Visual Communication and Toxic Waste: Signaling Danger Over Many Millennia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper examines two toxic waste sites in North America, The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico and Giant Mine in Yellowknife, Canada. These sites will remain toxic for hundreds of thousands of years and pose a threat to current and future residents' health and safety. Thus, this paper seeks to explore how current generations might communicate such dangers to future generations while also acknowledging the colonial past and present of these sites. The author touches on various proposals of visual communication methods as well as culturally rooted communal solutions such as the willful participation of Indigenous communities from these sites. The author argues that the most effective and just solution will consist of both strategies in order to solve the issue of perpetual care at WIPP and Giant mine as well as offering a framework for other sites across the globe to follow. Note: This thesis was accompanied by several prints that reflected the author/artist's thought process in ideating and solving these complex issues that are not currently available for viewing.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".