Links for 1/27/24

Microplastics, like Asbestos, Can Kill

How artists can poison their pics with deadly Nightshade to deter AI scrapers

Karl von den Steinen

Taiwanese indigenous peoples

20 Major US Cities Most and Least Threatened by Climate Change

Get hip to teenage antics and terms with this handy guide

Native Land Digital

When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics

Climate change solutions need to keep Indigenous knowledge at centre of approach

New Stan Lee documentary raises age-old question: Who created the Marvel Universe?

Bandcamp reportedly union-busting by pressuring record labels

Links for 1/14/24

How I watched the oligarchy shrink America’s middle class

How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change

The ex-shark fishermen teaching schoolkids how to protect the environment

Why people still fall for fake news about climate change

A Pocket Guide for Scientists: Handling Political Harassment and Legal Intimidation

Department of Defense, Tidal Power: A New Source of Energy (1959)

Rarely in the Field of Human Endeavour Has One Rather Small Profession Caused So Much Harm to Humankind as Neoclassical Economists Do Now

Links for 12/23/23

Your Money Is Funding Fossil Fuels Without You Knowing It

Longboard France Histoire du Surfing

Bloomberg reveals stunning 42% wealth surge in global elite families

A Pocket Guide for Scientists: Handling Political Harassment and Legal Intimidation

AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content

You Should Have Been Here Yesterday – Official Trailer

Scientists hunt possible link between common plastic additive and autism and ADHD

Record ocean temperatures put Earth in ‘uncharted territory’, say scientists

Anchovies and Sardines Are a Climate Solution in a Can

Links for 12/10/23

The climate change we caused is here for at least 50,000 years – and probably far longer

Plastic bag recycling project gives up the ghost

Elon Says Copyright/AI Lawsuits Don’t Matter Because ‘Digital God’ Will Arrive Before They’re Decided

Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster

Alain Gardinier

“Kinda Crazy” celebrates the legendary Rip City Skates

If the first solar entrepreneur hadn’t been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century the way they did?

Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Skyrocket To $7 Trillion

A Tribute to Chet Atkins

The Groovy Imitation Bands of 1960s Japanese Rock

Links for 12/3/23

COP28: How 7 policies could help save a billion lives by 2100

The end of Elon Musk

American Big Tech Has Enslaved Us | Aaron Bastani Meets Yanis Varoufakis

Climate conspiracy theories flourish ahead of COP28

Microplastic-eating plankton may be worsening crisis in oceans, say scientists

Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramifications will be global

Solomon Islands prime minister says US must respect Pacific leaders

Topic: Economics You Can’t Put a Price on Nature

Fiji prime minister warns against US and China attempts to ‘polarise’ Pacific

CEO of biggest carbon credit certifier to resign after claims offsets worthless

The amazing Hook Island sea monster photos

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

Links for 11/5/23

Extreme weather in a changing climate

Let’s redefine “Good Surfer”

New Report Calls Out Chemical Recycling as a ‘False Solution’ to the Plastics Crisis

The Material Power That Rules Computation (ft. Cory Doctorow)

Drought in Amazon reveals rocks with ancient human faces

America’s Osage Natives want you to know their story doesn’t end with Killers of the Flower Moon

The Videogame Industry is Larger Than Film and TV Combined, Why Aren’t They Paying Musicians Fairly?

A deaf whale is a dead whale

New vehicles a “privacy nightmare” where you consent to carmakers collecting data on behavioral, biological, even sexual activity

Why moving people out of harm’s way isn’t as easy as it might sound

New Zealand becomes first country to ban thin plastic bags for fresh produce from supermarkets

China on course to hit wind and solar power target five years ahead of time

One Guy’s Quest to Save the 1960s Time Capsule Homes of America

And now the weather: Cloudy with scattered showers of plastic