does affirm the site's importance to the public. 'In October, the Internet Archive will hit a milestone of 1 trillion pages,' Kahle wrote. 'And that 1 trillion is not just a testament to what libraries are able to do, but actually the sharing that people and governments have to try and create an #EducatedPopulace.' "

https://tech.yahoo.com/general/articles/internet-archive-now-official-us-123036550.html

#BigPublishing#Archives#BigMusic#CulturalPreservation#DigitalPreservation#WaybackMachine #Archiving#FairUse#Archives#Capitalism#Corporatism#FightForTheFuture #EmpoweringLibraries

Let the downloading commence!

My US government data hoarding page is up and ready with links and torrents. The torrents are all being seeded by my junkbox torrent server. I will continue to add torrents as I download things.

https://www.lydie.cc/data.html

#datahoarder #datapreservation #preservation #uspol #usgovernment #data #DataRescue #torrent