Oh I hope this works well because I hate spam.
Spam emails are undesired messages that are often sent to many random users in bulks. These messages can contain advertisements, but also phishing links or malware. The automatic filtering of emails and the identification of spam messages is highly advantageous, as it can reduce the risk of phishing attacks and make it easier for users to navigate their accounts.
Over the past few years, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced computational models to automatically detect spam emails. To perform well, however, most of these models need to be trained on large email datasets, which were manually labeled by humans.
Researchers at Sinhgad Institute of Technology Lonavala in India have recently created a new technique for the automatic detection of spam emails. This technique, presented in a paper published in the International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, could help to improve the security of users, while also helping them to skim irrelevant or undesired emails.
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-03-automatically-filter-spam-emails.html
How about some good news?
A cat from Odessa separated from his owner during the Ukraine war has been reunited with his mom who is currently in Arkansas. The process it took for the cat to be reunited is amazing. A very happy ending.
P.S. the cat is absolutely adorable. And fluffy.
How about some very good news today?
In a blow to a gold and copper mining company, the Biden Admin EPA is saying "no" to a proposed mine at Bristol Bay Alaska so that the world's largest salmon fishery and spawning area can be protected.
This is also a HUGE win for native Americans who fought against the mining company for 12 years and finally appears to have won.
"Using a rarely used authority under the Clean Water Act to protect wetlands from being dumped with waste, agency officials found the proposed mine would destroy 8.5 miles of streams and lead to “unacceptable” injury to the region’s salmon."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/05/25/biden-epa-bristol-bay-salmon/
More good news:
The Guardian: Monarch butterfly numbers in Mexico rise by 35%
"Mexican experts have said that 35% more monarch butterflies arrived this year to spend the winter in mountaintop forests, compared with the previous season.
Experts say the rise may reflect the butterflies’ ability to adapt to more extreme bouts of heat or drought by varying the date when they leave Mexico.
The government commission for natural protected areas said the butterflies’ population covered 2.84 hectares (7 acres) this year, compared with 2.1 hectares last year."
This is for the Eastern monarch population, not for the US West Coast, which is counted separately.
I've read elsewhere that a healthy population of monarchs should occupy 6 hectares, so we've got a ways to go still to help them get there.
If you're a gardener, consider planting native milkweed plants (often found at local native plant society sales). Milkweed is the only plant that Monarchs will lay their eggs on, so if milkweed is depleted, there's simply nowhere for them to reproduce.
I needed to see something like this today: a very promising potential cure for AIDS:
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-709293
Bo knows baseball.
Bo knows football.
Bo knows how to be a bright light during a dark time.
Bo Jackson was the anonymous donor who paid for all of the Uvalde funerals after that horrible shooting.
As much as Bo knows sports, Bo knows how to spread healing light during the darkest of times.
May Bo inspire a new generation to act in love and shine a bright light. We can all shine a light. We can all act in love.
I was reading an article about what types of changes we can make personally to lesson our carbon footprint and making an impact to help the environment. Most were things which have been discussed frequently on our site, especially be @jeanne-mayell. Things like purchasing g an electric vehicle, getting rid of gas’s heating and gas appliances, knowing how your local politicians/candidates stand on climate issues, eating less animal protein and so forth. But one thing was mentioned which I had not seen listed anywhere before.
Updating groups ( texting, family chat, friends, advocacy, school mates websites you are a member of) on plans and actions you are putting into place in your own life to help the environment. Big things and small. That walk to the grocery store, the up cycling of items, repurposing things, show shopping trips are changing for you, where you are letting you dollar speak, and so forth,
I like that idea. We can motivate ourselves and the people we interact with in so many positive ways. I know you have all impacted my climate consciousness , certainly the more we discuss, learn and apply information , the greater the impact we can all have, one carbon footstep at a time.
So let’s discuss here and in other circles we interact with, small and large ways we are trying to make a difference. I think the benefits might surprise us in the long and even short run.
OK here are a few really small things supporting nature and the environment that I do and I admit they are things I enjoy which makes it easy.
- I have begun making lemonade in the summer instead of buying it in plastic jugs, being totally appalled at the volume of waste even though the jugs went into the recycling bin. Lemon juice and zest, simple syrup, water – re-using the same jug.
- Also, I have a clothesline plus indoor racks and rarely use a dryer. I have an inordinate love of the outdoor clothesline and also folding laundry. Maybe because it was my job as a kid to bring in the clothes from the line at the end of the day. It feels settled and calming.
- Thrift shopping/re-use stores
Homemade lemonade is is so much better. Store bought is usually too sweet for me . I also enjoy real lemons. I had not thought about the plastic jugs which are not needed, great thinking. We have a tangelo tree in our yard and in the spring we make fresh tangelo juice which is naturally sweet and refreshing. Also, not plastic waste.
it is so hot here in the summer I can acc so no sometimes do dry my clothes outside. Our community does allow use to have a clothes line so I hang the clothes on a hook for our potted plants. Haha.
I need to do this again as I stopped last month before heading out of town.
I would love to see more towns have “reusing” centers . I was pleasantly surprised to find a place near where my daughter lives that recycles and reuses many house hold items including cardboard, metals and glass. People were both dropping off and picking up items..
There are 40% more tigers in the world than previously estimated.
(here kitty, kitty,kitty ... )
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/23/1113186725/tigers-population-numbers-endangered-species