Quote

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."

Frank Zappa

RIP

Peter Mayhew (and it's possible Jar Jar was the greatest Sith Lord of all time)

SpiceDiver's Dune Redux https://futurism.media/reconstructing-lynch-s-dune-a-look-at-dune-redux

F.U.

Does UBI work? Has it ever actually been tried? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/06/universal-basic-income-public-realm-poverty-inequality http://www.world-psi.org/sites/default/files/documents/research/en_ubi_full_report_2019.pdf

What about Balanced Anarchy?

Speaking of Centrelink https://www.smh.com.au/national/centrelink-wipes-robo-debt-at-centre-of-test-case-20190505-p51kac.html

Democracy Sausage

Meanwhile, in Mother England... https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-48077802 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/climate-change-environment-emergency-commons-motion-mps-vote-latest-a8895456.html

USA vs Rest Of World http://time.com/5582034/carbon-tariff-tax-fee-europe-macron/01/

RBA and interest rates https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2019/may/07/reserve-bank-meets-to-discuss-interest-rate-cuts-live

Things

Water https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/01/greed-took-over-the-farmers-fighting-bottled-water-giants-for-their-water http://naturalsociety.com/study-analyzes-wastefulness-bottled-water/

Asteroid water https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/5/eaav8106

Box Jellyfish https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/01/box-jellyfish-antidote-australian-researchers-find-antidote-for

PNG https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-07/political-crisis-in-png-sees-politicians-holed-up-in-hotel/11084382

Flu https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-07/teenager-among-ten-influenza-deaths-reported-in-sa/11088168 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-10/australian-flu-season-concerns-as-experts-urge-vaccinations/10987700

Sentinel Chickens https://animals.mom.me/sentinel-chickens-5800.html http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-arboanrep.htm

Malaria vaccine https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2019-04-30/test-malaria-vaccine-to-roll-out-in-ghana-and-kenya

Bubonic Plague https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/06/mongolian-couple-die-of-bubonic-plague-after-eating-marmot

Stacks

AusPol advertising on Facebook https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2019/may/01/australian-election-campaign-database-of-political-facebook-advertising

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

Caster Semenya https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/may/03/caster-semenya-south-africa-race-final-800m-testosterone

fin