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 9/7/24

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

Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it

A Brief History of South American Surf Rock

What Earth Could Look Like in 2050 If We Do Nothing About Climate Change

How climate change is messing up the ocean’s biological clock, with unknown long-term consequences

Marc Andreessen Is Wrong About Everything

Lab-grown meat is now approved for sale in the US. Will it help the climate?

Links for 8/4/24

The Backlash Against AI Scraping Is Real and Measurable

Ray Kurzweil’s Predictions For 2009 Were Mostly Inaccurate

History of Wind Power

The end of cloud computing

Astra-Gnome: Time and Space Car (1956)

From labour camp to guitar hero: the abstract beauty of Branko Mataja

Collapse of the Thwaites Glacier Has Accelerated

The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister

Why climate change action requires “degrowth” to make our planet sustainable

The Lunacy Of Rebuilding In Disaster-Prone Areas

As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires

Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI

Hunter-gatherers were mostly gatherers, says archaeologist

Breaking Free of Plastic Pollution: One of the Biggest Threats to Biodiversity

Links for 7/20/24

AI’s Bizarro World, we’re marching towards AGI while carbon emissions soar

This New Map Reveals The Predicted Future Climate Where You Live

The father of Chicano art photography

These States Are Actually Aiming for More Pedestrians to Die On Their Roads This Year — Streetsblog USA

Berlin In The Summer of 1957 by Willy Pragher

permacomputing

A World Without Insurance: A Climate-Future Look at Property Values

Tech bro fascism looks like a lot like old-fashioned fascism

Gremmie Skateboards

“I’m not a climate change guy,” says a guy about to lose his home to climate change

New research supports Thor Heyerdahl’s theory on South Americans in the Pacific

Trawling the bottom of the ocean is kicking up tons of carbon dioxide