Quote

"We continue to look into that very carefully, I'm not yet satisfied that we've gotten to the bottom of it and we're going to keep looking into it." - Jeff Bezos

RIP and Infected

FSA has now recorded 159,000 deaths, or one thousand and twelve Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302s (the second Boeing 737 MAX 8 crash).

Nonger the Cat

John Hume https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-44753271

Vangapandu Prasada Rao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vangapandu_Prasada_Rao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala

Adhe Tapontsang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhe_Tapontsang

Herman Cain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain

Mohammad Reza Navaei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Navaei

Icelandic names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnheiður_Ásta_Pétursdóttir

Wilford Brimley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilford_Brimley

Follow-Up

Africa

SpaceX https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/spacex-dragon-splashdown-astronauts-touch-down-earth-a4514676.html

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

Advertising "pause" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/business/media/facebook-boycott.html

Stacks

"News" https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/30/study-u-s-adults-who-mostly-rely-on-social-media-for-news-are-less-informed-exposed-to-more-conspiracies/

Mark, Jeff, Sundar, and Tim https://www.npr.org/2020/07/30/896952403/4-key-takeaways-from-washingtons-big-tech-hearing-on-monopoly-power

Lina Khan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Khan

The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart https://www.fastcompany.com/54763/man-who-said-no-wal-mart

TikTok https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/microsoft-in-talks-to-acquire-tiktok-after-trump-ultimatum/ https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53633315

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

Formula 1

Whitest sport ever? https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/petition-calls-for-boycott-of-world-lacrosse-games-after-iroquois-nationals-excluded/

Olympics https://www.france24.com/en/20200730-uighur-group-calls-for-china-to-lose-2022-games-over-genocide-1

The Home Advantage https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/07/25/empty-stadiums-have-shrunk-football-teams-home-advantage

FA Cup et al ...

Telstra https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/02/hackers-cause-telstra-outages-in-australias-eastern-states-with-malicious-cyber-attack

Fox Sports Virtual Crowds https://www.engadget.com/fox-sports-virtual-181529869.html

Arse End of the World https://www.afr.com/politics/keating-denies-arse-end-remark-19940624-k5ydx

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