Lesson From The Tax Court: The Refund Lookback Period TraP

 There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.

— Rudolf Bultmann, born in 1884

Lessons learned from a year covering fact-checking

Fact-checkers need more staff, more resources, and help against incredible odds fighting malignant falsehoods

The remains of Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Pantheon in Paris, the final resting place of many French luminaries. She'll be the first Black woman to be so honored.

Lesson From The Tax Court: The Refund Lookback Period Trap

ATO wants to establish a cloud-based data and analytics platform A new data and analytics platform would allow the ATO to boast near real-time data storage, processing, consumption, insights, and analytics, it said.

The vishing scheme was the most complex of the three scams in play.

The technique involved “hacking into small businesses’ Voice over Internet Protocol systems and then deploying a script to contact financial institution customers to defraud them in providing their personal debit and credit card codes,” according to a US Department of Justice statement on the case.

Cybercrime triathlete jailed for 11 years over trio of online scams - Romanian

Shakespeare’s quote from Twelfth Night speaks to the station of individuals and its relation to leadership in the political sphere is easy to make: monarchs are born into their rule; warlords and dictators seize power by force and maintain it through intimidation; and democratically appointed leaders are given their positions by the voice of the people.

The Evolution of Leadership

61% Of Americans Paid No Federal Income Tax In 2020 (Up From 44% 2019)

WSJ: U.S. Malta Treaty May Permit Cross-Border Roth IRA Tax Shelters For Wealthy Americans

Captive Mood: how Big Tech manipulates your emotions to serve advertisers

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The digital advertising platforms don’t just want our data. They also want us to spend our lives online, an “addiction” created for the primary purpose of serving advertisers. Manal al-Sharif reports on the pitfalls of “digital dictatorship” in this latest of her Tech4Evil series.

NSW’s ‘degraded’ contact tracing puts Australia’s plan to reopen in jeopardy, experts warn The New Daily

Australian public fed nonsense as country heads to “irreversible” decision. Matt Barrie 

China’s ‘common prosperity’ push does not mean ‘killing the rich’, official says Reuters. Yesterday, no robbing. Today, no killing

British Melodrama Over Afghanistan Withdrawal Masks Their Own Impotence And IrrelevanceMichael Tracey (gf). Kicking a poodle hardly seems fair.