Crystal-Bison
I don’t want to give away much of the poem but it captures the nature, ferocity, and purpose of life.
Ghost Exits
Aligning with the idea that blogs will be the last of the good internet there is a broader question about platforms and their methods. Long before meta and X abandoned all pretense the internet was already under attack while we were believed this was fine.
We need more (and better) institutions and fewer platforms, and the latter have flourished at the expense of the former, advancing a specific agenda under an apolitical guise…
We depend on those platforms more because our institutions have weakened. The present arrangement was far from inevitable and need not be permanent.
…[Platforms have an] inherent tendency to extract value from their users and seek growth, while presenting the whole arrangement as a utopia.
Covid 5 years later
Speaking of this being all fine, the WHO had a 4 day conference about COVID. There is more research than people can read but
Despite the flood of insights into the behavior of the virus and how to prevent it from causing harm, many at the meeting worried the world has turned a blind eye to the lessons learned from the pandemic.
One of those black holes in history, we seem to not be able to peer beyond the event horizon.
Virologist Jesse Bloom of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, who is not convinced the pandemic began at the market and has urged colleagues to remain open to the possibility of a lab leak […] “There’s still little actual information about the first human cases,” Bloom says. “There’s just not a lot of knowledge about what was really going on in Wuhan in late 2019.”
Against the backdrop of the world pretending everything is going back to normal, one group, virologists remain under attack.
the world is dropping its guard against novel pathogens. Infectious disease is “not a safe space to really be working in,” she told Science. “Labs have been threatened. People have been threatened. Governments don’t necessarily want to be the ones to say, ‘Hey, we found something new.’”
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