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CDC data are disappearing

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749 points doener | 4 comments | 01 Feb 25 11:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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CalRobert ◴[01 Feb 25 13:33 UTC] No.42898165[source]▶
This is part of a broader rolling catastrophe. Musk is evidently seizing control of the Office of Personnel Management

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-31/exclus...

Nasa took down their applied sciences page and is evidently scrubbing the data

https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/comments/1icqchv/why_is_the_nas...

(https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/)

Lots of other data sets are disappearing too:

https://mashable.com/article/government-datasets-disappear-s...

There is active discussion of this at https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/

as well as at https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/

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hypeatei ◴[01 Feb 25 14:10 UTC] No.42898383[source]▶
I would just like to point out that Musk is the richest man in the world and is now directing critical areas of the U.S. government. Surely he doesn't have ulterior motives and is looking out for the average person?
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nimbius ◴[01 Feb 25 14:19 UTC] No.42898461[source]▶
If you look back at Germany in the 19th century, nations like Prussia and Austria had this sort of power struggle between the merchant class and the nobility at the advent of steam power.

in this case the de-facto US nobility (rank-and-file career politicians) are being usurped by the bourgeouise (billionaires like Musk) at the advent of AI and tech by promising the working class a combination of culture war policy and relief from the very capitalist excess they themselves endorse. by reducing congress and senate to a simple debate team (conversely similar to the German National Asssembly) the tech-elite are able to seize power once reserved for the crown.

the question will be, after four years, will they abdicate their power or concentrate it?

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NickC25 ◴[01 Feb 25 15:07 UTC] No.42898860[source]▶
>the question will be, after four years, will they abdicate their power or concentrate it?

You honestly think that's a question?

Power corrupts. You saw Trump, who in 2016 said he'd get everything done so he'd see no need to run again, he'd have Made America Great Again. He then tried to rig the 2020 election so he could stay in power, despite saying "if I lose the election you'll never hear from me again", and 4 years later, here we are.

These people are here to entrench themselves permanently.

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seabass-labrax ◴[01 Feb 25 21:09 UTC] No.42902359[source]▶
I know that Trump was something of a bad loser when Biden was elected, and that he encouraged the riots on Capitol Hill, but I had not heard (from the media media here in Britain) that he attempted to rig the election. Could you provide a source for this please?
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1. vitus ◴[01 Feb 25 21:58 UTC] No.42902809[source]▶
Possibly a reference to the fake electors plot [0], although there was also the phone call to the Georgia secretary of state asking him to find 11,780 more votes [1], the pressure he applied to his VP to reject the election results [2], the subsequent Jan 6 riot that disrupted the certification...

At least some of these were covered by BBC [3, 4].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Raffensperger_ph...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pence#Vote_counting_and_s...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55524838

[4] https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55559172

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2. seabass-labrax ◴[01 Feb 25 23:00 UTC] No.42903385[source]▶
Thank you, vitus!
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4. kentm ◴[01 Feb 25 23:44 UTC] No.42903792[source]▶
He also tried to get the DoJ to label the election as suspicious. Don’t have an immediate reference for that but it was surfaced by the Jan 6 committee.