Thinking small: Emails to Measure Staff Sentiments

Possible- way slow aging



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Newly ID'ed North Korean hackers APT38 may target Australian banks

A group of North Korean hackers stealing hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide may also be targeting Australian financial institutions.


China’s “Big Hack”: amazing Bloomberg story.  One of the best and biggest stories of the year.

What’s The Job Of A Reference Librarian In The Age Of Google? Community Service

Text Analysis Systems Mine Workplace Emails to Measure Staff Sentiments – Giving the processes of observation, analysis and change at the enterprise level a modern spin, is a fascinating new article in the September 2018 issue of The Atlantic, titled What Your Boss Could Learn by Reading the Whole Company’s Emails, by Frank Partnoy. Alan Rothman summarizes and annotates this article that raises timely and significant issues around privacy, data mining and organizational management. Rothman concludes his review by posing important questions concerning the impact of text analysis data on executive training and development and on employee performance

Thinking small

Peter Brent

INSIDE STORY
Are the old days of majority government coming to an end?


DonorSee: gives donors video evidence of where their funds have gone 

French Protest Prize’s Inclusion Of Amazon Self-Published Book

"Of course they say there are no competition issues. They always do" Against expectations, Fairfax, Nine and the government are running up against the regulator.

Here is a current example:
Brett Kavanaugh’s SCARY Opening Statements
posted by The Young Turks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jCYWO7mlA0

and then, the same 42 minute BK statement, but posted by Mark Dice
Brett Kavanaugh’s Powerful Opening Statement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW_lSdzwF3s  

Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh hearing: What we learned BBC

What Brett Kavanaugh Really Learned in High School: Make the Rules, Break the Rules and Prosper Counterpunch

The Kavanaugh Hearings Encapsulate the Rampant Emotionalism of American Politics Benjamin Studebaker 

Why the distribution of wealth has more to do with power than productivity Open Democracy

You Might Call It Wealth n+1

Chasing ‘likes’ on Instagram, hikers break limbs — and need rescuing Stars and Stripes. Nice work if you can get it without breaking a leg or drowning.

So is it nature not nurture after all? Guardian

Your DNA Is Not Your Culture The Atlantic. The Spotify/Ancestry DNA partnership “creates custom playlists for users based on DNA results they input.”

Escaping India within India LiveMint

Psychologists define the ‘dark core of personality’Science Daily (original). n>2500. Readers

New Treasury data busts the myth of government “inefficiency” In These Times 

The death of once high-flying VC funds TechCrunch 

Buybacks Are Keeping The Bull Market Alive SafehHaven

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit accusing Tesla boss Elon Musk of securities fraud. BBC 

S.E.C. Sues Tesla’s Elon Musk Over Fraud in Move That Could Oust Him New York Times. “The suit seeks to bar Mr. Musk, who is also Tesla’s chairman, from serving as an executive or director of publicly traded companies like Tesla. Such a punishment is one of the most serious remedies the S.E.C. can impose against a corporate executive.” Moi: The normally craven SEC must see this as slam dunk.

When Will We Have Artificial Intelligence As Smart as a Human MEdia Dragons?
futurism, 24 September 2018. When can robots can think creatively, continue learning over time, and maybe even pass for conscious, this is termed Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). For decades, scientists have tried all sorts of approaches to create AGI, using techniques such as reinforcement learning and machine learning. However, the scientific community agrees’ that we are 10 to 20 years away from achieving AGI.

The most influential voices out of government have their say on the APS
APS REVIEW: The panel reviewing the APS should reinforce its identity as a distinct institution within government, argues a group of Canberra's most experienced ex-mandarins.
▪ How Andrew Podger reimagines the APS



'You'd claim for everything’: BBQ and booze on the taxpayer
EXPENSE CLAIMS: Executives bringing private sector norms into the public sector continue to cause concern, with a water corporation boss found to have claimed a high-end barbecue, household furniture and alcohol on the public purse.



How to make Sydney & Melbourne more efficient and
accessible
CITIES POLICY: Making our biggest cities efficient and affordable will raise the living standards of nearly all Australians, but it will also require compromise.
▪ Our fast-growing cities are adapting to change


Morrison gets serious about 'malicious' Russian interference
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Cyberspace is not the Wild West, the Australian government assures. Nonetheless, it's joined an international posse for the cyber equivalent of pistols at high noon.