In the last week or so, #Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella announced that they were going to pull back from doing new feature work for #Windows for a bit, and focus on bug fixes and other quality-of-life improvements for users and administrators. Windows' already shaky reputation has taken a beating over the last year as it seems that every monthly rollup #patch, and many out-of-band #patches, introduce new problems at the same rate as they fix previous ones.

Is this giving you deja vu? It should. Remember a couple or three years ago, when the same guy announced that Microsoft was going to focus on security? They were in the middle of a long spell of brutal security holes found in all their products. Remember how they told their #engineers "If you have to choose between doing a feature and doing security, choose security"?

Remember how you never heard about that initiative again?

It's the same thing here. #PR garbage in service of a narrative that no, Windows' horrible security, usability, and #stability aren't actually that bad, so that MS can focus on their core competencies of buzzword promotion, stock market analyst manipulation, and monopoly abuse.

Perhaps someone in Microsoft management actually believes these refocusing efforts are genuine - but if you don't change the incentives, they won't actually take hold.

#PR #marketing #buzzword #MSWindows #SatyaNadella #security #WeveHeardOfIt #stability #crash #rollup #monopoly #MemoryHole

White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret #DomesticTerrorist List

The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its #NSPM7 list — even while answering our other queries.

by Nick Turse, December 12 2025, 2:02 p.m.

"Rebecca Ingber, a former State Department lawyer, notes that while the designated terrorist organization label as a targeting authority is 'entirely manufactured,' the administration is relying on it to summarily execute people in the boat strikes, making their application of the terrorist label on the domestic front especially concerning. 'Many of us have warned that there seems to be no legal limiting principle to the Administration’s claims of authority to use force and to kill people,' Ingber, now a law professor at Cardozo Law School in New York, told The Intercept. 'This is one of the many reasons it is so important that Congress push back on the President’s claim that he can simply label transporting drugs an armed attack on the United States and then claim the authority to summarily execute people on that basis.' "

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/12/trump-nspm-7-domestic-terrorist-executions-antifa-boat-strikes/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/Y8Zfg

#USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #DomesticTerrorists #SilencingDissent #Orwellian #MemoryHole #Authoritarianism

SOMETHING ELSE TO BOOKMARK to keep from falling down the #MemoryHole before the 2026 election:

Yes, #BobTheDestroyer demolished the East Wing w/o authorization, and you may remember he paved over the iconic #RoseGarden to look like a patio cafe at #MagaLoco.

But he ALSO destroyed "The Jackie Kennedy Garden"… which was designed by the step-mother of the guy who just (illegally) gave #PizzaTheHut $150M to pay Service Members a whopping $100 each for just one month. 🤬
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-bulldozes-top-donor-s-family-legacy-in-vulgar-white-house-demolition-250760261736

#DOJ Deletes Study Showing #DomesticTerrorists Are Most Often #RightWing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.

by Emanuel Maiberg
Sep 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM

"The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice and hosted on a DOJ website was available there at least until September 12, 2025, according to an archive of the page saved by the Wayback Machine. Jason Paladino first reported that the study was removed. 404 Media noticed the removal after it was flagged by Daniel Malmer, a PhD student studying online extremism at UNC-Chapel Hill.

" 'The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs is currently reviewing its websites and materials in accordance with recent Executive Orders and related guidance,' reads a message on the page where the study was formerly hosted. 'During this review, some pages and publications will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.' "

Read more [paid members only]:
https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/

#USPol #Fascism #TrumpIsAFascist #FashPatel #Authoritarianism #MemoryHoled #MemoryHole #404Media #SilencingDissent #Antifa #Resistance
#CharacteristicsOfFascism

@Free_Press Hashtag: #MemoryHole

@QasimRashid
> Fascists erase violent history for one main reason—to repeat that history

This is why the 'right to archive' trumps both copyright and the 'right to be forgotten'. If it doesn't, we're enabling fascists to use copyright and right to be forgotten trolling to push inconvenient truths down the Memory Hole.

#OrwellWasRight #MemoryHole

@Nigel_Purchase

Olivia Hebert: Muir Woods exhibit becomes first casualty of White House directive to erase #history

#MuirWoods #NPS #California #NationalParks #Censorship #tRump #Burgum #MemoryHole
https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-monument-history-erased-20781301.php

a little tool I built to fight linkrot and save our sources from the memory hole → https://sij.law/deepciter

#digitalpreservation #selfhosting #archivebox #opensource #foss #textfragments #waybackmachine #linkrot #memoryhole #legaltech #permalink #deepcite

"It's stunning to me that, at a time when we're seeing more intense hurricanes, greater rainfall extremities, more drought, more wildfires – why at that point would we ever imagine cutting the science that is key to addressing those issues, and keeping people safe?"

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250422-usa-scientists-race-to-save-climate-data-before-its-deleted-by-the-trump-administration

#antiscience
#DOGE
#musk
#memoryhole

Air Force deletes articles about pioneering female fighter pilot.
#memoryhole
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/next-with-kyle-clark/air-force-remove-articles-about-first-female-thunderbird-pilot-dei/73-436b25e3-7f79-4de3-989a-4384b5c58b04

When a fact contradicts the will of fascists and their despotic leaders, that fact is simply deleted, rewritten, or covered up, and there are numerous examples of the fascist US despot Donald Trump doing precisely this. I present here one such example: a research paper showing evidence that immigrants have lower crime rates than the baseline non-immigrant population. This contradicts the Despot’s will that most crime is caused by illegal immigrants, and so the research is erased.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250121225514/https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-offending-rate-lower-us-born-citizen-rate

The fascist bloc of the US have been doing this for many decades now, it is just that since the despot seized absolute power a few months ago, the fascists have been more unabashedly rewriting history than they have ever before in my lifetime.

EDIT: I should say, this is the entire reason why the fascist despot defunded the NOAA organization. NOAA, in the natural course of doing their jobs predicting the weather, kept on discovering too much hard evidence that climate collapse is a real thing. Since the will of the despot is that climate collapse is false, the despot simply covers up the facts by firing the scientists who predict the weather.

#uspol #Trump #fascism #despotism #orwellian #MemoryHole #RevisionistHistory #NOAA #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

The National Park Service has been editing history. Guess what’s being sent down the memory hole?

Try 2, this time with gift link:
https://wapo.st/44exouB

Edited: OR, if you’d prefer to avoid logging in with the Post, just read along with the photos or the alt-text below. Believe me, it’s worth it. #MemoryHole #BlackHistory #DEI

I just read that nps.gov erased Harriet Tubman from a page about the Underground Railroad. I want not only to #archive copies of websites, but to use #cryptography to prove that this was the content fetchable from the real page at a date in the past. #provenance Why aren't there FAQs about how to do this already? I've just seen sciop.net which appears to be using both #BitTorrent and #RDF to advantage; and #ArchiveTeam appears to be doing distributed fetching at scale with their ArchiveWarrior thingy. But how should anyone trust that I don't tamper with the pages I fetch and archive? Or what if I just want free backups, so I pass off my photo archive as part of #memoryhole 'd DEI policies? And where's #ipfs or #dat or #hypercore ?

#Jewish #ColumbiaUniversityStudents Chain Themselves to #ColumbiaUniversity Fence to Protest #Khalil Detention

"As Jewish students, we grew up learning about the rise of #fascism, learning about how important it is to stand up when you see #injustice in the world," said one #protester.

by Julia Conley, Apr 02, 2025

"'We are here in protest of that to demand that the university tell us which trustees, which members of the university administration, are responsible for this so we can demand immediate consequences for them and hold them accountable for what they've done to our peer,' said the undergraduate student.

"Shea added that Jewish students were leading the protest because 'the attacks on our international students, on students of color, have been so fierce, so dangerous, so disproportionate that we are the only students who can be here right now taking this risk.'"

https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-student-protests
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #AlirezaDoroudi #RumeysaOzturk #YunseoChung #KseniyaPetrova #Disappeared #Orwellian #MemoryHole #CharacteristicsOfFascism #ICE
#JewishVoicesForPeace

@brewsterkahle From the article on Canadians saving US government data, "Some commenters on social media liken the disappearing data to book burning in the 1930s." It could also be called a memory hole (from the book 1984).

#memoryhole #1984isnow #censorship #fascism #maga

@GossiTheDog #memoryhole

What's at stake when the government erases the historical record, and tells its people that the things they saw didn't happen?

' [This] push to whitewash recent history carries a disconcerting echo of countless autocratic regimes, [such as] the Chinese Communist Party’s memory-holing of the Tiananmen Square massacre ... It comes at the same time as the administration is also seeking to whitewash the teaching of American history ... '

#Jan6th #history #MemoryHole

https://www.propublica.org/article/january-6-erasure-doj-database-trump-history

Among the other things the @internetarchive does: make archives of government websites at the end of each presidential term.

#internetarchive #memoryhole

https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/end-of-term-web-archive/

With everything that's going on with the #MemoryHole, I suggest everyone archive any articles of interest from US government websites -- while you still can! I found this gem -- and archived it!

Designing Tools and Networks to Support #Wabanaki Adaptive Capacity for #ClimateChange

By Climate Adaptation Science Centers December 31, 2020

"Wabanaki Tribal Nations (#Maliseet, #Micmac, #Passamaquoddy, and #Penobscot) and other Tribal Nations in the #NortheastCASC region will face a disproportionate impact from climate change. These impacts will affect resources such as forestry products, fish, game, wild crops, and water that are important to tribal economies and well-being. To combat this, varying levels of tribal community preparedness and the ability to build effective adaptive capacity to extreme events will be crucial for future resiliency efforts. Furthermore, there is a pressing need to work with partners who have a variety of backgrounds to plan, strategize, build and implement resiliency initiatives in tribal communities and identify innovative ways that integrate local knowledge, technology, and science in a manner that traditional and cultural identities are tied.

"Using Indigenous Research Methods, Native American Programs at the University of Maine will align research questions, data collection methods, outputs, and research protocols with Wabanaki people, knowledge, and values to build a regional tribal network for climate change adaptation and create a Wabanaki Climate Adaptation and Adaptive Management Workbook. This project will work with and inform a Regional Climate Change Tribal Network to identify research and output goals and objectives using indigenous values and science related to both the network building and the Workbook.

"The Regional Network will consist of a diverse group of collaborators representing tribal harvesters, tribal environmental staff, intertribal and regional government entities, academic staff and tribal scholars from the University of Maine, and tribal elders and language speakers from each community to integrate a framework that will include indigenous and traditional knowledge, culture, language and history into the adaptation planning process. The primary output of this work, a Climate Adaptation and Adaptive Management Workbook, will identify examples of culturally appropriate adaptative management in responding to climate change, and identify tools for future Wabanaki Tribal leaders and communities to respond to future climate changes."

https://www.usgs.gov/programs/climate-adaptation-science-centers/science/designing-tools-and-networks-support-wabanaki

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/ssSKw
#SolarPunkSunday #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #TEK #ClimateChange #WabanakiConfederacy #ClimateChangeAdaptation #TIK #TraditionalIndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousPeoplesDay