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QueerDuck

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4. Maybe he ought to have been archiving it himself... if it actually meant so much to him.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed May 20, 2026, 08:09 AM

15 hrs ago

I think, and I'm just guessing, that the "snub" hurts his pride worse than any actual emotional loss of the data itself being unceremoniously discarded and deleted.

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'So Much Hard Work Erased': Nate Silver Vents Disney Told Him to 'Get Lost' Before Deleting FiveThirtyEight's Archive [View all] BumRushDaShow 19 hrs ago OP

Nothing completely disappears. BidenRocks 18 hrs ago #1

I hate when companies do that Polybius 18 hrs ago #2

Wayback Machine might have snaphots BumRushDaShow 18 hrs ago #3

Maybe he ought to have been archiving it himself... if it actually meant so much to him. QueerDuck 15 hrs ago #4

He wanted to make some money on it, that is the "snub" he is hurting over... displacedvermoter 15 hrs ago #5

The data likely didn't belong to him fujiyamasan 15 hrs ago #6

Not for personal use... reACTIONary 6 hrs ago #12

Would anyone actually expect Disney to not do this? fujiyamasan 15 hrs ago #7

Before he went ABC, his 538 blog run was running on the NYT starting in 2010 BumRushDaShow 12 hrs ago #8

I'm much more concerned about what might happen to Colbert's archived shows and YouTube channel. highplainsdem 12 hrs ago #9

Why didn't Silver back it all up? Martin68 11 hrs ago #10

538 turned out to be GIGO Deminpenn 11 hrs ago #11