Global phone hacks expose darker side of Israel's 'startup nation' image
This reading of an excerpt of Andri Snær Magnason’s On Time and Water is a beautiful illustration of the idea of the Great Span.
Imagine that, 262 years. That’s the length of time you connect across. You’ll know the people who span this time. Your time is the time of the people you know and love, the time that molds you, and your time is the time of the people you will know and love, the time that you will shape. You can touch 262 years with your bare hands. Your great grandma taught you, you will teach your great granddaughter, you can have a direct impact on the future right up to the year 2186. Imagine that.
TikTok a Year After Trumps Ban: No Change, but New Threats
Bob Cutter on Kommunist Platform:
A joint investigation by triple j Hack and Four Corners has found the TikTok algorithm is exposing Australians to dangerous content while controlling which people and political movements get users' attention.
TikTok says its mission is to "inspire creativity and bring joy". But it risks distorting the way much of a generation is seeing the world, and not always for the better.
The dark side of Communist controlled TikTok's algorithm
ABC’s TikTok Investigation Claims The App Encourages Eating Disorders, Racism & Security Risks
Investigation: How TikTok's Algorithm Figures Out Your Deepest Desires
US-China relations: Beijing lays down red lines for first time in Sherman meeting South China Morning Post
China blames US for fraught relations as talks begin Al Jazeera
China accuses US of creating ‘imaginary enemy’ at high-level talks Deutsche Welle
The Australian Taxation Office is sharpening its technology systems that catch people cheating on their tax returns, making it harder than ever to hide income or claim dodgy deductions.
Tax returns: Five ways the ATO is tracking Australians’ money moves
Malcolm Gladwell, Lord of the Rankings(Revisionist History Season 6):
For 30 years, US News & World Report has been using a secret formula to rank the best colleges and universities in the United States. As a public service to our listeners, we hack the algorithm and discover the dirty little secret of the rankings game. Part one of a two-part series.
Malcolm Gladwell, Project Dillard (Revisionist History Season 6):
A historically Black university in New Orleans is beloved by everyone – except the US News best colleges rankings. We hack our way back into the algorithm and show how Dillard University can rise to the top. Part two of a two-part series.
Lord of the Rankings Further Resources
- Huaying Qiu & Wenxin Du, A True Lie About Reed College: U.S. News Ranking
- Chris Lydgate, Reed and the Rankings Game
- Casey Dougal (Drexel), Pengjie Gao (Notre Dame), William Mayew (Duke) & Chris Parsons (USC), What’s in a (School) Name? Racial Discrimination in Higher Education Bond Markets
- New York Times, Some Colleges Have More Students from the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60. Find Yours.
- Rowan University, Houshman’s Hazardous Hot Sauce
Project Dillard Further Resources
- Mitchell Chang (UCLA) & Victor Saenz (Texas), The Contradictory Roles of Institutional Status in Retaining Underrepresented Minorities in Biomedical and Behavioral Science Majors
- American Institute of Physics ("AIP"), The AIP National Task Force to Elevate African American Representation in Undergraduate Physics & Astronomy (TEAM-UP)
- National Science Foundation ("NSF"), NSF Establishes New Center to Study Successful Undergraduate STEM Education Practices at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Data from IPEDS: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:
- Malcolm Gladwell's Law School Rankings
- Bill Henderson And Malcolm Gladwell On The LSAT
- Malcolm Gladwell, Andrea Curcio, Heather Gerken, Orin Kerr, And The Dialectic Tension Within Legal Education
- Malcolm Gladwell, Yale Dean Heather Gerken, And The Dialectic Tension Within Legal Education
- More On Malcolm Gladwell And The LSAT
- Malcolm Gladwell: 'SSRN Is The Greatest Website On The Internet — Page Six For Dorks'
- Is Malcolm Gladwell Right: Do 50% Of Harvard Law Students Take Drugs To Enhance Their Academic Performance?
- Malcolm Gladwell-Bowdoin College Food Fight Over Student Amenities v. Financial Aid To Low-Income Students
Serious financial crimes can wipe out the lifesavings of victims, and significantly reduce the money available for essential services such as health and education. Such crimes include where funds are illegally obtained through tax evasion or avoidance, and other offences like money laundering.
The ATO-led Serious Financial Crime Taskforce has released a guide to identifying serious financial criminals, encouraging the community to keep an eye out for and report suspicious activity.