Enjoy this extensive list of articles that are mostly pretty depressing to be honest
Anton Zwengauer, Landscape with Deer at Sunset, 1847
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Hey everyone this has been a packed week and I have no good words left so we’re doing a links only roundup issue today. My email plugin’s server was busted yesterday too so it is both a day late and a dollar short but that’s how you know this is a true DIY operation this thing is stapled together I hope that is part of the charm. Have some of these other people’s words instead of my words and I will talk to you next week peace and love.
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Links
- Devastating flooding in Germany in Belgium. More than 120 dead, 1300 missing, washed out roads and bridges, collapsed homes. Horrible images. “With climate change we do expect all hydro-meteorological extremes to become more extreme. What we have seen in Germany is broadly consistent with this trend.”
- Harvard has still not divested its $42 billion endowment from fossil fuels.
- Companies are resuming donations to Republicans after stopping them in response to the deadly attack on the Capitol.
- Tech workers said they were all leaving the Bay Area but now it looks like they are all moving back.
- Pandemic is ancient history and landlords want their money now. Also rent prices are soaring. Maybe we can all move to Worcester.
- A University of Arizona study found that millions of aging Americans won’t be able to sell their homes as a nest egg, because younger people won’t want them or won’t be able to afford them.
- The Brazilian Amazon used to a be a carbon sink, sucking up massive amounts of CO2 in its dense greenery but a new study found that it has flipped to a net source of carbon emissions because of fires.
- The European Union proposed an effective ban on gas and diesel burning cars by 2035.
- Drought is making Lake Mead unrecognizable. “I could have sworn I was here just six weeks ago catching smallmouth and bigmouth bass. Now it looks like a lawn.”
- “Vegas has done great things such as ripping out the grass, but we’ve lost 20% of the flow of the Colorado River since 2000 and another 10% loss by 2050 is completely possible. I worry it could be even more than that, and that should frighten everyone.”
- Nature editorial: Cities must do a better job of mitigating urban heat, including requiring the construction industry to incorporate heat reducing measures into their building projects.
- Researchers made a fabric that can cool the wearer down by 5 degrees C. Unfortunately it is a “snug fitting vest” so that doesn’t sound that nice to be honest.
- This tool at the NYT allows you to see how much hotter your hometown is than when you were born. For me, Mesa, Arizona used to have 155 days above 90. Now it’s 172 and heading toward 200.
- One my less popular opinions is that most documentaries are fake and unethical. Adding to my case is the fact that this Anthony Bourdain documentary used AI to recreate his voice saying certain lines the director wanted in the film which is disgusting.
- In a true victory for freedom of expression, teachers in Arizona can lose their teaching certifications if they talk about racism in class. Read about more totalitarian nightmares created by CRT panic laws here.
- A study of 175 American cities found that in 97% of them, communities of color were hotter than predominantly white neighborhoods.
- Cool interview with Boston illustrator Raul the Third who is killing it I have one of his prints on my office wall.
- What can you do about climate change? Anything.
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Comics
Way back in an earlier issue I featured work by a Boston-based cartoonist Dave Ortega, who has been creating a meticulous family memoir comic about the life of his grandmother, set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution. Now Radiator Comics is running a Kickstarter to publish the collected edition of Días de Consuelo, which you are going to love. I backed and you should too! See more detail at the link.
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Listening
Rhymes like Dimes. Doom forever RIP.
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That’s it for me today I hope you are all spending time with your people and having some fun this summer all things considered. Speaking of Links I’m thinking about storming Hyrule Castle this weekend I’ve been stalling because I haven’t been ready to say goodbye to Breath of the Wild but I know that I have a job to do. Also Suns on Saturday game 5 fingers crossed it’s getting tense!
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