Links for 12/8/24

‘The atmosphere was electric’ – the fall and rise of Morocco’s cinemas

Planetary Crisis: We are not all in this together

Report uncovers disturbing role tech giants are playing in mass misinformation scheme: ‘An increasingly dangerous future’

Archeologist takes Joe Rogan to task in open letter addressing Rogan’s embrace of pseudo archeology

Sounding the Climate Change Alarm: Lessons from Carl Sagan

How Data-Fueled Neurotargeting Could Kill Democracy

What’s in tattoo ink? My team’s chemical analysis found ingredients that aren’t on the label and could cause allergies

Links for 11/24/24

Greasy Mike at the Beatnik Café

Stewart Copeland offers evidence of Ringo Starr’s impressive groove

The Tragic Tale of Kevin ‘the Head’ Brennan

Ecological Amnesia: Life Without Wild Things

Jim Fitzpatrick

Washed Away – As more older Americans move to the coasts, rising seas are wiping out their homes — and retirement dreams.

On Navajo Lands, Ancient Ways Are Restoring the Parched Earth

The Tom Sims Interview

This Photographer Documented Native American Tribes Before They ‘Vanished’

Why Must Humans Compete for Electric Power with AI Bullshit Generators Programmed by Ritual Incantations?

Links for 11/10/24

Pella Thiel: “Criminalizing Ecocide: The Rights of Nature”

A new understanding of human history and the roots of inequality

SkateBoarder Magazine – Vol. 1, No. 1

Big Digital Tech Moves Into Synthetic Biology: The Generative AI Rush / Black Box Biotech P1/2

Further cliff damage In Bali’s idyllic Uluwatu concerns residents, tourists and surfers

Why Nuclear Energy Is Not the Solution to the Climate Crisis

Go back in time at JFK’s refurbished TWA terminal

Understanding Chechnya’s Strange Ban on Music That’s Either Too Fast or Too Slow

A Rapid Transition To Renewable Energy Is Possible. Uruguay Proved It

Links for 5/12/24

Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer and King of B Movies, Dies at 98

While plastic is destroying the planet, fossil fuel lobbyists try drown out Indigenous voices and scientists

A call for economic degrowth

Book Review: Confronting the Slow Calamity of Climate Migration | naked capitalism

On Technology and Degrowth

Stealing Paradise: Sand Mafias, Beach Thefts

Ditch the pursuit of happiness and seek out wonder instead

The uncertain future of the Bay Area’s 90-year-old Tiki bar

A response to Daniel Driscoll: Another slice of degrowth bashing

Huge ancient lost city found in the Amazon