Notices by Douglas (douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org)

@SerhatTutkal it's not just journals and reviewers.

There's a senior professor I work with who feeds masters theses and dissertations into chat gpt on his own personal paid account (not even through the institution's own paid services) and uses that to provide feedback to the students and decide who graduates. It's wild. And because he's senior there's nothing anyone seems to be able to do.

@ai6yr so what did he do to piss off those dudes enough to cause that. Or is this insurance fraud.

Here are a few other photos from #BigSur today including #McWayFalls which was deserted and more of Castro Canyon at #deetjens

#Deetjens in #BigSur was empty this morning when we went for breakfast. It just reopened today after a second closure for the #TimberFire

We saw Nomad (#574) the #Condor in the southern reaches of #BigSur today. He was making his way back uphill after having a small meal on a dead sea lion down on the beach. The wind wasn't cooperating so he was waiting around for a breeze to come up.

It's wild to me that the Monterey County Sheriff has filed murder charges against a 14 year old girl over the death of her newborn that her father caused via rape/incest while they still can't find her or her father. And they already arrested her mom and let her out on bail.

https://www.countyofmonterey.gov/Home/Components/News/News/12339/14253?widgetId=11601

https://www.countyofmonterey.gov/Home/Components/News/News/12341/14253?widgetId=11601

It's a bit hard to believe that the 14 year old girl involved in this case was the mastermind behind killing her baby when her father and maybe mother were evidently there when the baby was born on a dirt road next to a strawberry field and left there. And there's a car involved that the sheriff had to call out Flock cameras in somehow helping identify/find (the sheriff is trying to get a ten year contract for the county with Flock to have over 100 of them on county roads which the community is overwhelmingly opposed to). But I doubt the 14 year old was driving...

This is at the least a really bad look for the county sheriff to be charging a child with murder of her baby that was evidently created by her dad raping her while her dad still is hiding him and her.

The flash flood at Phantom Ranch and Bright Angel Creek could end up with a pretty hefty body count 😬😬

And they've had to shut down river travel because bridges got washed out and into the river.

The Grand Canyon isn't messing around this weekend.

@NilaJones @ai6yr my father who was on crews in the 70s said they called them shake-n-bakes back then.

@ai6yr some of the video on Instagram is pretty incredible. Looks like a lot of houses are being lost. Reminiscent of the Marshall Fire in Boulder County a few years back.

@ai6yr how is it unexpected when the subsides go away, everything costs so much more, and actual real employment is quite poor?

So what would happen if net carbon emissions went to zero today? Would we be stuck at 429ppm for a very long time or would the CO2 slowly get absorbed via geologic and biological processes?

Is this a situation where we need to start planting a ton of trees and then burying them to permanently sequester carbon back in the ground as fast as possible (unlike all of the crazy schemes to somehow sequester carbon via mechanical means)?

What do the realistic paths back to 275 ppm look like? Are there any?

@lauren big yikes 😬😬😬

I guess that's a good reason to carry an emergency extrication tool when using this sort of vehicle.

@ai6yr it would be interesting to see a wide body go down because of this...

@paul_ipv6 @natesiggard @MsMerope @ai6yr similar stuff is happening in California. It's very rare to see a new wood shake roof anymore. By us in Monterey it's mostly asphalt shingles with some tile roofs as well. By my parents in the mountains it's 95% metal.

@ai6yr @natesiggard * may not apply in extreme fire weather with ultra low humidity, high winds, and a fire storm heading your way.

But then again, would defensible space matter all that much of a super charged wall of flames blow torched your house?

@ai6yr @natesiggard as long as the garden is lush and moist, it can serve as a fire break in many conditions.

@ai6yr @MsMerope @natesiggard I'll ask my dad about it next time I visit. He saved the scraps so I should be able to figure out what they are.

@ai6yr @MsMerope @natesiggard evidently the plastic planks are what was recommended by their local CalFire and USFS stations. I'm not totally sure why though. Maybe they're harder to ignite initially before everything is super heated?

@MsMerope @ai6yr @natesiggard I've been wondering if the same rules apply to wood fences as they do to wood decks... My parents were allowed to have wood decks because the boards were thicker than 2" (all custom milled on site from standing dead timber). Although recently they replaced the decking on the rear porch with plastic planks.

So if you had a thick wooden fence, would that be okay?

@autolycos @ai6yr @MsMerope @natesiggard I've been following these folks https://www.mojavecenter.org/

They are doing some really cool construction work. If I lived in the desert and I could convince my 👸🏼, I would be building something like that or an earthship-style design.