“‘Usually,’ she explained, ‘they have a clear desk, since they don’t actually do any work, and when they say something, people do not argue with them. You can also tell by their eyes. They are dead behind. Lies do not bother them. It is very important to be able to spot them.’”
You Can Also Tell By Their Eyes
Robodebt’s secret is that there was no robot, just defective public servants
Australian horse riding organisations caught up in cyber attack impacting 10,000 people
Young Families Have Not Returned to Large Cities Post-Pandemic
Uncle Sam cracks down on faked reviews and bad influencers The Register. The deck: “Big $50,000 fines for misleading posts… unless it’s political, natch.”
PwC asked to name companies it pitched on basis of leaked Australian tax plans
‘Significant threat’: Around world, doctors battle impersonators.
Economic inequality cannot be explained by individual bad choices, study finds PhysOrg
An Airbnb collapse won’t fix America’s housing shortage Vox
Breakthrough quantum computer instantly makes calculations that take rivals 47 years The Telegraph. Great! Now maybe Google can finally fix search!
Exclusive: Immigrants play outsize role in the AI game Axios
Homelessness grows 10% in the city of Los Angeles Los Angeles Times
When Kurt Vonnegut reflected on the secret of happiness, he distilled it to “the knowledge that I’ve got enough.” And yet, both as a species and as individuals in an industrialist, materialistic, mechanistic culture, we are living under the tyranny of more — a civilizational cult we call progress. We have forgotten who we would be, and what our world would look like, if instead we lived under the benediction of enough.
The politics of the French riots and In French town under curfew, wave of violence leaves locals dazed and angry Politico. Gotta say, Politico sounds a little huffy here.
France Tightens Security, Restricts Internet Access As Protests Continue Escalating Morocco World News
Haute couture week kicks off in Paris amid violent riot fears France24
Violent protests in France spread to SwitzerlandAnadolu Agency
Out of the Wild The New Atlantis (Henry Moon Pie).
Breaking the Mold Atmos
Monsoon in July is cumulatively expected to be ‘normal’, says IMD Business Standard
New Zealand falls out of love with sheep farming as lucrative pine forests spread Guardian. Worked for Quebec! Oh, wait…