Links for 10/5/24

The Plastic Crisis | Jane van Dis

Pacific islands submit court proposal for recognition of ecocide as a crime

The surfer and tribal chief fighting to save a 550km South African coast

A critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents could collapse as early as the 2030s, new research suggests

Facing a Future of Fewer and Less: “Tell Them at Least What You Say to Yourself”

Program: Climate change threatening Australian live music

Find out how illegal miners in the Amazon use Elon Musk’s internet to evade surveillance

‘Underwater bicycle’ propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed

Community attempts to use sand to stop the ocean and fails

Plastic industry knew recycling was a farce for decades yet deceived the public, report reveals

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 5/20/23

Time-lapse map of the colonization (and decolonization) of Africa

How the Parking Garage Conquered the City

Ocean Ramsey on what to do in a shark attack

Hawaii’s beaches are disappearing due to climate change

Mexico celebrated through the eyes of designers – in pictures

Could Niche Web Communities Come Back?

The Oceans Are Missing Their Rivers

@theblakemorgan on AI Bros

America’s Prehistoric High Rise Apartment Complex

Inside big beef’s climate messaging machine: confuse, defend and downplay

The Oldest Surviving Los Angeles Restaurants

When an oil spill hits an island – in pictures

Tales of the Rat Fink

Revealed: how world’s biggest fossil fuel firms ‘profited in Myanmar after coup’

How to make swimwear sustainable: check the material, wash smart, and make it last

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Links for 1/8/23

Project Moon Base: The Kirchin Experience (Podcast)

Das Meer und der Müll – Treibgut in der Tiefsee – Dagmar Röhrlich (2008)

Jim ‘The Genius’ Phillips

What’s gone wrong with England’s water?

Must See Documentary: The Way the Music Died: Why You Should #DitchSpotify

The History Of The Polynesian Panthers: A Fight For Social Justice In New Zealand

Early Civilizations Had It All Figured Out

A 1959 Cadillac bicycle

The Lost Surfers of the Black Sea

Seeking proof of China’s ancient trade with Africa

Links for 31/12/22

Bastards of the Party: a ­documentary about why gangs emerged in L.A.

‘Seas are becoming landfills’: the Senegalese surfer saving a beach – and a way of life – from plastic

Mass of Microplastics Raining on Auckland Weighs as Much as 3 Million Plastic Bottles Yearly, Study Finds

Man Who Drew Bug Eyed Monsters at archive.org

John Oliver points out some problems with tech monopolies

With Love…The James Hunter Six

Travel By Air, The Golden Years: 1920s-1960s

Summertime – The Royals

Links for 11/17/22

The inconvenient truth of global warming in the 21st century

A journey through Morocco’s vanishing oases

How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels

Take a trip through the Los Angeles music scene of the 1960s

Why Capitalism Can’t Handle Climate Change

Ignoring climate change will yield ‘untold suffering,’ panel of 14,000 scientists warns

The Case for Hawaii Having Its Own Olympic Surf Team

Archaeologists Have a Lot of Dates Wrong for North American Indigenous History

Links for 12/27/21

The great Hap “Happy” Jacobs – innovator, shaper, thinker – gone at 92


 

Renewable Wind Energy Can Help Save the Planet and the Ocean’s Marine Life


 

Belchior Diaz Vihuela Made in 1590 by Belchior Diaz Vihuela in Portugal. Dubbed the world’s oldest guitar.


 

Did Neurological Damage Lead To Ravel’s Masterpiece?


 

The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing


 

VW Ponton Boat


 

Unfreezing the ice age: the truth about humanity’s deep past


 

Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All Into Dopamine Addicts


 

Climate study linking early Maori fires to Antarctic changes sparks controversy


 

The Forgotten History of African Slavery in China


 

‘Odds are against you’: the problem with the music streaming boom


 

The Revenge of the Internet Archive: Google and the Metashills Lead the Long March Through State Houses to Weaken Copyright for the Metaverse


 

Journeys Into the Outside with Jarvis Cocker (ep#3)


 

A hand carved chess set

Links for 6/21/21

New research shows how many important links on the web get lost to time


 

If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist


 

The miracle of the commons


 

“This Is The BIGGEST SCAM of The Century” – Edward Snowden (NEW)


 

Points of No Return


 

Cameroonian maestro Francis Bebey explains “pygmy” flute music


 

Son makes a documentary about his QAnon-infected mother


 

Pacific Plunder


 

Carbon Pricing is a False – Solution to Climate Chaos


 

A world map that shows borders and absolutely nothing else


 

Why was the ancient city of Cahokia abandoned? New clues rule out one theory.


 

Surfing New York with David Arganda


 

The fight to save 100 years of Black history in gentrifying Los Angeles


 

The rise, fall and rediscovery of the Fender Jaguar


 

How China ended the lie of recyclable plastic