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The unit of survival is organism plus environment. We are learning by bitter experience that the organism which destroys its environment destroys itself.
– Gregory Bateson

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

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Links for 7/13/24

In ‘Kiosk,’ Visit the Tiny Disappearing Urban Shops of Eastern Europe

Program: Climate change threatening Australian live music

Hawai‘i Gov. Josh Green signs bill banning seabed mining in state waters | Kauai Now

The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis — ProPublica

The Simpler Way

The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth

The economics of enough: Dan O’Neill at TEDxOxbridge

Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like

Mike Doyle – Surfing Memories – the Early Years

The New Jersey Review of Beach Trash

The US Is Ugly. THIS is Why.

Marshall Brain: This is the worst possible time for “climate change optimism” | WRAL TechWire

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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.

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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

Rooler Gab

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

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Links for 6/1/24

The world’s oceans just broke an important climate change record

B.C. government affirms Haida Nation title over all of Haida Gwaii in draft agreement

Brandi Morin: The Apache stronghold standing in the way of a massive copper mine

Enough Is Enough: Full Film

Read Steve Albini’s famous essay on the music industry’s problems

Guitar amps made with home-made vacuum tubes

The Hawaiian steel guitar changed American music. Can one man keep that tradition alive?

The climate is doomed if we continue to be fixated by economic growth

Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster

Morocco’s Imsouane and its wonderful righthander and thriving surf tourism – the shock development for locals

Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground

Kapitän Harmsen – Adios, Kopenhagen!

‘More unzipping of the landscape’: Arctic permafrost could crumble into rivers, unleashing devastating feedback loop

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Links for 5/26/24

Surf music has been infiltrated by artificial intelligence, and it’s probaby going to get worse.

Tech’s Plan to ‘Ethnically Cleanse’ San Francisco w/ Gil Duran

The Strange World Of… Joe Meek

Here’s what record-breaking temperatures looked like around the globe

CLASSIC? Neil Blender, Jason Jessee, Jay Adams, Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero Mini Ramp sesh

1970s skateboarding London-style. Hot Wheels

Scientist identify the phonetic alphabet of whales

Skateboarding History Podcast

How Not to Act in an Emergency

Interview: Why global support for climate action is ‘systematically underestimated’ – Carbon Brief

Epic 4-hour documentary about YouTube plagiarists sends them scurrying desperately away

Sun, sea and rock’n’roll: how Torremolinos got its groove back

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Links for 5/12/24

Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer and King of B Movies, Dies at 98

While plastic is destroying the planet, fossil fuel lobbyists try drown out Indigenous voices and scientists

A call for economic degrowth

Book Review: Confronting the Slow Calamity of Climate Migration | naked capitalism

On Technology and Degrowth

Stealing Paradise: Sand Mafias, Beach Thefts

Ditch the pursuit of happiness and seek out wonder instead

The uncertain future of the Bay Area’s 90-year-old Tiki bar

A response to Daniel Driscoll: Another slice of degrowth bashing

Huge ancient lost city found in the Amazon

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Links for 3/5/24

Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

Sacred cultural site returned to Ohlone people

Intimate portraits of Indigenous Alaskans – in pictures

Famous Classical Composers as Lounge Pianists

Harmonica Quartet Performs an Incredible Cover of the Jazz Classic ‘Take Five’ by Dave Brubeck

Dapper Signs: Sign Painter, Human, Legend

Unstrapped Potential: The Possibility in Bindingless Riding

Florida Keys coral reefs devastated by 2023 heat wave

Big Oil’s Marketing Campaign Is Targeting US Classrooms

Why is Mark Zuckerberg building a private apocalypse bunker in Hawaii?

Runaway Greenhouse Effect Fully Simulated on Earth For The First Time, And It’s “Hell”

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Links for 4/14/24

Ausstellung Kunst der Südsee in Ulm

Rethinking Economic Systems Inside the Planetary and Social Boundaries | T. Parrique | ChangeNOW2024

MAD’s 1969 “Super Patriot” is MAGA before MAGA was MAGA

The Climate Costs of Big Tech

The climate is doomed if we continue to be fixated by economic growth

75 years of Kon-Tiki: ‘Thor Heyerdahl’s theory of Polynesian-indigenous American contact still relevant today’

The Doomsday Clock reveals how close we are to total annihilation

Why are people climate change deniers? Study reveals unexpected results

Electric Vehicles Use Half the Energy of Gas-Powered Vehicles

Companies are Sinking Plant Waste into the Ocean to Combat Climate Change

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