"Truth is... everybody is going to hurt you. You just gotta find the ones worth suffering for."
- Bob Marley
Which nationalities cry most, and least, when they win the Olympics?
istory made, destiny fulfilled, immortality secured - and what a game in which to do it.
Lionel Messi elevated his legend and emulated Diego Maradona with a perfect ending, scoring twice as Argentina were crowned world champions for the third time.
In one of the great World Cup finals, perhaps the greatest, Messi’s Argentina beat France on penalties after a 3-3 draw in the Lusail Iconic Stadium.
The MESSIah! Argentina overcome epic comeback to claim World Cup glory in shootout thriller
One goal can be luck, two goals can be skill, but three? Well, that's legendary.
Jasmine Vella-Arpaci has been jailed for her role in a scam that defrauded millions of dollars
A Melbourne woman, 24, has been sentenced for her central role in a major international criminal syndicate, which stole millions of dollars from the superannuation and share trading accounts of innocent victims using fraud and identity theft.
The Public Accounts Committeehas noted failures in HMRC's work in closing the tax gap this morning due to staff being diverted to tackle Covid fraud. As they noted:
HMRC has conducted substantially fewer enquiries into suspected non-compliance since the pandemic began. It closed 29% (103,000) fewer cases in 2020-21 compared with the previous year and opened 32% fewer (114,000).
HMRC is not closing the tax gap
Fake myGov profiles are being used to hack ATO accounts. Sue found this out the hard way
New Australia Post chief Siobhan McKenna ran Murdoch's Foxtel, a regular on our Top40 Tax Dodgers
Five Wars in One New Left Review
Hundreds of Oath Keepers Have Worked for DHS, Leaked List Shows POGO
2020 Post Mortem
A Plot To Overturn An American ElectionTalking Points Memo. Documents leak from the January 6 Select Committee.
Their silence is deafening: Stars including Gisele and Tom, Larry David and Shaquille O’Neal who took SBF’s cash to advertise his doomed FTX crypto exchange say nothing as he’s arrested and charged Daily Mail. Not to mention those in the press who took SBF’s money, too. Or the parties.
ELON MUSK’S TWITTER FILES SAY A LOT MORE ABOUT HIM THAN TWITTER
JOHN ROBB DISSECTS ELON MUSK’S TWITTER STRATEGY:
The battle for Twitter keeps rolling on. Here’s a round-up of the online war and how Musk uses Twitter’s interior lines to a significant effect
No, Remote Employees Aren’t Becoming Less Engaged
Harvard Business Review: “…To more deeply explore the nature of how remote collaboration is changing over time, we gathered metadata from all Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Webex meetings (involving webcams on and/or off) from 10 large global organizations (seven of which are Fortune 500 firms) spanning a variety of fields, including technology, health care, energy, and financial services.
Specifically, we compared six-week snapshots of raw meeting counts from April through mid-May in 2020 following the Covid-19 lockdowns, and the same set of six weeks in 2021 and 2022. All of these organizations had at least one of the meeting software tools heavily utilized at the start of this time period, with Microsoft Teams being the most common across all three years (representing 71% of the meetings across the data). This dataset resulted in a total of more than 48 million meetings for more than half a million employees…”
OpenCorporates unifies official company data from all 50 US States
Press Release: “OpenCorporates, the world’s definitive source for company data, has made transparent company data from all 50 US States plus the District of Columbia available to all. Information on nearly 100 million companies registered in the US, and over 190 million company officers, has been collected from each State’s official company register, unified and made available with clear traceability to its original source – so it can better solve a range of entity verification, analytics and data management challenges. This overcomes the longstanding problem where this critical data was siloed in 51 inconsistent company registers, which makes it difficult for anybody to know who they’re in business with or to analyse the US company universe as a whole. Illinois company information was most recently added to OpenCorporates, following the State passing legislation to make its company information available as open data – a move OpenCorporates and its civil-society allies advocated for.
For most States, information about newly incorporated companies is added to OpenCorporates within a week of it appearing in the State registry, and often it’s even sooner. Sarah Arana-Morton, CEO of OpenCorporates, said: “Unifying the company universe across all 50 US States is a significant step forwards in OpenCorporates’ mission to deliver genuine corporate transparency. US federal government agencies, financial services firms and hundreds of other organisations already rely on OpenCorporates data – and this will only extend our leadership in the emerging transparent company data market”. As part of its mission, OpenCorporates makes all its information available as open data on its website, which is why millions of users visit it every month. API and Bulk Data access is also provided at no cost to social good causes, which allowed The Miami Herald and Bloomberg News to expose alleged abuse of Covid business relief schemes, such as the Paycheck Protection Program.”
