Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings

jmsy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  the terms included a provision that if the PSF was found to have violated that anti-DEI diktat, the NSF reserved the right to claw back any previously disbursed funds

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  • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, this is one of those terrible ideas even if you thought that, in theory, you were onboard with ‘anti-DEI’.

    Out of the blue the wrong person gets randomly pissed at you and invokes the highly subjective clause and suddenly you owe them $1.5M…

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• hayvan@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think at this point it’s not about money, it’s about sending a message.

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• deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The way it’s written it’s impossible to know if you’re complying or not. They might have just said “don’t be woke” or “don’t piss us off”.

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