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@Legit_Spaghetti

I don't know what you are complaining about.

Looking at the image: The single elephant and beach are in it, as requested; and the beach is definitely not within the elephant, but indeed is without.

Yes, I have indeed experienced Alexander's hymn "There is a green hill far away". Many, many times.

Did you try "sans"?

You could try to see what it makes of the first two lines of the hymn.

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#AI#LLMs#elephants
While walking along a pedestrian path, I saw two elephants from the Karlsruhe Zoo holding each other's trunks. The image reminded me of a poem by Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral:
Give me your hand and we'll dance.
Give me your hand and you'll love me.
Like a single flower, we'll be.
Like a flower and nothing more. Well, in this case, it would be: give me your trunk.
#urbanfotography #streetwalks #elephants #poems #gabrielamistral #animals

"The question is whether Colossal’s leaders and supporters are willing to pivot from a project that grabs news headlines to ones that would likely make positive differences. By tempting us with the resurrection of a long-dead creature, #Colossal forces us to ask: do we want conservation to be primarily about feeding an unreflective imagination? Or do we want evidence, logic, and ethics to be central to our relationships with other #species? For anyone who really cares about the #climate, #elephants, or #animals in general, #deextincting the #mammoth represents a huge waste and a colossal mistake."

arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Image of a large elephant crossing a road winding through thick tropical forest.
Ars Technica · Editorial: Mammoth de-extinction is bad conservationBy Ars Contributors

#elephants #fungi #buildings #green

'In laboratory experiments, the scientists found that the cooling rate of their elephant skin-inspired mycelium tile was 25 per cent better than a fully flat mycelium tile, and the heating rate was 2 per cent lower.

They also found that the elephant skin-inspired tile’s cooling effect improved a further 70 per cent in simulated rain conditions, making it suitable for tropical climates.'

ntu.edu.sg/docs/default-source