Notices by Henrik Schönemann (lavaeolus@fedihum.org)

Update: We've got multiple people working on #SafeguardingResearch ✊

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

If you know of any publicly available resources in need of preservation, please let us know. Easy way to propose URLs to archive: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/wL4NNzKWUfZ+GrPV4deTxNgr0MoAvLgOA33eLC2ATUU/
(no account/login needed, hosted by CryptPad in France)

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#DigitalPreservation #antifascistDH #antifascistArchives #ArchivelPractice

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

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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@dsalo this one?
https://creativecommons.org/2025/01/22/cc-launches-its-2025-2028-strategic-plan/

@dsalo "As we look to the future, we will know we’ve been successful in meeting this goal when a thriving creative commons exists to solve the world’s greatest challenges." 🫠🙃

https://zinebakery.com/homemade-zines/bakeshop-2-diywebarchiving
by @quinnanya, @Literature_Geek et al.
https://bsky.app/profile/quinnanya.me/post/3lge4ivwvuc2c

See also: https://archivebox.io/
(thanks @jessienab!)

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@tillshadeisgone adding myself to the choir:
- https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113849324423383472
- https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/113866943810914964

Just read something that made my blood boil:
"Learn from how Hitler stripped power from the Jews before the Holocaust: by Jews' inaction."

This has long been disproven.
It is evidently false, a very harmful statement and blames Jews for their own destruction.

This statement is never ok, no matter how important acting against inaction is right now.

Some further readings:
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-holocaust-exhibition-tells-jewish-resistance-inside-180975486/
- https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-resistance

#Antifascism #SiamoTuttiAntifascisti
#Antisemitism #FediAntisemitism

I'm once again asking people, especially those who host their research data and/or work on US-servers or with US-based services:
Please backup your data on repositories, mirror your repos and save copies!

One quick and reliable way: https://zenodo.org

My point is: We need to act quickly.
Yes, pay @Codeberg et al., but that shouldn't paralyze you to act.

See here:
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113833761121678801
@academicchatter @academicsunite #Research #ResearchData #DigitalPreservation #DigPres

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https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-anne-frank-blame-holocaust

> "Unfortunately for humanity, a Utah-based tech startup called SchoolAI has summoned up an AI-generated version of Frank that feels like both an affront to her memory and a grim sign of things to come in the world of education."
> "What's worse, as Berlin historian Henrik Schönemann discovered ..."

(I didn't get contacted and they link to my bridged account on Bluesky; only after stumbling over this link via @pluralistic I wrote the author an email)

@PaulaToThePeople Maybe we could join forces?
I'm currently working on this:
https://codeberg.org/fedi-tips-de/wiki/issues

There is also this wiki:
https://joinfediverse.wiki/Main_Page/de

This exchange doesn't bode well...
I'm worried about the longevity of those very awesome (in principle) projects :/
#Fediverse #Pixelfed #Loops
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113848771136561060

See also:
https://social.noleron.com/@noctilua/113742142608398284
cc @noctilua

@liztai I love learning from your posts whenever I see them! ✊

@dansup Let me preface: I really am in awe of all your incredible work. Pixelfed is great, loops has potential (just not for me personally ^^).

But there are substantiated criticisms of decisions you made which could have been avoided if you had been part of a team.
Please understand: I'm worried for your personal well-being and the longevity of your projects.

Are there any plans to share those burdens? Kinda like @Gargron just did?
(ofc not exactly the same, your situations are different)

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 #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)

After just having done so (with consent):
Dear #Scientists of all fields - if you use #GitHub to host your research data, please mirror your repos to alternatives like @Codeberg, @swheritage or repositories like zenodo.
Its very easy: https://docs.codeberg.org/advanced/migrating-repos/

No one knows if and when Microsoft/GitHub will go the route of Meta etc. pp.
Better be prepared now #DigitalPreservation #DigPrews

Or at least consent to me forking your repos
@academicchatter @academicsunite #academics

Speaking as:
a) #antifa for >10 years in (Eastern) Germany and
b) a historian researching the Early Modern Period up to the 20th century (in particular #antisemitism)

Things are bad and will get much worse, before they get better.

We need to be alert to vigilant. Not to prevent stuff, but to see it coming and react accordingly.

There is and will be much need for #MutualAid and for #Kindness to each other - and for being rigorous against fascism in all its forms.
#SiamoTuttiAntifascisti ⚔️🛡️

"Decentralized social network Mastodon has announced plans to transfer its ownership to a new nonprofit entity. Ownership of Mastodon will move away from the control of CEO Eugen Rochko."
"Rochko, who founded Mastodon in 2016, will take on a new role with a focus on product strategy while ownership moves to a new not-for-profit entity based somewhere in Europe, with the exact location still to be finalized."
(Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342603/mastodon-non-profit-ownership-ceo-eugen-rochko

#Mastodon #Chapeau
Thanks @dsalo!

Another meta-post:
I'm well aware that I (and other accounts) boost and post a lot, and that can be overwhelming.
#Mastodon has some nice tools to help with that. I consider them all completely legitimate for managing one's own feed:

- Muting for a specified amount of time: https://fedi.tips/blocking-and-muting-on-the-fediverse/
- Muting conversation threads: https://fedi.tips/muting-conversation-threads-in-mastodon/
- Muting only boosts: https://fedi.tips/blocking-and-muting-on-the-fediverse/#JustBoosts
- Filtering for hashtags, phrases, word, emojis, ...: https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon/

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cc @FediTips

@platypus @DeliaChristina @kfitz does someone have a recommendation to read up on #TitleIX ?
Asking for a non-USian...
Thanks in advance! :)