These people can no longer show their faces offline anymore without being mobbedtheyre all either too scared of getting doxxed or busy furiously backpedaling now that their entire movement is associated with the naked terrorism on display in Charlottesville. Far right digital personalities like Tim Gionet Baked Alaska and Millennial Matt are no longer able to get away with explaining away shouting neo Nazi slogans and carrying torches as irony laden trolling, certainly now that the movement has smashed into reality. And dont get clever with thematic or personally meaningful passwords. Sometimes humans do try to crack passwords, so dont help them out by using your sons. Last weeks violent, unhinged white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which culminated in a terror attack which killed Heather Heyer and wounded. Torrentz will always love you. Farewell. 20032016 Torrentz. Last weekend I purchased some marijuana. Not from some friend of a friend of a friend, but from an actual dispensary in Boulder, Colorado. Boulder, like the rest of. Frankly, it looks like the alt light people are now also being recognized for what they are If not racists themselves, a gaggle of yelping fanatics that serve as their de facto collaborators. At least for today, that means both the hardcore alt right white supremacists and their alt light camp followers are being driven back online to 4chan, 8chan, Breitbart style media knockoffs and the seedier wings of Twitter. Coupled with numerous crackdowns on the far right movements ability to organize and fundraise online, this will also damage the small cottage industry in grifting its spawned. Its not the light at the end of the tunnel yet, but things just got a lot harder for these folks. CNN. Year Old Nautical Maps Reveal How Badly Weve Screwed Up Floridas Reefs. Old sailors tales about the seas being so full of fish you could walk on them, or oysters the size of frisbees, tend to inspire skepticism today, and for good reasonmost of us have very little direct experience with the oceans, except for the occasional news article about how weve screwed it up beyond repair. But the oceans of yesteryear really were more plentiful than they are today, and a new analysis of 2. A first of its kind comparison of 1. British nautical charts with modern coral reef databases suggests that reefs were far more widespread throughout the Florida Keys several centuries ago, particularly along coastlines and in Florida Bay. Its a finding that could have implications for reef conservation and restoration, prompting ecologists to rethink what constitutes an undisturbed ecosystem. And it all started when historical ecologist Loren Mc. Clenachan became captivated by a weathered old map she stumbled upon at the British Admiralty Archives some ten years back. I actually had a copy of it on my wall for a while, Mc. Clenachan told Gizmodo, explaining how map, part of a pair of nautical charts of the northern and southern Keys created by cartographer George Gauld for the British Admiralty between 1. It was made while the Brits owned the Florida Keys, Mc. Clenachan explained. Part of the expansion of their empire was to get really good at sailing, and they knew that other shipsSpanish oneshad crashed, in this area. My understanding is that Gauld wanted to continue the mapping, but 1. By comparing Gaulds maps with modern coral cover information from several databases, Mc. Clenachan and her colleagues arrived at a bleak conclusion roughly half of the seafloor occupied by corals in the vicinity of the Florida Keys in the late 1. Much of the dieback seems to have occurred in Florida Bay where coral cover was an estimated 8. Gaulds maps. Importantly, this suggests recent estimates of coral dieback in the Keys, derived from data collected in the 1. Science Advances. Weve really lost these nearshore reefslots of them probably disappeared before we even started studying them in the water, Mc. Clenachan said. She suspects the dieoff patterns are due to greater human disturbance close to shorelines, and in the case of Florida Bay, changes following the widespread drainage of the Everglades in the early 2. Of course, there are plenty of caveats. This study only compared two nautical charts from a single time point in the 1. Whats more, Gaulds charts dont distinguish between dead coral and live coral, nor do they contain coral absence data. We have no way of knowing if areas where Gauld marked no coral truly lacked reefs, or if he simply never visited these places to find out. Ive reached out to several coral biologists to see if they have any other thoughts about the merits or limitations of the study, and will update this post if I hear back. Even just qualitatively speaking, though, snapshots into the past like this can be illuminating. I think its a shifting baseline storyit puts the modern declines, due to ocean acidification, climate change, development and pollution, in context, Mc. Clenachan said. Perhaps, places that we presume have always been coral free used to host vibrant reefs. In terms of restoration, knowing where coral used to be is useful. Personally, I cant help but wonder how many old sailors tales weve written off as legend have a nugget of truth at their center. Science Advances.