Links for 1/16/25

Watch Design for Disaster, a 1962 Film That Shows Why Los Angeles Is Always at Risk of Devastating Fires

‘We’re Fine’: Lying to Ourselves About a Climate Disaster

Updates to my book The Divide

Are we drowning out the sounds of the sea?

40″ “Big Board” Complete

Makai Side: A History of Hawaiian Surfing

Our planet is choking on plastic

A new plan seeks to protect California’s coast against a rising ocean: It doesn’t require sea walls

E-waste: Latest threat to beaches

Randy Nauert

Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory

Vintage Ski Movies: Early Snowboard Segment at the Monashees

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Links for 1/4/25

AI is Shattering Hope of a Net Zero Future

Key Atlantic current could collapse soon, ‘impacting the entire world for centuries to come,’ leading climate scientists warn

AI ‘street Photography’ Isn’t Photography: What We Lose By Simulating Experience

From Marine Reserve to Military Base: Washington and Ecuador’s Quiet Plans for the Galapagos Islands

New York Lightboard Record

Remote island trapped in ‘vortex’ of plastic — and they’re not the ones to blame

Concrete Wave Vol. 13 No. 2 Fall 2014

Plastic pollution is changing entire Earth system, scientists find

Ivan Illich on how technologies create radical monopolies

How Degrowth Can Save The World

Animals as the Arteries of the Biosphere with Joe Roman | TGS 131

College Lecture Series – Neil Postman – “The Surrender of Culture to Technology”

Links for 12/22/24

Spotify uses ghost artists to “shape listening behavior” and avoid paying real ones

Navajo Nation Uranium Waste

San Diego band ‘The Unknowns’–on the verge of success in 1981

A Glimpse into the Future: The 2023 Ocean Temperature and Sea Ice Extremes in the Context of Longer-Term Climate Change

Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds

Argentina cult worships “King” President Milei as peso becomes worthless

Pluralistic: Unpersoned (22 Jul 2024)

Mapped: Reform UK’s Anti-Green Network

Study Warns of ‘Irreversible Impacts’ From Overshooting 1.5°C, Even Temporarily

John Fullerton: “Regenerative Economics: New Economic Paradigms, Living Systems, & Holistic Thinking”

How Plastics Fuel Climate Change

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 10/20/24

Evidence confirms an anthropic origin of Amazonian Dark Earths

Holding the California Oil Industry Accountable

Millan Millan and the Mystery of the Missing Mediterranean Storms

A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow

History of Hobie Skateboards (Explained) | Concrete Waves

What Happened To Longboarding? (Industry Report)

What Greenland’s nine-day mega-tsunami tells us about climate change

‘Absolutely incorrect’: The evidence is in on whales and offshore wind farms

New research shows surfers, swimmers and runners face higher risk of melanoma

The Death of Critical Thinking Will Kill Us Long Before AI.

Stealing Paradise: Sand Mafias, Beach Thefts

Locals in Imsouane under threat by mega resort development

Kapitän Harmsen – Adios, Kopenhagen!

Shocking Wake-Up Call: First Marine Fish Declared Extinct Due to Humans

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Links for 10/5/24

The Plastic Crisis | Jane van Dis

Pacific islands submit court proposal for recognition of ecocide as a crime

The surfer and tribal chief fighting to save a 550km South African coast

A critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents could collapse as early as the 2030s, new research suggests

Facing a Future of Fewer and Less: “Tell Them at Least What You Say to Yourself”

Program: Climate change threatening Australian live music

Find out how illegal miners in the Amazon use Elon Musk’s internet to evade surveillance

‘Underwater bicycle’ propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed

Community attempts to use sand to stop the ocean and fails

Plastic industry knew recycling was a farce for decades yet deceived the public, report reveals