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Linkdump 09-04-2018
Mon, Apr. 9th, 2018 10:00- Walmart has patented autonomous robot bees | World Economic Forum
And nobody knows why.
- NASA Could Be Sending Autonomous Bee Drones to Mars | Mental Floss
Only to find that Walmart has got there first. CONSPIRACY?
- On Trump Being an Anonymous Source and the Political Press Being Stenographers for an Authoritarian Liar | Shakesville
Words have rarely been left so thoroughly unminced.
- ‘Brass Eye’ two decades on: the unstoppable genius of Chris Morris | ShortList
Twenty years since we were all suddenly plunged into the braintanglia of rudemath, and with what shocking results. (My autocorrect already has 'braintanglia'. I wonder why.)
- Historic slaughterhouse found under Grassmarket by developers | Edinburgh Evening News
TIL that Silk was a cattle market before it was a cattle market.
- Down the Humber and back in time on the Amy Howson | Lincolnshire Life
Amy really is a beauty.
- “Hardly the Center of the World”: Vancouver in William Gibson’s “The Winter Market” | Dr. Paul Delany, Simon Fraser University
What he's master of, really, is garbage, kipple, refuse, the sea of cast-off goods or century floats upon. Gomi no sensei. Master of junk.
- Heavy Metal Umlaut, The Movie | Jön Üdell
"An unlikely topic for a scholarly treatise"
- What will it take for the Lib Dems to get bolder? | Never Cruel Nor Cowardly
"The lights are going out on liberal democracy everywhere. Yet the Lib Dems are refusing to rage against the dying of the light." The Lib Dems were among the first to die, and a lot of them still don't seem to realize that they're a hideous partially animated cadaver that must wait a generation to be reborn.