2018.11.20 ScoMo is a FuMu

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. - Dwight D. Eisenhower


Show Notes


Alternative Titles

  • Not Zoran
  • The Bearded Queer from Yass
  • Scare Quotes as a Service
  • Dickwad Dawkins
  • Impending Plasticide

Quote

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

F.U.

My Health Record https://www.smh.com.au/technology/my-health-record-s-privacy-chief-quits-amid-claims-agency-not-listening-20181107-p50elu.html https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-14/my-health-record-opt-out-period-extended-as-website-hits-issues/10496032

Stacks

Jeff https://www.recode.net/2018/11/5/18062008/amazon-ice-we-wont-build-it-all-hands-meeting-law-enforcement-rekognition https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/8/18077292/amazon-rekognition-jeff-bezos-andrew-jassy-facial-recognition-ice-rights-violations

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-hq2-search-backfired/

Mark

http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/11/facebook-groups-are-the-greatest-short-term-threat-to-election-news-and-information-integrity/ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebook.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/members-5-parliaments-demand-facebook-boss-mark-zuckerberg-testify-data-misuse/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zuckerberg-wont-address-unprecedented-gathering-of-parliaments-probing-disinformation/

https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2018/11/20/if-facebooks-new-auto-comment-feature-isnt-rock-bottom-it-has-to-be-close/

Tim

https://dailygazette.com/article/2018/11/08/police-woman-remotely-wipes-phone-in-evidence-after-shooting

Satya

https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2018/11/15/report-microsofts-enterprise-products-covertly-gather-personal-data-on-users/

Larry

https://www.recode.net/2018/11/1/18048720/google-employee-walkout-activism-sexual-harassment

Milton Fckng Friedman

https://qz.com/work/1460402/google-facebook-and-amazon-benefit-from-an-outdated-definition-of-monopoly

Things

Hectic times

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/20/papua-new-guinea-parliament-in-lockdown-after-soldiers-attack-building

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/17/sri-lanka-fists-fly-collapsing-government-crisis-mahinda-rajapaksa

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/18/fiji-election-bainimarama-returned-as-pm-in-slim-victory

P L A S T O C A L Y P S E

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/impending-plasticide-emergency-tax-tipped-as-waste-crisis-deepens-20181118-p50gsa.html https://abc.net.au/news/2018-11-18/now-is-the-time-to-scrap-landfill-in-australia/10487726

The Voice of God

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology) https://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/podcasts/bicameralism-1.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/magazine/savant-for-a-day.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4558786/ https://io9.gizmodo.com/5851828/10-things-an-electromagnetic-field-can-do-to-your-brain?IR=T

3rd Wave Wankerism https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/08/dutch-man-69-starts-legal-fight-to-identify-as-20-years-younger

Sports

FFA

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

https://www.cnet.com/news/fortnite-wins-best-breakthrough-game-at-2018-esports-awards/

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/nov/12/beating-richie-knucklez-the-making-of-a-space-invaders-world-champion

ScoMo is a fckng Muppet™ https://junkee.com/scott-morrison-muppet/182824

Chess

Actual Chess https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/nov/19/httpswwwtheguardiancomsport2018nov18world-chess-championship-game-8-carlsen-caruana



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