"It's stunning to me that, at a time when we're seeing more intense hurricanes, greater rainfall extremities, more drought, more wildfires – why at that point would we ever imagine cutting the science that is key to addressing those issues, and keeping people safe?"
Air Force deletes articles about pioneering female fighter pilot.
#memoryhole
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/next-with-kyle-clark/air-force-remove-articles-about-first-female-thunderbird-pilot-dei/73-436b25e3-7f79-4de3-989a-4384b5c58b04
When a fact contradicts the will of fascists and their despotic leaders, that fact is simply deleted, rewritten, or covered up, and there are numerous examples of the fascist US despot Donald Trump doing precisely this. I present here one such example: a research paper showing evidence that immigrants have lower crime rates than the baseline non-immigrant population. This contradicts the Despot’s will that most crime is caused by illegal immigrants, and so the research is erased.
The fascist bloc of the US have been doing this for many decades now, it is just that since the despot seized absolute power a few months ago, the fascists have been more unabashedly rewriting history than they have ever before in my lifetime.
EDIT: I should say, this is the entire reason why the fascist despot defunded the NOAA organization. NOAA, in the natural course of doing their jobs predicting the weather, kept on discovering too much hard evidence that climate collapse is a real thing. Since the will of the despot is that climate collapse is false, the despot simply covers up the facts by firing the scientists who predict the weather.
The National Park Service has been editing history. Guess what’s being sent down the memory hole?
Try 2, this time with gift link:
https://wapo.st/44exouB
Edited: OR, if you’d prefer to avoid logging in with the Post, just read along with the photos or the alt-text below. Believe me, it’s worth it. #MemoryHole #BlackHistory #DEI
I just read that nps.gov erased Harriet Tubman from a page about the Underground Railroad. I want not only to #archive copies of websites, but to use #cryptography to prove that this was the content fetchable from the real page at a date in the past. #provenance Why aren't there FAQs about how to do this already? I've just seen sciop.net which appears to be using both #BitTorrent and #RDF to advantage; and #ArchiveTeam appears to be doing distributed fetching at scale with their ArchiveWarrior thingy. But how should anyone trust that I don't tamper with the pages I fetch and archive? Or what if I just want free backups, so I pass off my photo archive as part of #memoryhole 'd DEI policies? And where's #ipfs or #dat or #hypercore ?
#Jewish #ColumbiaUniversityStudents Chain Themselves to #ColumbiaUniversity Fence to Protest #Khalil Detention
"As Jewish students, we grew up learning about the rise of #fascism, learning about how important it is to stand up when you see #injustice in the world," said one #protester.
by Julia Conley, Apr 02, 2025
"'We are here in protest of that to demand that the university tell us which trustees, which members of the university administration, are responsible for this so we can demand immediate consequences for them and hold them accountable for what they've done to our peer,' said the undergraduate student.
"Shea added that Jewish students were leading the protest because 'the attacks on our international students, on students of color, have been so fierce, so dangerous, so disproportionate that we are the only students who can be here right now taking this risk.'"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-student-protests
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #AlirezaDoroudi #RumeysaOzturk #YunseoChung #KseniyaPetrova #Disappeared #Orwellian #MemoryHole #CharacteristicsOfFascism #ICE
#JewishVoicesForPeace
@brewsterkahle From the article on Canadians saving US government data, "Some commenters on social media liken the disappearing data to book burning in the 1930s." It could also be called a memory hole (from the book 1984).
What's at stake when the government erases the historical record, and tells its people that the things they saw didn't happen?
' [This] push to whitewash recent history carries a disconcerting echo of countless autocratic regimes, [such as] the Chinese Communist Party’s memory-holing of the Tiananmen Square massacre ... It comes at the same time as the administration is also seeking to whitewash the teaching of American history ... '
https://www.propublica.org/article/january-6-erasure-doj-database-trump-history
Among the other things the @internetarchive does: make archives of government websites at the end of each presidential term.
https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/end-of-term-web-archive/
With everything that's going on with the #MemoryHole, I suggest everyone archive any articles of interest from US government websites -- while you still can! I found this gem -- and archived it!
Designing Tools and Networks to Support #Wabanaki Adaptive Capacity for #ClimateChange
By Climate Adaptation Science Centers December 31, 2020
"Wabanaki Tribal Nations (#Maliseet, #Micmac, #Passamaquoddy, and #Penobscot) and other Tribal Nations in the #NortheastCASC region will face a disproportionate impact from climate change. These impacts will affect resources such as forestry products, fish, game, wild crops, and water that are important to tribal economies and well-being. To combat this, varying levels of tribal community preparedness and the ability to build effective adaptive capacity to extreme events will be crucial for future resiliency efforts. Furthermore, there is a pressing need to work with partners who have a variety of backgrounds to plan, strategize, build and implement resiliency initiatives in tribal communities and identify innovative ways that integrate local knowledge, technology, and science in a manner that traditional and cultural identities are tied.
"Using Indigenous Research Methods, Native American Programs at the University of Maine will align research questions, data collection methods, outputs, and research protocols with Wabanaki people, knowledge, and values to build a regional tribal network for climate change adaptation and create a Wabanaki Climate Adaptation and Adaptive Management Workbook. This project will work with and inform a Regional Climate Change Tribal Network to identify research and output goals and objectives using indigenous values and science related to both the network building and the Workbook.
"The Regional Network will consist of a diverse group of collaborators representing tribal harvesters, tribal environmental staff, intertribal and regional government entities, academic staff and tribal scholars from the University of Maine, and tribal elders and language speakers from each community to integrate a framework that will include indigenous and traditional knowledge, culture, language and history into the adaptation planning process. The primary output of this work, a Climate Adaptation and Adaptive Management Workbook, will identify examples of culturally appropriate adaptative management in responding to climate change, and identify tools for future Wabanaki Tribal leaders and communities to respond to future climate changes."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/ssSKw
#SolarPunkSunday #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #TEK #ClimateChange #WabanakiConfederacy #ClimateChangeAdaptation #TIK #TraditionalIndigenousKnowledge
Lisa Song: The Rewriting of a Pioneering Female Astronomer’s Legacy Shows How Far tRump’s #DEI #Purge Will Go
#trump #censorship #science #memoryhole #astronomy #newspeak
https://www.propublica.org/article/vera-rubin-astronomer-dei-trump
@gleick “Some guy calling himself Comrade Ogilvy is on Line 1.” #NineteenEightyFour #MemoryHole
Hey did anyone back this database up?
*Edit*: apparently at least one org/person might have a pretty good backup. Maybe others have, too. :)
https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/i-filed-a-foia-challenging-the-trump-regime/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/politics/january-6-justice-department-database/index.html
Biden is back in Google search, since the media noticed this.
But the "Memory Hole" is working overtime, with vast amounts of information being removed by the Trump regime and their billionaire sycophants.
Newsweek: Former President Joe Biden's presidential term was reportedly absent from Google's list of "U.S. presidents" for a period on Thursday morning.
https://www.newsweek.com/why-google-not-showing-joe-biden-its-us-presidents-list-2019450
"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth."
- #GeorgeOrwell, 1984
#OrwellQuotes #NineteenEightyFour #BigBrother #MemoryHole #Erased #MemoryHoled #USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #AuthoritarianRule
UK set to introduce digital driving licences
by Maia Davies, January 18, 2025
"'Technology now makes it possible for digital identities to be more secure than physical ones, but we remain clear that they will not be made mandatory.'
"The virtual licences could be used at supermarket self checkouts, The Times said, allowing customers to verify their own age without waiting for a member of staff.
"The new digital licences will be introduced later this year, the newspaper reported.
"A possible feature could allow users to hide their address in certain situations, such as in bars or shops.
"There were more than 50 million full or provisional driving licence holders in the UK in 2023, according to government data.
"The digital licences are likely to be launched as part of a 'wallet' within a new government app called Gov.uk.
"The wallet is understood to be secured in a similar way to many banking apps, and would only allow the genuine owner of a licence to access it.
"It will use features found on many smartphones, such as biometrics and multifactor authentication, like security codes.
"The government is said to be considering integrating other services into the app, such as tax payments and benefits claims.
"Other forms of identification, such as national insurance numbers, could also be added - but it is not thought physical identification will be replaced entirely.
"The new technology appears to stop short of being a broad digital ID card – as previously called for by Sir Tony Blair and Lord William Hague.
"At the time, the head of privacy campaign group #BigBrotherWatch said such a move "would be one of the biggest assaults on privacy ever seen in the UK".
"In 2016, the then-boss of the UK's Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) said digital licences were being developed.
"Virtual licences are already in use in Australia, Denmark, Iceland and Norway, as well as some US states.
"In the European Union, every member state is required to introduce at least one form of digital ID by 2026."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkjjkjy4p8o
#Orwell #MemoryHole #BigBrother
For the record #Google Lens DOES NOT IDENTIFY this EXPLOSIVE device, which appears to be either a re-purposed #landmine or some sort of fragmentation bomb. Also results without explosive device prompt. Lastly using "Land Mine". #Censorship @palestine @israel #IDF #Genocide #Palestinians #Gaza #GoogleLens #MemoryHole
Courts Are Coming for #DigitalLibraries
A federal court recently said the #InternetArchive is not protected by #FairUseDoctrine.
C.J. Ciaramella | From the December 2024 issue
"In September, a federal appeals court dealt a major blow to the Internet Archive—one of the largest online repositories of #FreeBooks, media, and software—in a #copyright case with significant implications for #publishers, #libraries, and #readers.
"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that found the Internet Archive's huge, digitized lending library of copyrighted books was not covered by the 'fair use' doctrine and infringed on the rights of publishers.
"Agreeing with the Archive's interpretation of fair use 'would significantly narrow—if not entirely eviscerate—copyright owners' exclusive right to prepare derivative works,' the 2nd Circuit ruled. 'Were we to approve [Internet Archive's] use of the works, there would be little reason for consumers or libraries to pay publishers for content they could access for free.'"
https://reason.com/2024/11/10/courts-are-coming-for-digital-libraries/
The NY Times' coverage of this presidential election has been so awful that the appearance there of a piece as good as this one is seems like an accident. This chronology of the Dear Leader's first term should be shared as widely as possible.
And remember that the Dear Leader's first term was a picnic in the park compared to what's in store for the US if that fascist lunatic wins on Election Day.
#Trump #FirstTerm #MemoryHole #HowBadWasIt #fadcism #racism
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/18/opinion/trump-presidency-record.html#
