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Tax Travails of the Rich (Perhaps Famous) Enablers of the Rich (Perhaps Famous)
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REMEMBER THE TOILET PAPER? The utopian vision of human nature sees people as naturally good — the world corrupts us, but the wise can perfect us. The tragic vision sees us as inherently flawed — our sickness is selfishness. Science supports the tragic vision. |
YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK: Feds proudly announce seizure of ‘counterfeit Apple AirPods’ that are actually OnePlus Buds.
– Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 6, 2020 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Amazon’s Alexa for Landlords Is a Privacy Nightmare in the Making; This Email Could Wreak Havoc on the 2020 Election; How can you spot a tech support scam?; and Republicans flooding internet with deceptive videos and Big Tech isn’t keeping up.
What do house cats, Euro pop, and the ingenious tax savvy have in common? Owe Sandström, that’s who. As the flamenco-dancing-zoologist-designer behind the costumes of ABBA, Sandström certainly played his part in helping the Swedish supergroup reach fame in the 1970s – where they have remained ever since. In fact, a deeper dive into the 500-and-something outfits he made for the group isn’t just a glittery walk down memory lane, but key to understanding what was – and remains – the super troopers’ cultural staying power…
ABBA outfits, and their story as a tax dodge
What’s wrong with social science and how to fix it
The Stoa is a digital space that hosts online events in philosophy and related areas — scroll down on the page to check out their upcoming sessions
Is analytic philosophy “just another woke humanities field”? — Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) looks at the evidence from recent journals
A 1973 film recording of a conversation between Peter Strawson and Gareth Evans is the basis of a series of articles edited by Huw Price — contributions from 15 different philosophers so far
Is Heraclitus’s ink pot the key to understanding Raphael’s “The School of Athens”? — Kelly Grovier on the “fluidity of identity” in the painting
“Without an active commitment to refuse to honor the dishonorable, universities will likely do so… seduced by the illusion of merit attached to power and celebrity, and then dressing up the decision as intellectual openness” — Jacob Levy (McGill) on the future honoring of “those who took direct part in the most shameful aspects of the Trump presidency”
A philosopher is trying out a new version of an old medium — check out “The Hinternet,” the newsletter of Justin E.H. Smith (Paris)
“It’s clear that her work will last”: an overview of the philosophy of Karen Neander, who died earlier this year — by Christopher Hill (Brown) and Carlotta Pavese (Cornell)
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 12, 2020 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Even a Federal Judge Agrees That the FBI and NSA Are Flouting Civil Liberty Safeguards; Chinese hackers go after UNC for COVID-19 vaccine info; COVID-19 and Emerging Global Patterns of Financial Crime; and The State Of Identity Security, 2020.