R.I.P.

Les Carlyon

Mike Willesee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Willesee

Andre Previn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Previn

Keith Flint

Luke Perry

Global fish population https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/fish-decline-climate-change-global-warming-oceans-fisheries-overfishing-a8802061.html

Elinor Ostrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom

F.U.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MalaysiaAirlinesFlight_370

Things

Politics and the Stench of Corruption™

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/27/coalition-changes-rules-to-let-mps-spend-millions-more-taxpayer-dollars-on-ads

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/03/algerian-president-sacks-campaign-manager-as-protests-continue

https://dictatoralert.org/

Marijuana in Thailand https://www.storiesfromcbd.com/articles/the-use-of-marijuana-for-medical-purposes-became-officially-legal-late-monday-through-a-royal-decree/ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/thai-parliament-approves-medical-marijuana

MDMA https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/04/doctors-prescribe-mdma-first-government-approves-drug-ptsd-treatment-8799518/

Pakistan https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/22/india-again-threatens-to-restrict-flow-of-river-water-to-pakistan-as-tension-builds https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47412884

SpaceX https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47430432

"once discredited, limited everywhere" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/01/china-bans-23m-discredited-citizens-from-buying-travel-tickets-social-credit-system

Stacks

There is no limit to the depths that lying Mark will plumb https://www.fastcompany.com/90314763/now-facebook-is-allowing-anyone-to-look-you-up-using-your-security-phone-number https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/01/facebookteentrackingapp/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/02/facebook-global-lobbying-campaign-against-data-privacy-laws-investment https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/21/zuckerbergprivacyinterview/

Think of the kids ... https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/28/18244996/tiktok-children-privacy-data-ftc-settlement

Never read the comments https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/28/youtubespedosystem/

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

The Beautiful Game... for robots? https://medium.com/syncedreview/having-notched-impressive-victories-over-human-professionals-in-go-atari-games-and-most-recently-30b88ee363e9

50 million, bitches! http://www.sportingnews.com/us/other-sports/news/apex-legends-hits-50-million-users-ahead-of-season-1-battle-pass-release-date/w7tft5vj8wke1advn27g5y8em

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