Intros

Figureheads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figurehead_(object) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figurehead_(object) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lancaster_(1858) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figurehead_(object)#/media/File:Marineers_Museum_Eagle.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Blissett the footballer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Blissett_(nom_de_plume)

Quote

"The industry of the integrated spectacle and immaterial command owes me money. I will not come to terms with it until I will not have what is owed to me. For all the times I appeared on TV, films, and on the radio as a casual passersby or as an element of the landscape, and my image has not been compensated . . . for all the words or expressions of high communicative impact I have coined in peripheral cafes, squares, street corners, and social centers that became powerful advertising jingles, without seeing a dime; for all the times my name and my personal data have been put at work inside stats, to adjust the demand, refine marketing strategies, increase the productivity of firms to which I could not be more indifferent; for all the advertising I continuously make by wearing branded t-shirts, backpacks, socks, jackets, bathing suits, towels, without my body being remunerated as a commercial billboard; for all of this and much more, the industry of the integrated spectacle owes me money! I understand it may be difficult to calculate how much they owe me as an individual. But this is not necessary at all, because I am Luther Blissett, the multiple and the multiplex. And what the industry of the integrated spectacle owes me, it is owed to the many that I am, and is owed to me because I am many. From this viewpoint, we can agree on a generalized compensation. You will not have peace until I will not have the money! LOTS OF MONEY BECAUSE I AM MANY: CITIZEN INCOME FOR LUTHER BLISSETT!" - Luther Blissett

RIP and Infected

USA last week ... 99,805

USA this week ... 106,927

Worldwide ... 377,966

Some more Ebola https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1267446244793888769 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_vaccine

Christo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrapped_Coast https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jun/02/christos-wrapped-coast

Sir John Coward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coward_(Royal_Navy_officer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Brilliant_(F90)

Charlie Monttana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Monttana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_urbano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa4qDRReoMU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_3-lqNrtQw

• Sugar affections?
• Hypoglycemic crisis?
• Diabetes?

Sugar and the brain https://neuro.hms.harvard.edu/harvard-mahoney-neuroscience-institute/brain-newsletter/and-brain/sugar-and-brain

Robert Weighton 112 years, 60 days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_supercentenarians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_supercentenarians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment

Follow-Up

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/30/canberra-secret-hearing-collaery-witness-k-anger-simmers-timor-bugging-hearing

Things

USA

• 'Law and Order' a better reelection backdrop than COVID-19
• Insurrection Act
• Comparisons with HKG, Tiananmen, Iran ...
• Antifa
• The perp walk to St Johns
• Nukes

Twitter https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twitter-announces-first-quarter-2020-results-301050109.html https://www.out.com/tech/2020/3/03/republican-mega-donor-trump-supporter-buys-stake-twitter

Facebook protests

Private companies wot can send you to space for $60 million (good for social distancing) https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/spacex-launch-nasa-astronauts-rocket-falcon-dragon-watch-video-a9540661.html

The man who inspired RDJ's portrayal of Tony Stark https://www.bbc.com/news/av/embed/p06nfmrk/52867494

AUS

• Robodebt
• Stimulus through housing renovations
• Eden-Monaco

Michael Pascoe on the corrupt-as-hell Community Development Grants, which make the Sports Rorts look like amateur hour. https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2020/06/01/community-development-grant-pascoe/

Stacks

AJ (Artificial Journalism) https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/30/21275524/microsoft-news-msn-layoffs-artificial-intelligence-ai-replacements

Sports

No Chess news this week.

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