#culling — Public Fediverse posts

Adobe Adds More User Control to AI Features Inside Lightroom and Photoshop https://petapixel.com/2026/06/15/adobe-adds-more-user-control-to-ai-features-inside-lightroom-and-photoshop/ #artificialintelligence #adobelightroomclassic #adobelightroom #adobephotoshop #adobepremiere #photoediting #lightroom #photoshop #Software #premiere #culling #editing #adobe #News #ai

Ah, the thrilling saga of #rendering #culling, where the best work is the work that never lives! 🪦 Who would have thought killing off pixels could be such an #epic #struggle worthy of a 16-minute read—or, more accurately, a #sleep #aid. Shoutout to #Timur for surviving this harrowing journey; you deserve a medal and a long nap. 🏅😴
https://krupitskas.com/posts/modern_culling_techniques/ #pixelart #game #development #HackerNews #ngated

#PestControl by #culling in #France does not work:
(1) killing animals does not reduce the #damages they produce
(2) costs associated with organizing the killing (100 millions euros annually) are ~5 times larger than costs linked to the damages (20 millions euros annually)
(3) killing these animals destroy the ecosystemic services they provide

#BiologicalConservation
#OpenAccess

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320726000273

Risks: Sharks, dogs and cars

Sharks - "Twenty-five shark bite incidents were recorded across the country last year.
The Shark-Incident Database shows that between 2000 and 2025, 559 bites were recorded in Australian waters."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-21/what-australian-shark-attack-data-reveals/106248228

Dogs - "Australia Post data shows that in the six months to May 2025, more than 1,150 dog-related incidents were recorded against postal delivery workers across the country."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-17/dog-attacks-who-is-responsible-explainer/105884928

Cars - "In the 12 months to November 2025, there were 1,332 deaths on roads nationwide, according to the national road safety data hub, which has yet to publish its final statistics for the year."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/02/australia-2025-road-toll-deaths-fatalities-rise-nationwide

" In 2025, 355 people died on roads in NSW, 28 more than in 2024, the state government announced on Friday. "
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/02/australia-2025-road-toll-deaths-fatalities-rise-nationwide

Cull sharks, dogs and cars?

#risks #cars #mauling #dogs #sharks #ocean #habitat #culling

Adobe’s Lightroom Updates Are What Good AI Implementation Looks Like https://petapixel.com/2025/11/03/adobes-lightroom-updates-are-what-good-ai-implementation-looks-like/ #adobelightroomclassic #artificialintellgence #lightroomclassic #photoediting #Editorial #editorial #lightroom #Software #Opinion #culling #firefly #opinion #updates #adobe #ai

Lightroom’s New Features: AI Culling, Auto Dust Removal, ‘Color Variance’ Slider, and More https://petapixel.com/2025/11/03/lightrooms-new-features-ai-culling-auto-dust-removal-color-variance-slider-and-more/ #aritificialintelligence #lightroomclassic #audoculling #newfeatures #lightroom #Software #culling #adobe #News #ai

The Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI), Germany's leading center for animal diseases, is projecting a potentially devastating escalation in avian influenza cont... https://news.osna.fm/?p=20706 | #news #animal #culling #mass #predicted

The Ambitious [but do-able] Effort To Save New Zealand’s Iconic Bird [and so many more - including eradication of ferals]
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https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5565215/the-ambitious-effort-to-save-new-zealands-iconic-bird <-- shared media article
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https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-and-threats/ <-- shared New Zealand Department of Conservation Pests & Threats site
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“The kiwi, a… flightless bird from New Zealand, is disappearing, largely because of invasive species brought to the country’s islands by humans. So New Zealand has set a goal of exterminating rats, possums and other invasive animals that threaten the country’s biodiversity…”
#biodiversity #feral #NewZealand #habitat #risk #hazard #threat #death #humanimpacts #invasivespecies #kiwi #kea #flightlessbird #indigeneous #reptile #bat #skink #biota #cat #domesticcats #possum #stoat #ferret #weasel #culling #eradication #protection #systematic #endangered #island #Australasia
#DepartmentOfConservation

[USGS] FORT Science In Action – Science In Support Of Invasive Reptile Management In The Greater Everglades
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/fort-collins-science-center/news/fort-science-action-part-7-science-support-invasive <-- shared technical article
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#remotesensing #florida #everglades #restoration #burmese #python #snake constrictor #impacts #invasive #species #reptiles #loss #mammal #tegus #ecosystems #habitat #plants #vertebrate #carnivore #feral #threatened #research #culling #risk #hazard #threat #AI #imagery #UAS #GIS #spatial #mapping #DNA #sampling #surveillance #cost #ecology #damage #trapping #collaboration #scaleable #control #biocontrol #fedscience #fedservice #management #protection #swamp #wetland #grasslands #geomorphology #geomorphometry #water #hydrology #native #species #USGS #NPS
@USGS @NPS

World Heritage boundaries — minus the plantations

"Research has shown there are more significant populations of koala, and more significant koala trees than the areas of native forest now under logging moratorium. This is particularly the case for the plantation habitat in Newry, Wild Cattle Creek, Pine Creek and Tuckers Nob State Forests. Tragically, this koala habitat will continue to be subjected to ongoing forestry operations — which threatens the viability of the population as a whole. With one-tenth of the population located in these forests, ongoing operations will result in a permanent cull."

"Suspending all operations in these areas pending a full review is essential to protect the integrity of the park’s natural values as a whole."
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https://medium.com/@timothymarkcadman/statement-on-gknp-41297fa24e65
#biodiversity #koalas #culling #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #plantations #LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #plantationocene

#Microsoft has started its #culling of #managers and #noncoders, with about 6,000 cuts planned
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-plans-to-cut-thousands-of-employees-2025-5?op=1

Culling With Imagen Is Like Having Your Own Personal AI Editor https://petapixel.com/2025/04/08/culling-with-imagen-is-like-having-your-own-personal-ai-editor/ #artificalintelligence #Post-Processing #editingworkflow #postprocessing #Sponsored #Software #culling #imagen #ai

Оптимизация игры на UE. Часть 2. Анализ статистики и первые улучшения

В первой части мы обсудили процесс настройки автоматического сбора статистики для оптимизации игры на Unreal Engine, предложили различные варианты для этого и показали, как настроить сбор статистики при помощи выбранного нами подхода - размещения статических камер на уровне. В этой части мы займемся анализом данных, которые удалось собрать при помощи инструментов FPSChart и Unreal Insights. Разберем, как выявить узкие места, влияющие на производительность, определим приоритеты для оптимизации, рассмотрим и проведем действия для оптимизации Render Thread. После этого проанализируем новые данные по производительности после всех изменений.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/892472/

#unreal_engine #разработка_игр #оптимизация #производительность #unreal_insights #culling #lightmap #texture_compression #instanced_static_mesh

ON1 Debuts Lightroom Plugin that Organizes and Edits Your Photos https://petapixel.com/2024/12/16/on1-debuts-lightroom-plugin-that-organizes-and-edits-your-photos/ #artificialintelligence #lightroomplugin #photoediting #professional #lightroom #Software #culling #editing #on1pro #News #on1 #pro #ai

Excire Foto 2025 Promises to Dramatically Speed Up Photo Culling and Organization https://petapixel.com/2024/12/06/excire-foto-2025-promises-to-dramatically-speed-up-photo-culling-and-organization/ #artificialintelligence #photoorganization #excirefoto2025 #postprocessing #organization #photoculling #ExcireFoto #Software #culling #Excire #News #ai

"There is an argument for letting nature take its course. Other species will come along and fill the vacant niches. But that’s a little bit like being at the Louvre and seeing art on fire and going, 'Yeah, but we’ll get more art. That’s fine.'"

An #interview between authors Brandom Keim and Hugh Warwick about #conservation #culling: https://nautil.us/there-will-be-blood-726271

#Longreads #Ecology #Nature #Animals

Killing Large Non-Native Herbivores May Be A Conservation Mistake

by @grrlscientist via @medium

#culling #mammals #herbivores #conservation #ecology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.medium.com/killing-large-non-native-herbivores-may-be-a-conservation-mistake-8881a2374388

Our little hobby project Photoscope only supports iPhone and Vision Pro so far. If you want to try it on iPad or Mac, use the TestFlight build instead. But please, do share your feedback with us: https://testflight.apple.com/join/OgeOuRbn #photography #culling

Is Giving #Farmers Millions to Kill Millions of #Chickens the Way to Curb #BirdFlu?
Big #poultry #farms have received millions of dollars for their losses. #Animalwelfare groups contend that aid reinforces inhumane #culling of sick #birds.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/science/bird-flu-aid-animal-welfare.html
https://archive.ph/MEP8k

What if we instead stopped #FactoryFarming?
#AvianFlu #influenza #pandemic