Links for 4/12/25

AI is an energy hog. This is what it means for climate change.

Bangladesh sheds light on climate change migration patterns

Musk ‘Pressured’ Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report

How Worker-Owned News Outlets Are Changing the Media Industry

1 Hour of Peter Thiel Stuttering with Hope core Music to study to that I found on X

What is a ”restoration” and why does your EPS board suck?

Supercritical Flows

Bruce Walker

The work of creation in the age of AI | Andrew Perfors

When he died, his family discovered 50 years of cartooning output: the secret comics of Frank Johnson are published

Everything you think you know about the tides is wrong (or, at least that’s true for me)

Links for 12/14/24

The Most DISGUSTING BEACH In Northern Ireland (Hidden for 50 years)

Plutocrat Archipelagos

Gregg Carroll

soundethics

The problem-with techno-optimism – How Silicon Valley limits our imagination

Remote Indigenous tribe kills encroaching loggers in Amazon

Surrounded by microplastics: The tiny pollution we drink, eat and breathe

Surrounded by microplastics: The tiny pollution we drink, eat and breathe

5 Things to Know About the Global Land Rush and How to Stop It | naked capitalism

Capitalism as we know it is over, so what comes next?

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

Rouli-Roulant (video)

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“One of the very first skateboard films, directed by Claude Jutra in 1965. This documentary captures young skateboarders in search of freedom. As popular in the 1960s as it is today, skateboarding is a spectacle to behold. But a law prohibits it on the street.”

Directed by Claude Jutra – 1966

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 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