“To create today is to create dangerously,” Albert Camus told a gathering of young people at the peak of the Cold War, shortly after becoming the second-youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize.
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Richest Americans Hide 20% Of Income, Costing You $175 Billion Annually Heisenberger Report (resilc). My world-recognized tax expert (lectures around the world and was calling for closing the carried interest loophole long before it was fashionable) is skeptical that the #s are this high. The US is better at identifying income of the super rich (taxing it is another matter, the IRS pretty much always loses big $ tax litigation cases, and that’s with trying to focus resources on winners). Says a most money that goes though the Caymans does not stay there, and so suspects double counting in Zucman’s numbers.
Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?Brian Krebs
Bullying rife in House of Reps staff, no consequences for bully MPs
HR Warns Employees Against Taking Unsanctioned 8-Hour Naps Every Night While Working From Home The Onion
The Need to Link Arms With Every Oppressed Sector: An Exclusive Conversation With Rey Valmores-Salinas Twink Revolution
You must have been inundated with “Biden says Putin is a killer” stories by now. You can read our report here. But I think this story is overblown: Biden just fell into a journalistic trap. He didn't say “Putin is a killer” at all. He was asked if he thought Putin was a killer and mumbled the reply “I do,” which is not the same thing at all.
This is standard journalistic practice in interviews – fishing for a headline. I once interviewed Stalin’s grandson who was standing in elections in Georgia. At the end of the interview I asked the throwaway question: “What do you think your grandfather would do if he were running in these elections?” To which I got the reply: “It’s obvious. He would put all his opponents against the wall and shoot them.” I put this quote in the middle of the story, but my editors in London put it into the headline and led with that, gutting all the serious discussion I had on the importance of the elections… I learnt my lesson.
In Search of a Vaccine, Some Tourists Find Luck in the Caribbean
Too THE INTERNET IN YOUR BRAINA new neuroscience book argues that our brains aren't computers — they're the internetTHOM DUNN
Jeremy Bearer-Friend (George Washington), Tax Without Cash, 106 Minn. L. Rev. ___ (2021)
How Pythagoras and Sappho Radicalized Music and Revolutionized the World
The story of the invention of the love song, the world’s first algorithm, and the mathematics of transcendence.
ICAC to deliver findings from former council inquiry, which first exposed Maguire
DuckDuckGo Calls Out Google Search for ‘Spying’ on Users After Privacy Labels Go LiveMacrumors
Google’s Second-Gen Nest Hub Will Watch You Sleep AndroidPolice
Utah Campaign Against Porn Marches On With Phone Filter Ban Associated Press
8 People Describe How Unions Changed Their Lives Vice
Orwellian media manipulation: PM’s answer to ‘Dorothy Dixer’ published before he uttered the words
Look over there, mate. Should we really ignore a rape allegation against the first law officer of the nation because Labor also has skeletons in its closet?...
- Why high school teachers should bring philosophy into their classrooms — with some suggestions on how to do it, from Andrew DeBella (via Paul Wilson)
- Solipsism for sale! — Justin E.H. Smith’s first foray into selling non-fungible digital art expresses doubt about whether the market for it exists
- “Some students told me they had never thought about what it was like to teach remotely” — C. Thi Nguyen (Utah) on what happened when he was honest with his students about how terrible it is to teach to a screen of black squares over Zoom (WaPo)
- As we re-open businesses and restart collective activities, we should discriminate between the vaccinated and the non-vaccinated, but how? — philosophers and legal scholars on the various factors morally and legally relevant to post-pandemic policy
- The scientific and philosophical challenges of defining “life” — a survey of different views on the matter, with ideas from Carol Cleland (Colorado), Kelly Smith (Clemson), and other philosophers
- Neuro-interventions may replace criminal punishments. Thinking about them can reveal what we value in punishment general — a summary of a study by Corey H. Allen, Eddy Nahmias, and Eyal Aharoni (Georgia State)
- “Physicists may have just shown for the first time that imaginary numbers are, in a sense, real” — What does that mean?
Venus Flytraps Have Magnetic Fields Like the Human Brain Vice (original)
Tennessee man loses $1 million lottery ticket — but finds it again in parking lot NBC
Multi-CBDC arrangements and the future of cross-border payments (PDF) Bank of International Settlements. CBDC = Central Bank Digital Currency
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The rules governing dark money — aka ‘political donations’ — in this country are a joke. Surely it’s time they changed. |