Thursday, April 19, 2018

The Lost Generation: The Evolution Of Desire

CBA charged client fees for 10 years after death

Hundreds of Huge Sharks Are Gathering in Mysterious Swarms, And Nobody Knows Why Science Alert


Samuel Beckett's relationship with his mother was long, tempestuous, and, he realized, formative. “I am what her savage loving has made me”  Blaming Women In Our Lives

The fate of handwriting. It was imperiled by the printing press, then the typewriter, the computer, and the phone. But is an elegy premature?... 1958 birthday Radost zo Zivota Invitations are in fashion again

While science advances, philosophy stays the same, asking the Big Questions again and again. The field is still   immature

She was in Paris with the Lost Generation, fled Europe in 1941 with Peggy Guggenheim, got arrested with Joan Baez. Kay Boyle went everywhere and saw everything... the Lost Generation

Vanuatu Prime Minister assures Malcom Turnbull there will be no Chinese military base on islands




AMP: We charge clients for doing nothing.
CBA: Amateurs! We charge dead clients for doing nothing.
#bankingRC


There's a curious legal situation developing in Nova Scotia, Canada, right now.
A teenager is suspected of breaking the nation's hacking laws by downloading PDFs containing personal information from a public government website after officials failed to redact the documents.
You're a govt official. You accidentally slap personal info on the web. Quick, blame a kid!

The New York Times: “The embattled political data firm Cambridge Analytica quietly sought to develop its own virtual currency in recent months through a so-called initial coin offering, a novel fund-raising method that has come under growing scrutiny by financial regulators around the world. The offering was part of a broader, but still very private push that the firm was making into the nascent world of cryptocurrencies over the last year. Much like its acquisition of Facebook data to build psychological profiles of voters, the new business line pushed the firm into murky ethical and legal situations. Documents and emails obtained by The New York Times show that Cambridge Analytica’s efforts to help promote another group’s digital token, the Dragon Coin, associated the firm with a famous gangster in Macau who has gone by the nickname Broken Tooth. The goal of Cambridge Analytica’s own coin offering? 


In 1778, two women abandoned their routines and took to the Welsh countryside to write, think, read, and entertain literary guests. Is such a life still possible today?... Only if you are prepared to walk like Kathleen 800km 

We express our emotions physically, but now we mediate them digitally as well. As Don DeLillo put it, “Nobody knows how to feel and they’re checking around for hints”...  Hints

The death of Seamus Heaney lets us mourn not only an artist of rare verbal gifts but also the loss of a language that long mapped a way of living Being One with the World  

Govt demands sweeping reforms at auDA