Sad times, happy moments.
Poverty, riches.
Failure, success.
Troubles, good times.
Losing, winning.”
― Think Great: Be Great!
Sydney light rail risk reports show high number of 'hazardous events'
Internal reports show almost 250 incidents were clocked up in just two months on a section of the city's new light rail line.
OH: Uploaded Ring footage reportedly provides location to the square inch. “Neighbors data proves extra-revealing as Amazon police partnerships accelerate.”
It was the zany story of the week. A prank so dumb, it was like it was tailor-made for Morning Zoo DJs.
At the glitzy swap meet of Miami Basel, a contemporary artist offered a banana duct taped to a wall for $120,000.00. The punchline is, somebody bought it.
This is about the only scenario when contemporary art gains mass media traction: when something stupid sells for lots of money. Then it becomes a snarky variation on a human interest story.
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Cryptic media dragon posts are only shocking to people so bigoted that they believe Bloggers must be bigots. . .
ATO deputy commissioner Rebecca Saint said the agency was still seeing some companies avoid tax by shifting profits offshore
Guardian - Ben Butler ATO data reveals almost a third of big companies still not paying tax in Australia
Yammerings have been thinking about voice — about our own voice, and about the word 'voice'.
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. — Neil Gaiman
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. — Margaret Atwood
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. — Maya Angelou
“Most other places I know, water is a discrete entity. It is hemmed in by well-defined boundaries: lakeshores, stream banks, the great rocky coastline. You can stand at its edge and say “this is water” and “this is land.” Those fish and those tadpoles are of the water realm; these trees, these mosses, and these four-leggeds are creatures of the land. But here in these misty forests those edges seem to blur, with rain so fine and constant as to be indistinguishable from air and cedars wrapped with cloud so dense that only their outlines emerge. Water doesn’t seem to make a clear distinction between gaseous phase and liquid. The air merely touches a leaf or a tendril of my hair and suddenly a drop appears.”I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory. — Anthony Hamilton
The future of money and the payment system: what role for central banks? (PDF) Bank of International Settlements. “The monetary system is founded on trust in the currency. This is something that only the central bank can provide. Like the legal system and other public goods, the trust underpinned by the central bank has the attributes of a public good.3 To coin a phrase, I would like to refer to ‘central bank public goods.'”
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San Francisco has nearly five empty homes per homeless resident Curbed
Mystery of tax refunds
IR-2019-202, IRS Selects Longtime Tax Professional, Sharyn Fisk, to Lead the Office of Professional Responsibility (Dec. 9, 2019):
Fisk has most recently been a professor of tax at the College of Business Administration at Cal Poly Pomona and active in the nation’s tax community in a variety of roles. She will assume leadership of OPR in early 2020.
“This is a critical position for the nation’s tax community. Sharyn Fisk is extremely well respected both internally at the IRS and throughout the tax professional communities. She has a strong set of skills and experience in many different settings that will serve the IRS well in this role,” said IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig. “Taxpayers, the IRS and the tax community rely on this office to help uphold strong professional standards among tax professionals. We look forward to Ms. Fisk providing meaningful, fair and equitable guidance while also strengthening the oversight of tax professionals.”
Uber Office Had Separate Bathrooms for Drivers and ‘Employees’ VICE
Questioning Innovation
Why innovation isn’t necessarily a good thing.
The Debt Delusion
A short take on John Week’s new book, The Debt Delusion, and why it matters.
THE BRAVE AND THE
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Whistleblowers across Australia have been praised for speaking out against
corruption in their government departments.
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You are never completely useless, you can always serve as a bad example.
Life Under the Algorithm New Republic. Resilc: “Why your doctor is always typing too during a visit.”
Pablo Escobar’s Brother Made a Folding Phone for Some Reason Popular MechanicsThe Data Show That Socialism Works Current Affairs
Robots in Finance Could Wipe Out Some of Its Highest-Paying Jobs Bloomberg
Jobs, Jobs Everywhere, But Most of Them Kind of Suck New York Magazine
Obamas reportedly buy Martha’s Vineyard waterfront estate for $11.75 million Boston Globe
Link found between killings of unarmed black people by police and local babies born prematurely PhysOrg I assume their is a joint driver, like a certain level of poverty in black communities.
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