for my thoughts and musk melon,
as well as rotten plums
and filmy kiwi. I would splatter
the walls with seeds,
slippery pith and flesh alike
melding into one stinky Monet,but at least not a page was torn
Alone in Sydney, June sky smoothed and silvery over a thin lip of sunlight, streets windless, I look forward to a coffee with TLC ... and a younger, better, foto on my Australian passport ... How ... my face changed from my old Austrian passport yet my soul is the same ;-) My friends, my freedom and my examined life - essentials of life versus evil advertising selling us whiskey ...
#36 Reaction to episode: “Epicurus: On Happiness” – Intellectual Pursuit
“There can be occasions when we suddenly and involuntarily find ourselves loving the natural world with a startling intensity, in a burst of emotion which we may not fully understand, and the only word that seems to me to be appropriate for this feeling is joy.”
Nature and the Serious Business of Happiness and Joy
Discussing Orwell and Goethe at Maxi Pagewood ...
The Intimate Orwell | by Simon Leys | The New York Review of Books.
Paper Trail Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize. “In this age of the privatised, marketised self, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the exception who defies the rule,” English PEN trustees chair Maureen Freely said of the author. “Sophisticated beyond measure in her understanding of gender, race, and global inequality, she guides us through the …
Senate hears 'dictatorial ATO' should be split in two
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
The
women in Dorthe Nors’s books are perpetually adrift. Approaching middle
age, often coming off breakups, unhappy in their work, they fit in
neither in the urban bustle of Copenhagen, where they’ve spent the
majority of their adult lives, nor in the rural Jutland of …
“Why good leaders make you feel safe“
Journalists now regularly trumpet fact-checking as an important tool to hold politicians accountable for their public statements, but fact checking’s effect has only been assessed anecdotally and in experiments on politicians holding lower-level offices Can Fact-checking Prevent Politicians from Lying? Chloe Lim
Journalists now regularly trumpet fact-checking as an important tool to hold politicians accountable for their public statements, but fact checking’s effect has only been assessed anecdotally and in experiments on politicians holding lower-level offices Can Fact-checking Prevent Politicians from Lying? Chloe Lim
Router Vulnerability and the VPNFilter Botnet Bruce Schneier
Can VPNs Really Be Trusted? Via Tripwire: “With hacking attacks, government surveillance and censorship constantly in the headlines, more and more people are looking for ways to increase their privacy online. One of the simplest and most popular solutions is to use a virtual private network. With a VPN, all your internet traffic is encrypted and tunneled through a third-party server, so it can’t be traced back to you. While this can be very effective, it must be noted that the main objective of a VPN provider – like any other company – is to make a profit. Although concern for the principle of web privacy may come into play, no one would be so naive as to assume that a VPN is in it for purely altruistic purposes. With this in mind, it’s worth asking: why should users place their trust in VPN providers?..”
Taking cover WWII
Louis D. Bilionis (Cincinnati), Law School Leadership and Leadership Development for Developing Lawyers, 58 Santa Clara L. Rev. ___ (2018):
A growing number of legal educators are calling for greater attention to leadership development as an element of legal education at American law schools. Some make the case directly in the name of leadership education. Others see leadership development as part of a broader law school responsibility to provide purposeful support for students in the formation of their professional identity. For yet others, development of leadership skills figures in a law school’s appropriate commitment to the professionalism, professional development, or wellness of its students. These educators, though employing different locutions, constitute a “coalition of the willing” – law school faculty and staff who are adopting innovations to help advance their students in their development as professionals.They are promoting, at bottom, the same fundamental innovation: the institution of purposeful, more systematic educational effort by the law school to support each student’s formation of professional identity and purpose.
James E. Prieger (Pepperdine) & Jonathan Kulick (NYU), Tax Evasion and Illicit Cigarettes in California: Part I – Survey Evidence on Current Behavior:
Data from a novel online survey of 5,000 English-speaking adult cigarette smokers in California in advance of a recent increase in the state’s cigarette excise tax indicate that slightly more than one-quarter of that population engaged in some legal tax-avoiding behavior in the previous month, while nearly one-fifth illegally evaded taxes. (The two behaviors overlapped substantially.) Candor-inducing indirect questioning via the item count technique substantially increased those figures. Smokers who roll their own cigarettes, e-cigarette users, younger smokers, and those with more income and education are all more likely to engage in at least some of the suspect market behaviors examined. There is a much lower incidence of counterfeit product and sales of single cigarettes.