Huge Heatwave to sear holidaymakers ahead of Australia Day At Little Bay
‘Extraordinary’ research finds electric eels hunt in packs CNN
Then and now: Wuhan bustles a year after world’s first COVID-19 lockdown Channel News Asia
A 2012 briefing from the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission described The Company’s members' “well-established network of contacts across many governments as well as legitimate business and company structures, that enables them to mask and support their criminal activities".
Last year, AFP deputy commissioner Karl Kent described the organisation as “being a huge threat to Australia … not only in terms of illicit drugs but in terms of people smuggling, in terms of firearms.” In a 60 Minutes interview, he estimated The Company’s revenue to “exceed the gross domestic product of some of the states in which they operate.”
Google’s Revolving Door (US) Tech Transparency
What Could I Have Done Differently? Medpage Today
A new and innovative way for Google to kill your SaaS startup GoMox, Medium. “We never properly established the cause of the issue, but we chalked it up to some AI tripping on acid at Google’s HQ.”
Amazon is filled with fake reviews and it’s getting harder to spot them CNBC
SPACs are a new part of the same market story Yahoo Finance. Musical interlude.
Credit card firm Capital One fined for violating U.S. anti-money laundering law Reuters
Big Meat: facing up to the demands for sustainability FT
Rebuilding Worker Power Lawrence Mishel, IMF (!). “[W]ages have been kept low in the United States because workers have been systematically disempowered as a result of corporate practices and economic policies that were adopted—or reforms that were blocked—at the behest of business and the wealthy.” Musical interlude.
GWU Worker Co-op Resource Game Workers Unite
Business Exit During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Non-Traditional Measures in Historical Context (PDF) Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. “Looking ahead, exit expectations appear historically elevated among small businesses in mining, transportation & warehousing, information, education, leisure & hospitality, and other services (this latter sector includes many ‘local’ businesses like beauty salons, auto mechanics, and churches). But some sectors appear set to do better than average, such as construction, finance & insurance, real estate, and professional, scientific, and technical services.”
Bill Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner The Land Report
Saturday’s good reading and listening for the weekend
What people in other forums are saying about public policy Continue reading