Notices by Henrik Schönemann (lavaeolus@fedihum.org)

Recommendations for cozy/nice co-op #games?
Bonus points if easily run on #Linux 🐝

I need something not very stressful^^

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

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 @SafeguardingResearch

(Please boost)

Hi fedi, another question re #SafeguardingResearch:

We got a couple of #Tableau data/visualizations that we need to archive.
But: the download is limited to Image, PDF or PowerPoint.

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/dutytoserve/vizzes

Any ideas/experience with such a task?

#DigiPres #Webarchiving

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 @SafeguardingResearch
#SafeguardingResearch #DoE #Education

Tell me (and us all) about your favorite #bot (also bots) on fedi, please :)

I don't know how well known this is, but I'm getting abuse via a Nostr-Bridge:

I have domain-blocked mostr.pub now.
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/#block-domain

https://mostr.pub/
https://soapbox.pub/about/

What gives you dopamine?

#Flausch

https://lile.cl/@capibarabot/114054365570605786

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 @SafeguardingResearch 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/#/2/form/view/wL4NNzKWUfZ+GrPV4deTxNgr0MoAvLgOA33eLC2ATUU/

See also re #TransLives:
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113916747117497296

Please boost and share widely!
cc @thgie @markuswerle

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

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

#SafeguardingResearch

Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship

This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent and ongoing acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research.

All are welcome to sign, from any nation or occupation.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenHphuS0QIp1NPpyFNMJo4dd591UEOjHHyIGzNrVco90eYwQ/viewform
(Yes, I signed.)

#DefendResearch #SafeguardingResearch
cc @petersuber @datarescue2025.bsky.social

Additional/Further Readings:
- https://gedenkort-t4.eu/ (in German, thanks @BlueNotes!)
- 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 @MrMountainhome!)

🧵15/15

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

🧵16/15
#AktionT4

"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/

🧵14/15

" 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

🧵6/15
#AktionT4

"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."

🧵7/15
#AktionT4

"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."

🧵8/15
#AktionT4

"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. "

🧵9/15
#AktionT4

"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."

🧵10/15
#AktionT4