New Study: Here’s How AI Will Impact Your Job (And Whether You’ll Still Have One)
“Fully 740 out of the 769 occupational descriptions Michael Webb analyzed contain a capability pair match with AI patent language, meaning at least one or more of its tasks could potentially be exposed to, complemented by, or completed by AI.” But less than a fifth (just under 18 percent) of U.S. jobs, 25 million or so, are threatened by high exposure to AI. – CityLab
The four loneliest types of people in Australia - ABC News
Web Design: The Evolution of the Digital World 1990-Today" is a visual history of the pioneering websites that influenced the look & feel of the web today
How a dead Liberal Party member put a fresh spotlight on Beijing's foreign interference efforts
In March this year, a cleaner found the body of Bo "Nick" Zhao in a suburban Melbourne motel room.
Irony: Chinese company to buy Dairy Farmers and other dairy icons for $600 million
Ex-CIA officer sentenced to 19 years in prison for conspiring to spy for China Reuters
Defecting Chinese spy offers information trove to Australian government The Age but China says alleged spy in Australia is a fraudster FTDonald Trump’s America Can’t Fight Xi Jinping’s China James Palmer, Foreign Policy
Most Americans think they’re being constantly tracked—and that there’s nothing they can do - Congratulations on your promotion. Funny how shit floats to the top. ...
Interview on Trump Foreign Policy with Robert Kagan Der Spiegl. Resilc: “Kagan is like a mutant virus or cockroach. He lives on forever.”
“One of my lecturers describes law school as being like the Hunger Games,” says law student Erin May Conely. “It can be quite cut-throat with everyone fighting for the same jobs at top law firms.”
For the 22-year-old, who is studying law at the University of Birmingham, the competitive atmosphere has led to so much stress that she has decided not to enter the profession once she graduates. She wants to go into teaching instead.
Conely’s experience is not unique. The Junior Lawyers Division’s 2019 resilience and wellbeing survey found that 93% of respondents – students, graduates, trainee solicitors and solicitors up to five years’ qualified – felt stressed. Almost half said that they had experienced poor mental health, which is a 10% increase from the year before.
It’s no secret that the legal profession can often be a high-pressure working environment; lawyers are the second most stressed professionals in the country. Some universities are therefore taking steps to help students better cope with academic pressures and the transition from legal education to a career as a lawyer.
Joseph Bankman (Stanford) presents Mr. Smith Gets an Education: Why it is so Hard to get Easy Tax Filing at NYU today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Lily Batchelder and Daniel Shaviro:
I 
magine
that one day, you get a note in the mail from Visa saying that starting
next month, Visa will no longer be sending itemized bills (or indeed,
any bills at all) to its cardholders. Instead, it will be the
responsibility of every Visa cardholder to keep a record of all
purchases, and refunds charged or credited to their account during the
month, along with late payments and late fees, interest accruing on
unpaid balances, and then tote it all up at the end of the month to
figure out how much they owe Visa. If cardholders inadvertently omit
some charges and pay Visa too little, you’re informed, Visa will assess
interest and penalties on the underpayment.
Why
on earth would Visa do such a thing?, you wonder. After all, Visa
already has all that information in its computers, which can
automatically calculate from that information the net amount you owe.
Why should individual cardholders duplicate that effort, at considerable
annoyance and expense to themselves, and with the dead certainty of
errors?
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RAMESH THAKUR. Schadenfreude, thy name is Tony Abbott: No one is above the law
If a law can be abused, it will be. This is as true of laws enacted in the name of national security and anti-terrorism as any other law. Why is this simple reality so hard for politicians to grasp? Continue reading
Do We Actually Grow from Adversity?
Americans in particular like to reframe hardship as an opportunity to grow….but how valid is that notion?
A Paranoid Guide to Fighting the ‘Bugging Epidemic’ NYT
In Saudi Arabia, Twitter becomes more useful to the repressors than the repressed WaPo
I Found Work on an Amazon Website. I Made 97 Cents an Hour. New York Times
The great American tax haven: why the super-rich love South Dakota Guardian
Ph.D. student poll finds mental health, bullying and career uncertainty are top concerns Inside Higher Ed. Resilc: “My advice is to go to Eastern Carolina Univ and get a BS in industrial technology and become an electrical contractor. Good for life.”
The Intersectional Left’s Political Endgame Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine (resilc). Hoo boy.
Bats, broccoli and bombs haunt ‘Ghost Stations’ Asia Times
Octopus outsmarts testers in intelligence experiment TreeHugger. Watch the cool embedded video.
- If the allegations in this story are true, this is one of the most disturbing examples of high school sports hazing ever. The Daily Beast’s Olivia Messer with this horrific read that includes coaches who allegedly turned a blind eye and are still coaching kids. (Warning: This story has graphic details.)
- This is a sobering number: 114,000 students in New York City are homeless. New York Times writer Eliza Shapiro and photojournalist Brittainy Newman chronicle the daily lives of two of them. Superb reporting, sensational photographs — an important piece of journalism.
- Children in Illinois are being locked away alone in rooms, perhaps even against the law. “The Quiet Room” is an investigative collaboration between ProPublica Illinois and the Chicago Tribune, written by Jennifer Smith Richards, Jodi S. Cohen and Lakeidra Chavis with photos from Zbigniew Bzdak.
