2019.04.16 Too Many Secrets
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, which is the good he seeks. - Mary Shelley
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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along. ― Arthur C Clarke
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, which is the good he seeks. ― Mary Shelley
RIP
Show organiser Andrew Bird told the BBC that when the 60-year-old Cognito sat down and fell silent during his session, "everyone in the crowd, me included, thought he was joking."
Notre Dame https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/notre-dame-was-in-ruins-victor-hugos-novel-about-a-hunchback-saved-it-20190416-p51ejz.html CNN drops, Trump, and madness
We weep for Notre Dame but not this https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2019/03/19/isnt-over-djab-wurrung-protectors-increase-presence-police-stand-down
An older piece ... https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2018/06/18/removal-sacred-djap-wurrung-trees-act-cultural-terrorism
Or this ...
Uncle Wally Carr https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2019/04/13/boxing-legend-fights-very-end
Or this ...
Cherdeena Wynne
https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2019/04/16/its-just-not-fair-aboriginal-woman-dies-20-years-after-fathers-death-custody
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/apr/15/its-time-for-this-to-stop-aboriginal-woman-dies-in-custody-20-years-after-her-Father
According to the family, doctors at the hospital said Ms Wynne's injuries included a two-inch gap in her neck vertebrae. Police are preparing a report for the coroner however the incident will not be investigated as a death in custody or a death in police presence despite being present when she lost consciousness.
And her father ...
Or this ...
https://www.fara.com.au/murujuga-burrup-rock-art-conservation-project/
Pollies leaving parliament - A range of scumbags, grubs and shtcnts. - A wretched hive of scum and villainy?
F.U.
Julian Assange
Setec Astronomy https://slate.com/culture/2012/09/sneakers-trevor-paglen-on-how-the-movie-might-have-influenced-a-real-life-u-s-intelligence-agency.html
Sharrouf kids and pressure from 4 Corners
Timor Leste revenues https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/16/australia-accused-of-siphoning-millions-in-timor-leste-oil-revenue
Leyonhjelm https://twitter.com/DavidLeyonhjelm/status/1111772538013540353?s=20
Even mining companies are tired of the bullshit https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/12/rio-tinto-ready-to-quit-minerals-council-if-it-doesnt-support-paris-climate-targets
Measles
Anti-vax and pets https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/06/sentencing-their-dog-to-death-how-the-anti-vax-movement-spread-to-pets
Eryn Jean Norvill, Geoffrey Rush, Sydney theatre politics and power disparities in workplaces https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/11/daily-telegraph-disappointed-with-judges-rejection-of-eryn-jean-norvills-testimony
Farmers and dckhead militant vegans
Apple's Melb store plans https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/apr/05/apples-bid-to-build-store-in-melbournes-federation-square-rejected
Drug scanners in Immigration Centres https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/13/the-farcical-drug-scanners-locking-out-melbourne-immigration-centre-visitors
Election
Indigenous issues https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/apr/07/white-australia-cant-solve-black-problems-white-australia-is-the-problem https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/04/the-budgets-approach-to-indigenous-education-is-just-more-of-the-same
"This is the only government since Fraser's that hasn't presided over an improved standard of living" -Greg Jericho https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2019/apr/16/the-coalition-boasts-about-economic-management-wheres-the-evidence
Electric vehicles
Captain GetUp and Tosspot Tony
Peter Dutton and Ali France
Angus Taylor and water and land clearing
James McGrath https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/apr/16/qa-james-mcgrath-furious-at-everything-silent-on-alleged-adani-threat
Govt avoiding Adani estimates questions by calling election
Poverty and politics https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/apr/15/left-behind-the-australians-neither-political-party-wants-to-discuss https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/apr/15/poverty-as-a-moral-question-do-we-have-the-collective-will-to-end-it https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/apr/14/coalition-stopped-welfare-payments-to-55000-homeless-or-at-risk-jobseekers-in-six-months
Government advertising
The 180 million dollar press conference https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/apr/07/scott-morrison-defends-spending-185m-reopening-christmas-island-centre https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/03/we-paid-180m-for-scott-morrison-to-have-a-press-conference-on-christmas-island
Indonesian Elections
200,000 candidates
2,000 vacancies
6 million elections staff
190 million voters
Things
Albert Woodfox https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-16/albert-woodfox-survived-half-a-lifetime-in-solitary-confinement/10980196
Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Saudis, Yemen ... https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/albertonardelli/russia-venezuela-planes-malta-syria
Mozilla sabotage https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years/
Shareholders https://gizmodo.com/amazon-shareholders-set-to-vote-on-a-proposal-to-ban-sa-1834006395
https://gizmodo.com/amazons-face-recognition-misidentifies-28-members-of-co-1827887567
Amazon's controversial face recognition software, called Rekognition, misidentified more than two dozen members of Congress as people arrested for crimes. The false identifications were made when the ACLU of Northern California tasked Rekognition with matching photos of all 535 members of Congress against 25,000 publicly available mugshot photos. The test cost the ACLU just $12.33 to perform.
Games (specifically excluding Chess)
AFL
Conference system for next season, management don't know how to deal with the success of labour https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/kangaroos-shafted-by-aflw-s-conference-system-20190317-p514wv.html https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/aflw-set-to-stick-with-conferences-for-2020-20190415-p51efl.html
WSL
Equal pay, hooray. We've known this for a while, but the Start to the 2019 season was the first time we saw it in effect. https://www.coastalwatch.com/surfing/25441/the-winners-and-losers-of-the-quiksilver-and-boost-mobile-pros-gold-coast-2019 https://www.npr.org/2018/09/07/645558534/equal-pay-for-equal-shreds-world-surf-league-will-award-same-prizes-to-men-and-w
F1
China was the 1,000th F1 GP. 1,000 races of these cars going round and around and around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skV1_sJsPLM
eSports
https://www.esports.net/esports-are-up-high-down-under-in-australia/
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