“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
― George Bernard Shaw1925 Nobel Literature Prize Winner
As the FT noted this morning: Most of the tax justice movement will have nothing to do with OECD and EU efforts to beat tax
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An Origin Original: how good is insider trading!
Vaccines: Potential Harms. Volume 724: debated on Tuesday 13 December 2022. UK Parliament. Have not read to see how well informed/substantiated. Many times these presentations mix solid points with items that are at best tenuous, allowing critics to dismiss the entire thing as unsound/hysterical.
How to Geek: “As new technology emerges, cybersecurity protocols also evolve. However, there are some basic tips you should carry with you everywhere to stay better protected against cyber attacks. Here are some general rules to follow to stay safe in 2023.”
‘Not for the human palate’: the fine dining cafe where dogs eat like royalty Guardian. “I am all for sharing bits of my meals with my dogs, but this article is way too much in “let them eat cake” territory.”
Elephants: Covid and ethics reshape Thailand’s tourism industry BBC
Hog Wild: Sweden Suffering Boar Invasion Sputnik
Six jobs no one will notice or care if you’re shit at Daily Mash
Home Page – Final Report OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL, December 2022 and 3D Timeline of the Attack
The Top 15 Goals of the 2022 World Cup
Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning – Juergen Schmidhube. [v2] Thu, 29 Dec 2022 11:38:07 UTC. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.11279
“Machine learning is the science of credit assignment: finding patterns in observations that predict the consequences of actions and help to improve future performance
Inventing the Dark Web – This paper by Thais Sardá, Simone Natale, and John Downey examines how the deep Web, i.e., Web sites that are not indexed and thus are not accessible through Web search engines, was described and represented in British newspapers.
Through an extensive content analysis conducted on 833 articles about the deep Web published between 2001 and 2017 by six British newspapers, the authors demonstrate that these technologies were predominantly associated with crime, crypto markets and immoral content, while positive uses of this technology, such as protecting privacy and freedom of speech, were largely disregarded. The consistent association by the British press between the deep Web and criminal and antisocial behaviors is exemplary of a recent “apocalyptic turn” in the imaginary of the Web, whereby Web-related technologies are perceived and portrayed in more negative ways within the public sphere.
The authors argue that the use of such negative concepts, definitions and associations engender distrust about uses of the deep Web, propagating user stereotypes that reflect what the authors argue to be an overall criminalization of privacy.
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
