Notices by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro (redcrew@mstdn.social)

If you're wondering about whether you should take down your bird feeders, Cornell's All About Birds updated their post about bird flu.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/avian-influenza-outbreak-should-you-take-down-your-bird-feeders/

#BirdFlu #birding #birds

@chris Gotcha.

@chris Hmm. Have you had any success promoting the opportunities here on Mastodon?

@cgrymala @chris I used to love his acting, too. But after hearing him speak about MAGA, I never watched his work again.

@chris Aha. How are candidates learning about about job opportunities? Word of mouth, networking, something else?

@chris You're hiring?

@chris Seems we won't get a February thaw this year.

@chris We have a forecast of more snow this weekend.

Supposedly more than we're getting tonight. Then the bitter cold moves in.

@chris See have a light dusting so far. Supposed to pick up this evening.

@chris How's the snow?

@chris Gotcha. Safe travels home. How far is your commute?

Snow arrives here early afternoon.

@chris When is the snow starting in your area?

Weather forecast looks like 5-6 inches of snow for our community later today and tonight.

I see some blue patches in the sky.

And a yellowish orb.

Missing plane in Alaska had sudden drop in elevation and speed before signal lost, Coast Guard says.

"The Bering Air Caravan, a single-engine turboprop, was heading from the village of Unalakleet to Nome — a distance of about 150 miles (about 240 kilometers) — with nine passengers and a pilot on board when it disappeared Thursday afternoon over Alaska’s Norton Sound..."

https://apnews.com/article/missing-aircraft-alaska-search-10-people-eb496188285ed54c9a527f658d4ff70a

#Alaska

Woody the Woodchuck waves goodbye to winter in Michigan.

https://michpics.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/woody-the-woodchuck-waves-goodbye-to-winter/

Kohl’s announces more store closures: here's the list of stores that will close.

None in Michigan.

https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/01/kohls-announces-more-2025-store-closures-list-of-stores-that-will-close.html

@chris time flies, I remember when you moved!

@chris Anything specifically weird today?

"I may have misjudged my fellow humans. But I'm not wrong about AI.

We're jumping feet first into unreliable, unproven tech with devastating environmental costs and a dense thicket of ethical problems.

It's a bad idea. And — because I enjoy shouting into the void — we really ought to stop."

https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/nancy-kaffer/2025/01/06/ai-generative-chatbot-open-ai-chat-gpt-terminator/70298431007/

#AI