– Robert Bosch
Dodgy dating sites use tax haven overseas to slip by police'Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.'
“I know it’s not true but it could be true”. In the New York Times Daniel Effron of the London Business School explains Why Trump Supporters don’t Mind his Lies. Even if we know that a story is untrue, if it aligns with our prejudices, and if we can imagine a situation where a similar story might be true, the story tends to confirm our prejudices.
Want to know when you might die and so does Google
Banks fighting cybercrime wars
The Bear Pit Calling Names in NSW Parliament
NSW information commission charts course to a more open government
NSW information and privacy commissioner Elizabeth Tydd has given public service leaders a comprehensive new guide to open government.
That annual report you’re currently writing could be the last of its kind
VERONA BURGESS: The lead accountability document for every government agency may not be the same again if the PGPA review draft recommendation goes through.
Italy Holds A Mirror to a Broken Europe
The election of a right-wing, populist government in Italy exposes
the economic and democratic shortcomings of the European project and its
nationalist rivals.
It is little wonder that trust in government is
bruised by the day. The secrecy and dissembling over Australia’s largest
infrastructure project, WestConnex, is a case in point.
To be fair, some sympathy might be conceded governments undertaking
ambitious public works projects, especially when they entail tearing
down peoples homes to build motorways and locking horns with angry
residents’ groups. Even from the outset however, the $17 billion
WestConnex project in Sydney has been handled more like an SAS mission
than a public project requiring community consent and deliberation. As a
suite of project deadlines looms, public confidence is running low.WestConnex sale looms as bidding duel narrows to Transurban, industry funds
Brexit: ‘call Ireland’s bluff’ on Border, Rees-Mogg tells MayIrish Times (PlutoniumKun). I believe he is so stupid that he believes what he is saying.
Back in 1960s as young people we always said hello to older people in our time first ...
I remember a time when being old was honorable. Old people were respected. Others would get up from their seat on a bus or train to give them a place to sit. No one interrupted them when they spoke. There was honor and rituals of recognition of their worthiness as the older generation. Old people were the Elders, the wise. Old Age Over Time
Back in 1960s as young people we always said hello to older people in our time first ...
I remember a time when being old was honorable. Old people were respected. Others would get up from their seat on a bus or train to give them a place to sit. No one interrupted them when they spoke. There was honor and rituals of recognition of their worthiness as the older generation. Old people were the Elders, the wise. Old Age Over Time
Thomas Weber, Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi. Perhaps you, like me, are totally sick of Hitler books. But how exactly did his ideas morph into…what they became? This book is detailed, well-documented, psychologically insightful, at times even brilliant.
I am quoted on how economists are portrayed in the media:
It is the best of times. It is the worst of times. It is not uncommon, for example, to see critiques of economics in the media which are about as sophisticated as saying “look at those silly physicists who think that a bowling ball and a feather fall at the same rate.” Even people who should know better like David Suzuki say ridiculously, obtuse things when it comes to economics–perhaps for ideological reasons.
· Dear Interns: Go beyond what’s required. A handwritten note
doesn’t hurt. Kulcha at work
BILLIONAIRE, PUBLISHER, LIBERAL, OPPRESSOR: Hey, you know what’s cool about this country? Not just monster trucks, the Blue Angels and the fact that one can say “fuck you” to the Nation’s leader on national television without being hauled away by secret police in the middle of the night. (Try *that* in Saudi Arabia or Turkey, kids).
No, those are all cool, but we live in a country where you can be one of the three richest men in the world, own a newspaper that touts income equality and wealth distribution, but according to your own employees, underpays them. At least, according to the 400 staffers at the Washington Post who penned an open letter to Bezos:
#DearJeffBezos, we workers of The Washington Post have been bargaining for a year and have little to show for it because The Post won’t meet us halfway on much of anything. We love The Post. We know you do too. Our work has earned us more than what The Post is offering.
Democracy Dies in Darkness, you know. Resist and all that good stuff.
Google Translate not enough to grant consent, finds US judge - Quartz: “Imagine you’re driving in a foreign country and a police officer stops you on the road. You don’t speak the cop’s language and they don’t speak yours, so a halting exchange ensues using a laptop and Google Translate. You’re not always sure what the officer is asking, and you end up agreeing to something you didn’t quite understand, and are arrested. That’s what happened to Omar Cruz-Zamora, a Mexican native in the US on a legal visa, in Kansas last September. Based on a typed exchange using Google Translate, he agreed to let police search his car—he wasn’t legally required to—and was arrested for possession of 14 pounds of cocaine and methamphetamines. On June 4, a Kansas court (pdf) granted Cruz-Zamora’s motion to suppress the evidence, finding Google Translate isn’t good enough for constitutional search purposes.
Social mobility in richest countries ‘has stalled since 1990s’ Guardian
More than 400 Washington Post staffers wrote an open letter to Jeff Bezos calling out his ‘shocking’ pay practices This Insider
Why would Tesla fight a rule that would force electric-car manufacturers to treat their workers well? Mike Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
Union defeats Deliveroo in latest round of gig economy rights case Independent
Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits, Suit Says New York Times
For the biggest group of American workers, wages aren’t just flat. They’re falling. Washington Post
How Long Does It Take to Get a Job in America Today? 84.3 Days for HR… TalentWorks (UserFriendly)
The Science of the Job Search, Part V: Getting Fired (or Laid Off) Costs You ~5 Years of Experience TalentWorks (UserFriendly)
Contract negotiation: why the public sector needs to drive a hard bargain
JOHN GLENN: In 2017, the federal government executed $47bn of new contracts. Negotiating a 1% reduction would have saved $470m, almost half a billion dollars
Big data is here, let's handle it responsibly
DAVID KALISCH: A balance is possible between the safe and effective use of nationalised data to inform important government decisions ‒ without compromising sensitive information
A lucky boy from a golden age of economics
NICHOLAS GRUEN: Harking back to an era of economics in which conceptual simplicity was a feature not a bug and the central criterion of good work was its generality and usefulness.
