The main reason I deleted my Claude AI app and tried to disable Gemini , Copilot etc , I'd already deleted Chatgpt, as I want to minimise my wasteful environmental impacts. Link here to UN report

Another interesting article on AI, again focussed more on writing , with a deliberate "just tricking" title to grab your attention, but actually bitter sweet celebration of what makes us human open.substack.com/pub/shawnsmu...

AI is ubiquitous. I use Xero bookkeeping software. Then Xero sends me an email: "Get insights on your data" Log in to Claude AI. No no no no ! I just recently deleted Claude AI app after a dabble to see how scarily good it is at correcting my excel spreadsheets. AI is not enviro friendly

So many strong opinions online re AI. Chatting at playpark to a visiting doctor from overseas who said that AI can interpret breast cancer scans better than a human & an engineer said they use it to improve PowerPoint presentations. My handwritten notes, not using as much electricity & water as AI

Tells of AI writing "what most people don't know" "truly" "honestly" "absolutely" emdashes . Claude AI is skilled at correcting my excel spreadsheets, but I'd rather have a human assistant www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Odysseus AI looks interesting. No need to load your data into the cloud. Presumably it still uses massive amounts of energy electricity water so like all AI not enviro friendly pewdiepie-archdaemon.github.io/odysseus/

This is interesting, that uni defended it as sophisticated use of AI. Use of AI to edit your original article or student assignment , may become as usual as using spell check or Grammarly www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Presumably all students use AI assistance to complete assignments these days , must be so hard for those marking the efforts

" right now kids are taking on tens of thousands of dollars in debt to have a terrible campus experience while being graded on who can write the best AI prompts." Kylie Moore Gilbert www.facebook.com/share/p/1DiG...

To read about snakes, snails and beetles at Lowlands Coastal Reserve today visit open.substack.com/pub/lowlands...

Sunset Song seemed apt for today's post, as I’ve hit my km & $ targets for my ACF fundraiser. I’ve also recently donated to Parkinsons WA &, wanting to share the love, I’m now fundraising for this very worthy cause. To donate, visit www.parkinsonswa.org.au/donate open.substack.com/pub/lowlands...

14km The weather was gorgeous, and by the end I was as tired as the motionless ragged female karri moth I spotted resting near the peppies. I'm fundraising for @ausconservation.bsky.social to donate go to australiasbiggestbushwalk.org.au/s-murray see my blog at open.substack.com/pub/lowlands...

I took lots of photos of rainbows on our walk today, and I was coincidentally wearing my 1980s rainbow scarf.. To read more you can go to my substack blog open.substack.com/pub/lowlands... I'm fundraising for @ausconservation.bsky.social to donate go to australiasbiggestbushwalk.org.au/s-murray

Snail sex! - for more info see the sealed section! click on my substack blog link for all my walks open.substack.com/pub/lowlands... I'm fundraising for @ausconservation.bsky.social through their Australia's Biggest Bushwalk event, to donate go to australiasbiggestbushwalk.org.au/s-murray

Have you been drawing butterflies all wrong? To find out go to my blog on substack open.substack.com/pub/lowlands... I'm fundraising for the Australian Conservation Foundation and writing a blog of my walks , to donate go to australiasbiggestbushwalk.org.au/s-murray

Circular walk , or rather elongated loop, to West Cape Howe hut and back, admiring the dioecious clematis open.substack.com/pub/lowlands... Im fund raising for @ausconservation.bsky.social to donate go to australiasbiggestbushwalk.org.au/s-murray

Disappearing photos. Maybe I clicked on delete not download. I only took photos of bower spinach and a sedge As there are similar tetragonia, I made a collage to help with ID. Oddly the collage survived when the other photos did not. Fundraiser for australiasbiggestbushwalk.org.au/s-murray

Is this hyperbole? Can't be good for climate crisis either theconversation.com/like-having-...

Stars of Lowlands Coastal Reserve open.substack.com/pub/lowlands...

oopsadaisy! substack.com/@lowlandsbea...

Tuart buds are distinctive, some call them mushroom shaped, some say they are shaped like icecream cones. I'm fund raising for @ausconservation.bsky.social to donate australiasbiggestbushwalk.org.au/s-murray open.substack.com/pub/lowlands...

Banksia Woodlands are not defenceless open.substack.com/pub/lowlands...

Paperbarks are the best trees to hug open.substack.com/pub/lowlands... Im fundraising for the Australian Conservation Foundation . To donate australiasbiggestbushwalk.org.au/s-murray

"Climate misinformation watchdogs have noted Australia’s status as a significant hub for climate change misinformation due to the convergence of a powerful fossil fuel industry, concentrated media ownership, and a political landscape which historically leverages climate action as a wedge issue."

Half Price Plants for May open.substack.com/pub/lowlands... Today at the wonderful APACE nursery & Malcolm French’s Gum Tree talk. I'm fund raising for the Australian Conservation Foundation . To donate go to australiasbiggestbushwalk.org.au/s-murray . I'm writing a blog of my walks on substack

You don't have to go to Rottnest substack.com/@lowlandsbea... Fund raising for the Australian Conservation Foundation through their Australias Biggest Bushwalk event. To donate go to australiasbiggestbushwalk.org.au/s-murray 3km today seeking conifers & admiring grid sphere satellite like gumnuts

Angiosperms and Gymnosperms:-Gum trees cultivated and Gum trees wild, Pine trees naturalised and Sheoaks wild open.substack.com/pub/lowlands...

I’m fundraising for Australian Conservation Foundation through the Australia’s Biggest Bushwalk event. You can donate here australiasbiggestbushwalk.org.au/s-murray I'm writing up my daily walks on substack, if you would like to read my blog, you can click lowlandsbeach.substack.com?r=1iblc5&utm...

Habit forming sunset watching. Catching the bus to watch the sunset on successive nights in Freo , highly recommended activity

Extract from the essay Cast Out "How nearly a million Jews were driven out of Middle East countries" 20th century www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/gra...

Record hot ocean temperatures fuelled cyclone Narelle. Time to take action on the climate crisis, www.bom.gov.au/video/severe...

The most environmentally friendly kitchen utensils, food containers, water bottles are the ones you've already got in the cupboard. The most environmentally friendly sunscreens are the forgotten ones you've already got at the back of your bathroom cabinet www.reddit.com/r/AsianBeaut...

"current levels of microplastic consumption in food & water are unlikely to cause significant adverse human health impacts based on the evidence currently available" Humans need to take action on the climate crisis & worry less about family ingesting microplastics? www.theecowell.com/podcast/micr...

Let's all walk together for peace www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Love this, anything showing that we need real artists gets my vote. A bit disappointed the Journal article doesn't highlight the bad ai art as much as this post does tho 🙂

I got interested in this topic as prescribed burning is a divisive topic

Did not expect this to pop up in my vertical garden. I think it's buckwheat. Doubt if I'll get enough to make buckwheat pancakes , so probably going to be green manure hehe

Point scoring between DBCA affiliates and biodiversity advocates continue, Doherty's connectsci.au/zo/article/7... v Don Bradshaw's "To burn or not to burn" assets.nationbuilder.com/ccwa/pages/2... Dohertys article doesn't provide evidence that current burning is good for biodiversity

“If Switzerland can’t [afford it], who in the world can?” “You can’t just say we’ll leave the valleys " www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Outrageous. Alcoa has just been granted a Federal exemption to allow it to continue to mine Jarrah forest. It already has a State exemption.The exemptions allow Alcoa to ignore environmental approval processes. Most clearing has occurred since 2010. Rehab has failed is excessively behind schedule

Happy Valentine's Day, yesterdays Friday the 13th, tomorrows Chinese New Year s eve Shrove pancake Tuesday soon. Potting olast year's Xmas tree woolly bush Adenanthos next to Buddha. Syncing the years festivals. Looking forward to changing the date of Australia day to sync with Easter and Anzac

At a very boring community meeting. I'm on the side of the lizards and the gum trees. Distracting myself with this morning s photos from rare trip north of the river

It's Trains! Gotta love out Perth trains, so clean, so uncrowded, so affordable. $2.80 to the airport www.instagram.com/reel/DUQ5xB8...

Travels on the 532. Swamp hen in a tree at Manning Lake. Turtle nests preyed upon 😢. Crested pigeon

Travels on the 532. Swamp hen in a tree at Manning Lake. Turtle nests preyed upon 😢. Crested pigeon

Too hot

Mushrooms can be used as processors and memory chips for computers. More energy efficient than silicon "In this study, we explored shiitake...* scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...