What Almost Dying Taught Me About Really Living.
The Year in Illustration 2020 – The New York Times – “The most memorable illustrations of 2020, as chosen by art directors at The New York Times.”
I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users and my head is spinning
ZDNet – “…a couple of weeks ago Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella declared, in an interview with the Financial Times, that Teams could soon be a digital platform as important as the internet browser. Yes, Microsoft Teams. This startled me a touch. The world seems to have moved rather quickly of late. I thought of all those working-from-home employees, real people who have been thrust onto Teams. I wondered if they like it. I also wondered just how much it records what they do. You see, this became an especially poignant issue when Microsoft slipped into a puddle of controversy with its 365 Productivity Score feature — since modified — one that seemed to rate individual employees for their alleged output. So I scuttled off to find details of how Teams captures data and delivers it to customers — and to look at the nuances from the perspective of employee…”
In hidden message on WH website Biden calls for coders
Reuters: “The recently updated website for President Joe Biden’s White House carried an invitation for tech specialists savvy enough to find it. Hidden in the HTML code on www.whitehouse.gov was an invitation to join the U.S. Digital Service, a technology unit within the White House. “If you’re reading this, we need your help building back better,” the message said. Former President Barack Obama launched the service in 2014 to recruit technologists to help revamp government services – for example by modernizing Medicare’s payment system or reforming hiring practices across government agencies. Tech specialists join the Digital Service for typically one or two years…”
A Letter to President Biden: Rebuilding US credibility
You will be acutely aware that, after the ravages of the Trump years, you have a big healing job ahead of you, not only at home but abroad. Continue reading
Australia’s political talent pool more like a puddle
Once upon a time in Australia, the best and the brightest presented themselves for election. Now, it seems, Cabinet ministers are chosen on the basis of loyalty to whoever is sitting in the prime ministerial chair. And talent is in short supply. Continue reading
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