claire indermaur
@homo-ex-machina.bsky.social
cyborg / internet explorer / doctoral student in information sciences / some guy
Reposted by claire indermaur
There is this really interesting phenomenon that happens in science communication where the updating of ideas is see as breaking the trust in science rather than a commitment to being accurate
"virologists originally thought it was a lab leak, then they investigated and couldn't find any evidence so they updated their views" holy shit what a smoking gun you have
March 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
There is this really interesting phenomenon that happens in science communication where the updating of ideas is see as breaking the trust in science rather than a commitment to being accurate
Reposted by claire indermaur
“Not only will we not end the HIV epidemic with the current administration’s policies, we could reverse these gains and go back to the dark days of the ’80s, when people died from HIV every day.”
Trump Administration Is Considering Ending Division Tasked With Funding HIV/AIDS Prevention
The move could send the US back to “the dark days of the ‘80s, when people died from HIV every day,” one advocate said.
truthout.org
March 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“Not only will we not end the HIV epidemic with the current administration’s policies, we could reverse these gains and go back to the dark days of the ’80s, when people died from HIV every day.”
Reposted by claire indermaur
"Let me be clear: we have disappeared a man who has committed no crime of any sort simply because he is a political dissident"
March 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"Let me be clear: we have disappeared a man who has committed no crime of any sort simply because he is a political dissident"
Reposted by claire indermaur
Weird how Cass was splashed worldwide, but multiple countries produce reviews that all rubbish Cass and come to completely different conclusions (namely that PBs are effective and as safe for trans kids as cis) yet you wouldn't know about them if you weren't online and following people like Erin
Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper...
But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?
But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?
1. Major news in transgender care.
Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
March 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Weird how Cass was splashed worldwide, but multiple countries produce reviews that all rubbish Cass and come to completely different conclusions (namely that PBs are effective and as safe for trans kids as cis) yet you wouldn't know about them if you weren't online and following people like Erin
Reposted by claire indermaur
there is no provision in this TX bill for people who have had SRS so this is state mandated menopause and osteoporosis for trans people who may be in their 20s or 30s
this policy is designed to kill people
it won’t accidentally kill people
it is designed to kill as many trans people as possible
this policy is designed to kill people
it won’t accidentally kill people
it is designed to kill as many trans people as possible
🚨 Texas House Rep. Brent Money has introduced the first total ban on gender affirming care for all trans people in Texas. This is an unequivocal ban affecting all trans people by removing amending the existing ban on trans youth to apply to adults as well.
capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/...
capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/...
89(R) HB 3399 - Introduced version - Bill Text
capitol.texas.gov
February 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
there is no provision in this TX bill for people who have had SRS so this is state mandated menopause and osteoporosis for trans people who may be in their 20s or 30s
this policy is designed to kill people
it won’t accidentally kill people
it is designed to kill as many trans people as possible
this policy is designed to kill people
it won’t accidentally kill people
it is designed to kill as many trans people as possible
Reposted by claire indermaur
The New York Times: "We need more data on trans healthcare, it shouldn't be allowed"
Trump: "Fuck the very concept of data"
NYT: *crickets*
www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/c...
Trump: "Fuck the very concept of data"
NYT: *crickets*
www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/c...
CDC will no longer process transgender data
The agency's decision will likely affect a number of federal health surveillance systems that serve as critical resources for researchers.
www.statnews.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The New York Times: "We need more data on trans healthcare, it shouldn't be allowed"
Trump: "Fuck the very concept of data"
NYT: *crickets*
www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/c...
Trump: "Fuck the very concept of data"
NYT: *crickets*
www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/c...
Reposted by claire indermaur
hard to believe that our public institutions are suddenly behaving in a manner that many many people have been warning is the logical endpoint of a capitalist government for a hundred years
February 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
hard to believe that our public institutions are suddenly behaving in a manner that many many people have been warning is the logical endpoint of a capitalist government for a hundred years
Reposted by claire indermaur
It’s a criminal enterprise regardless of if/when they name the criminal at the top, but at this point there’s no distinction between “us government” and “criminal enterprise”
until they can identify what DOGE is and who runs it, the messaging should be that it’s a criminal enterprise
JUDGE COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY: Is there an administrator of DOGE at the present time?
GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I don’t know the answer to that
GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I don’t know the answer to that
February 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
It’s a criminal enterprise regardless of if/when they name the criminal at the top, but at this point there’s no distinction between “us government” and “criminal enterprise”
Reposted by claire indermaur
And part of the work of remembering is also acknowledging the work of other historians, archivists, librarians, etc, who’ve studied bibliocide (Ovenden, Battles, etc), endangered archives (Raad, Zaatari, etc), fugitive libraries, etc
Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world.
And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
February 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
And part of the work of remembering is also acknowledging the work of other historians, archivists, librarians, etc, who’ve studied bibliocide (Ovenden, Battles, etc), endangered archives (Raad, Zaatari, etc), fugitive libraries, etc
Reposted by claire indermaur
🚨 Hey guys remember how I wrote a whole article about how P25 wants to use this to gut the queer internet? Yeah, the Dems are helping them marching it in the door.
This is where the trans internet could very well die.
This is where the trans internet could very well die.
There’s an active fascist takeover going on. Let’s check in with the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee to see how they’re resisting it.
Oh… oh I see. They’re trying to blow up Section 230 and open the floodgates for Trump to censor the Internet. Inspiring!
Oh… oh I see. They’re trying to blow up Section 230 and open the floodgates for Trump to censor the Internet. Inspiring!
February 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
🚨 Hey guys remember how I wrote a whole article about how P25 wants to use this to gut the queer internet? Yeah, the Dems are helping them marching it in the door.
This is where the trans internet could very well die.
This is where the trans internet could very well die.
Reposted by claire indermaur
We've been preparing for this possibility for months. If you're new to the party, anyone can take immediate grassroots action to help:
The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship
Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.
thetransfemininereview.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
We've been preparing for this possibility for months. If you're new to the party, anyone can take immediate grassroots action to help:
Reposted by claire indermaur
The internet should be broken up into forums again
February 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The internet should be broken up into forums again
Reposted by claire indermaur
You are always, always making a moral choice when you put pen to paper. You cannot absent yourself from that compromise. Period. Yes, you can be more objective or more tendentious, but you're always in the bind whether you like it or not.
February 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
You are always, always making a moral choice when you put pen to paper. You cannot absent yourself from that compromise. Period. Yes, you can be more objective or more tendentious, but you're always in the bind whether you like it or not.
Reposted by claire indermaur
The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
February 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
Reposted by claire indermaur
We coulda had an Aaron Swartz future, instead we were paywalled into fascism
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Celebrating the Life of Aaron Swartz: Aaron Swartz Day 2024
Aaron Swartz was a digital rights champion who believed deeply in keeping the internet open. His life was cut short in 2013, after federal prosecutors charged him under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Ac...
www.eff.org
February 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We coulda had an Aaron Swartz future, instead we were paywalled into fascism
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Reposted by claire indermaur
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Reposted by claire indermaur
The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying.
pepfarimpact.vercel.app
pepfarimpact.vercel.app
February 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying.
pepfarimpact.vercel.app
pepfarimpact.vercel.app
Reposted by claire indermaur
Reddit admins are now taking direction from Elon Musk and suspendimg entire subreddits he dislikes. So much for free speech.
Reddit banned r/WhitePeopleTwitter for 72 hours due to "a prevalence of violent content", after Elon Musk said the subreddit had "broken the law" on February 3 (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
February 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Reddit admins are now taking direction from Elon Musk and suspendimg entire subreddits he dislikes. So much for free speech.
Reposted by claire indermaur
As a science advocate, something I hear a lot is that people think government would be better if there were more scientists and physicians elected to Congress. Senator Bill Cassidy's cowardice in voting for RFK Jr, show us that expertise is useless if you have no morals.
February 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
As a science advocate, something I hear a lot is that people think government would be better if there were more scientists and physicians elected to Congress. Senator Bill Cassidy's cowardice in voting for RFK Jr, show us that expertise is useless if you have no morals.
Reposted by claire indermaur
Librarians have been crowd sourcing the data rescue efforts, some of which are mentioned here. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Data Rescue Efforts
These are suggestions coming from various sources, including IASSIST, BlueSky, LinkedIn. Feel free to email if you have suggestions to be added. Note from Lynda: Thanks for the suggestions coming i...
docs.google.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Librarians have been crowd sourcing the data rescue efforts, some of which are mentioned here. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Reposted by claire indermaur
Preventing child abuse is woke.
“.. CDC pages that are gone -- mostly related to LGBTQ+, racial disparities, contraception, HIV prevention, but also stuff like preventing child abuse.”
@gashina.bsky.social
@bostonglobe.com
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/31/d...
@gashina.bsky.social
@bostonglobe.com
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/31/d...
Tracking broken CDC web pages - The Boston Globe
Dozens of pages on the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focused on LGBTQ issues, HIV, racial disparities, and contraception were down on Friday.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Preventing child abuse is woke.
Reposted by claire indermaur
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
Reposted by claire indermaur
"An anti-transgender, government-wide, totalitarian form of censorship is being implemented right now on the orders of an acting federal appointee with the effects of erasing significant amounts of information from the public less than two weeks after President Donald Trump retook the presidency."
Breaking: Disappearing websites, data among the chaos as Trump's anti-trans censorship begins
A stark picture presented across the federal government, with particularly concerning information coming out of the Census Bureau and CDC.
www.lawdork.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"An anti-transgender, government-wide, totalitarian form of censorship is being implemented right now on the orders of an acting federal appointee with the effects of erasing significant amounts of information from the public less than two weeks after President Donald Trump retook the presidency."