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CDC data are disappearing

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749 points doener | 1 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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diggan ◴[01 Feb 25 14:09 UTC] No.42898380[source]▶
> Musk is evidently seizing control of the Office of Personnel Management

Suddenly I feel out of the loop when it comes to US politics, how come Musk is suddenly seemingly seizing control of parts of the US government? I don't recall him being on any ballots or anything?

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bongodongobob ◴[01 Feb 25 14:28 UTC] No.42898537[source]▶
The US is undergoing a fascist takeover basically.
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libertarian1 ◴[01 Feb 25 18:44 UTC] No.42900923[source]▶
Lmao. Nope. US is reclaiming the common sense
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1. DangitBobby ◴[01 Feb 25 23:29 UTC] No.42903673{3}[source]▶
I won't argue about immigration here because I don't want to get mired in that shit, but what is common sense about denying the existence of climate change and attempting to destroy/reverse our progress as a nation against it, and further engaging in activities to make it worse rather than alleviate it?

What is common sense about sewing chaos in the federal government, inhibiting it's ability to function? In removing datasets that help us keep track of how effective our actions are?