Wednesday, November 22, 2017

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Almanac: Edward Luttwak on tradition and the market
“I believe that one ought to have only as much market efficiency as one needs, because everything that we value in human life is within the realm of inefficiency—love, family, attachment, community, culture, old habits, ... read more




We say it a lot" we are good at losing" ;-)


Companies are paying big money to know your movements at work





As they used to say in the old tragic Mittleurope, Political power follows economic might ...New defence strategies set to be unveiled

Defence Connect

The Department of Defence is in the process of developing a long-termDefence Industry Skill and STEM Strategy to support its Integrated ...






Slovak High Tatra mountaineer Vladimir Strba died at Mt Everest, but little is still known about his death Slovak climber dies on Mount Everest 
By the age of a mere 13 years old, he had already mastered a winter passing of the ridge of the Western Tatras. He graduated from studies in geology and geo-physics. He climbed the High Tatras, Alps (Mont Blanc), Dolomites (Marmolada) and the Great Atlas (Djabal Toubkal) in Morocco.

       They've announced that Czech born Tom Stoppard has won this year's David Cohen Prize, a biennial £40,000 author award that has previously gone to, among others, Nobel laureates V.S.Naipaul (1993), Harold Pinter (1995), and Doris Lessing (2001)

Unemployment is Miserable and Doesn’t Spawn an Upsurge in Personal Creativity


FlowingData: “Many dream of the day they can walk into their boss’s office to tell him or her what they really think and then storm out in a blaze of glory. Or, maybe there’s less bitterness involved, and you just feel like it’s time to shift the career path. Where do you go after you leave your current job? Do you stay with what you know, or do you pursue something totally different? What are the possibilities? In the charts below, I look at what people did in real life. The data comes from the Current Population Survey, between 2011 and 2016. The Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics run the survey on an ongoing basis. The survey covers a lot of topics, but we’re most interested in people’s current occupation at the time of the survey and what they were doing the previous year. Then focus on the people whose occupation the previous year is different from the current year. With this subset of the data, we get a sense of where people go, given their previous job…”


A new study on unemployment confirms decades of research showing that people are happier when they work


…how you get the majority of Australians – regardless of age, gender, family formation or socio-economic class – to do the following: cook regularly, develop a varied repertoire of dishes that includes vegetarian options and animal protein options, use seasonal ingredients, know what to do with leftovers, minimise  food waste, eat out less and entertain at home more. 

 The Right to Tell People What They Do Not Want to Hear’ – Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education

 If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. 
That dictum is highly relevant today. It has no truck with the notion of “safe spaces” where topics are prohibited lest offense be caused to those of a differing persuasion; it opposes not just government censorship but also voluntary segregation into isolated media bubbles; it offers no comfort to the idea of trigger warnings permitting unwelcome subjects to be evaded; it rejects the strategy of keeping unpopular speakers off campus.
All true. Which is why the bad press universities have been getting is not unjustified. The article in the Economist has more to do with the students' views, not the administrators' actions: "University administrators, whose job it is to promote harmony and diversity on campus, often find the easiest way to do so is to placate the intolerant fifth,the article says. Well, not really. Their job is to do the right thing, and tolerating intolerance is not the way to do that.

See also: Unpopular opinions are in danger of extinction – but you can change that.
Yes. she is Evelyn Waugh's granddaughter

6 Social Media Trends to Prepare for in 2018

To help, here are six social-media trends you need to prepare for if you ...blog and outside publications -- will be critical for brands in 2018 

Via LLRX – The Use and Abuse of Social Media in the Post-Truth Era – Law librarian and adjunct professorPaul Gatz provides important guidance on social media discourse and information literacy that is especially timely and instructive as we are experiencing an escalating wave of highly questionable news and data through sites such as Facebook. 

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X marks the self London Review of Books
Twitter says you can lose verified status for bad behavior — even if it’s off Twitter Recode. Hmm. How will Twitter get their “off Twitter” data?


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Finally came the inevitable question about the relationship between Carey the writer of fiction, and a festival about non-fiction.  He said that there are things about history that we don’t know, and can’t know because history doesn’t tell the stories of marginalised people.  He mentioned Ned Kelly, the subject of his True History of the Kelly Gang.  We only know about poor people like Ned Kelly from what the judges and the police wrote about him in their records.  He was only 26 when he was hanged, so most of his life was childhood.  So there is a large part of his life that is unknown.  The facts, Carey says, are like spotlights and the other parts of the story, the imagined parts, are not arguing with what’s in the spotlight.  Instead they fill the dark parts of the story, the unseen, with the writer’s imagination.  A nice metaphor, eh?

Maria Takolander handled this session very well.  Her questions localised the presentation not just for her Geelong audience, but also gave Carey the opportunity to talk on fresh topics.  (Which must be refreshing when a writer is on a speaking tour like this). 

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“…But as this social media report will detail, social media teams, on the front lines of both issues, still are largely doing what they’ve done for a decade. A new API survey of 59 U.S. newsrooms conducted for this report shows that posting links to their own content, mostly on Twitter and Facebook, is still by far the top activity of the average social media team. While organizations like Hearken, GroundSource and the Coral Project are working to help newsrooms use social media for audience engagement rather than just for clicks, there is still much progress to be made — in using social platforms as tools to understand communities and to bring audiences into news creation. What’s more, the majority of newsrooms only “sometimes” or “very rarely” address misinformation on social media and comment platforms, our survey shows. And long-term strategies and planning are rare…”
“Step onto any city street and you may find yourself subject to numerous forms of police surveillance—many imperceptible to the human eye. A cruiser equipped with automated license plate readers (also known as ALPRs) may have just logged where you parked your car. A cell-site simulator may be capturing your cell-phone data incidentally while detectives track a suspect nearby. That speck in the sky may be a drone capturing video of your commute. Police might use face recognition technology to identify you in security camera  footage. EFF first launched its Street-Level Surveillance project in 2015 to help inform the 
public about the advanced technologies that law enforcement are deploying in our 
communities, often without any transparency or public process.  We’ve scored key victories in state legislatures and city councils, limiting the adoption of these technologies and how they can be used, but the surveillance continues to spread, agency by agency. To combat the threat, EFF is proud to release the latest update to our work: a new mini-site that shines light on a wide range of surveillance technologies, includingALPRscell-site simulatorsdronesface recognition, and body-worn cameras….”
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Wineburg, Sam and McGrew, Sarah, Lateral Reading: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information (October 6, 2017). Stanford History Education Group Working Paper No. 2017-A1. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3048994

“The Internet has democratized access to information but in so doing has opened the floodgates to misinformation, fake news, and rank propaganda masquerading as dispassionate analysis. To investigate how people determine the credibility of digital information, we sampled 45 individuals: 10 Ph.D. historians, 10 professional fact checkers, and 25 Stanford University undergraduates. We observed them as they evaluated live websites and searched for information on social and political issues. Historians and students often fell victim to easily manipulated features of websites, such as official-looking logos and domain names. They read vertically, staying within a website to evaluate its reliability. In contrast, fact checkers read laterally, leaving a site after a quick scan and opening up new browser tabs in order to judge the credibility of the original site. Compared to the other groups, fact checkers arrived at more warranted conclusions in a fraction of the time. We contrast insights gleaned from the fact checkers’ practices with common approaches to teaching web credibility.”




TechPrivacy – Daniel Solove: “For multinational organizations in an increasingly global economy, privacy law compliance can be bewildering these days. There is a tangle of international privacy laws of all shapes and sizes, with strict new laws popping up at a staggering speed. Federal US law continues to fade in its influence, with laws and regulators from abroad taking the lead role in guiding the practices of multinational organizations. These days, it is the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) from the EU that has been the focus of privacy professionals’ days and nights …and even dreams. As formidable as the GDPR is, only aiming to comply with the GDPR will be insufficient for a worldwide privacy compliance strategy. True, the GDPR is one of the strictest privacy laws in the world, but countries around the world have other very strict laws. The bottom line is that international privacy compliance is incredibly hard. This is what Lothar Determann focuses on. For nearly 20 years, Determann has combined scholarship and legal practice. In addition to being a partner at Baker & McKenzie, Lothar has taught data privacy law at many schools including Freie Universität Berlin, UC Berkeley School of Law, Hastings College of the Law, Stanford Law School, and University of San Francisco School of Law. He has written more than 100 articles and 5 books, including a treatise about California Privacy Law. Hot off the press is the new third edition of Lothar Determann’s terrific guide, Determann’s Field Guide to Data Privacy Law: International Corporate Compliance.  Determann has produced an incredibly useful synthesis of privacy law from around the globe. Covering so many divergent international privacy laws could take thousands of pages, but Determann’s guide is remarkably concise and practical. With great command of the laws and decades of seasoned experience, Determann finds the common ground and the wisest approaches to compliance. This is definitely an essential reference for anyone who must navigate privacy challenges in the global economy…”

Google, Facebook, Bing and Twitter to use these “Trust Indicators” to highlight credible journalism: “At a time when the public’s trust in news is declining in much of the world, the news industry is launching a new set of transparency standards that help people easily assess the quality and reliability of journalism. Leading media companies representing dozens of news sites have begun to display Trust Indicators, which provide clarity on the organizations’ ethics and other standards, the journalists’ backgrounds, and how they do their work. These indicators, created by leaders from more than 75 news organizations as part of the nonpartisan Trust Project, also show what type of information people are reading – news, opinion, analysis or advertising. Each indicator is signaled in the article and site code, providing the first standardized technical language for platforms to learn more from news sites about the quality and expertise behind journalists’ work. GoogleFacebook, Bing and Twitter have all agreed to use the indicators and are investigating and piloting ideas about how to best to use them to surface and display quality journalism. The Trust Project is led by award-winning journalist Sally Lehrman of Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, and hosted by the Center. The German press agency dpa, The Economist, The Globe and Mail, the Independent Journal Review, Mic, Italy’s La Repubblica and La Stampa, Trinity Mirror and The Washington Post are among the companies starting to go live with Trust Indicators this month. The Institute for Nonprofit News developed a WordPress plug-in to facilitate broader implementation by qualified publishers.”





Aiming for the top in business? The boss of BHP says work less, not more
abc.net.au, 30/10/17. "Overwork sucks us into a negative spiral, causing our brains to slow down and compromising our emotional intelligence," said Annie McKee, the author of the book, How to Be Happy at Work. Also: How to Find Happiness on the Job




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