Gardiner Allen Brown

Alas, my very basic answer is Jack

It’s hilarious that Musk’s AI is now using its profound resource expenditure to claim he’s such a good father. Dads, with their long and troubled PR history, may truly never recover from this one.

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.

Y'all this isn't sustainable.

The problem with the strategy using state cops to rein in fascists is similar with the problem with trying to get Hannah Montana to fill in when Miley Cyrus is sick.

This is useful to read if you want a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between funding cuts and the flooding in Texas.

Here’s a good post to read/share about the Texas flooding.

It is absolutely critical to correctly diagnose response failures — otherwise we “fix” the wrong things.

As the World Warms, Extreme Rain Is Becoming Even More Extreme

This is a region known as “flood alley” as the risks of flash flooding are already so high.

As always, though, climate change takes existing risks and makes them worse – in this case, warmer air holds more water vapor, increasing risks of heavier downpours.

More by @zhonggg.bsky.social here:

Why the Texas floods were so severe Flooding rains in and around Kerr County had brought a widespread 10 to 15 total inches by Friday morning. Four months of rainfall came down in four hours.

Tragedy in Texas hill country, where 4 months’ worth of rain in just four hours caused Guadalupe River levels to spike 30 feet in just an hour and a half - in the middle of the night.

Two dozen are dead in the resulting floods and another 20 young campers still missing.

apnews.com/article/texa...

Unfortunately it’s not a big step from “The forecast was wrong” to “NWS is incompetent and wasteful,” and there are strong political incentives to make that argument now regardless of the truth (see also: attacks on FEMA after Helene)

If you comment on any of my posts that Red states deserved to be destroyed by disasters I will block you so fucking fast. You don’t get to lose your humanity just because a bunch of fascists have. Just pretend you’re smart enough to understand the complexities of politics, dweebs.

Calling FEMA employees “FEMA deep state activists” is fucking unhinged, obviously.

I regularly daydream about quitting to go work at my favorite yarn producer

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?

Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

We need you Yo La Tengo

Is it clouds, shipping or a volcano? Scientists present potential reasons for record heat Climate researchers share theories behind apparent surge, though none have a full understanding yet of what has happened

‘This was not normal’: US scientists grapple with a year of record heat www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Then let's discuss, do we really need AI?

David French is a former attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom, the same organization that overturned Roe and that Mike Johnson helms from. As he once put it himself, he opposes policies that risk "indulging the troubled fantasies of a tiny, disturbed population of transgendered Americans."

For obvious reasons, I’ve been feeling uncharacteristically pessimistic lately. I just presented to a group of undergrads about queer environmentalism in cartoons and was expecting low engagement with this topic that I think is vital, but instead I was gifted a 30 minute engaged and insightful Q&A 🥰

You'll be seeing outdated #earthquake posts for a few hours but the tsunami.gov #tsunami warning was canceled quite quickly.

Excellent work by the Google AI here...

M7.3 earthquake offshore northern California has triggered a tsunami warning. Waves (if they exist) should be approaching the immediate coastline by 11:10am PT, and the Bay Area by 12:10pm PT

www.tsunami.gov?p=PAAQ/2024/...

Right there with you today. Had to dump half a cup of coffee down the drain before it was too late (it was already too late)

And of course the fact that England is basing their policies on something like the Cass Review, a scientifically un-rigorous document with unchecked bias, does not matter to SCOTUS

the clear sign that they just don’t see these kids as real people is the endless concern over hypotheticals and the indifference to the reality that actual children are more likely to kill themselves because of these bans

It’s so true, and yet it felt like an ill omen!

I do think I have to play this game now though

SO fun to have a cozy little sunday knitting while I watched your stream, but it was also extremely funny for me in particular that during this game you started exclaiming "Gardeners die! Sometimes gardeners die!"

Issue 45 We're thrilled to share Issue 45 of Blue Mesa Review with you! This issue contains writing by Gardiner Brown, Kasey Peters, S.N. Rodriguez, Marvin Contreras, Justin Anderson, and Deya Battacharya and...

Finally, my academic work also informs my creative work where I write for more public audiences (and often more personally) about queerness, crisis, and the environment. This personal essay also happens to be hazards-related.