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🚨 BIG NEWS Y’ALL! 🚨
Someone just saved ALL the CDC’s public data before it could disappear! 🦅
What’s the Deal?
Some mystery hero downloaded everything from the CDC’s website (that’s 98 GIGABYTES of health info!) and uploaded it to the Internet Archive on Jan 28th. Think of it like making a backup copy of your phone before it breaks!
Why Should You Care?
- This is YOUR health data - stuff about vaccines, diseases, and public health that your tax dollars paid for! 🏥
- Once this info is gone from CDC’s website, it could be really hard for your doctor to get important updates
- Researchers need this to keep studying ways to keep Americans healthy 💪
What’s Next?
Smart folks at places like Harvard are making sure this data stays safe by keeping copies. It’s like having multiple backups of your family photos - can’t be too careful!
Remember folks: Knowledge is power, and someone just made sure we didn’t lose a whole bunch of it! 🎯
#SaveTheData #PublicHealth #AmericanRight2Know
Source: Internet Archive upload by anonymous user on Jan 28, 2025 Post by Ed Summers (@edsu@social.coop) - Feb 3, 2025
Speedrunning the NEET questline with 100% completion
Oh look, another tech giant treating open knowledge initiatives like their personal data buffet. Let me translate this corporate nonsense for you:
Meta: “We need training data for our AI!” Also Meta: Let’s leech 81.7TB from a community project without contributing anything back.
The absolute audacity of downloading terabytes through torrents while their employees were internally admitting it was “legally problematic”. And the best part? They couldn’t even be bothered to seed properly - just grab and go, classic corporate behavior.
Remember when companies actually contributed to open source instead of just parasitically consuming it? But no, they’d rather burden volunteer-run projects with massive bandwidth costs while their lawyers probably bill more per hour than these projects’ entire monthly budget.
Pro tip Meta: If you’re going to pilfer knowledge from the commons, at least seed back properly. Your “move fast and break things” motto isn’t supposed to apply to community archives.