https://fosstodon.org/users/ThePSF/statuses/115446659188615376
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html?m=1
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html?m=1
7 Comments
breakcore@discuss.tchncs.de · 25 pts · 293d
Amazing, very good decision.
They do ask for donations, and what a time to donate, to show that moral and human choices should be weighted as they have been done in this situation!
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 293d
Reading the article is wild. They were accepted for the grant. It's a cybersecurity grant too. Tools like npm will also benefit from it. Great!
But then government attached the conditon python foundation stops quote on quote "promoting DEI activities."
And if a lawyer decides some random thing is DEI, Python foundation would possibly owe financial debt to the government
Is it even a donation at this point?
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 292d
A loan to be forgiven if every effort is made to be politically favorable to the administration. Its fucking insane.
yoevli@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 292d
This culture war shit is pathetic. "DEI" has become a dogwhistle (if one can even call it that at this point) for "I don't like black people/brown people/women", and they all shamelessly parrot it with their whole chest. Good on the PSF for doing the right thing and calling this garbage out for what it is.
FizzyOrange@programming.dev · -2 pts · 292d
It's a fairly inevitable reaction to cancel culture. This was predicted and warned against when left-wing cancel culture was at its height, but people didn't listen. Now we have right-wing cancel culture instead.
Miaou@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 292d
I don't think I've seen left wing cancel culture in my lifetime. I doubt it has ever happened in the USA at all, actually
FizzyOrange@programming.dev · 2 pts · 292d
There are some examples in the very first list I found googling for "cancel culture examples".
Not all of them are political (e.g. cancelling someone for sexual assault is clearly not, and that Heineken one... how??), but a decent number are, e.g. number 6 is about as partisan as you can get.