Links for 10/12/25

Sound of the Surf

Mesmerizing Compilations of British Manufacturing Films From the 1950s and 1960s

Are business schools priming students for a world that no longer exists?

In Far Northeastern Maine, a Native Community Fights to Adapt to Climate Change

The Loud Spring

The Art of Poison-Pilling Music Files

Sail with ancient Polynesian navigators

The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis — ProPublica

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Links for 6/9/25

Trump’s Dangerous Escalation in LA

The New Military Industry Complex

Lifeblood For Pacific Islands Threatened As Warming Ocean Drives Tuna East

How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet

Ominous sea level report card for most U.S. coastal communities

Organised Crime: A Top Driver of Global Deforestation

Greenland fossil discovery stuns and worries scientists: “Don’t buy a beach house”

NYC Gangs 1954

How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream

A Secretive Network Is Fighting Indigenous Rights in Australia and Canada, Expert Says

Indigenous-led organization breaks ground with revolutionary energy transition initiative: ‘It’s not a one size fits all’

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Sunset Surf Craze (video)

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Dale Velzy Shapes a Balsa Malibu Chip (video)

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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

Walter Hoffman and Hobie Alter on TV in the 50s (video)

The 3rd board they put in front of the camera has a raked fin (!).

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Cal Tjader Quintet Live at the Playboy Mansion

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featuring Willie Bobo and Mongo Santamaria

Think Bing – 60 Years of Bing Surfboards (Video)

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Links for 9/10/23

Carbon Cash Machine: Meet the Investors Running – and Destroying – Our World

National Science Foundation’s new center connects Indigenous wisdom with Western science | Boing Boing

10 Facts That Prove the World Is in a Climate Emergency

Saving the Planet One Plant-Based Burger at a Time: 6 Environmental Benefits of Veganism

Why the Humble City Bus Is the Key to Improving US Public Transit

Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams

The Tielman Brothers History

AI and the American Smile

Noam Chomsky: There Are Signs of Hope Amid Climate Crisis, Bank Failures and War

The UN’s climate handbook for a ‘liveable’ future

The Guy who Shrunk his 1950s Hometown

Exxon Predicted Oil Burning Role in Climate Change