Quote

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's stick". - Mikhail Bakunin, 1873, Statism and Anarchy

R.I.P.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fonda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Hanzhang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasson_Somekh

F.U.

Australia and China in the Pacific

Things

USA won't help https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/19/us-defence-strategy-in-indo-pacific-region-faces-unprecedented-crisis https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/fs_1904_milex_2018.pdf

Kashmir https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/kashmir-fire-loc-kills-3-pakistani-5-indian-troops-190815125820838.html

HK and all that https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-20/beijing-voices-support-for-australian-protests-over-hong-kong/11431122

Yemen

Syria

Sudan

Iran https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/iran-tanker-departs-gibraltar-rejects-demand-190818231532908.html https://news.yahoo.com/no-request-iran-tanker-dock-greece-minister-112537012.html

Extinction

https://www.noaa.gov/news/july-2019-was-hottest-month-on-record-for-planet https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/19/iceland-holds-funeral-for-first-glacier-lost-to-climate-change

Palaszczuk becomes Joh https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-20/climate-protester-tactics-called-extremist-palaszczuk-government/11431336

Divergent

John Marsden and Bullying https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/don-t-care-really-what-people-think-john-marsden-defends-view-of-bullying-20190723-p529z9.html

Brains

Semantic brain maps

https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/08/19/readingbrainmap/

https://www.twosixlabs.com/translating-between-brain-and-world-decoding-biological-neural-nets-with-artificial-neural-nets/

Stacks

BezOS https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-12/facial-recognition-software-mistook-1-in-5-california-lawmakers-for-criminals-says-aclu https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28

Corruption https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/18/amazon-executives-donated-to-rep-cicilline-antitrust-probe-leader.html

Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 2018 https://news.yahoo.com/amazon-taxes-zero-180337770.html https://www.ibtimes.com/amazon-will-pay-zero-tax-2018-trumps-tax-cuts-act-blame-2765011

Facial Recognition https://www.zdnet.com/article/home-affairs-exempt-from-disclosing-face-identification-service-provider/

All the Stacks reprasent https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvgpkv/microsoft-updates-privacy-policy-admits-humans-listen-to-cortana-skype

The End of Capitalism Has Begun (2015) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/17/postcapitalism-end-of-capitalism-begun

Information operations directed at Hong Kong https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/information_operations_directed_at_Hong_Kong.html https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-shuts-down-200000-chinese-propaganda-accounts-for-spreading-disinformation-about-hong-kong-protests https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/advertising_policies_on_state_media.html

Electric plane deaths https://electrek.co/2018/06/04/siemens-electric-plane-prototype-fire-crash-death/

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

Smith (is a cheat)

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