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MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘

THEY'RE TRYING TO KILL EVERYBODY!

I'm listening to Alex Wagner's podcast from a couple of weeks ago talking about how the is decimating the .

And I think…

They're also trying to shutdown .

…and the .

…and put a lunatic in charge of .

…and ignored/dismissed .

…and are ignoring . And .

…and dismiss .

…and defunding toxic waste cleanup.

…and in his first term, repealed laws against dumping toxic coal ash.

The GOP is a Death Cult.
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MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘

@bud_t @w7voa
I don't know if the people dismantling everything good/helpful/positive about the federal gov't think this far ahead (doubtful), but…

…to put all this stuff back after does away with it… , , thousands of agents, Cleanup, , etc…

…it's going to cost SO much money just to put everything back, are going to run on " want to explode the size of government" for the next two decades. 🤬

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CelloMom On Cars

Hochul signed

"Under the new state law, companies responsible for the bulk of emissions from 2000 to 2018 will be on the hook for some $3 billion a year over the next 25 years.

Hochul’s signature makes the second state with such a law, following Vermont, but the Empire State is far larger, more populous and a major center of American and international financial power."

thehill.com/policy/energy-envi

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CelloMom On Cars

" is home to numerous oil and natural gas facilities. They would be charged fees to help the state fight the effects of under a bill being considered in the Legislature.

The measure, to be discussed Thursday in a state Senate committee, aims to create a Climate similar to the [Federal Superfund created] to clean up toxic waste by charging petroleum and chemical companies an extra tax to fund ongoing cleanups."

whyy.org/articles/new-jersey-c

WHYY · New Jersey, home to many oil and gas producers, eyes fees to fight climate changeBy Associated Press
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1337 $#!+ I did that

"Cancer Field": the Fresno Sanitary Landfill, EPA Superfund Site and Youth Sports Complex, Baseball 2" (Gemma2)

An LLM tries to write a python program to animate a youth baseball game at a toxic waste site. Indirect imaging and AI mental gymnastics. An actual toxic site in Fresno CA.

teia.art/objkt/862221/

teia.artCancer Field: the Fresno Sanitary Landfill, EPA Superfund Site and Youth Sports Complex, Baseball 2 (Gemma2)''' Cancer Field: the Fresno Sanitary Landfill, EPA Superfund Site and Youth Sports Complex, Baseball 2 by Brett STalbaum and Gemma 2 Below is an example of the kind of thing that was happening in 6 total versions of this project, in which Gemma2 seemed to simply forget parts of the prompt and maybe some of it's context window. It was failing a lot, so I made a mash of the fails. >>> Ok, you forgot the random import this time, fine no problem. Also you forgot ... to draw the diamond, bases, fences for right, center and left fields as you ... had in the previous work. Can you add that stuff? You got it! I apologize for missing those details. Here's the updated code with the diamond, bases, and field outlines: ... But it did get this request for brown splotches... A snip: >>> Ok, good start. You forgot to import math, declare the variable white, and w ... hen it runs there is no actual animation motion on the screen. Can you fix t ... his? You are absolutely right! My apologies for those oversights. Here's the corrected code with `math` imported, `white` declared, and animation working: That one did not work either... so I asked for this: >>> pygame.display.flip() is not the problem, your previous version had it. Let' ... s remove the rotation, to keep it simple, and rethink how you make the linea ... r movement of the dots. First, place the dots on the field where the basebal ... l 9 baseball positions are normally situatied around the diamond. Then alter ... their x and y positions so that they move at each step of the animation. Y ... ou will need variables for this, I suggest a parallel array representing x a ... nd y for all 10 players (catcher, pitcher, first baseman, second baseman, sh ... ort stop, third baseman, right fielder, centerfielder, left fielder, and of ... course the opposing batter who should probably have a different team color. ... Also, please keep the green, brown and spotches. But let's use some more sop ... hiticated colors for the rest. Go for a subtle pallet. You got it! Here's the code with baseball diamond positioning, linear movement for players (now 10 total), and a more sophisticated color palette: ```python ''' import pygame import random pygame.init() # Colors (keeping the color palette) green = (0, 128, 0) blue = (0, 0, 255) red = (255, 0, 0) brown = (139, 69, 19) cream = (255, 245, 238) # Subtle cream gold = (218, 165, 32) # Light gold # Screen dimensions width = 800 height = 600 screen = pygame.display.set_mode((width, height)) pygame.display.set_caption(Cancer Field 2) # Player positions (baseball diamond layout) diamond_positions = [ (width // 4, height * 3 // 8), # Catcher (width // 2 - 50, height * 3 // 8), # Pitcher (width * 3 // 4, height * 3 // 8), # First baseman (width * 3 // 4, height * 5 // 8), # Second baseman (width * 3 // 4, height * 7 // 8), # Third baseman (width // 2 + 50, height * 7 // 8), # Shortstop (width * 7 // 8, height * 5 // 8), # Right fielder (width * 7 // 8, height * 3 // 8), # Centerfielder (width * 7 // 8, height * 1 // 8), # Left fielder (width // 4, height * 1 // 8) # Batter (opposing team color) ] # Player movement variables player_speed = 2 player_x_changes = [player_speed for _ in range(10)] # Positive and negative values for direction player_y_changes = [0 for _ in range(10)] running = True while running: for event in pygame.event.get(): if event.type == pygame.QUIT: running = False screen.fill(green) # Fill the background # Draw diamond outline (approximation) pygame.draw.polygon(screen, brown, [ (width // 4, height * 3 // 8), (width // 2 - 50, height * 3 // 8), (width * 3 // 4, height * 3 // 8), (width * 3 // 4, height * 7 // 8), (width // 2 + 50, height * 7 // 8), (width // 2 - 50, height * 3 // 8) ]) # Draw bases (smaller circles for each base) pygame.draw.circle(screen, brown, diamond_positions[0], 10) # Home plate pygame.draw.circle(screen, brown, diamond_positions[1], 5) # Pitcher's mound for i, (x, y) in enumerate(diamond_positions): if i != 0 and i != 1: # Draw bases for other positions pygame.draw.circle(screen, brown, diamond_positions[i], 7) # Draw outfield fences (example lines, adjust as needed) pygame.draw.line(screen, blue, (width * 7 // 8 - 50, height * 1 // 8), (width, height * 1 // 8), 3) # Right field line pygame.draw.line(screen, blue, (width * 7 // 8, height * 3 // 8), (width * 7 // 8, height * 5 // 8), 3) # Center field line pygame.draw.line(screen, blue, (width * 7 // 8 - 50, height * 7 // 8), (width * 3 // 4, height * 7 // 8), 3) # Left field line # Draw the players # so at one point, gemma forgot to draw the players, well, to draw them well for i, (x, y) in enumerate(diamond_positions): if i != 0 and i != 1: pygame.draw.circle(screen, cream if i 2 == 0 else gold, diamond_positions[i], 5) # So I went back to this from an earlier version # Draw player dots for i, (x, y) in enumerate(diamond_positions): # Update player position new_x = x + player_x_changes[i] new_y = y + player_y_changes[i] # Keep players within the field bounds if new_x < 0 or new_x > width: player_x_changes[i] *= -1 if new_y < 0 or new_y > height: player_y_changes[i] *= -1 diamond_positions[i] = (new_x, new_y) # Assign colors for players and the batter if i == 9: # Batter color = red else: color = cream if i 2 == 0 else gold pygame.draw.circle(screen, color, diamond_positions[i], 5) # Draw spots (add variety and density for a more interesting look) for _ in range(50): x = random.randint(0, width) y = random.randint(0, height) pygame.draw.circle(screen, brown, (x, y), 2) # Update the display pygame.display.flip() pygame.quit()
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Victor

Kit Carson Electric Cooperative is set to receive a $95.6 million federal award for its proposed Questa Green #Hydrogen Project, the utility has announced. The hydrogen project is intended to benefit the electric co-op’s entire service territory in Northern New Mexico while repurposing #reclaimed #water from the closed Chevron molybdenum mine, now a #Superfund site, to manufacture hydrogen. #grant #funding santafenewmexican.com/news/loc

Santa Fe New MexicanQuesta hydrogen project getting over $95M in federal fundsThe hydrogen project is intended to benefit electrical service while repurposing reclaimed water from the closed Chevron molybdenum mine.
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Victor

Kit Carson Electric Cooperative is set to receive a $95.6 million federal award for its proposed Questa Green #Hydrogen Project, the utility has announced. The hydrogen project is intended to benefit the electric co-op’s entire service territory in Northern New Mexico while repurposing #reclaimed #water from the closed Chevron molybdenum mine, now a #Superfund site, to manufacture hydrogen. #grant #funding santafenewmexican.com/news/loc

Santa Fe New MexicanQuesta hydrogen project getting over $95M in federal fundsThe hydrogen project is intended to benefit electrical service while repurposing reclaimed water from the closed Chevron molybdenum mine.
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Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD

"The credit belongs to the man who in the arena - whose face is marred by dust, sweat, blood; who strives valiantly - who errs but courageously shouts USE THIS ONE PLEASE; if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly."

It's official! My ARB appellate brief was accepted! 🤘

Read it here:
ashleygjovik.com/uploads/1/3/7

image of email notification of acceptance
email of letter attesting to service
cover page of brief
#appellatelaw#superfund#environmental
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RDN

Analysis of the status of almost 1,700 Superfund sites in the U.S., and the demographics of surrounding communities, finds that "the proportion of the nearby population that is Asian is negatively associated with the probability of a Superfund site being cleaned up."

Previous studies have examined only Black, Hispanic, and Native American groups.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art

OUP AcademicRace and Superfund site remediationAbstract. Superfund is a federal program established in 1980 to manage the cleanup of hazardous waste sites across the United States. Given the health and
#Science#Pollution#Superfund
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Ben Bristow

(3/3) The Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. I recommend you cancel the class swimming trip that you scheduled here.

Seriously, this is from 2011, right after the canal was named as a Superfund site. It would never have been filthier. Gowanus must be highly desirable Brooklyn real estate since it's a charming ex-industrial area with waterfront, so I have to think financial forces will result in a thorough cleanup.

The filthy surface of the Gowanus canal in Brooklyn. Surface film reflects in the sun, the image is close to abstract.
#TextureTuesday#Photography#Nikon
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Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD

🧵 Some site feedback homework for those who are into that sort of thing.

Back in May I asked US about the public participation process for the TRW Superfund 5yr-review, noting I want to share info with the (you guys!). EPA never replied. F'n EPA.

However, US EPA did just send me a Triple Site survey! (TRW Microwave is part of the Triple Site).

It says its "confidential" & just for me, but whatever, let's do it together.

email with epa
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Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD

🧵 I forgot to tell you guys!! I discovered something *amazing* during the legal research last month. There's an law called HAZWOPER that required Apple to inform us about our NPL office, formally train us, monitor exposure, & develop health/safety plans!! ⬇️

I'm appalled that after so many conversations with state & US & OSHA, they all claimed no law like this exists. It exists!!!!! All the things I told Apple to do were actually expressly required by law. Eat that, Apple.

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