Links for 8/4/24

The Backlash Against AI Scraping Is Real and Measurable

Ray Kurzweil’s Predictions For 2009 Were Mostly Inaccurate

History of Wind Power

The end of cloud computing

Astra-Gnome: Time and Space Car (1956)

From labour camp to guitar hero: the abstract beauty of Branko Mataja

Collapse of the Thwaites Glacier Has Accelerated

The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister

Why climate change action requires “degrowth” to make our planet sustainable

The Lunacy Of Rebuilding In Disaster-Prone Areas

As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires

Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI

Hunter-gatherers were mostly gatherers, says archaeologist

Breaking Free of Plastic Pollution: One of the Biggest Threats to Biodiversity

Links for 7/20/24

AI’s Bizarro World, we’re marching towards AGI while carbon emissions soar

This New Map Reveals The Predicted Future Climate Where You Live

The father of Chicano art photography

These States Are Actually Aiming for More Pedestrians to Die On Their Roads This Year — Streetsblog USA

Berlin In The Summer of 1957 by Willy Pragher

permacomputing

A World Without Insurance: A Climate-Future Look at Property Values

Tech bro fascism looks like a lot like old-fashioned fascism

Gremmie Skateboards

“I’m not a climate change guy,” says a guy about to lose his home to climate change

New research supports Thor Heyerdahl’s theory on South Americans in the Pacific

Trawling the bottom of the ocean is kicking up tons of carbon dioxide

Links for 7/13/24

In ‘Kiosk,’ Visit the Tiny Disappearing Urban Shops of Eastern Europe

Program: Climate change threatening Australian live music

Hawai‘i Gov. Josh Green signs bill banning seabed mining in state waters | Kauai Now

The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis — ProPublica

The Simpler Way

The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth

The economics of enough: Dan O’Neill at TEDxOxbridge

Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like

Mike Doyle – Surfing Memories – the Early Years

The New Jersey Review of Beach Trash

The US Is Ugly. THIS is Why.

Marshall Brain: This is the worst possible time for “climate change optimism” | WRAL TechWire

Links for 6/29/24

Despite living a walkable distance to a public pool, American man shows how street and urban design makes it dangerous and almost un-walkable

How sets travel across the ocean

Why the world’s oceans are changing colour

The world’s oceans just broke an important climate change record

What Is a Steady-State Economy? How Do We Achieve It?

The Unortho_docs | Episode 1 – Richie Jackson

The Ideology of Human Supremacy

Sun Hips

Big Oil Ignores Millions of Climate Deaths When Billions in Profit Are at Stake

Degrowth: The Vision We Must Demand

Video: Goodbye, snow?

‘Future studies could validate more of Thor Heyerdahl’s hypotheses on the Pacific’

They Lost Their Land to the Park Service. Now They’re Losing It to Climate Change.

Links for 6/15/24

Creating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained plastics in modern life

‘Underwater bicycle’ propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed

‘We’re in our 20s but live in the 1940s’

A response to Hannah Ritchie:  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Economic Growth  

2-5 years to sci-fi level AI? Former OpenAI employee sounds alarm

Papa Doo Run Run America’s Music ~ California’s Band

Public has no right to swim in sea, claims firm that dumped sewage at bathing spot

“I Don’t Believe in Growth”

Why We Need “Degrowth” ? Current Affairs

California town asked to return a beachside hotel

Spencer’s Shenanigans