Links for 8/3/23

Effects of “Unprecedented” Marine Heat Waves May Be Irreversible

Pluralistic: Autoenshittification (24 July 2023)

AI learned from their work. Now they want compensation.

There are thousands of tonnes of methane emissions being released by melting glaciers: study

Beautiful Beirut before Bombed-Out Buildings were part of the Scenery

The U.S. Military in Hawaii: The Dark Side of Paradise!

Concern over Loch Ness low water levels amid UK dry spell

Depression Era Beach Hangs With Dick Metz And Shirley Temple

Links for 7/15/23

Climate Denialism Has Burnt To a Crisp

Who is responsible for the climate crisis?

The biggest gold rush in history is about to start in the deep sea – leaving devastation in its wake

How electrifying steam could cut beer’s carbon emissions

“The Dawn of Everything”: David Wengrow & the Late David Graeber On a New History of Humanity

‘The Job Is Going to Die’: Songwriters Say More Change Is Needed to Survive in the Music Industry

Classic Instrumental Surf Music Timeline – Surf’s First Wave

Shifted Banks | Slade Lawrence

Nuclear Fusion Won’t Save the Climate

Infants Exposed to Excessive Screen Time Show Differences in Brain Function Beyond Eight Years of Age

Step Back in Time: The Forgotten Family Shoe Store Closed for 40 Years

Links for 7/9/23

Ray’s Hand

Life in the ocean’s ‘twilight zone’ could disappear due to the climate crisis

Loveletters Season 10: Hawaii | Jeff Grosso’s Loveletters to Skateboarding

Video: Lola Mignot: “Deplacer le Silence”

RFKjr’s anti-vax efforts had a devastating effect on Samoa

Earth’s Jet Streams Look as Chaotic as a Van Gogh Right Now, And That’s a Big Problem

A couple’s quixotic quest to save their drowning island – one rock at a time

Ever-Deepening Vortex of Collapse in Earth’s Ecological Systems

Links for 6/25/23

Manhattan Beach, California, 1950s

The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens

Vicious Accelerating Feedbacks Between Far Right Politics and Climate Catastrophe

Rich people must allow access to a public beach

George Monbiot’s Regenesis — you won’t think about dinner the same way again

D-Day’s Historic Beaches Face a New Onslaught: Rising Seas

What Happens When You Tax Billionaires at 90 Percent?

‘High amounts’ of flesh-eating bacteria and ocean plastics create ‘perfect pathogen storm’ in Florida seaweed

Why The IndieWeb?

Is it too late to halt deep-sea mining? Meet the activists trying to save the seabed

Plastic pollution could be slashed by 80% by 2040, UN says

Decolonization or Extinction: Indigenous Red Deal Lays Out Plan to Save the Earth

Peter Cook & Dudley Moore – “Superthunderstingcar”

Links for 6/24/23

Ocean heat is off the charts – here’s what that means for humans and ecosystems around the world

A Deep Dive Into Polarizer Skateboards

‘Unheard of’ marine heatwave off UK and Irish coasts poses serious threat

Chris Isaak’s Former Beach Property Becoming a Public Park

Desire to Kill the Streetcar

Rapid changes in cryosphere demand urgent, coordinated action

Rising seas challenge modern notions of property lines

Ever Wondered Why Americans of the 1930s and 40s Spoke with an Accent?

The Crumbling Village of Temples Lost to the Myanmar Jungle

Dear Electric Vehicle Owners: You Don’t Need That Giant Battery

Links for 6/17/23

Vast fossil fuel and farming subsidies causing ‘environmental havoc’

Traditional Development – #6 in the Strong Towns Curbside Chat Video Series

A shocking number of birds are in trouble

Species on the Move: How Climate Change Is Re-Making Ecosystems

America’s Radioactive Secret

Refreshments were once served from a giant owl-shaped building in Long Beach, California

@justinebateman wants to see AI contract terms in actor agreements and music folk should be checking, too

Fish Are Not Insentient Dullards

Mexico Could Lead the World On Solar Energy?—?And Why it Needs To

Carl Sagan: a lovely and powerful new short film and automaton installation about the urgency of environmental action (video)

6 things to know about heat pumps, a climate solution in a box

The Animals on the beach in California – a world away from Newcastle-on-Tyne in Northern England

The Floating Basket Homes of Iraq: A Paradise Almost Lost to Saddam

To Fight Coastal Erosion, Design a Bespoke Artificial Reef

Monsieur Hulot’s Parisian House

We can’t afford to choose adaptation over cutting emissions – suggesting otherwise is dangerous

Déplacer Le Silence With Lola Mignot

Stolen Relations: recovering stories of indigenous enslavement in the Americas

Last Waves Legends

Dancers performing “The Nitty Gritty” from the The Judy Garland Show (1964).

Links for 6/3/23

Australia’s Crackdown on Climate Activists 

The Gym of Life

The future of AI is chilling – humans have to act together to overcome this threat to civilisation

Global heating will push billions outside ‘human climate niche’

Wanted: More skills for workers as green jobs grow

Discourses of Climate Delay

Recent, rapid ocean warming ahead of El Niño alarms scientists

Massive beach restoration project for Orange County coastline approved – CBS | KCAL News

Battery, Baghdad, 250 BCE

The Antidote To Digital Disconnectivity

Journeys Into the Outside with Jarvis Cocker (ep#2)

Links for 5/28/23

A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you

Doug Rushkoff Is Ready to Renounce the Digital Revolution

no to chrome

Could This Be the Final Frontier for Renewable Energy?

Return to the Water documentary

Are You Using Your Leash Wrong?

@theblakemorgan on AI Bros

Meet the first famous female rock&roll drummer

How to make your wardrobe sustainable

Gov. DeSantis Urged to Veto Radioactive Roads Bill

Grosso Forever: Loveletter To Japan

British Longboard Union highlights reel: Porthmeor Longboard Classic, April 2023

Indigenous peoples caught in the Russia-Ukraine war

Sisters Stacia and Ashley Ahina

Ecocide: Should destroying nature be an international crime?

The Floating Basket Homes of Iraq: A Paradise Almost Lost to Saddam

The Fight to Expose Corporations’ Real Impact on the Climate

Takeshi Terauchi, Japan’s Eleki God

Concern grows over rich nations controlling sunlight

So.. You Can Longboard Dance? 2022 | Memories

The dark side of plastic: understanding the impact on our bodies, ecosystems, and the world

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

The origins of climate crisis

Coastal residents fear ‘hideous’ seawalls will block waterfront views

Korean Cowboys of the Old World

Woolight Firewire Sustainable Surfboards

Chokepoint Capitalism: how Big Tech and Big Content captured creative labor markets and how we’ll win them back

When Good Waves Go Rogue