Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/1517787
Janet Petro—the first woman to hold the position since its founding 67 years ago—wrote that diversity programs “divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination,”
In 2021, when she was the director of Kennedy Space Center, she spoke at length in an interview about the value of diversity, saying “our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility has been paramount to mission success.”
The turnaround is giving me whiplash.
There's no begrudging following of the rules, it's wholeheartedly embracing the new regime.
When it is easy everyone thinks they are Oskar Schindler but when it is hard most people are Hugo Boss.
Sun-Tzu actually described how this works with soldiers, and how do you work with such gentle material. I'd say his book's parts on psychology are about making a Hugo Boss from a wannabe Oskar Schindler, but if one applies his advice to oneself, one can put different goals.
I also like Marcus Aurelius.
The quote from the email isn't her words. They were given to her (and all agency heads) to send out to their workforce to implement the EO. It should not be taken as "embracing the new regime".
I was told to change gender to sex on the apps I develop. I'm pushing to have it removed all together because it's a field that has no relevance and the order is fucking dumb. My niece is trans saying they don't exist doesn't make them not exist.
This is just another version of pulling the ladder up behind them, no?
DEI is largely about raising the profiles of minority workers in roles and positions that were both vital to mission success and underpaid/underappreciate-for-promotion relative to the whiter career roles.
Petro's following in the grand tradition of Boomer senior leaders by pulling the ladder up behind her now that she's at the top.
You beat me by a minute with that thought! 😆
Boomers are natural bootlickers, no conviction... She says what gets her a head.
Also shouldnt she be in a fema camp instead of leeching on federal budget?
Dude, they are insulting people and blaming boomers for everything is just keeping us divided. You want to start throwing ageism into this look at the ages of the tech bros of elon musk doge raiders. All like 19 -26
Look at the average ages of jan 6 Matt gaetz, Alex jones.
The vast majority of everyone is suffering.
It's us poors together that we need not letting them keep us divided
Cracking on with the important shit, I see.
At least make sure to update all graphics to webp while executing hate based updates.
I thought those fucking cretins were supposed to be reducing government waste. How is forcing agencies to paint over murals with positive vibes and update their website to remove magic words a good use of their time and money?
because it's not and never was about that and by the time everyone else realises it will be too late to stop it without great effort
Because it gives SpaceX an edge over NASA if you delegate menial tasks to PhD level people.
You are pissed at another kid, so you find a dog turd near the playground and you throw it his way.
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I thought those fucking cretins were supposed to be reducing government waste. How is forcing agencies to paint over murals with positive vibes and update their website to remove magic words a good use of their time and money?
The best way to understand DOGE is to be aware of what it really means: Department of Government Enshitification. The entire point of it is to generally degrade the quality of government.
lmao it's already too late
This is definitely the most important thing for the country and for human space exploration as a whole.
/s
Imagine dreaming to fly to space only to be denied having it because you also cared about the rights of indigenous people.
Imagine dreaming to fly to space only to be denied having it because you’re not indigenous and they haven’t met their arbitrary quota of indigenous people.
good ol' Bobby Tables
Snowflakes
Conservatives are creating their safe space.
🌎🧑🚀🔫🤠 always was
Their cowardice is palpable. If only NASA could run experiments so that we could understand how the concept of fear-based self preservation eliminates any semblance of courage when faced with even the smallest threat to their ill-defined paradigm of manhood.
In a parallel universe where we have a functioning federal government, I’d imagine something like this would be worthy of a grant or two.
If only NASA could run experiments so that we could understand how the concept of fear-based self preservation eliminates any semblance of courage when faced with even the smallest threat to their ill-defined paradigm of manhood.
You're significantly underestimating how many Chud engineers NASA employs. The agency that was founded by Nazis refugees has always had a shit history on race politics, cinema hagiographies produced decades later notwithstanding.
In a parallel universe where we have a functioning federal government
One of the biggest jokes of the US depiction of the Space Race was how many times we got our asses drubbed by Russians with less money, manpower, and educational resources, simply because our administration was so cartoonishly incompetent. We have an obscenely wealthy federal government that can afford to fuck up on the scale of trillions of dollars and still come out ahead.
Talk about hidden figures…
I caught the irony of that too and it hurts.
What happened to indigenous people and women? I swear I saw one just an hour ago so it seems like they still exist. Maybe not?
That was a cat. You saw a cat an hour ago. Indigenous people and women have never existed. It's been straight white men since Adam and Steve. Wait...
"No homo" -- Steve
Oh, just scrubbing MENTIONS of them. Whew!
...for now.
Totally normal.
Sounds like a paid day off
Why doesn’t Trump like MSI laptops? I think they’re great for gaming in space
ITT: People who doesn't read the article. These science institutions shouldn't be used for fucking politics.
I wonder if something from the list published in this article has any relation to science or space. Yeah sure, let's go with "DEI and other Inclusivity programs are NECESSARY for space survival". I wonder what's the objective of NASA.
Lol don't worry, this Astronaut knows pronouns. /s
everything is political. you are advocating that these institutions pretend observer bias doesn't exist.
Bro DID YOU READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE?
Who do you think made that article?!
Okay, okay, yeah is it bad? Yeah it's bad but listen up libs - Remember when Harris was being reported as focusing on the middle class during her four month campaign? Huh? Yeah. That's why this is happening. And we were right to not fight against this fascist horror with the one thing that would have mattered, our vote. She should have paid more attention to people who have it bad.
Any post that starts with "listen up libs" immediately makes me ignore the rest of its contents. Not interested in your MAGA and/or tankie bullshit.
Since Herr Trumpf got elected for his second term, the line between MAGA and Tankie has been getting preeeeeetty thin. Seen a lot of "masks off" comments from the folk at .ml....
obviously you are a old and don't understand that liberals are the absolute worst thing in the world next to conservatives. Us kids are down with the leftism now and any Democratic person is a horrible traitor to society which is why we let trump win. You need to read the manga versions of Das Kapital to really get it.
The middle class also has it bad. A worker is anyone who isnt an owner
One would think. And yet she was pilloried for focusing on the economics of the middle class.
Electoralism is bullshit to begin with. Trump shouldn't have been able to do what he's doing at all. An actual developed society shouldn't be susceptible to fascist takeover, because fascists should be unacceptable in government. And the president shouldn't be able to do anything they want with nothing but good faith holding them back. The American government fundamentally failed a long time ago. If Harris had won it wouldn't have been Trump, but she was far from a progressive and would not have changed the government in an attempt to preserve it against future fascist uprising.
Not to mention her commitment to Israel. Not to mention she was part of the Biden administration, and had a direct involvement in the American government's support for the Palestinian genocide.
Yes, it would've been better in many ways if she had won. But the choice never should've been between a neoliberal conservative and a fascist. America was broken under Biden, too. Not the way it is, nor the way it will be as Trump's kingdom rises. But it's far more nuanced than just "if she had won everything would be swell". And it's weird to point out non-voters as the problem, instead of like. The past 5 decades of American politics. The many many many people who did nothing to prevent this from happening over 50 years. The democratic party itself failed to meaningfully respond to his first presidency.
Yes if the people who had stayed home had instead voted, and voted for Harris specifically, she would be president and the outcome would be better for everyone. Undoubtedly. Like Weimar Germany though the government was already fundamentally broken and susceptible to the rise of fascism. To simply and immediately put blame on the voters ignores the actual reasons that situation even came about to begin with.
If you have the funds, please support Internet Archives.
With internet archive head quarters being in the US what would happen if the administration went after them? Would people from other countries be able to keep the project going?
That's unfortunately a very valid point. Iirc the big problem IA has is the sheer amount of disk space required to store everything.
We need to distribute all that data, for the sake of history in the future. Data hoarding and torrenting is a service to humanity.
Depends on what the cops would do.
Just did yesterday after putting it off for some months