Please share widely: I'm still looking for a postdoc in computational genomics to join my team in Oxford. If you want to help develop better ways to detect AML from epigenetic profiles in blood, then get in touch:

https://cutt.cx/analytics/masto1

Great team and environment, 3-year secured funding, ideal for transition to independence!

#jobs #academia #science #job #FediHire

I've been sitting on this for a while, and it's not much, but in light of Wellnhofer's contribution I'd like to propose:

"Maintenance Terms", as distinct from licensing terms:

https://github.com/mhoye/maintenance-terms

Access to code is no promise of access to people.

The @frameworkcomputer Laptop 12 might be the most repair-friendly laptop we’ve ever opened. Seriously. It’s shockingly easy to take apart, and for a touchscreen convertible, that’s rare. It earned a 10/10 on our repairability scale thanks to clever engineering choices:

- Screwless SSD clip.
- Cable-free battery removal.
- Clearly labeled mainboard.
- QR codes on every major part.

We tore it down. You can fix it up.

Full article: https://www.ifixit.com/News/111201/tough-tiny-and-totally-repairable-inside-the-framework-12

Exasperated and disturbed the new IP license in the Mastodon TOS has no termination clause.

https://mastodon.social/terms-of-service/2025-07-01

Facebook and YouTube have terms saying you can intentionally remove your IP grant by deleting the content. Twitter lets you remove your IP grant by deleting your *accounts*, which is punitive, but possible to exercise (I did). It's very good Mastodon's grant is limited-use—but so was Tumblr, and it eventually abused its. I want Mastodon to be as pro-user as *Facebook and Google*.

Emails Reveal the Casual #Surveillance Alliance Between #ICE and Local Police

Local police in #Oregon casually offered various surveillance services to federal law enforcement officials from the #FBI and ICE, and to other state and local police departments, as part of an informal email and meetup group of crime analysts, internal emails shared with 404 Media show.
#privacy

https://www.404media.co/emails-reveal-the-casual-surveillance-alliance-between-ice-and-local-police/

In April, 1933, the Geheime Staatspolizei, or "Secret State Police", otherwise known as Gestapo, was created by Hermann Goering. This was done by combining multiple local police forces into a single one and federalizing it. This was legal.

In July 1933, Nazis revoked the citizenship of German Jews. This was done by passing the "Law on Denaturalization and Revocation of Citizenship", leaving millions of Germans effectively stateless. This was legal.

In September 1935, The Nuremburg Laws were enacted, further codifying the Nazi plan that only people with "Aryan" blood were citizens of Germany. This was legal.

In May 1940, Auschwitz was built in Poland. It was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps used during the Holocaust to imprison undesirables. This was legal.

On 5 July 1942, Margot Frank received a notice to report to a labor camp in Germany as part of the Nazi's systematic deportation of Jews from Nazi occupied Netherlands. It was well known that this was effectively a death sentence. This was legal.

On 4 August 1944, Anne Frank and her family were discovered in hiding by Gestapo, arrested, and deported to various Nazi concentration camps. Anne and Margot were deported to Auschwitz. This was legal.

On 1 November 1944, Anne Frank and her sister Margot were transferred to Bergen-Belsen, a starvation extermination camp. This was legal.

In either February or March 1945, Margot Frank died in Bergen-Belsen, a victim of typhus and starvation. Her sister Anne died the next day. This was legal.

On 15 April, 1945, British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen, where they walked straight into a nightmare. Approximately 60,000 starving and mortally ill people lay among thousands of unburied bodies, packed together without food, water, or sanitation. This liberation was ILLEGAL, and accomplished solely through the use of military force.

The point is, the actions of the current regime, the kidnapping of civilians, the deportations to Libya and El Salvador, the inhumane treatment of arrestees, the use of federalized law enforcement combined with military force against brown people, these things aren't immoral "because they're illegal". They're immoral because they're immoral, and it's going to take ILLEGAL force to do the right, good, and moral thing.

i'm trying to find info on a cd-rom i had in the late 90s or early 00s. it was an offline "life manager" type of thing for teen girls, with sections like quizzes, diary, outfit planner, and biorhythms, licensed by gURL.com (iykyk).

if you've ever seen or heard of this cd-rom please let me know!! 🔃

Legal Question: If I have an activity pub instance, and someone on a mastodon instance operating under the new terms of service follows an account on that instance - to what extent does my instance become a "user" of the mastodon instance.

- Arguably user profile info is out of scope, as such content is explicitly requested by the mastodon instance.

However, a "Create" request is submission of content, it is generally posted *to* a server, for the purposes of mirroring content on that server.