“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing, you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”
― Samuel Johnson
The strategy also includes plans to rename Tahe once enough time had passed for it to move past bruising public accounting committee hearings, which heard accusations from a former partner at accounting firm KPMG that he was sacked after he refused to change a report suggesting the budget was $10bn worse off than Treasury claimed.
“By 2023, TAHE will have established its corporate narrative and started promoted its positive news stories, and enough time would have passed since the release of the PAC inquiry report,” the strategy states.
- PR firm given $560,000 to combat ‘negative’ views of controversial NSW rail body
How the Amish Use Technology Wired
How science helps fuel a culture of misinformationNiemanLab
- A New Kind of Genome Editing Is Here to Fine-Tune DNA
- WiReD
- California Regulators Approve First Driverless Taxi Fleet
- AP
- Google and Russia's delicate dance
- CNN
- Advancing security across Central and Eastern Europe
- Politicians and ulterior motives
- Lauren Weinstein
- The Theater of Bitcoin and Data Privacy
- Siobhan Roberts
- How Anonymous Is Bitcoin, Really?
- NYTimes
- Security News: Google May Owe You a Chunk of $100 Million Over Google Photos Privacy Violation
- WiReD
- Big Tech realities
- Lauren Weinstein
- Bolt Loaned Employees Thousands to Buy Stock—Then Laid Them Off
- WiReD
- Actively Exploited Microsoft Zero-Day Flaw Still Has No Patch
- WiReD
- Reno Trusting the Blockchain with Building Records
- Gizmodo
- Cryptocurrency
- The Washington Post
- It's still 2014 in crypto payments, and buying a burrito is now a taxable event
- Davidger
- Banning Lethal Autonomous Weapons
- Stuart Russell
- The Coming AI Hackers
- Bruce Schneier
- How Axon's plans for Taser drones blindsided its AI ethics board
- Protocol
- Axon Halts Plans to Sell Flying Taser Drones to Schools
- Vice
- Internal Documents Show Amazon's Dystopian System for Tracking Workers Every Minute of Their Shifts
- Vice
- The Race to Hide Your Voice
- WiReD
- Parameter Expansion Considered Dangerous
- Cliff Kilby redux
- How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
- Monty Solomon
- Re: WashDC stop-sign camera brought in $1.3 million in tickets in 2 years
- Steve Bacher
- Info on RISKS (comp.risks)
- “Faddish calls to… ‘center the most marginalized,’ which abound in the academic and leftist activist circles… ‘never sat well with me’” — a profile of Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Georgetown) in New York Magazine
- “If any woman could realize Sartre’s picture of self-defining ‘man,’ Iris might have fancied her chances” — When Iris Murdoch met Jean-Paul Sartre
- “For better or worse, most contemporary philosophers must engage either directly or indirectly with racist philosophers” — Brandon Hogan (Howard) on how to do it better
- How to participate in a philosophical discussion — a guide for students by Olivia Bailey (Berkeley)
- The television show that introduced existentialism to to Americans — the 10-episode series, “Self-Encounter,” aired in 1961 and was hosted by Hazel Barnes
- “All of this applying takes an incalculable toll… Maybe we need to imagine whole new worlds where people-picking happens very differently” — Adam Mastroianni (Columbia) on the costs of, and alternatives to, all the applying for everything we all do (via The Browser)
- Some people think that humans matter more than non-human animals because of what we can do, or what we’re like — but, argues Jeff Sebo (NYU) this “human exceptionalism has it backwards: if anything, we increasingly have capacities-based and relationship-based grounds for prioritising nonhuman animals”
