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   peter alvaro (palvaro@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 03:33:07 JST peter alvaro

   I’ve been thinking a lot this morning about how Sethuraman Panchanathan could have resigned his post but instead chose to be remembered thus

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     Rob (simrob@social.wub.site)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 03:32:54 JST Rob

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     • chris martens
     • Adrian Sampson
     • Alexandra Silva
     • Sam Tobin-Hochstadt

     @xanovsky @chrisamaphone @samth @adrian @palvaro that definitely means to me that the shutdown is ongoing, and has no definitive end point given an undefined and unacceptable “comprehensive review of our projects, programs and activities to be compliant with the existing executive orders” apparently being conducted.

     https://web.archive.org/web/20250130005824/https://new.nsf.gov/executive-orders

     The freeze is not merely “not over” subject to future White House action, it appears to be fully ongoing despite a court order to the contrary!

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     Alexandra Silva (xanovsky@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 03:32:55 JST Alexandra Silva

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     • chris martens
     • Adrian Sampson
     • Rob
     • Sam Tobin-Hochstadt

     @simrob @chrisamaphone @samth @adrian @palvaro panels haven’t restarted AFAIK (and I am supposed to sit in one canceled this week) and I expect it will take a while for the PMs to come out of this state of chaos :-( which will delay even further an already super slow process :-(

     Mr. Bill repeated this.
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     Rob (simrob@social.wub.site)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 03:32:56 JST Rob

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     • chris martens
     • Adrian Sampson
     • Sam Tobin-Hochstadt

     @chrisamaphone @samth @adrian @palvaro this slaps, I agree with Peter’s comment for what little it works, and also is there any evidence that panels have been restarted following the memo’s rescindance? Last I heard the NSF was directed to ignore the restraining order and stay shut down.

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     chris martens (chrisamaphone@hci.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 03:32:57 JST chris martens

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     • Adrian Sampson
     • Sam Tobin-Hochstadt

     @samth @adrian @palvaro thank you please keep me in the loop

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     Adrian Sampson (adrian@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 03:32:58 JST Adrian Sampson

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     • Sam Tobin-Hochstadt

     @samth @palvaro hell yeah. I’ll get this cleaned up and make, like, a google form or whatever tomorrow

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     Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 03:33:00 JST Sam Tobin-Hochstadt

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     • Adrian Sampson

     @adrian @palvaro Where can I sign this?

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     Adrian Sampson (adrian@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 03:33:01 JST Adrian Sampson

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     @palvaro yeah, a fuckin' change dot org charade would clearly be better than nothing

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     Adrian Sampson (adrian@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 03:33:01 JST Adrian Sampson

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     @palvaro welp, I had other things I was supposed to do today, but instead here's a draft https://gist.github.com/sampsyo/de7b95959f3a482e356998d7ed0274e2

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     peter alvaro (palvaro@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 03:33:02 JST peter alvaro

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     • Adrian Sampson

     @adrian real talk though let's consider circulating a real letter

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     Adrian Sampson (adrian@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 03:33:03 JST Adrian Sampson

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     @palvaro linked from here https://new.nsf.gov/executive-orders

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     Adrian Sampson (adrian@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 03:33:04 JST Adrian Sampson

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     @palvaro well this is going nowhere, but it was cathartic

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     peter alvaro (palvaro@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 03:33:04 JST peter alvaro

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     • Adrian Sampson

     @adrian right on where is this form

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     peter alvaro (palvaro@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 03:33:05 JST peter alvaro

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     • Adrian Sampson

     @adrian as a matter of fact, *right now* would be the perfect time to resign!

     https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/29/white-house-budget-office-spending-freeze/

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     Adrian Sampson (adrian@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 03:33:06 JST Adrian Sampson

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     @palvaro he missed the correct time to resign, but he can still resign in shame after the fact for what he did. a boy can dream