Rocks are woke now.

One of my recent software projects has an "ignore" list feature, but I guess I have to update the terminology to "include/exclude" if that means chuds will stay away.

Ooh I know what I'm using as variable names this week

An administration that uses LLMs and Ctrl + F and vibes for policy decisions that don't sound good even before you realize they don't make sense, and ignores courts and due process... it's a hazard to touch.

Honestly this is magnificent. 🤡

for real? Mentioning the wrong (key-) word gets you cancelled like this?

It is all just so unbelievably stupid.

Yeah, even if they weren't willing to take a principled stance, that's really dangerous. Especially with how temperamental these fascists are.

I would use the term extortion, but yup.

"getting bought" is more fitting imo.

And a nice little view behind the curtains how the fascists operate.

Even when it's reverse? grants being conditional on DEI action has been a long time thing already

This should be the top comment. Now, excuse me. I've got a donation to go make.

ETA: Done. I felt dirty using Paypal, but I was being lazy, right up until Paypal barfed up some error saying "This credit card can't be used something something blah blah blah. Let's try a different one." In response to which I suddenly found the energy to go find the checkbook and an envelope.

Imagining all the llm dorks suddenly trying to learn typescript over the weekend

To them I say "good luck, fuckers"

The python foundation should have asked them to define the terms of the contract in a document. At least that way we would have had a legal definition of what woke means in their eyes. Because I'm reasonably confident that even they don't know.

This makes me love python (the programming language) even more.

You frame it as "don't discriminate based on skin color, as in don't hire a black person because they're black" while not saying any more of the quiet part out loud.

Because conservatives convinced people that DEI was literally about filling a quotas at the cost of competency, because "controlling the narrative".

Because Congress and the Supreme Court have been captured entirely by fascists.

“We’ll give you some money if you promise to keep the blacks out of your organisation”

I suppose that this would be against the other part, the one relative to the federal anti-discrimination laws.

Besides the anti-woke bullshit, it's just a bad idea to accept. It is absolutely not normal for a grant to have stipulations that if you violate some vaguely defined criteria somewhere in your organization, it can be clawed back at a later time. That's a huge liability for an organization to take on that they may suddenly owe a million dollars some time in the future.

Thanks for doing the research for us lazy folks, donation sent!

That is not a great donation page. I'd love to see a one click paypal button on there.

They're really pulling the childish 'We're just going to make up a fake acronym using DEI' card in an official government communication?

This is a clown show

For the record, it also say that they should not violate any anti-discrimination federal laws.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.