“Climate action” is just another way to say “we want our beautiful complex planet to continue to be a good place to live, and to continue to be both beautiful and complex”. So much climate damage comes from assuming that Earth is simple, that it is easy to control and that it will bend to our will.
Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
From a distance you can see a mountain landscape with a blue sky and a few hazy clouds. on the sides of the picture you can see parts of trees. On the left in light green, on the right a smaller dark green tree further away. in the center is a black box on which is written in white “Only caring about your own right is exactly how you lose them”.
a screenshot of a skeet from NOAA that says "These minerals are currently sitting atop the sea floor, waiting to be scooped up and processed. Through #NOAA’s mapping tech and licensing abilities, we are helping industry leaders find, collect and bring back these minerals to benefit the #USA & domestic manufacturing."
I'll say this as many times as it needs to be said.
Save our Freaks.
Don't mine the Deep.
(also maybe unfollow NOAA. They're a disinformation account at this point. Fuck.)
Anchor Bolts xkcd.com/3078
Distribution of relocated (colored circles) earthquakes and remnant located earthquakes >2.8 (open circles) retrieved from the data of the CMGSMO array projected on a geographic map. CMF, Churachandpur–Mao fault; EIBRSZ, Eastern Indo–Burma ranges seismic zone; KBF, Kabaw fault; KF, Kani fault; YUF, Ye–U fault. Credit: Mon et al., 2023, SRL
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Two days after the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar, what have we learned?
Rapid seismological analyses shared by scientists suggest that the rupture was both longer and faster than expected - two factors that could have increased damage.
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Rock Identification xkcd.com/3068
I'm happy to have grown up with values of solidarity, sustainability and environmental conscience. But every once in a while I do ask myself why I feel guilty about my footprint in the world when we now build entire power plants to summarize emails and generate emails from summaries.
The secret history of Australian women in the Space Age
A Bluesky version of my International Women's Day talk for the Shire of Berrigan, NSW. (Many thanks to them for the invitation and support). 🧪#WomenInSTEM #IWD25
Lego bricks in a pile are labeled as data. Then they are sorted by color and labeled as such. Then they are arranged, then they are lined up, and they are finally assembled into a house. Each image is labeled: Data, sorted, arranged, presented visually, then explained with a story. I know this isn't the best alt text. I just woke up and it's the best I can do.
via r/lego
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Most of what we call "tech" is about getting the right information into a database and trying to prevent the wrong person from reading or updating it.
Really quite an incredible @lisalsong.bsky.social @propublica.org article about "advanced recycling". False promise and predatory ambition have been at work for decades and they'll continue to cause trouble for many more
www.propublica.org/article/delu...
Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM)
For my poor parents seeing doctors stumped and having no access to advocacy groups and information in the early 90ies was terrifying.
We've come a long way with research and advocacy on rare diseases, but there is so much more to be done.
Peter Dutton will abandon action on climate change.
He will give a green light to big polluters.
He will take a sledgehammer to Australia’s climate progress.
1. Data provides *raw material*
2. That raw material is *processed* by technology
3. The outcome of that processing is wholly dependent on what people think and what they're ignorant about when creating the technology that does the processing.
5/
Thank you! I have leftover sardines from my dachshind's birthday dinner and that's a great idea.
KM3NeT xkcd.com/3053
Data -> information -> knowledge -> wisdom
Of course the concept is overly simplified (in fact that creates room for great discussions). I am however surprised it doesn't come up more often in the current AI discourse.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_py...
And that's why so many are desperate to outsource it
Random digital painting of a girl walking her two big and dark dogs on a rocky and sandy beach. She is watching at the sea where a castle appears behind a foggy horizon.
Random soft colors, kinda impressionist, digital painting. In the foreground, in a high grass field, a mother plays with her child's ruban. In the background the sun is setting giving the sky its classic pink/orange colors.
Digital painting of a castle up a rocky hill. In the foreground, a shepherdess is watching after her tiny flock.
Rough digital painting of some snowy hills. A person is standing in the foreground alongside their undefined animal companion. A small cabin is emerging from a pinewood.
It's my birthday \(' . ')/
May I ask for a few RPs?
I worked as a data science lead in internal audit for a global company. Can confirm. 🙄
I know I'm a broken record about LLMs but it really does bum me out that a long process of anti-intellectualism and just no widespread understanding of materialism has led us to a point where computers, as far as a lot of people are concerned, are essentially magic.
So many people right now frantically preparing hours of content on how this affects the Leafs.
The same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.
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"The US is on the cusp of a natural gas power plant construction boom, as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to meet the huge electricity needs of the artificial intelligence revolution — putting climate targets in peril"
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low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.
