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🧙🏽Muirén🦉 @[email protected] · 2026-08-20 · 15:47 UTC

Sixty-nine-year-old Wynd Kaufmyn, a retired teacher from #Berkeley, #California, is believed to be the first person imprisoned for protesting the development of artificial intelligence, after she and other members of the group StopAI were arrested during a sit-in protest at the headquarters of OpenAI.
#Ai #OpenAI #Science #Ethics #DirectAction #Neoliberalism #Capitalism #Oligarchy #StateViolence #AlgorithmicViolence #ExtinctionEvent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v99DkPP6LVY

#berkeley #california #ai #openai #science #ethics

Stargeezer Smith @[email protected] · 2026-07-21 · 03:19 UTC

Researchers Narrow Down the Type of Meteorite that Killed the Dinosaurs - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/articles/researchers-narrow-down-the-type-of-meteorite-that-killed-the-dinosaurs

#extinctionevent
#chicxulubasteroid

#extinctionevent #chicxulubasteroid

Large Format Projectionist @[email protected] · 2026-04-30 · 18:35 UTC

#astronomy #comet #asteroid #extinctionevent

In air combat, they say if you see a missile that doesn’t appear to move relative to the background, it’s headed right at you.

Would an asteroid headed to earth appear stationary in the terminal phase? Could it appear stationary (or damned near) far enough in advance to be a useful warning?

#astronomy #comet #asteroid #extinctionevent

Joxe Rojas 🥐 @[email protected] · 2026-03-29 · 15:45 UTC

Birritan bizi izan dut gaur hegazkin batetik ateratzeko prozesua.

Megafonia eta pertsonala: "mesedez geratu zuen eserlekuetan eta irtetea ilaraka egingo dugu, erosoago eta azkarrago"

Jendea: protestaka, elkar kolpatzen motxila guztiak aldi berean atera nahian, pasilloan ataskatuta...

#ExtinctionEvent

#extinctionevent

Planetary Ecologist @[email protected] · 2025-03-31 · 19:15 UTC

Extinction event (Evolutionary biology 🧬)

An extinction event is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified by a sharp fall in the diversity and abundance of multicellular organisms. It occurs when the rate of extinction increases with respect to the background extinction r...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event

#ExtinctionEvent #ExtinctionEvents #NaturalDisasters #EvolutionaryBiology #HypotheticalImpactEvents #MeteorologicalHypotheses

#extinctionevent #extinctionevents #naturaldisasters #evolutionarybiology #hypotheticalimpactevents #meteorologicalhypotheses

rexi @[email protected] · 2025-02-01 · 09:00 UTC

@randahl

and a great recipe for a nuclear holocaust, with destruction beyond even the danger of a #climatechange #extinctionevent

#climatechange #extinctionevent

Shantell Powell @[email protected] · 2025-01-02 · 16:54 UTC

Plenty of nonhuman mammals have COVID. This is a factor in the rise of bird flu in all sorts of animals. COVID is ground zero in a cluster of burgeoning interrelated pandemics. It ruins immune systems just like HIV does. Wear a mask. Get vaccinated. Use HEPA filters. Save one another and save the animals, too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_that_can_get_SARS-CoV-2 #pandemic #covid #BirdFlu #ImmunoCompromised #ExtinctionEvent

#extinctionevent #pandemic #covid #birdflu #immunocompromised

IT News @[email protected] · 2024-11-23 · 03:25 UTC

Mammalian Ancestors Shed Light on The Great Dying - As we move through the Sixth Extinction, it can be beneficial to examine what caus... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/22/mammalian-ancestors-shed-light-on-the-great-dying/ #paleoclimatology #extinctionevent #carbondioxide #climatechange #paleobiology #paleontology #volcanology #science #climate #volcano #pangea #co2

#co2 #pangea #volcano #climate #science #volcanology

Andy @[email protected] · 2024-10-22 · 03:19 UTC

#earth #space #meteorite #history #sea #extinctionevent #asteroid #oceans
As far as bad days in history go, this one’s pretty hard to beat…

Mega meteorite tore up seabed and boiled Earth's oceans https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g4g455p8lo

#oceans #asteroid #extinctionevent #sea #history #meteorite

Charlie McHenry @[email protected] · 2024-02-22 · 01:18 UTC

This is an oceanographic phenomenon worthy of our attention and alarm. Lots of talk about #TippingPoint events lately, with good reason. This is one of the most important to track, with profound global implications for #ClimateChange and #ExtinctionEvent triggering. If the #AMOC becomes more unstable, as it is doing every year, it WILL collapse - within a few generations. And that, my friends, will change the world in dramatic ways. We don’t want to go there, but are well on our way. #Oceans #Oceanography #AtlanticCurrents #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ku_ozEYBmY8&si=RLzT7jLJgSP_yvE0

#tippingpoint #climatechange #extinctionevent #amoc #oceans #oceanography

PSiReN-X :verified_flashing: @[email protected] · 2024-02-19 · 05:49 UTC

I've been #SavingIT for the #Impending #ExtinctionEvent... I hope we get #SomeSort of #Warning; I'd hate to #MissIT...

🧙⚔️🤖:wolfparty:🤖⚔️🧙 | 🪐🦹🚀🦄🚀🦹🪐

#savingit #impending #extinctionevent #somesort #warning #missit

Ukraine War Bulletins and News @[email protected] · 2024-01-19 · 15:43 UTC

⚠️🇺🇦"It is too late to save everyone". Climatologist Svitlana Krakovska on climate issues, war, and the bar that Ukraine sets for the world (more) https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2024/01/7/7436107/ #Ukraine #Press #News #Mastodon #Climate #ClimateChange #ExtinctionEvent #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottMusk #AxisOfEvil
#NoEUPrezForHungary
#NoUSRepublicans2024

#ukraine #press #news #mastodon #climate #climatechange

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2023-12-16 · 23:41 UTC

Welcome to the #extinction capital of the world

Our planet faces a #MassExtinction. I visited ground zero.

By Benji Jones
Dec 14, 2023, 8:00am EST

PEARL CITY, #Oahu — "On a warm November afternoon in a trailer not far from Pearl Harbor, a scientist named David Sischo popped open the lid to a small plastic tank. From a jumble of leaves, he pulled out something precious.

"'I would argue that they’re one of the rarest animals on Earth,' Sischo said.

"A hand wearing a blue latex glove holds a clear plastic petri dish with five small cream and brown striped snails above a box containing green vegetation.

"David Sischo holds a petri dish with a handful of Achatinella fulgens #snails.

"In his hands were several cream-colored snails. They had thin brown bands circling their shells, like swirls of caramel in a small scoop of ice cream.

"The snails were asleep and tucked into their shells as Sischo placed them on a petri dish (snails are nocturnal). But after a few minutes, their antennae popped out, their gooey feet emerged, and they started to move. Slowly.

"These snails, a species called Achatinella fulgens, are one step away from #extinction. They only exist in this room, a lab that’s part of the state’s Snail Extinction Prevention Program (#SEPP). Funded in part by the Endangered Species Act (#ESA), it’s a modern-day Noah’s ark, home to roughly 40 species of snails that are either extinct in the wild or about to be.

"In recent decades, hundreds of species of snails have gone extinct across the Hawaiian Islands, said Sischo, a state biologist who runs SEPP. Another hundred are now at risk of blinking out. These animals may lack charisma by some definitions, but they are revered in native Hawaiian culture and linchpins in their ecosystems. They recycle nutrients, helping fertilize the forest, a source of water for the island."

#Hawaii #EndangeredSpecies #Snails #ExtinctionEvent