Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets

The President's ability to affect spending is definitely limited, and hasn't been exercised really since Reagan, but still exists.

Congress rarely makes spending money it's goal, rather it appropriates money to accomplish some goal. Which is to say that if Congress wants a bridge across a river and appropriate 10 billion to build it, the President is not obligated to spend $10 billion if 7 or 8 or 9 will do. In some cases, Congress does appropriate money toward causes and intends all the money to be spent in furtherance of some guiding principle and in these cases all the money must be spent.

>"As a probationary/trial period employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you pursuant to 5 CFR § 315.804,"

Looks legit to me.

These assholes.

Nah, the whole executive branch is getting Jack Welch'ed. Hopefully your tap water cleanliness regulations are strong on a state level.

I think the question is the nature of the losses in the two cases, the transparency circumstances about them, and who exactly is making the decisions about specific datasets.

Time will tell but loss of public datasets is probably not usually good in general.

This is not a direct quote, the actual quote from the article is

> But archivists who have been working on analyzing the deletions and archiving the data it held say that while some of the deletions are surely malicious information scrubbing, some are likely routine artifacts of an administration change, and they are working to determine which is which. For example, in the days after Joe Biden was inaugurated, data.gov showed about 1,000 datasets being deleted as compared to a day before his inauguration, according to the Wayback Machine.

And you could also run your own archive bot (x86 only). I've got one running in a docker container, it downloads a webpage and auto-uploads it to archive.org

https://tracker.archiveteam.org/

Edit to add:

docker_compose.yml example:

services:

  archiveteam:   

    image: atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile   

    ports:  

      - '8101:8001'   

    mem_limit: 4G   

    cpus: 3


    dns:   
      - 9.9.9.10   
      - 8.8.8.8   


    labels:   
      - com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true   
    container_name: archiveteam-warrior   
    environment:   
      - DOWNLOADER=asdf # Change this to your nickname   
      - SELECTED_PROJECT=auto # Change this to your project of preference or let the archiveteam decide with 'auto'
      - CONCURRENT_ITEMS=6 # Change this to the amount of concurrent download threads you can handle



  watchtower:
    command: '--label-enable --include-restarting --cleanup --interval 3600'
    cpu_shares: 128
    mem_limit: 1G
    cpus: 1

    image: containrrr/watchtower
    volumes:
       - '/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock'

    container_name: watchtower

Yes; and for further reference, the non-Pinyin transliteration is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Giles and the "add/drop" is that instead of the title 秦始皇 Qín Shǐ Huáng (lit. "first Qin emperor") Borges is using the title 始皇帝 Shǐ Huángdì (lit. "first emperor").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi%20Huangdi (redirects to Qin Shi Huang)

I think quotes like this should be attributed to the character (the secret police commissaire?) not the author?

Eh, the history doesn't support that meme; only the details and not the existence was allegedly burned (if it even happened at all). It's pretty well established that there were 7 major states (Qin, Qi, Chu, Yan, and the 3 Jin (Han, Wei, Zhao); notably, not including the official Zhou king) at the end of the Warring States period, and the Qin conquered the other 6 within a decade.

(Fun fact: the lesser-known state of Wey actually lasted longer than Wei due to not being worth conquering. In modern Chinese they are pronounced the same, but at the time they weren't.)

Sure, they just used a different title.

I assume they are referring to this: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/expa...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-instruct...

as posted by two others - hotel Gitmo on sands is expanding.