Jozef Imrich, name worthy of Kafka, has his finger on the pulse of any irony of interest and shares his findings to keep you in-the-know with the savviest trend setters and infomaniacs.
''I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.''
-Kurt Vonnegut
It's different to shares — with shares you hold for the long term but during the course of that holding you will receive, often not always, but most often you will receive a dividend," said Professor Bob Deutsch (on Cybercurrency and Tax) , the Tax Institute's senior tax counsel. P
" I finished the doco last night. Incredible. Pretty much
shows the worst of humanity because the leaders involved should have, and did,
know better but kept making terrible decisions. Whereas with other atrocities
like WW2, the worst kind of humans (evil people) were in charge so in some ways
its more understandable. With Vietnam, intelligent and seemingly good-willed
people like JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger etc made one
terrible decision after another. Nixon was another kettle of fish of course.
I feel like there’s not enough focus on why leaders make bad
decisions. There’s too much spiel shovelled to us about ‘great leadership
qualities’. All we needed with Vietnam were some average leaders who were
actually prepared to make the right decision, not some crafty, strategic,
seemingly intelligent decision intended to save face. And I don’t remember any
of the leaders acknowledging that they got it wrong. How rare it is to hear
that from our leaders.
Perhaps that should be ranked as the first quality of a
great leader – the proven ability to acknowledge their own shortcomings and
failings/mistakes."
~ courtesy of CL
Who am I to judge me or da Boss? He did it again. In the midst of another man's heartbreak, Bruce Springsteen realigned the stars. His ability to do this is a self-described "magic trick," not escapism but the truth: hope may be audacious, even foolhardy, but there is no other way to live. In the face of adult responsibilities, we will do well to embrace our pressures with humor and joy. We will also do well to benostalgic, be Freudian, do whatever it takes to understand our origins, to keep the memories of childhood alive, to let them warm our - dare I say it - hungry hearts... In Shakespeare's day, audiences knew the material well. This was the closest I've gotten to that Bard's groundlings - every intimate self-deprecating joke, "I've made a career writing about things of which I have zero experience," landing with the force of recognition. Where Bruce was unfamiliar was in his theatricality and the ways he made "Springsteen" a play: un-mic'd asides, anthropomorphizing his guitar and accompanying himself on piano at a storyteller's pace like the half-Irishman he is. It was a deft interweaving of fifteen songs spanning forty years with bits from the book and some new connective tissue. Too smart to be sentimental, too cut with comedy to be saccharine, the occasional purity of love and joy - such as in his 1987 ode to mama, "The Wish" - was almost too much to bear. (It followed a hearty laugh earned by the gutting "My Father's House," after which he jested, "Okay I'm gonna call you off suicide watch now.") EDGE Media Network :: Springsteen on Broadway
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
SYDNEYSIDERS are set for a triple treat tonight when three lunarevents collide for the first time in more than 30 years. Late tonight, stargazers in some parts of the country will be able to feast their eyes ...
Dutch canal houses are another classic example of how rules and regulations can shape structures. Taxed on their canal frontage rather than height or depth, these buildings grew in tall and thin. In turn, this typology evolved narrower staircases, necessitating exterior hoist systems to move furniture and goods into and out of upper floors.
That’s from an excellent post by Kurt Kohlstedt at 99% Invisible who gives many other examples of taxes having long-lasting effects on the built environment. A Quote from Willa Cather: “The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is
In Palermo, Sicilian teenagers equip their bikes with car batteries and speakers to create roving sound systems.
Via LLRX – Business Intelligence Online Resources 2018 – This guide by Marcus Zillmanfocuses on selected free and fee based resources published by a range of reliable sources that researchers can use for tracking, monitoring and sector research discovery purposes, as well as on tools and techniques to leverage in their business intelligence work. This is an applied course designed to introduce students to the emerging social, economic and legal issues associated with blockchain and crypto-enabled technologies
World Economic Forum – Towards a Reskilling Revolution– “As the types of skills needed in the labour market change rapidly, individual workers will have to engage in life-long learning if they are to achieve fulfilling and rewarding careers
“This paper explores pragmatic approaches that might be employed to document the behavior of large, complex socio-technical systems (often today shorthanded as “algorithms”) that centrally involve some mixture of personalization, opaque rules, and machine learning components. Thinking rooted in traditional archival methodology — focusing on the preservation of physical and digital objects, and perhaps the accompanying preservation of their environments to permit subsequent interpretation or performance of the objects — has been a total failure for many reasons, and we must address this problem. The approaches presented here are clearly imperfect, unproven, labor-intensive, and sensitive to the often hidden factors that the target systems use for decision-making (including personalization of results, where relevant); but they are a place to begin, and their limitations are at least outlined. Numerous research questions must be explored before we can fully understand the strengths and limitations of what is proposed here. But it represents a way forward. This is essentially the first paper I am aware of which tries to effectively make progress on the stewardship challenges facing our society in the so-called “Age of Algorithms;” the paper concludes with some discussion of the failure to address these challenges to date, and the implications for the roles of archivists as opposed to other players in the broader enterprise of stewardship — that is, the capture of a record of the present and the transmission of this record, and the records bequeathed by the past, into the future. It may well be that we see the emergence of a new group of creators of documentation, perhaps predominantly social scientists and humanists, taking the front lines in dealing with the “Age of Algorithms,” with their materials then destined for our memory organizations to be cared for into the future.
One noteworthy aspect of growing older is that you find yourself benignly bemused—if you’re lucky—by the constant parade of new technologies that worm their way into your everyday life almost before you know it, pushing ... read more
The collection encompasses upwards of 10,000 posters and
spans decades: from when the film industry was just beginning to compete
with vaudeville acts in the 1920s to the rise of the modern megaplex
and drive-in theaters in the 1970s. The sizes range from that of a small
window card to that of a billboard.
Using high speed cameras, it’s possible to record the vibrations of
everyday objects caused by nearby sounds and reverse engineer the
sounds…essentially turning anything that vibrates into a speaker.
For instance, if you want to know what a person is saying but can’t
hear them directly, you can take a video of the house plant next to them
and recover the sound from the micro-vibrations of the leaves. In one
example, they filmed a pair of Apple earbuds playing a song and the
recovered audio was accurate enough for the Shazam app to identify the
song.
Tango is an experimental animated film made by Zbigniew Rybczyński in
1980. It takes place entirely in one room with an increasing number of
characters cycling through it repeatedly. It’s the kind of thing you
can’t stop watching once you start. (It’s also mildly NSFW.) Tango won
The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1983.
"There have been several calls for his ouster from the University of Toronto — where he’s tenured — including a recent open letter to the dean of the faculty of arts and science signed by hundreds, including many of his fellow professors. Friends refuse to comment on him lest they be associated with his image. Critics hesitate, too, for fear that his supporters will unleash their online wrath. A graduate student at another Canadian university was reprimanded for showing a short video clip of Peterson to a group of undergraduates. One of the professors taking her to task likened Peterson to Hitler." … Read More
Arman Gungor – Meridian Discovery – Link to complete posting: “Portable Document Format (PDF) forensic analysis is a type of request we encounter often in our computer forensics practice. The requests usually entail PDF forgery analysis or intellectual property related investigations. In virtually all cases, I have found that the PDF metadata contained in metadata streams and the document information dictionary have been instrumental. I will provide a brief overview of these metadata sources and then provide an example of how they can be useful during PDF forensic analysis. PDF is an electronic file format created by Adobe Systems in the early 1990s. It is used primarily to reliably exchange documents independent of platform—hardware, software or operating system. PDF is also an ISO Standard (ISO 32000-1). Due to its platform independent nature, numerous personal and business documents such as reports, agreements and operational documents are created and exchanged in PDF format. Consequently, we encounter them very often during e-Discovery processing, productions and PDF forensic analysis—especially duringfraudulent document analysis…”
Evictions in the US appear to be on the rise, thanks to gentrification, rising rents, and stagnating incomes.
How public libraries are
reinventing themselves for the 21st century
Coding workshops. 3D printers. And
books. Far from extinct, today’s public library is about access to
technology as much as to knowledge: “On any given day, in one of the world’s busiest urban
library systems, 50,000 people come through the doors of the Toronto Public
Library’s 100 branches, while 85,000 make an online visit. The walk-ins bring
their coffee and their lunches; they talk and watch TV while charging their
phones; they do their homework, often via thousands of computer sessions; they
make videos or create objects with 3D printers; take classes in computer coding
or yoga; attend author talks or listen to experts offer advice for those
looking after elderly relatives; access video tutorials on everything from
website design to small business management from Lynda.com (an American online
education giant that offers 3,600 courses taught by industry experts). Together
with their online fellows, they borrow musical instruments, passes to the
city’s art galleries and museums, WiFi hotspots, lamps that battle seasonal
affective disorder, Raspberry Pis (small, single-board computers primarily used
for coding training), DVDs, more than 12,000 ebooks and—of course—plain old
print-and-ink books, a good 90,000 of them every day. All at no cost…”
