#environmental commitment

[headlinehorizon]

Sarah Cottrell Propst: A Legacy of Growth, Environmental Commitment, and Leadership

https://headlinehorizon.com/Science/Planet%20Earth/1248

In a stunning development, Sarah Cottrell Propst, the esteemed secretary of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department in New Mexico, will be stepping down from her post at the end of this year. Explore her remarkable achievements and the impact she leaves behind in this latest news article.

[lemon-film]

Sony HT-AX7: The Ultimate Portable Theatre System

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[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

🌿An Earth Day fusion repost from @theimeu and @muchachafanzine.

🌿In honor of Earth Day, please visit @zaytoun_cic, @handmadepalestine, or @plant.eenolijfboom to plant an olive tree in Palestine. 🕊

🌿From @theimeu:

This Earth Day, we mourn the 34,000+ Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza and Israel’s continued degradation of Gaza’s land, water, and other natural resources that make life possible for Palestinians.

In the past 6 months alone, Israel has destroyed farmland and greenhouses, contaminated natural resources with hazardous materials, bombed key water purifying infrastructure and wells, and created conditions for epidemics caused by an extreme excess of sewage, waste, and pollution.

Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s environment is part of its goal of making life for Palestinians in Gaza unlivable.

Link in bio to contact your reps and urge an immediate, permanent ceasefire and the immediate suspension of all arms and funds to Israel.

Sources: The Guardian, Scientific American

🌿From @muchachafanzine:

Reminder this #EarthDay that from Turtle Island to Pa1estine, your environmentalism doesn’t mean sh!t if you don’t support giving the #LandBack to Indigenous people. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[mashkara45]

On June 6, 2023, russia deliberately destroyed the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine’s Kherson region, causing the largest man-made environmental disaster in Europe since World War II. Floodwaters quickly submerged about 600 square kilometers, flooding nearly 80 towns and cutting water to 1.6 million people.

This attack destroyed ecosystems, poisoned land and water, and released mines into the Black Sea. It caused the loss of 14 billion cubic meters of freshwater – enough to supply millions for over a year.

Dam destruction is a war crime, and this act shows russia’s brutal tactics in its war against Ukraine. The consequences affect the whole region and will take years to repair. This was russia’s terrible crime against people and nature. It demands justice.

(c) MFA of Ukraine

For me personally it was the day I lost the last tiny bit of faith in humanity. I was still naive enough to believe that many people at least care about the environment, about the planet. Even on fucking tumblr I constantly see all this “save the planet” bullshit - but these are just empty words. None of you actually care: neither about the planet, nor about the future.

russia did what it always does - terror and genocide. Nothing new here. But the rest of the world just plainly ignore it. russia was never held responsible neither for this terrible crime nor for the millions of other war crimes it committed since then.

And it will continue to bring destruction and suffering all over the world.

Because you allow it.

Because you all comfortable to live in the world where someone with shitloads of money can do whatever they want without any consequences.

[nikrei]

(Superman 307) (1977)

superman based as hell in the start of this issue (it goes some wildly unrelated, baffling, places)

[yaminerua]

this AI ghibli trend is going to condition me into having a strong initial knee-jerk negative reaction to seeing Any ghibli-style art until I can be sure an actual human being drew it

[sugarmarbles21]

You would think that after nearly nine months that the Western world would realize that anytime someone asks Israel to not do something, they double down on it? I wish that they would stop wasting everybody’s time, especially the Palestinians, and just force the Zionists to follow their orders for once instead of thinking that begging for them to stop would work.

On an unrelated note, I envy how some people are still able to go out and fight for the Palestinian people despite the many heatwaves in the world. I don’t do very well in the heat and I kinda shut down because of it. I don’t have the Palestinian endurance, okay! And even they have a limit or else they wouldn’t be trying to cool off in the ocean. That’s what happens when you release a bunch of toxic chemicals into the atmosphere when you drop a bunch of bombs on a few cubic squares of miles of land.

[deadendtracks]

more about ai and how it's being rushed into things before it's ready: saw this presentation from Clarivate (big library platform vendor) about a natural language ai search for databases. now i think a natural language search is interesting as a concept (versus boolean and knowing what key words are likely to get you the best results) but the *output* was an ai written summary of search results and then the top 5 citations. when asked whether the product had issues with hallucinations (which is where the ai will just make shit up because "ai" doesn't actually know anything it just predicts what word should come next statistically) the answer was "not in the citations."

so like. the product they want to push out to libraries for their patrons (very often university libraries who serve students just learning to do research) provides a "summary" of the supposed search results that is still prone to being full of made up shit. Sure, they can get the proper citations and go look for the articles being "summarized" but ...

how many students will actually do this, and how many will take that "summary" as factual because *it's being provided by the library* and use *that* in their papers? Etc.?

It's a complete nightmare garbage product. They could have just given the search results without the summary -- i really am for a natural language search if it works -- but they had to incorporate the new sparkly ability of "ai" to "summarize" despite the fact that it's still prone to confabulation.

anyway I don't think this has been rolled out yet but this particular vendor likes to roll out products that are not ready for prime time and there's an "ai" arms race going on in every industry so the pressure is to push this on everyone whether it's ready or not, whether you want it or not, whether it will actually do a lot of damage or not.

[dress-this-way]

Strive for Sustainable Style - YLF

[plushchimera]

the hilarity of Astarion's character truly shines the more story goes on

he's ridiculous, I love him x) and Neil Newbon does such a great job voicing him! the mannerism 😘👌‍‍

[nowin3d]

bill and his complicated history with every lovecraftian horror is smth that can be so funny ... ten novels worth of information. ask him about it, he'll tell you about his glory days.

[roses-and-rainstorms]

・. ゜☾ ₊‧ ˙ ⋆˚・starlight desert ・ ゜˙ ✩ . ゜⁺・． [Image Description: a photoset of 12 screenshots from the starlight desert area in sky: children of the light. it includes various shots of stars and clouds, the distant view of the eye of eden and the storm close up, the bridge in the jellyfish cove, and the crescent moon. The screenshots all have a color palette of deep purples and blues with glowing white details. End Image Description]

[kenonade]

esalen………………………………………………………………………

[icharchivist]

fucked up that this whole thing is more relevant now than it was in 1997 huh.

[wcven]

@inhcritance said : 84 - boys like you (demo)

with the tilt of her head, ottilie closes the gap between herself and the new goblin. they've never shared a cause before. their eyes are familiar though she can't quite place them and his technology is advance, rosita would be impressed. if devastated by the use.

"oh, there's a name for boys like you," she chimes with a smirk, as the shorter distance jogs her memory. "i'll admit i'm confused."