Where Did the Long Tail Go?

 If you fool people to get their money, that's fraud; if you fool them to get their votes, that's politics.

EVAN ESAR

John Barilaro withdraws from $500,000 New York trade job

Ruja Ignatova - Cryptoqueen’ added to FBI’s most-wanted list after alleged $5.8b fraud

Turn Your Managers Into Your Biggest Asset for Winning the Great Resignation

The Dark Side of Digital Transformation: Massive Fraud A holistic approach to combatting the growing problem of fraud requires an analytics strategy that draws data from multiple internal and external sources.

FTC Sues Walmart for Facilitating Money Transfer Fraud That Fleeced Customers Out of Hundreds of Millions Lawsuit Alleges Walmart Turned a Blind Eye to Fraud, Seeks Cash Back for Consumers

Stephen Jones: union fees are tax deductible…

Great to check in with the hard working

@ato_gov_au

staff in Townsville and thank them for their efforts at tax time 2022. StephenJonesMP

Fraud losses on social media last year were 18 times higher than in 2017

Romance Scams Explode, Leaving Broken Hearts and Millions Lost

John Inazu (Washington Univ.), Beyond Unreasonable, 99 Neb. L. Rev. 375 (2020):

The concept of “reasonableness” permeates the law: the “reasonable person” determines the outcome of torts and contracts disputes, the criminal burden of proof requires factfinders to reach conclusions “beyond a reasonable doubt,” and claims of self-defense succeed or fail on reasonableness determinations. But as any first-year law student can attest, the line between reasonable and unreasonable is not always clear. Nor is that the only ambiguity. In the realm of the unreasonable, many of us intuit that some actions are not only unreasonable but beyond the pale—we might say they are beyond unreasonable. Playing football, summiting Nanga Parbat, and attempting Russian roulette all risk serious injury or death, but most people do not view them the same. These distinctions raise vexing questions: What is it that makes us feel differently about these activities? Mere unfamiliarity? Moral condemnation? Relative utility? Or something else altogether? Moreover, who exactly is the “we” forming these judgments?

ProPublica: Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes On An Epic Scale

To Understand A Person’s Heart, Look At How They Organize Their Books

"The arrangement seems to have been made entirely at random, unless you know the quirk by which it was conceived. Books are placed next to one another for companionship, based on some kinship or shared sensibility that I believe ties them together." - The Atlantic

Where Did the Long Tail Go? The Honest Broker

If aliens are calling, let it go to voicemail Vox

Daniel Shaviro (NYU), Bonfires of the American Dream in American Rhetoric, Literature and Film (2022):

How could American social solidarity have so collapsed that we cannot even cooperate in fighting a pandemic? One problem lies in how our values mutate and intersect in an era of runaway high-end inequality and evaporating upward mobility. Under such conditions, tensions rise between our egalitarian and democratic traditions on the one hand, and what we often call the “American Dream” of self-advancement and due reward on the other.

In our current Second Gilded Age, as in the first one from the late nineteenth century, the results of economic competition appear to suggest, falsely, that some of us are “winners” who deserve everything they have, while others are contemptible “losers.” The rich ostensibly owe the poor nothing — not even compassion or respect, and certainly not material aid through government

“It’s 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria,” Volland said. “To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human as tall as Mount Everest . . . This is the first opportunity we have to manipulate individual bacteria with tweezers.”  FT link here.  NYT coverage here

Daniel Lippman, James Bond

 Kramnik on the human capital deficit.  Speculative

Has the excess demand for truckers melted away?