I want Kandi!

cost of education acting as class barrier

exploitation of graduate workers

colonialist past and present

ties to military industrial complex

danger of power structure entrenching and justifying orthodox views on social issues

criticisms of academia that get made:

While it's on my mind, I've been meaning to get the call for artists for a small zine and possibly gallery. I ran it for the first time last year with @flarekitti,@i-have-questions-but-no-answers, and @gentlemarshymallow with a week long pop up show in my uni's student gallery.

I've been searching for a place that would be open to hosting it physically, but if that doesn't work out before the timeline I've created then it'll only be a digital zine. The art and writing submitted needs to be tangentally related to water, but it can be metaphorical as well as literal.

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:

A better subreddit might be r/ArchiveTeam though. ArchiveTeam’s goal is explicitly “rescuing” and backing up digital artifacts in danger of being lost, whereas r/datahoarder is less focused. I see one person has already posted it in r/ArchiveTeam: x

However: I don’t yet see a coordinated effort taking place in any of those 4 threads. Most movement in the first linked thread, but the other three have 0-1 comments atm. Some of the information I see in the comments here on Tumblr might help give it a boost if anyone wants to show ArchiveTeam the scripts they used/scope of effort they calculated.

As a plug: ArchiveTeam lets you run “warriors” (their name for instances of their backup software) that take on chunks of individual archival/backup projects. Your computer/server/NAS backs up the specific chunk of imperiled data you claimed, temporarily using some of your free storage, then clearing it out once your chunk has been uploaded to the public backup destination, which is usually the Internet Archive (same organization that hosts the Wayback Machine).

This was politely explained to him several times by a handful of users and curators(including me). He continued to double down, got pretty rude and abusive with the curators, and kept belittling everyone involved. He did end up getting suspended for this.

I'm on artfight! Here are some of my OCs. I'm @/mintieberrie on artfight. Fight me, cowards.