Henrik Schönemann

Initiated Safeguarding Research/Culture (npub1ua3…6srt) on Jan 15th, 2025.
"No Musk can shut us down."

Pronouns: he/him
🏳️‍🌈 🩷💜💙 #SmashFascism #Histodon
#BijiRojava

(Digital) Historian based in Berlin (Humboldt-University);
just doing #DigitalHumanities / #DigitalHistory things.
Toots in German/English.

"Sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative."
Aaron Swartz, Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto, 2008.
https://openbehavioralscience.org/manifesto/

Own content (unless stated otherwise): "by Henrik Schönemann, licensed under CC BY 4.0"
Website/Blog: under construction 🛠️🚧
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7091-0283
GitHub: https://github.com/Schoeneh

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Last Notes

2025-08-09 22:31:44 GMT

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 @npub1ua3…6srt

2025-07-03 15:43:59 GMT

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

2025-07-01 10:54:21 GMT

Hi @npub1uc0…cpgf
We (@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

2025-06-20 16:26:15 GMT

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there will be a wiki with the same + additional information in the next weeks
Not sure about the current PDF...

2025-06-20 06:33:49 GMT

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

2025-06-13 08:38:58 GMT

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/

2025-06-12 06:07:01 GMT

Asking for a friend:
Does someone have recent experience with uni-assist?
https://www.uni-assist.de/en/
@npub1vuz…esa4
Boosts appreciated <3

2025-05-28 08:39:14 GMT

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)

2025-05-27 21:26:43 GMT

For @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

2025-05-27 10:03:20 GMT

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best of luck! 🤞

2025-05-19 06:25:59 GMT

Heya lovely people 👋
For #SciOp we (@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!

2025-05-15 16:47:09 GMT

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

2025-05-12 16:40:17 GMT

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

2025-04-25 09:38:39 GMT

Are there people here who rely directly on US-data that is being safeguarded either by @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
🔄✅

2025-04-23 19:11:16 GMT

A mention of @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 @npub1gaz…dvyp
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250422-usa-scientists-race-to-save-climate-data-before-its-deleted-by-the-trump-administration

2025-04-19 22:17:01 GMT

A collaboration between @npub13kv…u2p7 and @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
https://fedihum.s3proxy.de/media_attachments/files/114/366/988/350/275/792/original/ff62c24d352a9ca8.png

2025-04-18 07:34:35 GMT

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

2025-04-17 09:30:16 GMT

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

2025-04-16 14:02:53 GMT

"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

2025-04-13 12:39:56 GMT

👋 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

2025-04-10 09:10:10 GMT

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 @npub1fjw…k7cv
https://www.wikimedia.de/veranstaltungen/konferenz-who-owns-free-knowledge/
I'll be giving a session on @npub1ua3…6srt #SafeguardResearch and https://sciop.net later this afternoon at the barcamp (only in person): https://openbiblio.social/@tibosl/114303824386030733
#WhoOwnsFreeKnowledge

2025-04-09 06:05:11 GMT

Are there any #Cornell or #Northwestern folks here?
If yes, would you DM me?
It's related to #SafeguardingResearch
cc @npub1ua3…6srt

2025-04-05 02:05:42 GMT

#KRITIS #AWS #SafeguardingResearch
https://fedihum.s3proxy.de/media_attachments/files/114/282/904/931/136/843/original/cd33255b3c71c8ec.jpg

2025-04-03 21:02:58 GMT

We (@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

2025-03-31 07:22:43 GMT

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QGIS works well, Firefox & Chromium as well as many smaller browsers :)

2025-03-29 07:11:01 GMT

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

2025-03-28 15:39:03 GMT

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: [email protected] | https://tickets.safeguar.de/submit
(please include name & affiliation)
#SafeguardingResearch

2025-03-27 12:22:56 GMT

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

2025-03-27 00:43:49 GMT

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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."

2025-03-25 18:43:33 GMT

Again in Dutch media :D
(featuring @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 @npub1ua3…6srt

2025-03-25 07:07:10 GMT

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

2025-03-24 14:31:53 GMT

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 [email protected]
cc @npub1ua3…6srt
(Please boost)

2025-03-22 10:54:31 GMT

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

2025-03-20 07:10:00 GMT

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 @npub1ua3…6srt
#SafeguardingResearch #DoE #Education

2025-03-16 10:25:58 GMT

For @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)

2025-03-14 11:56:51 GMT

A friend is asking for recommendations for #Zotero video tutorials (to self-learn etc.).
Do you have favorites?
(English or German)

2025-03-10 13:29:14 GMT

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

2025-03-09 11:53:11 GMT

Do I know people working at or closely with #NIST?
Context is @npub1ua3…6srt.
You can ping me here, or:
- DeltaChat (@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

2025-03-06 11:57:00 GMT

Heya 👋
We from @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 :)

2025-03-02 20:59:53 GMT

"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/

2025-03-02 19:08:43 GMT

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it's from Tucson
https://x.com/bgboydphoto/status/1895929686288630225

2025-03-01 23:19:08 GMT

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 @npub1ua3…6srt got the database of #PubMed

2025-02-23 18:21:20 GMT

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

2025-02-23 01:14:25 GMT

As part of @npub15um…s7a7's rule:
Have a video of a very cute octopus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxuBwfNp2wk

2025-02-23 00:53:38 GMT

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)

2025-02-18 14:32:24 GMT

After a lot of work behind the scenes, the mission-statement of @npub1ua3…6srt is finally public:
https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/114025352519979173
#IDCC25 #DigitalHumanities #DigitalPreservation #SafeguardingResearch

2025-02-16 22:52:12 GMT

So, that happened: 8pm news on Dutch national TV 🤯
(I got permission to share the clip, as long as it's non-commercial)
#SafeguardingResearch
https://fedihum.s3proxy.de/media_attachments/files/114/016/012/747/917/508/original/54ed43614840f00e.mp4

2025-02-15 07:17:56 GMT

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

2025-02-13 21:23:29 GMT

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
https://fedihum.s3proxy.de/media_attachments/files/113/998/676/426/907/426/original/173b8ac775269af9.jpg
https://fedihum.s3proxy.de/media_attachments/files/113/998/679/739/660/040/original/6f5f4edccea17794.jpg
https://fedihum.s3proxy.de/media_attachments/files/113/998/676/431/082/680/original/aa482e7affd28b93.jpg
https://fedihum.s3proxy.de/media_attachments/files/113/998/747/615/365/088/original/5749f277fe979733.png

2025-02-13 15:23:12 GMT

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can you tell me the size of the zip?

2025-02-13 15:14:26 GMT

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no issue, one sec

2025-02-13 14:47:21 GMT

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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?"
@npub1ua3…6srt

2025-02-13 07:42:54 GMT

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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 @npub1ua3…6srt

2025-02-08 20:14:23 GMT

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

2025-02-08 09:36:31 GMT

Calling #librarians and #GLAM-experts who would be up to advise @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 @npub1c4q…qrpz @npub13e9…qmuw et al - please share

2025-02-06 19:13:51 GMT

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#alt4U
cc [@sarah_ist_muede](https://troet.cafe/@sarah_ist_muede ) @npub1gyv…a4kn
https://fedihum.s3proxy.de/media_attachments/files/113/958/533/838/927/311/original/8465d1e0d46d8179.png

2025-02-05 20:30:07 GMT

We can't have our eyes and minds everywhere:
Please ping us (@npub1ua3…6srt) if you see publicly available things you think need safeguarding!
Either here or via:
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113921816307826784
#PSA #SafeguardingResearch #WhiteHouseWash

2025-02-04 12:26:27 GMT

#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

2025-02-04 12:02:58 GMT

#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

2025-02-04 09:40:09 GMT

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 @npub1ua3…6srt

2025-01-31 17:22:28 GMT

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 @npub1kmd…znd6 (change-tracker and web-archiving
- the forum got moved to pro-bono https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/

2025-01-31 07:36:45 GMT

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start with Gender Studies

2025-01-31 07:36:04 GMT

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 @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 @npub1hgh…ju4s @npub1hsh…2hcn

2025-01-31 07:22:41 GMT

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

2025-01-31 05:27:54 GMT

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

2025-01-28 23:28:28 GMT

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

2025-01-26 11:17:58 GMT

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

2025-01-24 21:53:41 GMT

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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

2025-01-24 21:20:01 GMT

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Additional/Further Readings:
- https://gedenkort-t4.eu/ (in German, thanks @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 @npub103x…vxcg!)
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2025-01-24 21:16:26 GMT

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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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2025-01-24 21:14:56 GMT

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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

2025-01-24 21:14:23 GMT

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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

2025-01-24 21:13:11 GMT

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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

2025-01-24 21:12:28 GMT

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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

2025-01-24 21:11:30 GMT

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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

2025-01-24 21:09:38 GMT

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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

2025-01-24 21:08:08 GMT

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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

2025-01-24 21:07:44 GMT

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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

2025-01-24 21:06:18 GMT

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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

2025-01-24 21:05:25 GMT

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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/?

2025-01-24 21:03:58 GMT

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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

2025-01-24 21:02:38 GMT

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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

2025-01-24 21:00:01 GMT

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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2025-01-24 18:49:54 GMT

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)

2025-01-23 21:53:53 GMT

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

2025-01-23 07:14:11 GMT

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)
@npub1vuz…esa4 @npub130l…8yww

2025-01-22 06:47:38 GMT

"...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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2025-01-21 19:49:48 GMT

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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2025-01-17 15:09:35 GMT

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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2025-01-17 07:14:39 GMT

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?
@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 ))
https://fedihum.s3proxy.de/media_attachments/files/113/842/459/586/033/961/original/6b07ec494136c722.png
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2025-01-16 23:19:10 GMT

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

2025-01-15 07:42:54 GMT

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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^^(
@npub14n9…dnpu

2025-01-15 07:27:58 GMT

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

2025-01-13 08:51:43 GMT

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!
@npub1uc0…cpgf @npub1zxn…0kqm #Histodons #Israel #Palestine #Syria #MiddleEast #Holocaust #Gaza

2025-01-11 22:27:58 GMT

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thanks for sharing!
My laptop is quite new and got like 16GB RAM und 600GB SSD, tho :D

2025-01-11 22:01:51 GMT

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?

2025-01-10 07:39:22 GMT

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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

2025-01-06 20:16:25 GMT

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

2025-01-06 19:57:47 GMT

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See also https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113783167537957936

2025-01-06 19:22:57 GMT

#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