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> And NSF said pending proposals that appeared to violate any of Trump’s executive orders—in particular those banning efforts to increase diversity in the scien
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> And NSF said pending proposals that appeared to violate any of Trump’s executive orders—in particular those banning efforts to increase diversity in the scientific workforce, foster environmental justice, and study the spread of misinformation on social media sites—would be returned for “mitigation.”
Basically don't study how Elon's websites are destroying the fabric of society or how Trump's policies will destroy the environment.
- rockemsockem 1y agoThe site formally known as Twitter is destroying the fabric of society, really? Do you hear yourself?
- 9283409232 1y agoI think social media as a whole is destroying the fabric of society, yes.
- rockemsockem 1y agoOkay, that's a far more reasonable thing to claim. The way you phrased it made me think you thought it was Twitter specifically. It's definitely a group effort on that front.
- bdangubic 1y agoI would question sanity of anyone who questions this… :)
- mikeyouse 1y agoElon’s one of our most successful and accomplished entrepreneurs and that hellsite broke his brain to the point where he’s posting on there hundreds of times per day and spending hours interacting and vouching for some of the most depraved degenerates online rather than running his world-changing companies. That’s really a bad outcome.
- Larrikin 1y agoThis is probably a bad faith sarcastic comment, but for others Pretending social media holds no influence on society was an argument you could have made when it was just kids getting into fights or shooting each other over Internet beef fifteen years ago. Now it's an essential target in governments all over the world when it comes to spreading propaganda/disinformation. It has a direct link to effecting change in voters and entire governments innumerable times now.
- eli_gottlieb 1y agoOh, it's a good deal worse than that. The NSF actually has a statutory mandate to ask for those Broader Impact sections; Congress would have to pass a law to stop it. So now the people applying for grants need to include, by law, a section that, by policy, will get the grant application returned for editing and "mitigation", while the Administration is also ordering, again without Congressional authority, that one out of every two dollars spent at the NSF be cut. The NSF doesn't even cost that much money to run. They're doing this counterproductively and, as far as I can tell, for no good reason at all.
- 9283409232 1y ago> while the Administration is also ordering, again without Congressional authority Trump is doing a lot of illegal things. Like, A LOT of illegal things, but if you read the article they specifically said that Trump officials said they were only going to ask for Congress for 55% of the current budget in the next years budget cycle so they are actually doing this one correctly.
- mikeyouse 1y agoNext year’s budget cycle starts in October.. they’re illegally impounding grants today.