📰 Two years ago today in Lviv, Ukraine…

#Opinion #Podcast #RussianInvasion #RussianWar #Substack #Ukraine

https://www.political.tips/p/two-years-ago-today-in-lviv-ukraine

If you're in #Vienna, check out the current exhibition in #UnteresBelvedere "In the eye of the storm - #Modernism in #Ukraine"

Lots of great pieces. My personal favorites probably are the paintings by Abram Manewytsch. The phone pics don't do them justice. That goat 🐐 made me smile 😂

"Your city is a scab on the landscape: sidewalks, roads, parking lots, rooftops—the built environment repels water into sewers & then into the environment. Urban planners have been doing it for centuries, treating stormwater as a nuisance to be diverted away as quickly as possible to avoid flooding. Not only is that a waste of free water, it’s an increasingly precarious strategy, as #climate change worsens #droughts but also supercharges storms, dumping ever more #rainfall on impervious cities.

#Urban areas in the United States generate an estimated 59.5 million acre-feet of stormwater runoff / year on average—equal to 53 billion gallons / day. Over the course of the year, that equates to 93% of total municipal & industrial water use. American urban areas couldn’t feasibly capture all of that bountiful runoff, but a combination of smarter stormwater infrastructure & “#SpongeCity” techniques would make urban areas far more sustainable."
#permaculture #wetlands
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2024/03/us-cities-could-capture-billions-gallons-rain-water-conservation-drought/

AI models found to show language bias by recommending Black defendents be 'sentenced to death'

— The thing about this that terrifies me is the implication that lethal racism is embedded pervasively in our written culture at so deep a level that simple attempts to sanitize the LLM input data corpus doesn't even scratch the surface of the problem. https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/03/09/ai-models-found-to-show-language-bias-by-recommending-black-defendents-be-sentenced-to-dea