There’s an unwritten rule in publishing,
or so I’ve been told:
don’t write about COVID.

Our collective attention span has been saturated by those endless months holed up in attics and cramped corners of apartments, staring out at a world we could no longer take part in.
When the worst of it passed, we felt an urge to close that chapter, to padlock it behind a heavy latch.

But in doing so, we also tuck away the hard-won lessons of that time:
how quickly systems buckle,
how two decades of coronavirus warnings accumulated without adequate preparedness,
and how the very mechanisms we rely on for safety can become the scaffolding of a next disaster.

This matters now as another threat is taking shape:
highly pathogenic avian influenza, known as bird flu.

Bird flu still poses a low‑probability threat of sustained human transmission.
But that doesn’t make the virus harmless.
The H5 viruses are brutally lethal to birds
– 9 million have died outright, and hundreds of millions have been culled to contain the spread.
Alarming is the virus’s expanding reach into mammals.
So far, at least 74 mammal species, from elephant seals to polar bears, have suffered die‑offs.
The individual cases are situated within a broader shift.
Dense poultry farms create opportunities for the virus to hop species.
Over a thousand US dairy herds have tested positive in the past two years,
and viral fragments have even been detected in milk
– a worrying route of spillover.
Every jump is a probe for new footholds.
Europe is seeing a surge too.
From early September to
mid-November 2025,
1,444 infected wild birds were found across 26 countries:
a quadrupling compared with the year before.
https://theconversation.com/bird-flu-warnings-are-being-ignored-ive-seen-this-pattern-before-271765

"This promise of an Al future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

Allen einzureden, die Zukunft sei schon entschieden und nicht mehr gestalt- und veränderbar, ist an sich die Strategie, Grundidee und große Erzählung autokratischer, faschistischer Kräfte, die damit jeden demokratischen Widerstand im Kern ersticken wollen. Die KI-Debatte steht stellvertretend dafür.
Quelle: https://youtu.be/UwwnjdXMhco?feature=shared (Ende)

hi #berlin  

meine Schwester (9. Klasse, super nett und fleißig) sucht für 3 Wochen im Februar sehr kurzfristig einen Schulpraktikumsplatz im Bereich Film/Theater/Medien in Berlin. Wenn Ihr Ideen habt wo wir uns überall melden könnten oder sogar selbst einen Platz in einem Ausbildungsbetrieb habt dann meldet euch bitte bei mir!

Vielen Dank  

17 December 1908 | A Pole, Adam Gil, was born in Godziszów. A pastry chef.

In #Auschwitz from 20 November 1941.
No. 22784
He perished in the camp on 10 June 1942.
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"Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/