Monday, July 16, 2018

Data After Revamp: Sex, Beer, and Coding

Barbarians

They do not come with furred caps
Smelling of maresmilk, scimitared,
Dour, as tellable as kites.

They live quietly next door,
Speak almost the same language,
Wear almost the same clothes.

Inside the walls. But
Do not think they lack
Precisely the same intentions.

John Fowles, 1973
from Poems, John Fowles

One learning from the Russia hacking indictments: The leaks may have been timed to sow discord at the DNC.
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Authoritarian regimes are becoming more oppressive, and the world is seeing a rise of strongmenleaders in countries where it was thought democracy was taking hold.









Greenberg, Mark and Litman, Harry, Trump’s Corrupt Use of the Pardon Power (June 25, 2018). LAWFARE (JUNE 19, 2018); UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-25. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3202408

  Sex, Beer, and Coding: Inside Facebook’s Wild Early Days Wired


Via POGO Informs Treasury – Federal Spending Site Still Lacks Data After Revamp BGOV: “…A recently revamped federal website designed to make contract spending information publicly accessible is plagued with major data gaps, a watchdog group reports. A new version of the Treasury Department-run USAspending.gov, officially launched March 2, was designed to remedy missing or faulty information on federal contract awards and executive compensation. The site was re-launched under the DATA Act, the law passed in 2014 to make federal expenditures more transparent. Yet eight of the 97 agencies the website tracks are late in reporting DATA Act spending information—including the Defense Department, which is almost a year behind in its submissions, according to a June 28 letter from the Project on Government Oversight, a Washington-based nonpartisan, independent government watchdog. Other government programs have submitted very few spending records or none, according to the group…”See POGO: “As advocates for government openness, the Project On Government Oversight fully supports the work of the Treasury Department (Treasury), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and other federal agencies in updating USAspending.gov and providing the public with robust access to federal spending data

How do kleptocrats spend the money? FCPA Blog



Ultimate & Yammer – When social media meets HR