— Hannah Arendt, born in 1906
Michael West @MichaelWestBiz 3 hours ago
Knight Foundation: “How did misinformation spread during the 2016 presidential election and has anything changed since? A new study of more than 10 million tweets from 700,000 Twitter accounts that linked to more than 600 misinformation and conspiracy news outlets answers this question. The report reveals a concentrated “fake news” ecosystem, linking more than 6.6 million tweets to fake news and conspiracy news publishers in the month before the 2016 election.
Interviews with people born in the 1820s
Preventing another Australia Card fail
"How to unlock the potential of digital identity." (ASPI)
NSW govt CIO lays out 'next level' digital vision
"Shift to thinking about citizen interactions as 'life events, journeys, things that matter to people' is central to this." (iTnews)
Why public transportation works better outside the US
"The widespread failure of American mass transit is usually blamed on cheap gas and suburban sprawl. But why do other countries succeed?" (CityLab)
How to cope with secondhand stress
"Can you distance yourself from your co-workers’ emotions without ostracising them? And should you try to improve their welbeing?" (Harvard Business Review)
Wall Street Journal on Office Hero, The First Rule of Microsoft Excel—Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It
Work for the dole an 'intergenerational time bomb' for Indigenous communities
"Almost 6,000 people have disappeared from the scheme and maybe receiving no support at all" (The Guardian)
The problem with using 'I Statements' at work
"I statements are more likely to undercut your argument than to strengthen it. Here are three reasons why I statements backfire, and what you can do instead." (Harvard Business Review)
Tax day is the day that ordinary Americans send their money to Washington, D.C., and wealthy Americans send their money to the Cayman Is- lands.
— Jimmy Kimme
Michael West @MichaelWestBiz 3 hours ago
Rene's first line at the Offset Alpine AGM: "We have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is the factory has burned down. The good news is ... we're insured".
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20 hours ago
Via their Twitter feed:
“DuckDuckGo fun fact: it took us seven years to reach 10 million
private searches in one day, then another two years to hit 20 million,
and now less than a year later we’re at 30 million! Thank you all.” [We
are the Internet privacy company that lets you take control of your
information, without any tradeoffs. Welcome to the Duck Side!]
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Sorry I missed Richo bagging me on Sky After Dark. Just two words in reply Offset Alpine.
Kate McClymont added,
Knight Foundation: “How did misinformation spread during the 2016 presidential election and has anything changed since? A new study of more than 10 million tweets from 700,000 Twitter accounts that linked to more than 600 misinformation and conspiracy news outlets answers this question. The report reveals a concentrated “fake news” ecosystem, linking more than 6.6 million tweets to fake news and conspiracy news publishers in the month before the 2016 election.
Interviews with people born in the 1820s
Gen Z will outnumber millennials within a year
The demographic handover is good news for delivery services, gadget makers and the so-called gig economy
New York Times, Budget Deficit Jumps Nearly 17% in 2018:
The federal budget deficit swelled to $779 billion in fiscal year 2018, the Treasury Department said on Monday, driven in large part by a sharp decline in corporate tax revenues after the Trump tax cuts took effect.
The
deficit rose nearly 17 percent year over year, from $666 billion in
2017. It is now on pace to top $1 trillion a year before the next
presidential election, according to forecasts from the Trump
administration and outside analysts. The deficit for the 2018 fiscal
year, which ended Sept. 30, was the largest since 2012, when the economy
and federal revenues were still recovering from the depths of the
recession.
Amazon tops up pay for longtime staff after disgruntled workers email Jeff Bezos directly Business Insider“Too Big” Is Too Little Jacobin
Preventing another Australia Card fail
"How to unlock the potential of digital identity." (ASPI)
NSW govt CIO lays out 'next level' digital vision
"Shift to thinking about citizen interactions as 'life events, journeys, things that matter to people' is central to this." (iTnews)
Why public transportation works better outside the US
"The widespread failure of American mass transit is usually blamed on cheap gas and suburban sprawl. But why do other countries succeed?" (CityLab)
How to cope with secondhand stress
"Can you distance yourself from your co-workers’ emotions without ostracising them? And should you try to improve their welbeing?" (Harvard Business Review)
Wall Street Journal on Office Hero, The First Rule of Microsoft Excel—Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It
Former Ryde mayor Ivan Petch found guilty of blackmail charge
Former Ryde mayor Ivan Petch, one of the targets of an ICAC inquiry, has been found guilty of blackmailing a former acting general manager of the council.
Work for the dole an 'intergenerational time bomb' for Indigenous communities
"Almost 6,000 people have disappeared from the scheme and maybe receiving no support at all" (The Guardian)
The problem with using 'I Statements' at work
"I statements are more likely to undercut your argument than to strengthen it. Here are three reasons why I statements backfire, and what you can do instead." (Harvard Business Review)
Chinese billionaire's 'friend' jailed over rape after exclusive Sydney party
Property developer Longwei Xu will spend at least 2½ years behind bars over the prolonged sexual assault of a model he took to a dinner party of Chinese billionaire Richard Liu.
DAILY DOUBLESPEAK AWARD: A Chinese governor tries to find the
bright side of internment camps for as many as 1 million minority Uighurs.
Instead of focusing on torture, family separation, poor nutrition, mandatory
Mandarin teaching and Communist Party propaganda, Xinjiang Governor Shohrat
Zakir stresses "vocational education." “Many
trainees (i.e. prisoners) have said they were previously affected by extremist
thought and had never participated in such kinds of arts and sports activities.
Now they realize how colorful life can be,” Zakir said.
“Young people have different ways of consuming news than people born even a decade before them,” said John Wihbey, a Northeastern professor and one of the researchers who conducted the study. “Our report – [How Students Engage With News] suggests that in some ways, we have created for young people an extremely difficult environment of news. We need to figure out ways to guide them so they can navigate it.”
Former public service chief returns serve
"John Lloyd, who quit as public service chief after months of controversy, has taken aim at the investigation which made findings against him." (SBS)
Pia Andrews: ‘data ninja’ ready for new role
"I had zero interest in computers at school… I didn’t see it as a meaningful career." (Yass Tribune)
Your boss has a huge effect on your happiness, even out of the office
"Happiness-wise, having the right kind of boss is equivalent to doubling your income." (Washington Post)
Faced with daily barrage of news, college students find it hard to tell what’s real and what’s ‘fake news’
“Young people have different ways of consuming news than people born even a decade before them,” said John Wihbey, a Northeastern professor and one of the researchers who conducted the study. “Our report – [How Students Engage With News] suggests that in some ways, we have created for young people an extremely difficult environment of news. We need to figure out ways to guide them so they can navigate it.”
Former public service chief returns serve
"John Lloyd, who quit as public service chief after months of controversy, has taken aim at the investigation which made findings against him." (SBS)
Pia Andrews: ‘data ninja’ ready for new role
"I had zero interest in computers at school… I didn’t see it as a meaningful career." (Yass Tribune)
Your boss has a huge effect on your happiness, even out of the office
"Happiness-wise, having the right kind of boss is equivalent to doubling your income." (Washington Post)