Ashley Soleil's random gibberings

you can read more about all this here:

a bunch of archives of incredibly important government datasets like maternal mortality statistics are about to be deleted forever. in a regime where they're known to fudge numbers, we can't trust a lot of the data coming from them to not be altered. open source backups like those found on data.world are vital to being able to verify that the data coming from our government is still intact and not altered. and they're about to delete all of it.

i don't know if we need to start a petition or what. nobody seems to fucking care. there are millions of users on data.world and yet nobody is raising the alarm bells and it makes me feel like I'm going insane. somebody needs to do something. i don't know what to do. it feels like more and more of this world is being destroyed and dismantled. it's not only US centric data, either! it's all sorts of countries from around the world! and they're about to fucking delete everything.

the only things that won't be deleted are private companies who happen to use the paid version of their platform (which isn't accessible data to the open source community; some people have just been using their service to host their own data on privately)

and the kicker? this announcement was made... via an AI generated blog post. so not even any sort of human touch. just a generic, soulless announcement made by a soulless human about to take a wrecking ball to one of the more important websites that exists on the internet.

an example of some of the things that will be deleted on July 11th:

But they don't want to give India credit for any of the things they consider culturally theirs.

Meanwhile in the US, we go out for "Indian food" or "Vietnamese food" or "Mexican food" or "Chinese food" or "Italian food" and I'm not saying people don't get weird about it sometimes, but we know why it's in our country. Because immigrants showed up with good fucking recipes and were willing to share. And sometimes they even Americanized them. Fettuccini Alfredo is American-Italian, not Italian. Cashew Chicken is American-Chinese, not Chinese. One of the greatest things that has ever happened to tacos, in my personal estimation, is the use of kimchi instead of lettuce. And lettuce on tacos is an American thing and then Korean immigrants improved on it.

Hell, I could probably go to a state fair right now and get someone to make me a deep fried taco on a stick full of pork belly and kimchi and cheese and salsa, and it would keep me full for three days and taste like heaven and could exist because of the acceptance of new Americans into America.

roommate: is there a problem?

cat: RAH!

roommate: oh no, is the door shut? did charlie lock you out of the bathroom?

cat: mweh...

roommate: well you see, i could fix that problem for you—

cat: MYEH!

roommate: —but due to social rules that you probably couldn't understand even if i explained them,

cat: gWAAH... mow..

roommate: yeah, dude, i hear you, but it's not gonna happen.

cat: MRRRR..!

roommate: i know i have opposable thumbs, but my hands are tied, thumbs and all. i'm sorry, i wish it didn't have to be this way.