Quote

"If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room." - Simon Kuper, writing in the current issue of the Financial Times

Some Stuff

NXVIM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM https://nypost.com/2018/05/05/nxivm-doctor-charged-with-conducting-human-experiments/ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gym9g9/smallville-allison-mack-arrested-nxivm-sex-cult-vgtrn

Failure pile in a sadness bowl https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/food/a17984/patton-oswalt-sadness-bowl/

RIP

Margot Kidder https://film.avclub.com/random-roles-margot-kidder-1798215851

"There you go. I'll have that inscribed on my damn grave. I still get stopped for being Lois Lane, and I'm 60 and have two grandchildren. So it's kind of weird."

"A thing I love about Margot Kidder's Lois Lane is that gives the impression being Superman's girlfriend is in the Top Ten Things in Her Life but not the Top Five." - https://twitter.com/AnnoDracula/status/996109369451470850

F.U.

The Budget

ABC funding cuts http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-08/budget-2018-abc-funding-frozen-in-$84-million-hit-bottom-line/9740690

ASIC funding cuts http://www.afr.com/news/policy/budget/federal-budget-2018-asics-shock-26m-budget-cut-20180509-h0zud4

Reef money https://www.michaelwest.com.au/great-barrier-reef-funding-links-to-climate-sceptics-and-political-donors/

Newstart https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/freeze-has-gone-on-too-long-john-howard-calls-for-a-dole-increase-20180509-p4ze83.html

Illegitimate https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/government-and-opposition-resist-push-for-referendum-on-citizenship-20180510-p4zee1.html?_ga=2.222213009.823424512.1526380087-1933395667.1526380087 https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/federal/why-are-all-our-dual-citizens-white-20180510-p4zefh.html

Google's phone calls https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/08/pretty-sure-googles-new-talking-ai-just-beat-the-turing-test/

Hominids http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-03-16/olorgesailie-human-evolution-archaeology-tools-middle-stone-age/9546592

Pell and Pruit https://twitter.com/EricLiptonNYT/status/994707800277372928?s=19 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/climate/pruitt-cardinal-pell-dinner.html

Pell and a Super Injunction https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/world/australia/george-pell-trial-super-injunction.html

AMP Chairperson https://reneweconomy.com.au/amp-forges-new-path-appointing-climate-denier-chairman-31232/

Things

Malaysia

Indonesia

Jerusalem

Danah Boyd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I7FVyQCjNg https://points.datasociety.net/your-data-is-being-manipulated-a7e31a83577b

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-03-07-danah-boyd-how-critical-thinking-and-media-literacy-efforts-are-backfiring-today

ASIO under a pile of potatoes

Childish Gambino and This is America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY