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Are there any good sci-fi novels about global warming thawing out some ancient alien artifacts?
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The latter. Anything under the glacier would be pulverised into dust (the glaciers even carve out their own valleys). These artefacts must have started up above the ice (on top or down a crack), so the people would have been hunting on the ice or maybe travelling across it.
I don't think we can simply assume that starting position matters to "pulverization" after 1500 years. Mobility is more likely; the mobile object moves along with the ice, the stationary one gets pulverized.
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Early tech bros built the internet on the idea of everything should be free (even if at the same time they idolized billionaire CEOs) and now the idea of free is pervasive and things like journalism, a pillar of democracy is failing.
They were more “Deadheads” than “tech bros”. Paywalls annoy me too. That said, for historical accuracy, the idea that content should be free of charge was hotly debated in the early days of the Internet and WWW. People like Jaron Lanier felt that online discourse would suffer if there wasn’t some nominal cost to, say, sending an email.
Interesting, and I think to some extent it is true.
Are there any good sci-fi novels about global warming thawing out some ancient alien artifacts?
Not precisely what you’re looking for with the global warming angle, but At The Mountains of Madness by Lovecraft and John Carpenter’s The Thing both feature aliens hidden under the ice.