National Science Foundation (NSF) had offered $1.5 million to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and the Python Package Index (PyPI), but the Foundation quickly became dispirited with the terms of the grant it would have to follow.
“These terms included affirming the statement that we ‘do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion], or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws,’” Crary noted. “This restriction would apply not only to the security work directly funded by the grant, but to any and all activity of the PSF as a whole.”
Congratulations for having a real spine and showing the world that money isn’t everything
Thank you python team
Jesus the current US administration are cartoonishly evil. History is not going to be kind to the United States. In 30 Years there is going to be a museum with a little plaque on the wall and it’ll say “did you know the United States used to be a relevant world power?”.
The Seattle zoo also rejected federal funding with these strings. My wife lost her job because of it. Because it was just for one program and the no-DEI was organization wide…
Apparently the Portland Zoo signed it… No one expected that shit. We both let her parents know that this is because of their vote in another state.
In 2 days the White House will order every companie to stop using python because of woke or something
Imagining all the llm dorks suddenly trying to learn typescript over the weekend
Or trying to control their mice population. Wait what?
It makes me very happy to think about
Or OpenCL.
I mean switching to OpenCL and not relying on CUDA would be great but I don’t know how I feel about it.
To them I say “good luck, fuckers”
Good for them. It is good to see people do something right for once.
based Python.
This makes me love python (the programming language) even more.
what would happen if they took the money and didn’t comply?
the terms included a provision that if the PSF was found to have violated that anti-DEI diktat, the NSF reserved the right to claw back any previously disbursed funds
So even if they didn’t violate the anti-DEI, whoever controls the US gov could just decide to claw back money PSF already spent…
Yeah, this is one of those terrible ideas even if you thought that, in theory, you were onboard with ‘anti-DEI’.
Out of the blue the wrong person gets randomly pissed at you and invokes the highly subjective clause and suddenly you owe them $1.5M…
I think at this point it’s not about money, it’s about sending a message.
The way it’s written it’s impossible to know if you’re complying or not. They might have just said “don’t be woke” or “don’t piss us off”.
If they accepted it, saying “Diversity of libraries” could have get them into hot waters.
Discrimination in the name of anti-discrimination
Now this is concerning. FOSS is diverse by default, because of the international nature. They noted that FOSS software can be a viable alternative to the easily controllable IT giants, which is why they want to nip in the bud this way?
Good on ya, Gents.
Political commissars will be present at all meetings.
Good.
I’m glad that the people offering this money did not compromise on their ideals.
Thank God that this doesn’t prevent me from making anti DEI software using python.
One of our geology grants got hit for mentioning mineral inclusion. Total clown show.
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.
for real? Mentioning the wrong (key-) word gets you cancelled like this?
Yep. And Universities had to edit their papers to remove any “bad words”.
We now get to experience what it would have been like if the Nazis had a negative IQ. Which is impressive to say, because some of them were totally deranged.
All they’re doing here is ensuring that all of the really intelligent people leave and go live somewhere else.
Rocks are woke now.
The diversity of rocks you can find in the environment is truly stunning
Yeah, since rocks went all woke and stuff, they have really been rolling down hill…
My sediments exactly
Their metamorphosis has been a heavy topic to follow.
Gneiss!
Aww schist, here we go again!
Ooh I know what I’m using as variable names this week
Honestly this is magnificent. 🤡
