Arthritic May Cry

I'm Atuumus and this is my DMC sideblog. Be prepared for memes and shenanigans; just don't expect consistent timing.

[therapatical]

so one of the largest open source data communities on the internet, data.world, got bought out by a company called ServiceNow, who has decided to fucking delete all of it by July 11th. they've given users barely any notice, no emails, just a fucking banner at the top and a blog post from June that gives barely a month to download your data before they fucking delete it all.

a bunch of archives of incredibly important government datasets like maternal mortality statistics are about to be deleted forever. in a regime where they're known to fudge numbers, we can't trust a lot of the data coming from them to not be altered. open source backups like those found on data.world are vital to being able to verify that the data coming from our government is still intact and not altered. and they're about to delete all of it.

i don't know if we need to start a petition or what. nobody seems to fucking care. there are millions of users on data.world and yet nobody is raising the alarm bells and it makes me feel like I'm going insane. somebody needs to do something. i don't know what to do. it feels like more and more of this world is being destroyed and dismantled. it's not only US centric data, either! it's all sorts of countries from around the world! and they're about to fucking delete everything.

the only things that won't be deleted are private companies who happen to use the paid version of their platform (which isn't accessible data to the open source community; some people have just been using their service to host their own data on privately)

and the kicker? this announcement was made... via an AI generated blog post. so not even any sort of human touch. just a generic, soulless announcement made by a soulless human about to take a wrecking ball to one of the more important websites that exists on the internet.

an example of some of the things that will be deleted on July 11th:

[irreverentworm]

Have you posted this to r/datahoarder? They would probably be most prepared for preservation efforts on such a short time frame

[therapatical]

I haven't, I don't really have a reddit anymore. if somebody else would be willing to do that, that would be great. I'm pretty sure it only lets you post with a certain amount of karma now which is annoying

[elodieunderglass]

It looks like this has gotten onto Reddit and people are saving the data - but I can imagine researchers who uploaded assets won’t know this, so hopefully can reach some.

[elodieunderglass]

Related to my previous tags

https://www.re3data.org

There are over 3500 respectable data repositories on one respectable global registry; to a researcher there’s no point in data existing if not findable; if you’re trying to find a new home for your dataset, start there

Home | re3data.org

[delicatelydisastrous]

I’ve been emailing folks at my university about this today, and no one that I have talked to has been previously aware that this is happening.

Here are some of the scripts I’m using to email University Research Librarians and department chairs/assistant and associate deans who I know oversee faculty who use resources from data.world for their lessons:

Email for a Research Librarian: To find a research librarian try running an internet search like: “[College Name] Library Staff Directory” and see who may be a good fit.

Subject: Data.world public archive private purchase and deletion

Hi [Research Librarian or Data Preservation Specialist],

I recently ran into news that data.world has been purchased by ServiceNow, and that ServiceNow is ending public access to these archives July 11th. This is a very large public data archive that I personally used in my undergraduate work several years ago. I don't know much about digital preservation, or how it works at [College Name], but I thought it might be worthwhile to try reaching out.

I wanted to let someone in Libraries know in case current [College Name] students are using data in this archive for their research and need to be notified to save the data elsewhere, and to see if there is anything that [College Name] can do to help with greater preservation efforts.

The archive can be accessed here for now. A login is required, but it is free to set up.

https://data.world/_all/w/datasets

Here is a screenshot with the announcement of the closure of the site. Site users were not notified that access will be ending and would have to be looking at the page regularly to know that access will be terminated.

Please let anyone know who may need to use the site (or who would be interested in trying to preserve it).

Thanks,

[Your Name]

[Your Job/College Affiliation]

[Your Contact Information]

If you know a current department or school within a college that is using data.world archives, this is a template that I am using to contact department chairs or assistant/associate deans of research within specific schools.

Subject: Loss of public data.world access 7/11/26

Hi [Dr. Last Name]

I recently learned that the public data archive data.world has been purchased by ServiceNow and that they are closing public access 7/11/26. [Sentence about how the data is or was used by the department/school you are contacting].

I wanted to make sure this was on your radar in case any students are doing research with this data and need to act quickly to retrieve the data sources they need for their work, similarly for faculty using this data in their research or teaching.

The archive can be accessed here for now. A login is required, but it is free to set up.

https://data.world/_all/w/datasets

Here is a screenshot with the announcement of the closure of the site. Site users were not notified that access will be ending and would have to be looking at the page regularly to know that access will be terminated.

Please let anyone know who may need to use the site (or who would be interested in trying to preserve it).

Thanks,

[Your Name]

[Your Job/College Affiliation]

[Your Contact]

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you so much for providing this resource ❤️

[un-gato-muy-picante]

I love when antis out themselves like,

"Just saw spardacest on my feed, day ruined"

It saves me the time and stress of getting harassed by you later

P.s. Bitch, block the tag. Why you lookin'? If your whole ass day is so easily ruined by a fictional ship then you must love being miserable. Have the day you deserve

On the flip side, my day was just made better after blocking your triflin' ass 💜

[highball66]

Having visions of a DMC4 AU where Dante spends like another week hanging around Fortuna after the events of the game-- and its NOT because of Nero ok? Its not because he found out Nero is his nephew, totally definitely not. He just needs to uh... make sure the lingering demons get swept up. Its totally definitely not because he's watching the kid and he feels a very complicated swirl of guilt & stress & intense longing for his family. He totally definitely doesn't care that Vergil is dead & now there's this kid that's the only thing Vergil left behind & also Dante's only family now...

Would it be kinda OOC? probably. But its also mostly for my own amusement cuz I think it would be awkward af-- Dante wouldn't actually *tell* Nero why he wants to """adopt""" him cuz that would mean talking about his Emotions, but he (selfishly, or at least that's how he sees it) wants to be there for Nero. Meanwhile Nero just assumes Dante is his dad & they never talk about it at all-- Nero's afraid if he asks that he'll loss his relationship with Dante, Dante doesn't tell Nero because he doesn't want to talk about it. Just an emotionally constipated guy who can barely take care of himself doing his best to simultaneously raise his nephew but also keep the kid at an emotional arm's length.

[birdplushie]

"it's not that deep" START DIGGING!!

[magn-animously]

DIG

[14-opossums-in-a-trenchcoat]

DIG

[buriedunderyourmum]

DIG

[hannisconfused]

DIG

[kitsunesakii]

DIG

[yourlocalfandomfriendo]

DIG

[apple-notplural]

DIG

[vivitur-moritur]

DIG

[spacecat24-7]

DIG

[chub-froggy]

DIG

[thatghostthateatspeople]

DIG

[krowbreaker]

DIG

[spid-the-spider]

DIG

[annabelle--cane]

DIG

[yellow-faerie]

DIG

[vampiraptor]

[philosopherking1887]

OOPS TOO DEEP

[breaks-hetheon]

CLIMB

[artist-of-obsessions]

CLIMB

[fablegate]

CLIMB

[marzibird]

CLIMB

[the-luckyrabbit]

CLIMB

[staarbles]

CLIMB

[modmad]

[sebwritesstories]

[storytellering]

Trust from parent to child, you'll hold my beating heart in your hands and won't crush it

[volera-zdl]

Brothers

[dumbassalex]

I think DMC5 is 30x funnier when you watch all of V's scenes and interractions with the fact he's Vergil at the forefront of your mind. His little smirks and chuckles, him trying to act all cool and mysterious and everyone thinking he's a weirdo, that fuckass sense of humor through his book, trying to act all cocky and superior and it failing. The fact he's willingly running around in that goth get up he stole off a guy, accessories included.

I think we need to infuse more of V's mannerisms and DNA into Vergil, specificaly post-DMC5.

[shootyrefutey]

trish!!!!

[duvewing]

[kurulover]

I hate that when you’re stressed enough your body just starts falling apart. I think it should realize you’re already stressed and don’t need that and start functioning better actually

[kurulover]

[wolfmanwritings]

Devil May Cry

[reistkult]

Mom and dad👐

[spooknik-wolf]

[kurr0n]

betrayal 🗡️

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[higanyan]

see the mirror, you’ll see a fool

[hejee]

late night accidental meeting

[sinn0hh]