Andy Olds

Indigenous nations plan a tariff-free trade corridor across the US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“The legend lives on…”

#NovemberWitch

YouTube video by AustinCityLimitsTV Waxahatchee - Right Back to It | Live From Austin City Limits TV

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TRACK OF THE WEEK: "Wand'rin'" By Detective Larsson

www.apessimistisneverdisappointed.com/2025/10/trac...

Ancient tally sticks across three civilizations challenge myths about money When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and digital balances. But new research led by University at Albany Anthropology Profe...

Turns out MMT is not just Modern.

“Tally sticks remind us that money is not a scarce commodity but an accounting system rooted in political authority."

phys.org/news/2025-09...

What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure.

www.wired.com/story/what-t...

40,000-Year-Old Symbols Found in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language We may take it for granted that the earliest writing systems developed with the Sumerians around 3400 B.C.E. The archaeological evidence so far supports the theory. But it may also be possible that th...

www.openculture.com/2025/09/4000...

YouTube video by Douglas Rushkoff The Intentional Collapse | Team Human Podcast w/ Douglas Rushkoff

The latest episode from @rushkoff.com on Intentional Collapse in a concise format helped solidify how I’ve been thinking of the people who are Enemies of the Future; which is a rift on KSR’s Ministry For the Future.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX0Y...

The Great Tea Race of 1866

www.amusingplanet.com/2025/09/the-...

USGS Unveils New National Geologic Map In a significant advancement for geoscience, the U.S. Geological Survey has released the most detailed national-scale geologic map of the country to date, offering a unique regional view of geology at...

To quote myself: “it’s not a Club Josh; it’s a Society”

via USGS:
www.usgs.gov/news/nationa...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

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Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Blue-green algae is making a home in the warming waters of Lake Superior’s watershed | Great Lakes Now Long a threat to southern Ontario lakes, climate change is allowing cyanobacteria — or blue-green algae — to thrive in even the coldest of the Great Lakes.

www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/09/blue...

Via kottke
networkoftime.com

The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

Aligns with my Dark Social thesis

www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

Wolf hunting in western US does little to prevent livestock losses, study finds Analysis of legal hunting in Montana and Idaho shows that eliminating one wolf protected just 7% of a single cow

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Transnados.
Watch for an executive order banning them next….

Automaker Geely Launched Its Own Satellites Into Space, Highlighting China’s Ambitions It’s a bird, it’s a plane—it’s the latest sign that Chinese automakers intend to dominate the global car industry for decades to come.

“This makes Geely the only global automaker with its own dedicated satellite internet constellation and a public plan to integrate that connectivity into its advanced driving tech”
www.wired.com/story/geely-...

Physics of badminton’s new killer spin serve Adding a pre-spin affects shuttlecock’s oscillating behavior, depending on direction of rotation.

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

The New York Times SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1939 Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES BERLIN, Feb. 3.

“Goebbels Ends Careers of Five ‘Aryan’ Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime”

US fishing laws requiring the rebuilding of overfished stocks led to a 52 percent recovery in fish populations and higher long-term revenues for most fisheries compared to counterfactuals from the EU, from Eyal G. Frank and Kimberly Oremus https://www.nber.org/papers/w34237

Trump admin live updates: Bessent says 'framework' for TikTok deal has been reached Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in Madrid for trade talks with China, said on Monday they have "a framework for a TikTok deal."

Let me guess: it involves selling TikTok's U.S. domestic operations to the right wing Ellison family and Oracle, who'll combine CBS/Paramount/Time Warner/CNN with TikTok to create one of the most effective right wing propaganda machines ever constructed?

Zohran Mamdani calls on FIFA to abandon dynamic pricing plan for World Cup tickets

Exclusive :

NYC mayoral favorite Zohran Mamdani has launched a World Cup petition demanding FIFA;

🎫Scrap dynamic pricing plan

💰Cap prices on resale platform (currently no cap)

💰Keep 15% of tickets aside at discount for local residents

www.nytimes.com/athletic/661...

My research team used 18 years of sea wave records to learn how destructive ‘rogue waves’ form – here’s what we found Researchers have used lab models to study how rogue waves form, but these don’t always transfer over to the natural world.

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Neko Case on Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters as Much Today as She Ever Did I hadn’t listened to Sinéad O’Connor’s records since the mid-’90s. Yes, I know how fucked up that sounds, I mean why wouldn’t I?! It’s really hard to explain, but I’ll try.  I was the human demogra…

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🚨 PROGRAMMING UPDATE 🚨

Tonight's 7 p.m. kickoff against the Tampa Bay Rowdies from historic Keyworth Stadium will now be streaming nationally on the CBS Sports Golazo Network!

Tonight's match is still available locally on CW Detroit 50, and for free on the CBS Detroit website (Michigan only).

BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme, The Crayfish Question Could eating invasive signal crayfish help reduce populations in UK waters?

Interesting to hear the Brits talk about what I called crawldads as a kid
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The case against Substack. (ICYMI) A recent Vulture piece considered the appeal of Substack. “Part promotional platform, part social-media site, part venue for rambling journal entries, Substack is attracting an increasing num…

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