Links for 8/31/25

Amid growing climate threat, Vietnam’s architects turn to tradition
Is there any hope for the internet?

A New Statue Suddenly Appeared on Easter Island. That Doesn’t Make Sense

How to Disappear

Southern Ocean current reverses for first time, signalling risk of climate system collapse

Asia-Pacific Climate Change Impact Assessed in UN Economic Survey

200 years ago, France forced Haiti to pay $44 billion for daring to free themselves from slavery

Butch van Artsdalen: Untold Tales of the First Mr. Banzai Pipeline

This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk

Bruce Logan

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