A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.
— Stanislaw Lem, born in 1921
Tax rap, claymation wins ATO education competition
The Shambolic Ways In Which We Learn To Write
John Warner defines “the writer’s practice” as a set of “attitudes, skills, habits of mind, and knowledge” that writers embody, carry with them, or engage in. He describes the most important writerly attitude this way: “Writers continually build expertise without ever becoming expert. It is like being inside an endlessly right-scrolling game of Super Mario World – except you never get to defeat the big boss.” – Plough
Ireland Gets A New Museum Of Literature ‘In A Battle For The Soul Of Dublin’
Well, that’s poetic, and sounds incredibly Irish. The director of the new Museum of Literature Ireland says, “We’re in competition with a lot of venues backed by private drinks companies, with all their marketing budgets.” And, says the writer, “He’s right, in Dublin, you could be forgiven for thinking it’s all about the distilleries, and the Guinness Storehouse.” No longer. – The Irish Times
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 14, 2019 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness.
Four highlights from this week: Think your credit card is safe in your wallet? Think again; LinkedIn Can’t Block Analytics Company From Scraping Profiles; The Windows 10 Privacy Settings You Should Check Right Now; and Safe Online Surfing Challenge Launches.
METADATA RETENTION: Disturbing new cases of
questionable authorisations, an inability to properly demonstrate required
privacy considerations, and access to unauthorised telecommunications data.
