#Disasters

[zinjanthropusboisei]

Noticed something a little funky in the world around you and want to figure out what's up? Especially if there might be something you ought to be doing about it? Not sure what information sources to trust these days? If you're in the US, federal agencies like NOAA, USGS, EPA and more collect massive amounts of scientific data every day, much of which is publicly available online - if you know where to look.

A PDF version with clickable links is available for free on my itchio page (quakeandquiver); I'll add a direct link in a reblog.

#wildfires #earthquakes #volcanoes #flooding #natural hazards #disasters #sketchpad #risk comm #environment #disaster preparedness

[disasterarea-podcast]

I hate this headline. And people are just going to read this headline and not the article and get angry, and that makes me even more annoyed.

The sirens in question are tsunami sirens. They’re down by the coast (not near where the fire was) and unsurprisingly direct people to higher ground. If locals heard them, that’s where they would go. Imagine if you were in the Midwest, and a wildfire was approaching so they fired up the tornado sirens. You wouldn’t evacuate. You’d go in the basement or the bathroom, because that’s what those sirens mean. Turning them on would send people into a death trap.

It’s the same problem here. The thing with emergency management is that different emergencies require different solutions. You don’t pull a fire alarm for a tornado, you don’t fire up the tornado sirens for a tsunami, and you don’t set off the tsunami sirens for a goddamn wildfire.

#disasters #maui fires

[may-hopper]

byler throughout the seasons 

#disasters #byler #stranger things #mike wheeler #will byers #art

[ruesyblues]

Jason: Dick is making us write a card for Bruce's birthday and it is not going well.

Damian: How about "Best of luck for the next forty years"?

Tim: He's forty, Damian

Damian: Yes, the average life expectancy is eighty

Tim: No you can't write that

Tim: "Thank you for being a good father"?

Jason: Hmm we shouldn't lie

Tim: True

Damian: "Your parenting has been within acceptable parameters"

Jason: Has it though?

Damian: "Many happy returns for many years that I'm sure you will have"

Jason: That still sounds oddly threatening

Damian: "I hope you have a happy day and... many subsequent years"

Dick: Stop making it sound like he's dying!

#disasters #all of them #btw all of dami's suggestions are things my brother has suggested #I love that kid #dick grayson #nightwing #jason todd #red hood #tim drake #red robin #damian wayne #robin #batfam #bat family #incorrect quotes #batman #dc #rue's queues

[animentality]

#twitter #disasters

[unbfacts]

#disasters #water #crisis #future #facts #unbelievable facts

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

#quote #virginia woolf #the waves #rise #worst #disasters #turn #change #quotes

[nobrashfestivity]

Photographs from the lost and found project

Lost and Found Project: After the Japanese Tsunami

Utilizing salvaged photographs found in the wreckage of the 2011 Japanese tsunami disaster, this unique catalogue conveys the power of the personal snapshot to humanize tragedy. Photographs by Munemasa Takahashi

Too damaged to be returned to the families of their missing owners after the 3.11 East Japan Tsunami they have been cleaned, dried, digitally catalogued and put on display. As remnants of disaster they have taken on an ethereal, abstract expressionist beauty.

Sources- artblart, lensculture, and the lost and found project/ All photos are copyright the lost and found project

#Munemasa Takahashi #tsunami #photography #japan #found photo #set #3/11 #disasters #books

[burningchandelier]

No matter which one wins, everybody loses!

#I got polls this is how I am celebrating #disasters #the great fire of rome #mount vesuvius #pompeii #the black death #the plague #the donner party #cannabalism #earthquake #fire #titanic #the great molasses flood of 1919 #boston molasses flood #hindenburg #the great smog #chernobyl

[mckitterick]

The End Is Near: "News" organizations using AI to create content, firing human writers

source: X

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an example "story" now comes with this warning:

A new byline showed up Wednesday on io9: “Gizmodo Bot.” The site’s editorial staff had no input or advance notice of the new AI-generator, snuck in by parent company G/O Media.

G/O Media’s AI-generated articles are riddled with errors and outdated information, and block reader comments.

“As you may have seen today, an AI-generated article appeared on io9,” James Whitbrook, deputy editor at io9 and Gizmodo, tweeted. “I was informed approximately 10 minutes beforehand, and no one at io9 played a part in its editing or publication.”

Whitbrook sent a statement to G/O Media along with “a lengthy list of corrections.” In part, his statement said, “The article published on io9 today rejects the very standards this team holds itself to on a daily basis as critics and as reporters. It is shoddily written, it is riddled with basic errors; in closing the comments section off, it denies our readers, the lifeblood of this network, the chance to publicly hold us accountable, and to call this work exactly what it is: embarrassing, unpublishable, disrespectful of both the audience and the people who work here, and a blow to our authority and integrity.”

He continued, “It is shameful that this work has been put to our audience and to our peers in the industry as a window to G/O’s future, and it is shameful that we as a team have had to spend an egregious amount of time away from our actual work to make it clear to you the unacceptable errors made in publishing this piece.”

According to the Gizmodo Media Group Union, affiliated with WGA East, the AI effort has “been pushed by” G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller, recently hired editorial director Merrill Brown, and deputy editorial director Lea Goldman.

In 2019, Spanfeller and private-equity firm Great Hill Partners acquired Gizmodo Media Group (previously Gawker Media) and The Onion.

The Writers Guild of America issued a blistering condemnation of G/O Media’s use of artificial intelligence to generate content.

“These AI-generated posts are only the beginning. Such articles represent an existential threat to journalism. Our members are professionally harmed by G/O Media’s supposed ‘test’ of AI-generated articles.”

WGA added, “But this fight is not only about members in online media. This is the same fight happening in broadcast newsrooms throughout our union. This is the same fight our film, television, and streaming colleagues are waging against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) in their strike.”

The union, in its statement, said it “demands an immediate end of AI-generated articles on G/O Media sites,” which include The A.V. Club, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, The Onion, Quartz, The Root, and The Takeout.

but wait, there's more:

Just weeks after news broke that tech site CNET was secretly using artificial intelligence to produce articles, the company is doing extensive layoffs that include several longtime employees, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. The layoffs total 10 percent of the public masthead.

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Greedy corporate sleazeballs using artificial intelligence are replacing humans with cost-free machines to barf out garbage content.

This is what end-stage capitalism looks like: An ouroborus of machines feeding machines in a downward spiral, with no room for humans between the teeth of their hungry gears.

Anyone who cares about human life, let alone wants to be a writer, should be getting out the EMP tools and burning down capitalist infrastructure right now before it's too late.

#artificial intelligence #journalism #writing #disasters #the end times #late stage capitalism

[probablyasocialecologist]

The modern human imagination that has shaped Florida has centered on profit or willfully misunderstood the landscape by severely “terraforming” it in ways that weaken its own organic disaster response—including building unaffordable housing that favors affluent, largely white homeowners. Even Disney World touts that it was created out of worthless swampland. This impulse, this mortal wound we keep inflicting on Florida, has been exacerbated by three straight Republican governors who have allowed big developers and other destructive special interests to influence and create public policy. We are always draining swamps and marshes as if they were worthless. We rip out mangroves along the coast—natural barriers to storm surge—and are aghast at the catastrophes that occur and their impacts on human life.

#florida #climate change #disasters

[lycanthropdyke]

[TV Documentary about a disaster]

[loud bwaa] "IT WAS THE DEAD OF NIGHT" [actor playing the captain: "The hell was that?"] [bad explosion png] "WENT EVERYTHING WHEN WRONG" [footage of actors shouting and being scared] [Some random professor: "It was unavoidable] "THE SS. HURRICANE WAS BEAT DOWN" [Actor playing the captain: "Mayday mayday!"] "BLOWN UP" [different footage of an explosion png] "AND FLOODING" [Actors are seen running away from water] "WITH BARELY AN HOUR LEFT AFLOAT, WHO KNOWS WHAT COULD HAPPEN" [Some different professor: The fact it didnt just fall instantly to the bottom of the ocean killing everyone is just (uncomfortable pause) astonishing] [loud bwaaa] [it is 1 hour and 30 minutes long]

[Youtube Video about the same disaster]

[calm subtle music] "Its April 30th, 1998, just off the coast of New Barley, Manamiera. The SS. Hurricane is on its final voyage at sea before retirement. Its peace waters when at 9:43 PM, disaster strikes." [Crude but helpful visual of a basic model of the SS. Hurricane is animated in the background] "Here in the engine room, a forgotten valve bursts. Attempts were made to fix the leak, but soon more valves end up bursting as well. Welds were quickly brought in to patch the issue, but a secret leak of oil quickly caused an explosion" [some more crude recreations of the event] "But before we get into the meat of this deadly sinking, lets take a moment to thank our sponser, NordVPN" [the video is 20 minutes max]

#my post #disasters #i always hate seeing actors in made for tv documentarys it feels wrong

[zinjanthropusboisei]

Since the wildfire smoke has been hitting the east coast, I've been thinking about doing a flowchart-style infographic on where to find US hazard information - so many of the comments on the info I posted were like "huh. I was wondering why the sky looked so funny." With the state of the Internet, search engines, and social media today, it really isn't intuitive where you can go to find reliable information on something so vague as "I noticed something a lil funky today," and so many of the platforms and accounts that emergency managers have spent years building up trust and visibility for have disappeared or become unverifiable because of Twitter's meltdown. Best to go to straight to the source when you can, as long as you know where to start.

This would just focus on the federal government, and mainly on immediate warnings and alert information...I'd rather just focus on natural hazards as well since those are the resources I'm familiar with, but that might be too narrow. Any ideas for questions and flowpaths besides what I've sketched out so far are welcome!

#social media and esp Twitter has become such a core piece of the emergency communications ecosystems over the last 20 years #that i think the whole crisis management space is still reeling over how quickly it has deteriorated #this post also brought to you by all my friends who recently moved to california & keep texting me 'how do i know if that was an eq or not' #hazards #disasters #disaster awareness #disaster preparedness #risk communication

[captain-price-unofficially]

The moment the container ship Dali struck one of the supports on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, this morning causing a complete collapse of the 47-year old bridge. Seven people are missing. 26 March 2024

#disasters

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

Ash covers gravestones in Trinity Church on Sept. 11, 2001 after the attacks on the nearby World Trade Center towers in New York.

#9/11 #crime #disasters #facts #graveyard

[keepingitneutral]

Essential Homes Research Project,

The housing concept was designed by Norman Foster for displaced communities who are used to living in temporary settlements for years, providing the necessary needs of safety, comfort, and well-being.

The designed prototype is extremely sustainable and emits 70% less CO2 than conventional buildings. It is low-carbon, energy-efficient, and circular, incorporating a variety of Holcim sustainable building solutions.

Holcim and Norman Foster Foundation

#art #design #architecture #interiors #shelter #displaced persons #disasters #norman foster #safety #confort #holcim #sustainable architecture #sustainability #low-carbon #energy-efficient #humanrights #human rights #climate change #climate challenges