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The unit of survival is organism plus environment. We are learning by bitter experience that the organism which destroys its environment destroys itself.
– Gregory Bateson

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

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Links for 3/5/24

Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

Sacred cultural site returned to Ohlone people

Intimate portraits of Indigenous Alaskans – in pictures

Famous Classical Composers as Lounge Pianists

Harmonica Quartet Performs an Incredible Cover of the Jazz Classic ‘Take Five’ by Dave Brubeck

Dapper Signs: Sign Painter, Human, Legend

Unstrapped Potential: The Possibility in Bindingless Riding

Florida Keys coral reefs devastated by 2023 heat wave

Big Oil’s Marketing Campaign Is Targeting US Classrooms

Why is Mark Zuckerberg building a private apocalypse bunker in Hawaii?

Runaway Greenhouse Effect Fully Simulated on Earth For The First Time, And It’s “Hell”

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Links for 9/18/23

Life Doesn’t Have to Zuck

Earth now way outside “safe operating space for humanity,” says new report

Even Dimming The Sun Wouldn’t Save Antarctica’s Ice Now, Scientists Say

The history of rock and roll poster art

Werner Voss’s Rock’n’Roll Museum

Joyce Carol Vincent: How could this young woman lie dead and undiscovered for almost three years?

Manus Island and Nauru: previously unseen testimony and AI imagery reveal ‘unimaginable’ part of Australian history

Column: Is the reign of the surf thugs at Lunada Bay finally coming to an end? Looks like it

Snoop Asks in @hypebot: “How can you get a billion streams and not get a million dollars?”

How to Responsibly Dispose of Your Electronics

Insurer cites “growing catastrophe exposure” as it stops new sales in California

Insurance giant halts sale of new home policies in California due to wildfires

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Links for 7/9/23

Ray’s Hand

Life in the ocean’s ‘twilight zone’ could disappear due to the climate crisis

Loveletters Season 10: Hawaii | Jeff Grosso’s Loveletters to Skateboarding

Video: Lola Mignot: “Deplacer le Silence”

RFKjr’s anti-vax efforts had a devastating effect on Samoa

Earth’s Jet Streams Look as Chaotic as a Van Gogh Right Now, And That’s a Big Problem

A couple’s quixotic quest to save their drowning island – one rock at a time

Ever-Deepening Vortex of Collapse in Earth’s Ecological Systems

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Links for 5/2/23

Recent, rapid ocean warming ahead of El Niño alarms scientists

Global Encryption Coalition Steering Committee Statement on EU-US Cooperation on Turning Public Opinion Against Encryption

It’s not just you: The planet wants a 4-day workweek, too

“The Consequence of Style” – with Robin Falxa, Southern France

Little Richard documentary looks at the life and career of the Black queer rock ‘n’ roll icon

The Dangers Of Highly Centralized AI – Clive Thompson – Medium

Native Tribes of North America, Central America and the Caribbean by Michael Mcardle-Nakoma.

What is Ecological Overshoot and Can Capitalism Correct It?

Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in toilet paper around the world

The Beach Mini is back thanks to one German firm

Indigenous Mexicans Risk Their Lives To Defend the Environment From Organized Crime and ‘insatiable, Predatory’ Transnational Corporations

Extreme heat could put 40% of land vertebrates in peril by end of century

Building

Visit to Los Angeles 1960s (60fps, added sound w/ color remaster)

Returning the Gift

Big Oil and Gas Kept a Dirty Secret for Decades. Now They May Pay the Price.

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Links for 3/19/23

‘Unprecedented’ Surge in Ocean Plastic Waste Could Accelerate in Future

The creeping threat of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt

It’s like a cult!

Saab Sonett

Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps

Why Methane Surged in 2020

The Ghetto Brothers: Lost Legends of Rock’n’Roll

Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s

Ancient Mystery SANXINGDUI

To truly reach net zero emissions, we need to transform the business supply chain

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Links for 11/27/22

Trickle-Down Streaming Mechanical Royalties Will be Be Up for Discussion

Humans v nature: our long and destructive journey to the age of extinction

Shaping Methods of Mike Davis | LittleCoveSurfboards

CSS { In Real Life } | Web Sustainability and the Ethical Dilemma

The oceans give us life. We give them plastic.

An Open Letter Against Apple’s Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology

West Papuans: The Forgotten People

Does vinyl sound better? Here’s what the science says

Eames Office x Globe

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