Quote

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are." - Clive James

RIP

Greedy Smith - heart attack, must've pissed off a Russian. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-03/mental-as-anything-andrew-greedy-smith-founder-dies/11759998

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SamWatson(activist)

Clive James https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/clive-james-got-it-right https://www.clivejames.com/go-back-to-the-opal-sunset.html

F.U.

HALF index and the Green Revolution https://medium.com/@laila.kassam/whats-grain-got-to-do-with-it-423f50894513 https://ezinearticles.com/?Whatever-Happened-to-the-Basic-Four-Food-Groups?&id=6641

... and the Chicken of Tomorrow https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/future-of-food/poultry-food-production-agriculture-mckenna/

Comb-crested Jacana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb-crested_jacana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb-crested_jacana#/media/File:Corroboree_Jacana.jpg

Climate Signals https://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/plague-pandemic-may-have-been-driven-climate-not-rats-180954378/

Democracy Sausage

Climate and Trade https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-to-fight-europe-on-climate-demands-in-free-trade-deal-20191128-p53f3y.html

Politics and Complex Problems

Things

Blue Whales https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/first-recording-of-a-blue-whales-heart-shows-ultra-slow-heartbeat

Stacks

B.U.M.M.E.R. - Behavior of Users Modified and Made into an Empire for Rent

Robot-boy https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-political-ads-people-should-judge-for-themselves-the-character-of-politicians/

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

Surfing https://www.smh.com.au/sport/gilmore-beats-wright-in-maui-surf-final-20191203-p53gdp.html

The world game https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/dec/02/ballon-dor-lionel-messi-megan-rapinoe https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/dec/02/megan-rapinoe-clean-sweep-ballon-dor

Go https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/27/20985260/ai-go-alphago-lee-se-dol-retired-deepmind-defeat https://m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191127004800315

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