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Bender

@Bender@ecoevo.social

Proud union member 💪 Join a union today - it's worth the cost! (ask me - we just won a 40% raise + 25% child insurance subsidy)

Ecologically-focused Master of #Landscape #Architecture Fellow at #Temple University in #Philly who loves #woodland #wetlands, #aquatic #ecosystems, #camping, #hiking, + INDOOR #cats (please keep your cats inside - they decimate indigenous animals).

Background in: Industrial Design • Exhibition Design • Educational Programs • Theatre + Puppetry

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mythologyandhistory, to philosophy
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Did you know that road design included features?

In the ruins of , you'll notice small white stones interspersed with the large paving ones along the extensive roads.

Those white are 'cats eyes', i.e. gems that have a single line of inclusion of crystals of another mineral inside.

Upon light reflective on them (from the ), they enable the walker to see that they are still on the right path!

https://youtu.be/74n6TgXbgAQ?si=56oPfp7mG1ENxflN

Bender,
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@mythologyandhistory
Genius!! As a recent Master of Landscape Architecture graduate (this past Friday), I'm stealing this idea. And also sharing with my school-mates. Thanks ancient Pompeii!

skyfaller, to random
@skyfaller@jawns.club avatar

Suppose you had to produce a local computer from scratch, completely independent from existing manufacturers like Intel. (If you need a specific location for this hypothetical, let's say Greater Philadelphia.) No chip fabs in China, Taiwan etc. The tech level and computing power doesn't matter, you can tailor the application to the power of the computer; indie local production is top priority.

What is the best approach? A simple conventional silicon chip? Vacuum tubes? Analog? Mechanical?

Bender,
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@skyfaller
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8BOvLL8ok8I

maxkennerly, to random
@maxkennerly@mstdn.social avatar

"Thank you for contacting me about the tightness in your chest and sharp pain in your left arm. Pee is stored in the balls. Have you tried ivermectin?"

https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-wants-replace-nurses-with-ai-1851347917

Bender,
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@maxkennerly
Who gets sued when the AI nurse provides bad medical advice?

• The health insurance company pushing these services on healthcare providers to drive down costs?
• The healthcare provider pushing these unwanted services on their patients?
• The AI company providing the services?
• The programmer who wrote the code?
• The former Reddit user whose snarky comment on a board back in 2008 was used to train the AI model?
@aral

Bender, to architecture
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I found a DOZEN different mosses on my capstone site in the mountains of northern NJ yesterday! Here are a few of my favorites.

#Mosstodon #Ecosystem #Restoration #Landscape #Architecture

Starbursts of Common Hairmoss (Polytrichum commune)
Almost metallic-golden, shimmery pillows of Broom Forkmoss (Dicranum scoparium)
Layers of multicolored moss on an erratic boulder moved to my site by a glacier 800,000 years ago (3 glaciers ago). Can anyone identify the light, fluffy one on top of the other?

Adrenochrome, to Plants German
@Adrenochrome@mastodon.social avatar

Extreme close-up of a Wolf Spider...
Credits: John-Oliver Dum
By #NatureAndArchaeology
#NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photographer

Bender,
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@Adrenochrome
Close up it's way less scary than when a big, fuzzy grey-brown thing with lots of long, spindly legs jumps out from behind the thing you just moved in the basement 🕷️
@nature

ajsadauskas, to ai
@ajsadauskas@aus.social avatar

Yet another example here of the problems with LLMs.

And no, it's not that a super-intelligent general AI will kill us all.

It's that the best candidates will be rejected because sexist, ageist, and racist biases are built into the LLM models.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240214-ai-recruiting-hiring-software-bias-discrimination

#AI #LLM #capitalism #business #work #hiring

Bender,
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@ajsadauskas
My resume is highly visual and completely unreadable by computers (I know from having tried to upload it to many job sites - they can't handle multiple columns and custom icons at all).

If any company I apply to has an automated system in place, I won't exist to them - and that's just fine with me. That's my personal form of filtering them out of my life. 🤜🤖 It can work both ways.

Needless to say, I've only ever worked at small companies run by thoughtful humans.
@CelloMomOnCars

carpingdiem, to Birds
@carpingdiem@med-mastodon.com avatar

Happy New Year for those that celebrate. There were just the usual suspects at the feeders today and only 1 dragon.

A male eastern bluebird has something to say, with his mouth wide open.
A group of four deer came to the feeders, but moved off when they saw me.
A dragon opens its mouth for a roar as it rests on dark clouds. Created using Midjourney.

Bender,
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@carpingdiem
That's not a dragon usually seen this time of year. Stunning!
@nature

Bender, to random
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EMPLOYERS:

If you don't publish a salary range with your job listing, we assume you pay minimum wage. Even if you call the job Super Senior Director of Really Impressive Things.
#NotApplying

#Jobs #JobSearch #LivableWage

davidzipper, to cars
@davidzipper@mastodon.social avatar

In Slate, I wrote about yet another problem due to car bloat:

Researchers found that SUVs and pickups have grown so huge that they can destroy highway guardrails.

Taxpayers are on the hook for fixes that could cost billions.

Add it to the list of societal challenges worsened by oversized cars (pedestrian deaths, climate change, unaffordable mobility, highway erosion...).

https://slate.com/business/2024/02/car-safety-guardrails-bloat-electric-vehicles.html

Bender,
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@davidzipper
I just want to make clear to everyone that the issue is gigantic cars, NOT electric cars.

I bought a lovely, used Kia Soul EV two years ago that seats 5, can practically hold a sheet of plywood if the back seats are folded down, & has a curb weight of only 3,289 lbs. It's plenty big for most use cases.

Don't demonize electric cars. Also, demand carmakers build smaller EVs & human-sized trucks (they used to). And that your elected officials better fund public transit.
@eheisman

Bender, to FiberArts
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PAID DIGITAL EMBROIDERY DESIGN JOB!
Please boost!

I'm looking to pay an #embroidery #artist to convert a graphic into a layered #digital embroidery file. This is for baseball hats I'm going to gift to my grad school classmates & teachers at graduation this year. I'll need the file BY MARCH so I can send off to my local embroidery shop.

I know translating an image into embroidery is a true artform. I really need your creative expertise & skills.

Reply here or PM me to discuss your fee.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Valuable lessons were learned, but not the ones that the mother thought would be learned.🤷🏿‍♂️

  • She learned that millions of Black people haven't been "making it all up" about police mistreatment
  • She learned why US Black folk almost never call the police, for any reason
  • Her son learned that his own mom is not safe. Her lack of understanding of US racism makes her dangerous
  • She's probably going to learn that this does not meet the definition of police misconduct

https://apnews.com/article/black-teen-lawsuit-excessive-force-vermont-disabilities-7b638ed26c299c7f07033968274e8f37

Bender,
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@brunogirin
Without a filed police report, you can't claim insurance. 'Murrikah!
@mekkaokereke @jshirley

Bender, to architecture
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💧 Do you know where the water from the property you're on right now ends up? What creek or river is your property connected to?

Can the property soak up rain from heavy storms? Or is the site mostly paved, causing water to flood streets & overwhelm sewers? 🌊 Does the water sweep up pesticides or fertiliser as it does?

Find out where all that ends up using the link below - it might be in the water you drink & shower in. 🚿

https://mywaterway.epa.gov

#Landscape #Architecture #Ecology #Restoration

Bender,
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Everything that ends up in the water that leaves your property (eroded dirt, pesticides, fertilizers, heat - all of which can harm tiny stream creatures, harm the fish that eat them, harm the birds and mammals that eat the fish, and harm us when drinking or showering) winds up in someone's water source.

And everything that your neighbors do upstream (sometimes hundreds of miles upstream) wind up in yours.

We're all connected within watersheds.

#Landscape #Architecture #Ecology #Restoration

Bender, to architecture
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Since I'm now in my last semester of grad school for my Master of Landscape Architecture degree, I'm going to begin sharing pieces of my capstone project on here regularly.

I welcome all your comments, feedback, suggestions, references to related projects and people, and encouragement!

First up, my project title -

WATERSHED NEIGHBORHOODS:
Exploring Community-Building as a Method for Stormwater Management and Ecological Restoration

#MLArch #Landscape #Architecture #Ecology #Restoration

Bender, to environment
@Bender@ecoevo.social avatar

I refuse to be pessimistic about our climate future. Pessimism breeds inaction.

I'm changing my career to focus on designing ecologically restorative spaces and places.

I'm not asking you to change careers, but to simply:
• write letters often to elected officials
• plant some native species in your yard
• and to ask yourself: "Is this good for the environment? For my community? For our health?" with every purchase and action you take.

Perfection not expected. Just progress.

#Environment

palmoildetectives, to news

#News: How the twin menaces of #goldmining and #agribusiness threaten a sacred way of life for #Indigenous Wixárika people in #Mexico #BoycottGold #BoycottGold4Yanomami #Boycott4Wildlife https://theguardian.com/global-development/2024/jan/16/drought-and-peyote-the-deadly-struggle-for-mexicos-water

#News: How the twin menaces of #goldmining and #agribusiness threaten a sacred way of life for #Indigenous Wixárika people in #Mexico #BoycottGold #BoycottGold4Yanomami #Boycott4Wildlife https://theguardian.com/global-development/2024/jan/16/drought-and-peyote-the-deadly-struggle-for-mexicos-water
#News: How the twin menaces of #goldmining and #agribusiness threaten a sacred way of life for #Indigenous Wixárika people in #Mexico #BoycottGold #BoycottGold4Yanomami #Boycott4Wildlife https://theguardian.com/global-development/2024/jan/16/drought-and-peyote-the-deadly-struggle-for-mexicos-water
#News: How the twin menaces of #goldmining and #agribusiness threaten a sacred way of life for #Indigenous Wixárika people in #Mexico #BoycottGold #BoycottGold4Yanomami #Boycott4Wildlife https://theguardian.com/global-development/2024/jan/16/drought-and-peyote-the-deadly-struggle-for-mexicos-water

Bender,
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@palmoildetectives
Great graphics!

Bender, to Podcasts
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I LOVE
Please share yours in the comments! 🤓

Ologies w/ Ali Ward
Irreverent interviews with experts on the natural world & all areas of scientific study
https://www.alieward.com/ologies

Tech Won't Save Us w/Paris Marx
Critical coverage of the dark side of the tech industry & ways to fight for better outcomes
https://www.techwontsave.us/

On The Media w/ Brook Gladstone
Exploring how the media covers headline stories & why they don't cover other stories of importance
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm

Bender,
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You're the best of the best,
@parismarx, @micahloewinger, & @onthemedia!

And you're on Mastodon!! 💓

Bender,
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@anja
I just listened to the "spider song" episodes - incredible! Thanks for the recommendation!
@futureecologies

Bender, to random
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More evidence that carbon offsets are a fantasy. Unless your carbon solution reduces or prevents emissions in the first place, it's not actually solving anything.

https://theconversation.com/satellites-detect-no-real-climate-benefit-from-10-years-of-forest-carbon-offsets-in-california-193943

Bender, to random
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Consider how much more we could accomplish next term with a fully Democrat Senate and House.

#VoteBlue

Bender, to random
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Great Lessons I've Learned, Part 46:

When I was studying theater in my mid-20s, my scene partner and I were disagreeing on our characters - we were traveling singing minstrels (Shakespeare) and I thought our characters were bad singers who sang anyway because people would pay us to stop singing. My scene partner thought our characters were good singers who found their life's calling.

We couldn't come to an agreement so went to our director and explained our motivational conflict.

1/2

jackofalltrades, to climate
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I opened the first IPCC report, released in 1990, and copied their scenario graphs for CO2 and CH4 emissions.

I marked the latest data with a red dot. Methane emissions in 2022 were 580 Mt and carbon dioxide emissions in 2023 were 40.7 GtCO2 (= 11.09 GtC).

Whatever you think about the IPCC you must admit their business-as-usual calculations were pretty robust.

Bender,
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@kentindell
Business-as-usual doesn't mean no green tech would be developed, just that they'd be developed at the pace the market demands. We are living through that business-as-usual scenario.

Other, more favorable, scenarios would have required massive government support to fast-track the tech we're just getting now - which we could have had decades earlier with a WWII-level spending approach.
@jackofalltrades @sellathechemist

Bender,
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@kentindell
And in reality, it largely wasn't new technology we needed to invest in - it was massive investment in labor:

• Insulting & weather-sealing our buildings with the best-available technology at the time would have put us on a different track

• Keeping highway speed limits at 55mph would have put us on a different track

• Protecting intact ecosystems that soak up carbon would have put us on a different track

But we failed to invest that labor.
@jackofalltrades @sellathechemist

Bender,
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@fnohe
😂 I said what I said
@kentindell @jackofalltrades @sellathechemist

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