Quote

"The dehumanisation of the black race is where it started and people will tell you, ‘Oh, that is a long time ago, get over it’.

"No, you do not get over things like that and society has not gotten over something like that." - Michael Holding

RIP and Infected

Grant Imahara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Imahara https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-14/mythbusters-host-grant-imahara-dead/12454370

Bassoon https://www.yamaha.com/en/musical_instrument_guide/bassoon/play/play005.html

Moses Costa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Costa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Chittagong

Mohamed Hashi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Hashi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_Puntland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puntland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Punt

Bolsonaro (just infected)

Kelly Preston

Follow-Up

Washington's NFL team getting a new name

The Palace Letters

The Dismissal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxX4R2xggro

Adam Curtis next doco: What Is It That Is Coming?

Adam Curtis and Adam McKay talking about Vice https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/18/adam-curtis-and-vice-director-adam-mckay-on-how-dick-cheney-masterminded-a-rightwing-revolution

Things

Lebanon

“Civic leaders and two members of a team that led talks with the International Monetary Fund in an attempt to introduce billions of dollars in global aid say patronage networks that have run the government and enriched its leaders are seen as being more valuable than safeguarding the country itself.

“When it’s all boiled down, this is indeed the reckoning,’ said one senior politician. “If you break what’s been built since the war years, we are in for another conflict. And it could make 1982 look like a dress rehearsal.” [...]

“Overhauling patronage systems that entrenched warlords at the end of a 15-year conflict and have turned all state institutions into fiefs, has been a central demand of the IMF and international community. “You would not think this would be difficult,” said a senior European diplomat. “We have been begging them to behave like a normal state, and they are acting like they are selling us a carpet.”

Reverse Bestiality https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/reverse-bestiality/

If you build it they will come https://nexusmedianews.com/scientists-use-audio-recordings-of-healthy-coral-reefs-to-draw-fish-to-dead-reefs-766d5c91c743

Robots https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/convenience-store-vr-robot-shelfstacker/ https://tx-inc.com/en/technology/