Can the Solomons PM use Chinese police to stay in power? Don’t they know about Lando K.?
ICAC commissioner slams kangaroo court claims as ‘deeply offensive’
WSJ Op-Ed: Biden's Tax Proposal Would Help Nobody But Tax Lawyers
Report On Tax Implications Of Cryptocurrency And Other Fungible Digital Assets
This Is What Happens When There Are Too Many Meetings - The Atlantic: “For the new study, workers allowed Microsoft to track their “keyboard events”—a funny euphemism for sending emails or engaging with productivity applications on a work computer. While most people didn’t show a third mountain of work in the evening, 30 percent did. They were working almost as much at 10 p.m. as they were at 8 a.m….Microsoft has also found that the pandemic has simply led to more overall work. According to company research, the average workday has expanded by 13 percent—about an hour—since March 2020, and average after-hours work has increased by twice as much. People might be working longer hours for several reasons. At home, work is especially leaky: Leisure bleeds into labor (reading TMZ during a Zoom meeting) and work seeps into leisure (answering emails at the dinner table). Home and work used to have stronger geographical and technological boundaries: We left our house, drove to an office or factory, and then returned home, leaving the tools of work behind. Today, most knowledge work is basically just communication, which makes it indistinguishable from a lot of leisure. Chat with a colleague, or a friend; call a client, or a sibling: The biggest difference between these activities is the person on the other end of the horn. As work becomes more like life, it also becomes more of life…”
Big feature from the NY Times with how various artists work and what advice they might have for other artists, feat. Yo-Yo Ma, Saweetie, Tony Kushner, Jacqueline Woodson, Eileen Myles, Annette Bening, and many others.
The KLF is on YouTube. Here's Justified & Ancient feat. Tammy Wynette.
Can Documentaries Change the World?
Haboob: A Decade of Dust Storms
Tampa: Two men get six ½ years prison each over scheme where scammers in Nigeria and Viet Nam filed tax returns in the names of ID theft victims, and the two men got the refunds and sent money on to Nigeria; got $17 million