Hawaiian shirts are returning – but ‘people want to think twice’, says expert
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Online Communities
The Real Buddy Holly Story (1987)
Let’s talk about ethics and music promotion – MTT – Music Think Tank
Hemp is the New Oak: America’s First Hemp “Wood” Factory is Being Built
Bitcoin, Easter Island-ism, and the Cowardice of Green New Dealers | naked capitalism
California Has A New Idea For Homes At Risk From Rising Seas: Buy, Rent, Retreat
Nuclear Fuel Buried 108 Feet From the Sea
The Case for Digital Public Infrastructure
This Black Family Ran a Thriving Beach Resort 100 Years Ago. They Want Their Land Back.
Oil firms should disclose carbon output, says BlackRock
California to consider buying back private beachfront properties
The unexpected benefits of surfing
Beaver believers: Native Americans promote resurgence of ‘nature’s engineers’
Special brew: eco-friendly Peruvian coffee leaves others in the shade
Smile for the camera: the dark side of China’s emotion-recognition tech
Changes in Atlantic currents may have dire climate implications for the next century
6 Echo Chambers That Shaped the Sound of Pop Music
China is scaling up its weather modification programme – here’s why we should be worried
Music historian delves into LA’s rich jazz scene and how clubs were an ‘oasis from racism’
(this is for digital design professionals):
Why I’m losing faith in UX
Why The Web Is Such A Mess
It was only a matter of time until Cory Doctorow joined this collection.
Aral Balkan on Corona measures by Google and Apple
Seeing how companies like Facebook are driving the potential of information technology into the ground here are two three four some videos on the background of the industry.
link to Richard Barbrook: Californian Ideology 20.2 on vimeo
Further reading at The Jacobin.
Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
link to Sleeping Through a Revolution – Jonathan Taplin on vimeo
link to How the Internet Became a Battlefield on Bitchute
‘One Has This Feeling of Having Contributed to Something That’s Gone Very Wrong’
An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption
What Has Google Ever Done for Us?
This Is How We Radicalized The World
‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’
‘Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe,’ by Roger McNamee
Why do people believe the Earth is flat?
European Internet “Self-Governing” Body Ignores Own Report and Continues to Serve Criminals
The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong?
Revealed: Google made large contributions to climate change deniers
Sacha Baron Cohen’s scathing attack on Facebook
Evil is Baked into Big Tech’s Business Plan. Now What?
Alienated, Alone And Angry: What the Digital Revolution Really Did To Us
Scraping the Web Is a Powerful Tool. Clearview AI Abused It
Wayback Machine Latest Victim of Big Tech Consolidation and Censorship
Facebook Is Patenting Technology to Spy on You Through Your Smartphone Camera and Microphone
How SEO Is Gentrifying the Internet
Techno-feudalism (link goes to Vimeo)
We need to rethink social media before it’s too late. We’ve accepted a Faustian bargain
link to Take Back Your Web – Tantek Çelik
The Revolt of the Public: Martin Gurri
Putting a price on our data won’t make the platforms stop abusing our privacy
The American Conservative and free speech without public spaces
How I fell out of love with the internet
Let’s talk about ride-sharing.
After 6 Years in Exile, Edward Snowden Explains Himself
The Pentagon Wants More Control Over the News. What Could Go Wrong?
Bruce Schneier makes the case for “public interest technologists”
Evgeny Morozov: Competition and Cooperation in Digital Capitalism
Mensch sein in Zeiten digitaler Entmenschlichung
We’ve spent the decade letting our tech define us. It’s out of control
some thoughts on what to do about (tech) monopolies
Once developers are concerned: The cult of the free must die
Kommentar: Digitale Souveränität zum Schnäppchenpreis – von Europa und Mozilla
To Mend a Broken Internet, Create Online Parks
‘Do Not Track’ Is Back, and This Time It Might Work
Opinion | Facebook and the Surveillance Society: The Other Coup
The Case for Digital Public Infrastructure
A New Union of Musicians Is Taking on Spotify
Update:
What would the web look like without big tech companies?
And even furtherer reading and viewing:
He Who Must Not Be Mentioned! (Moment of Clarity)
And here is a guy doing a somewhat proper analysis, while pulling odd examples such as doctors in rural Africa (good luck finding one), while ignoring the harm YouTube did to recording musicians everywhere:
How “philanthropy” is a way for rich people to preserve the inequality that benefits them
Ethan Marcotte on the consequences of design on the web
The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno-elites
And slightly related a new round of funding for future self made tech pioneers:
Trump signs ‘American AI Initiative’ executive order to prioritize federal funding for artificial intelligence research
Also the the web versus the climate:
and YouTube versus the artist:
Follow the Money: YouTube’s Failure to Pay Retroactively Gives “Conversion Rate” a Whole New Meaning
related: How We Analyzed Google’s Search Results
Young people and social media dependency:
Are the Kids Alright?
A game that plays people:
A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon
Find more tech related talking points under the technology tag.
Takers. Of the free resources. Such as clean air. Takers of money, too. Same guys. Duh.
Source: Money to burn: As the wealthy get wealthier, carbon emissions grow in US states
California towns are winning David. v. Goliath battles with oil companies.
Source: Small California Towns Are Facing Off Against Oil Companies — And Winning | naked capitalism
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Watch skateboard stunts on rooftops of New York
Source: Watch skateboard stunts on rooftops of New York / Boing Boing
Cutting Room: Cover Peripherals | The Surfers Journal
In President Trump’s America, Quentin Tarantino might not have been.
Source: What Does the NEA Fund? – 7 Famous Movies Funded by the NEA
Will Amazon Destroy More US Jobs Than China? | naked capitalism
Now we’ll know what the government thought about climate change when it still believed in it.
Source: You Can Now Access The EPA Website As It Existed Before Trump | Co.Exist | ideas + impact
Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah will protect some of America’s most striking landscape—and its earliest history.
Source: This Ancient Place Just Secured Membership in America’s Culture Club | NRDC
Berlin discusses possible reparation payments over massacre of tens of thousands of people in early years of 20th century
Source: Germany moves to atone for forgotten genocide in Namibia | World news | The Guardian
The Sound Recordings catalog comprises over 17,400 digital audio files, beginning with Lomax’s first recordings onto (newly invented) tape in 1946 and tracing his career into the 1990s.
Source: Research Center
Earth-force meets money-force at Standing Rock. I’m so relieved I’m here. It scares me to think that I might have missed this.We get up at dawn. Four hundred people walk slowly in a light snow to the river by the camp. A teacher is talking. His headdress is a crisscrossing of long, narrow feathers. He is of the Havasupai, the people who live by the blue-green waterfalls at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. He calls out across the river. “Water is life! Take me! My heart beats with you!”
Source: Standing Rock: A Moment of Clarity for Progressive Activists
According to a study from Plymouth University, plastic pollution affects at least 700 marine species, while some estimates suggest that at least 100 million marine mammals are killed each year from plastic pollution. Here are some of the marine species most deeply impacted by plastic pollution.
Source: These 5 Marine Animals Are Dying Because of Our Plastic Trash … Here’s How We Can Help
A steady increase in sea levels is pushing saltwater into U.S. wetlands, killing trees from Florida as far north as New Jersey. But with sea level projected to rise by as much as six feet this century, the destruction of coastal forests is expected to become a worsening problem worldwide.
We’re inspired every time we have a great cocktail, and we definitely started to feel inspired when we visited Highland Park Bowl the other night and enjoyed a few of their cocktails. The dri…
Quelle: El Capitan Hook
They are thought to be solitary, but new research shows one shark species to be intensely social
Source: Sand tiger sharks: far friendlier than you think | Environment | The Guardian
Source: Mandala Oblongata | A Kaleidoscopic Adventure on the Loaded Boards Tan Tien
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In this video Jonathan Taplin talks about the tech revolution, today’s big players connection to libertarianism and what it all means for us.