Quote

"People do things out of fear; you know what I mean: [that] they'll lose their jobs, their rep will be ruined, no one will love them, their family won't be able to eat, blah blah blah.... I've never had those paralyzing fears. I've been on my own since I was a kid, on the road at age thirteen, and I bypassed all the early middle-class crap that programs us to be shivering, rationalizing chickenhearts.... You can't allow yourself to be frightened; not if you want the writing to have heat and reason and passion" - Harlan Ellison, 1934 - 2018

RIP

Sam Chisholm

• Worked for Packer at 9 and Rupert at Sky UK. Returned to 9 after lung transplants.
• "A charismatic chainsaw of a man." - Peter Fitz
• "Most of the people at the funeral will be there to make sure he's dead" - Phillip Adams

Aum Shin-FREAKO cult - convicted murderers, executed by hanging.

• Shoko Asahara, 63, leader
• Seiichi Endo, 58
• Kiyohide Hayakawa, 68
• Yoshihiro Inoue, 48
• Tomomasa Nakagawa, 55, participant in Sakamoto family murder
• Tomomitsu Niimi, 54
• Masami Tsuchiya, 53, chemist for Tokyo subway sarin attack

Harry M. Miller

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarryM.Miller
• https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/361143/harry-m-miller-celebrity-agent-and-theatrical-producer-dies-aged-84

Evan Whitton

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Whitton

Steve Ditko

Harlan Ellison

• https://tv.avclub.com/harlan-ellison-was-tv-s-rejected-son-and-its-harshest-1827256001
• https://www.avclub.com/harlan-ellison-1798225624
• https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/07/02/remembering-harlan-ellison-1934-2018/

Capital Gazette journos

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Gazette_shooting

William Macbride

Humankind?

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

F.U.

Four years exactly since downing of MH17

Things

Attention Economy

• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia
• http://quillette.com/2016/10/03/the-clickbait-candidate/
• http://nautil.us/issue/52/the-hive/modern-media-is-a-dos-attack-on-your-free-will
• https://ninedotsprize.org/extracts-stand-light-freedom-persuasion-attention-economy/

Stand Out of Our Light

• https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/stand-out-of-our-light/3F8D7BA2C0FE3A7126A4D9B73A89415D

SBS advertising

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sbs.ondemand.android&hl=en_US&showAllReviews=true

Weather

MyHealthRecord Clusterfuck

WTAF?

• http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-17/adelaide-driver-detected-with-illegal-modifcations-to-car/10002276
• http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-04/driver-arrested-for-using-a-metal-pan-instead-of-steering-wheel/7812734

Catholics: (always) disappointing

• https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/consecrated-virgins-need-not-be-virgins-vatican-20180717-p4zry2.html
• https://www.sciencealert.com/shroud-of-turin-bloodstain-pattern-analysis-unrealistic-hoax-borrini-garlaschelli

Archbishop of Canterbury has doubts

• https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/18/archbishop-canterbury-doubt-god-existence-welby

Sport

World Cup

Fin.