Three entries about bitcoin-powered seasteaders that are absolutely full of cringe, plus some stuff that actually matters to the ocean. Monday Morning Salvage: April 22, 2019.

Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

• Stories in the Land: Tales of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum.
  • This masters thesis by way of illustrated volume is an absolute masterpiece.
• What Would Really Happen if Thanos Erased Half of All Life on Earth? It would not be good.

• Could floating cities be the answer to rising sea levels? I mean, no, obviously.

Jetsam (what we’re reading from around the web)

• Directors exit seabed mining company.
• Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China’s Modern Icon.
• ‘We’re in Constant Crisis’: Tribal Nation Still Reeling From Last Month’s Bomb Cyclone Faces More Extreme Weather.
• Greenpeace launches ambitious pole to pole expedition in bid for Global Ocean Treaty.
• How Do You Surveil One of the Largest Marine Protected Areas on Earth?
• This week in even more coverage of Craig’s deep-sea gator.
  • Unsettling Video Shows What Happens to a Dead Alligator at the Bottom of the Sea.
  • Dead Alligator Was Devoured by Football-Sized Pill Bugs on the Bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
• Meanwhile, in other seasteading news. Couple Could Face Death Penalty Over ‘Sea Home’ in Disputed Waters.

• However weird you think this story is, trust me, it’s 40% more bizarre. The “freest person in the world” faces a possible death penalty in Thailand.
• Of course it’s a bitcoin thing. An insufferably bitcoin thing.

• Orcas. The Predator That Makes Great White Sharks Flee in Fear.
• Social media continues to ruin everything. Don’t doxx the duck.
• Oxford watermen star in film.
• Battle at sea: Whale watchers capture blue whale’s fight to the death with orca off WA coast.
• Global Warming Effects Presenting a ‘Major Challenge’ to Carrier Schedules in Asia.

Lagan (what we’re reading from the peer-reviewed literature)

• Hotaling and Kelley (2019) The rising tide of high‐quality genomic resources. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12964.
• Moshier and friends (2019) Network analysis of a stakeholder community combatting illegal wildlife trade. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13336.
• Reimer and friends (2019) Marine biodiversity research in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan: current status and trends. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.6532.
• Bradford and Katikiro (2019) Fighting the tides: A review of gender and fisheries in Tanzania. DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2019.04.003.

Shipping News (academic and ocean policy wonkery)

• Heartbreaking and shameful. The Death of an Adjunct: Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.
• “Open access” is not synonymous with “author pays”.

Driftwood (what we’re reading on dead trees)

• I found a first edition copy of Arthur C. Clarke’s The Songs of Distant Earth, which I absolutely love.

Derelicts (favorites from the deep archive)

• Remember when I wrote a novel and a novella about how terrible it would be to be a seasteader on a climate-altered Earth? Being a seasteader on a climate-altered earth would be terrible.
  • Prepared: A novella from the end of the world.
  • Fleet: An adventure in seasteading and climate change.

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