The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. - Antonio Gramsci

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La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati. The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. --Antonio Gramsci

F.U.

Kind regards

MH370 ... oh yes ... https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12105909

Seattle Dash8 https://www.wired.com/story/seattle-stolen-plane-investigation/</a

Cessna 525 https://www.avgeekery.com/breaking-utah-man-crashes-cessna-525-citationjet-one-dead/

RIP Tonightly

GBRF

New South Wales Labor will move a motion to condemn the "entirely inappropriate" prosecution of former spy Witness K and his lawyer, breaking with the silence of their federal colleagues. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/14/nsw-labor-to-condemn-inappropriate-prosecution-of-spy-witness-k-and-his-lawyer

NEG vs Neg - FU Guardian style guide

Former deputy PM says 'people in the Kmart, people in the local pub' don't care about Paris agreement. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/13/barnaby-joyce-suggests-people-who-shop-at-kmart-dont-care-about-climate-change

Ipswich Council http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-14/ipswich-council-report-ccc-culture-of-corruption/10119372

Things

"During the 2016 campaign, Zeynep Tufekci was watching videos of Donald Trump rallies on YouTube. But then, she writes, she "noticed something peculiar. YouTube started to recommend and 'autoplay' videos for me that featured white supremacist rants, Holocaust denials and other disturbing content." And it wasn't just Trump videos. Watching Hillary Clinton rallies got her "arguments about the existence of secret government agencies and allegations that the United States government was behind the attacks of Sept. 11." Nor was it just politics. "Videos about vegetarianism led to videos about veganism. Videos about jogging led to videos about running ultramarathons.""

"I think the spark for the current situation is perhaps more mundane than we'd like to think. I don't think that for some reason everybody went crazy. I don't think it's because of the president we happen to have in office. I think it's social media. Social media, especially when you have it in your pocket in the form of the iPhone, allows bubbles of consensus to come together such that you can whip people up in a way that was not possible a generation before, or even ten years before. "It's not only about words but about pictures. And that is more viscerally stirring than pamphlets or that thing called the physical newspaper in the past. And so I think it's inevitable that with the rise of social media you would have this assault on free speech on campus, in the same way that I don't think there would have been a Tea Party if it weren't for Twitter and Facebook. I don't think that it was Obama as the key factor. I think it was the fact that that kind of sentiment could be whipped up to such an extent by these toys that, it's easy to forget what it was like when they didn't exist. "It's what scares me, because social media is not going away." -- Professor John McWhorter

Parker Probe! https://www.sbs.com.au/news/nasa-launches-daring-solar-probe-to-unlock-sun-s-mysteries

Disaster Area http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Disaster_Area

Hotblack Desiato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_characters#Hotblack_Desiato