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- technology@lemmy.world
Foundation says it won’t compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would’ve really helped
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Good
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,’
Insane. I can’t even fathom adding such a condition. And to a well established org with a positive track record.
Toxic offer. Wouldn’t even be able to say that inclusivity is a good thing.
wait. so its not just about spending the money they are giving on dei? its saying they won’t even with other funds. What if the other funds are mandated to be used for dei? This is just disingenuous. Having a grant that dictates how other donations and grants are used is ridiculous and it was intended to not be taken.
Not only that, but if they do engage in “DEI activities” (definition not included) then they reserve the right to take back the entire grant and and previous money the python foundation had recieved from them in the past. Its a total poison pill, and if this sort of language is widespread in government grants its going to completly gut research in the USA.
Yeah seriously, imagine saying that out loud. No being fair and including everyone!
Ever since Guido stepped down I’m glad I rowed in behind Python. I like the guy, but the leadership there now has just been unimpeachable on issues like this, same with the local chapter in my country.
the terms included a provision that if the PSF was found to have voilated that anti-DEI diktat, the NSF reserved the right to claw back any previously disbursed funds, Crary explained.
“This would create a situation where money we’d already spent could be taken back, which would be an enormous, open-ended financial risk,” the PSF director added.
“Part of the problem here is all the uncertainties,” Crary told us. “Even if we wanted to give up anything that might be considered [DEI] work - which we don’t - part of the risk here is that all these restrictions are new, the language is very broad … I had no interest in being the test case.”
Sounds like a really awful deal; get some funding, but the unpredictable and corrupt US government gets opportunities to bankrupt you.
python foundation. python is so slowwwwwwwwww
Then don’t use it?
i just wish it was faster, great language to program in
Tool for the job, if you need something fast, use any of the row level languages like c or rust, if you want something easy, use python , if you want something stupid use PHP.
also depends on what you want to do. for small programs i wouldnt use rust, too complex for that. personally i just use C. thats my favourite language.
Paying companies to be racist, what a world.
White women are the biggest beneficiaries of DEI. So who’s being racist by being against DEI exactly?
The DEI people are against are policies that mandate discriminatory practices, making someone’s race/gender a qualification. It’s wild that people here actually support discrimination in hiring.
You have it backwards. DEI ensures it’s not just the same good ol boy hired as usual (which is what the current good ol boy employer wants)
Say you don’t understand dei, without saying you don’t understand dei
There’s a joke about whitespace here somewhere, I just know it.
python chooses insolvency over loosening restrictions on rightfully white space
/j
Python refuses to enforce strict whites’ space rules.
(I tried going in that direction first before realizing Python does enforce whitespace rules)
Yeah kinda what it’s known for as far as code nesting goes.
“whitespace not whites space”
Imagine, despite pythons coming in all sorts of diverse patterns, having to hire only albino ones.
Good on them to stick to their guns!
I very rarely do any python development, but it sounds like it’s time to make a donation.
To make matters worse, the terms included a provision that if the PSF was found to have voilated that anti-DEI diktat, the NSF reserved the right to claw back any previously disbursed funds, Crary explained. “This would create a situation where money we’d already spent could be taken back, which would be an enormous, open-ended financial risk,” the PSF director added.
Nobody in their right mind would sign such a travesty.
“We think you’ve hired too many black people, you now owe us millions of dollars.”
The fact that having money and simply convincing someone to accept it with terms means someone gets to do that in this system is fucking wretched.
You refuse to implement a back door for us in all of your cryptography modules, so we say you hired too many black people and now you owe us the money back.
I keep forgetting that for the rich, bigotry is often more of an excuse than an ideology.
It depends.
For many ‘new’ MAGA conservatives, its kind of a means to an end, yeah. It a part of the culture of feeling victimized. Its why so many bristle at being called racists as a blanket term: they actually aren’t.
But there are certainly old\ gheezers (many leaders) or perpetually online influencers that are legit racists. Or “great replacement theory” tangential believers that really straddle the line.
One of the most unnerving things about rightism is that there seem to be separate versions of the ideology, tailored to specific classes, for the purpose of perpetuating a cycle of abuse and obedience.
Well that’s true of many political “sides,” historical and extant, unfortunately.
See: Lemmygrad.
I think the lesson is to not believe in ideologies so rigidly, and to not revere individual leaders/influencers to such an extent.
To be fair, by the classical definition of left and right (equality vs hierarchy), tankies are right wingers. Authoritarianism is very much a rightist ideology. In fact, i would even argue that things like the “Cultural Revolution” in China were fascist because they demanded absolute loyalty to the state and its ideology on threat of violence. They just hate the other right wingers a lot because the nations they cheer for have been enemies of what I will loosely call “The West”, so they didn’t absorb the beliefs that commonly define western right wingers in the modern age.
What’s the nodei type if it’s not a string?
Sent a donation! For as much as I’ve used python probably should have donated sooner but better late than never
I don’t do software development, but I am enough of a nerd to know what python.
Good on them. The American far-right (and it’s proxies) need to be shown that they are compromised individuals that lack integrity.
Was going to go into just Rust and GDScript more but you what I am going to go into Python now too. Massive respect to them
