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” 

Links for 8/9/25

Western Life Is Only One Way to Live

Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed

Car tires are polluting the environment and killing salmon. A global plastics treaty could help

Millions of years of evolution could be wiped out on ‘Galapagos of the Indian Ocean,’ conservationists warn

The Yoorrook Justice Commission has found genocide occurred in Victoria. Here’s what it says needs to happen next

The “Dana Point Mafia”

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report

Bridgid Lally – “Let it Ride”

What Earth was like last time CO2 levels were so crazily high

Links for 8/3/25

Thomas Neuburger: Rethinking Collapse

Brian Wilson Obituary

New research shows surfers, swimmers and runners face higher risk of melanoma

Carbon-offset schemes aren’t prepared for forests to burn

Vinyl Minded With the Legends of Surf Guitar

The antidote to the Jaws effect: These photos show a softer side of great white sharks

George Carlin Talks About Anti-War Protests and the John Birch Society in a 1965 Stand-Up Routine

The Metals Company applied to the U.S. for a deep-sea mining license

I drove 300 miles in rural Virginia, then asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car. Here’s what I learned.

Modern Water Wars: Now Compete With Data Centres To Access Water

Geothermal energy potential could power US thousands of times over

The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public

Wendy Bearer Bull

The origin story of climate denial