Links for 9/6/25

West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset

How big tech monopolies made the internet worse

Jupiter 8

The grindification of hobbies

Papua’s ‘Empty Lands’: A Dangerous Myth Displacing Indigenous Peoples

Yanis Varoufakis: Crypto’s Role in Trump’s Economic Masterplan (With Special Emphasis on Stablecoins)

The history of Southern California’s late surf spot, Killer Dana.

From UK to Norway, Drillers Legally Dump Tonnes of Toxic, Radioactive Waste Into the North Sea

Remote Indigenous tribe kills encroaching loggers in Amazon

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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

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

Links for 7/20/25

Government Gives Elon Musk Permission to Detonate Rockets Over a Sacred Hawaian Island

Rethinking Ritual: The Shifting Landscapes of Sacred Space in East Polynesia

Climate Adaptation and Inequality: Lessons from Cape Town’s Drought

Pacific Island Nations Announce Plans for Indigenous-Led Melanesian Ocean Reserve, a World First

To Take Off and Ride a Wave

Jersey Shore town didn’t want mile-long flood wall. It just lost the money for Plan B.

Fueling Knowledge: Oil and gas money shapes research, creates ‘echo chamber’ in higher education

Lessons from Killer Dana

Now Is the Time

Big Picture Stuff: The Earth is humming. Caused by ocean waves – here’s what it means.

How Colonialism Spawned and Continues to Exacerbate the Climate Crisis

Links for 7/6/25

How Danny Hess Crafts Wooden Surfboards

Scientists Used Prehistoric Tools to Build a Canoe, Then Paddled Across 140 Miles from Taiwan to Japan

Free tool helps dodge grant rejections as federal censorship expands

Surf

AI Agents: A Pox on Free Society

10 billion snow crabs have disappeared off the Alaskan coast. Here’s why

Lost art of coconut shell navigation: How Pacific islanders crossed oceans

Chewing gum releases microplastics into saliva, study finds

Tech continues to be political

Lithium mine’s approval violates international rights agreement, says Human Rights Watch

Top Economist Exposes Nobel Prize Winner on Climate Change

Capital will continue on its path, indifferent to the ruins it leaves

A brief history of the recycling lies told by the plastics industry

Sacred cultural site returned to Ohlone people

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