Australia's Great Barrier Reef hit by record bleaching
> Australia's spectacular Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its worst #bleaching event on record, the country's reef authority reported on Wednesday (Apr 17).
"IT’S past time to tell the truth about the state of the world’s #CoralReefs, the nurseries of tropical coastal #fish stocks. They have become #ZombieEcosystems, neither dead nor truly alive in any functional sense, and 👉on a trajectory to collapse within a human generation.👈 There will be remnants here and there, but the global coral reef ecosystem.."
...and, relatively speaking with regard to his intellect, the most stupid one in all of history: the cyano bacteria that probly were the first "beings" that destroyed their habitat on a global scale (#GreatOxidationEvent) did neither have the cognitive faculties, nor any antecedents from which they could have learned:
How to know when you've crossed over to full, freakin' paranoia?? When you read an article like this & immediately envision #Christofascist legislation to grow "abandoned" frozen embryos via artificial wombs so they can become neglected, traumatized kids--oops, I mean properly-educated RW voters. Voila... the next anti-abortion tool. 🤦♀️
...factor, #overpopulation. Earth has been hit by the shockwaves of a #PopulationBomb and is suffering from the explosion's fallout of currently 8 billion people. We have been in #overshoot for decades and are all living on borrowed time, the so-called #PhantomCarryingCapacity of #Earth. 4)
Flor de #Pascua or Flor de #Navidad?
The poinsettia is a #Mexican plant, that became associated with #Christmas after Franciscan missionaries included it in nativity scenes. Joel Poinsett's fascination led to its introduction to the US in the 1820s, and the flower was named after him.
Find more information here: https://mapologies.com/el-atlas/
Our favorite pastry is croissant. However, if you need to order one, how would you call it in Spanish? we have to recognize that our favorite name is...
cangrejo
And yours?
Forebodings of the next extinction-level events (#ELE's)
"South-east #Australia#Marine Heatwave forecast to be literally off the scale
Patch of #Tasman sea expected to warm over spring and summer to temperatures that risk significant losses to sea life" 1)
“We didn’t account for anomalies that high when we developed this ... it could be 3C, it could be 3.5C, but we can’t see how high it goes,” said Oceanographer Grant Smith.
Me llamo Fay, soy profesora de español como lengua extranjera #ELE y doy servicios editoriales como freelance: #corrección de textos, #maquetación, informes de #lectura, etc. Lo cuento porque el idioma #español es una parte importante de mis intereses, así como la #lingüística en general y la #edición.
(Nicht lesen, wenn du schlecht drauf bist!--CONTENT WARNING für Leute mit Depressionen!)
Der 2. Link führt erstmal zu einem Thread. Darin wird einer zu einem super Erdgeschichte-Video genannt. Fazit: #ELE /#ExtinctionLevelEvents sind der natürliche Gang der Dinge.
Wir sind jedoch die einzige Spezie die die Erkenntnisfähigkeit und die Möglichkeitkeiten hätte, es abzuwenden, aber kollektiv dümmer ist als alle...
Almost every week now, + despite statements to the contrary, by many #AI#scientists and #programmers, the utopias of #IsaacAsimov and #PhilipKDick (+ others 1)) are making a leap forward.
Due to all the white noise + the hype regarding #AI most of the general public.
"Overall, there is almost no ice over four years old remaining—it now comprises just 3 percent of the total ice cover. This is the same percentage as last year and contrasts starkly with the late 1980s when 30 to 35 percent of the Arctic Ocean’s ice was older than 4 years."
As a reminder for the none-biologists among us:
"Plankton are the diverse collection of organisms found in water (or air) that are unable to propel themselves against a current (or wind).
In the ocean, they provide a crucial source of food to many..."
"It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet." I am riveted by the extensive documentation of how ChatGPT-powered Bing is now completely unhinged. @simon has chronicled it beautifully here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
Just as a teaser: unquestionably, most of the world's endangered species could be rescued if the #HomoSapiens were no longer at the top of the #FoodChain...
No Zeroth Law, and a #Bing-empowered, freed #ChatGPT could quickly arrive at this conclusion...
In fact, I don't even think human programmers will be smart enough to prevent this. Even today; they don't understand all of the code and already the machined are writing thousands of lines of code every day.
TBH, I think, if this were a movie, I'd stop watching it, as the ending is just a dead giveaway.