“I want his youth.” A deathly spirit, channeled at a séance, had it in for the literary prodigy Raymond Radiguet. He was rich, famous, fêted by the avant-garde, and DOOOOMed
Recycling will be dumped by councils nationwide as costs blow out, government association says abc.net.au. Kevin W: “Is it recycling if your plan is to ship it to another country?" pella of green madness
Banking royal commission: 5pc of ANZ clients got financial advice not likely in their best interests
Continuing the work of murdered journalist #DaphneCaruanaGalizia, 6 months on
SOLVING MYSTERIES: YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG. What Bitcoin Is Really Worth May No Longer Be Such a Mystery. “It’s somewhere between $20 and $800,000, according to economic theory and a night of drinking.”
Well, I guess that’s settled then.
This Week’s Insights:
How streaming is changing music… The selfie-driven museum… The
data-driven bestseller… How museums’ purposes are being redefined… The
first five-billion-view video How Streaming (And Its Data) Is Transforming Music: Now that ... read more
Those new service sector media dragon jobs The Economist
The anecdotes, the famous faces bobbing in and out of view, the reams of office lore (sex on the desk, nervous breakdowns in the bathroom stall): What is Rolling Stone’s legacy? Bear Pit, Chatswood, Latitude of Pellas
Beware the grammar bullies! Morality and language are linked, argued Ursula K. Le Guin. But morality and correctness are not the same thing
The reputation game: How we control what people think of us
They introduce a useful distinction between two types of reputation:
capability and character. The first refers to competence in a specific
task, such as cooking a meal, providing mortgages, or making aircraft
engines. The second refers to moral or social qualities. Someone can
have a great reputation for ...
"We won. ... But having won, we have no sense of balance or modesty or graciousness," Jaron Lanier says about those who built the internet. ... So we kind of turned into a***e
Why L&D must ensure your organisation is trustworthy
The Next Arms Race: Artificial Intelligence (And It’s Already Started)
Artificial intelligence is a very powerful technology, and there is an arms race going on. Fast forward 20 years into the future and one of the players could have won the race. China is more likely to win than Russia is, although Russia has a lot going on. So, we could end up in a world that China may not formally control, but they effectively do because they rule the cyberworld. … Read MoreThe bell tolls for arm’s length pricing
Listen
closely, and you might just hear the beginning of the end of the
international rules that have made tax more or less voluntary for
multinational companies. This weekend, as part of their regular spring
meetings, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank will hold a
day-long conference … [Read more...]Companies rot from the top down
Robert Gottliebsen Something seriously wrong has developed in the leadership of Australia’s biggest and best companies and the public service.
“…we present a deep learning audio-visual model for isolating a single speech signal from a mixture of sounds such as other voices and background noise.” You’ll have to hold that conversation in a park. Until the parks are bugged.
'Canberra is a weird place': Joyce calls for overhaul of employment rules
Malcolm Turnbull admits 'political mistake' on bank royal commission
Improve Africa’s Domestic Resource Mobilisation: Shifting the Focus on Wealth Taxation, Corruption Enablers and Aggressive Tax Avoidance Tax Justice Network – Africa, Press Release (In English and French)
Debate on illicit financial flows and sustainable development El País (In Spanish)
With TJN’s chief executive Alex Cobham
Colombia: A #JustUncorrupted presidential candidate Global Alliance for Tax Justice
‘As presidential elections will be held in Colombia on 27 May 2018, the Colombia Tax Justice Platform Justicia Tributaria created a fictional candidate – a women, a researcher and a transparency and equality activist. #JustaIncorrupta, as she is named, comes along a cartoon character, who leads a proper campaign . . .’
The biggest change after the Panama Papers? The one inside people’s heads ICIJ
“… people are aware now of the menace that the anonymous offshore world poses”
Revisiting Panama: Pakistan’s tryst with tax havens Daily Times
Enough to educate 17 million children: The true cost of Brazil’s Car Wash scandal Global Witness
It seems likely that reducing inequality can make us happier Tax Research UK
Swiss Bankers Split on Future finews
‘Switzerland’s banking lobby is touting its trade in Asia and the Middle East …’
Two years since the Panama Papers leak and what has the Canada Revenue Agency done? Canadians for Tax Fairness / National Union of Public and General Employees
Australian money-laundering watchdog moves to regulate bitcoin providers Reuters
Zuckerberg quietly revealed a hole in Facebook’s new defenses against Russia : Shell companies Quartz
The Big Four accountancy firms have long pushed tax avoidance. It’s time for regulation Left Foot Forward
By TJN Senior Adviser Prem Sikka
Analysis | $7 Billion Hasn’t Moved The Needle on Financial Crime The Washington Post
The shadowy dealings of global finance The Harvard Gazette
Frederik Obermaier recounts breaking the Panama Papers
Dominican Republic journalist faces murder mastermind threats ICIJ
Financing for Development and the SDGs. An analysis of financial flows, systemic issues and interlinkages. Eurodad