Links for 9/6/25

West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset

How big tech monopolies made the internet worse

Jupiter 8

The grindification of hobbies

Papua’s ‘Empty Lands’: A Dangerous Myth Displacing Indigenous Peoples

Yanis Varoufakis: Crypto’s Role in Trump’s Economic Masterplan (With Special Emphasis on Stablecoins)

The history of Southern California’s late surf spot, Killer Dana.

From UK to Norway, Drillers Legally Dump Tonnes of Toxic, Radioactive Waste Into the North Sea

Remote Indigenous tribe kills encroaching loggers in Amazon

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In San O (video)

In San O | Longboard short film featuring Grant Noble, Dan Pascacio, and Mauricio Nunez

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Links for 8/31/25

Amid growing climate threat, Vietnam’s architects turn to tradition
Is there any hope for the internet?

A New Statue Suddenly Appeared on Easter Island. That Doesn’t Make Sense

How to Disappear

Southern Ocean current reverses for first time, signalling risk of climate system collapse

Asia-Pacific Climate Change Impact Assessed in UN Economic Survey

200 years ago, France forced Haiti to pay $44 billion for daring to free themselves from slavery

Butch van Artsdalen: Untold Tales of the First Mr. Banzai Pipeline

This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk

Bruce Logan

Links for 8/16/25

You’re Being Watched: The Company Behind America’s Mass Surveillance Takeover

Chapter One: the Fishermen Surfers

Photographer captures America’s vanishing roadside treasures in stunning new book

Inside Google’s plan to have Hollywood make AI look less doomsday

“Outlawing advertising is the best thing we can do for our world now,” says philosopher

Torger Johnson

Plastic pollution: Why doing nothing will cost us far more than taking action

Revising the cost of climate change: Study yields projections ‘six times larger than previous estimates’

Book Review: Malcolm Harris’ “Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World” 

The High Pro Log by Thomas Surfboards (video)

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