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"People at Goldman and JP Morgan ... many of them do not understand the real reason they've been making money hand over fist the last nine or 10 years. If you were running one of these places you would have to really try - like every day - to fuck it up. It would have to be your sole mission when you got up in the morning. Like, 'I'm off to go fuck things up.'" - anonymous market analyst describing the business model of too big to fail banks in the post-bailout era as being like Brewster's Millions.

Brewster's Millions https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088850/

F.U.

Daniel Hadley https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/03/ray-hadleys-son-daniel-applies-for-drug-charge-to-be-dealt-with-under-mental-health-act

Climate Data on a Friday afternoon before Grand Final(s) https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/09/29/australia-greenhouse-gas/

Queensland Whistleblowers https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/03/number-of-queensland-officials-seeking-whistleblower-protection-at-record-levels

Auntie

Political donations https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/28/coalitions-changes-to-finance-bill-would-override-state-bans-on-political-donations

8% customer satisfaction with job agencies https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/02/coalitions-outsourced-jobseeker-program-leading-to-anxiety-rather-than-jobs

Prime Minister as daggy dad https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/28/scott-morrisons-daggy-dad-act-is-a-sign-of-our-times

Surveillance https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/01/fears-coalitions-surveillance-laws-could-force-access-to-encrypted-messages

Some video footage from the surface of an asteroid http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20180927e_MNRV/

Things

stacks

FB IS AN ADVERTISING COMPANY https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/you-gave-facebook-your-number-security-they-used-it-ads https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to-your-shadow-co-1828476051

FB data breach https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/facebook-data-breach-affects-least-50-million-users https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/technology/facebook-hack-data-breach.html

FB data breach pt II https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2018-09-28-facebook-caught-automatically-blocking-ap-and/

FB data breach III: Beyond Thunderdome http://fortune.com/2018/09/30/facebook-data-breach-fine-european-privacy-gdpr-eu/

and the rest

If elected Labor will legislate to require publicly listed companies to report the ratio of their chief executive's pay to that of the median worker in a bid to curb "excessive" CEO pay. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/02/labor-to-force-companies-to-compare-ceos-pay-with-that-of-median-worker

Jacinda is most excellent.

Magnetic flux https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5044557 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xj4vg/watch-scientists-accidentally-blow-up-their-lab-with-the-strongest-indoor-magnetic-field-ever

Fruit https://www.theage.com.au/national/zoo-won-t-panda-to-taste-says-fruit-s-too-sweet-for-its-monkey-menu-20180928-p506lb.html

Wild/ancient fruit https://deniseminger.com/2011/05/31/wild-and-ancient-fruit/

Sports

Bentleigh Greens https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/sep/27/bentleigh-greens-eye-history-as-ffa-cup-semi-finals-are-drawn

Thanks Mike https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/oct/01/socceroos-captain-mile-jedinak-announces-immediate-retirement

Broncos Women's Thugby League https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/09/30/brisbane-broncos-smash-roosters-to-win-inaugural-holden-womens-premiership/

The Grannies

Cricket Australia has appointed Kevin Roberts as its incoming chief executive after James Sutherland's resignation following the ball-tampering scandal https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/oct/03/kevin-roberts-appointed-new-ceo-of-cricket-australia