Mind-control Cockroaches https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-managed-mind-control-cockroaches

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-cias-operation-midnight-climax-was-exactly-what-it-sounded-like-fa63f84ad015

RIP and Infected

928,830 around the world.

198,520 of the Failed Statians.

Diana Rigg

Toots Maytal

Follow-Up

Tax the stacks and give the money to the ABC ... is now Greens policy https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/14/greens-may-back-forcing-facebook-and-google-to-pay-for-news-if-abc-is-included

Spain https://www.newsmediaalliance.org/google-news-shutdown-in-spain-not-as-bad-as-google-would-have-you-believe/ https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/09/el-pais-now-has-more-than-64000-digital-subscribers-accounting-for-nearly-a-quarter-of-total-digital-news-subscriptions-in-spain/

ACCC and App stores https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/09/australias-investigating-apple-and-googles-app-store-practices-now/

Belarus

Things

Starlink https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giQ8xEWjnBs https://www.republicworld.com/technology-news/science/spacex-starlink-to-offer-speeds-of-up-to-one-gigabit-per-second.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/elon-musk-astronomers-spacex-starlink-satellites-astronomy-a9687901.html https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-05/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-step-toward-internet-in-australia/11934158 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink

GPT-3 stringers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

Stacks

Amazon https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54106863 https://www.dw.com/en/nsa-snowden/a-54797779

The Magic Roundabout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3DcChXNyYQ

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/marcelo-bielsa-bucket-leeds-manager-22667006 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Buckethead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Binface

fin