💧🌏 Greg Cocks6d ago
Characterizing Wildfire Behavior With ECOSTRESS Land Surface Temperature Across Four California Case Studies
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2026.103777 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #ECOSTRESS #remotesensing #earthobservation #wildfire #increased #frequency #intensity #forestfire #monitoring #hotspot #detection #Rateofspread #HotspotBurn #severity #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #VIIRS #fireradiativepower #FRP #landsurface #temperature #California #casestudy #burn #severity #dNBR #landsat #satellite #WesternUSA #extremeweather #climatechange #water #hydrology #hydrometeorology #drought #humanactivity #humanimpacts #ECOsystemSpaceborneThermalRadiometerExperimentonSpaceStation #ISS #spacestation #LST #rateofspread
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WIST QuotationsApr 22

A quotation from Thomas More

Well, those are my objections on moral grounds. From a practical point of view, surely it’s obvious that to punish thieves and murderers in precisely the same way is not only absurd but also highly dangerous for the public.
   If a thief knows that a conviction for murder will get him into no more trouble than a conviction for theft, he’s naturally impelled to kill the person that he’d otherwise merely have robbed. It’s no worse for him if he’s caught, and it gives him a better chance of not being caught, and of concealing the crime altogether by eliminating the only witness.
   So in our efforts to terrorize thieves we’re actually encouraging them to murder innocent people.
 
   [Non licere putem. Quam uero sit absurdum, atque etiam perniciosum reipublicae furem, atque homicidam ex aequo puniri, nemo est, opinor, qui nesciat.
   Nempe quum latro conspiciat non minus imminere discriminis duntaxat furti damnato, quam si praeterea conuincatur homicidij, hac una cogitatione impellitur in caedem eius, quem alioqui fuerat tantum spoliaturus. quippe praeterquam quod deprehenso nihil sit plus periculi, est etiam in caede securitas maior, & maior caelandi spes sublato facinoris indice.
   Itaque dum fures nimis atrociter studemus perterrefacere, in bonorum incitamus perniciem.]

Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 “Discourses of Raphael Hythloday” (1518 ed.) [tr. Turner (1965 ed.)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83554/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #penalsystem #capitalpunishment #crime #criminal #cruelty #deathpenalty #execution #hanging #killing #nothingtolose #punishment #severity #stealing #theft #thief #thievery #unintendedconsequences

More, Thomas - Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 "Discourses of Raphael Hythloday" (1518 ed.) [tr. Turner (1965 ed.)] | WIST Quotations

Well, those are my objections on moral grounds. From a practical point of view, surely it's obvious that to punish thieves and murderers in precisely the same way is not only absurd but also highly dangerous for the public. If a thief knows that a conviction for murder will get…

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💧🌏 Greg CocksMar 14
Populus Tremuloides [Aka Aspen] As A Natural Fire Barrier In Canada’s Boreal Forest Under A Changing Climate
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123671 <-- shared paper 🔗
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #flammable #barrier #extremeweather #fireweather #fireactivity #wildfire #bushfire #fire #firebreak #FireKnowledge #FireEcology #AspenTrees #Canada #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #forest #risk #hazard #damage #climatechange #warming #tree #mixed #diversity #species #perimeter #ecozones #ecology #geostatistics #forest #forestcover #burn #severity #stand #burnarea #management #aspen #populustremuloides #Fireactivity #Burnseverity #Fireweather #Deciduous #Phenology
#NRCANScience #NRCAN #NaturalResourcesCanada
eicker.news ᳇ tech newsMar 5
A #study published in #Nature Medicine found that #OpenAI’s #ChatGPT #Health chatbot frequently #underestimated the #severity of #medicalemergencies, recommending delayed care in over half of cases where doctors would send patients to the ER. The chatbot also over-triaged non-urgent cases and inconsistently responded to suicidal ideation scenarios. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/chatgpt-health-under-triaged-half-medical-emergencies-rcna261409?eicker.news #tech #media #news
ChatGPT Health 'under-triaged' half of medical emergencies in a new study

ChatGPT Health — OpenAI’s new health-focused chatbot — frequently underestimated the severity of medical emergencies, according to a study published last week in the journal Nature Medicine

NBC News
💧🌏 Greg CocksNov 5, 2025
Fewer Forest Fires Burn In North America Today Than In The Past—And That's A Bad Thing
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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/undrr_this-study-in-nature-communications-shows-activity-7390659024213577728-T5St?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop <-- shared LinkedIn technical post
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https://www.preventionweb.net/news/fewer-forest-fires-burn-north-america-today-past-and-thats-bad-thing <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56333-8 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #USA #model #modeling #sampling #fire #wildfire #change #NorthAmerica #USA #Canada #cost #damage #frequency #research #treerin #firescar #NAFSN #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #forest #tree #firesurplus #firedeficit #foresttype #burnrate #firextent #severity #risk #hazard #ecosystem #humanimpacts #infrastructure #watersupply #impacts #costs #economics #publicsafety
#UNDRR #CIRES #UnitedNationsOfficeforDisasterRisk Reduction
Giuseppe MichieliSep 13, 2025
Shifting tides: increased #severity despite fewer visits for #infant respiratory #infections across two consecutive post-pandemic winters in Northern #Italy, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/09/shifting-tides-increased-severity.html
Shifting tides: increased #severity despite fewer visits for #infant respiratory #infections across two consecutive post-pandemic winters in Northern #Italy

Richard Michael BlaberAug 19, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/08/19/hurricane-erin-north-carolina-coastal-flooding/. #NorthCarolina is a #Republican, #climatechange denying, State. What they've sown in #CO2 #emissions is coming back to bite them, as #hurricanes increase in #frequency & #severity.
Hurricane Erin will bring dangerous coastal flooding to North Carolina

Dangerous coastal impacts from Hurricane Erin will peak along the East Coast on Wednesday and Thursday as the storm passes offshore.

The Washington Post
Giuseppe MichieliJul 8, 2025
Differential #severity of #SARS-CoV-2 #variant infections in #children and #adults with #COVID19, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/07/differential-severity-of-sars-cov-2.html
Differential #severity of #SARS-CoV-2 #variant infections in #children and #adults with #COVID19

Show threadRichard R LeeJul 7, 2025
#Frequency - #Severity - #Intensity - All #OffTheCharts. $1T is just #chickenfeed in the grand scheme of the #ClimateApocalypse.
@chrisnelder @ER
PrivacyDigestJun 30, 2025

Actively #exploited #vulnerability gives extraordinary control over #server fleets

The vulnerability, carrying a #severity rating of 10 out of a possible 10, resides in the #AMIMegaRAC , a widely used #firmware package that allows large fleets of servers to be remotely accessed and managed even when power is unavailable or the operating system isn't functioning.
#security #ami #megarac

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/active-exploitation-of-ami-management-tool-imperils-thousands-of-servers/

Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets

AMI MegaRAC used in servers from AMD, ARM, Fujitsu, Gigabyte, Supermicro, and Qualcomm.

Ars Technica