Nostr notes by Henrik Schönemann

The slides of my talk at #WHY2025 "Safeguarding Research ...

2025-08-09T22:31:44Z

The slides of my talk at #WHY2025 "Safeguarding Research & Culture: Save public data from the digital bookburnings!" are now online:
https://hu.berlin/SRC-WHY2025

Recording should be available in the coming days.

More context: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/

#SafeguardingResearch #SciOp Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt)

For everyone in the #US and able to visit some national parks in ...

2025-07-03T15:43:59Z

For everyone in the #US and able to visit some national parks in the coming days/weeks:
We need your help in preserving history: #SaveOurSigns

https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/114790061502916768

Hi @npub1uc0…cpgf We (@npub1ua3…6srt) have been working on ...

2025-07-01T10:54:21Z

Hi histodons group (npub1uc0…cpgf)
We (Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt)) have been working on creating a backup of Chronicling America.
(1 large pull + many smaller ones)
https://sciop.net/datasets/chronicling-america

Do you know of any similar activities?
Would be great to combine efforts :)

Boosts ✅
#SafeguardingResearch #histodons

there will be a wiki with the same + additional information in ...

2025-06-20T16:26:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…e0qz
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there will be a wiki with the same + additional information in the next weeks

Not sure about the current PDF...

It's launched: "The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A ...

2025-06-20T06:33:49Z

It's launched:
"The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding"

From the abstract:
"A call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to scholars navigating the growing global trend of democratic backsliding and autocratization, in particular in the U.S."

I'm glad I could contribute a bit.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15510834
or: https://sks.to/autocracy

Hearing Peter Thiel described as traditional conservative / ...

2025-06-13T08:38:58Z

Hearing Peter Thiel described as traditional conservative / arch-conservative at the keynote of #PubConf2025
(while mentioning his stances against democracy, women's rights, etc.):

Historian here, you can call him a fascist.

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-reactionary-right-mobilizes (via [@tzimmer_history](https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history ))

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/peter-thiel-maga-conspiracism/681310/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/11/how-dangerous-is-peter-thiel/

Asking for a friend: Does someone have recent experience with ...

2025-06-12T06:07:01Z

Asking for a friend:
Does someone have recent experience with uni-assist?
https://www.uni-assist.de/en/

AcademicChatter group (npub1vuz…esa4)

Boosts appreciated <3

Are here people working in/with Cultural Heritage (#GLAM) in ...

2025-05-28T08:39:14Z

Are here people working in/with Cultural Heritage (#GLAM) in #Hungary ?
Or know people who know people? :)

Feel free to ping me here, via matrix @schoeneh:matrix.org, or via Signal (on request)

For @npub1ua3…6srt I'm currently looking for #autism ...

2025-05-27T21:26:43Z

For Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt) I'm currently looking for #autism related public material (US based).

Material that should be safeguarded & accessible, no matter what #RFKjr does.

If you know of any, please reply here.
Best would be a link + short explanation what it is/entails + why you consider it important.

🔁☑️
#SafeguardingResearch

best of luck! 🤞

2025-05-27T10:03:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…92dm
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best of luck! 🤞

Heya lovely people 👋 For #SciOp we (@npub1ua3…6srt) are ...

2025-05-19T06:25:59Z

Heya lovely people 👋
For #SciOp we (Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt)) are looking for dev contributions. There are a couple of bite-/morsel-sized tasks, e.g.:
- Make Publisher independent table https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop/issues/341
- Improve SearchableMixin to support full text search on joined items https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop/issues/182
- and more: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop/projects/17078

The stack is #python (fastapi) + htmx, #sqlite (sqlmodel), "low-fi, standards-compliant html and almost no js"

Be a part of #SafeguardingResearch, join us!

If you are a citizen of the EU and have not signed this petition ...

2025-05-15T16:47:09Z

If you are a citizen of the EU and have not signed this petition - I urge you to do so ✊
(and share this also to your non-fedi people)
https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/114501692323303297

For everyone in the #USA who can contact a member of congress: ...

2025-05-12T16:40:17Z

For everyone in the #USA who can contact a member of congress:

Please contact your member immediately and remind them that Library of Congress is a legislative branch agency and the president does not have authority over it.

Update: We have reports that DOGE has tried to enter the copyright office.

This may be related:
https://copyrightlately.com/copyright-office-ai-report/
already safeguarded at: https://sciop.net/datasets/copyright-gov-ai-part3-preprint

#LibraryOfCongress #DOGE

Share this widely, please

Are there people here who rely directly on US-data that is being ...

2025-04-25T09:38:39Z

Are there people here who rely directly on US-data that is being safeguarded either by Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt) or one of the other projects?

If yes, feel free to reply here (or via Signal, upon request) - we would love to hear your story/stories!

#SafeguardingResearch
🔄✅

A mention of @npub1ua3…6srt in the BBC 🥳 "Multiple ...

2025-04-23T19:11:16Z

A mention of Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt) in the BBC 🥳
"Multiple organisations including the Internet Archive, a non-profit, Safeguarding Research and Culture, and the Data Rescue Project, are now engaged in activities alongside the OEDP to rescue this data from oblivion."

Featuring quotes from our own ww (npub1gaz…dvyp)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250422-usa-scientists-race-to-save-climate-data-before-its-deleted-by-the-trump-administration

A collaboration between @npub13kv…u2p7 and @npub1ua3…6srt: a ...

2025-04-19T22:17:01Z

A collaboration between Webrecorder (npub13kv…u2p7) and Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt): a complete archive of covid.gov from April 11th 2025 (before the recent change)
https://app.browsertrix.com/explore/usgov-archive/collections/covid-gov

The whole data to download/seed: https://sciop.net/uploads/d216c004169fd0edba67ef248aff477778cba00ff68bd916525802dd6e99b087

#Covid #SafeguardingResearch

Currently crying some tears of joy and of released ...

2025-04-18T07:34:35Z

Currently crying some tears of joy and of released pressure/stress:
One of the large repositories in Germany started safeguarding datasets from #NOAA, officially.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gloeckner_pangaea-is-actively-working-to-rescue-data-activity-7318581859896975360-YYht

https://pangaea.de/

This is the culmination of weeks of work 💖
#SafeguardingResearch

Es bewegt sich hier auch etwas; auch wenn "hunderte ...

2025-04-17T09:30:16Z

Es bewegt sich hier auch etwas; auch wenn "hunderte Terabytes" schon sehr naiv ist.
(Es geht um mehrere hundert Petabytes)

Umweltdaten in Gefahr - Deutsche Forscher retten US-Datenbestände

Wegen der Umstrukturierungen in US-Behörden, die zentrale Plattformen für Umwelt- und Klimadaten bereitstellen, sind Datenbestände gefährdet. Deutsche Einrichtungen engagieren sich für ihre Rettung
https://ard.social/@tagesschau/114352419181608789
#SafeguardingResearch

Meine Gedanken dazu:
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114352634039062153

"While waiting for possible international initiatives, ...

2025-04-16T14:02:53Z

"While waiting for possible international initiatives, volunteers are acting to save what can be by archiving websites and not-too-large databases. [...] a data rescue group, Safeguarding Research and Culture. [...]"

We're getting coverage :)

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/science/article/2025/04/15/how-trump-s-anti-science-policies-are-impacting-french-research_6740263_10.html
#SafeguardingResearch

👋 re #PubMed: There have been (very valid) concerns about ...

2025-04-13T12:39:56Z

👋 re #PubMed:
There have been (very valid) concerns about PubMed since the beginning, we did always point people to Europe PMC.

The question now is, do you know of things in PubMed, but not already in Europe PMC?
If so, please add them here:
https://forum.safeguar.de/t/pubmed-europe-pmc/680

It got lost in the many urgent things, but today I'm at the ...

2025-04-10T09:10:10Z

It got lost in the many urgent things, but today I'm at the conference:
"Who Owns Free Knowledge? Examining Power, Platformization, and the Promise of the Commons" from [@Weizenbaum_Institut](https://social.bund.de/@Weizenbaum_Institut ) and Wikimedia Deutschland (npub1fjw…k7cv)
https://www.wikimedia.de/veranstaltungen/konferenz-who-owns-free-knowledge/

I'll be giving a session on Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt) #SafeguardResearch and https://sciop.net later this afternoon at the barcamp (only in person): https://openbiblio.social/@tibosl/114303824386030733

#WhoOwnsFreeKnowledge

Are there any #Cornell or #Northwestern folks here? If yes, would ...

2025-04-09T06:05:11Z

Are there any #Cornell or #Northwestern folks here?
If yes, would you DM me?

It's related to #SafeguardingResearch
cc Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt)

#KRITIS #AWS #SafeguardingResearch ...

2025-04-05T02:05:42Z

#KRITIS #AWS #SafeguardingResearch

We (@npub1ua3…6srt) need urgent help with archiving websites ...

2025-04-03T21:02:58Z

We (Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt)) need urgent help with archiving websites & datasets from NOAA:
https://forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-services-urgent/569

If you can contribute, please consider doing so.

#NOAA #SafeguardingResearch #Data #Weather

QGIS works well, Firefox & Chromium as well as many smaller ...

2025-03-31T07:22:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…trz9
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QGIS works well, Firefox & Chromium as well as many smaller browsers :)

For @npub1ua3…6srt we've been using browsertrix (running ...

2025-03-29T07:11:01Z

For Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt) we've been using browsertrix (running locally) a lot - can 100% recommend!
Webrecorder (npub13kv…u2p7)
https://digipres.club/@webrecorder/114243792637000712
#SafeguardingResearch

Something big got dropped into my inbox today, it is great news! ...

2025-03-28T15:39:03Z

Something big got dropped into my inbox today, it is great news! 🥳
(Can't share much right now.)

But we need *your* help with:
What is the importance of the endangered data for Germany and for the international community (“what would happen if the data were no longer available?”)

We would love to receive as many testimonials as possible, from as many perspectives as possible, to our inbox: contact@safeguar.de | https://tickets.safeguar.de/submit
(please include name & affiliation)

#SafeguardingResearch

I'm looking for work opportunities for a good friend from ...

2025-03-27T12:22:56Z

I'm looking for work opportunities for a good friend from (& in) the USA, who got fired very recently because of the ongoing budget cuts.

She is majoring in computer engineering, though also has a variety of experience in software dev, cybersecurity, hardware security, embedded reverse engineering, and a couple other things.
She has been working in those fields for >4 years.

Best would be remote work, starting this summer.
(I don't have more information right now)

#GetFediHired

got a reply from a US colleague: "SLA sold its assets long ...

2025-03-27T00:43:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…ueqy
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got a reply from a US colleague:
"SLA sold its assets long ago and had little membership left. With most corporate libraries having downsized if not closed in the last 20 years, survival was tough. They also refused to merge with ALA."

Again in Dutch media :D (featuring @npub15f7…m7wr, ...

2025-03-25T18:43:33Z

Again in Dutch media :D
(featuring Framework :fedora: :ubuntu: (npub15f7…m7wr), [@PGExplaining](https://mastodon.art/@PGExplaining ) & #Swordfish)

"De angst is dat data verloren zullen gaan"
("The fear is that data will be lost"

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/03/25/de-angst-is-dat-data-verloren-zullen-gaan-a4887588

#SafeguardingResearch cc Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt)

Leningrad, 1942, under siege & starving: "At Vavilov’s ...

2025-03-25T07:07:10Z

Leningrad, 1942, under siege & starving:

"At Vavilov’s institute, scientists barricaded themselves to protect the seed bank from the rats and the Nazis."
"In what may be the most moving sacrifice in the history of science, nine scientists died of starvation, guarding a cornucopia of nuts, beans, rice, and grains."

"The vault survived unharmed, holding the seeds of life."

https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/03/08/nikolai-vavilov/

In other news:
"Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/opinion/doge-elon-musk-usda-crops.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

I'm looking for someone working at the NIST Atomic ...

2025-03-24T14:31:53Z

I'm looking for someone working at the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group
https://www.nist.gov/pml/quantum-measurement/atomic-spectroscopy

It's related to #SafeguardingResearch

Not some email or phone number, but a personal contact.

Maybe someone here know someone?
Feel free to either reply here or write to contact@safeguar.de

cc Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt)

(Please boost)

Question re #SafeguardingResearch We encounter 'web ...

2025-03-22T10:54:31Z

Question re #SafeguardingResearch
We encounter 'web applications' that our current method of archiving don't preserve.
Things like https://imls.gov/imls-dashboard
(we already got the raw data & the website archived)

We are mostly using https://github.com/openzim/zimit to create WARC files and combining them into a single ZIM.
(This uses the browsertrix crawler)

Any ideas on how to archive not just the content, but also the functionality of such applications?
#DigiPres #Web #Archiving

Seems like the Department of Education will be next. We collected ...

2025-03-20T07:10:00Z

Seems like the Department of Education will be next.
We collected what we already did safeguard in this thread:
https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/t/collection-department-of-education
We got:
- data.ed.gov
- ocrdata.ed.gov
- nces.ed.gov
- eric.ed.gov
- imls.gov

Do you know of anything else from the DoE that needs safeguarding?
Please ping us!

cc Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt)
#SafeguardingResearch #DoE #Education

For @npub1ua3…6srt we're looking for some imagery to be ...

2025-03-16T10:25:58Z

For Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt) we're looking for some imagery to be used on our landing page (nearly finished).

Feel free to post/link to images you associate with #SafeguardingResearch & our mission:
https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/about

Especially useful:
pretty flat and uniform in color, dark and balanced with low contrast

(the source needs to be attributed)

A friend is asking for recommendations for #Zotero video ...

2025-03-14T11:56:51Z

A friend is asking for recommendations for #Zotero video tutorials (to self-learn etc.).

Do you have favorites?
(English or German)

Do you know of the kittens? If not: https://www.chatons.org/en/ ...

2025-03-10T13:29:14Z

Do you know of the kittens?

If not: https://www.chatons.org/en/
"Collective of Hosters Alternative, Transparent, Open, Neutral and Solidarity. This collective aims to bring together structures offering free, ethical and decentralised online services in order to allow users to quickly find alternatives that respect their data and privacy to the services offered by GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft)."

Also read their manifesto: https://www.chatons.org/en/manifeste

#UnplugTrump #Chatons

Do I know people working at or closely with #NIST? Context is ...

2025-03-09T11:53:11Z

Do I know people working at or closely with #NIST?

Context is Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt).

You can ping me here, or:
- DeltaChat (Delta Chat (npub17gp…nrxn)): https://i.delta.chat/#C4AF870B289E4A9E4F6F8A115414567F5FFDEDB2&a=lavaeolus%40mehl.cloud&n=&i=jeIuUpp1N4mgObIZPYvt8Nzj&s=7oT_k5QB1I0vVD9KEiFs2emk
- Matrix: @schoeneh:matrix.org
- Signal: upon request via DM

Heya 👋 We from @npub1ua3…6srt are looking for volunteers to ...

2025-03-06T11:57:00Z

Heya 👋
We from Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt) are looking for volunteers to work on our landing page (self-hosted ghost). We already got a basic page up, but it can use some improvement.

If you want to help/support (in any way), feel free to ping us :)

"Early one morning another man and I had gone out to snipe at ...

2025-03-02T20:59:53Z

"Early one morning another man and I had gone out to snipe at the Fascists in the trenches outside Huesca.
[...]
One of the effects of safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions seem somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude. But in Spain in 1936 we were not living in a normal time. It was a time when generous feelings and gestures were easier than they ordinarily are."
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/looking-back-on-the-spanish-war/

it's from Tucson ...

2025-03-02T19:08:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…zxqn
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it's from Tucson
https://x.com/bgboydphoto/status/1895929686288630225

PSA: Europe PubMed Central exists. "Europe PMC provides ...

2025-03-01T23:19:08Z

PSA: Europe PubMed Central exists.

"Europe PMC provides comprehensive access to life sciences literature from trusted sources. It's available to anyone, anywhere for free. With Europe PMC you can search and read 45.6 million publications [10.5 full texts], prereprints and other documents enriched with links to supporting data, reviews, protocols, and other relevant resources."
https://europepmc.org/

Scope: https://europepmc.org/Help#sources

Also Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt) got the database of #PubMed

Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive ...

2025-02-23T18:21:20Z

Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dYWe1c3OyU
#NowPlaying

As part of @npub15um…s7a7's rule: Have a video of a very ...

2025-02-23T01:14:25Z

As part of hope (npub15um…s7a7)'s rule:

Have a video of a very cute octopus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxuBwfNp2wk

The only thing we can do: Building communities with mutual aid ...

2025-02-23T00:53:38Z

The only thing we can do:
Building communities with mutual aid & standing to fight.

(yes, those are one thing, one doesn't exist without the other)

After a lot of work behind the scenes, the mission-statement of ...

2025-02-18T14:32:24Z

After a lot of work behind the scenes, the mission-statement of Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt) is finally public:
https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/114025352519979173

#IDCC25 #DigitalHumanities #DigitalPreservation #SafeguardingResearch

So, that happened: 8pm news on Dutch national TV 🤯 (I got ...

2025-02-16T22:52:12Z

So, that happened: 8pm news on Dutch national TV 🤯

(I got permission to share the clip, as long as it's non-commercial)

#SafeguardingResearch

PSA: Now may be the first time you hear about Magnus Hirschfeld ...

2025-02-15T07:17:56Z

PSA:
Now may be the first time you hear about Magnus Hirschfeld and the Institute for Sexual Science.

Be aware of the fact that Hirschfeld was not only gay, but also Jewish.
"The Nazi Party attacked Dr. Hirschfeld for his ideas about sex, sexuality, and gender, as well as his Jewish ancestry."
"Hirschfeld: 'If Germany doesn't want me, I don't want it either.'"
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/magnus-hirschfeld-2

My point: Stuff is intersectional - be wary of every 'simple' history. And fight together ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #TransRights

This needs to be shared widely: #WhitehouseWash My ...

2025-02-13T21:23:29Z

This needs to be shared widely:

#WhitehouseWash
My change-detection just caught something big:
dei.gov got registered around one week ago - for some days it was empty.
Than a long list appeared, which quickly got password-protected; see screenshots.

It lists short bullet-points about 'wasteful' governmental spending, looks like a list to justify their actions (and what may be to come)

See for yourself:
https://archive.org/details/changedetection-dei-gov-waste-gov

Hosted by #Automattic (of #Wordpress-fame)

#DEI #US #USA

can you tell me the size of the zip?

2025-02-13T15:23:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…gnca
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can you tell me the size of the zip?

no issue, one sec

2025-02-13T15:14:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…tw8g
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no issue, one sec

You've got a question :) "I remember that downloading ...

2025-02-13T14:47:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…j7we
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You've got a question :)
"I remember that downloading from that server is painfully slow and increasing concurrency slowed down the server for others. If Evan thinks he has everything important and that his script organizes things better than the original data source, I’d say let’s pull data from him instead of directly?"

Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt)

could you add this to our forum? We welcome you (and everyone ...

2025-02-13T07:42:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…de2w
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could you add this to our forum? We welcome you (and everyone else) with open arms :)

https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/search?q=noaa

cc Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt)

nope, nicht safe. Also nicht schlecht, aber sollte nicht das ...

2025-02-08T20:14:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…kyqt
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nope, nicht safe.
Also nicht schlecht, aber sollte nicht das einzige sein

Calling #librarians and #GLAM-experts who would be up to advise ...

2025-02-08T09:36:31Z

Calling #librarians and #GLAM-experts who would be up to advise Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt):

We are designing a dataset catalogue for sharing data using torrents. It needs to be as simple as possible but no simpler. We need review of our metadata schema by an expert to make sure we haven't missed essential things.

Please ping here or via Signal (upon request via DM)

#DigitalHumanities #OpenBiblio cc Lambert Heller (npub1c4q…qrpz) Ralf Stockmann (npub13e9…qmuw) et al - please share

#alt4U cc [@sarah_ist_muede](https://troet.cafe/@sarah_ist_muede ...

2025-02-06T19:13:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…5ewv
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#alt4U

cc [@sarah_ist_muede](https://troet.cafe/@sarah_ist_muede ) Anne Wizorek (npub1gyv…a4kn)

We can't have our eyes and minds everywhere: Please ping us ...

2025-02-05T20:30:07Z

We can't have our eyes and minds everywhere:
Please ping us (Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt)) if you see publicly available things you think need safeguarding!

Either here or via:
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113921816307826784

#PSA #SafeguardingResearch #WhiteHouseWash

#artists of Mastodon: Is there anyone interested in designing a ...

2025-02-04T12:26:27Z

#artists of Mastodon:
Is there anyone interested in designing a kind of coat of arms for me?
(for money ofc)
Best would be a vector-graphic; ideas and motives I can provide.

#mastoart #commission

#artists of Mastodon: Is there anyone interested in designing a ...

2025-02-04T12:02:58Z

#artists of Mastodon:
Is there anyone interested in designing a kind of Coat of arms for me, for money ofc?
Ideas and motives I can provide.

#mastoart #commission

Calling #infosec and security-peeps: We need people to test (also ...

2025-02-04T09:40:09Z

Calling #infosec and security-peeps:
We need people to test (also trash^^) a prototype (website + back-end) we're working on & to open/submit issues.

A central index of archives, with metadata about who archived what, when, to be disseminated widely alongside torrent files.

Please contact me on Matrix or Signal:
Matrix: @schoeneh:matrix.org
Signal: upon request via DM

Please boost and share! 🚀🔁
#SafeguardingResearch Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt)

Update: I'm no longer completely fine - if you want to donate ...

2025-01-31T17:22:28Z

Update: I'm no longer completely fine - if you want to donate to me, feel free (but not pressured.

Please look at all the urgent #MutualAid-Posts as well.

I have some additional monthly expenses for all the #SafeguardingResearch & #WhiteHouseWash, if you want to chip in:
https://liberapay.com/lavaeolus/donate

It's $30/month right now:
- $30 for Pikapods (npub1kmd…znd6) (change-tracker and web-archiving
- the forum got moved to pro-bono https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/

start with Gender Studies

2025-01-31T07:36:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…72a4
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start with Gender Studies

I'm once again asking everyone who got the order to delete or ...

2025-01-31T07:36:04Z

I'm once again asking everyone who got the order to delete or change stuff on their websites etc. pp.:
Before doing so, ping us.
Either at Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt) or me
Also via matrix: @schoeneh:matrix.org

We also got a forum to organize:
https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/

And a form to report URLs for #SafeguardingResearch:
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/3/form/view/0cd8d70582250744914be0ec5e4e2ce2/

Please boost and share widely!
cc Adrian (npub1hgh…ju4s) Markus Werle (npub1hsh…2hcn)

do you know of any Open-Access Journals etc. we should safeguard?

2025-01-31T07:22:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…e35y
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do you know of any Open-Access Journals etc. we should safeguard?

👀 https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113908574379408071

2025-01-31T05:27:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…pktc
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👀 https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113908574379408071

The website "Racism and Health" from the #CDC is already ...

2025-01-28T23:28:28Z

The website "Racism and Health" from the #CDC is already gone:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250121030412/https://www.cdc.gov/minority-health/racism-health/index.html

https://www.cdc.gov/minority-health/racism-health/index.html

Update: We've got multiple people working on ...

2025-01-26T11:17:58Z

Update: We've got multiple people working on "Safeguarding Research ✊"

If you know of any publicly available resources in need of preservation, please let us know. Easy way to propose URLs to archive: https://schoeneh.eu/index.php/apps/forms/s/3W2PorFcBJpEncTTdSffBx2A
(no account/login needed, hosted by me on a server in Germany)

We set up a forum to coordinate everything, please consider joining:
https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/

Boost and share with colleagues 🚀

#DigitalPreservation #antifascistDH #antifascistArchives #ArchivelPractice

One last thing from me: Eugenics always leads to murder. This ...

2025-01-24T21:53:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…mugk
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One last thing from me:

Eugenics always leads to murder.
This thinking is much older than the Nazis, and didn't die with them.
It's alive and well - if you know how it looks, you can see it at every corner.
For instance: Phrenology got reinvented by techbros #LudditeAI

Even left/progressive/'liberal' groups are not free from it.
Be a Nestbeschmutzer, don't give it a free pass!

#SiamoTuttiAntifascisti #Alerta

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#AktionT4

Additional/Further Readings: - https://gedenkort-t4.eu/ (in ...

2025-01-24T21:20:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…ajnr
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Additional/Further Readings:
- https://gedenkort-t4.eu/ (in German, thanks Blue (npub1acr…tad7)!)
- https://remember.org/witness/wit-vic-med
- https://hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/nazi-persecution/disabled-people/
- https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2142&context=student_scholarship
- https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en/document/extermination-mentally-ill-and-handicapped-people-under-national-socialist-rule.html

- "Euthanasie im NS-Staat: Die Aktion T4" (audio feature, 1h, in German) https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/nationalsozialismus-euthanasie-im-ns-staat-die-aktion-t4 (thanks Finn Heimberg (npub103x…vxcg)!)

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"Indeed, some of the same personnel who performed well in the ...

2025-01-24T21:16:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…qdwe
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"Indeed, some of the same personnel who performed well in the #AktionT4 program went on to great ['glory'] at the extermination centers.

Given Hitler’s overarching concern for racial purity, it [was] a short step to extend the ideological justification for murdering the unfit to other categories of perceived biological enemies of the state: Jews and Roma and Sinti, homosexuals, criminals, alcoholics, and malcontents."

Source: https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash_euthanasia/

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"Aktion T4 essentially expanded the compulsory sterilization ...

2025-01-24T21:14:56Z

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"Aktion T4 essentially expanded the compulsory sterilization of those deemed “unfit” provided by the Nuremberg laws, which had been in operation since the early days of the Reich. In the six-year period between 1933 and 1939, approximately 360,000 people were sterilized."
"The methods and technologies employed in the T4 program to murder the handicapped would become a precursor to the atrocities committed in the death camps"

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#AktionT4

"The Euthanasia Program continued until the last days of ...

2025-01-24T21:14:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…psyk
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"The Euthanasia Program continued until the last days of World War II, expanding to include an ever wider range of victims, including geriatric patients, bombing victims, and foreign forced laborers."

"Historians estimate that the Euthanasia Program, in all its phases, claimed the lives of 250,000 individuals."

Source: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/euthanasia-program

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#AktionT4

"Moreover, in August 1942, German medical professionals and ...

2025-01-24T21:13:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…f5fu
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"Moreover, in August 1942, German medical professionals and healthcare workers resumed the killings, although in a more carefully concealed manner than before. More decentralized than the initial gassing phase, the renewed effort relied closely upon regional exigencies, with local authorities determining the pace of the killing."

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#AktionT4

"Private and public protests concerning the killings took ...

2025-01-24T21:12:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…hcpw
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"Private and public protests concerning the killings took place, especially from members of the German clergy."
"In light of the widespread public knowledge and the public and private protests, Hitler ordered a halt to the Euthanasia Program in late August 1941."

"Hitler's call for a halt to the T4 action did not mean an end to the "euthanasia" killing operation. Child "euthanasia" continued as before."

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#AktionT4

"Because the program was secret, T-4 planners and ...

2025-01-24T21:11:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…7gs6
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"Because the program was secret, T-4 planners and functionaries took elaborate measures to conceal its deadly designs. Even though physicians and institutional administrators falsified official records in every case to indicate that the victims died of natural causes, the "euthanasia" program quickly became an open secret.
There was widespread public knowledge of the measure. "

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#AktionT4

"Within hours of their arrival at such centers, the victims ...

2025-01-24T21:09:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…vkyc
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"Within hours of their arrival at such centers, the victims perished in gas chambers. The gas chambers, disguised as shower facilities, used pure, bottled carbon monoxide gas. T4 functionaries burned the bodies in crematoria attached to the gassing facilities. [...]
The families or guardians of the victims received such an urn, along with a death certificate and other documentation, listing a fictive cause and date of death."

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#AktionT4

"Secretly recruited 'medical experts,' ...

2025-01-24T21:08:08Z

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"Secretly recruited 'medical experts,' physicians—many of them of significant reputation—worked in teams of three to evaluate the forms. On the basis of their decisions beginning in January 1940, T4 functionaries began to remove patients selected for the "euthanasia" program from their home institutions. The patients were transported by bus or by rail to one of the central gassing installations for killing."

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#AktionT4

" T4 operatives established six gassing installations for ...

2025-01-24T21:07:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…8q67
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" T4 operatives established six gassing installations for adults as part of the 'euthanasia' action. These were:
- #Brandenburg, on the Havel River near Berlin,
- #Grafeneck, in southwestern Germany,
- #Bernburg, in Saxony,
- #Sonnenstein, also in Saxony,
- #Hartheim, near Linz on the Danube in Austria,
- #Hadamar, in Hessen

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#AktionT4

"The Führer Chancellery was compact and separate from state, ...

2025-01-24T21:06:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…flyu
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"The Führer Chancellery was compact and separate from state, government, or Nazi Party apparatuses. For these reasons, Hitler chose it to serve as the engine for the "euthanasia" campaign. The program's functionaries called their secret enterprise "T4." This code-name came from the street address of the program's coordinating office in Berlin: Tiergartenstrasse 4."

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#AktionT4

"'Euthanasia' planners quickly envisioned extending ...

2025-01-24T21:05:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…6m36
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"'Euthanasia' planners quickly envisioned extending the killing program to adult disabled patients living in institutional settings."

"In the autumn of 1939, Adolf Hitler signed a secret authorization in order to protect participating physicians, medical staff, and administrators from prosecution. This authorization was backdated to September 1, 1939, to suggest that the effort was related to wartime measures."

🧵4/?

"In reality, the clinics were children's killing wards. ...

2025-01-24T21:03:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…lsqt
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"In reality, the clinics were children's killing wards. There, specially recruited medical staff murdered their young charges by lethal overdoses of medication or by starvation."
"At first, medical professionals and clinic administrators included only infants and toddlers in the operation. As the scope of the measure widened, they included youths up to 17 years of age."

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#AktionT4

"On August 18, 1939, the Reich Ministry of the Interior ...

2025-01-24T21:02:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…28fx
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"On August 18, 1939, the Reich Ministry of the Interior circulated a decree requiring all physicians, nurses, and midwives to report newborn infants and children under the age of three who showed signs of severe mental or physical disability."

"Beginning in October 1939, public health authorities began to encourage parents of children with disabilities to admit their young children to one of a number of specially designated pediatric clinics"

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#AktionT4

How do you think the systematic mass-murder on an industrial ...

2025-01-24T21:00:01Z

How do you think the systematic mass-murder on an industrial scale started?

In 1939, some camps where already there, people already rounded up - but the 'efficient' mass-murder had not started yet.
In the spring of 1939, even before the start of #WW2, people from the highest circle started planning. Led by Philipp Bouhler (director of Hitler's private chancellery) and Karl Brandt (Hitler's attending physician).

They planned to murder all 'disabled' children (& later adults) - #AktionT4

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To check my assumption: Do you know about "Aktion T4" by ...

2025-01-24T18:49:54Z

To check my assumption:
Do you know about "Aktion T4" by the original Nazis?

Poll for 1h, please boost.
#PublicHistory
(Asking for a short thread about this - looks like I'm going to write one)

#Bookstodon 👇 ...

2025-01-23T21:53:53Z

#Bookstodon 👇
https://social.vivaldi.net/@PublicWolf/113879857262711744

Please share with your colleagues: Asking all US-based ...

2025-01-23T07:14:11Z

Please share with your colleagues:
Asking all US-based scientists:
Are there repositories of #OpenAccess papers etc. pp. that need mirrored?
(I'm proud #GuerillaOpenAccess, but not currently trying to do an Aaron Swartz #RIP 😢)

You've got research to safeguard?
Consider uploading to https://zenodo.org (run by CERN, well established, trustworthy, you can private your uploads)

To organize: https://matrix.to/#/#safeguarding-research:matrix.org
(Everyone welcome! #BusFactor)

AcademicChatter group (npub1vuz…esa4) AcademicsUnite group (npub130l…8yww)

"...Das Problem, das persönliche Problem war doch nicht ...

2025-01-22T06:47:38Z

"...Das Problem, das persönliche Problem war doch nicht etwa, was unsere Feinde taten, sondern was unsere Freunde taten. Was damals in der Welle von Gleichschaltung, die ja ziemlich freiwillig war, jedenfalls noch nicht unter dem Druck des Terrors, vorging: Das war, als ob sich ein leerer Raum um einen bildete. (…) Und die Geschichte habe ich nie vergessen."

Das bezieht sich auf das Intellektuellen-Milieu, siehe 🧵2/2

Aus "Zur Person" mit Günter Gaus (28.10.1964).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdCVs376q0U
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Why I am so adamant in copying and saving research about #Trans, ...

2025-01-21T19:49:48Z

Why I am so adamant in copying and saving research about #Trans, #Queer, #LGBTQI, #NonBinary etc.:
The destruction of research not fitting into fascist agenda has historical precedence.

"The Nazi book burnings in Berlin included the archives of the institute. After the Nazis gained control of Germany in the 1930s, the institute and its libraries were destroyed as part of a Nazi government censorship program by youth brigades [...]."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1136956

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I can't believe I have to write this, but people keep ...

2025-01-17T15:09:35Z

I can't believe I have to write this, but people keep demanding it.
Here are my reasons as to why this kind of #LLM-usage is bad, wrong and needs to be stopped:

1) It's a kind of grave-digging and incredibly disrespectful to the real Anne Frank and her family. She, her memory and the things she wrote get abused for our enjoyment, with no regard or care for the real person. How anyone thinks this is even remotely appropriate is beyond me.

https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113842459724961937

#AI #LudditeAI
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An '#AI-emulation' of Anne Frank made for use in schools. ...

2025-01-17T07:14:39Z

An '#AI-emulation' of Anne Frank made for use in schools.

Who the fuck thought this is appropriate?
Who in the everloving fuck coded this? Who approved it?
Who didn't stop them?

histodons group (npub1uc0…cpgf) #histodons

This needs to be luddited 🔥🔥🔥
Spoken as a (digital) historian, who uses #LLMs as tools.

I'm not one quick to anger, but I'm fuming 😤🤬🤬🤬
(Those kind of 'chats' are not new, but I hadn't seen this one until this morning in a post by [@ct_bergstrom](https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom ))

#TeamChicken https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113823589102074743

2025-01-16T23:19:10Z

#TeamChicken
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113823589102074743

Kann der Techniker möglicherweise etwas zum technischen ...

2025-01-15T07:42:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…s0gf
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Kann der Techniker möglicherweise etwas zum technischen Hintergrund sagen?
Bei fedihum.org vermisse ich diese Suchfunktionen schon sehr...
(und unsere Server laufen ja auf der selben Infrastruktur^^(

Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (npub14n9…dnpu)

hatte es vorher geklappt? Bei mir auf fedihum.org ging das noch ...

2025-01-15T07:27:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…sxsc
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hatte es vorher geklappt?
Bei mir auf fedihum.org ging das noch nie :/

I just read a very good and thought-provoking article: ...

2025-01-13T08:51:43Z

I just read a very good and thought-provoking article:
"Screaming, Silence, and Mass Violence in Israel/Palestine" by Uğur Ümit Üngör (Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies) in the Journal of Genocide Research from January 26th 2024:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2024.2309709 (OA)

I encourage you to read it!

histodons group (npub1uc0…cpgf) palestine group (npub1zxn…0kqm) #Histodons #Israel #Palestine #Syria #MiddleEast #Holocaust #Gaza

thanks for sharing! My laptop is quite new and got like 16GB RAM ...

2025-01-11T22:27:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…s0ef
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thanks for sharing!
My laptop is quite new and got like 16GB RAM und 600GB SSD, tho :D

Are there any recommendations for a first time fedora user? (but ...

2025-01-11T22:01:51Z

Are there any recommendations for a first time fedora user?
(but not the first time linux, just some years ago...)

Somethings to be aware of?
Stuff you particularly like?

#OctaviaButler was even better than Nostradamus (who was kinda a ...

2025-01-10T07:39:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…tdrl
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#OctaviaButler was even better than Nostradamus (who was kinda a stochastic parrot). She knew and told us.

More like Cassandra <3

"played by Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen" that sound ...

2025-01-06T20:16:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…f0rw
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"played by Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen" that sound so awesome!
In the literal sense of awe :)

#TIL 'Waiting of Godot' is actually about two Parisian ...

2025-01-06T19:22:57Z

#TIL
'Waiting of Godot' is actually about two Parisian Jews waiting for their trafficker (a member of the Résistance) to get them to Italian Occupied Zone 🤯

For precision's sake: "is actually about" as in 'subtext'.
I'm differentiating 'text' from 'subtext(-s)' and 'interpretations'.

"All the information is in the play - at least in the French original. But people were in denial about it."
Article (in German): https://www.welt.de/kultur/theater/article2123951/Die-Nazis-und-die-Wahrheit-ueber-Becketts-Godot.html

https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.welt.de/kultur/theater/article2123951/Die-Nazis-und-die-Wahrheit-ueber-Becketts-Godot.html

#Theatre #Beckett