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Commerce Department

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Commerce Department

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Commerce Department is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 14, 2025 and February 16, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “From the Commerce Department :”; “Ted Cruz and the Commerce Department had previously identified as woke”. It most often appears alongside Ted Cruz, 2024 contest, 2025.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: February 14, 2025
  • Last seen: February 16, 2025

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Only About 40% Of The Cruz "Woke Science" Database Is Woke Science
February 14, 2025 · Original source
From the Commerce Department:
Inline links: the Commerce Department
I saw many scientists complain that the projects from their universities that made Cruz’s list were unrelated to wokeness. This seemed like a surprising failure mode, so I decided to investigate. The Commerce Department provided a link to their database, so I downloaded it, chose a random 100 grants, read the abstracts, and rated them either woke, not woke, or borderline.
Inline links: complain
Open Thread 369
February 16, 2025 · Original source
3: Correction to the Cruz woke science article: I conjectured that unrelated science grants contained a sentence about women and minorities to please the Biden administration, but even that was granting the Trump narrative too much. Commenters pointed out that grants being judged on the “broader impact criteria” - a seven pronged list including outreach and benefit to women/minorities - actually dates back to 1980 and neither Biden nor the current round of wokeness was involved. And not a correction, but a clarification - several people suggested that even 40% of grants being “woke” was bad. The article didn’t intend to claim that 40% of NSF grants were woke - only 40% of the NSF grants that Ted Cruz and the Commerce Department had previously identified as woke. Those in turn are about 5% of all grants, so (assuming Cruz didn’t have false negatives) only about 2% of total grants were woke.
Inline links: the Cruz woke science article, actually dates back to 1980