Adalbert Jahnz

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

A view of the railway viaduct on the Heart of Wales train line, taken from the Offa’s dyke trail

There’s 25% reductions for Interrail and Eurail tickets bought by 17th December, for use during almost all of 2026. Combined with advice from @seatsixtyone.bsky.social, it’s a great way to travel sustainably next year: www.interrail.eu/en/interrail...

A hand holds a purple trading card featuring a person in a European flag-themed top raising a golden bell, with text that reads: "OUR MASTER CARDS FOR THE EU SINGLE MARKET," surrounded by 12 golden stars. Five other gold-bordered cards are visible beneath it.

🧙‍♀️ Single Market Masters

The EU Single Market is one of Europe’s greatest achievements, empowering citizens and businesses alike.

It grants us four legendary superpowers. ⚡👇

👆 w/ special greetings to @acollierastro.bsky.social 😶‍🌫️

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Party family vote shares in Europe after Portugal's election:

Right-wing 23.9% (+0.1)
Conservative 23.6% (+0.1)
Social democrat 21.7% (-0.1)
Liberal 11.3% (=)
Socialist 7.6% (-0.1)
Green 4.7% (=)

A person on stage wearing a long, dark outfit holds a microphone and raises one hand upward. A thick rope runs diagonally in the background against a dark backdrop.

Tonight, Europe showed love to JJ and Austria!

Congratulations on winning #Eurovision2025!

Eurovision turns its back on English For the first time, more than half of countries have voluntarily chosen to sing in a language other than English at Eurovision - up from a fifth just five years ago. Why is this happening now?

Tonight's #Eurovision2025 final will have the highest proportion of non-English songs ever seen since language freedom was introduced in 1999 - 65%!

The figure rose even higher after this week's semi-finals. 9 of the 11 songs eliminated were in English.

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Welcome to the Birds Gala, where nature's most stylish creatures shine.

From golden pheasants to Gouldian finches, birds are vibrant examples of biodiversity.

Amidst biodiversity loss, we must act urgently #ForNature to protect birds & the ecosystems vital for life on Earth.

And it hardly even seems newsworthy, but the global mean surface temperature two days ago, on April 24th, hit a new record daily high according to ERA5 data.

The Climate 8-ball doesn't know who is in charge and is refusing to make predictions.

Today, we fined Apple €500 million & Meta €200 million for breaching the Digital Markets Act.

Apple restricts developers from steering consumers to offers outside the App store.

Meta doesn't let users choose a service that uses less personal data.

These are the first DMA fines.

europa.eu/!9RDQmk

Desinformation: Wie Facebook mit Fake-Werbung viel Geld verdient Nahrungsergänzungsmittel, russische Propakanda, Fake-News: Facebook ist voll mit dubioser Werbung. Das Problem wäre wohl lösbar – wenn der Konzern wollte.

Nahrungsergänzungsmittel, russische Propakanda, Fake-News: Facebook ist voll mit dubioser Werbung. Das Problem wäre wohl lösbar – wenn der Konzern wollte.

Karoline Leavitt says husband 'always has her back' as she takes break from work

Away from work she's a mom to baby boy Niko and has a loving husband.

Russia seeds chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could game AI the same way. In their race to push out new versions with more capability, AI companies leave users vulnerable to “LLM grooming” efforts that promote bogus information.

‘In a twist that befuddled researchers for a year, almost no human beings visit the sites, which are hard to browse or search. Instead, their content is aimed at crawlers, the software programs that scour the web & bring back content for search engines & LLMs’
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Copernicus has an amazing 'toolbox' that shows air pollution in Europe and allows you to instantly model reductions from different sources.
On today's map of anthropogenic PM10 pollution I've just 'removed' agriculture's contribution... and most pollution is gone!
shorturl.at/8vkqi

so i'm in the climate skeptics subreddit for some reason (i'm a masochist) and have been horrified to find that they've latched onto a "paper" "written" by Grok 3 as "evidence" that humans are not causing global warming

www.reddit.com/r/climateske...

🎉 Happy birthday to Henrik Stiesdal, wind energy pioneer & co-inventor of the modern wind turbine.

In 1979, he sold a 3-blade design to Vestas — a blueprint that shaped global wind technology.

May the wind always be at your back! 💨

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Flower parade in the Netherlands today... @esa.int with a great show, Ariane 6 rocket 🚀

A tree split in half shows a big gap in spending. On the left, fewer dollar signs for nature-based solutions ($200 billion). On the right, many dollar signs for harmful activities ($7 trillion).

Nearly $7 trillion USD is invested annually in activities harming nature, while investments in Nature-based Solutions total only around $200 billion.

It’s time to flip these numbers.

Check UNEP’s State of Finance for Nature for more data: financefornature.unep.org

X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work

#AcademicSky #EduSky

There’s plenty of European tech innovation. Some in unexpected places. For example, did you know European-made open source software powers a social network known as Truth Social

In response to Conner Dougherty's NYT article, it's helpful to revisit a piece I wrote. In the USA, the poorer you are, the greater percentage of your income you spend on transportation. In the EU, it's the opposite.

Why? USA has car-dependent sprawl, EU has good transit.
itdp.org/2024/01/24/h...

Democracy and our values Learn how the Commission is protecting democracy by fighting disinformation, strengthening the rule of law and how it engages with citizens.

If you like both the EU and typography, you’ll be interested to know the Commission’s sprawling website is this week starting to move our typography to Inter by @rsms.me. It’s all still work in progress but I already love the look. Check it out ➡️
commission.europa.eu/priorities-2...

For veterans of the Eurozone crisis, this is quite incredible - today Greece has a lower borrowing cost than both the UK and the US for their 10 year bonds.

I had to check, all of the previous so called 'PIIGS' (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain) have lower borrowing costs than the US today.

Here are the daily color stripes, from January 1, 1940 and updated through April 5, 2025.

Important story that might be buried under another day of Trump induced market turmoil - there is mounting evidence that Russian actors had at least knowledge of some of the terror attacks that heavily influenced Germany‘s election campaign before they happened:

Just had this blog comment on a post about the delays in prosecuting Trump, and I am convinced it is generated by AI. I have thousands of comments over the years, and this is just so neat and formulaic.

It links back to a legal blog site, which in turn seems generated by AI.

What a prospect.

Independent media are lifelines for democracy & open societies.

At @europarl.europa.eu this week, I reaffirmed my commitment to stand up for free media like Radio Free Europe. Failing to protect them, we hand a victory to autocrats.

In 🇪🇺, where freedom prevails, we can never allow this to happen.