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  I loath every article, blog, or post, that frames what happened with #AutisticiInventati as 'they folded, they gave up, they were destroyed in a couple of days.' No matter how well-meaning, this framing strips A/I of their agency and completely ignores the enormous amount of labour and care that went into a considered wind down. They made it possible for as much stuff to be moved out of their infrastructure as possible. From my perspective: This wasn't a defeat, but a tactical with...

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  RE: https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/117248029115426575 The webarchiving effort of #noblogs I'm involved in (one of many independent efforts) is nearing completion. For a couple days now, the task is quality assurance to catch potential systemic issues. (Luckily nothing like this has manifested so far) It's 48h before noblogs.org goes down and we need more eyes - no technical knowledge required, only a browser and some patience to click on links. If you are interesting in helping, pleas...

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  Results are looking good, but more help is needed --- As you may or may not know, I'm involved with a web-archiving effort re noblogs.org (longer story, suffice it to say: We know what we're doing & why) Right now, we need more people to help with QA (quality assurance); no technical knowledge required, only patience to click on links in an interactive archive. If you are interested, please DM me - more details via Signal or Matrix. Add. Probably best for US-based folks to steer...

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  At #FediDay, @julian@fietkau.social presents how multiple #SciOp-instances could federate via ActivityPub 💜 If you want to check it out, here is the FEP: https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/d8c8/ Talk is being recorded, I'll share the link here asap

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  Fuck. https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human/ "A/I is shutting down. The Autistici/Inventati collective is shutting down and will soon discontinue all of the services we provide." "Now turn off your PCs, get out of your homes, struggle, hug each other and keep on smiling. We are stopping, but the Resistance and ideas do not stop. Stay human." Reposting my follow-only post from August 30th: "1,281 - that's way more than I expected 😬"

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  For anyone interested in #OpenScienceNetwork, the flavor of @Bonfire, there is a matrix room now: https://matrix.to/#/#osn:matrix.org (thanks @ivan) For more context, see: https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/117009903990716948 #OpenScience

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  "Today I want to talk about the teaching sex bot. If you’ve seen this news, you know exactly what I’m talking about and if you haven’t, well, you are probably appropriately horrified already but please, allow me to increase your horror substantially." https://youtube.com/watch?v=NbceY_medYk by @rebeccawatson See also @jonny: "causing the state to spend $60k per doll they don't have to perform generational damage to already marginalized kids." https:/...

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  Amnesty International UK caved and removed two briefings: - “Like a Snowball: The Growth and Impact of the Gender Critical Movement in the UK” (May 2026) - “A Growing Threat – the Anti-Rights Movement in the UK.” (July 2026) Both contain 'gender critical' as a new category, which prompted #TERF backlash. While both PDFs are still in Internet Archive, I love seeing a torrent at #SciOp as well (just in case) https://sciop.net/datasets/amnesty-uk-2026-anti-rights-reports More info...

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  Diese Nachricht des '(antiquarisch) Bücher Kaufens, für Trainingsdaten Scannens und dann Vernichtens' geht schon eine Weile durch meine Timeline: Vor kurzem auf deutsch, seit ein paar Tagen auf englisch Gibt es, vielleicht aus der Bibliotheks-/Archiv-Bubble, Texte dazu? Also ob/inwieweit das eine neue oder andere Dimension hat als das 'normale' Aussondern von Institutionen und das 'normale' Vernichten auf dem Buchmarkt. (Urheberrechtsaspekt außen vor) Sammlung hier: ht...

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  FIY, these two headlines have no direct link (contrary to what popular toots/boosts suggest): 1) "US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference" (2026-07-30) https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-government-map-africa-mislabels-every-country-global-conference-2026-07-30/ 2) "US government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner" (2019-12-19) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50849559 They are indirectly linked by people in the hig...

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  We (@AvSchroeder@fedihum.org & I) had a lovely chat with @jorgeluis@mastodon.pub.solar about https://openscience.network It's a particular flavor of @Bonfire, aiming to meet the needs of researchers and #OpenScience - in the early stages of development. I think it's a very worthwhile project (mostly for my potential second account more focused on academia). Time permitting, I may even contribute somewhat - that's the great thing: We can shape it the way we want! If that sounds...

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  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/117004005387778336 Adding the source of the video: https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/ai-labs-buy-scan-shred-millions-of-rare-books/news-story/0c3b45a67093ab462a587a0348538ce9 "A video from Canada's ABTec Solutions demonstrates the process of cutting books' spines prior to scanning."

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  Filtern & Muten sind Selbstschutz: https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon Sie können auch mit Ablaufdatum versehen werden & die Inhalte entweder hinter CW stellen oder ganz ausblenden. Das ist kein "Kopf-in-den-Sand" o.ä., sondern Selbstschutz. Jede*r verarbeitet unterschiedlich; bitte seid achtsam miteinander 💜💔🏳️‍🌈

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  @louis@indieweb.social a colleague will try to contact them, and maybe the slight furor will lead to more people questioning this particular company: https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-anne-frank-blame-holocaust @histodons @ct_bergstrom

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  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) Boost and share with colleagues 🚀...

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  A collaboration between @webrecorder and @SafeguardingResearch: 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

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  "Unabhängige Infrastruktur" 👀 @SafeguardingResearch https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/about #DHd2025

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  Had a great time at https://www.ada.fu-berlin.de/ ! #DigitalHumanities #CodeReview and #PairProgramming - such an important (and often neglected) part of our work. Many thanks for organizing and facilitating!@lipogg, @vji, @codiceps; @freieuniversitaet and @DigitalHistory

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  Update April 5th: We got everything we can. The amount of help has been very awesome - we did good 💜 If you think you can help with more than a few TB and/or with additional contacts etc. pp. Please write an email to contact@safeguar.de We (@SafeguardingResearch) need urgent help with archiving websites & datasets from NOAA, specifically the stuff on Amazon Web Services (AWS): https://forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-services-urgent/569 If you can contribute, please consider doing so. #N...

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  I will be at #WHY25 & give a talk about @SafeguardingResearch: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/ (Saturday, 22:35 - 23:00; should be the last talk of the day^^) Sadly, I need to leave Sunday before lunch :( If you want to meet, feel free to ping me!

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  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 here (27min): https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-238-safeguarding-research-culture-save-public-data-from-the-digital-bookburnings (Wow, awesome work by @c3voc 💜) More context: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/ #SafeguardingResearch #SciOp @SafeguardingResearch