Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org

"It is almost as if the world is telling us a morbid joke: we will kill you if you resist and kill you if you hide, and if you refuse, and if you concede, and we will devour your land and gulp your oceans and kill you with hunger and thirst.

The massacres will be televised, broadcast in broad daylight."

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/are-we-indeed-all-palestinians/

#Palestine

We've started a newsletter! @emilymbender want to keep you updated on everything in the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 universe.

We'll have episode drops, special additional AI hype take-downs, rants, and more Fresh AI Hell than we can fit into the pod.

https://buttondown.email/maiht3k

Blue #lava, also known as Api BiruIt produces an electric-blue flame due to the emission of excited sulfur atoms releasing energy as blue light. Read more here:
https://www.geologyin.com/2014/06/spectacular-neon-blue-lava-pours-from.html?fbclid=IwAR36kOgi_POLCbLCfXulT-URuKhD_ZMVAlFQDS9xMgvx2cCM6ioKWLfF7kw
By #GeologyWonders
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer

Well worth a listen

When It Hits the Fan | The Palace in crisis on Podbean https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-jj88a-1db0de7d

Well, in case anyone was starting to think that Biden had any sort of empathy for the Palestinians, the answer is: NO. The shameful temporary port is for helping Israel to get rid of UNRWA, having more control over Gaza, and absolving Israel from the accusation of starving people.

That's all so sickening.

https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1767513248285213133

Sometimes marketing is all about waiting long enough for your audience to forget about the 80s and 90s.

I love how ALDI celebrates this brilliant new design that saves 40% of plastic by removing the plastic lid.

Lastest data: 🥺

+ Carbon dioxide (*new monthly record*)
+ Methane (*new monthly record*)
+ Nitrous oxide (*new monthly record*)

Observations provided by https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

#Kyanite is a beautiful blue mineral that is typically found in metamorphic rocks. It is an aluminum silicate mineral, with the chemical formula Al₂SiO₅. Kyanite is known for its bladed crystals, Read more here:
https://www.geologyin.com/2024/03/kyanite-properties-occurrence-uses.html?fbclid=IwAR3lup-OlmvFyou8p4DoyT_yGi2lI7Z16lo9zytut2FhS-60bVKnY56nWNU
By #GeologyWonders
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer

International Women Day 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/05/my-period-has-become-nightmare-life-in-gaza-without-sanitary-products

A great article by @STAT's newsletter strategist Alexa Lee: #Puberty is hitting girls earlier, bringing with it mental and social hurdles.

"I didn’t get to explain the educational part of puberty to her before it took place. We were stuck dealing with the changes and learning all at the same time."

https://www.statnews.com/2024/03/07/girls-precocious-puberty-mental-health/

#health #healthcare #medicine #adolescence #menstruation

It's fascinating how quick we are to assign value based on pay, yet slow to recognize the immense contribution of caretakers, artists, and volunteers. What if we flipped the script? Universal Basic Income isn't just about money—it's about valuing all forms of work, paid or not.

Please repost: #job in #climatescience
I am looking to fill positions in my group at Universitaet Hamburg and @MPI_Meteo

👉Postdoc examining the response of the ocean carbon storage to abrupt events during the last deglaciation
https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=13da546994dd624cdb680d4ab26a89af41aedb89

👉Postdoc developing the ocean carbon cycle in emission-driven ICON ESM
https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=e6e26a5f837885c12285f9902ac36689f720f611

👉PhD investigating mechanisms of predictability of compound extreme events in the ocean and their effects on the carbon sink
https://jobs.mpimet.mpg.de/jobposting/fcb8fa96c351b278f4199dea84df1c5ff57bf0630

The Design Research Society Special Interest Group on Design Ethics has just published a web collection of UNETHICAL Designs:

https://unethical-designs.framer.ai/

Ah, you can also send more examples.

#Design #Ethics #DesignResearch

In the same way as "the cloud is just someone else's computer" - "AI decisions are just someone else's prejudices".

Italy’s far-right party proposed using AI to assign youth mandatory jobs.

“The young person will no longer be able to choose whether to work or not, but [will be] bound to accept the job offer for himself (sic), for his family and for the country, under penalty of loss of all benefits.”

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/italian-neofascists-artificial-intelligence/

#tech #ai #italy #government

An very insightful analysis of Dune that contextualises it within Arab histories. Well deserved your time.

https://youtu.be/k_IaHOTO1qY?si=tgwWsUFWWDojKWcW

#Dune

Why is it that on every single hike I take I encounter so many large old trees having been felled.

When will people understand that they don't grow as fast as one chops them down.

In some cases there may be valid reasons; but often, as far as I can tell, the reason is mainly "potential risk to passing traffic", interpreted as "reduce risk to zero" - a sterile worldview. The damage to the quality of our landscapes is immense.

Imagine if all the collective money spent of “self driving cars” had been spent on public transport.

As in, not cars - which are ultimately bad solutions for most of the world - but punctual and pervasive clean-energy public trams, trains, and buses.

It’d have cost less and been far more useful for far more people. Including non-drivers. And actually be here. Today. Working.