Can the Aspen Institute’s Elite Economists Beat the Coronavirus Depression?
A careful look at a new set of rescue schemes devised by some Serious Economists. Honestly, even Larry Summers could do better than this.
NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog Slate Star Codex (bwilli123). The Times takes out a competitor…
The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message OnlineElectronic Frontier Foundation
Putin aims for patriotic boost from victory parades FT
Get A Comfortable Chair: Permanent Work From Home Is Coming - NPR
– “Indefinite. Or even permanent. These are words companies are using
about their employees working from home. It’s three months into a huge,
unplanned social experiment that suddenly transported the white-collar
workplace from cubicles and offices to kitchens and spare bedrooms. And
many employers now say the benefits of remote work outweigh the
drawbacks. Tech companies Twitter and Facebook captured headlines with
announcements about permanent work from home.
But the news from a 94-year-old company based in the heartland —
Columbus, Ohio — may have been even more significant. Nationwide
Insurance is shutting five regional offices
since remote work has gone off so smoothly during the pandemic. And
thousands of employees will permanently ditch their commutes for home
offices…One potential change: Demand for commercial real estate falls
due to the growth of remote work and the realities of a painful economic
downturn. For example, 90% of the 60,000 employees
at investment bank Morgan Stanley have been working remotely during the
pandemic. Lesson learned, according to Morgan Stanley CEO James
Gorman…”
Australians face big penalties for wrongly raiding their super – but the ATO never verified their claims in the first place
BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments : Krebs on Security – “Hundreds of thousands of potentially sensitive files from police departments across the United States were leaked online last week. The collection, dubbed “BlueLeaks” and made searchable online, stems from a security breach at a Texas web design and hosting company that maintains a number of state law enforcement data-sharing portals. The collection — nearly 270 gigabytes in total — is the latest release from Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), an alternative to Wikileaks that publishes caches of previously secret data. In a post on Twitter, DDoSecrets said the BlueLeaks archive indexes “ten years of data from over 200 police departments, fusion centers and other law enforcement training and support resources,” and that “among the hundreds of thousands of documents are police and FBI reports, bulletins, guides and more.” Fusion centers are state-owned and operated entities that gather and disseminate law enforcement and public safety information between state, local, tribal and territorial, federal and private sector partners…”
Here's a headline we'll run this century, mark our words: Alien invaders' AI found on Mars searching for signs of life
World will marvel at tiny electronic brain made of sand taught to think