Publishing is an art at the Government Publishing Office

Life is like a book. If you never turn the page, you will never know what the next chapter holds. .  .

Researchers Find ‘Anonymized’ Data Is Even Less Anonymous Than We Thought
Vice – Corporations love to pretend that ‘anonymization’ of the data they collect protects consumers. Studies keep showing that’s not really true

Kirk Douglas dies aged 103

The news was confirmed by his son Michael Douglas.

Trump claims 'full exoneration' after acquittal but Pelosi insists he remains impeached 'forever' – as it happened

Trump acquitted of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, making him the third president in US history to survive impeachment.

The Guardian

In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”

The New York Times

Think Trump’s Learned a Lesson? Hahahaha

Pick the worst moment of the Senate impeachment hearings: A) Susan Collins saying it's O.K. to keep Donald Trump in office because he's “learned from this ...

The New York Times

 

Canada Proposes Outlines Of A New Media Landscape

They range from bringing online media platforms like Yahoo and Facebook under the scope of the Broadcasting Act to making sure that streaming companies like Netflix and Amazon Prime are sufficiently promoting Canadian material. – CBC

Australian Artists Hijack Bus Shelter Ad Spaces

Forty-one artists are involved in this latest Australian iteration, including Georgia Hill, Tom Gerrard, Sarah McCloskey, Ghostpatrol, Callum Preston and E.L.K, as well as anonymous artists.In one poster, a Caramello Koala has burst and is melting above the words “Save an Aussie icon”. In another, Blinky Bill runs from an encroaching wall of flames. The collective launched three weeks prior to the posters going up, via a group chat of artists on Instagram. They were dismayed at what they saw as biased bushfire coverage and at the misinformation being shared by some media – particularly the Murdoch-owned press. – The Guardian 

JOHN QUIGGIN

‘I did an interview about Economics in Two Lessons with Brisbane based economist: Gene Tunny. You can listen to it here.

Publishing is an art at the Government Publishing Office

CQRollCall: “On the corner of H Street and North Capitol Street sits a brick building housing the Government Publishing Office. The GPO might be known for publishing and printing important documents like the president’s budget, but the hand binders who work at the GPO are busy behind the scenes adding artful marble trim to some of those publications.”


DOUBLE STANDARDS: Judge Goes Easy on Crying Cop Who Planted Drugs.


TWITTER’S MANAGEMENT IS REALLY ON A ROLL THESE DAYS: In an unprecedented move, Twitter gave state university SUNY Geneseo access to a student’s parody account after it complained that he was mocking the school.

• Victoria's Secret culture of misogyny, bullying and harassment. A New York Times investigation by Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Katherine Rosman, Sapna Maheshwari and James B. Stewart.
• The Texas panhandle produces a fifth of the country’s beef supply, but now communities there are choking on fecal dust. The Texas Observer’s Christopher Collins with “Something in the Air.”

A man rushes himself to the hospital for surgery moments before his appendix would have burst. A year later, and despite having health insurance, he’s still stuck with a $28,000 bill. A shake-your-head NPR “All Things Considered” story from Selena Simmons-Duffin.



Citi suspends senior bond trader over alleged theft from canteen FT

Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate

The Verge – “Microsoft Teams went down this morning [February 3, 2020] for nearly three hours after Microsoft forgot to renew a critical security certificate. Users of Microsoft’s Slack competitor were met with error messages attempting to sign into the service on Monday morning, with the app noting it had failed to establish an HTTPS connection to Microsoft’s servers…”


RIP: Gene Reynolds, Creative Architect Behind M*A*S*H, Lou Grant, and Room 222 Dies at 96.

Firefox now shows what telemetry data it’s collecting about you

ZDNet: “There is now a special page in the Firefox browser where users can see what telemetry data Mozilla is collecting from their browser. Accessible by typing about:telemetry in the browser’s URL address bar, this new section is a recent addition to Firefox. The page shows deeply technical information about browser settings, installed add-ons, OS/hardware information, browser session details, and running processes. The information is what you’d expect a software vendor to collect about users in order to fix bugs and keep a statistical track of its userbase. A Firefox engineer told ZDNet the page was primarily created for selfish reasons, in order to help engineers debug Firefox test installs. However, it was allowed to ship to the stable branch also as a PR move, to put users’ minds at ease about what type of data the browser maker collects from its users. The move is in tune with what Mozilla has been doing over the past two years, pushing for increased privacy controls in its browser and opening up about its practices, in stark contrast with what other browser makers have been doing in the past decade…”

YouTube Reveals Revenue for First Time: $15.1 Billion in 2019 Hollywood Reporter