Ex-Liberal Party staffer faces 51 new charges over alleged $13.5m identity theft
An alleged cyber fraudster has faced court charged with the identity takeover of more than 80 victims, some of whom lost their entire life savings.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Don’t Bother Learning to Code: Ruthless outsourcing will be the death of the American Dream. “The Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman characterized the H-1B visa as a government subsidy program. . . . Socialism for the rich.”
SpaceX passenger brought down to earth by tax evasion (27 May 2020)
A clampdown on corporate tax avoidance is coming (26 May 2020)
Tax break for home office equipment (20 May 2020)
IR35 - UK House of Commons Debate (19 May 2020)
UK Workers handed new tax breaks to buy home office equipment - New rules are effective from March 16 until the end of 2020-21 (19 May 2020)
Higher taxes, more pay for nurses and a bigger state (19 May 2020)
Tackling multinationals' tax avoidance (19 May 2020)
Money laundering on the high street (18 May 2020)
Sydney beaches close as plastic containers, face masks wash ashore
Popular beaches across Sydney are covered in debris from shipping containers which fell off a cargo ship over the weekend, and swimmers have been warned larger items may still be submerged in the water.
TDF Design Files Antipodean Landscapes
Ex-Apple designer has a simple solution to make cloth masks more effective - Fast Company: “Until recently, Sabrina Paseman worked at Apple as a mechanical engineer for products such as the MacBook Pro. Now, she and an ex-Apple marketer are trying to tackle a completely different problem: the global shortage of N95 masks during the COVID-19 pandemic In a new project called Fix the Mask, Paseman and cofounder Megan Duong suggest a simple design for essential workers who can’t access N95 masks, the respirators that are recommended for healthcare workers to avoid infection from the coronavirus. Surgical masks, which are loose fitting, don’t provide as much protection because the virus can easily travel around the edges of the mask. But Paseman and Duong realized that the masks could easily be modified—even with a handful of rubber bands….”
These tips are helpful when you need to find a parking spot in a hurry or if you get lost: “You haven’t traveled anywhere in what seems like ages due to coronavirus quarantine, but as cities and state parks begin to open up, you may find that you’re mapping out a drive or beginning to think about your daily commute
Washington Post – Twitter labels Trump’s tweets with a fact check for the first time – The action comes after years of criticism that social media companies have allowed the president to push misinformation unchecked
Priests ‘exorcising the coronavirus’ BBC “Trump could try this soon.”
Scientists are drowning in COVID-19 papers. Can new tools keep them afloat? - Science: “Timothy Sheahan, a virologist studying COVID-19, wishes he could keep pace with the growing torrent of new scientific papers about the disease and the novel coronavirus that causes it. But there are just too many—more than 4000 alone last week. “I’m not keeping up,” says Sheahan, who works at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “It’s impossible"
Trump’s drive against watchdogs faces constitutional reckoning – The inspector general system is being tested like never before in the Trump era.
AOC, Malcolm Turnbull, and the Famous Leather Jacket Lean Tossup (UserFriendly). Having actually met Turnbull one on one (Australia is fabulously egalitarian, or at least was 20 years ago; just about anyone would give you one meeting if you had an introduction), this is apt (although the Turnbull I met was very natty and his tailoring looked bespoke).
