Turns Out The DOGE Bros Who Killed Humanities Grants Are Kinda Sensitive About It

Trump admin has viral DOGE videos taken down. Archivists have already re-uploaded them.

Last week, viral videos of two former staffers of the Elon Musk-led government agency DOGE went viral. The videos offered a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how DOGE was run and how cuts to federal funding were determined.On Friday, a federal judge ordered the videos be removed after a complaint from the Trump administration.However, much to the chagrin of the U.S. government, internet archivists and forums like Reddit's r/datahoarders have alrea…

Turns Out The DOGE Bros Who Killed Humanities Grants Are Kinda Sensitive About It

Much of last week I had been working on a different article than the one this became. The American Historical Association, the Modern Language Association, and the American Council of Learned Societies — all plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities over DOGE's mass grant cancellations — had uploaded the full…

The DOGE Files: How to use AI as an academic weapon for dummies.

Who would you put in charge of millions of dollars of research and jobs in the humanities field? Would you choose two tech bros in their twenties, with no background in government, using ChatGPT as a weapon?  That is what Elon Musk thought would be a good choice when he selected people for his “Department of Government Efficiency.” In depositions part of a lawsuit to restore grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, DOGE staffers Na…

DOGE Canceled Museum Grant for HVAC Systems After ChatGPT Flagged It As DEI

Earlier this month, a group of plaintiffs filed a series of lawsuits against the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) alleging that employees of the government agency used ChatGPT to decide which National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants should be canceled. The AI chatbot was used to determine whether the grants’ requests were related to diversity, equity, […]

DOGE Staffers Allegedly Cut LGBTQIA+ Grants With ChatGPT Despite Not Understanding DEI

Two former staffers of the now-defunct Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Justin Fox and Nathan Cavanaugh, have testified under oath that they allegedly used the AI chatbot ChatGPT to review and cancel federal grants at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the US government body that distributes hundreds of millions of dollars annually to […]

Trump NEH Cancels $120K in LGBTQ, Diversity Grants

The Trump administration terminated two taxpayer-funded humanities grants worth a combined $120,000, one for a book about LGBTQ cartoonists, the other for a study of "multiethnic graphic literature." The grants were awarded in the final weeks of the Biden presidency and killed months later under new leadership at the National Endowment for the Humanities. The move is small in dollar terms. It is enormous in signal. The NEH is telling the academi…