startrekuniverse:

STRANGE NEW WORLDS

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reasonsforhope:

If you’re feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free…

Start helping with citizen science projects

Explainer: what is citizen science?

Public participation in science is increasing, and citizen science has a central part in this. It is a contribution by the public to researc

The Conversation

What’s a citizen science project? Basically, it’s crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don’t need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can’t participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

thesongistheriver:

cosmeretrek:

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Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

THIS IS SO AMAZINGLY COOL

sam-reid:

TAWNY NEWSOME as Beckett Mariner
STARTREK:STRANGENEWWORLDS2.07:THOSEOLDSCIENTISTS.

I relate to this so hard

andromeda049:

I’m going maximum clown here. My final theory/prediction/wish for ‘Empire Of Death’.

Ruby’s mom is Susan Foreman.

Yes, fuck you, I’m going there.

I don’t really have any evidence for this, except that (as insane as it sounds) it just fits right as a dramatic reveal for this whole story-line. The missing family member of our two leads turned out to be the same person, both searching for family without being able to realize it was right in front of them. The Doctor couldn’t realize that not only the anagram, but also the real Susan was right in front of him.

And yes, this very much implies that Ruby is The Doctor’s great granddaughter and also a timeless child.

In the process this breaks the fears from both The Doctor and Ruby. The Doctor isn’t a unique being in the universe, and Ruby doesn’t have to fear being abandoned because this Doctor (unlike past incarnations) would’t leave her without saying a word.

Although in a tragic sense, this means that both wrongly believed their fears did become reality at one point. The Doctor believed he had indeed brought danger into his family as he feared he would as seen in 'Rogue’, and Ruby believed she was abandoned by The Doctor as seen in '73 Yards’.

In the end, the biggest coincidence that the goblins caused in 'The Church On Ruby Road’ wasn’t any of the bad luck, but that their actions lead to two separate family members unknowingly finding each other.

Also, just gonna throw this wild prediction for good measure once more. The companion Varada Sethu is playing is a regenerated Susan, meaning that next season’s Tardis team is literally The Doctor and his family.

I really want a Carole Ann Ford cameo, but I’m not sure she wants one.

lawofcollage:

unforth:

Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it’s hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we’re still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

Sources:

AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions

Artificial intelligence promises revolutionary solutions to global challenges, but the water costs to produce and power AI hardware and infr

The Conversation

The carbon impact of artificial intelligence - Nature Machine Intelligence

The part that artificial intelligence plays in climate change has come under scrutiny, including from tech workers themselves who joined the

Nature

Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret

First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go.

nature.com

can we talk about how this is even more annoying when websites start forcing AI on us even though we didn’t FUCKING ASK (@ meta)

like, you stole my art. you stole my writing. and now you’re making me fuck up the environment even though i DIDN’T FUCKING ASK

quasi-normalcy:

Hot Take: If they absolutely had to go for an “unknown son” plot in Picard S3, they should have made Vash the mother.

Beverly not telling Jean-Luc that he had a son never made a single lick of sense in terms of her established characterisation. Vash not telling Jean-Luc that he had a son would be absolutely par for the course.

Moreover, Vash also spent several years travelling with Q. So instead of “Jack Crusher” (or whatever his name would be in this version) having weird things going on in his life because of Borg semen, it would be because he might just be part-Q. Or at least because Q might have regarded the child as belonging to him, as much as to Picard or Vash. And this could play into whatever the hell happened to Q in the previous season.

This would have made so much more sense.

ansonmountdaily:

Paramount+ FYC Red Carpet Event for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2

Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Celia Rose Gooding and Strange New Worlds creatives attend the Strange New Worlds For Your Consideration Event in Los Angeles at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts - May 30 2024.

Source: Red carpet interview clips via Bionic Buzz and HOLLYWOOD FIRST LOOK

damn this cast is just smoking hot…

bex-pendragon:

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds + The Mincing Mockingbird’s Guide to Troubled Birds